InspectorMegre

I thought it was sad - rejecting the "crude" village boy so cruelly and snottily

Since FL is technically not ML's attorney at this point, will they consider it ok to pounce on each other? She cannot make a move bc she was his lawyeer and secret fan, so she has to wait for his earnest and sincere confession and then respond.

So far he was soooo shamelessly hitting on her out of curiosity, but in ep 8 he started to get super sensitive about her personal space ..... bc he now considers her very important and precious and does not want to scare her or piss her off. La Ik fell in love and he knows it :)

The crime plot is necessary for the ML - FL trust building and a lifelong bond.

As for "childhood friends" trope - yeah, did you know that S Korea has the lowest birth rate in the world? So I think that is an attempt to prevent the Oppa tourism from taking away Oppas, and to have Koreans pair up with other Koreans. Or else they will disappear through intermarrying, like Hawaiians did ....

OK I think I understand your confusion. It is ** entirely possible ** that an inherently good person behaves as a spoiled brat, it is possible to be inherently good and have character flaws and even if you are free of any character flows, make mistakes. That is THE nature of human life on Earth. To keep fixing character flows and mistakes. Nobody, nobody in human form is perfect. Even when they are a saintly being like Jesus or Buddha Gautama.

I am not sure why you are defending La Ik and why this nitpicky argument if he is making dumb choices or being a brat - it really does not matter how we call it!!!!!

the point is, La Ik constantly misbehaved and ruined his life. He was totally wiped out exhausted. Regardless how he got there, he got there and his life was in the dumps bc of it.

The thing that you need to see is that La Ik GOT OUT of that phase. Se Na provided safe space and he took the opportunity to self reflect and change. THAT is the main point and the purpose of this drama. To see how someone who was less than exemplary took his life in his own hands and CHANGED.

"A "brat" traditionally means a badly behaved, spoiled, or annoying child" - AND LA IK USED TO FIT THAT DESCRIPTION. He was misbehaving. He was not just dumb, he acted very rude, entitled, and inconsiderate, and too impulsive. Those are all bratty behaviors. It is ENTITLEMENT to think that he can be rude and obnoxious and keep his fans, advertisers and the band.

Regardless of his background, regardless of who did wrong to him, regardless of any of that, an adult is supposed to resolve it properly, not but yelling and fist fights. For example: the advertisers pulled out, newspapers wrote bad articles, he lost fans, the yelled at fans botched his car...

Being an adult means working out the situation in a productive CONSTRUCTIVE way. Advertisers and fans want someone to adore, La Ik wants money and his music, and everyone wants to be happy and have a good time.

THE EMPHASIS ON BEING HAPPY AND HAVING A GOOD TIME, FOR EVERYONE.

If you cannot do it yourself and thus feel the need to justify his bad behaviors, it does disservice to you and to him. We should be striving to be better, not to stay the same old disfunctional.

Ater ep 8: ppl who say "there is no chemistry" are baffling me...

. Bc ML and FL have super deep chemistry and have been flirting and in love ever since he moved into her house. It is not visible sexual activity and skinship bc there was no chance for that to happen yet bc of the criminal situation, and once the coast is clear, we certainly do not need to voyeur on them.... !!!!! TMI is cheap... !

She is his lawyer and was exposed as a secret fan, so she HAS TO keep her paws off him in every way and give him wide safe space. He has been recklessly, shamelessly, without any consideration, curious and exploring her and hitting on her non stop ever since he moved into her house. She was so happy about his attention. Then he ran away and is now at the stage where he KNOWS he loves her so he is not trying to snag her anymore and treat her as a short curiosity that he can touch or look at any time he wants to.

Now he is moving into serious deep love waters... where he THINKS CAREFULLY before he even touches her and avoids it bc she is that precious, he does not want to make her run away.... That guy is fully cooked already.

She will NOT respond until she is not his lawyer, and HE makes an open and true advance.

YES!!! I concur. She - and her dad - are somehow related into this mess.

wow you have a penchant for boring... romance makes this super interesting and difficult tricky situation worthy of a drama. And, with two healthy young ppl, not having a romance would be WEIRD unless at least one was gay

I am not sure if you have the right eyeglasses on or if you need eyeglasses, bc you missed a LOT. Bc ML and FL have super deep chemistry and have been flirting and in love ever since he moved into her house. It is not visible sexual activity and skinship bc there was no chance for that to happen yet bc of the criminal situation, and once the coast is clear, we certainly do not need to voyeur on them.... !!!!! TMI is cheap... !

She is his lawyer and was exposed as a secret fan, so she HAS TO keep her paws off him in every way and give him wide safe space. He has been recklessly, shamelessly, without any consideration, curious and exploring her and hitting on her non stop ever since he moved into her house. She was so happy about his attention. Then he ran away and is now at the stage where he KNOWS he loves her so he is not trying to snag her anymore and treat her as a short curiosity that he can touch or look at any time he wants to.

Now he is moving into serious deep love waters... where he THINKS CAREFULLY before he even touches her and avoids it bc she is that precious, he does not want to make her run away.... That guy is fully cooked already.

She will NOT respond until she is not his lawyer, and HE makes an open and true advance.

exactly...

Honey, we need to practice tough love and self responsibility, no excuses and no self pity:
La Ik is (1) an adult and (2) a public figure and entertainer (and advertiser) who makes a living from his public image.
ADULTS DO NOT SOLVE PROBLEMS BY YELLING AND FIST FIGHTS. ONLY CHILDREN DO.
Also there are consequences in adult world:
IF LAIK MESSES UP HIS PUBLIC IMAGE, HE GOES JOBLESS. As a person, if he lets the hot anger overcome him, he is gonna burn out fast.
Therefore: He needs to grow up and handle his problems productively.
Therefore: He CANNOT lose his cool and yell at workers, fans, ppl, band members, etc. He CANNOT have fist fights with band members. He CANNOT just run out of Se Na's house and instantly fire her just bc she had some merch. He CANNOT be solving problems with alcohol and pills.

Ok thank you, I will check it out. As I said, I learned that this actor existed when I watched ep 1 of Idol I

Oops I thought baeksang was a drama, but it is an award.

OK let's put him there to receive Baeksang award - how do we do that? First, I am sure, rate this drama high etc

Actually, I am impressed. I had NO IDEA about this actor and just by seeing him in 1 episode of Idol I, I already knew it was a master actor. Sharp eyes of the inspector :) Praise me :)

So After I praised acting of this unknown-to-me ML in Idol I, someone said watch Judge from Hell where he is a great ML, so.... I watched 2 episodes of Judge from Hell and it was clear that it was more makjangy. I will watch some more but I do not think it can even compare with Idol I, which starts at the first second as a super sophisticated ACTING and psychological story, much deeper and more complex than JFH. I might watch more episodes of JFH later when I have the time. That drama just does not interest me as much. It has ideas that I dont endorse.
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I didnt mean just Ji Sung!!!! I meant in general

typecasting is about same type of role, not just character - in my post, I was referring that he was a Judge and netflix says ok he was in a successful judge drama, let us put him into another judge drama - make season 2 - and that happens a lot - I am seeing lots of "season 2 and 3" dramas

TYPECAST: assign (an actor or actress) repeatedly to the same type of role, as a result of the appropriateness of their appearance or previous success in such roles.

Yes that is exactly what I was trying to say today

I watched entire Again My Life and Lawless Lawyer, and Judge Returns so far, and read about Devil Judge AND A WHILE AGO I WROTE A LONG POST ABOUT HOW ALL 4 DRAMAS/ MLs ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
Just today I discovered that Ji Sung was ML in Devil Judge so I wrote the starting post trying to say aha judge in one series makes him easy to put into another series with a judge and that kkind of stuff happens a lot these days bc of $$, netflix etc.

Well yes La Ik was always a good guy in his heart but...
he yelled at his workers, fans, band members... did a fist fight with band members before the first solo concert ... caused so many bad news... His coping mechanism is alcohol and pills... His yelling and running away about those fan items is also impulsive and rash harsh...

So to me that makes him an impulsive spoiled arrogant brat. Still a nice guy at the core but totally immature.

Luckily he is nicely growing up on his own, after Se Na provided him a safe oasis.

Well he is gonna win even bigger award with Idol I then :) i really think Idol I can make him a superstar actor bc he starts ep 1 already on a high level and keeps moving up

Aaah I see what you mean... Se Na is a lawyer of her crush, and he is mindlessly hitting on her, so she is keeping herself under the radar and you have to hunt carefully to catch her secretly expressing liking for him LOL She is also a heavy weight professional and she speaks her mind freely, so from that, you learn a lot about her.

Se Na has lots of EXTERNAL dialogues so you can tell how she is doing.. and she subtly expresses feelings. For example, the shock suprise and suspense any time LaIk comes closer or touches her. That last scene in ep 7 where she hugs him, she is rolling her eyes and very hesitantly pats him - yet she RAN to him to comfort him. You need to increase the setting on your sens-o-meter to read Se Na :) Some things were obvious, like being ill for days after La Ik dumped her.

OK so this is how I read Se Na and find a lot o stuff to look at. She acts with eyes , facial expressions and smile. She has to keep a poker face at work, adn also with La Ik who keeps hitting on her without much thought. But you can tell she is melting any time he does something nice for her but she never ACTS on it.
So that is why she seems boring to you, bc she leaves plenty of space to La Ik and really honors his boundaries and his freedom, she is TOTALLY hands off him. Sometimes she speaks to him to present options so that he can make better choices, but she never ever meddles. She is impeccable. Why? bc that is the best way to love him now, when he is healing. GIve him space to himself so hat he can heal. She is his lawyer, so she cannot come close to him, and she was a secret fan, and did not want to scare him. She just brought him into her home and provided a safe environment for him to relax unwind and rejuvenate. And he did. The price of that is that she had to HIDE ALL HER FEELINGS FOR HIM AND ABOUT HIM, and that was good, bc I think she likes real La Ik even better than the stage LaIk. She melts every time he is nice to her. She cannot hide it totally. She just SMILES HAPPY

We see her struggles and she speaks with others about them so we do know what she thinks.

This particular drama so far was LaIk's life centered so I do hope we learn more about Se Na.