2 things came mind regarding Doo Shik: 1) like father like son 2) does this remind you of anything haha. Obviously it's been a running theme since episode 1 but the fact that the guy who *has* a handle on his ability still wound up rising stood out to me.

So, the director or whatever he is ordered Doo Shik to kill someone and then made him a scapegoat? That's what happened and just not how it seemed to me, right?

I LOVE this, especially for the emphasis on character and the weirdly down-to-earth, slice-of-life feel to the totally out-of-this-world characters' lives.

subtly places herself in his path at work

I thought it was as subtle as a ToD and fully expected him noticing her trying to get his attention to be a plot point. Doo-shik is not as poorly socialized as he claims.

The father/son reactions to “oh my gosh a girl touched me” are so on point. 😂 Most of the wire work in this show is amazing, especially when Bong-seok is learning to fly, which makes Doo-shik’s static hovering and flying look a bit cartoonish in contrast. It’s a quibble, though - Zo In-sung and Han Hyo-joo are magnetic separately and together and his “falling in love at first sight” scene has soared on my list to a tie with the all-time great one in Chief Kim.

Park Byung-eun’s sadistic, lethal agent character in ep. 8 has the same name as his lovestruck softie character in Because This Life Is Our First. 🤣

The show needs to give Kim Shin-rok more to do than just kiss up and kick down.

I'm just in awe how effective the romance in this 2 episodes, at the end of ep 9, I just almost brimmed with tears. Some drama has 16 ep with more 1 hour each or the other has the character tells us "I love you' for 1000 times, and the romance still doesn't convince me, left me getting snarky every time ha ha. But Moving only need 2 eps

"if she likes purple, she's a crazy btch"
someone found out my secret!

Seriously fell in love with MiHyun and DooShik's story. Well, I already love JIS so not that far to fall though. I like how they made us see why this two just works. Bong Seok definitely inherited a lot more from his father than his super power. They are just both adorable and charming beneath it all. Any girl will fall for them.
I am bracing myself for the heartache and reunion in future episodes.

Of course I loved the romance, but in terms of the narrative, I was thinking maybe 1 episode devoted to its early stages would have been enough. In the end I'm more interested in what happened to them than I would have been in the second episode. There were a few too many flashbacks of the "failed" mission.
One thing that came through is how evil Director Min is. In the earlier episodes when he was confronting the clearly evil CIA guy, you thought maybe he was actually slightly concerned about his agents being assassinated. Now, you know that he is as much an enemy of the agents as the CIA, which is saying something!

Courage is putting aside the 7 well developed episodes that mostly focused on sweet cinnamon roll Bong-Seok and Hee-Soo and spending not 1, but 2 entire episodes on a detour. Heresy! No Bong-Seok for 2 entire episodes! And they made it work!
Bravo to the cast and crew. I was hooked on ep 1-7, but that tonal shift gamble turned my like into a love. I was floored.
Some of you may have been worried that Jo In-Sung had yet to make an appearance. Just like Kool aid man breaking through the wall yelling “Oh Yeah”, Jo In-Sung makes his entrance as Doo-Shik.
Mi-Hyun makes the transition from awkward smiling mom cutting apples for her precious son’s friend who is a girl to a serious as heck femme fatal employee/agent. At least we know why she opening up a dongkatsu restaurant.
What an incredible 2 episodes. Is it slow burn if it was only lasted 2 episodes?
The end of ep 8-9 had Crash Landing on You vibes. Screw the guns- Nothing is gonna stop me from getting my embrace.

Who would have thought that for an entire episode I would be fascinated to watch two people "accidentally" running into each other and barely exchanging a word, and find this tremendously entertaining.

I was so fixated on the two of them that I didn't realise at all that Doo-sik's colleague is Hui-soo's future father. Of course, it doesn't help that I'm so bad at recognising faces.

I love the little details that don't seem to play an important role, but then become significant in a later episode. Now I know why Mi-hyun painted the roof terrace of her restaurant purple.

Let's see which seemingly minor character will play an important role again later. The secretary, perhaps?

1. She ordered tonkatsu in ep2 cos she was tired and she misses him
2. Her opening a tonkatsu place with that exact name with a big “opens through midnight” sign because that’s what they wanted
3. The purple roofs and curtains cos she wants him to be able to find them from the sky
4. Him comforting her “intended failure isn’t failure” wasn’t just empty words. He WAS there to not only witness it but took the same actions as her and they BOTH “failed” the mission due to them being humanists
5. Like father like son
6. He is a serious quiet spy type but he tries so hard for her
7. The mastermind to pin these two together was… in fact cunning and effective. It worked. He did come back for

I liked these episodes, both actors were super cute for very dangerous spies! I liked to see the connections between the dad and his son.

But for the drama itself, it was like watching a new drama with a different era, sets, characters. It was weird they didn't connect at all with scenes in the present.

Thank you for the weecap, @quirkycase! It's fun seeing Bong-seok's parents when they were younger. Both DS and MH's botched failures were due to their empathy so the director is exploiting that. And just like any company, there are always jealous colleagues. I hope Joo-won and Mi-hyun are still in contact after Doo-shik's death so they can help protect their kids.

Jo In-sung has a certain je ne sais quoi. I can't tell you how many times I replayed Doo-shik opening the door. Normal people (i.e., Joo-won) push the door handle, but Doo-shik pushes the doorglass and pushes with his elbow with his hands still in his pockets. He even shoots a gun with one hand. Swoon.

Their meet-cute is love, but I feared that Doo-shik would feel betrayed by Mi-hyun seducing him through a mission, so I breathed a sigh of relief that he already knew. "I fell for you the first time I saw you" takes on a different meaning once we learn that Doo-shik was Eagle (which makes so much sense because eagles fly). I laughed when he said, "And that person could be a second-generation chaebol," exposing himself as a drama-watcher.

While Deputy Director Min is shady, his plan is (evil) genius -- tying Doo-shik down by letting him fall in love. What did Doo-shik expect the pilots to do? They can't land the plane in twenty seconds, so the bomb would've exploded anyway. It's so funny how the writer made Ryu Seung-ryong hoobae to Jo In-sung and Han Hyo-joo.

During Park Byung-eun's killing spree at the hotel, it suddenly dawned on me what Moving reminds me of -- Kingsman! Its use of graphic violence undercut by comedy. The agents practically killed everyone anyway, so why even search for anyone suspicious? So this week was Kingsman-meet-How I Met Your Mother (Father).

A big thanks for recapping, @quirkycase!

Please allow me making a big claim here. Moving - contrary to our tainted lens on big budget productions by Disney and companies alike - reignites my love for or reminds me why I fall for Kdrama in the first place. That is, great story telling and swoony romances with family relations underlining the stories told. Watching kdramas in early years was such a warm experience. In recent years, kdramas venture into many different directions with shining exemplars like Misaeng, Strangers but not everyone is a success. We have fewer and fewer dramas delivering those feel and family values that I love so much - great romances are hard to come by these days.

Nine episodes in, Moving delivers in spades what I miss (despite the high level of violence which I guess reflects what is becoming the norm sadly). I hope Moving will continue to be one show of heart and show.

On Ep 1-9, I like how they start with the kids story before tracing that of their parents in the later episodes. The magnetic JIS and HHJ arc might over-shadow everything but it’s just right how they do it. So many elements in Ep 1-7 become self-explanatory now that we’ve seen Ep 8-9, as per @peachietime’s list. Deputy Director Min is certainly smart then and now - the most formidable antagonist you can ask for.

JIS has always had that charisma to turn anything seemingly effortless and I can’t wait to see the family reunion. I love love HHJ’s character - for once we are seeing a real capable female character who is ‘physically’ and emotionally strong and yet humanist. The romance of these two is so well done in an understated manner - I simply love it!

Can Wednesday come quicker?

Totally agree with you, these two episodes had the heart and also the intrigue of old dramas where you didn't always know what would happen next. I kind of wish it was longer but they captured all the feelings so well in 2 eps that it being longer wouldn't serve it.

I wanted to watch Moving for these two actors. So I gladly skipped ep 2 to 7 but now I'm wondering if I should catch up. These 2 episodes are probably the best thing I've seen from kdramaland this year. Though rather standalone and not entirely related to what I gather the teenagers part is. I kind of want an entire show on these two now.

Unlike most people here I don't have superhero fatigue, a well written story is a well written story. They are following the same track with this as the writers of the American Superhero show Superman & Lois. At it's heart it is a family show about people who happened to be super-powered. This allows them to keep our heros grounded while still telling am over the top story. This was such a great way of showing Bongseok's origin and his parents love story. I always say character development can be done in 10 mins, and this showed that. Lovely episodes.

I have nothing new to add here that others haven't said already, but I just wanted to chime in with my love for these episodes and this show. I was so impressed with the ground the writers were able to cover in just two less-than-an-hour episodes. Two people who have to circle around each other silently for about half of the time allotted fall believably in love, we learn who they are at work and in private, and more than that, even without them being in these episodes, we were able to more deeply understand Bongseok and Hee-soo through the depiction of their parents.

The whole time I was reminding myself that Doo-sik must survive because they couldn't have conceived their son yet (right?) and Bongseok does have a living memory of his father (right??). But the tension was so powerful at the end that I second guessed my certainty, which again, shows how well done these episodes really were.

A few random thoughts:

--Although it was exciting and tragic (because it was linked to a real event) I didn't understand what Doo-sik thought he could have done to stop that plane from exploding once it took off. Even if the pilots started trying to hurry to land, they'd have to find an appropriate place to do so not over water, and even then, they couldn't stop the bomb from exploding.

--I thought "Eagle" not only decided to spare the other agents' lives, but that he primarily wanted to spare Mi-hyun. The two flashbacks of him hovering in the air show him pointing his gun in Mi-hyun's direction as he studies her. Wasn't that supposed to be the moment he first fell in love? And also, wasn't the suggestion that part of his mission was to take her out at that moment because she ruined the entire operation (it didn't make sense to me in general that the worst thing that happened to her is that she was demoted)?

Unlike others, I haven't actually seen Jo In-sung in very much, so I can't say I was especially anticipating his role. But he was wonderful as Doo-sik and I'm so sad we may never see more of him after this.

”Empathy is what real power looks like”
Mi-Hyun ep2 lecturing an elementary school Bong-Seok as he was showing off to his classmates.
This scene hits so much harder now on a rewatch.

Gah. I loved these two episodes so much as well. And I’m so glad I watched them back to back because it felt like I’d stepped into a two-hour movie—The Spies Who Loved Each Other, as it was called on the WWW thread. The story was not only beautiful on its own, I loved all the links to the the earlier (but chronologically later) episodes—from the little details like the tonkatsu restaurant to Bong-seok himself.

However, I was glad there was a weeklong break after Episode 7 because otherwise these episodes, so different from the preceding ones, might have jarred a little. (I could think of a dozen ways they might have been more connected.)

I also think there was some issue of proportion and pace. I might have expanded the last confusing quarter of Ep. 9. And instead cut back some of the flashback within flashback scene (in the banquet hall) as hacja stated. I would have even cut at least one episode of the teen arc and developed the parents arc further so the pace of the two arcs matched. Or maybe that’s an excuse for more JIS-HHJ goodness. (I will not refer again to all my JIS swooning.) 😂

Anyway, minor quibbles because I really did love these episodes. Superb show.

this drama is so awesome.. we need JIS in drama more often

can't make head or tail of the banquet mission or Frank's killing

Frank has been ordered by CIA. This we know for sure. SK agency is not aware and did not have a hand in killing older agents is also clear given how they were trying ot find Frank and asked CIA to stop the killing.

Why does CIA want to kill older agents. Only reason can be that this group of ex-agents are similar people, believe in similar things, were connected by some operation. These guys are the nice guys. And, CIA is after dooshik, guessing while everyone thinks he is dead but body wasn't found so reasonable doubt remains.
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So, dooshik is the genius spy and all govts. want him..

What role do kids have in all of this?
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What was that banquet mission about.. when it was entirely being run by SK

I think I just loved these episodes too much to form coherent thoughts about them. I love the context Kim Doo-shik provides for the Mi-hyun and Bong-seok we meet in 2018. I can't wait to see more. And, obviously, dreading learning why he's no longer in their lives.

Two outstanding episodes.

Mi-hyun + Doo-sik. Beautiful couple.

Nice scene when Ju-won discovers he doesn't have seniority over Mi-hyun even though he is older.

Loved it when Ju-won took offense when Mi-hyun called him boy and hun to him calling her girl and hun (according to English subtitles).

Series is very good.

Well I liked ep 1_7 especially bongseok and heesoo friendship really touched my heart, but it was a little boring for me I think they could do it in 4 eps and we wouldn't miss many things
(Rec:you should just delete this Frank butchery & electro man nonsense writer_nim! 🙄) I was 🤏 close to drop this show before ep 7 but I continued because of great reviews from beanies and the promise of a very good ep 8&9 and yes.... it was brilliant! Thank you kdramaworld I didn't know I need a HHJ_JIS couple so bad! Huhuhu 🫠