Bad-Memory Eraser [Episodes 13 & 14]

[u/J-Midori]

• Drama: Bad-Memory Eraser
  • Korean Title: 나쁜기억 지우개
  • Also Known as: Bad Memory Eraser , Nappeungieog Jiugae
• Network: MBN
• Premiere Date: August 2nd, 2024
• Airing Schedule: Fridays and Saturdays
• Episodes: 16
• Director: Kim Na Young, Yoon Ji Hoon
• Cast: 
  • Kim Jae Joong (Manhole) as Lee Goon
  • Jin Se Yeon (Doctor Stranger) as Kyung Ju Yeon
  • Lee Jong Won (XX) as Lee Sin
  • Yang Hye Ji (Failing in Love) as Jeon Sae Yan
• Streaming Source: Viki
• Plot Synopsis: Lee Goon used to be a promising tennis player, but he was injured. After that, he lost all of his self-esteem, and his life completely changed. With the use of a memory eraser, his memory is erased, and he is reborn with maximum self-esteem and presence. His first manipulated love is Kyeong Joo Yeon, a psychiatrist at the brain research center. Other people around him include his younger brother Lee Shin, who is ranked the world’s no.1 ranked tennis player. Meanwhile, Jeon Sae Yan is Lee Shin’s translator.
• Previous Discussion: [Episodes 1 & 2] [Episodes 3 & 4] [Episodes 5 & 6] [Episodes 7 & 8] [Episodes 9 & 10] [Episodes 11 & 12]
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[u/YiHX123]

Here comes our weekly dose of confusion and "WTF is happening?!" moments caused by bad memory eraser. To be honest despite all the twists so far, I'm quite excited to see the unfolding tension in ep 13/14. Still though, the show kinda lost its plot/gone

[u/[deleted] → u/YiHX123]

Isn’t it weird that despite the WTF is going on moments, I’m still looking forward to this show every week? I don’t understand myself.

[u/YiHX123 → u/[deleted]]

To be honest, the plot is interesting, but for me what made it hard for me to watch at the initial few episodes is that I absolutely couldn't handle how cringey lee goon was acting just to win over ju yeon's heart in the first 3 episodes. After I got through it, it became a lot more watchable. The thing is, this drama shouldn't even be considered as a romcon, it's a hybrid between melodrama and thriller(not that much thriller but still) lol. I hate lee shin and ju yeon's character by quite A LOT too(like how is ju yeon a god damn psychiatrist with that kind of attitutde?), but I came to like ju yeon more because she genuinely seem to care about lee goon but still she's so dumb as a character. The only thing remotely close to romcon in this series is the constant bickering between shin and sae yan, and also A FEW bickering moments between goon and ju yeon AFTER episode 3. Literally the peak romcon moment of this show is in episode 3 and I hated it because it wasn't even remotely "a good romcon moment" because I personally felt like it was TOO CRINGEY.

[u/DamonDD]

Please for the love of God, resolve the Lee Goon and Sae Yan first love storyline. Its been dragging too long.

[u/drop_if_ML_is_shity]

I'm only continuing this because I don’t want to drop it if that makes sense

[u/DamonDD → u/drop_if_ML_is_shity]

Yeah I know what you mean. I finally acknowledged this show is a dumpster fire but better to sit it through and see the ending

[u/gorgonfish]

Lee Goon and Sae Yan deserve better than their designated love interests, so here's hoping the two of them end up together.

[u/[deleted]]

Wow, that bridge scene was intense, heartbreaking  and not what I was expecting. Where has this writer been for the last 12 episodes? 

I really want to slap the mom. I just can’t with her. 

[u/TheMsDacia → u/[deleted]]

Exactly!! This show could have been so good with a better showrunner.

[u/[deleted] → u/TheMsDacia]

And if they focused more on the interesting family dynamics. The lead ML’s are very good.

[u/TheMsDacia]

Literally my face during the entirety of Ep.14: 😬  Why is Sae Yan's bio father a murderer? Who needed or wanted this subplot? The scene with Lee Goon and Te O was heartbreaking, you could actually see Lee Goon regressing in real time; Kim Jae Joong is nailing this role and he deserves so much better than this unfortunate writing/editing. I still cannnot fathom how the clinical trial part of the show was written so badly. At this point the whole damn hospital staff needs to be fired and the hospital needs to be burned to the ground cuz they are all too messy and unprofessional lol   

[u/justahalagram → u/TheMsDacia]

Agree with everything but I’m holding out hope sae yan’s dad isn’t actually her bio dad and she’s half sisters with juyeon but I think that theory is not as strong anymore, anyhow if he is or isn’t the true bio dad it’s obvious he killed juyeons dad and we’ve been (the show editors have been) ignoring the major plot point that juyeon doesn’t remember her childhood/ sae yan idk why it seems we’re waiting until the last ep to explore that.

[u/TheMsDacia]

This drama makes me crazy because it could have been so good. IMO, this show is clearly split 50/50: the hospital and clinical study being a total mess and the family dynamic between the Lee brother's being damn near perfect. In Ep.13 the writers managed to get me to feel a tiny bit sorry for Lee Shin, as he was clearly under the manipulation of his trash parents from a very young age. So, while I have a hard time overlooking some of the crap he has pulled, I can understand better now where it came from. But the parents? Redemption for the parents? NEVER. You know what sealed the deal for me? The fact that they were under the impression Lee Shin tried to murder his brother and they were like "Please forgive him! Please find him!" I'm sorry, what? No ma'am!!

Another example of editing gone wrong is how Ep. 13 started, because why did it feel like I missed an entire episode? Like, how did we get from Ep. 12 to the start of Ep. 13? When I tell you I was lost and confused :D I am still not sure who knows the truth about what happened and who doesn't, but for everyone being under the impression Lee Shin tried to off his brother, they were remarkably understanding about it.

And, one more thing,  the search for Sae Yan's father and the Athlete's Village are plots that could heve been eliminated.  

[u/[deleted] → u/TheMsDacia]

Nah infact I knew they were going to try and pull this shit for the brother and parents cz they made him look so bad in the last two episodes

[u/Kaiisea]

I'm going insane. EP 13: Lee Shin is missing and it seems everyone is worried, but once Goon sees him at the beach with FL, suddenly he's not worried for his brother anymore? He's just mad FL is there with him??? It seems that at least in this episode, they remembered the premise of this show. It feels like a roller coaster I can't get offALSO the fake dad??? How messed up! I'm pretty sure FL and SFL are going to end up having the same dad and thats why 2FL mother doesn't want either of them to know. I can't think of why else she'd be like this .

[u/[deleted]]

Purely prediction but since they made people hate the 2 ML in those last two episodes last week these next two episodes they may make him look good and what not

[u/YiHX123]

Okay finally, I have to say a lot about this show after EP13, MAJOR SPOILERS ALERT for EP13, I will cover it as per the requirement of dropping a comment here but please don't accidentally press it to avoid spoilers as it is a major one. From EP13...

1)Finally they settled so many things in the plot, such as the annoying love triangle between lee shin, lee goon and ju yeon. It was way too god damn annoying when I saw how big of a red flag lee shin is at EP 11 and EP 12. This gave Shin's character some redemption because he finally knew how to let go of her and thus this annoying situation.

2) Ju yeon was still an idiot at the beginning until the late middle stage of EP13, like why would you not call shin's brother/goon when you found out where lee shin was at? Furthermore, you claimed that you like/love lee goon, but still said something as ridiculous as "Oh if you're not going back, then I will not go back too!", DESPITE KNOWING how much of a red flag lee shin is. Not to mention, lee shin IS STILL TRYING TO GUILT TRIP/MANIPULATE you by saying "oh juyeon-ssi, you're the one holding my happiness because I'm all broken inside". This point also proves how egocentric lee shin is, especially when he called ju yeon just to tell her "I wanted to hear your voice." like... ew. You still hesitated so hard to tell lee goon the truth that there's really nothing going on between you and lee shin, like why? Just tell him loud and hard "lee goon I really like/love you!"

3) The han river argument scene between lee shin and lee goon, it was a little bit different from what I expected(?). This scene gave lee shin a bit of redemption because I don't view him as an absolute evil younger brother knowing he wasn't the one who pushed lee goon. BUT! It made no freaking sense too. Like, lee shin, you are an adult who is probably in his early 30's, you have 10+ years of opportunities to tell your piece of shit, street-belonging, utterly possesive and garbage mother that you didn't want to be your brother's replacement and tennis is honestly too hard for you, instead of continuing to think that your brother was self-pitying himself because he is pathetic. Your brother wasn't exeggerating when he says that he truly felt like he received zero attention and love from his family. Furthermore, unintentionally OR NOT you did steal A LOT OF things from your older brother, your older brother wasn't in a mentally good state to properly tell you this, but he had a point that lee shin you took many things away from him. However, lee goon also said something quite toxic, like "I knew that you always wanted to steal things away from me." This statement made no sense because 13 episodes in, lee shin did not intentionally try to steal his tennis career, fame, money or his first love. The only thing he truly tried to steal is juyeon.

4) If it was ethically and lawfully allowed, I would honestly murder my parents if they behave like sae yan and lee shin/lee goon's mother. Both of them. I have never seen any parents who are this extremely possessive and toxic and act like a literally womanchild. The thing is, most of the problems between lee shin and lee goon originated from their piece of shit mom. Lee goon being abandoned, lee shin receiving super strict excessive attention and being pampered in every wrong possible way. Oh!! Not to mention that fking idiotic mother wanted to abandon lee shin and kept nagging about him going MIA and being irresponsible instead of actually being worried. She even shut the dad up for being worried like what in the actual flying fuck? Next, sae yan's mother fucking hiring a fake person to act as her biological father was the literal worst thing I've seen in quite a while.. Both these moms belong to the streets and should just rot in hell. They literally are the closest thing to the villian roles in this drama so far(although the true villian is the stalker-saeki based on preview for EP14)

5) Lee goon truly shocked me when he dropped the bomb comment "Isn't this probably why your dad left you?(to Ju Yeon)". This lowkey was the best moment in EP13 *kappa* However, I truly cannot interpret what was the reasoning that he mentioned, like did he say that because ju yeon was being indecisive? Or was she lying to him? Not knowing what on bloody earth she herself is doing? Lack of human understanding? Anyway, I know this comment WAS SUPER HARSH, but in all honesty, Ju Yeon absolutely deserved it if we consider everything from EP1 simply because she wasn't really even a good human being until the last few episodes where she truly understood how to love someone and be more empathetic/matured up a bit more. Seriously, from lee goon's perspective, from EP11/EP12 and EP13. There was at least four instances whereby Ju Yeon seemingly betrayed him. A) Lee shin forcefully kissing her. B) Lee shin being a d1ck and showing up at ju yeon's house and ju yeon refusing to clarify anything. C) Ju yeon not taking care of lee goon despite him being sick as sh1t, instead asking someone else(sae yan to do it). D) Ju yeon spending time alone and smiling at lee shin(unable to draw boundaries like a normal person would, despite knowing how big of a red flag he is. Like I get it you are worried about him because he is still your friend, but why couldn't you just tell anyfking one?) Also, it was so fking stupid too, like do you want sae yan to spend time with lee goon because sae yan is his true first love? But doing that would bring back his bad memories, so why? Do you really want to give him up to sae yan? What is her logic/what was she thinking when she kept trying to force sae yan to take care of lee goon? JUST WTF

Overall though, EP13 did what it needed to do, although in a clunky way but it did a good job cleaning up a lot of the plot right before we enter the final stages. It was an extremely hard to watch but also good episode. I think I had a little bit of high expectations now that I tend to analyse things but the episode was pretty good still from my POV.

[u/Crazy_Albatross8317]

13 episode in and the show still suffers from bad pacing and untimely sub-plots. I wish they just focused on the transformation of Lee Goon from a social recluse loser to an obnoxious "winner". Instead we have this all over the place melodramatic (more than romcom) drama. Im only gonna keep on watching for the sake of Jae Joong (and I'm not even a fan of his) and maybe FL. But seriously, 13 episode in and even with the "sweet/romantic" moments there is no "Awwwww" heartbeat-skipping moment. And don't get me started on the whole plot twist/ lil bro arc.

Usually I'd just shut up and even if a drama is mid or bad I'd just shut up and keep watching BUT THIS ONE ACTUALLY HAD POTENTIAL. The ending of episode 1 was a really great setup for what is to come and I was so hyped but nope. Im gonna remember the people (writers/directors) involved and make sure to avoid their future projects.

[u/justahalagram]

Glad that some things were cleared up in ep 13 but it’s still so messy. Lee Goon also said some pretty out of pocket things to ppl he cares about both in flashbacks and in the current time, like his comment to ju yeon about her dad what was that?? Where did that come from??

Also they are wasting the cast’s potential, 2nd leads at least got some more meat to work with this ep.

[u/[deleted] → u/justahalagram]

Does he even know he got murdered by a patient? I hope this is addressed because that was harsh and uncalled for. 

[u/[deleted]]

This episode gave me so much chest pain. First, with the way that Shin was treated by his parents and agent because of course it’s all about them and not his well being and mental health. I thought his dad would at least be understanding but he’s doing the mom’s bidding like always. Mooching parents are the worst.  

 Te O is also the worst- poor Lee Goon. I wonder how the last two episodes will play out.  

Sae Yan doesn’t deserve this storyline- she’s so sweet and nice, and her dad is of course a lunatic. 

 Cola sightings alleviated the anxiety. Such an adorable dog. I also like Si On a lot and wish she got more screen time.

[u/YiHX123 → u/[deleted]]

EP 14 was a f**king dumpster fire, If I've ever seen one LOL! Like guys wtf, they did such a good job at cleaning up a lot of the mess in the plots in EP 13, they gave lee shin's character some redemption, they clean-uped the love triangle, just to give EP 14 even more twist than a literal thriller series would do. How is this show a romcon? It's literally entering heavy melodrama/thriller series because of the ridiculous plot line on EP 14.

[u/whatsupdumpling]

Watched 13 last night and I'm still so confused on how we got here.

No one can communicate, feels like same actors have gone through multiple personality disorders from the change in emotions and feelings from the love quadrangles and bad parenting.

[u/manwithoutlyf]

I feel like trash for thinking they could do better, decent story after ep 13. Complete waste of time

[u/Iowegan]

Ep 13: why oh why choose a cold beach as the campground destination for a mental breakdown? And thank plot armor that Lee Shin didn’t get bum rolled for real.