Episode 108:Guests: Gong Hyo Jin (actress), Lee Joon (MBLAQ); Gary absent.
Location: Greater Seoul (various locations).
Teams (fake 'Don't Walk, Date' drama press conference): Leading role team: Gong Hyo Jin-Gwang Soo; supporting roles teams: Jong Kook-Haha-Suk Jin; Jae Suk-Ji Hyo-Lee Joon.
Yangjaecheon Outdoor Swimming Pool* mission: Teams must together find the balloons in the swimming pool that have questions in them. If they find a balloon with a question, they must answer it correctly together to pass. Two members of the winning team get a hint for the final elimination, one member of the second place team gets the hint.
Zoo cafe mission (Seocho-dong*): Gong Hyo Jin is fitted with a heart rate monitor and teams compete for who can raise her heart rate the most. Two members of the winning team get a hint for the final elimination, one member of the second place team gets a hint.
Leading role team vs. supporting role teams elimination (NS Home Shopping building*): Gwang Soo gets seven (7) nametags and all of them must be torn off for him to be eliminated and only after he is eliminated is Gong Hyo Jin able to be attacked and eliminated (she has complete immunity until Gwang Soo is eliminated). There are clues referencing past popular South Korean dramas hidden throughout the building and the supporting role teams must identify and enact scenes of those dramas before each of Gwang Soo's nametags are torn off. If a supporting role team member who has a clue enabling one of Gwang Soo's nametags to be removed is eliminated before the nametag is removed, that clue is nullified. Two "Goh sisters" scriptwriters can be found by either team and can be forced to write how the "script" for the episode can unfold (eliminate people). Once the script is written, the drama must be played out as written (within certain rules).
Comments: Lee Joon's fourth Running Man appearance. This episode seems to be taking the Running Man production team's obsession with wanting to be a drama in a new direction. Instead of scripting and staging scenarios in furtherance of a contrived drama-like plot, they're actually trying to convince themselves they're filming a drama, filming pretend press conferences and calling the missions "scenes". I think they need psychiatric help.
- It's hilarious that the production team think so highly (not) of Gwang Soo's ability to survive to give him seven nametags.
- Suspicious: it is really hard to sneak up on someone in a stairwell (although with all the crew it might just barely be plausible. Barely).
- There's a lot that's suspicious in this episode. Everyone has their own bias and criteria regarding what they think is fake or not. I tend to give the show benefit of doubt, recognizing a lot is in the editing which may give the appearance of being fake when they're just trying to make the episode cohesive and focused, and including just the relevant bits. So my criteria for what's fake or not is plausibility. If it's vaguely plausible, I accept it as real. And that may be overly kind. Also barely, barely plausible is the team that reconstitutes and figures out the clue that had been destroyed. That one was really pushing the envelope of plausibility. It's a shame that there's even an issue amongst fans of whether missions are real or staged. It hurts the integrity of the show, which is supposed to be spontaneous. But it's the production team's fault that it has become an issue by going down that road of staging and scripting missions so obviously that fans noticed.
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