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[(Anonymous)]

hey guys, soo i just finished 48 hours (so late, i know ;;) and i know u guys have talked lots about it already, but there was jst one thing i absolutely didnt get, the windows were open so many times throughout the story so why didnt they escape?? and if the whole thing was really a joke went wrong, why didnt xiumin and chen come back to stop them when they realized?

also did anyone else realize how the author deliberately left out the only koreans in M since the beginning, so that the whole story was basically chinese vs koreans?

again sorry if yall have already discussed this :s

[(Anonymous)]

it's sort of implied that xiumim and chen are dead. the ending to 48 hours is left open to interpretation.

[(Anonymous)]

why would they be dead tho?

[(Anonymous)]

tbh i feel like there's a lot of parts in 48 hours where the logic is... just not there...

[(Anonymous)]

right? they pretended to die and were dragged to the basement. wouldn't the members be able to tell that they were still alive just by taking a pulse? why would the two run off when they realized it started going wrong? they have nothing to escape from, if only their own guilt for starting the whole messed up game. then they should be murder suspects.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh when i read 48 hours, it bothered me a lot how everything was just not rationalized well at all. i feel like the author is good at building conflict/emotions but not very good at actual logic. there was just a lot of things that made me go wtf, e.g. who the hell drinks alcohol when they're thirsty? WHO? wtaf @ the fact that out of 10 people, no one even knows alcohol = SEVERE DEHYDRATION GDI. also yes, the fact that no one bothered checking pulses. lol. a lot of things were left "unexplained", but to me a lot of it felt like poor rationalization. and tbh it also immediately felt to me xiuchen were blatantly cut from the story because china doesn't give a fuck about xiuchen.

[(Anonymous)]

lol yea i def got the feeling that the author dgaf about any of the korean members at all from the way she treated them. i guess its understandable that if told from kris's viewpoint he's not really as close to K, but still didnt like the way they were just there, as extras, and served no other purpose in the story.

and idk it just kinda boggles me that with the attention this fic has gotten, NO ONE thought to wonder about wtf happened to xiuchen?? i mean this is a pretty gaping hole in the entire story. they just disappeared? like wtf? it makes NO sense at all and u'd think that with the amount of detail the author went thru in so many aspects she left this giant hole that is the basis of all of this. everyone died BECAUSE of them, yet they just poof into thin air, no explanations, no one's even interesting in looking for them?? HELLO, shouldn't they be primary murder suspects here, not kris?? idk idk sry tldr

[(Anonymous)]

re: looking for xiuchen, the narrator actually brings it up at one point i think! but the police point out there's no point in searching for them because if they haven't turned up by now, it's most likely they're dead. and i think he also says at one point that what they need now is a story for the media relations and the families. the driver of the car also gets written off in a car accident, so the idea is that "no one will ever know what happened"

[(Anonymous)]

da but

there's no point in searching for them because if they haven't turned up by now, it's most likely they're dead

lol i wonder what police would come up with this assumption and why.

and tbh "no one will ever know what happened" feels a bit... idk, i just didn't like that a lot of things didn't make sense without further explanation (that we will never get). i mean, fair enough, sometimes murders irl are that way, but.

[(Anonymous)]

da and i agree, i still think in any normal society xiuchen would be primary suspects. who's to say it was just a joke when they could have been psychos who flawlessly engineered this mastermind of a mass murder? even if it they WERE innocent, they're still guilty of running from a murder scene, isnt this like indirect manslaughter, knowing murder are happening yet not reporting it?

[(Anonymous)]

yeah, i know it's just ~fanfiction but the unrealistic rl aspects put me off tbh, especially for a story with a theme like this.

[(Anonymous)]

im pretty good at suspending belief myself, but this is something that makes the whole danger of it all seem cheap and stupid, like dude, you just willingly died by an open window. dude.

[(Anonymous)]

i read it a long time ago so i don't remember much about what actually went on... but i do remember feeling baffled about the lack of realistic logic and rational thinking in the story. i definitely think it wasn't very well-resolved. i suppose people like it because of the chinaline dynamics. and the concept. k members were definitely the backdrop.

[(Anonymous)]

a little bit late but somebody did an analysis that kind of made things make more sense:

http://chan-xun.tumblr.com/post/32992551633/48-hours-analysis

not by the actual author but idk?