Kelekat

It's not a movie but my all-time favorite action romance drama continues to he Healer to this day. If, by some miracle, you haven't watched it yet you should definitely (definitely!) check it out.

Same! Dating in the Kitchen continues to be one of my favorite dramas (or at least the romance between the leads is) so I guess I had high hopes for this too. Since it's a movie I figured they'd do away with all the excess side-story baggage, and I'm super thankful and happy to find that I was right in that regard. However, the sweetness between the leads wasn't there in this version. It's not terrible. Don't get me wrong. What I feel is disappointment.

I never disliked the ML or the way the ML treated the FL in Dating in the Kitchen, however, I hated how the ML treated the FL here once his personal chef returned (both how he treated her privately and how he handled things with the hotel/restaurant).

Furthermore, his self-realization and awakening of his feelings came too late and their reconciliation after came too easily. In fact, I'd have been fine if they didn't work out in the end and I'm a hardcore happy-ending kinda gal. They needed to make him really put in some effort to win her over. The way it played out just felt empty and underwhelming.

Also/Actually, they never really let the romance develop in the first place. It felt more like a kinship over food and development friendship/camaraderie than anything romantic between the leads. Even when the FL was so angry and hurt by him eating another woman's cooking it didn't come across so much as jealousy. It was more of a betrayal. I don't know if I'm explaining this well. Maybe if I say it like this. If the FL had been a guy (straight) and the ML had fallen in love with his cooking and they developed the kind of bond the leads did, he too would have felt betrayed when the ML suddenly disappeared only to find out later he'd returned to his original personal chef. That hurt would have still been present without any romantic spin to it. Does that make sense?

They were cute and sweet and funny and fun though so they still get points and I can't say I especially disliked it.

I think I would have liked this more had I not previously watched Dating in the Kitchen. It's really not all that bad when weighed on it's own.

It was easier to get through that last bit of messiness this time. The ugliness was tolerable and didn't last long so I'm already through it and on my way to the finish line! Yay!

Another thing. Most national level athletes don't try to sabotage their closest competitors. In fact, they want to prove themselves to be better. Competing at an event when your biggest threat isn't there doesn't feel like a real achievement.

Don't get me wrong. Athletes are still human beings which means there are lots of assholes mixed in there who don't have a true sportsman-like mentality; who are cowards and weak-minded individuals...like that doping asshole. Man, was he a grade A piece of shit! However, he wasn't a national-level athlete. He had neither the talent nor the drive to get there.

Getting to the top weeds out the losers and weak-minded individuals...for the most part (there are those who push themselves so hard that the pressure flips them around and they do dumb shit as a part of a mental breakdown). Anyway, so the way they wrote that other decathlete, his mentality, it didn't sit right with me. It's not realistic. At that level we use new and upcoming challengers to push ourselves further. A win by getting rid of our biggest threat would make us feel like shit. There's no value in that win.

From the moment the introduced that sleezy, ugly reporter into the story I lose interest in watching the rest of this. The ML's story just got so messy from there. I really just don't feel like watching that ugliness play out and want to skip past it, but I also don't want to miss any remaining sweet moments between the leads or any of their relationship development. Ugh! Frustrating.

I'm already trying to figure out what I feel like watching next that'll really give me the heavy kick of romance I'm craving right now.

Awwww! That sucks!

Maybe try dramacool??

Oh wow. Seriously. That hurts my heart. For real.

Thanks for letting me know though.

I'm watching this again now and there's one thing that has never sit right with me with this drama. It's not a major flaw of the drama per se, as it doesn't even deal with the leads or the main plot, but as a former competitive athlete it's something that just doesn't sit right with me. My issue is with the way they handled that situation with the one high jumper who quit the team and opened the restaurant.

Here's the problem - athletes don't just quit. It's also uncommon for another athlete to urge them to just quit their sport ESPECIALLY when their reason for quitting is not due to injury, lack of talent or even lack of interest in the sport. The reason he quit was because of his overwhelming performance anxiety and panic disorder. He needed psychological counseling not recommendations to quit. The fact that none of those coaches even attempted to talk him through his anxiety before each competition was bad enough in itself. You could literally see him locking up. Even the most basic coach would have taught him tricks to help him with the issue and/or given him pep talks before his events. That's just the bare minimum. A decent coach and/or team would have long since referred him to a sports psychologist for therapy.

Furthermore, someone that hesitant about quitting either still had love for the sport or still had fight left in him. Rather than nurturing and fostering those seeds everyone around him kept honing in on helping him move on rather than helping him turn back to fight some more.

To tell an athlete to give up under those circumstances is to tell him to live with regret for the rest of his life. If he quit after overcoming the issue that would be acceptable - because he wouldn't have allowed himself to be defeated by it.

An athlete's mentality isn't like the average person, especially not one competing at the collegiate level and with national team potential. For athletes, our mental strength and fortitude is what gets us through the hardships we face in life. So to give up like he did means he's setting himself up for future failure when things get rough. Cutting and running when things get tough is not what real athletes do. For example, if things start getting difficult with the restaurant and he has a family to support, especially since supporting his family financially was the trigger that led to his current anxiety with his high jumping, it's extremely likely that his anxiety and panic attacks would begin to occur again in such a scenario. With a family relying on him he can't just cut and run from the issue. He also can't just fall apart. He'd need to find his inner strength to persevere through the tough times (which are inevitable in life).

From an athletes perspective that aspect of the writing for this drama was a total failure and faux pas.

Oh but that did that here! Later on they showed him to be flawed. I mean they didn't let the situation get very bad and they allowed him to immediately turn things around quickly from there but that's one of the things I liked about this drama - they actually took the time to show him fall and make a mistake, learn from it because of his girl and his team and get back up again an even better person.

He starts having a feeling I think around ep. 7 or so but he knows for certain at the start of ep 10.

Do you not see it on viki at all or is it not available in your region? I'm asking because I'm literally looking at it on viki right now. If it's not a situation of it not being available in your region, try doing a search for Falling Into You. Both this and the newer Chinese one comes up in the results. Even the photo for this is the same so you should be able to pick it out fairly quickly.

As many times as I've watched this I still wish there'd be a season 2 showing them going on to win worlds, but I know that's utterly unrealistic. It's just too expensive! Plus there'd be too many political considerations for a Chinese drama to make. We all know what happens if there are misrepresentations of other countries and cultures in their dramas, and think of the complex casting and the cost of filming overseas, and on and on. I'm sure they'd rather not do one at all than disappoint us with something mediocre after having so many of us love this so completely.

Conversely, if they did give us a season 2 that was on par with the standards we got from this season...man! I can't even find the words for what I'd feel. For the drama, the cast, the production team and crew... That would seriously be a major dream come true. Sad that I can say a drama has the potential to have such a significant effect on me but I'll be damned if it isn't the truth.

I'm not reading through all of the responses to this post - it's annoying lol. I watched this a long time ago and wondered if, after all these comments, you ever actually got around to it watching it yourself. Did you like it? I LOVED it when I watched it but I don't remember it. I remember the championship near the end had me completely captivated though.

I just finished watching Falling Into Your Smile for like the 6th time I think it is. The first time I watched it, I'd either just finished watching this or I watched this one right after. I ended up LOVING both dramas. Based on feedback at the time my loving them both was quite abnormal which wasn't surprising as the two dramas are COMPLETELY different.

FIYS is light and fluffy in comparison. There's angst but it's not drawn out and it never really gets very ugly. After getting through it the first time (and immediately loving it to death) it only got even better every time I've watched it since. That's mainly because the things that brought me anger or frustration that first time were all tolerable when I saw them again as I knew they'd be resolved satisfactorily, even if I didn't remember the specifics. I LOVE that drama.

Gank Your Heart, however, I've never been able to go back and watch again, which actually drives me nuts because I KNOW I LOVED IT. I got so sucked into it when I watched it. It was an emotional experience but very satisfying. I want to watch it again to really pinpoint the differences and remember why I liked it so much but it's one of those dramas I know I have to be in a certain mood to watch. I'll probably finally watch it again soon though. It's why I'm back on this page again.

Gotta say it's kinda not cool to tie in someone's comments on another drama to dissuade others from hearing them out here. That's pretty petty.

In fact, he and I have often disagreed on certain aspects of various dramas but we've also agreed on many as well. One thing I can say is that even when we disagree his arguments have grounds. If you're able to explain your stance soundly and have your own grounds to support your stance he gives credit where it's due. If you're able to show examples to disprove his arguments he's fair enough to acknowledge your point as well.

Quite frankly, that's how it should be. We're all different. We like what we like. He isn't attempting to stop people from liking what they do, which I sincerely respect as so many people come on here trying to force their opinions on others to the point of trying to convince them not to watch something or not to support an actor or a show.

Don't misunderstand. I LIKE when people warn away others from things they clearly wouldn't like. For example, I can't stand love triangles or a lot of interference between the development of a lead couple's relationship so I love it when people post warning of dramas heavy in such aspects so others of a similar mindset know to avoid it. I LOVE when people comment about whether may or may not be heavy on angst as that helps me decide if that's something I'm in the mood for at the time.

My examples are very different from someone just saying a drama is trash so don't watch it. What's trash for you may not be trash for me and vice versa.

The commenter you are warning against IS consistent in that he looks for equality in dramas and in the way they're written that really just isn't ever going to be there simply because most romcoms are geared to target a young, female audience. He knows and acknowledges that and it irritates him. But rather than focus on that he LOVES finding scenarios that break those trends and gets very excited about an opportunity to experience that. What's wrong with that? How's that a problem that warrants him being warned against?

I just searched and have only found results showing that there's been zero formal confirmation (or even a hint) of a season two. If you saw something official please share.

Wait. WHAT? WHERE DID YOU SEE THAT?!! Please share!

You've got be beat for #of views but I get the love you have for the drama. It's literally one of my all-time favorites of all Asian dramas, simply because it's so much fun to watch. In fact, as much as I ended up loving it by the time I finished it the first time, each time I've watched it since I've enjoyed it more and more. I think it's because the things that were stressors for me the first time, didn't even become stressful for me anymore after knowing they turn out well (even if I don't always remember the specifics - I space my viewings out on purpose) so I'm able to fully enjoy all the sweet and cute and excitement of the drama entirely.

CEO Wang (the ML's mother) inadvertently caused A LOT of the public relations issues in the drama:

1) Forcing the ML to go on the blind date with that girl then continuing to force the issue when the girl continued showing interest but he didn't. He made it clear to the girl that he wasn't interested but instead of respecting his decision she threatened his brother to help bring the two together anyway. This gave that girl the opportunity to cause the noise she did after showing up and the tournament. Had she just respected the ML's decision and let him handle his own shit none of what happened there would have occurred.

2) Forcing them to go to that sponsored event where that girl caused all that trouble for the FL and the entire team. The ML AGAIN had adamantly turned that down due to their tight schedule but she forced the issue and made them go. She hadn't even bothered checking to see what kind of event it was which is what put them in a bad situation in the first place and things just spiraled out of hand from there.

3) After the 2 team members caused their loss and the public started blaming the fact that the leads were dating as the source of the issue. The ML knew that all they needed to do was go on to win the next competition. He understood that with e-sports the only thing that matters are results. That shuts everything else up. So letting the public go on with their nonsense and not responding was the right thing to do. A response of winning, was the right thing to do. However, his mother, ONCE AGAIN, forced him to do the interview before the competition. It's not like she or any of company management don't know his temper. That was a VERY bad call. To think he'd try to appease the public when that's something he's NEVER done before and definitely wouldn't do now that the person getting flack was his woman was just fucking stupid. So OF COURSE the situation became worse!

Oh! They didn't specifically say CEO Wang forced this one but when they forced the team to accept the original TAT challenge and the ML adamantly had his reason for not wanting to fall into that player's trap. The company AGAIN hadn't listened.

Each time the ML showed he was a master at handling public relations and protecting his team, as well as managing and keeping the members in line. Had the company just listened to him and trusted his judgment all along so many of the issues that got blown out of proportion could have been avoided or managed much better. He showed time and again that this was one of his strengths but time and again they chose to ignore him.

I remember being very angry at the company the first time I watched this but as I watch it again now the ML's mother in particular has been a HUGE problem throughout the drama.

I'm watching this for like the 100th time - it's literally one of my favorite dramas, even more so after watching it all the way through the first time and seeing how situations were resolved and storylines developed.

I just noticed something for the first time though...

Dang! I'm not tech savvy enough to figure out how to run the download (no clue what app I need) so I'm out of luck.