Thank you, @missvictrix, for another great weecap. I always enjoy your recaps because you are able to articulate how I’m feeling.
Let me start with Dong-Han’s wife. I’ve really had it with her! No matter how you feel about your spouse, you shouldn’t trash him in front of your child. Rather, she should be encouraging the father-daughter relationship.
As far as Ha-kyung and Ki-joon, I’m glad they’re finally getting closure. Seems like they should have always stayed just friends. Their pride and lack of communication was the down fall in their relationship, and now they’re repeating the same mistakes with Shi-woo and Yoo-jin.
Speaking of Shi-woo, I felt so bad for him! The interaction between he and Ha-kyung this week reminded me of Oh Hye-Won and Lee Sun-Jae of Secret Love Affair. I can understand why Shi-woo called it off. Poor guy, he was injured, hurt, and humiliated once again by his worthless father. You could almost feel his misery.
And yes, the Penguin Couple was the bright spot in this weeks episodes.

Thanks @missvictrix! These two episodes began to grate for me. I didn't like the way they used the foreshadowing of Shi-woo's accident at the beginning of ep11, but then took till half way through ep12 before revealing it. Foreshadowing when deployed well is excellent; here, the timing was waaaaaay off. The events occurring in between began to feel like an annoyance (when are we going to get to the accident???) and that's not what you need when several pretty important character developments are occurring.

Several characters lack of ability to *literally* speak annoyed me too. Culprit no.1: Ki-joon. Seriously, it was obvious to the world (except Yoo-jin) that he just chucked in that line about coming to Jeju to deal with Dad to diffuse a situation. Yoo-jin directly asked him, "Is that why you came?" I cannot *believe* he just gapes at her at that point, allows her to collect her bag and leave the hospital without saying, "No, I came for you." Seriously, not hard. Don't buy he was speechless at that moment - if he came to fight for his marriage, then fight, you moron!!!! Culprit no.2: Dong-han. Wife lays all the blame for everything at your feet and you just keep apologising but not explaining. Yes, there is guilt and wrongdoing here, but the martyr act is wearing thin now. *Talk* to her and help her to see where you coming from, maybe? Culprit no.3: doctors. Seriously, you have a patient who is deeply distressed by the arrival of his father to the point where he's sobbing (can't be good for the eye issue?) and you don't remove said reason for distress from the room? Further, you have the father slapping the son on the face when he's hospitalised for an eye/facial injury and you all stand and gape rather than protect the patient? Seriously...

Finally, the introductory/concluding voiceover began to irritate me. Some of the weather imagery feels a bit heavy-handed, but fair enough, they're using it as a central thread. But when we start being told that typhoons bring roads with no knowledge of what lies ahead, nope, that's everyday life. We all got up today and didn't know what lies ahead. I struggle when the voiceovers try to make deeply-meaningful-points but end up floundering in their own pretentiousness - and it felt like they fell into this territory this week.

Heheheheh! Rant over - clearly I, too, need to get my internal AC fixed and calm down... :)

I've been enjoying the work camaraderie as well as the progression of Ha Kyung and Ki Joon's post mortem of their relationship. What is killing me- nearly every conflict in this show is based on people who won't listen and people who won't explain. Seriously, 90% of the conflict in this show could be solved with a conversation between characters that would take an hour max. They are torturing themselves needlessly. What make this worse is that they keep discovering that communication is important. If they were truly intelligent, they could apply this knowledge by having a candid conversation with the person they care about. Worst offenders- Si Woo, Ha Kyung, Yoo Jin, Hyang Rae (Dong Han's wife).

My current MVPs- 1.) Ki Joon oddly. He's turning it a round a bit. He's also analyzing and explaining. Good start! 2.) Dong Han and Bon Mi. Thanks for giving it a go, guys! 3.) Team Penguin. Both are terrible communicators but they are doin the best they can, unlike everyone else.

Final thoughts as I shout it the void- the parents on this show are awful. Ha Kung's mom is crazy and controlling. Si Woo's dad should be in prison for how many crimes he commits during this show. Myung-Joo's mother in law and husband are ridiculous. He's a dad. He needs to dad and study. MIL needs to tell her son to parent.

And with that, I note, I'm still watching and waiting for these crazy kids to get their acts together.

Thank you, @missvictrix, for the weecap. Yes, I love Mom describing what a marriage is: two people working together to make it work. And the key to that is what Ha-kyung and Ki-jun learned: communication, learning to describe your feelings instead of just taking it all in and then blowing up!

I don't know how many time I said Shi-woo please just Grow Up!
There are times when work related stuff become top priorities, and there are times when family and your self are the top priorities.
Knowing to differ which one is at each time is the sign you are an adult.

I can't believe Ki-jun was the best part of these episodes up until the moment when mysteriously lost his ability to talk to his wife after travelling all the way to Jeju. Smh

While it may be true that senior forecaster's wife should have brought these things up earlier, or tried to divorce earlier, I feel so bad for her. That's her only mistake. I have no sympathy for senior forecaster. It seems like the only thing he puts effort into is his forecasting. Lousy in everything else. I have grown so annoyed at him, I don't care for this story line anymore. Poor daughter. It is so frustrating to see everyone hate on the wife. She's been harsh, but I can't imagine living through the decade she had to live through. And then have her husband, a stranger at this point, walk in through the doors acting as if this has been his home all along. Sitting around shirtless as if anyone wants to see a stranger in their home behaving like that. He wants the happiness of family without listening to what his wife and daughter actually want.

Waow, the last episode was really bad.

I didn't understand the choice of telling the story with flashbacks, it didn't bring anything, it was quite the opposite. I don't like flashbacks in the flashbacks neither.

The couple of Dong-Han : both of them are responsible for what happened. They let the situation becoming like this. My issue with the wife is like she acts with the daughter, telling she doesn't want her to go to KMA, etc. Her and her daughter are 2 different things. I dont' know if it was her plan, but the daughter had a bad idea to think if she ended up in the hospital, her parents would reconcile. It was quite the opposite.

Shi-Woo's father : everything with him was completely stupid. I don't understand why Ha-Kyung could think it was a good idea to take him see his son? I mean if she really wanted to help, she should have call the Police because the guy entered in a restricted zone in time of crisis.

The couple is boring... I don't know why their issue is the marriage when they just started to date after one night stand and a long previous relationship. They should take things step by step, but they're rushing and it doesn't make any sense.

Been wandering around on trope/cliche websites so I can't help but see them everywhere. However I had to laugh when the "breaking up in a rainstorm" trope was next leveled to "breaking up in a TYPHOON". Pretty sure the writing team did not intend for the audience to laugh. Maybe they should?
Also harrumphed at the use of hydrogen in the weather balloon. There are two gasses that are lighter than air and will allow the balloon to rise up through the atmosphere. The other is helium, which if it leaks just makes people talk funny. Hydrogen is extremely explosive and, while it's used every day in launches from weather stations, it is an obviously dangerous choice when lightning is present (think Hindenburg Disaster).
Have to agree that the last ep was pretty weak but I can't give up on the show..., yet. Wish PMY would channel her inner sparky snap and cease looking so wobegon.

Thanks @missvictrix for the recap and all the great comments.
First I am still convinced FL&W should have been a 12 episode drama. There is just not enough (certainly based on the lack of communication between the characters so far) to justify 16 episodes. Maybe we should be grateful we are in today’s kdrama world because 5 or 6 years ago this might have been a 20 episode drama. For a cable drama FL&W’s ratings are decent and holding. Overall I am still enjoying it.

@kate88hammond, FormAnOrderlyQueue, may I concur in your excellent analysis?

A positive thought: I think the conversation between Ha-kyung’s mom and Shi-woo during the pizza dinner may have been the best dialogue the writer has given to Kim Mi-kyung (mom) in the whole drama. Lol for once KMK was having a heart-to-heart with a young man rather than a daughter. She may be pivoting and seeing the handsome Shi-woo as a potential son-in-law. If anyone (based on her own experience) had a right to be jaded on marriage it is her but she still believes.
A negative thought: I agree with @oldawyer, Shi-woo’s old man (I don’t even want to look up his name) should never been brought to Jeju. After the ruckus at the KMA he should have been sitting on his butt in jail. Yoo-jin was right in calling out Ha-kyung on bringing that guy.
Since he made it to Jeju, after assaulting his son in the hospital he should have been sitting in jail in Jeju. No intervention by multiple witnesses! No calling the police!
(In pre-production a fat red line should have gone through the Shi-woo/father plot line imo.)

FLAW is hitting the wrong spots. The two couples are nothing to root for at the moment.
Senior Forecaster Um needs to sit his wife down and discuss them. She is angry with her husband, but is insensitive to the feelings of her daughter. The girl wants to be with her dad and enjoy his love despite his age long absence. I definitely saw her eyes beam with pride as she witnessed her father being praised as Korea's Best Meteorologist. However,he didn't have current information which lead to a fatal situation and she just plain told him not to even try to be a father. That's unacceptable.

You find sending a message to your girlfriend when she's having a national meeting okay but you say she's drawing a line with you at work when it's her turn. I for one would have given a scold immediately the meeting ended, but no, no consequences for you. But then you make a back and forth about an official duty you decided to do. Behaviors of this sort is why in the medical field, Attendings don't date Residents, and why I find their conversation about his going to Jeju as superficial. Chu Min-ha and Jang Gyeo-ul in Hospital Playlist dated their immediate work superiors, and never did they display this level of 'i can't even name it' Shi-woo did this week. Even if you're my boyfriend, there's a rank we cannot both erase or hierarchy is destroyed and we'll both be in deep shit with authority, get that into your skull.

That said, our third couple is goals. A win for Seok-hu and Tae-kyung.

If it weren't for miscommunication, misunderstanding and jumping to conclusions, it wouldn't be drama. :) That's what I keep telling myself. So instead of getting frustrated, I just wait to see what comes next.

As far as meddling moms and such, the worst mom is from Something In The Rain. Bar none, IMO. Parents meddle. I detested it when my parents did it to me and vowed never to do it to my kids. Well, I have to admit that these thoughts have crossed my mind "Gee, she seems sweet, smart, ..., comes from a good family. We get along with her parents, ... Why doesn't he date her?" It's just human nature.

I'm officiating a swim meet all weekend so I'll binge the last 4 episodes next weekend. Personally, I wouldn't mind if there were more episodes because this is more reflective of life. So many dramas are about the chase, which admittedly is exciting. This is refreshing because it shows the couples (trying) to work out issues (not very well, at the moment).

All in!!

I do not understand why both these episodes made it seem like everything was Ha Kyung's fault when clearly Si Woo is the one who is being clingy and pathetic.

In ep 9-10, Si Woo revealed he has no belief in marriage and so Ha Kyung reassessed her end goals in a relationship and decided to take it one day at a time, but he is so insecure that he get enraged over Ha Kyung's professionalism of drawing a clear line between work and romance, when clearly she had been doing from episode 1.

I am beginning to feel these two people are at crossroads and won't work out as a couple because their emotional maturity is totally different. He is young, wants to flaunt his romance and not settle. Ha Kyung has seen more in life, is level headed and wants a support system.

If anything the drama is doing a good job of, it is the romance between Seok Ho and Tae Kyung and depicting asians as close to real life as possible, which is nagging their kids about marriage and wives being at the receiving end of short stick called "marriage" ( Myung Joo taking care of both her home and office, Forecaster Um's wife Hyang Rae etc.,)

I continue to love this drama because it’s about adult relationships. I like how he always shares what he feels. And they talk it out.

The ML says he goes all in. And that nicely contrasted with the older guy who always runs away fr his problems. It’s no wonder his wife wants to divorce him.

But the drama is starting to drag a little. I wish they’d make progress on the dad sub plot.

The ounce of hope that I had that this show might still somehow get better are all gone now with this set of episodes. The writing of the characters is confusing as heck, I am confused at the leads, the dad had me roll my eyes, the plot in itself is scattered and feels disjointed, I had said it previously but this set of episodes took the cake: the voice over and their attempts to parallel the weather and the story were frustatingly inconsistent: I literally cound not understand anything about what they meant. It such a waste of potential! I trusted PMY with choosing her scripts though. I just wish I had not started it, because now I feel like I have to finish it. Sometimes I wonder what really happens to those writers. A drama or documentary should explore that. I would love to hear about this writer and the one from do do sol sol la la sol. I have the same feeling I had with that one and I nvr ended up finishing!

Thanks for the review--really like your entertaining style.

Can't believe that Lee Si-Woo's long bangs didn't get singed in that hydrogen balloon explosion! ;-)

These episodes were a mess, and both the writer and director were at fault. Setting up the narrative in flashback just made the whole thing muddled and confused. And exactly why are they breaking up? Its not at all clear. I know we will eventually find out more about what they are both thinking, but again, the writer/director choosing to keep us ignorant here just throws us out of the story. Very sad, as I was enjoying it till now. The weather/environment stuff remains good. Impressed that they had actual footage of a sonde launching. I can't read the credits, but they must have had cooperation from the actual KMA, they are doing so well with the details. But sigh-of-the-week is- No PPE (personal protective equipment) while dealing with a hydrogen launch? And they are launching off a tossing boat that has aerial obstructions? And of course, its K-drama, so it explodes in his face but no visible burns, and no bruises from being knocked about on the boat