thiare

one of the actors publicly supporting a pedophile already made it hard for me to take this drama seriously, but the plot itself somehow managed to be even worse. why is he lying to a woman who lost her memory and basically taking advantage of the fact that she doesn’t remember him, all because he wants to “protect” her? protect her from what? there are literally so many other ways he could’ve protected her without lying to her or making decisions for her. the whole situation is just weird and makes no sense to me, what bothers me the most is that the drama seems to expect us to see all of this as romantic or selfless when it really isn’t. you can’t just take away someone’s ability to make their own decisions and then call it “protecting them” because you had good intentions. if you actually care about someone, you should trust them enough to let them know the truth and make their own choices. instead, he keeps lying and hiding things from her while the story keeps trying to convince us that he’s doing it because he loves her. i just couldn’t get behind that.

also, the way her memory loss is used as a plot device was really frustrating. it felt like the writers needed an excuse for him to hide the truth, so they just made her forget everything and expected us to accept it. there could’ve been so many better ways to handle the story without making the female lead completely dependent on everyone else deciding what she should and shouldn’t know, and honestly, she should’ve stayed with the other guy. she deserved someone who actually respected her enough to be honest with her instead of constantly deciding what was “best” for her. i genuinely found myself caring more about him than the actual main couple, which says a lot.

by the end i was just sitting there wondering why any of this was supposed to be romantic. the premise had potential, but the execution was frustrating, the characters made so many questionable decisions, and the whole “i lied to you because i wanted to protect you” excuse got old really fast. i wanted to like this drama, but there was just way too much about the story that made me uncomfortable and annoyed me.