You are, I know this already. Well have fun then hahah

The interesting thing is that the more I watch the less I understand what is going on 😂

I know some other Beanies had thoughts about Lee Soo-hyuk’s eye grabbing in the current timeline.

Re: Jong-beom’s character:

I believe that the people around him (I refer to them as both the Murderer’s Posse–for the man and woman who followed/admired Ji-cheol’s father when he was actively killing–and crazy family–mostly for his mother) are expecting him to be this psychopathic serial killer. A twisted version of the Next Best Thing. As such, they interpret his actions and even his art in that light.

In a flashback, for example, a young Jong-beom talks to his mother about his wanting to have been able to see inside the body of his late grandfather. His mother has this look on her face and says that he must have a curiosity about studying bodies (or something like that). But Jong-beom replies that he wanted to see if he could find his grandfather’s soul. His mother then has the look of someone who was not expecting that response. As for the paintings: the woman (who was a student of Ji-cheol’s father and apparently the lawyer who defended Ji-cheol in the ’80s timeline) looks at the painting of the person hanging off the ledge. She guesses that the perspective is from the murderer’s point of view. Almost as if the murderer were looking down at the person: he is above everything and the person hanging off the ledge is insignificant (this is my very poor summary of what she says). Jong-beom then replies something to the effect of: “Is that what you see?” He never confirmed her interpretation. Sorry for rambling. I am summarizing and paraphrasing a lot here, lol.

With Jong-beom’s character, they might be going with a sociopath or psychopath (I always have a problem with these terms as used in dramas, but will go with this), but he might not be a serial killer. I don’t think he is a killer. There is something off about him, but that could be because he does not behave or think “normally.”

And it could also very well be because he is the reincarnation of the detective. I like what you wrote above: “the 21st century reincarnation could be interpreting things differently.” This is a possibility. But I can’ t help but feel that we could always be fooled.

Side note: I never saw ’80’s Ji-choel as a psychopath. I can understand that the public might think that, as all of the murders were pinned on him. But the woman who belonged to Murderer’s Posse also seemed to think of him that way. He was troubled, no doubt, but I saw him as a deeply feeling but also troubled person.

And LOL re: “dramaland hair rule.”