Elmond_u

which of the two sentences do you need an explanation for. I'm just gonna answer both.
1: the general public likes mediocrity, myself included. it's nice to just shut your brain off for a couple hours and binge through a dumb show.

2: yeah, I'm just selfless like this. this is my service to the community.

Look. I don't need you to hate it too. I actually acknowledge that people have different tastes. However, I'm a customer just as much as you are and I have every right to express how I felt about it. I have every right to try to convince people of my opinions and if they don't agree, that's their decision. I don't hate the actor, I don't even know the man personally. I just feel like another line of work would suit him better. modeling, maybe, cos all he is is a pretty face. you wanna like it, that's fine. but I hate it, and that's fine too. the fact still remains that it's trash, and no amount of arguing is gonna change that. hope this helps😘.

the ml doesn't know how to act. the story is contrived and full of plot holes. the show tried to focus on very dark themes yet it's too busy trying to be cute to actually make a friggin point. most of the comedy is trash. there's too many characters. there's too many episodes. the two leads fall in love too quickly after a bunch of overly unrealistic near death experiences. the villain has no backstory and no sensible motives. the fl is just a weak damsel in distress all the time. I'm sorry, what exactly is good about this show? the pretty aesthetics? well, guess what... every kdrama these days has pretty aesthetics. y'all should stop glorifying this overstuffed shit show and encourage your darling Song Kang to take some acting lessons

she's literally a dull plank. boring and robotic

i think the issue with hierarchy is it's characters. The idea of the plot makes for a good revenge thriller. However, it feels more like a teen high school drama than a thriller. this is probably because the protagonist has forgotten his motives five minutes after kissing the female lead. The fl is another issue. She has no personality; she's basically a robot. It's like talking to a brick wall. Her boyfriend, Rian is an obsessive, pretty boy with mommy issues. They both casually admitted during one of his flashbacks that their relationship is just a way to escape the burdensome realities of their lives, yet they somehow thought their confessions were romantic. Hera, the second female lead had a lot of potential, but her writing was shallow. She was still a bit entertaining to watch, though. I'm not done with the show yet, but it's been boring so far. Different people watch shows for different reasons: characters, plot, aesthetics, etc. Personally, it's impossible to get invested in a show that doesn't have interesting character, and these are by far one of the most boring set of characters I've come across in tv.

You must feel really intelligent saying that. Ever considered that people just have different tastes? Or is your brain too limited to grasp the basic concept of human preferences? Do us all a favor and go download some social skills—you’re running on empty, you pompous prude.

anyone I meet on this app who recognizes 2521 for the masterpiece it is, is someone whose taste I can trust in. i just saw your conversation with someone who was defending Queen of Tears as a 'work of art'. It's sad that most people are sold on a show by its pretty colors and attractive characters. it's laughable that anyone would think of this show so highly. the show was mostly cringe, full of borrowed storylines from other shows

when a person can't defend their point without being insulting, it's a clear sign of low iq

yeah, there's nothing like breaking bad though. it's not cliche at alllll. Western tv mostly focuses on the youth-teenagers and young adult stars. Many thought breaking bad would flop because it was so different, I mean, a 50 year old chemistry teacher with cancer. he was as boring a protagonist as one could ever think of. that's what made him special. there's nothing special about queen of Tears. I can name a bunch of other better shows it got pieces of it's story from. look, you're entitled to your own taste. I guess calling it a work of art is acceptable. even bad art are still works of art

the story was a cliche. the actors did great work with the material they were given. a lot of character development felt very unnatural and unearned. haein was a downright horrible person, and anyone who admired her has issues. also, I always felt like I was watching a runway show rather than an actual story.

the story was a cliche. the actors did great work with the material they were given. a lot of character development felt very unnatural and unearned. haein was a downright horrible person, and anyone who admired her has issues. also, I always felt like I was watching a runway show rather than an actual story.

trust me, you'll love her in the end

Thank you so much for this. I feel like this point completely flew over many people’s heads. While most are focused on the fact that the couple didn’t end up together, they often miss what truly matters — it happened, and they’ll never forget each other. Love, like youth, is fleeting, but real love lingers, even after the relationship is over, and the memories stay with you forever. That, to me, is the heart of the drama’s message, and it’s why 2521 remains my all-time favorite K-drama.

Weird. in my opinion, this show's mediocrity isn't recognized or hated enough. I need more people to see what a lackluster, contrived, shallow piece of art this is.

is this show good?

Thats okay😂. I just felt that the emotions and the romantic relationship was just as grounded as in CLOY. I didn't mean everything about the show was on CLOY's level.

I was already hanging on by a thread with Memories of the Alhambra, but now I’m almost completely convinced it’s time to drop it. When your plot depends solely on the willpower of your audience to hold it together, that’s a problem.

Hyun Bin’s character is directly linked to the murder of his former best friend and business partner—someone he clearly hates. On the night of the murder, he was the one who called the victim out of his house. His fingerprints were found on the victim’s collar, suggesting physical altercation. The time of death? Perfectly aligned with when they parted ways. Oh, and let’s not forget: he conveniently left the country that same night.

And yet, somehow, the police never even consider him a suspect. Not even for five seconds. He has both motive and opportunity, but because the story needs the protagonist free to chase magic contact lenses or whatever, the cops play dumb.

Even more insulting, several episodes later, another character—barely connected to another murder—is suddenly treated like a prime suspect. As if the writers just remembered that "evidence" is supposed to matter. It’s lazy, inconsistent, and completely reliant on the audience ignoring obvious logic gaps.

I don’t mind if a show isn’t fully realistic, but when it outright insults my intelligence, I draw the line. And let’s not even start on the pacing—it’s repetitive and painfully dull. The protagonist is a brick wall: zero emotion, zero humanity. And the walking stick? I’ve seen him move just fine during game scenes, but somehow no one around him notices. Like… are these people blind?

Tell me—does it get better? I’m already halfway through, and I really don’t want to waste more of my time.

i understand where you're coming from. and you're right, to they did date. must've slipped my mind. but understand that when ramwoo first died, she tried to move on and tried to heal. but she was unable to. knowing that she couldn't move on the first time, and that the second time would hurt so much more, I get why she wanted to end it. in fact, the question in my mind is actually this "if he never came into her life that week, reminded her of what it was like to really live, and then leave her again shattered, would she even have wanted to commit suicide in the first place?" I mean, it's like she was meant to die whether or not he came, but why after all these years. like, do you get what I'm saying? if he never came back, should she have wanted to commit suicide? or was he always destined to come back to her for that week. and he changed her destiny by Saving her on the roof. also, when he says that he lives on in her, he doesn't mean because he's disappearing for good. he means that he lives on in her in the physical plane, in her world, not in the afterlife.

okay, wow. where to begin... okay first, it's never explicitly stated that she and the ml friend dated. they probably just spent a lot of time together and she maybe even gave him hope that they would date, but ultimately, they were probably helping eachother get through their grief. also, if you think that her inability to move on was sudden, then maybe you didn't watch the same show I did, because it was clearly shown that she NEVER moved on. she never made friends at school, cried in the street, never smiled or socialised all through the years. I mean, you saw that dark hole she'd been living in, right? this is made very clear in episode 5 or 6, I think. Look, she doesn't live life the way she does because she thought anyone blamed her. it's because she can't stop blaming herself. being forgiven by the people around you feels good, but if you hurt someone you truly loved, forgiving yourself is the hardest thing to do. that week they spent together assured her that he and everyone else had forgiven her, but it wasn't enough for her to forgive herself. that's why even in their last encounter, she is saddened by the fact that he never even had a choice between living or dying, because she felt that she took that choice away from him. also, i get that her still wanting to end her life after the week they shared was sort of diminishing the worth of the time they spent, but she explains that time stopped for her after he died, and she only began to feel alive again when he came back. she barely survived his death the first time. him leaving again was like rubbing salt on a wound that never healed in the first place, and this time, she just couldn't bear the pain. she didn't wanna go back to her sad, lonely existence after he first disappeared. she probably felt like killing herself would help them reunite again if she tries to become a grim reaper too. his presence that week helped her live life like she used to before his death, but when he disappeared, she felt like there was no reason to carry on anymore. when he reappeared the second time, he didn't simply repeat the routine of the week they spent together, he actually gave her a reason to live even after he's gone. she needs to live because he lives on in her, and when she finally understands this, when she finally sees that she is both Kim ramwoo and Jung Heewan, and that killing herself would be like killing ramwoo for the second time, she decides to live. because by keeping herself alive, she keeps him and his memory alive too. and by loving herself, she is loving him. That was more beautiful than any ending I could've imagined.

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