well, im at ep 4.... i dont know if i should keep watching it.imo weak hero is better. i find the comments here…
My impression was it's stylized to feel webtoon-like; Weak Hero is also stylized and exaggerated but not in a comedic way, so it feels more "realistic." Honestly, I think WH and this are both extremely unrealistic, just in different ways. WH is heavier, while this is more lighthearted. This one has adults who care. In WH, every single adult was pathetic and checked out.
Overall, very different vibes from them! I see why people tend to compare them, but apart from high schoolers engaging in fist fights and the theme of friendship, there's very little to compare. 😅
I dropped this at ep 16 but the good rating makes me believe I should give it another chance
The middle bit was a definitely a little slow (the part about the Crown Prince and his concubine), but I thought the end was very sweet because you get the leads being cute together after the ML and his "wife" that he was forced to marry get divorced. There are lots of cute scenes of the leads finally getting to be together. It wraps up nicely--I'd recommend it!
Same writer (Lee Naeun) and the same actor (Choi Wooshik). But I think people are talking about this: https://x.com/leedoohyuns/status/1890539850283069900?t=981R_l9DGU5sgfp8ZGVnEQ&s=19…
Oh, yes, I remember that scene from Our Beloved Summer! 😅
Ayo he doesn’t fall for her as a robot, right? 😭😭😭 That is kinda disturbing, so I hope not
I always saw it as him knowing, deep down, that she's a human as he gets to know her better. He does start to feel attachment and affection for her that puzzles and confuses him, but I don't think it's until after he finds out that she's human that he really realizes his feelings for her in earnest (if I remember correctly).
She acts and reacts like a human from the beginning, smirks and blinks, there's nothing robotic about the actress'…
Yes, but he believes wholeheartedly that he will have an allergic reaction to touching a human. He does not have that reaction when touching her, so in his mind it's impossible (as far as his logic goes) for her to be human. He has also been told she's the most sophisticated robot out there. These two things paired together make ironclad proof for him.
But it's also a completely ridiculous premise from the get-go. A person gets an allergic reaction to touching humans? A woman pretends to be a robot? Nothing about this show is realistic. It's just a fun story told in the fantasy world it creates. It's not meant to be completely convincing. 😉
The ML is a creep. a handsome creep, but still a creep. And he has what he believes is the most sophisticated…
You can only enjoy it if you realize the premise is ridiculous. If you can do that (honestly, many kdramas are like this, though), then it's quite a sweet watch! I don't know how far you got, but the ML improves significantly as the drama progresses. I didn't particularly care for him in the first half, but he slowly crept into my heart as it went along. 😉
Yeah, there are some people obsessed with stirring the pot here. 🤷♀️ I added one of them as my second…
Yes! And after all, it's entertainment. It's not that serious. Making this your hill to die on... not worth it! Find some actual worthy, meaningful cause towards which you can channel your passionate heart instead. 😉
Park Bogum!!! Haven't seen him as a lead since Record Of Youth. He's so lovable, but I can't imagine a drama set in the 50's in Korea will have a cozy, feel-good ending...
Darn it, Bogum! Why'd you have to pick a sad one as your next drama? 😭
I haven't watched this. Can someone help me out with what OBS is referring to? I'll probably feel like, "Duh!" when someone tells me but I can't for the life of me figure out what people are referring to. 😅
Imma just come out and say it. I think it's ironic that there are commenters who actively continue to say that,…
Yeah, there are some people obsessed with stirring the pot here. 🤷♀️ I added one of them as my second blocked person on MDL because I find them so annoying, but yeah, their hypocrisy reeks and oozes from their comments. 😅
Here's my grasp of their logic: "My taste is objectively good/accurate. I think this drama is trash, therefore this drama is trash. Anyone else who thinks otherwise is a fangirl, a bot, a teenager, or a shallow person, since a sane adult (with good taste like mine who can tell masterpieces from trash) couldn't possibly like this. Everyone who rated this a 9? Not possible, it had to be bots (cause if it's not, then the majority of people who have seen this disagree with my taste, which can't be possible because, remember, I have good taste 😉)." 🤔
I think a more reasonable way to approach ratings you disagree with is to calibrate your genre likes and dislikes against the ratings. I found that the dramas whose ratings I tend to disagree with tend to be the same types of genres I've discovered I don't like that much. After realizing that, I have a much more accurate sense for what I'll dislike and why using MDL ratings as a guide with my own genre-specific caveats. This seems like a better way to go about things so you don't impose your arbitrary opinion on people in obnoxious ways to justify being "right." I think it's a healthy amount of humility and self-awareness to admit that there is SOMETHING about a highly rated drama that makes it beloved, even if YOU don't understand why that is. And it doesn't even make your taste bad necessarily, it just makes your taste different, and there are probably valid reasons for your dislike (it's just not reasons the majority resonate with).
Overall, very different vibes from them! I see why people tend to compare them, but apart from high schoolers engaging in fist fights and the theme of friendship, there's very little to compare. 😅
Still hoping they'll make a remake of that someday, but still have Gaemi do the music. 😉
And the 2ML and 2FL have to be some of the most annoying second leads in all of Kdramaland. 🙄
But it's also a completely ridiculous premise from the get-go. A person gets an allergic reaction to touching humans? A woman pretends to be a robot? Nothing about this show is realistic. It's just a fun story told in the fantasy world it creates. It's not meant to be completely convincing. 😉
Haha, thanks for demystifying it for me! 😅
Darn it, Bogum! Why'd you have to pick a sad one as your next drama? 😭
Here's my grasp of their logic: "My taste is objectively good/accurate. I think this drama is trash, therefore this drama is trash. Anyone else who thinks otherwise is a fangirl, a bot, a teenager, or a shallow person, since a sane adult (with good taste like mine who can tell masterpieces from trash) couldn't possibly like this. Everyone who rated this a 9? Not possible, it had to be bots (cause if it's not, then the majority of people who have seen this disagree with my taste, which can't be possible because, remember, I have good taste 😉)." 🤔
I think a more reasonable way to approach ratings you disagree with is to calibrate your genre likes and dislikes against the ratings. I found that the dramas whose ratings I tend to disagree with tend to be the same types of genres I've discovered I don't like that much. After realizing that, I have a much more accurate sense for what I'll dislike and why using MDL ratings as a guide with my own genre-specific caveats. This seems like a better way to go about things so you don't impose your arbitrary opinion on people in obnoxious ways to justify being "right." I think it's a healthy amount of humility and self-awareness to admit that there is SOMETHING about a highly rated drama that makes it beloved, even if YOU don't understand why that is. And it doesn't even make your taste bad necessarily, it just makes your taste different, and there are probably valid reasons for your dislike (it's just not reasons the majority resonate with).