It seems like this is a different Se Kyung and she too is from the future. She wasn't surprised at the phone ringing. I hope that explains why she didn't contact Chung Ah. Next episodes seem to be juicy, so here is hoping for more answers.

I wonder if they actually did a chemistry test for this drama before they cast the actors as for me, there is no palpable chemistry between both versions of “Sekyung” and Yichan but a really strong and pulsing one between Chungah and Yichan. I also think there is promising chemistry between the new “Sekyung” and Eungyeol.

I'm going to disagree slightly with @dramaddictally and say I found these episodes funnier and more heartfelt than the early ones. The battle of the bass and the guitar was a really funny macho showdown, ending with Flight of the Bumblebee? I also felt Yi-chan's guilt and embarrassment when he realized how badly he behaved toward Chung-ah, only to be momentarily distracted by his crush, before his better instincts kicked in.
I did get a little frustrated at Eun-gyeol continually screaming at the "new" Se-Kyung to stay away--she obviously was in the mood to provoke him and he should have changed his tactics to sweet-talking her, which is obviously what he would kind of like to do anyway, since he brought her food and couldn't say to her that he wasn't jealous of his Dad.
I thought the near death shocking from a microphone was a little dramatic, since I don't think those mics draw much power. I suppose if another power cord was loose in water, and the metal of the mic completed the circuit, then power could course through the body, causing cardiac arrest. But it seems a little unlikely since the rain had just started. But this is getting ridiculously nit-picky, I know.

I was also confused about the new Se-kyung, and thought for a time she had really run away from her parents and was now pursuing Yi-chan as a rebellion, but the show gave it away at the end, so now I know she is trying to change the past, maybe establish a connection with Yi-chan in the past to eliminate her Mom's unhappiness in the present, where it sounds like her husband is abusive. So she's willing to give up being born, in a ridiculous noble idiocy that thankfully will be defeated by love for Eun-gyeoul.

Anyway, for me, at least the show really got a lot more interesting and entertaining and I'm looking forward to what comes next.

1. I came here to die.

For me, that means Se Kyeong's daughter wants to prevent her parents from marrying each other, or just do something, change something in her mother's life so she doesn't exist in the future.

And let's say that fine for now. She's having a hard time and she probably thinks this is the best for her family and herself, Idk. But WHY is she interfering with someone else's life? She's a smart kid. She should know that wtv she does with Lee Chan is gonna mess up his timeline. So why is she doing this? Just to mess to Eun Gyeol? Because she wants to have fun?

This is kdramaland, so wtv she does, the parents' relationship won't change, I get that, but it still bothers me.
Uhmm, maybe I'm being too harsh on the kid because I don't like the stolen identity trope. Someone doing wtv they want under your name is kinda scary for me. I hate being responsible for something that has nothing to do with me. I wouldn't care if it is my future daughter, I would just hate it.

2. Lee Chan... the ability of this dude to interprete everything like his wants and ignore everyone else and their feelings is amazing. LOL

Of course he didn't notice the EVIDENT change in Se Kyeong's personality and how she treated him. Of course he didn't. He never really cared about her.

And of course he's gonna change the song if she says so. He doesn't have the minimum consideration for his band mates. Or just the regular sense of reality.

I'm with Eun Gyeol. I wouldn't care if that guy was my dad, my grandpa or wtv. I would've walked away without looking back.

I know that he wants to enjoy his youth and all that, but he shouldn't be the only one that gets to do it. The other kids also have goals, dreams and problems. They're kids too. And they're the protagonist in their own stories.

I'm pretty sure being more considerate won't stop Lee Chan from enjoying his youth.

3. Cheong Ha... Why the girls have the saddest stories? First OG Se Kyeong, now Cheong Ha, and according to what Se Kyeong's daughter said, her family is a complete disaster too.
I feel bad for the mom. But when I remember her smile in the present timeline, I don't feel so sad. It's nice watching her being so bright and happy. I'm glad she found her smile again and I'm glad she has a loving family now.

And this makes me think how sad is that Se Kyeong never got to have a truly happy family. Not in 1995 and not now. And she didn't get to have a nice year with her friends! She didn't even get to say goodbye to Cheong Ha. And Cheong Ha never wrote her back since she thought Se Kyeong was in Korea.

LOL Se Kyeong is gone but I'm still super invested in her story. Like I said before, I'm probably watching this show the wrong way.

4. Sweet Eun Gyeol... Aigoo. Poor baby. All he wants to do is be in a freaking band. 😂 He had to witness his dad acting like this, his mom being heartbroken and get electrocuted?

Idk how long he...

The Se Kyung that xame back from NY seems like a totally different person. More so that scene whe. She heard the phone ringing makes me wonder if she is from thw future too. Is she Se Kyung's daughter? If she is why would she want to die in the past?

My fave character is Chung Ah and I am glad that we get her story fleshed out. That stepmom(?) looks like she stepped out of Cinderella with two kids in tow. If that is the type of "parent" she has, no wonder she tells her own kids that she is practically an orphan.

I enjoyed Eun Gyeol's scenes with his dad and different ways he tried to cockblock him. I also enjoy how similar they both are. Grandma is right in thinking that they are more like brothers.

Plus Eun Gyeol's bickering with the new!Se Kyung seems like your typical romcom fight between potential love interests.

I agree with @dramadictally. I did miss the friendship between Se Kyung and Chung Ah. SK forgetting CA makes me question this new!SK's identity even more.

my guess, just as anyone's, is that the 'new' Se Kyung really is her daughter from the future. Too many hints about this, and how she reacted to the phone ringing gabe it away. Plus, there's the things that she sould've know, like Yi Chan and Eun Gyeoul have been to her house and stuff like that

I believe she intends to make herself never be born, this is what she means by dying. But then, WHAT IS IT WITH THE ROPE IN THE CEILING LOOKING LIKE A GALLOW? What was the point of this? If you want to kill yourself like that you don't need to travel to the past.
I didn't like that scene. Unless it is really well explained later on the series, to me it will seem like the show tried to be very obvious that she meant it when she said she came back to die.

Hum... This drama doesn't really work with me.

I didn't like Se-Kyeong past or present. I don't specially like how Seol In-Ah is playing her. Her story is sad but I wasn't feeling touched by it.

Chung-ah's story was so weird. And I don't think she can follow just by reading lips like that, people doesn't even watch her when they speak. I was kinda sad when the father he met her in sign language. It meants he was interesting in her only after he became deaf.

Eun-gyeol spends so much time trying to make Yi-Chan a better person, it's kinda weird. I wonder how was Yi-Chan's journey in the past.

I'm the most interested in Yi-Chan and Chung-Ah's story.

The guitar scenes are still bad...

I fell in love with Chung Ah, once they revealed her backstory and showed her falling for Yi Chan because he made her laugh, a feat that does not happen often in her life. She is such a sweet and lonely girl! Her future adult self is so caring and happy that makes me guess that Eun Gyeol and Yi Chan brought color in to her life. Can't wait to see more of the interactions between these three characters.

I love Seol In Ah, but she looks so out of place as the young rebellious time travelling daughter in this drama. Her aegyos aren't cute and I find it annoying, especially with that hideous hair cut on a pretty face. Maybe, its the way her character is written or because her past two dramas portrayed her as a strong independent adult, but I am not warming up to the current Se Kyung. I absolutely do not want a romance between Eun Gyeol and Se Kyung because a) there is zilch chemistry between them and b) I am interested only in the parents love story.

I’m just here for the Korean pop/rock songs during band practice. Does anyone know whats the title of the song in episode 6 during their first band practice?

It was such a rare occurrence to watch a time-slip drama this bright and happy. Everyone in our foursome leads has their respective dark or tragic backstory, but their youthful spirit outshone it all with optimism and hope (no matter how bittersweet or even anger-induced it was). The drama felt full of boundless energy, repeatedly coming back up again after it delivered its hefty emotional punch, and I'm a sucker for that.

This week eps is just a full blast on hijinks and shenanigans, with the carelessness and impulsiveness that I expected from a bunch of determined teenagers, and I wouldn't have it any other way. I love how Eun-gyeol's presence is enough to blow a violent storm through everyone's lives. He basically upended their whole reality and carefully laid out plans, including ones that Eun-gyeol himself didn't plan on disturbing. It would be very interesting to see how life turned out to be for each of our leads as Eun-gyeol's arrival introduced them to a world possibilities that was wholly different from what they expected.

I also like how we get to hear each of the leads' perspective on their lives and things that started changing with Eun-gyeol's arrival. Not every sequences made sense, but looking at things from their eyes made the inaccuracy or the dramatic flair less important than how it affected them and shaped them as a person. I also have my suspicion now (even though I promised myself before starting this drama not to get too mired up in wild theories) that Eun-gyeol might not be the only time traveler in our story, especially after Se-kyung's encounter with what was seemingly an otherworldly call. While the time travel aspect didn't seem to have the same stake as other time-bending stories, I'm worried that there are more consequences in the future, especially after Eun-gyeol's unexpected injury in the past timeline. (Did he take over Dad's place somehow?)

All in all, it seemed like we are only starting to move forward in earnest now that everyone's introduction phase was out of the way. We should see whether Eun-gyeol can find a way to return to his 2023, or whether that dream was never even in the plan the moment his time travel journey started.

* Definitely original SK's daughter
* I thought when she said,"I came here to die", she meant I'll play cupid and pair her first love with her hence, erasing her existence but then that loop...from the ceiling showed up.
* If I remember correctly,2023 SK said she had her first love in 11th grade so...Chung-ah?? IMAGINE 🤯

I have enjoyed these two episodes a lot. The show keeps being funny in a way that never annoys me.
The only character I can't understand is the one (the ones?) Seol In Ah is playing.
I have read other beanies commenting it too, as if the actress was a wrong casting choice. Maybe that's the explanation.
That would be a shame because I'm loving all the other actors in their roles.

I really love the father & son's relationship. Whether it's in 1995 or the current timeline (I don't even know how to phrase it haha)

I like all the moments when Eun Gyeol & his dad are signing and how complex their dynamic is. It makes their last argument even more poignant to me. Eun Gyeol has been a bridge for his family since the moment he could communicate (for the most part) which made him have to be mature or grow up faster but his dad was still always protective and tried to be open & there for him yet because of their circumstances, they couldn't connect fully. I think, even though both of his parents called him the pride of his life, if Eun Gyeol had told them how he was feeling, they might've understood him. I think that might be the point of his journey to the past; to better understand and relate to his parents.

Thanks for the recap - it's been a wee minute since I've been this invested in a Kdrama. Loving this series, especially looking forward to more of Cheong-ah's backstory.

As noted by others, definitely think the newcomer is Se-Kyung's daughter, probably why only her back and not her face was shown in the earlier episodes. The "Mum's drinking" rhetoric and Se-Kyung seen earlier with all her wine bottles was another hint (or to throw us off). Plus the baggage ticket with a different name. I wonder if the person in charge of props made an error with the "To JFK", or were we watching 2 different time traveller's, one landing in 1995, the other landing in New York? Of interest, Incheon airport wasn't in operation until March of 2001. Supposed to be 1995, writers perhaps didn't care for accuracy. Either way, definitely don't think it's Se-kyung as personality is a stark contrast. Se-Kyung also seemed very much invested in the relationship with Cheong-ah, also looked for her at the concert and again at the airport. Plus wrote to her - doubtful she would ever hurt Cheong-ah by seeking out Yi-Chan. The 2.0 version doesn't seem to care much for anyone's feelings.

People theorizing about abuse and the daughter makes things even more confusing for me. It's like when people were saying Ajumma was Se Kyung before the show said or showed it.

I'm looking forward to what led to Se Kyung's personality switch mainly because I'm hoping for some clarity.

Otherwise, I will go tumbling down a rabbit hole of confusion which includes wondering are people seeing Eun Gyeol as himself or does he look like someone else (which would be the case if that's really Se Kyung's daughter). But the daughter angle kinda contradicts the "everything was going fine until this jerk [Eun Gyeol] showed up" line from an earlier episode.

I'm still curious about Se Kyung's interest in Chung Ah. Why did she want to befriend her in the first place. Why did she write to her and mention whether people even cared that she was gone? Even in that letter, she seemed a bit disillusioned which gave some validity to her not wanting to be a living doll for her parents anymore because it's just all hollow and unsatisfying.

Se Kyung not remembering (or knowing) that Eun Gyeol & Yi Chan visited her house is one of the most confusing things.

Oh timey wimey mechanics haha
I feel like I need a New Rockstars [that's youtube channel] breakdown haha

Oh I found these episodes more funnier than the previous weeks. And had enough heart as well.
Though it hasn't been confirmed I'm pretty sure thats not the original Choi Se Gyeong, but her daughter. It became pretty obvious to me when she spoke of the reason why she was there, alluding to her mother's alcoholism and obsession with her. Add that on to how she's like the opposite of Se Gyeong in every other way it seemed like she too is a time traveler like Eun gyeol. Though she seems way more at ease with it than Eun Gyeol was. And that would also make sense why new se gyeong has a lot of chemistry with Eun Gyeol. Though I'm not sure why she's trying to get close to Yi Chan.
Seems like the mysterious music shop shows up when people are on the verge of giving up. For Eun Gyeol it was his treasured music. And for her..life itself? Or the thought of it. Interesting to see how this "trip" will help them to rekindle those sparks.
Oh and someone had also pointed out how Se Gyeong left in 1995 from Gimpo airpot, while new se gyeong returned to Incheon airport (which only opened in 2001). Interesting tidbit.

Thanks for the recap! I really loved this set of episodes. I'm enjoying Returned-Se-kyung (most likely her daughter from the future) just being an agent of chaos while Eun-gyeol is going nuts trying to control the chaos. Seol Inna is great at portraying the impish Sekyung.

I'm really liking how we get two couples with one being the more simple-minded wild one and the other one being the one who overthinks. I particularly love the scenes with Yi-chan and Chung-ah. There is such longing on her side, beautifully portrayed by Shin Eun-soo. And knowing that future Yi-chan will love his wife so much, I'm excited to see them interact.

Pretty sure, like most people, that new Se-kyung is also time traveling. Although, not sure how getting together with Yi-chan is going to help her. I really want more signing to happen in 1995 than I’m seeing. Why doesn’t he sign to his mom? Would his cover get blown? Would she fall in love with him instead? Talk about a nod to Back to the Future. I’ve left my husband in the dust watching this. So just giving him just the summary now. 😂

Have been pondering if/how they will explain adult Yi-Chan being non-verbal. My understanding is you experience modulation issues when you go deaf, but you don't lose all capacity to speak. Yet we see he's completely non-verbal with Eun-gyeol. Understand he might not be comfortable speaking to the outer circle, but to his own son? Perhaps accident caused mutism, too.

The Beanie detectives are awesome to have immediately deduced that the US returned Se-kyung is actually her future daughter traveling to the past.

I understand why the creatives did not reveal earlier that Seol In-ah would be playing a double role.

I generally avoid spoilers and just try to let the story unfold as was intended but I have to confess the intoduction and subsequent actions of Se-kyung's daughter from the future are head scratching at best and immature and selfish at worst.

Usually, in case of a mystery during future rewatches one tries to look for little clues that the writer may have woven into the narrative before the reveal. Latest example being Behind Your Touch.

In this case the introduction of this character is done in such a hodge podge and ham fisted manner that one is unsure whether the writer 
- intended to reveal the identity of the person upfront, or
- just plant a little clue for discerning viewers, or
- is it supposed to still be a mystery.

Basically we don't know whether there is supposed to be a mystery or not!!

If there is no mystery it should have been stated clearly upfront.

If there is a mystery then the reveal was not done well by far.

I would be very pleased to get less of Se-kyung and her daughter and more of Eun-gyeol and his family please.

What I cant seem to understand is that how could Yi Chan loose both his ability to speak as well as hear in the same accident. Does this happen?

The new Se Kyung seems to be the og Se Kyung’s daughter. And I think when she says that she has come to die, she means to alter the past in such a way that her mother and father might not meet. She will simply cease to exist in the future. Maybe there is a reasoning to that 🤔