Memoriesof the Alhambra Title: 알함브라 궁전의 추억 / Memories of the Alhambra Chinese Title: 阿爾罕布拉宮的回憶 Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Action Episodes: 16 Broadcast network: tvN Broadcast period: 2018-Dec-01 to 2019-Jan-20 Air time: Saturday & Sunday 21:00 Synopsis
recaps discussion news cast 222 December 3, 2018December 3, 2018 Memories of the Alhambra Episode 1 by dramallama This is amazing! From the director of Forest of Secrets and the writer of W-Two Worlds comes a thrilling drama that leads us on an adventure between a virtual world and reality. We’re given a gripping introduction to our characters, who’ve found themselves at the junction of this virtual reality in Granada, Spain. It’s a conglomeration of a magical reality, some impromptu confrontations, and enjoyable humor that all mesh to create this intriguing introduction to the story. Let’s dive right in! EPISODE 1 RECAP In Barcelona, a frazzled young man urgently speaks to someone on a pay phone. We’ll later know him to be JUNG SE-JOO Chanyeol of Exo, and he suddenly looks around with a frightened expression. He quickly tells the person to meet at the hostel in Granada before dropping the phone and running off. Se-joo runs for his life through the night streets of Barcelona, seemingly being chased by someone or something, but we can’t see what he’s running from. Out of breath, Se-joo finally boards the train and seems to be safe from the pursuit. When Se-joo reaches his cabin, one of his cabinmates asks Se-joo to wake him when they reach Granada. Still shaken, Se-joo nods and hugs his knees on his bed. Se-joo wakes up the announcement of their approach to Granada and wakes up his cabinmate as promised. The cabinmate nods and turns around, still dozing off. Then suddenly, the sunny weather transforms into a storm, and Se-joo looks at the dark clouds and rain with worry. He opens the cabin door, and his eyes widen at the sight of someone. A gunshot fires, splattering blood on Se-joo’s bed and piercing the train window. When the train arrives at Granada Station, the weather has transformed back to sunny and clear skies. As the cabinmate leaves, he notices that Se-joo left his backpack on the train. In a narration, we hear that this was the last official sighting of this young man. Bonita Hostel owner JUNG HEE-JOO Park Shin-hye wakes up to the doorbell ringing. It’s past 1 and she sleepily lugs herself off the couch to greet a guest at the door. We’ll soon know him as YOO JIN-WOO Hyun Bin, and he asks if she has any open rooms. He narrates “This is where the story begins. That person sought me, and I sought that person, here in Granda.” Hee-joo checks in her late-night guest and notes that most people make a reservation. Jin-woo explains that he was on a business trip in Barcelona and needed to make an impromptu trip to Granada. She offers their two options — a double or quad — but Jin-woo wants a single room. She comments that most people who want singles go to a hotel and then remembers that she does have one single room on the sixth floor. Jin-woo gladly agrees to take the room before realizing that the hostel doesn’t have an elevator. Hee-joo offers to refer him to a hotel, but he insists on staying at the hostel. Hee-joo offers him the open space in the quad dorm on the second floor, but after seeing the mess of the room, Jin-woo decides to haul his luggage up to the sixth floor. Hee-joo apologetically leads him to the sixth floor as Jin-woo carries his suitcase on his shoulders because he doesn’t want to scratch up his suitcase. Once they arrive at the sixth-floor single, it turns out to be a long untouched storage room with furniture piled in a corner and dust layered all over. Hee-joo hurriedly tries to open the windows for fresh air and apologizes that she didn’t get a chance to clean the room yesterday. Jin-woo implies that she must have skipped cleaning for much longer. Hee-joo once again suggests that he move to a hotel, but he tackles the stairs with his luggage again. When Hee-joo returns to the ground floor, her grandmother asks about their late-night guest. Hee-joo describes the guest as rich person, dressed in high-end brands from head to toe, and wonders why he wouldn’t just stay at a hotel. Grandma figures that he could be dressed in counterfeit accessories, and Hee-joo nods in agreement. Looking disgusted, Jin-woo tries to clean the cobwebs in his room with a broom and runs into one mess after another. He pulls off the handle while trying to open the window, stuffs crumpled up toilet paper into the mouse hole, and deals with a toilet that won’t flush the toilet paper he used to wipe the heavy layers of dust on the nightstand. Ha, this is somehow really relatable. While trying to plunge the dusty toilet water, Jin-woo picks up a call from his secretary at the hotel in Barcelona. Secretary SEO JUNG-HOON Min Jin-woong finds it absurd that Jin-woo left for Granada when their flight to Seoul is that morning, but Jin-woo tells him what’s really absurd When he tried to wake his secretary for an impromptu trip to Granada, his drunk secretary wouldn’t budge and even cursed Jin-woo in his sleep, so he came to Granada on his own. Secretary Seo sheepishly falls to his knees and explains that he was celebrating their last scheduled night in Barcelona. Jin-woo orders Secretary Seo to submit his resignation letter upon reaching Seoul and hangs up. Secretary Seo looks crushed, but he immediately receives a call from Jin-woo ordering him to get to Granada on the first morning flight. After Jung-hoon successfully clears the dusty toilet water, he tries to charge his phone into the outlet in his room, but of course, it’s blocked. All the other outlets are taped off, so Jung-hoon resorts to outlets on the ground floor kitchen. As he charges his phone, he texts someone named Choi Yang-joo asking how much longer, and Yang-joo responds that it’ll take about 30 more minutes. Jin-woo cooks himself ramyun while waiting, and a young girl enters the kitchen. She introduces herself as JUNG MIN-JOO Lee Re, and Jin-woo incorrectly assumes that she’s the hostel owner’s daughter. Min-joo corrects him that 27-year-old Hee-joo is her older sister. She tells him to ignore her dance practice for her audition next week, and she proceeds to jam out around the table while Jin-woo slurps his ramyun. When Jin-woo leaves his pot in the sink, Min-joo tells him to clean his dishes right away, so he reluctantly follows the rules. Then, he finally receives the notification from Yang-joo that he can check the thing he’s been waiting on. Jin-woo exits the hostel and walks through the night as he narrates, “Most people come to Granada for Alhambra Palace, but I’ve come to see something else — something more mystical than the Alhambra.” He reaches a fountain in the middle of a plaza and notices buildings on a faraway hill burst into flames. Then, a rock fires towards him and explodes in the air, crumbling to the ground around him. Jin-woo ducks and looks closely at the approaching figure behind the dust. It’s a medieval knight with arrows piercing his back, riding toward him on a horse. Jin-woo stands up cautiously as the knight stops before him, and then the knight rears the horse, much to Jin-woo’s surprise. The dead knight topples to the ground, and the horse runs off through the streets, but no other passerby seems to notice the ruckus. After taking a close look at the knight, Jin-woo looks up to the statue in the plaza as it suddenly turns into a real warrior. The warrior leaps off the pedestal and slams his sword to the ground, causing an explosion of dust. Jin-woo falls to the ground and looks terrified as the warrior approaches him with the sword. Then, the warrior slices his sword at Jin-woo, who just barely saves himself by bearing a cut on his arm. He sees blood dripping onto the ground, and we’re finally clued in that he’s wearing special contact lenses. We see the world from his perspective A computer program notifies Jin-woo that the warrior killed him and logs him out. Upon logging out, the blood and rubble disappear, and Jin-woo breathes heavily in relief before cracking a smile. Through his earpiece, he talks to his colleague Yang-joo, who’s blown away by this augmented reality AR game. Yang-joo fumes in jealousy when Jin-woo confirms that it felt so real that he believed that he was dying, which is a funny thing to envy. Jin-woo takes out a contact lens, still hot from the program, and Yang-joo predicts that this form of AR could take off in the market within the next year. They wonder who this crazy genius could be. Flashback to 4 hours prior — Jin-woo wakes up in the middle of the night to pick up a call from an unknown number. It’s runaway pay phone caller Se-joo, who nervously explains that he received an offer from CEO Cha Hyung-seok seemingly Jin-woo’s friend but doesn’t want to sell his game to a bad guy. He needs to make a decision by the next day and tells Jin-woo check his email. He urgently tells Jin-woo to meet at Bonita Hostel in Granada before running off. Jin-woo seems confused by the sudden call and tries calling back, but nobody answers. His eyes widen when he opens the attached file and immediately gets out of bed to dig deeper on his laptop. Jin-woo makes a call to a mysterious person saved on his phone as “A” cameo by Park Hae-soo and asks for details about Cha Hyung-seok’s stay in Barcelona. It seems like someone has wiretapped one of their phones and monitors the conversation. As Jin-woo packs his suitcase, he tells “A” that he’s headed to Granada to check out the program himself. Back to the present in Granada, Jin-woo tells Yang-joo that they can only wait for their mysterious programmer to appear. Until then, Jin-woo says that he’ll keep trying to level up in the game to find any potential flaws. Meanwhile, at the Seoul office, Yang-joo shares this mindblowing AR game with his superior Director Park, all three of them keeping this on the down low. Putting the contact lens back into his eye, Jin-woo logs back into the game, taking place in Granada in year 1492, during the war between the Aragon and Nasrid kingdoms. He swipes through the virtual screen, and the game instructs him to follow the map to find the basic weapon provided to all level 1 players. Jin-woo follows the virtual reality navigation to his destination the bathroom of a bustling restaurant. He’s charged with finding the weapon there, so he searches the mirror and sink for any sign of the weapon. Then, he pulls at a random chain, and that opens a virtual window from the ceiling to reveal a sword. The sword lowers from the ceiling, and Jin-woo grabs it in awe. The program informs him that this is the only weapon available for level 1 and that he must level up to upgrade his weapon. From the other end, his colleagues Yang-joo and Director Park marvel at the realistic weapon, and Jin-woo confirms that it feels real. In the bathroom, a drunk man at the urinal looks at Jin-woo’s gestures curiously and presumes that he’s drunk. As Jin-woo exits the restaurant, he waves his sword, which is invisible to everyone else. He returns to the statue at the plaza with his virtual sword, and just like before, the warrior leaps down from the pedestal. This time, Jin-woo defends himself with his sword, but he’s knocked down by the mighty force of his enemy. When he looks around, his enemy has disappeared, but the warrior jumps from above and attacks him, much to his colleagues’ frenzy. The Nasrid warrior kills Jin-woo once again, and he’s logged out. Adjusting to the game, Jin-woo takes on the challenge again and fights his statue enemy once more. But this time, his rusted sword breaks, and he loses his life and weapon. As they watch, Yang-joo and Director Park mock Jin-woo for his poor performance, saying that it’ll take him a year to level up at this rate. Jin-woo logs in for the fourth time — this time with no weapon, so he returns to the restaurant bathroom to retrieve the virtual sword. The waiter who greeted him at his first visit looks at him strangely and wonders if he comes in just to use the bathroom. Jin-woo faces the Nasrid warrior multiple times while his colleagues now watch his repeated failures while munching on popcorn. All night, Jin-woo fights, dies, and revisits the restaurant bathroom for his virtual sword while his colleagues shake their head at his incompetence. His level 1 battle seems repetitive and predictable until he switches up the fighting ground and stands by a car. At first, he doesn’t see the warrior anywhere, but suddenly, the warrior lands on the top of the car, shattering the glass and denting the top. Jin-woo and his colleagues freeze in shock and awe that this program just incorporated a real-life item into the game in real time. The warrior kills Jin-woo and breaks the weapon once again, but Jin-woo smiles in excitement. When Jin-woo returns to the restaurant to retrieve his weapon, it’s closed. He waves over the workers to let him in and hands the annoyed waiter some cash to remain open for one more hour. That’s some addiction commitment. As night becomes day, a confused elderly couple watches Jin-woo continues flail and roll around against the invisible enemy. From Jin-woo’s perspective, he’s fighting with his all against the Nasrid warrior and finally manages to wound him with the sword. He breathes heavily in this final faceoff and slices his sword at the warrior flying toward him. The warrior collapses in defeat, and Jin-woo finally levels up! Woohoo! The dead enemy disappears, and Jin-woo is charged with a new mission Find the Warrior’s Key. He reaches into the fountain and obtains the key, which the program instructs him to use to find his new weapon. Jin-woo looks accomplished and collapses to the ground in satisfaction. Through the earpiece, Director Park tells him that they can’t find any flaws — only that it’s too addictive. He warns Jin-woo not to lose the bet on this AR game, and Jin-woo assures him that he has no plans to let this slip through his fingers. Lying on the ground, he imagines how this game could be the future all over the world and how Granada will become famous — not for Alhambra Palace but as the magical city, the mecca for all users. He admits, “As soon as I imagined this future, I became fearful and dispirited at the possibility that I could lose this game.” Jin-woo returns to the hostel just as hostel owner Hee-joo arrives on her scooter. She tells him that she plans on cleaning the sixth floor first, and he tiredly agrees to this. As he climbs the stairs, he worries that the mysterious programmer already signed over the game to CEO Cha Hyung-seok. Jin-woo grumbles as he heads back down the stairs to the kitchen to charge his phone. He agrees to watch over another hostel guest’s cooking ramyun and picks up a call from investigator “A,” who reports that Cha Hyung-seok cancelled his whole schedule for today. Jin-woo worries that he’s already lost the game to his rival, but “A” doesn’t think so. “A” shares details on the mysterious programmer 17-year-old Jung Se-joo. “A” has also illicitly hacked into his emails. Jin-woo seems alarmed that this programmer is a minor, and the call is interrupted by the fire alarm, triggered by the burning ramyun on the stove. Annoyed by the sound, Jin-woo turns off the stove and opens the window before going outside to continue his call. But the call gets cut off from the poor Bluetooth connection, and Jin-woo can’t bring his phone outside because it’s low on battery. He finds Hee-joo trying to turn off the sensitive fire alarm and barks at her to turn off the alarm faster. Jin-woo tries to return to his call, but Hee-joo confronts him for his rude burst of anger. As the alarm shuts off, Jin-woo decides to call back later and addresses Hee-joo. He explains that he’s blaming her because she’s the owner of this wretched hostel. As a businessman himself, he says that he detests mediocre business owners like her. He belittles the hostel for having nothing to offer other than some free ramyun and yells complaints about the clogged toilet, mouse hole, broken window, stairs, and broken outlets. Hee-joo nervously squeaks out her disclaimer that she did suggest moving to a hotel. Jin-woo sternly warns her that if this deal worth one billion won goes wrong, it’ll be her fault. Hee-joo apologizes but also accuses him of bad manners. He finds it funny that she’s seeking manners after treating her guests without any and walks into the lobby to return the call to “A.” Hee-joo crouches down and sobs at the harsh words while Jin-woo learns more about the mysterious programmer, who needs his guardian’s consent because he’s still a minor. “A” tells him that the programmer’s parents have passed away, so his legal guardian is his older sister Jung Hee-joo, the owner of Bonita Hostel. Jin-woo pauses in realization that he’s been staying at Bonita Hostel and looks back at a sobbing Hee-joo. “A” says that Hee-joo doesn’t seem to know anything, based on the emails she exchanged with her programmer brother. Jin-woo looks at her from the kitchen entrance, and Hee-joo shoots back a glare. Jin-woo narrates, “This is how the magic started in Hee-joo’s life. Hee-joo had authority over the technological innovation of the future. And like all fairytale princesses, she didn’t know her identity, lived in a wretched house, and let in a wolf.”  COMMENTS I’m sold! I was happy to find that this show met the hype and my anticipations, as expected from this production team. The sci-fi fantasy element is right up my alley, and I’m excited to see how the two worlds mesh through this show. As an inexperienced video gamer read I can maybe figure out Mario Cart, I find the concept of virtual reality and augmented reality overwhelming but fascinating — meaning I could never excel in the game, but I am so intrigued by the idea that I would love to be good at it. I’m not sure how exciting this show was for those who’ve been immersed in the world of VR and AR for a while, but for me, this was quite an exciting watch. I think I may finally understand why people watch videos of other people playing video games. W-Two Worlds really blew me out of the water with its creativity and exhilarating twists and turns, so I’m excited for how this drama unfolds with this writer at the helm. I can already see the parallels — in a good way — with how the two worlds of reality and AR overlap and interact. Even though Jin-woo’s level 1 failures were repetitive, it didn’t feel trite or boring thanks to the multiple perspectives and angles possible with this concept. This director knows how to get those angles and portray the clear points of view of the people privy to and unaware of the AR game. This director-writer combo already had me excited, and this was a strong first episode to showcase their potential. I had forgotten how much I had missed Hyun Bin and his dimples, and I think he chose a great project for his dramaland comeback. He’s a natural at the likeable ass with a sprinkle of cheeky humor, and I can’t wait to see how he tries to recover from putting his foot in his mouth. I’m not too keen on Park Shin-hye’s character being characterized as the clueless fairytale princess, as she’s played these types of characters before. I hope her character transcends that archetype and proves that she’s more than the “princess” that Jin-woo sees. I’m eager to dive deeper into the virtual world of Alhambra and as excited as Jin-woo looks when he finally conquered level 1. Level/Episode 2, let’s go! RELATED POSTS Premiere Watch Clean With Passion for Now, Boyfriend, Memories of the Alhambra More teasers for Memories of the Alhambra Promos for suspense romance drama Memories of the Alhambra Reminiscing about Spain at sunset in tvN’s Memories of the Alhambra Park Shin-hye up to join Hyun Bin in Memories of the Alhambra Hyun Bin offered new sci-fi drama from W–Two Worlds writer Tags Chanyeol, featured2, first episodes, Hyun Bin, Memories of the Alhambra, Min Jin-woong, Park Hae-soo, Park Shin-hye Premium Supporter ♥ Currently Airing
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Memories of the Alhambra 2018 Also Known As 알함브라 궁전의 추억 Alhambeura Goongjeonui Chooeok Memories of Alhambra Palace Memories of the Alhambra tells the unique and suspenseful love story of Yoo Jin Woo and Jung Hee Joo. Strong spirited Yoo Jin Woo is the CEO of an investment company with a degree in engineering and a knack for developing video games. He has an adventurous and competitive spirit. Suffering after his best friend betrays him, he takes a business trip to Granada, Spain in search of the mysterious inventor of an innovative augmented-reality video game. He ends up at a hostel that Jung Hee Joo owns. Hee Joo is a former classical guitarist who came to Spain to further her studies. After the death of her parents, she takes on various jobs to support herself, including running the old hostel . They are both drawn into a series of strange and unexpected events.
EPISODE1 RECAP In Barcelona, a frazzled young man urgently speaks to someone on a pay phone. We'll later know him to be JUNG SE-JOO ( Chanyeol of Exo), and he suddenly looks around with a frightened expression. He quickly tells the person to meet at the hostel in Granada before dropping the phone and running off.
Follow Other name 알함브라 궁전의 추억 Alhambeura Goongjeonui Chooeok Memories of Alhambra Palace Description Memories of the Alhambra tells the unique and suspenseful love story of Yoo Jin Woo and Jung Hee Joo. Strong spirited Yoo Jin Woo is the CEO of an investment company with a degree in engineering and a knack for developing video games. He has an adventurous and competitive spirit. Suffering after his best friend betrays him, he takes a business trip to Granada, Spain in search of the mysterious inventor of an innovative augmented-reality video game. He ends up at a hostel that Jung Hee Joo owns. Hee Joo is a former classical guitarist who came to Spain to further her studies. After the death of her parents, she takes on various jobs to support herself, including running the old hostel . They are both drawn into a series of strange and unexpected events. Country Korean Status Completed Released 2018 Genre Action; Comedy; melodrama; Murder; Mystery; Romance; Sci-fi; Thriller;
Onthe train to Granada Jung se joo mysteriously dissappears. Yoo jin woo arrives at Jung hee joo's hostel after midnight looking for a room and starts to unravel the mysterious game. Aired: December 01, 2018 Next Episode Memories of the Alhambra Recent Discussions New Topic Memories of the Alhambra Episode 1 Reactions New Reaction Sony-sajangnim
Memories of the Alhambra 2018 Click to manage book marks Other name 알함브라 궁전의 추억 Alhambeura Goongjeonui Chooeok Memories of Alhambra Palace Country Korean Status Completed Released 2018 Genre Action, Comedy, melodrama, Murder, Mystery, Romance, Sci-fi, Thriller Description Memories of the Alhambra tells the unique and suspenseful love story of Yoo Jin Woo and Jung Hee Joo. Strong spirited Yoo Jin Woo is the CEO of an investment company with a degree in engineering and a knack for developing video games. He has an adventurous and competitive spirit. Suffering after his best friend betrays him, he takes a business trip to Granada, Spain in search of the mysterious inventor of an innovative augmented-reality video game. He ends up at a hostel that Jung Hee Joo owns. Hee Joo is a former classical guitarist who came to Spain to further her studies. After the death of her parents, she takes on various jobs to support herself, including running the old hostel . They are both drawn into a series of strange and unexpected events. Cast Stars Park Chan Yeol Chanyeol 1992 Memories of the Alhambra 2018 trailer View More Video Show All Episodes Ep 16 SUB Ep 15 SUB Ep 14 SUB Ep 13 SUB Ep 12 SUB Ep 11 SUB Ep 10 SUB Ep 9 SUB Ep 8 SUB Ep 7 SUB Ep RAW Ep 6 SUB Ep 5 SUB Ep 4 SUB Ep 3 SUB Ep 2 SUB Ep 1 SUB
Memoriesof the Alhambra: Episode 16 (Final) by LollyPip Our hero is almost at the end of his journey, his strength, and his sanity, but he's not finished setting things right. There's one last task to complete before he can rest, and this task might just be the one that breaks him for good.
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Memoriesof the Alhambra tells the unique and suspenseful love story of Yoo Jin Woo and Jung Hee Joo. Strong spirited Yoo Jin Woo is the CEO of an investment company with a degree in engineering and a knack for developing video games. He has an adventurous and competitive spirit.
recaps discussion news cast 412 January 22, 2019January 22, 2019 Memories of the Alhambra Episode 16 Final by LollyPip Our hero is almost at the end of his journey, his strength, and his sanity, but he’s not finished setting things right. There’s one last task to complete before he can rest, and this task might just be the one that breaks him for good. The game has been an enemy that he can’t confront or change, he could only endure, and for better or worse, it will all be over soon. EPISODE 16 RECAP Director Park rushes to the hotel room where Jin-woo and Professor Cha were last known to be. He finds Professor Cha dead where NPC Hyung-seok killed him, but Jin-woo is nowhere to be seen. He tells his assistant to call an ambulance, then sits by Professor Cha’s body and cries. Later, while the police are investigating the scene, Director Park wearily takes a call from one of board members asking if it’s true that Professor Cha is dead. He feels guilty for not telling Director Park sooner that last night, Professor Cha called him and told him to start up the game server. A few minutes later he’d gotten a call from Jin-woo on Professor Cha’s phone, and he’d told Jin-woo that he’d shut the server off again as Professor Cha requested. Jin-woo had told him to start it again, because there was something he needed to finish. The board member tells Director Park that he did as Jin-woo instructed, so the server was up again between 6 and 7 in the morning. At Hee-joo’s house, Se-joo doesn’t know who completed the quest that freed him from his year-long imprisonment in the game. He asks Hee-joo who it was, and he’s surprised to hear that it was Jin-woo, since he never even met him. JH thinks about how Jin-woo came to Granada on Se-joo’s request, and everything that’s happened since then, and she bursts into tears, alarming Se-joo. After telling the board member to reopen the server, Jin-woo had returned to the church where he last saw Emma just as the server came back up again. NPC Hyung-seok had spawned near the pulpit, and Jin-woo had set aside his crutch and met Hyung-seok in the aisle, pulling out the Key to Heaven. As Hyung-seok had swung his sword, Jin-woo had plunged the Key into Hyung-seok’s chest. The game informed Jin-woo that the bug in the game was being deleted, and Hyung-seok had dropped his weapon and slumped over Jin-woo’s arm. When Director Park arrives at the church, Jin-woo’s discarded crutch is still there. He logs into the game himself he’s played before, with nearly 150 log-ins, and he kneels in the aisle in front of a small pile of shimmering sand, all that was left behind when Jin-woo finally eliminated NPC Hyung-seok seventeen hours ago. Director Park looks to his right, and in the next aisle over, there’s another, identical pile of sand. We see that Jin-woo had been attacked by assassins after deleting NPC Hyung-seok, and although he’d taken care of them easily, the game told him that his ally had appeared. Professor Cha had been made into an NPC, and after a minute’s hesitation, Jin-woo had used the Key of Heaven to delete him, too. NPC Secretary Seo had also shown up, and Jin-woo had approached him, tears welling in his eyes at the thought of what he had to do. He’d given this last image of his friend a one-armed hug, and had had to force himself to stab him with the key. Jin-woo had held on tight as long as he could, crying, until Secretary Seo dissolved into sand. Seeing the former identity of this last pile of sand causes Director Park to stagger, the weight of the losses, and of Jin-woo’s heartbreaking task, almost too much to bear. He takes a call from Hee-joo and tells her that he’s at the church, but he still hasn’t heard from Jin-woo. After deleting the bugs, Jin-woo had heard the familiar sounds of the guitar, and Emma had reappeared on the dais. He’d gone to her and told her it was all over, and she’d said gently that he looked exhausted. She’d asked why he took the Key of Heaven from her, and Jin-woo had said, “I was afraid. I didn’t want to die.” Emma had asked him to return the key, and Jin-woo had placed it in her outstretched hand, a tear rolling down his face. In the present, something makes Director Park stop, and he turns around and approaches the pulpit. There’s a fourth pile of shimmering sand in front of the steps… oh please no. As he touches it, the game tells him that it’s the remains of Zinu, Jin-woo’s handle in the game. Director Park slumps, his phone falling from his hand, as Hee-joo begs him to say something. He’s still sitting on the floor when Hee-joo arrives at the church, desperate to know what’s going on. He tells her not to come any closer, but she sees the sand, and she asks what it is in a fearful voice. Before she gets an answer, their smart contacts alert them both that the game is being reset. The four piles of sand float into the air, swirl, then disappear, and all over the cities, the game NPCs also disappear. The church goes gray around Hee-joo and Director Park, while at the building, everyone panics as the game deletes, then rebuilds itself. The color returns, and some time later, Director Park writes an email to Jin-woo in the hopes that he will see it from wherever he is. He talks about Professor Cha’s funeral, and how the police investigation was closed since there was no evidence that his death was a murder. He says that the game’s self-reset deleted any lingering proof that it had anything to do with any deaths, and nobody but him knows why the reset happened. He says that he’s been wondering if he should start over again or stop now, and he asks what Jin-woo would do. One day during a storm, Director Park goes to Hee-joo’s house to finally meet Se-joo. He finds him huddled in his closet, terrified of the thunder and stammering that it’s starting again. Director Park tells Se-joo gently that it’s real lightning and thunder, and that the bug no longer exists. When he leaves, Se-joo follows him downstairs to ask if he knows Jin-woo. He tells Director Park that Jin-woo is probably dead, deleted by Emma after being stabbed with the Key of Heaven. He wails that he never would have called Jin-woo, or sent him the quest, if he’d known so many people would die. He sobs that he didn’t even know about Jin-woo and Hee-joo, which is why he told his sister everything, including that Emma probably killed Jin-woo. Hee-joo is at the church, where she remembers telling Jin-woo that when the Key of Heaven and the Hand of Fatima come together, the gate will open and the palace will crumble. Se-joo had told her that he programmed Emma to kill game bugs with the Key of Heaven, and Hee-joo realizes that she’s the one who told Jin-woo to give Emma the Key, which may have led to his death. She denies that it could be true, and she calls out for Jin-woo, demanding that he answer her. She falls to her knees, sobbing that he promised he’d come to her in the morning, over and over. Director Park finds her there, unconscious, and takes her home. But when she wakes, she goes right back to the church, and she crouches to touch the spot where Jin-woo last stood. She goes back again and again as time passes, never giving up hope that she’ll see Jin-woo again. Director Park continues emailing Jin-woo, but his emails are eventually reduced to simple, “What have you been doing? I miss you,” messages, and they all go unread. Hee-joo keeps visiting the church, but she never finds Jin-woo there. One year later. Yu-ra gets remarried, and although she claims to be very happy, her smile is empty as she poses for the reporters in her wedding dress. The press attributes her unhappy expression to having gone through a rough year after being found guilty for giving a false statement to the police, retiring from show business, and being arrested for drunk driving. Not much is known about her groom other than that he’s a rich businessman with two children. Yu-ra yells at her manager and former boyfriend, furious that everyone is saying she’s marrying for money, but he’s all, Why throw a fit when it’s the truth? Soo-jin has recovered from her suicide attempt, and she uses the money she inherited from Professor Cha to create a scholarship fund in his name. She gives a speech, only faltering a bit when she talks about how Professor Cha valued honor above all else. Afterward, Director Park asks her if she’s really donating everything, and she says that she doesn’t want to leave her son even one penny of Professor Cha’s money. She asks about Jin-woo, and Director Park says he hasn’t heard from him. Soo-jin mentions the popular rumor that Jin-woo fled overseas to avoid standing trial, and Director Park says that he sincerely hopes it’s true, because it’s better than the alternative “I’m worried that he might have been erased from this world, just like that.” People from all over the city congregate at the park as a guild, manifest swords from their bare hands, and go to battle against the NPCs that suddenly appear in front of them. Non-players gather to watch what looks like a bunch of people flailing around for no reason, with expressions ranging from bewilderment to amusement. Even a businessman in a suit encounters an NPC while he waits for the bus, and carries on a duel right there on the sidewalk. The ad on the bus is for new AR game, titled Next, and a news anchorman reporting from the park tells us that the game was only released two weeks ago, in both Seoul and Granada, but it’s already changing the faces of the cities. New players line up in Subway bathrooms to collect their level one Rusty Iron Swords, and eat Subway sandwiches to replenish their in-game health. The smart lenses needed to access the game sell so well that stocks skyrocket to almost triple their original price. Companies partner with so that their real-life products produce in-game benefits, and stores have trouble keeping certain drinks that double as health potions on the shelves. But there are downsides to the game, too — people are getting hurt because players can’t adequately pay attention to their surroundings. cooperates with the government to regulate gameplay, like limiting service areas and only allowing play time during certain hours of the day. Hee-joo goes out to meet Director Park, getting shoulder-checked on the way by a man who’s obviously playing the game. She waits in a cafe, and when Director Park arrives, he tells her that he’s planning to retire in a month — he only hung around at until now to take responsibility for the game. He tells Hee-joo that she looks better and says that she ought to think about dating. He even offers to set her up with a few great guys, but she politely demurs. Director Park says gently that it’s time for them both to give up on Jin-woo, but Hee-joo doesn’t respond. Director Park says that he actually wants to talk to her about Se-joo, and she tells him that Se-joo is much better and even leaves the house. wants to set up a subsidiary company for Se-joo so that he can do research and game development, so Hee-joo goes home to tell the family and ask Se-joo what he wants to do. Se-joo goes to the building with Hee-joo, where he’s introduced to the programmers as the developer of Next. Se-joo is overwhelmed by their adulation, so Hee-joo has to prompt him to greet them, but when he does, they erupt in excited applause. Yang-joo takes Se-joo and Hee-joo to his office, eager to talk to Se-joo one-on-one. Hee-joo leaves the two gamers alone and goes down the street for a cup of coffee, where she hears a couple of guys talking about seeing a player who used a gun — except that guns can’t be used until level 50, and the game is so new that the most advanced player is only level 25. Yang-joo talks Se-joo’s ear off, yammering about the game and how freaked out he was when the game reset itself. He says that he would have deleted Emma if he’d known she could do that, but Se-joo says that there could be an “Indun” instance dungeon a special area that creates a new copy for each group or player, so that multiple groups can play the dungeon at the same time yet not run into each other. He explains that he programmed the game so that the master can create induns in times of danger. He first created this feature to confuse enemies, but it worked as a hiding place for him for a year. He was in an instance dungeon that he created at the train station — He was in the same place as other people, but they couldn’t see him, as if he were in a different dimension. Yang-joo can’t wrap his mind around the idea of an instance dungeon in real life. Se-joo admits that he has a hard time believing it, too, but he thinks that since Jin-woo is now the “master” in the game, he could still be alive in an indun somewhere. At the cafe, Hee-joo approaches the players and asks what they were talking about. One player says that he saw what he thought was an NPC, but he helped him, and that he didn’t have a user ID. She finds out where this player was seen and runs there, and as she runs, we see her telling Director Park that she won’t give up on Jin-woo. He’d said that Jin-woo was dead, deleted, but Hee-joo was confident that he will return. As she nears the place where she hopes to find Jin-woo, Hee-joo puts in her smart lenses and logs into the game. She narrates “I don’t care if the whole world doesn’t believe it, but I do. I believe that we will meet again.” A player duels an NPC, and the NPC knocks his word from his hand and raises his arm to strike a killing blow. Shots rings out, and the NPC is killed. The player gets to his feet, but all he can see is a silhouette of a man holding a gun. COMMENTS But… but… I have so many questions! That was definitely Jin-woo, and I’m assuming that Se-joo’s explanation of an instance is how Jin-woo saved himself, the same way Se-joo did — by creating a special area that only he could access, and that wasn’t destroyed when the game reset. He’s still in the world, in a different dimension created by the game, but every now and then a player coincidentally enters the same instance and can see him. It’s a good explanation, and it makes logical sense within the rules of the game, and it also gives hope that maybe Jin-woo can create a quest for someone to save him, too. It certainly opens up the possibility of a second season and I would love to see Hee-joo put to better use and become the hero who goes through the quest and saves him, though those can be hard to come by in Dramaland, so I won’t hold my breath. Instead, I’m choosing to believe that Hee-joo reached the place and found Jin-woo, and somehow was able to help him come back to the real world. I’m not as upset about this ending as some will be, because it’s not as open-ended as it could have been, and at least it leaves us with hope — if Se-joo could come back from this, then so can Jin-woo. I read an interview with the writer where she explained how the game allowed people to be killed in reality, which basically supported my theory that it was their murderous intentions that glitched the game and caused in-game injuries to become real. But I feel as though, if your audience can’t learn through the show itself how the rules of your fantasy universe work, then something in the storytelling has gone wrong. We shouldn’t have to read an interview outside of the story itself to be able to understand what happens in the story, and while the clues allowed us to make a reasonable guess, the show itself never confirmed exactly how the bugs happened. While I still love this writer for her ability to create exciting worlds with wonderfully rich, emotionally engaging characters, she does have a tendency to write events that aren’t well explained or supported by her own lore, especially towards the finales. Which, when you are literally making up your own rules, shouldn’t be a problem — if you’re going to make something happen, just make up a plausible explanation to go along with it! For example, Jin-woo being a bug that needed to be deleted makes no sense, because the bugs were NPC created after players that had been killed — but Jin-woo was alive when he faced Emma that final time. He wouldn’t have been a bug at all, but the show wants us to think he was, because he left behind the same pile of sand that the real bugs left. But even if Jin-woo was a bug that needed to be killed, then why wasn’t Se-joo a bug, too? Why did the game consider Jin-woo something to be deleted, yet Se-joo was allowed to escape? They were both players who had committed real violence in the game and killed someone, yet were still alive. I have many, many more questions, but I’d rather focus on the positive, because as a whole this drama was very exciting and entertaining, as long as you don’t look for too long under the hood. One thing this writer does exceptionally well is her characters, who are forced to face the worst of humanity and themselves, and don’t always come out the other side intact. Sometimes, they do well just to survive with their sanity, and that was certainly Jin-woo’s biggest challenge. One of my favorite things about Memories of the Alhambra was how you could watch Jin-woo falling apart piece by piece as time went by, transforming from the confident predatory wolf into a broken man who simply wanted to set things right, who was hanging onto his sense of self with every ounce of energy he had left, until he just didn’t have anything left. Jin-woo wasn’t responsible for the game going wrong, but he knew that he was the only one who could fix it, and he was willing to do whatever needed to be done, even sacrifice himself, to put things back the way they should be. All that said, my complaints are all issues that I’ve come to expect with this writer, yet I still find myself enjoying her work, because what she does right, she does very, very right. Her dramas are always unique and creative with a lot of suspense and action, incredibly layered and emotionally rich characters for the most part — Hee-joo has already been talked to death so I’ll refrain, and a crack factor that’s through the roof. Memories of the Alhambra was no different, and in fact might just be my new favorite of her shows. As a gamer, I loved watching a drama about one of my favorite hobbies, and I loved the concept of the game and how it became this unthinking, yet still terrifying, entity that couldn’t be fought or reasoned with — Jin-woo had to play by its rules, even when its rules were deadly. I thoroughly enjoyed this drama even with its flaws and inconsistencies, and I’m very much looking forward to what this writer will think up next pun intended. RELATED POSTS Premiere Watch Clean With Passion for Now, Boyfriend, Memories of the Alhambra More teasers for Memories of the Alhambra Promos for suspense romance drama Memories of the Alhambra Reminiscing about Spain at sunset in tvN’s Memories of the Alhambra Park Shin-hye up to join Hyun Bin in Memories of the Alhambra Hyun Bin offered new sci-fi drama from W-Two Worlds writer Tags Chanyeol, Hyun Bin, Memories of the Alhambra, Park Shin-hye Premium Supporter ♥ Currently Airing
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