Best drama of that time for me.
I did not watch the last 2 episodes cause they did a 180 of everything we had seen til then.
My DH is still a fugitive, who sometimes sends messages to the others to troll them 😂😂

When the theme for Nov was announced I knew there were a lot of "candidate" shows for this one. And Lookout was one of the recent ones that stood out for me. Show,how can you make me like him and then end it that way?

Of course, I also knew who I wanted to post her alternate ending. We've talked about it,more than once over at the wall you see..so Sic, how did you managed to cut the word count? 😜

Yes to both stories! They are both much better versions than the actual ending. I didn't absolutely hate the ending, but I did wish it was better shaped so it would make sense. Our characters were way to smart for it to end that way. Loved Lookout, but Thank You beanies for your alternate endings:)

Ooh congrats on getting published, I thought no one was sending in ideas anymore because of the long break between the first one and this one. Lookout is definitely one of my favourite dramas this year and both endings give me the closure I needed.

I will read this when I wake up but uri dongsaeng Sico & @poliwag congratulations on this post being selected! :D

@sicarius I saw what you did over there LMAO

or he could become a zombie and bite everyones´ heads off. ("Of COURSE!", you say, "what else from redfox". )
what I would have liked is... living is always harder than leaving. Always. Cause you might face every day feeling like it is not worth it, but must carry on. Many people live like this kind of zombies. So I would let him narrowly escape death against his own will. But he´d disappear and would be taken far away and forced to exist.
But a day will come when suddenly the world moves on. And you will have forgotten. Maybe 7 years, they say all cells renew themselves by that time. Maybe nothing what happened Then will matter, and then he´d return. and then anything can happen.

Oh! This was a nice surprise to wake up to!!
Thank you for posting my submission!!!

@poliwag- I really like your ending toooo! I actually really like all possible endings to this that weren't what we got, and weren't the worse ones I imagined getting half way through episode 15.
Anyway, now you have part of me wishing for a S2... O.o

@sicarius, @poliwag,

It feels like a million years since the finale, and now you guys have got me all stirred up again. Thanks so much for your alternate endings for LOOKOUT. I like both of your approaches, and applaud your creativity. ;-)

While I didn't watch this drama in its entirety, I did watch the first couple of episodes and they were pretty good! I decided to stop watching when I heard about the ending. I would have certainly been on board with either of these two endings. Oh what could've been!

Congrats to @sicarius and @poliwag!

I spent the entire show thinking Do Han would end up in prison, still broken af, but satisfied in his revenge. I feel like the last shot should've been of him smirking at the camera in a prison uniform and then we could have him be one of the mains in the new Bad Guys season LOL. Dude's so broken there ain't no way to fix him, so didn't expect a traditionally happy end, but man... Is it too much to ask for to at least get a logical end?

Thank you for the alternate endings, guys.
I only read recaps for Lookout, yet it was also the first one that managed to make me cry buckets while cursing at the sudden stupidity of the characters. Thaks to you both, I got my much needed closure for this drama and also my favorite tragic character, Do-han. Whether to live paying back his huge debt to Yo-na or die with Su-ji's forgiveness, it's much, much better than the dissappointment in the last eps.

'hey why am I drowning with pings- oh, oh, okay, cool'

Anyway the fascinating part of this was that after Part I was published on Tumblr (its original source) I was informed that Kim Youngkwang himself gave an interview that mentioned he wanted Dohan back too but in a wheelchair and the !!! I got from being linked the interviews was pretty much legendary.

For those interested, here's part II: http://kiyulking.tumblr.com/post/163018212272/stakeout-ii because we all know I have issues ending the story properly and/or controlling a Taehoon muse because I love him (sexily puts a leg out) I had to control myself to not exclusively post Eunjoong screencaps because it would only get a lot of crowd groaning.

Either way, glad everyone enjoyed what I did with it. Artistic liberty and bae indulgence was greatly taken.

I haven't watched this show, but I know many of my fellow Beanies loved it (despite its bittersweet ending). Thanks for sharing your work, @sicarius and @poliwag! :)

Omo, dunno what happened there but in the 2nd paragraph it's supposed to say:

"Or like having a seasoned detective of 20 years (Madam Jo) realize that the psychopathic little @#$% in the interrogation room can’t see or hear you, if you report his threats to someone.
Or, if, God forbid, he can hear you, and if, for some God-forsaken reason, you decide to believe him and kidnap your best friend (albeit a fugitive) and take her to an abandoned construction site and hold her at gunpoint, that you do it only because you’re bluffing and you’re trying to catch the bastard." :)

Thank you very much and congratulations to @sicarius and @poliwag.
Lookout! Yeah of course, who didn't scratch their heads the entire time over those last 2 episodes? That ending, a sucker punch indeed as our recapper said. I still demand proper farewell with Do-han uuh. Anyway Lookout remains one of the best drama I've seen in 2017 and the writers did great for those 14 episodes, the script won MBC contest after all.

I broke my no-new-kdrama-during-board-exam-review-rule for the Lookout and I did not like the ending. But I can accept both these endings. YAY. ^_^

OMG both of you guys are awesome storytellers! I wish these endings are real. Or I could just wipe out Lookout’s final episode, pretend it didn’t happen and replace it with yours!

I love both endings! They are exactly what I wanted if, (1) Dohan had to die, but only after saying sorry & being forgiven by Suji or (2) he survived & the adventure continues, while starting a fair competition with Eunjoong, for Suji. Kekeke.

Both are such plausible endings I just don’t know why didn’t the actual drama have one of these. The biggest issue still lies with that final confrontation though, that kidnap & the damned abandoned building. 🤦

@sicarius,

I had to let this marinate overnight a bit.

Su-ji was so adamant about not forgiving Do-han for allowing Yoo-na to be killed that it's hard to see how she could believably experience a change of heart. As you noted, grace would do the trick. When I think back on a certain turning point in my own life, I recall that I felt as if I had been ambushed by grace.

I didn't want to bury the hatchet, and could only ascribe my sudden and unexpected willingness to release my grudge to something akin to the workings of the "better angels of our nature," to borrow Abraham Lincoln's phrase. It came about after reading something that gave me new insight into the situation that burdened me, and all blaming fell away effortlessly. Poof. After years of harboring resentment, I was shocked to realize I felt compassion towards the other party.

Somewhere along the line I had earlier come to recognize that bearing a grudge hurts only me and not the target of my anger and resentment. Harboring resentment eats you alive. And the self-inflicted damage is sometimes far worse than the original insult.

So how could such a scenario be depicted in LOOKOUT?

I would have had Su-ji's mom talk with her. I can easily imagine the very maternal (and sadly underutilized) Kim Jung-Young having such a heart-to-heart with her daughter. She had already lost her grandchild, and now stood to lose her daughter, too. She could have expressed her concern about the spiritual toll it was taking on Su-ji, and reminded her that she was only hurting herself. It would not bring back Yoo-na, and if anything, would darken her memories of the child's bright light. She could continue to live in shadow. But is that what Yoo-na would have wanted for her mother?

I would have loved to have heard Su-ji's mom tell her:

“Forgiveness is for giving. It's a gift you give yourself so that you can move on with your life. If it happens to help the other person, that's their business, not yours.”

Given the reality of the enormous gulf between the two Lookouts, I can't imagine any of the usual arguments in favor of forgiveness working on Su-ji (e.g., The Golden Rule). But coming from her own mother, this one might have.

- Continued -

Thanks for the lovely read! With this officially in Dramabeans, I feel a sort of validation of our vigilante gang alive and happy and functioning well somewhere in the alternate universes. (But won't refuse a sequel with the same cast tho...)
Dear @sicarius, thanks for the alternative to your alternate ending! Bomi & Kyung-soo having "one floor is entirely for the computers" sounds so right. Maybe he also have one cupboard entirely for underwear in cans ^^

kudos to you. I'm not attached to this drama like you and many other Beanies but even I laugh incredulously while watching the final ep. That cop out ending....

I wish I have your determination and skills to put my thought into words though. But if I decide to do it for Cheese, I'll be damn if I didnt rewrite it at least from second half of ep 8.
Nah~

Woot! Sic's got posted!! YAY!
It was a great read btw!
Also, congrats to @poliwag for getting posted.
Both ending are obviously way better than the actual one we got. I wish I could see both these endings on screen...

So sorry I'm late to this thread, but I just saw it this morning, and I'm still digesting both of your endings. First, kudos to the both of you, @sicarius and @poliwag, for well-thought scenarios and expressing them so well here! I always thought that the writer was forced to write that last episode by the producers and probably had a more poignant ending in mind that would have tied up all those loose ends. After all, she gave us 14/24 episodes of amazing character development so that we cared so much about all these people only to just drop it like a lead weight in the pit of our bellies and had us all crying FOUL!

The forgiveness in the face of tragedy theme would have been so much more endearing than just tragedy for the sake of tragedy. I remember thinking---YOU HAD A PRIEST RIGHT THERE!

So, all I would have needed were four lines and I would have been fine with that epilogue--even the weird motorcycle fight scene in slow motion, I would have forgiven.

Su-ji sits beside Do-han's bed, tearful, but relieved that her nightmare is over. Priest "Kwan-woo" starts to leave the room, but as he turns his back towards them, Su-ji notices the tiniest twitch from Do-han's finger as she clasps her hand over his, and calls out his name, causing the Priest to do a double take...

Su-ji: "Do-han, are you there? Please tell me you are!"

Do-Han: Opens his eyes, ever so slightly, focuses on Su-ji and sputters. "I did it for you...I can't forgive him...I can't forgive myself."

Su-ji: "It's okay. I've forgiven you. I understand you. You are me. We must forgive ourselves."

Do-han: Nods his head. Looks up past Su-ji to his brother standing above her. "Father, forgive me, for I have sinned."

Priest Kwan-woo: "Dearest brother, your sins have long been forgiven."

Do-han: Smiles, sincerely, (and for the last time?) as he drifts back into unconsciousness.

Cut and scene.

And now as I start crying, again, about what could have been. (My next patient will be wondering why my eyes are all red.) I also loved @pakalanapikake 's take on forgiveness incorporating Su-ji's mother, Bravo! And I totally understand @poliwag 's desire to have it from Eun-joong's POV, because I would have written the epilogue from Priest Kwan-woo's view, because I'm a selfish prick too.

my heart hurts 💔

Those were two very good alternate endings. The second one was more to my personal preference because when he died it shattered my heart, but the first one was very realistic and could have easily been integrigated into the show.

I miss Jang Do Han. I got the feeling if he had lived, Soo-ji would have eventually forgiven him, but it was sad for him to die without her getting to that point yet. I really wished he could hear her say she forgave him before he died. And I wish he was surrounded by more people, since he had lived such a lonely life. I still remember Soo-ji questioning why he lived so hard only to end up like this. Jang Do Han/Lee Kwan Woo lived such a pitiful life. And he died, leaving his traumatized dad behind. Maybe Soo-ji's mom could marry him.

Revenge dramas always end in death and the guilty people always seem to get light punishments. I fully expected Dohwan to die even though I'm not happy about. I do agree that there were some illogical actions towards the end. The detective letting some teen boy out smart her and boss her around being the major fail.