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40 EPISODES? 40? I watched the first episode and thought for sure it was going to be just 8 episodes. Then I looked ahead a little bit to see what was coming up. 40 EPISODES? I went to Google and spoiled the ending for myself so I don't have to wade through 40 episodes of bad acting.

A "contract marriage" with a royal prince? I get marrying up, but a "contract marriage?" What royal family is ever going to let a prince marry an illegitimate woman, or have a contract marriage. Surely they could have come up with a different scenario to get them together?

I don't get the plot at all. It sounds terrible. I love IU, but the plot sounds ridiculous.

You might want to put your comment under the Spoiler, incase someone hasn't seen the last episode yet.

Because "Being apart for months with no contact during the last episode" is a box on my K-drama BINGO card. It makes no sense to me, and every single K-drama I've watched has had this trope. Bugs the crap out of me.

I also didn't like the twist at the end where FL finds out her parents are still alive. And that she finds out from her boyfriend and not from her family. AND, that she goes off and we don't even get to see the big interaction with either of her parents.

I liked this show, but the leads annoyed me at the beginning. I also didn't understand why SML needed to move into ML's house, plotwise. I was expecting all 4 to run into each other in the kitchen wearing bathrobes after a night of whoopee and wonder why they were all in the same house, and of course nothing ever happened related to his moving in.

I'll put the rest of my disappointment behind a spoiler below. So DO NOT CLICK ON IT, if you haven't see the last episode. I don't want anyone bitching at me that I spoiled the ending for them, when I specifically put the ending in a spoiler comment so you won't accidentally see it.

Ah, interesting. Thank you!

I flipped between the two sets of subtitles after I read this thread. Which subtitles were better? I started with the English ADH and then switched to the English, but it still felt off.

I don't speak Korean, but I've watched enough Korean dramas to know when certain words aren't translated correctly.

Why are they speaking English when the subtitles say they are speaking German or Chinese? So confusing.

I actually liked both in this show, but yeah, SoJi Sub is a bit ahead of Seo In Guk. But I thought the BINGO card comment was funny, so it stays in. Haha.

No. SML steps aside and becomes good friend to FL. It's barely a love triangle.

So you cannot name a single thing to convince me? Right.

You didn't answer the question. I watch American, European, and Asian dramas and I have no idea what you are referring to. Please be specific.

1. White truck of doom.

2. Orphan.

3. Dramatic arm grab.

4. Walking around in the rain without an umbrella.

5. Doesn't own a car.

6. Slow-mo missed connection walk past.

7. Team dinner where co-irkers get drunk.

8. Boy has pierced ears and doesn't wear earrings.

9. Someone gets called a pervert.

10. More than 2 visits to a columbarium.

11. A martial arts move to incapacitate an annoying character.

12. Sleeping together chastely while fully clothed.

13. Unreasonable breakup.

14. Spending a year apart at the very end and NEVER calling each other during that time.

15. At least one funeral scene.

16. Amnesia, coma, or die. Yay! All THREE.

17. Major criminal plot twist.

18. CEO

19. Main lead goes abroad.

20. Difficult parental relationship.

21. Prefer 2nd ML.

22. Drunken confessions and feelings.

23. Supernatural.

24. Someone gets sick.

25. Hospital stay.

26. Love triangle.

27. Cross dressing.

28. First kiss is not real.

29. Meeting with disapproving potential in-law.

30. Bad guy wears black and good guy wears white. (It's the only way to tell which twin was which.)

31. Opening credits are animated.

I filled the whole BINGO card.

Did I miss anything? I think the only things the show was missing was walking around as a couple with an umbrella, and falling over and landing on each other's lips.

I really enjoyed this one. They nailed the ending.

HOWEVER, I did fill up my K-drama BINGO card. See the spoiler below only if you've finished the show.

Hahahaha, episode 2: The White Truck of Doom.

My favorite side couple was the pair in Business Proposal. They had heat!

1. What is it with this writer? They always make the lovers have to be apart at the end, and only get together on rare occasions.

2. Too many "let's sleep together chastely with our clothes" on scenes. They're adults. We know they're going to have sex, unless that made the alien sick, too.

3. I really, really liked the 2nd ML. I wanted him to find someone else to love. I wanted him to finally mature and take over Dad's company.

4. I felt like the whole, being beamed up and back to his home planet, and then the wormhole stuff wasn't well explained.

5. The whole "tree in his apt." thing wasn't well explained.

6. The whole "I got better on my home planet" thing wasn't well explained.

7. Why didn't he just take her to his home planet?

8. 21 episodes was way too long for this story.

Now that I've finished the show, I'm disappointed in the ending. I'll hide my comments behind spoilers, so no one can complain I spoiled a decade old show for them.