The penultimate episodes of Sisyphus The Myth felt like a Viking ride as our heroes confront painful realities tracing their present and future lives!
Striking a strong cliff-hanger just before its closing week, Han Tae-sul and Gang Seo-hae begin the outsmarting game with Sigma. Both camps have been securing help from their future and present circle. This week also introduces that nagging question, us viewers might all have. That is the possibility of changing the past for the heroine might have had happened previously.
Episode Recaps: 01 & 02 | 03 & 04 | 05 & 06 | Mid-Series | 09 & 10 | 11 & 12 | 13 & 14 | Finale Week + Review
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Sisyphus The Myth Episodes 13 & 14 Key Moments
“Tae-sul, come play with me!”
Sigma heads to enter his old primary school building in search of Tae-sul and Seo-hae. Trapped inside the room, the two and the villains are in an impasse. Seo-hae realizes the Control Bureau is not moving to avoid time disruption. That triggers something in Tae-sul and he writes something on a wall hoping someone from the future can see it to rescue them.
Suddenly, gunshots are heard subduing the snipers of the Control Bureau. They are left with no choice but to leave. Apparently, the man from the future who came is his loyal driver, Bong-seon. Seo-hae recognizes him as the man who helped her and her father when they were intending to reach an uploader site. He also tips them of a secret uploader platform since Sigma has already controlled the prominent ones in the city.
“You taught me the true meaning of happiness.”
Traversing the subway access to the uploader platform, Seo-hae and Dong-gi see barely living children and skulls along the way. The father and daughter also had a heart to heart talk. Confessing he was initially against having a child, Dong-gi told Seo-hae how all changed when she came to his life and showed the real meaning of bliss.
Listing his fears as a father who worries for what could happen in her life, Seo-hae listened to her father’s woes.
Back at present time, Bong-seon warns his boss that Sigma can’t be beaten. He also gave him a small box to use as a last resort in case he wants to beat Sigma before he fades out back to the future.
Facing frustration at Quantum & Time, Eddie Kim vents it out to Seo-jin who offered him to join her to beat Tae-sul. But she warns him that by doing so, he won’t be able to go back.
“If you shoot me now, you’ll be left with nothing. Everything and everyone you love will vanish.”
Tae-sul learns from Dong-gi about Seo Won-ju living in the present time. He changed to a new name, Seo Gil-bok, and is a desperate painter who has been Tae-sul’s avid malicious commenter for seven years. In the cusp of ending his life after being apprehended by the police, he receives a call that his painting was sold and on cue, Tae-sul and Seo-hae also visit his place after buying the painting and getting his address.
Aiming to kill Gil-bok, Seo-hae sees a vision which interrupted her. So Tae-sul takes her place but his phone rings and receives a call from Sigma (Gil-bok from the future). Resigned to settle everything once and for all, he motions to pull the trigger on Sigma’s present self, but the cunning villain uses his knowledge of Tae-san’s present self being held hostage.
He adds that killing him would mean parting with Seo-hae from the future as well. Successful in delivering his dont-kill-my-present-self pitch, Tae-sul loses the chance to kill the future villain against Seo-hae’s urging that it’s their lone opportunity to do so.
Just then, Mr. Park and Bingbing arrive to give something downloaded from the future, presumably Dong-gi’s hand and gun because of the photo inserted to be of the father and daughter. Fury overwhelmed Seo-hae and she motions to kill Gil-bok, but Mr. Park and Tae-sul plead to spare him first since they are both protecting their families.
“I don’t think she’ll come back to you. After all you just protected the person who killed her father.”
Seo-hae pushes Tae-sul and fires the wall which broke the camera placed by Sigma. It also wounded Gil-bok’s shoulder who also sneakily escaped the scene with Seo-hae chasing after him. Receiving a gratitude call from Sigma, he tells Tae-sul not to expect for Seo-hae coming back to him.
Sigma warns Tae-sul not to meddle on his present self or he will hunt down and kill his and Seo-hae’s loved ones. Seo-hae wanders aimlessly without regard to Tae-sul and Jae-sun’s worries. Feeling hopeless, Tae-sul remembers the box Bong-seon left to him. Inside the box are ashes of him which triggered Tae-sul’s ability to see visions from the future.
Having no other place to go, Seo-hae goes to the bunker and gets surprised when she sees it well-kept and fully-furnished as if it is prepared for an inhabitant.
“Don’t you get it? I made this place.”
Sensing someone’s presence, Seo-hae sees Tae-sul and learns that it was he who made the bunker. He tours her around the special bunker complete with food and modern amenities. He also designed for it to be closed even from the inside which will make the young Seo-hae to not be parted with her mother in case the war breaks.
Tae-sul locks Seo-hae inside the bunker and proceeds to play an outwitting game with Sigma. With the recorded event different from what’s happening the villains are caught off guard. Playing their card, they hunt Jae-sun to get information on where Seo-hae probably is.
Prepping up for his showdown with his enemy, Tae-sul goes to Asia Mart to get guns and whispers something to Mr. Park which changed the expression on his face.
Ordering the employees of Quantum & Time, Tae-sul taunts Sigma to come out of his hiding place.
Sisyphus The Myth Episodes 13 & 14 Musings
We finally learned about why Seo-hae is fixated in saving Tae-sul. That comes from the instruction she gave herself on her diary. It also told her that history keeps repeating itself which made me wonder if there’s an element of reset for the heroes from the future to pick on. Because that can explain the hint that Seo-hae has gone through saving Tae-sul before as reflected in the scene when Bong-seon meets her and her father when they were almost trapped.
She explained she got the letter from her grave. Did Tae-sul invent a time-turner or did he alter the uploader setting to give a way for him to survive? We still don’t know, but given he deduced how his present actions can be read through in the future, he could have done something heroic to prevent the war, thus saving the people he loves.
More so, the flashback heart-to-heart talk by Seo-hae and Dong-gi hints he already know the danger to be faced by her daughter if ever she meets Tae-sul. That explains his strange expression when Seo-hae narrated about the diary she found in her grave. The meeting of the villains also affirmed how the same event happened again before based on Sigma’s words.
Therefore, the uploader has become instrumental for the heroes to go for chances in rewriting the past. Previously, Tae-sul explained the concept of time paradox, how the past and present automatically joins together when the elements are near each other.
The hero of Sisyphus The Myth has embraced his future, albeit ashes, creating the phenomenon. How it will implicate in the last two chapters we have yet to see. For the most part of the series, Sigma has been beating them badly with his sneaky maneuvers.
What to look forward in the finale week?
So far we have seen almost all future counterparts except Eddie Kim and Jae-sun. Will they play key moments in the finale week? Will Gil-bok become a trump card for Tae-sul to use?
I am utilizing the perspective of the future setting as the starting point of the story because that will explain the “advance party” mentioned in the series. In the future setting, the premise established is how a war broke out obliterating the Korean peninsula. A desolate area except for areas where Sigma has control of. The “advance party” was sent to the future before the war broke out. Later, they go back to the present time.
Keep in mind as well that the future is dependent on the present. A small or big change will have an impact to the respective goals of the good and evil characters. They are moving their chess pieces based on the knowledge they know from the future.
The easiest fix is for Tae-sul not to complete the uploader, but that would defeat the concept of Seo-hae’s time traveling purpose. Hence, it boils down to defeating Sigma to prevent the war he planned for his intention to clean up the society that has never been good to him.
The last time I had diligently took notes while watching a Korean drama was with Nine Times Travel, and it’s also a time-traveling story. Sisyphus The Myth needs to be watched with no distraction at all. Every little detail is connected to a future episode, and revelations of new episodes explain the clues left from the past episodes. So yes, we are like virtually time-traveling as well.
Don’t miss the finale week of Sisyphus The Myth next week on Netflix!
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