Kelekat

I just saw another comment on here where someone recommended watching a few episodes a day instead of binging because of the slow pace of the drama. I think I'll give their suggestion a try.

OMG! I had to search for a while to find someone else who felt this was very slow. I'm struggling to continue and I'm on ep 5. I thinl I'll take your advice and not binge it. Maybe that's the answer to getting through it, because it isn't bad.

Everything was progressing way too slowly for me. I made it to episode 5 but I think I'll move on to something else for now and maybe come back to this eventually.

Okay, I got frustrated and had to look for episode recaps as this was moving along too slowly for me. Unfortunately, from the recaps, I'm going to have to put finishing this one off. It's too slow. It's one of those dramas where everything is unnecessarily drawn out and things take far longer than they should to get resolved, and where obstacle after obstacle in thrown in just to delay development of the romance.

Seems like I'm the only person on here who feels that way though.

For such a short drama the entire storyline is progressing extremely slowly. I'm about to start episode 5 but I'm getting frustrated. The story, characters, setting - all of it is nice and all, plus all the elements are there for me to like the show but it's so dang slow. I don't need angst and plot twists, but I do need progress. Hopefully we'll see some soon.

I see what people mean about it needing another episode (I watched the 2 episode compilation version not the 15 min episode one). They introduced new conflicts (one major one in particular) near the end of the second episode and completely left them unresolved in the end. In fact, they left off with the leads literally on their way to meet with the FL's sister to discuss that big issue (which had yet to be revealed to them). There's just no way this would have been the true ending for the drama.

Still, there was enough closure with the main storyline to not leave you feeling baffled or upset or frustrated and since we already know the truth behind the big unresolved issue we know it's not a big problem.

I've got to say though that the FL's sister's inability to express or even understand emotion is next level; like at a clinical level. Like she's not a bad person at all but she's text book sociopath. Like literally. I don't mean that to be anything against the drama but that shit was pretty scary when you think about it.

Definitely some BTS love in this drama. Keep hearing some of their older tracks in this. I love it!

Ooh! Blackpink too!

It would have been great if they'd written it so that the ML's brothers remained the only real antagonists. Like the SML wasn't involved in what happened in the past and only saw bits and pieces and misunderstood what had happened and the brothers had been behind everything all along. Then, in the present the SML could have believed their lies as a part of their plan to get the shares back from the ML.

Had they written something along those lines I could accept that the SML wasn't so terrible. Just very prejudiced against the wealthy. But nope.

Again though, I will stress that the writers DO get major kudos for making his redemption arc one that he initiates and even takes a step further and shows him preparing to accept his full punishment for all the things he'd done. THAT was a really good move.

Oh and that bs where they try to say he (the SML) wouldn't have become the asshole he did had he met the SFL sooner is utter rubbish. No one forced him to make the choices he did neither in the past nor in the present. At no time was he even in a tough situation that led him to take those drastic actions. He initiated every time and was simply not a good person. Period. That someone finally entered his life that woke up his dormant good side was a good thing that happened to him, yes, but let's not be fooled into thinking this antagonist 'wasn't that bad'.

First, let me preface this by saying I really enjoyed this mini-drama. It was very well-executed.

I enjoyed this drama enough that I just watched it a second time, but I have one major issue with it. It's not enough to deter me from giving this a high rating (it deserves one) but I have to point out that, in an effort to keep this light and fluffy (thankfully - sometimes 'light-and-fluffy' is just what we need), they seriously downplayed how bad the SML's behavior had been, both in the past and the present, in a MAJOR way. It was almost propaganda-like. I mean, to get us to sympathize with him, the guy's even hot!

Thankfully, they didn't downplay his behavior to the extent that they just let him get away with everything - something I cannot stand seeing in dramas. I LOVE that they had him take the initiative to come clean on his own and even turn himself in. They didn't just force us to like his shittiness and leave it at that. They at least allowed us to be able to accept him despite all the bad he'd done...and there was a lot of bad.

In the past he literally traumatized the FL to the extent that she had PTSD AND almost KILLED the ML. In the present he tried to frame the ML for what happened to the FL in the past. Like seriously, this dude is actually really bad. He'd also been a teacher-in-training who held prejudices. *barf* Then, as an adult, he's the one accepting handouts due to his familial connections - complete hypocrite.

Also what was his purpose behind framing the ML? To split them up? It's not like he was still trying to get the girl. So why? He literally tried to frame a high school student for a committing a seriously dangerous and criminal act. In the midst of all this they tried to make it seem like he felt badly [the crying scene] for what he'd done in the past, while he's simultaneously taking further antagonistic actions against the ML. Yet we're supposed to blindly accept that he's not that bad of a guy and sympathize with him?? Really?? The truly disturbing part is, most viewers probably would have just went right along with it! Again, at least they gave the rest of us an opportunity to make peace with him.

The drama was otherwise way better than anticipated for a mini series and I do appreciate them keeping it light but they either shouldn't have spent any effort trying to pass the SML off as a good but troubled guy, or they should have avoiding making him be as bad as he was.

This is called One-Sided Love Gourmet Diary on viki.

This is called One-Sided Love Gourmet Diary on viki.

The synopsis here is terrible and makes no sense. The synopsis on viki is much better. I don't even know why this mentions a love triangle at all. The 3rd person is the ML's father and he's a a coma! [Not a spoiler since I'm literally getting this from viki's synopsis.]

Edit and check the spoiler box please.

Edit and check the spoiler box please.

I don't get how this and The Oath of Love are both adaptations from the same novel. The storylines are completely different. The only similar characteristics I can think of off the top of my head are that the ML is a doctor and the FL's father was his patient and that's how they met and fell in love. Everything else was completely different. Was there even an age gap issue on the Oath of Love? I don't recall.

Anyway, without comparing the two adaptations I still have issues with this movie. The writing was so jarringly immature it was ridiculous. There was no logical flow to most of the interactions between the leads or how the story unfolded overall. How situations which arose were handled made no sense...unless it was written by a 13-year old.

Yeah I don't like the FL anymore. She's not my cup of tea at all. The ML's not at all perfect but he deserves way better than her. My entire opinion about this drama has changed upon rewatching this.

By the time she finally moves out I like her (the FL) so little it doesn't even matter anymore.

Attempting to rewatch and I'll say this - I no longer like the FL. Not at all. Rewatching is putting her in a whole new light. She's selfish, spoiled and stupid and manipulative. The ML also lets her get away with too much when he has a right to be angry about her behavior. She also uses a lot of emotional manipulation with him to get him to cave. My rating for the drama has since dropped significantly. I don't like her and don't feel like she deserves the ML at all.

I read the remaining episode recaps instead of continuing to watch this again and I'm glad i didn't waste my time. I honestly don't like the FL at all. She's selfish and spoiled and stupid. The ML loved her way more than she ever loved him (many will disagree with me but I genuinely don't care) and although he made mistakes in the relationship too SHE was the problem in so many ways. She was also very manipulative even though the show tried not to play it off that way. Whenever she fucked up she used emotional manipulation to get away with it and not feel guilty about her actions and decisions. The ML was constantly letting his anger go just to appease her. Even the blame she threw at him in the end. I genuinely dislike the chick. My rating is going down and I'm not bothering to finish watching this again. Not worth all the headache and heartache. Had the FL been better that would be different.