InspectorMegre

I really enjoy watching Dai Chi and Crystal, they are fantastic villains :) They are annoying and nasty as well as fun, so COMPLEX, and acted so well, they are just fantastic villains
I want to know how Dai Chi turned out to be the way he is and where he comes from. Who is his mother, what happened with her, why we never saw Dai Chi as a boy while Grandpa was dating Grandma with her daughter. We saw grandma's daughter but not little boy Dai Chi - where was he??? he must have been in the picture back then. His mom was somehow gone and Grandpa found Grandma - but where was Dai Chi? And what made him so bad? Did Crystal ruin him? he must have been bad before that too, otherwise he wouldnt like someone like Crystal ... she is a poisonous rat

EA mom will hate Grandma at least for a while... that's what I had in mind.
Plus, Dai Chi is gonna hurt EA's dad, and EA's mom already hates Crystal....

and yeah G will be bundled up with that bunch bc he the idiot did not tell EA that is he their son only on paper and hat they HATE thim
PLUS G is prone to bailing out and probably will

100% agree. Well said :)

From that drama and also from 100 Memories I learned the power of the director/script writer to KILL any actors - to make them be a deadbeat poker face.
it was a hard lesson to learn to see the masterful creatively rich actor King of Shopping Louis etc be forced to be robot-like in Boyfriend on Demand...

And 100 Memories REALLY drove the point home bc I saw this deadening in reverse.... 100 Memories turned out to be a quite lame drama, a lot due to a poker faced ML..... he was so boring and thus the drama was so boring..... and I saw him in one more similar boring support role - so I really thought he cannot act - but then I saw him as ML in Royal Nemesis and he ***can*** act a wide range - wow what a surprise!!!!

Then there is Legend of Kitchen Soldier where a whole bunch of actors who are usually grumpy villains or grumpy fighters got a free ticket to horse around and have fun.... and they had a BLAST ... and made the drama so good...
Or Recipe for Love where again veteran actors got a permission to act to their heart's desire and wow that is so fun to watch, esp Uncle actor is just SHINING... and compare that to their previous drama For Eagle Brothers, which was soooo boring flat flat flat ...

***** That's when I realized the POWER of director/script writer to TOTALLY kill a drama - or make it good - if they let the actor express, or force actors into a box - *****

and that's when it struck me how the "slave driver" director/script writer can just order actors to turn into poker faced robots and just KILL a drama

and anyone stupid thinks that poker faced robots are cool bc those are the tricks of FASHION SHOWS .... and yeah... Hwood... as kdramas get dumbed down to appease Western audience who just watches trash, s.x. violence, car chases, drugs, just shocker scenes without content, and that's it.... So to them even the most boring kdrama is like a PhD dissertation complex... their brain on antidepressants, pain killers, sleeping pills, marijuana, and who knows what else... just cannot think ..... so yeah flash some scenes and they will think they are watching a masterpiece... Cdramas totally exploit this and consist almost 100% of flashy meaningless scenes and meaningless "serious" dramatic scene, the feel of a military parade... . Perfect Crown was a great example of totally manipulating western-oriented audience lmao

but a drama is not a fashion show, it is a STORY, it has to be ALIVE

ML in Sold Out on You was the most recent victim of this slavery to the cool robot image, as I know, because they made a perfectly alive, peppy, happy person act like a totally shut down idiot, all the way through, it was just .... aaaagh.... more than boring - infuriating ..so OVERSIMPLIFIED and so flat...
ML actor in Practical Guide to Love was visibly BORED TO DEATH with really stupid script and making him into a dumb, slow, oversimplified "elderly" character, he barely survived that drama lmao
before that it was Park Seo Joon, a fantastic comedian who can express all kinds of things, forced into Surely Tomorrow bs where he had to essentially shiver in fear and anger and sadness the entire time in this oversimplified 1-dimensional character. It was sooooo boring awful FLAT
This deadening is routinely done to female roles, bc of sexism, they are made dumb, clumzy, overreactive, naive, etc. so the only emotions are fear, anxiety, confusion... Like ... FL in Nice Guy which she repeated in the recent drama too... omg soooo boring stupid!!!!! such dramas are really really really stupid
So yeah a great example of that is FL in Would you Marry Me, and the actress copied 100% her character from My Father is Strange... sooooo dumb boring stupid one dimensional!!!! And ML actor in WYMM was sooo bored and so impatient, his face had this vibe of "I am gonna endure this until we finish filming but omg is this boring get me out of here!!!"

SO YES I LEARNED ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF DIRECTOR/SCRIPT WRITER. They are like Goddess Kali - have the power to kill or to rejuvenate :)
to force oversimplified 1-dimensional characters or to let actors express as complex as they want

well the truth is, some actors probably just have the face and no acting skillZ so the director kinda tells them to do this or that, such actor cannot act more complex even if you tell them to lmao

but from what I have seen, many kactors (ladies or gentleman) CAN

but then the drive for money squishes them into commercial boring roles

ah this is nowhere to be found. Not on Viki in my area either. I had to give up Viki bc of that.
Can someone grab it from Viki and put it on bilibili or Dailymotion as a private video and give us a link for a limited time? Thanks

well he is on the top and even if he not the Chairman of the company, he gets a lot of money anyways

G is flakey so he will bail out as soon as it gets rough
I hope EA is not one of those dutiful daughters that follows her mom's order to hate, I dropped REcipe for Love when they started that. It is kinda ... totally obsolete for year 2026.

OK lmao SR and Crystal were sooo predictable lmao but EA was *not* that was hilarious
EA is a real gem. And SR at this point has nobody rooting for her lmao Even I dropped her :) I used to feel sympathy but I lost it. She is too mean and dumb, she is like that infamous nasty spinster type. She should go become a catholic nun or something like that and then she will have plenty of chances to be mean to others.

I am wondering why FL's dad married FL's mom when she is so ... unstable

me too :)

I cannot even image what kind of stuff SR will try to pull now lmao Would she still go to NYC? Would she start harassing EA? Would she ...
First of all... what will the snowflake G do... ??? He still talks about going to NYC soon...
And what will the villains do? They are hilarious! Dai Chi behaves like an old lady and Crystal is like the mean high school bully... The best villains in a long time!

But now I know why SR is so off the deep end - her father who is the strong and silent type, and she is imitating HIM.
I can see why that guy is driving SR's mom bananas. But SR's mom is quite an unhinged case herself, to think she should be privy to his work stuff.

I cannot imagine what will Dai Chi and Crystal do next - will they ever resort to real violence.... how far will they go?

Wow writing a script requires so many ideas - so a good script writer must have seen a lot of different life stories

Hm I was thinking how well G and MH characters are scripted - like yin and yang..
G is the yin part, the skinny scrawny scared quiet secretive flakey dude - who also can be sometimes warm and caring
MH is the yang part, the energetic exuberant radiant glowing expressive happy strong muscular dude who also can sometimes be mean and greedy

Now we know why Chorung spends so much time caring for Bit Na - Chorung had her eyes on the Oldest Brother since high school!!!! So yeah it is time she replaces the wrongly picked wife. I guess the wife was more pretty and stylish, but she is just a dumb moron. Chorung is less attractive but is a GOOD partner. I do hope he picks her.

ok thanks

Which "pure" romcoms are good, iyo?

Imo, there arent really any "pure" romcoms bc romance is a part of life, so ... there is always something besides the romance... It is not THE ONLY thing ppl do 24/7 :)

So I am curious which dramas you think are pure and good rom coms. Thanks.

Did you see Th. ep, seems like Chorung liked Oldest Brother since high school

i dont get it - are you mentioning ppl who are not blood related but officially related as family, going on dates?

ah the sexism.... grandpa gave Joy dating feedback and nobody even asked grandma what her experience was... Like, he spoke for both of them..... Grandma is such a doormat. Esp living with him all those years after he caused her daughter to disappear

it's good, they need some push to grow up, they are so obliviously naive and careless although he is a company heir, and she is THE lady of the company heir AND the developer of a commercially used software.
They are TARGETS by the nature of their positions and they are still 10000% oblivious

Ah oh again we have naive good ppl who dont think further than their nose and never connect the dots.... versus ... villains...

Crystal and Dai Chi are clumzy and dumb ..... and luckily not some serial killer kind, we had enough of serial killer kind!!!!! Crystal and Dai Chi are REALISTIC. Ppl like that are all around. SR is also a realistic villain. She is gonna start something nasty now.... as she goes more and more into MADNESS. Literal medical madness, obsession is a psychiatric condition....

Our victims are sooooo naively stupid and unprotected and so arrogantly proud/closed off and DO NOT COMMUNICATE - and so even this kind of homebrewn villain is good enough to take them down

Hopefully EA will remember what she was SUPPOSED TO LEARN from Joy being stolen from her, and G will remember what he was SUPPOSED TO LEARN from growing up in that house and that he is a company heir and has hostile "parents" and "brother".
G is super dumb for not telling EA he is adopted. How can he even date EA and keep secrets. G is so immature.

Only when ML and FL GROW UP to be adults enough, will they be able to have a relationship. Right now they are two kids holding hands, totally oblivious to the fact that G is a TARGET and that EA is a TARGET - he as a company heir and she as Joy developer and the lady of company heir

well it is not only Korean way lmao it is a very global way :)

Anyone can be a victim to jealous and/or greedy ppl
and esp ppl with money, success, love and/or popularity ....

yeah in some ways this is good bc it will be a test of ML-FL love and will strengthen them. Right now they are waaaaaaay too naive and just sitting ducks for any attacker. EA has not learned anything from the Joy scammer experience. .... And G is a total clueless moron although he is a company heir. TIME TO GROW UP, KIDS!!!!!

no problem, it is understandable, the comment was not for you...
I was just leaving the comment for people looking now to save them time

Ok I will check Doom at Your service, it was on my list anyways

Hm, good romcoms have amazing range! Rom coms can be amazing social commentary and life stories and can encompass severe grief, joy, various bad and good emotions....

Dont underestimate rom coms, good ones are really amazing mini family dramas and psych thrillers and sometimes even thrillers :)

I recently watched High Kick Season 3 from 2011, which had amazing rom com and acting for it...

Recent notable romcoms are .. Positively Yours (a very realistic story of how two strangers fall in love and make a family), Twinkling Watermellon - omg!!! so fun!!!!, even My Dearest Nemesis for its social commentary on encompassing diversity, a super cool FL and very egalitarian and open communication ML-FL relationship, etc. I think I have a list in my feed

Yeah recent Royal nemesis, Filing for Love are also quite versatile romcoms, and the failed No Tail to Tell and Our Universe were SUPPOSED to be amazing complex romcoms.

Indeed there is no sense in trying to communicate with you, since you keep refusing to listen to what others have to say and you keep refusing to be polite to others. So we stop right here.
Farewell

you wrote "Then don't watch" - that is ... chasing them away and shutting them up

the user below gave the same message but properly: "It's ok if you didn't like it, I'm sure you will find other dramas enjoyable. Good luck :)"

So next time you want to say " then dont watch" just copy and paste that sentence from that other user