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(Spoilers further down)I finished this in a few days (3 or 4) and I really regret staying up to watch it and spending so much time. The premise of the drama itself is interesting. HOWEVER, the characters are not well written AT ALL. They make irrational decisions with no reasoning and none of them are held accountable. It makes no sense how people can do such senseless things and have no repercussions. I enjoyed the romance part but I almost couldn't watch parts because of how frustrated I was with certain characters and how their actions made ZERO sense.
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My first problem with this drama is that they present Hye-yeong and Sun-oh as best friends how truly care about each other. Then, when Hye-yeong makes it CLEAR that he likes Jojo, Sun-oh decides that he for some reason has to be with her. Why? Because she stared at him a few times and didn't have love alarm? Who knows. It makes no sense that someone would do that to their "best friend" who clearly has a major crush on someone. Even when they talk about it and agree they will tell her together, Sun-oh still goes and asks Jojo out himself. And Hye-yeong does nothing! Wtf? Does he not like her?
Next problem: Jojo's family. Her cousin is the WORST. And Jojo just allows her to do it. The thing that she holds over her head (that Jojo survived? and not her parents?) would not really hold any weight over Jojo in real life. She clearly did nothing wrong and was a very young kid so why is anything her fault? It's not, but they needed something in the story to make things hard for her.
Next problem: Hye-yeong was rejected by Jojo SO MANY TIMES. Why can't he just take no for an answer. Yeah, she kinda likes him, but in real life, people don't reject others that many times if they like them. He is being a creep.
BIGGEST PROBLEM: there was no reason at all for her to break up with Sun-oh. Yes she was going through a lot of stuff emotionally, but ? ? why? ? there is no real reason and I hate it.
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I don't think that the chemistry of the actors was that good; I enjoyed the main two as friends, but didn't feel the romantic tension they were so clearly trying to insert. Do Hyeon was cute with Song Yi but nothing heart fluttering like most people want.
Mostly the acting was good, but I have to say, Choi Hun, or Kang Tae Oh, was pretty bad. I cringed quite a lot watching him overact to the EXTREME. It was way too much. I felt this a little with the main male lead, Ji Soo, as well (but not as extreme).
Overall, its fine, but I do regret watching it because I could have been doing somthing much more productive with my time.
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The cast was really good (minus the mom, i will talk about this later) and the chemistry between the leads was really (really!) good. They did a great job of portraying their love and making it seem real and nerve-wracking. However this was SO stretched out. Someone else said this could have easily been a 2 hour movie. I 100% agree. They wasted so many minutes with just non moving shots of characters walking or sitting or looking sad. Every time a character got angry and would go to a bar I knew that there would be at least 5 minutes of them angrily opening ad drinking multiple bottles of alcohol. With ZERO talking in between. It got to be that every time I would see a character get mad and go to a restaurant I would just start skipping forward because I knew there were multiple minutes of useless footage in between the next dialogue.
NEXT:
The music. So so bad. The songs themselves aren't horrible.(They aren't good either). But the sheer amount of times I had to hear that dumb "sometimes it's hard to be a woman". I wanted to strangle someone. This was probably my LEAST favorite part of the drama. Their music choices were so poor, I can't even explain.
NEXT (possible spoliers):
They created a few good characters. However, the mother is INSANE. Clinically. No person would ever act like that, especially if they love their kids. It is nonsensical that Jin-ah would forgive her mother after everything that she did. If my mom acted even half as horribly rude and psychotic as her mother I would seriously consider not speaking to her again. That is how horrible her mother is.
Another, less important point: Jin-ah's ex-boyfriend's characterization also makes no sense. He cheats on her, but then can't stop stalking her and following her? He truly makes no sense and was not needed in the show.
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meh.. a waste of 2 hours
Yes, I watched this because of Jaemin. And I was, like a lot of others, pleasantly surprised by his acting. Yes, the role is very basic and with not much room to show acting prowess, but he still did a pretty good job.I think that this is a mediocre web drama. To be honest, I don't love the main actress, she didn't really match the role and it didn't help that the pacing and writing of the show felt off. Jaemin's character was kind of all over the place, and although some call it character development, it seemed like two completely different characters to me.
Its full of every cliché: the wrist grabbing, the fake dating, the confessions, the crying, the two girls like one guy, the first crush, the..... I could go on and on.
Another super annoying cliché was the "life-changing" moment between the two leads. EVERY TIME, they somehow have met years before and had their lives changed. He says... "if you hadn't given me that pen, i wouldn't have made it into college." What kind of BS is that? It seems like a joke, thats how bad that writing was. There were lots of moments where I had a similar feeling throughout these two hours. Who knew so many clichés could be shoved into two hours.
One last thing, the guy that she develops a crush on.. he is mediocre looking and kind of boring. (I'm sorry to the actor, but his facial proportions are a little strange looking in this drama, maybe is the lighting? But his jaw always looks kind of skewed.) WHY is she so hung up on him when Jaemin is right there? Thats what makes the least sense to me of this whole thing.
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