The talisman was always a piece of paper - it was merely a conduit for YW's feelings. And the phone (whose importance was shown over and over) was conduit for HJ. Her earlier call didn't go through but this one did because he was dying at that moment (plus, the fact that she remembered him despite the Universe's rule counts for something, I think). I think it's the fact that he was willing and ready to die combined with her love and possibly any after effects of the original talisman that did it.
Why not consider the possibility that the drama makers may be asking us to question the way we've come to take phones for granted? Are they not magical? I still find the technology behind telegrams - let alone telephones, cell phones, or smart phones - unbelievable. (And thereby, I feel as if they're asking us to think further on the magic that allows us to live and breathe at all. We know a lot of the science behind the mechanics of human biology, but we still do not know what spark of life imbued physical matter with spirit
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OMG. OMG. Yes. Yes. This drama, this drama. Why am I repeating everything I'm saying? lol. It's just -- the last few episodes broke my heart into little pieces and after each episode I was done. The part that hurt the most was when he came back briefly for that second time and he looked down at the talisman and knew he was going to disappear again, and just the look on his face, the way he reached out to her -- Gah. I can't. Damn them. I think episode fifteen is better than the finale but still, they were all nearly perfect final episodes.
Yes, the bit when he reached out towards her but they couldn't even touch. But I think it was the letter that killed me, intercut with her crying in the rain. Or the scene in 16 when he was surrounded and just...you see him give up. Or maybe when he landed in Joseon for good in ep 15 and the look on their faces. 16 was wonderful (though the scene with the tie pretty much ended me - only in this drama would something so mundane become so romantic and then so horrifying and be sweet again by the end) and that ending in the theater was beyond incredible, but ep 15 was sheer perfection, the best ep of the incredible drama.
When he reached for the tie I actually whispered, "no." LOL. I was all, don't do it. Don't do it. We can figure it out. It was absolutely heartbreaking to see him give up like that after watching him be so determined throughout the entire drama. And then that realization that a tie could be used to take a life -- that moment just killed me. I'm getting all emotional again.
And that's exactly how I feel about episode 15. It just had that perfect mix of emotion that's engulfing. It was pretty much a perfect episode. Top to bottom, this drama is really solid. Like there wasn't one episode in the bunch that I felt was weak. That's pretty impressive.
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The talisman was always a piece of paper - it was merely a conduit for YW's feelings. And the phone (whose importance was shown over and over) was conduit for HJ. Her earlier call didn't go through but this one did because he was dying at that moment (plus, the fact that she remembered him despite the Universe's rule counts for something, I think). I think it's the fact that he was willing and ready to die combined with her love and possibly any after effects of the original talisman that did it.
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And that's exactly how I feel about episode 15. It just had that perfect mix of emotion that's engulfing. It was pretty much a perfect episode. Top to bottom, this drama is really solid. Like there wasn't one episode in the bunch that I felt was weak. That's pretty impressive.
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