i love seo in guk so much , so much but i didn't care much about this story but now after seeing the comment section…
I love SIG in King of Shopping Louis, he acts so creatively and so ... exuberantly, and with such wide range between warmth and sadness, wow that is a memorable role, he is a fantastic actor.
and then the last Boyfriend on Demand was soooo flat they just made him a poker face the entire time. I was bored to death and dropped it.
So ... I am sure SIG can act a great range and be SUPER fun, it is just the question if the drama ppl will let him ;( and we will find out only by watching
Hm this one could be good or bad :) the plot is risky :) grabbing a boss bc there is nobody else who is interesting... might backfire :) and usually DOES, esp in an office.... so many eyes on ya... and they all want to be the boss's favorite... and the boss has the upper hand... . But let's see how it goes here. I guess the drama is catering to hard working ppl who have no time to date so they start looking around office. Jdramas are notorious for this bc they are at work at least 10 hrs per day
From the trailer, FL actress has talent for comedy. I really really really hope they dont make ML actor be a poker face. I could not stand his poker face ML in Boyfriend on Demand, it was so boring. ML actor can act a wide range, he can be so fun!!!! and I hope he will be here
i am aware of people reassuring that there will not be a heavy triangle based on the webtoonbut from all the recent…
Positively yours triangle was not bad and it lasted such a short time and had no real impact, imo you missed a really good marriage story
Everyone nice and/or attractive will always come with ppl liking them... the more popular they are, the greater the number of ppl who want them..... and everyone who is old enough always has various exes they dated/lived with/married/had kids with/ etc and various crushes they wish they dated.... There are always old feelings and memories and "contracts" ....
and clearing and resolving all that before starting with someone new is a part of the love process. UNAVOIDABLE.
So relax, take it easy, love triangles, squares, .... octagons... 100side shapes... are typical and NORMAL
Hey, MDL is for stating your honest opinion. Some ppl like this drama, some ppl do not. So what? LEARN TO LIVE TOGETHER AND LISTEN TO THE OTHER SIDE. Maybe they have a point. If you really dont want to hear their opinion, block them.
DO NOT EVER TRY TO SHUT PPL UP AND MAKE THEM LEAVE
Quote from another user here:
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces - I can think of quite a few - as well as trash - I can think of quite a few. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :) - for them :) But, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else. And vice versa
SO JUST LET IT BE AND WATCH AND ENJOY this is not a soccer match with fan fights...
seeing your watchlist shows , you dont even like rom com . how about skiping this genre in general instead of…
Quote from another user here:
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces as well as trash. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :) Also, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else. And vice versa
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces as well as trash. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :) Also, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else.
yeah Chloe is not likeable anymore, she is exploiting and destroying HJ and betraying MJ
Exactly! and HJ intellectually knows but ... he still keeps hoping that SOMEHOW Chloe will start loving him, and if not, that at least she will PRETEND and just be by his side, ..
and so he keeps ignoring every single day all the acts of Chloe pushing him away and running him like he was a slave and Chloe was a slave driver.
and we dont know what is going to happen when HJ has an aha! moment and it finally sinks in that Chloe has absolutely NO intentions to be nice to him or be with him whatsoever
That moment will be epic bc then his JR entitled genes might kick in and he will just whack Chloe in revenge...
Also, he is such a mama boy, and he is "protecting" his mother bc Chairman tried to murder her - so she is "justified" to kidnap and try to kill him... !!!!! what a logic of mama boy!!!! - and HJ is ignoring that he KNOWS that before that... his mother killed the woman she was taking care of... almost killed MJ and Chloe....
and soon Hj should learn that his mother killed MJ's mother plus that he is a driver's son and has nothing to do with Adelle
So as a snowflake mama boy who right now is holding up ONLY bc Chloe is prodding him..... HJ should be breaking under pressure very soon and it is going to be interesting how he takes it - chances are he might snap
Ah this drama is addressing some real-life issues that are EPIDEMIC in the USA... actually something exactly like…
**** Financial and other frauds with common funds of homeowners associations is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** there is an epidemics of that in the USA. I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
The scams with non-judicial and judicial foreclosures on apartments and town homes, anything that has COMMON FUNDS, are super common. The end of John Oliver's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os shows the realistic tricks the people on the Board of homeowners associations use to steal money -
This drama has the Board take money once and leave, but many Boards just stay and keep taking funds over years and decades...
Boards, property management companies and their attorneys use homeowners as cash cows. Bc the Board can sue using common funds and owner has to defend with their own money... and property management companies have a well oiled path to keep homeowners under their thumb - lawyers who work for them and have connections into judicial and government systems. So... the future dramas and movies should look into those scams and make some cool movies and dramas...
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NOW I AM GOING TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES BUT THIS IS NOT TO BE USED FOR LEARNING HOW TO CHEAT, AS I FOUND MOST PPL USE THIS EVIDENCE..
THE EXAMPLES HERE ARE TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS ESSENTIALLY CRIME GOING ON AND TO STOP IT as for dramas and movies, these are great ideas for scripts.
Two most common ways: 1. fining owners for ridiculous petty stuff, handing the case over to attorneys, who rack up HUGE attorney bills and then just take the apartment / town home without any judicial intervention to pay those bills.
2. they sue owners for ridiculous stuff and use corrupt judges to rule them huge attorney fees. To collect that, the homeowners association then forecloses on the property - and buys the property for nothing
SINCE THEY GET THE PROPERTY FOR NOTHING, THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY STILL LEFT TO PAY, SO they SEIZE ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THAT OWNER So from a totally bogus fake false lawsuit, you can generate profit of seizing several condos worth $1.2 mlllion. I have all evidence for a case like that. One case in Colorado against a disabled single woman homeowner - the attorney just issued her an order that her private land belongs to a HOA and then they took the house for attorney fees. One case in Hawaii - Varta vs PMK - $150 house rules fine for having a dog turned into $50K attorney fees and condo taken The 2016 Brown at al vs PMK and another law firm for non-judicially foreclosing on I think 70 condos in 7 building, 70 ppl lost their homes... THIS WAS TOTALLY KEPT OUT OF NEWS IN HAWAII...
The fun part is that many such attorneys and judges own private companies related to real estate and its stocks... very often those companies are under their family The fun part is that insurance cooperates with such judges and attorneys to condemn the homeowner, so that insurance does not have to pay
**** This is an epidemics in the USA, esp against elderly, disabled, single women, and minorities. *****
Some States like Florida have wealthy elderly so it is harder but it still happens, search for Hammock HOA case, or in California bc it rather wealthy it is harder,
But most States are in bad shape, attorney general and everyone else just stays out of this, nothing is enforced, and especially the states with lots of minorities and/or absentee owners.... and state officials and judges APPOINTED by the governor, like in Hawaii,
To understand what they are doing: usually a new judge was an attorney. They start in First Circuit Court, then proceed to appellate court. Appellate Court is THE bottleneck because the lower courts CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT if they have a buddy at the appellate level who will deny all appeals against the lower courts :) Appellate judges then get promoted to the Supreme Court, and there is nobody above it... AND, State judges get promoted to the Federal District Court of that state.
So what I am saying, it is all the same people shuffling around and getting higher and higher up. So if you have some "smart" governors who appoint "their" judges - eventually ... the entire legal system is "theirs"
The USA already legalizes abusing ppl by big companies legally forcing their customers to resolve disputes in arbitrations - but the law says that arbitrators are allowed to make mistakes lmao and those mistakes somehow are always in favor of the big companies...
Esp in Hawaii, where Hawaii Rail - kinda imitation of San Francisco Bay area BART rapid rail transit system - was authorized without approval of the locals, and yeah the lawsuits against it were shut up - and costs so far huge amounts of money and is super late - it was $12.5 billion dollars and 11 yrs late in 2021.... , to the point that Feds started investigating - but miraculously - omg... what a coincidence lmao during COVID, those feds left and the issue was dropped... Just search Hawaii rail stats money and you will find lots of articles ...
Hawaii is similar to Japan, it is an island where "everyone knows everyone" Also, the court system is dominated by Japanese, as they immigrated to Oahu in huge numbers in 1970s and bought the downtown Honoluly land and put skyscrapers and apartment buildings, making Oahu super urban congested Now there are brand new "towns" of Hawaii Kai, Kapolei, etc. all town homes and apartment buildings :) Hawaii has 1200 apartment buildings. Practically each one pays about $2000 per month for maintenance to some property management company. So a big company like Associa Hawaii or Hawaiiana has ... 300-400 HOAs to manage... that is ... half a million dollars per month budget... and if you search online you will see that many Hawaii legislators are employees of Associa or PMK.... and you can see how much money they got. Hawaii legislature ROUTINELY ruled to adopt rules that suit the developers and property management companies and are against homeowners. The interesting thing is that Maui fire happened shortly after one such legislator Rosalyn Baker retired and moved to Maui...
SO IN SHORT: having all that "common funds" for a building is an open invitation to abuse - **** Hawaii especially island of Oahu and the South East of the USA are notorious for corruption and stealing property.
Also, there is even worse systemic stuff.... Hawaii island of Maui fire case of 2023 should be made into a movie because they essentially killed several thousand people to steal the land, allow millions of gallons of scarce water for agriculture (the fire started just as the locals were going to extend the court ruling that the big agg has to take less water), and allowed building apartment buildings and townhomes lmao Police directed hundreds/thousands of people to drive into the fire. The home-made videos of direct witnesses were all hushed. And it was all hushed and the official lie is that the electrical stuff gave but that is not true.
For some weird reason, everything blue in the fire stayed intact, so cars and houses and trees burned, but not the blue plastic bins for recycling. This is a movie on its own. Or a drama, of how Native people are chased off their land.
Another trick is just using the land for a long time without permission and then filing a lawsuit that it is theirs just bc they used the land. Natives fight by filing Quiet Title lawsuits but - suing requires time effort money stress so many ppl just back off. Corrupt judges and attorneys are the key here.
In Hawaii the law is that all HOA money has to be kept in a local Hawaii bank, but property management companies send money to the continental USA and then back... yeah the word "laundering" comes to mind, doesnt it? Esp since Hawaii is a huge harbor, large international airport with a huge tourist transient traffic, and a very corrupt state so it is super likely that all kinds of drugs come through Hawaii... Hawaii has epidemics of crystal meth, many ppl make it in their kitchens, marijuana is grown and used extensively, etc.
and then they used Mutual of Omaha bank from Nebraska , then it was renamed CIT, now bought by First Citizen Bank which opened an office in Hawaii without a teller, and those banks always kept very cryptic bank statements, and property managers do not disclose their own books to owners - although the law requires them to, there are "condo law" statues HRS 514B - so ... the money operations are usually hidden from owners.
In Hawaii, the law regarding condos and town homes is not enforced, and you will see that if you google cases. Names of law firms such as Porter McGuire Kiakona not Porter Kiakona Kopper, and property management companies like Associa Hawaii, branch of Associa based in Texas and founded by and now presided by a former congressman John Carona who was accused of changing laws to fit his business - check out his Wikipedia page and reviews for Associa - not those on Associa page lmao but independent...
The public is dumb and greedy... In Hawaii, there are so many remote owners who run illegal vacation rentals and do NOT care at all about maintenance of the buildings etc they just collect the huge amounts of money for rent and let the property manager and Board do whatever they want... MEANWHILE: locals have nowhere to live, there is a HUGE housing shortage, rents are super high, and monthly dues that every apartment/town house pays into the building common funds is about $1500 per month or more. In other words - you cannot own your condo - say your mortgage is $3000, plus $1500 for monthly HOA dues, plus insurance, plus taxes - the only way to own is to illegally vacation rental it bc locals cannot pay rent of $5000 per month . Recently, illegal vacation rentals were curbed, not out of care for the ppl, but bc HOTELS started losing business lmao so they pushed to reduce illegal vacation rentals.... But it still happens a lot.
So a Board that closes their eyes to any illegal vacation rentals in the building is always voted for. Also, I personally heard stories of ppl who hired local gangs to go and threaten Board members and property managers who were honest and tried to report illegal vacation rentals...
So just like in this drama, there are HUGE fights and LOTS OF CHEATING to have "their" people elected on the Board, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of an association. This drama is making plot based on that.
One of the most fun parts is that there are "public figures and groups" out there to supposedly help homeowners but .... they seem to be just a very suave way to keep the homeowners scared and silenced, and also to monitor what ppl are doing, as many members of such groups are actually attorneys and other employees/invested in the financial scams that the group is supposedly trying to expose, stop and prevent.... .
**** So this is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** and I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years
Ah this drama is addressing some real-life issues that are EPIDEMIC in the USA... actually something exactly like this happened to several ppl I know in the USA...
In real life in the USA, there will be no protection for the building there Ji Sung and his "family" steal the money. Police and attorney general and prosecutors will NOT accept any complaints bc it is a civil case .... So the only way for homeowners to try to get their money back is to SUE in the civil court - and pay out of pocket for that. But the Judges are corrupt. So you get the idea?
In the USA, stealing from homeowners associations is a perfect crime and homeowners are used as cash cows FOREVER.
So that is why this fight to be on the Board is so intense, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of the association.
there is an epidemics of that in the USA - stealing homes and extorting and stealing money by Boards, property management company and their attorneys and corrupt judges and arbitrators... using homeowners as cash cows...
**** Financial and other frauds with common funds of homeowners associations is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
In the spoiler is a quick report on what is going on in the USA and future dramas and movies should use this GOLD MINE FOR NEW SCRIPTS
**** Financial and other frauds with common funds of homeowners associations is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** there is an epidemics of that in the USA. I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
The scams with non-judicial and judicial foreclosures on apartments and town homes, anything that has COMMON FUNDS, are super common. The end of John Oliver's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os shows the realistic tricks the people on the Board of homeowners associations use to steal money -
This drama has the Board take money once and leave, but many Boards just stay and keep taking funds over years and decades...
Boards, property management companies and their attorneys use homeowners as cash cows. Bc the Board can sue using common funds and owner has to defend with their own money... and property management companies have a well oiled path to keep homeowners under their thumb - lawyers who work for them and have connections into judicial and government systems. So... the future dramas and movies should look into those scams and make some cool movies and dramas...
==================
NOW I AM GOING TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES BUT THIS IS NOT TO BE USED FOR LEARNING HOW TO CHEAT, AS I FOUND MOST PPL USE THIS EVIDENCE..
THE EXAMPLES HERE ARE TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS ESSENTIALLY CRIME GOING ON AND TO STOP IT as for dramas and movies, these are great ideas for scripts.
Two most common ways: 1. fining owners for ridiculous petty stuff, handing the case over to attorneys, who rack up HUGE attorney bills and then just take the apartment / town home without any judicial intervention to pay those bills.
2. they sue owners for ridiculous stuff and use corrupt judges to rule them huge attorney fees. To collect that, the homeowners association then forecloses on the property - and buys the property for nothing
SINCE THEY GET THE PROPERTY FOR NOTHING, THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY STILL LEFT TO PAY, SO they SEIZE ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THAT OWNER So from a totally bogus fake false lawsuit, you can generate profit of seizing several condos worth $1.2 mlllion. I have all evidence for a case like that. One case in Colorado against a disabled single woman homeowner - the attorney just issued her an order that her private land belongs to a HOA and then they took the house for attorney fees. One case in Hawaii - Varta vs PMK - $150 house rules fine for having a dog turned into $50K attorney fees and condo taken The 2016 Brown at al vs PMK and another law firm for non-judicially foreclosing on I think 70 condos in 7 building, 70 ppl lost their homes... THIS WAS TOTALLY KEPT OUT OF NEWS IN HAWAII...
The fun part is that many such attorneys and judges own private companies related to real estate and its stocks... very often those companies are under their family The fun part is that insurance cooperates with such judges and attorneys to condemn the homeowner, so that insurance does not have to pay
**** This is an epidemics in the USA, esp against elderly, disabled, single women, and minorities. *****
Some States like Florida have wealthy elderly so it is harder but it still happens, search for Hammock HOA case, or in California bc it rather wealthy it is harder,
But most States are in bad shape, attorney general and everyone else just stays out of this, nothing is enforced, and especially the states with lots of minorities and/or absentee owners.... and state officials and judges APPOINTED by the governor, like in Hawaii,
To understand what they are doing: usually a new judge was an attorney. They start in First Circuit Court, then proceed to appellate court. Appellate Court is THE bottleneck because the lower courts CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT if they have a buddy at the appellate level who will deny all appeals against the lower courts :) Appellate judges then get promoted to the Supreme Court, and there is nobody above it... AND, State judges get promoted to the Federal District Court of that state.
So what I am saying, it is all the same people shuffling around and getting higher and higher up. So if you have some "smart" governors who appoint "their" judges - eventually ... the entire legal system is "theirs"
The USA already legalizes abusing ppl by big companies legally forcing their customers to resolve disputes in arbitrations - but the law says that arbitrators are allowed to make mistakes lmao and those mistakes somehow are always in favor of the big companies...
Esp in Hawaii, where Hawaii Rail - kinda imitation of San Francisco Bay area BART rapid rail transit system - was authorized without approval of the locals, and yeah the lawsuits against it were shut up - and costs so far huge amounts of money and is super late - it was $12.5 billion dollars and 11 yrs late in 2021.... , to the point that Feds started investigating - but miraculously - omg... what a coincidence lmao during COVID, those feds left and the issue was dropped... Just search Hawaii rail stats money and you will find lots of articles ...
Hawaii is similar to Japan, it is an island where "everyone knows everyone" Also, the court system is dominated by Japanese, as they immigrated to Oahu in huge numbers in 1970s and bought the downtown Honoluly land and put skyscrapers and apartment buildings, making Oahu super urban congested Now there are brand new "towns" of Hawaii Kai, Kapolei, etc. all town homes and apartment buildings :) Hawaii has 1200 apartment buildings. Practically each one pays about $2000 per month for maintenance to some property management company. So a big company like Associa Hawaii or Hawaiiana has ... 300-400 HOAs to manage... that is ... half a million dollars per month budget... and if you search online you will see that many Hawaii legislators are employees of Associa or PMK.... and you can see how much money they got. Hawaii legislature ROUTINELY ruled to adopt rules that suit the developers and property management companies and are against homeowners. The interesting thing is that Maui fire happened shortly after one such legislator Rosalyn Baker retired and moved to Maui...
SO IN SHORT: having all that "common funds" for a building is an open invitation to abuse - **** Hawaii especially island of Oahu and the South East of the USA are notorious for corruption and stealing property.
Also, there is even worse systemic stuff.... Hawaii island of Maui fire case of 2023 should be made into a movie because they essentially killed several thousand people to steal the land, allow millions of gallons of scarce water for agriculture (the fire started just as the locals were going to extend the court ruling that the big agg has to take less water), and allowed building apartment buildings and townhomes lmao Police directed hundreds/thousands of people to drive into the fire. The home-made videos of direct witnesses were all hushed. And it was all hushed and the official lie is that the electrical stuff gave but that is not true.
For some weird reason, everything blue in the fire stayed intact, so cars and houses and trees burned, but not the blue plastic bins for recycling. This is a movie on its own. Or a drama, of how Native people are chased off their land.
Another trick is just using the land for a long time without permission and then filing a lawsuit that it is theirs just bc they used the land. Natives fight by filing Quiet Title lawsuits but - suing requires time effort money stress so many ppl just back off. Corrupt judges and attorneys are the key here.
In Hawaii the law is that all HOA money has to be kept in a local Hawaii bank, but property management companies send money to the continental USA and then back... yeah the word "laundering" comes to mind, doesnt it? Esp since Hawaii is a huge harbor, large international airport with a huge tourist transient traffic, and a very corrupt state so it is super likely that all kinds of drugs come through Hawaii... Hawaii has epidemics of crystal meth, many ppl make it in their kitchens, marijuana is grown and used extensively, etc.
and then they used Mutual of Omaha bank from Nebraska , then it was renamed CIT, now bought by First Citizen Bank which opened an office in Hawaii without a teller, and those banks always kept very cryptic bank statements, and property managers do not disclose their own books to owners - although the law requires them to, there are "condo law" statues HRS 514B - so ... the money operations are usually hidden from owners.
In Hawaii, the law regarding condos and town homes is not enforced, and you will see that if you google cases. Names of law firms such as Porter McGuire Kiakona not Porter Kiakona Kopper, and property management companies like Associa Hawaii, branch of Associa based in Texas and founded by and now presided by a former congressman John Carona who was accused of changing laws to fit his business - check out his Wikipedia page and reviews for Associa - not those on Associa page lmao but independent...
The public is dumb and greedy... In Hawaii, there are so many remote owners who run illegal vacation rentals and do NOT care at all about maintenance of the buildings etc they just collect the huge amounts of money for rent and let the property manager and Board do whatever they want...
So just like in this drama, there are HUGE fights and LOTS OF CHEATING to have "their" people elected on the Board, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of an association. This drama is making plot based on that.
One of the most fun parts is that there are "public figures and groups" out there to supposedly help homeowners but .... they seem to be just a very suave way to keep the homeowners scared and silenced, and also to monitor what ppl are doing, as many members of such groups are actually attorneys and other employees/invested in the financial scams that the group is supposedly trying to expose, stop and prevent.... .
**** So this is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** and I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years
With all due respect, I disagree with all points but the last 2 - in fact, I think your points 1-4 made the drama…
Gees I never said that no stupidity is allowed. Bad decisions create drama. But the point is not to focus on THAT. The point is to focus on OVERCOMING that, and for that, the characters have to LEARN. There is no learning in this drama.
The problem with this drama is that it is equally stupid from ep 1 to ep 128. There should have been improvement
A good recipe for drama is: 1/4 for the original stupid/bad setup, 1/4 to overcome and get together initially, 1/4 to overcome additional problems that arise from solving the original problem and getting together, and 1/4 of executing success. for example: 1/4 for HY wrecking chaos to naive Dumb Mi and her family, 1/4 for DumbMi to get smarter and get together with BH etc and start fighting, 1/4 of fights HY gang versus Ma/Mi/BH gang for real, and 1/4 of Ma/Mi/BH gang taking HY down.
***** IT IS EPISODE 128? and Chairman has no bodyguard or cameras .... etc etc etc that kind of stuff is just not OK for the last 2 weeks of the drama. DO YOU GET IT NOW? *****
Not to mention deeper stuff - have you EVER heard DumbMi self reflect? or BH and JM talk about anything but how they gonna catch HY? etc etc etc This drama is FLAT LIKE A PANCAKE. it is so shallow!!!!
FYI no drama can be made if there are no problems, every single story must start with a problem to solve, and then show failed attempts at solving it, otherwise there is no story, there is no VICTORY. And the only way to truly solve any problem is INNER CHANGE and also cooperation with other people. THE POINT OF HAVING THE STORY IS TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM if the ppl dont struggle to change to overcome the problem, if ppl stay the same, if ppl dont clear things between them, if ppl dont reach a higher level, that is absolutely NOT worthy of a story, it is just yet another casualty to be tossed out as a failed experiment.
Practically all American movies portray such casualties (OR magical overnight "success" by magical intervention of something mysterious or someone rich lmao like they win a lottery lmao NO EFFORT). For such "stories" without any struggle or with meaningless/useless struggles that lead nowhere, i.e. spinning the wheels in the same place - Sure it is good to know what did NOT work and sure it is good to know that there are ppl out there who do NOTHING to help themselves or feel powerless to help themselves, we can and should learn on mistakes of others, HOWEVER
**** it is a waste of time to spend a whole movie of drama on just failed experiments and hopeless cases. In this case, 70 hours of bologney. Life is too short, who has the time for that????
if it is going to be a good drama or movie, there has to be some failed experiments, learning from them, character growth and progress, until finally the problem is resolved/transformed
and IT HASNT HAPPENED HERE
the writer is completely incompetent to create a story
and from bad story comes bad acting. Very skilled actors like Professor and his Wife can make their role a little more rich and convincing and fun, but ultimately they are limited by the script and so that is the bottom line. Even good actors cannot revive a dead script. And when you add to that a bad actor like JH actor, then you really get something DEAD.
This drama is STALE, that is its main problem. It starts as Stupidville and stays Stupidville to the very end, CHARACTERS STAY THE SAME plot stays the same stuff just in different forms.
chloe for some reason became my most annoying person in the drama ...... this needs to be change soon .......ok…
Chloe is a liar, and she is so flat shallow, her mind running on revenge, she is like a ZOMBIE, like ROBOT programmed on only one task. She is despicable. Destroying people, manipulating people, doing illegal things, just so that she would ... what? kill Chairman? how will that help? Steal Adelle - ? wow is that a revenge or just sheer greed....
In other words, CHLOE HAS TURNED EXACTLY INTO THAT WHICH SHE IS FIGHTING, so she is yet another monster and so her role is super boring.
Ah now we know that Chorung already had OldestBrother on her agenda... ? Interesting... :)
And flakey G - is still not thinking about staying in Korea.. ? WHY was he so scared? He lost his mom, he lost his dad, ... so is he scared he is gonna lose EA too? Makes sense
Mr and Ms Satan are not killers though, they barely have the guts to go looking into a safe, but ... how did G's dad die?
The nice sophisticated thing about this drama is that it doesnt have serial killers in main roles lmao and doesnt have murders, which is refreshing, finally something "ordinary" and WATCHABLE. There is just financial and other scamming and frauds, which is bound to happen around a big company / rich ppl
I LOVE that this drama does not depend on some super complicated, ridiculous and/or bloody plots, but on RICH DETAILS from daily life. It is light in some ways, serious in other ways, and very warm and DEEP. We get to watch people growing and changing. It is truly masterful script and acting. Such a pleasure to watch this.
The writers have really painted Min Ho into a corner and have left no room for any character growth. How can he…
I was thinking similar to @joetoeca - OldestBrother and Chorung go together, and SR stays alone - and from there I spun this plot:
I dont think EA will follow G to NYC. She belongs in Korea. So ... the flakey G is gonna leave on his own and then have regrets later and come crawling back.
SR follows G to NYC, he helps her settle but does not date her of course, and then... he goes back to Korea to EA and SR stays alone in NYC lmao which gives her a chance to get an MBA and kinda grow up and even try dates
SR needs to live without MH for a while so that she can learn to appreciate him
Meanwhile MH finds another date - someone new and peppy - and gets rather happy - and has a growing period where he becomes an adult finally. He needs to live away from SR for a while and hang out with a "normal" woman who will not tolerate his tantrums and who will love him freely, so that he can stop being spoiled cruel brat on one hand, and a total doormat on the other hand.
and SR realizes she cannot find anyone, so she rushes to kiss as@ of MH to take her back - and after MANY episodes of her really realy really trying.. MH might consent I dont think it is boring that SR chases MH :) I think it should be HILARIOUS - he should try everything she did to him, just to teach her some lessons. She really took him for granted for too long
Meanwhile Bunny and Lion have zillion kids and live happily ever after
I wasted 2 hrs to watch this, plus 2 hrs to come back from puking after watching all the violence, bc I wanted to see WHY it is so popular and really .... I wasted the time watching scenes from hell. The movie has no content, only fights and blood baths, and yeah a tiny bit of love between ppl. But 98% of this movie is just GORY VIOLENCE.
It was grueling to watch this drama bc it is just a blood bath and torture. And I already knew what all that stuff happens and I did not really want to SEE HOW EXACTLY IT HAPPENS, however, the time is not entirely wasted, at least the movie deepened my knowledge, like the grandma who sets ppl up to be kidnapped, using kids for eyes, using kids to deliver drugs, make drugs, cash credit cards, etc So now I am armed with more knowledge to WARN PPL to stay away from what is shown in this movie. And a lot more protective of children. It is terrifying what happens if a child goes missing. Also, if their parent is incapable and/or missing.
Via this drama we people from the brighter side of the life got to see what happens in bad neighborhoods, in poverty, and in night life, and the message is clear - STAY AWAY FROM THAT.
But the message is even deeper - this is a SOCIAL COMMENTARY OF WHAT WE CREATED AS A SOCIETY.
The value of this movie is a social commentary of what happens with the poor, and what it means to use drugs and to go to clubs.... . THE MOVIE SHOULD SCARE EVERY CHILD TEENAGER ADULT AND PARENT TO STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS AND CLUBS AND POVERTY AND BAD NEIGHBORHOODS bc if you dont , then you get sucked into this kind of world, which exists bc of the rotten and selfish nature of our societies.
and then the last Boyfriend on Demand was soooo flat they just made him a poker face the entire time. I was bored to death and dropped it.
So ... I am sure SIG can act a great range and be SUPER fun, it is just the question if the drama ppl will let him ;( and we will find out only by watching
But let's see how it goes here. I guess the drama is catering to hard working ppl who have no time to date so they start looking around office. Jdramas are notorious for this bc they are at work at least 10 hrs per day
From the trailer, FL actress has talent for comedy.
I really really really hope they dont make ML actor be a poker face. I could not stand his poker face ML in Boyfriend on Demand, it was so boring. ML actor can act a wide range, he can be so fun!!!! and I hope he will be here
Everyone nice and/or attractive will always come with ppl liking them... the more popular they are, the greater the number of ppl who want them.....
and everyone who is old enough always has various exes they dated/lived with/married/had kids with/ etc and various crushes they wish they dated.... There are always old feelings and memories and "contracts" ....
and clearing and resolving all that before starting with someone new is a part of the love process. UNAVOIDABLE.
So relax, take it easy, love triangles, squares, .... octagons... 100side shapes... are typical and NORMAL
DO NOT EVER TRY TO SHUT PPL UP AND MAKE THEM LEAVE
Quote from another user here:
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces - I can think of quite a few - as well as trash - I can think of quite a few. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :) - for them :)
But, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else. And vice versa
SO JUST LET IT BE AND WATCH AND ENJOY
this is not a soccer match with fan fights...
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces as well as trash. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :)
Also, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else. And vice versa
"Mdl is literally for sharing all kinds of opinions. You can't ask someone to shut up just cos you don't agree with them. "
Also, not all rom coms are equal - there ARE some rom com masterpieces as well as trash. Ppl have hopes that the current rom com will be great :)
Also, ppl have different opinions. What you think is a great rom com might be trash rom com for someone else.
@sIRLii keeps saying that Chloe is actually Min Hui's baby and MJ is baby of Ms. Baek. Do you think that is true?
and HJ intellectually knows but ... he still keeps hoping that SOMEHOW Chloe will start loving him, and if not, that at least she will PRETEND and just be by his side, ..
and so he keeps ignoring every single day all the acts of Chloe pushing him away and running him like he was a slave and Chloe was a slave driver.
and we dont know what is going to happen when HJ has an aha! moment and it finally sinks in that Chloe has absolutely NO intentions to be nice to him or be with him whatsoever
That moment will be epic bc then his JR entitled genes might kick in and he will just whack Chloe in revenge...
Also, he is such a mama boy, and he is "protecting" his mother bc Chairman tried to murder her - so she is "justified" to kidnap and try to kill him... !!!!! what a logic of mama boy!!!! -
and HJ is ignoring that he KNOWS that before that... his mother killed the woman she was taking care of... almost killed MJ and Chloe....
and soon Hj should learn that his mother killed MJ's mother
plus that he is a driver's son and has nothing to do with Adelle
So as a snowflake mama boy who right now is holding up ONLY bc Chloe is prodding him.....
HJ should be breaking under pressure very soon and it is going to be interesting how he takes it - chances are he might snap
I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
The scams with non-judicial and judicial foreclosures on apartments and town homes, anything that has COMMON FUNDS, are super common.
The end of John Oliver's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os shows the realistic tricks the people on the Board of homeowners associations use to steal money -
This drama has the Board take money once and leave, but many Boards just stay and keep taking funds over years and decades...
Boards, property management companies and their attorneys use homeowners as cash cows. Bc the Board can sue using common funds and owner has to defend with their own money... and property management companies have a well oiled path to keep homeowners under their thumb - lawyers who work for them and have connections into judicial and government systems.
So... the future dramas and movies should look into those scams and make some cool movies and dramas...
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NOW I AM GOING TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES BUT THIS IS NOT TO BE USED FOR LEARNING HOW TO CHEAT, AS I FOUND MOST PPL USE THIS EVIDENCE..
THE EXAMPLES HERE ARE TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS ESSENTIALLY CRIME GOING ON AND TO STOP IT
as for dramas and movies, these are great ideas for scripts.
Two most common ways:
1. fining owners for ridiculous petty stuff, handing the case over to attorneys, who rack up HUGE attorney bills and then just take the apartment / town home without any judicial intervention to pay those bills.
2. they sue owners for ridiculous stuff and use corrupt judges to rule them huge attorney fees. To collect that, the homeowners association then forecloses on the property - and buys the property for nothing
SINCE THEY GET THE PROPERTY FOR NOTHING, THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY STILL LEFT TO PAY, SO they SEIZE ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THAT OWNER
So from a totally bogus fake false lawsuit, you can generate profit of seizing several condos worth $1.2 mlllion. I have all evidence for a case like that.
One case in Colorado against a disabled single woman homeowner - the attorney just issued her an order that her private land belongs to a HOA and then they took the house for attorney fees.
One case in Hawaii - Varta vs PMK - $150 house rules fine for having a dog turned into $50K attorney fees and condo taken
The 2016 Brown at al vs PMK and another law firm for non-judicially foreclosing on I think 70 condos in 7 building, 70 ppl lost their homes... THIS WAS TOTALLY KEPT OUT OF NEWS IN HAWAII...
The fun part is that many such attorneys and judges own private companies related to real estate and its stocks... very often those companies are under their family
The fun part is that insurance cooperates with such judges and attorneys to condemn the homeowner, so that insurance does not have to pay
**** This is an epidemics in the USA, esp against elderly, disabled, single women, and minorities. *****
Some States like Florida have wealthy elderly so it is harder but it still happens, search for Hammock HOA case, or in California bc it rather wealthy it is harder,
But most States are in bad shape, attorney general and everyone else just stays out of this, nothing is enforced, and especially the states with lots of minorities and/or absentee owners.... and state officials and judges APPOINTED by the governor, like in Hawaii,
To understand what they are doing: usually a new judge was an attorney. They start in First Circuit Court, then proceed to appellate court. Appellate Court is THE bottleneck because the lower courts CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT if they have a buddy at the appellate level who will deny all appeals against the lower courts :)
Appellate judges then get promoted to the Supreme Court, and there is nobody above it...
AND, State judges get promoted to the Federal District Court of that state.
So what I am saying, it is all the same people shuffling around and getting higher and higher up. So if you have some "smart" governors who appoint "their" judges - eventually ... the entire legal system is "theirs"
The USA already legalizes abusing ppl by big companies legally forcing their customers to resolve disputes in arbitrations - but the law says that arbitrators are allowed to make mistakes lmao and those mistakes somehow are always in favor of the big companies...
Esp in Hawaii, where Hawaii Rail - kinda imitation of San Francisco Bay area BART rapid rail transit system - was authorized without approval of the locals, and yeah the lawsuits against it were shut up - and costs so far huge amounts of money and is super late - it was $12.5 billion dollars and 11 yrs late in 2021.... , to the point that Feds started investigating - but miraculously - omg... what a coincidence lmao during COVID, those feds left and the issue was dropped... Just search Hawaii rail stats money and you will find lots of articles ...
Hawaii is similar to Japan, it is an island where "everyone knows everyone"
Also, the court system is dominated by Japanese, as they immigrated to Oahu in huge numbers in 1970s and bought the downtown Honoluly land and put skyscrapers and apartment buildings, making Oahu super urban congested
Now there are brand new "towns" of Hawaii Kai, Kapolei, etc. all town homes and apartment buildings :) Hawaii has 1200 apartment buildings. Practically each one pays about $2000 per month for maintenance to some property management company.
So a big company like Associa Hawaii or Hawaiiana has ... 300-400 HOAs to manage... that is ... half a million dollars per month budget... and if you search online you will see that many Hawaii legislators are employees of Associa or PMK.... and you can see how much money they got.
Hawaii legislature ROUTINELY ruled to adopt rules that suit the developers and property management companies and are against homeowners.
The interesting thing is that Maui fire happened shortly after one such legislator Rosalyn Baker retired and moved to Maui...
SO IN SHORT:
having all that "common funds" for a building is an open invitation to abuse -
**** Hawaii especially island of Oahu and the South East of the USA are notorious for corruption and stealing property.
Also, there is even worse systemic stuff.... Hawaii island of Maui fire case of 2023 should be made into a movie because they essentially killed several thousand people to steal the land, allow millions of gallons of scarce water for agriculture (the fire started just as the locals were going to extend the court ruling that the big agg has to take less water), and allowed building apartment buildings and townhomes lmao Police directed hundreds/thousands of people to drive into the fire. The home-made videos of direct witnesses were all hushed. And it was all hushed and the official lie is that the electrical stuff gave but that is not true.
For some weird reason, everything blue in the fire stayed intact, so cars and houses and trees burned, but not the blue plastic bins for recycling.
This is a movie on its own. Or a drama, of how Native people are chased off their land.
Another trick is just using the land for a long time without permission and then filing a lawsuit that it is theirs just bc they used the land. Natives fight by filing Quiet Title lawsuits but - suing requires time effort money stress so many ppl just back off. Corrupt judges and attorneys are the key here.
In Hawaii the law is that all HOA money has to be kept in a local Hawaii bank, but property management companies send money to the continental USA and then back... yeah the word "laundering" comes to mind, doesnt it?
Esp since Hawaii is a huge harbor, large international airport with a huge tourist transient traffic, and a very corrupt state so it is super likely that all kinds of drugs come through Hawaii...
Hawaii has epidemics of crystal meth, many ppl make it in their kitchens, marijuana is grown and used extensively, etc.
and then they used Mutual of Omaha bank from Nebraska , then it was renamed CIT, now bought by First Citizen Bank which opened an office in Hawaii without a teller, and those banks always kept very cryptic bank statements, and property managers do not disclose their own books to owners - although the law requires them to, there are "condo law" statues HRS 514B - so ... the money operations are usually hidden from owners.
In Hawaii, the law regarding condos and town homes is not enforced, and you will see that if you google cases. Names of law firms such as Porter McGuire Kiakona not Porter Kiakona Kopper, and property management companies like Associa Hawaii, branch of Associa based in Texas and founded by and now presided by a former congressman John Carona who was accused of changing laws to fit his business - check out his Wikipedia page and reviews for Associa - not those on Associa page lmao but independent...
The public is dumb and greedy... In Hawaii, there are so many remote owners who run illegal vacation rentals and do NOT care at all about maintenance of the buildings etc they just collect the huge amounts of money for rent and let the property manager and Board do whatever they want... MEANWHILE: locals have nowhere to live, there is a HUGE housing shortage, rents are super high, and monthly dues that every apartment/town house pays into the building common funds is about $1500 per month or more. In other words - you cannot own your condo - say your mortgage is $3000, plus $1500 for monthly HOA dues, plus insurance, plus taxes - the only way to own is to illegally vacation rental it bc locals cannot pay rent of $5000 per month .
Recently, illegal vacation rentals were curbed, not out of care for the ppl, but bc HOTELS started losing business lmao so they pushed to reduce illegal vacation rentals.... But it still happens a lot.
So a Board that closes their eyes to any illegal vacation rentals in the building is always voted for.
Also, I personally heard stories of ppl who hired local gangs to go and threaten Board members and property managers who were honest and tried to report illegal vacation rentals...
So just like in this drama, there are HUGE fights and LOTS OF CHEATING to have "their" people elected on the Board, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of an association. This drama is making plot based on that.
One of the most fun parts is that there are "public figures and groups" out there to supposedly help homeowners but .... they seem to be just a very suave way to keep the homeowners scared and silenced, and also to monitor what ppl are doing, as many members of such groups are actually attorneys and other employees/invested in the financial scams that the group is supposedly trying to expose, stop and prevent.... .
**** So this is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** and I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years
In real life in the USA, there will be no protection for the building there Ji Sung and his "family" steal the money. Police and attorney general and prosecutors will NOT accept any complaints bc it is a civil case .... So the only way for homeowners to try to get their money back is to SUE in the civil court - and pay out of pocket for that. But the Judges are corrupt. So you get the idea?
In the USA, stealing from homeowners associations is a perfect crime and homeowners are used as cash cows FOREVER.
So that is why this fight to be on the Board is so intense, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of the association.
there is an epidemics of that in the USA - stealing homes and extorting and stealing money by Boards, property management company and their attorneys and corrupt judges and arbitrators... using homeowners as cash cows...
**** Financial and other frauds with common funds of homeowners associations is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies ****
I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
In the spoiler is a quick report on what is going on in the USA and future dramas and movies should use this GOLD MINE FOR NEW SCRIPTS
I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years and I already wrote draft books about this.
The scams with non-judicial and judicial foreclosures on apartments and town homes, anything that has COMMON FUNDS, are super common.
The end of John Oliver's video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrizmAo17Os shows the realistic tricks the people on the Board of homeowners associations use to steal money -
This drama has the Board take money once and leave, but many Boards just stay and keep taking funds over years and decades...
Boards, property management companies and their attorneys use homeowners as cash cows. Bc the Board can sue using common funds and owner has to defend with their own money... and property management companies have a well oiled path to keep homeowners under their thumb - lawyers who work for them and have connections into judicial and government systems.
So... the future dramas and movies should look into those scams and make some cool movies and dramas...
==================
NOW I AM GOING TO PROVIDE SOME EXAMPLES BUT THIS IS NOT TO BE USED FOR LEARNING HOW TO CHEAT, AS I FOUND MOST PPL USE THIS EVIDENCE..
THE EXAMPLES HERE ARE TO SHOW THE PUBLIC THAT THERE IS ESSENTIALLY CRIME GOING ON AND TO STOP IT
as for dramas and movies, these are great ideas for scripts.
Two most common ways:
1. fining owners for ridiculous petty stuff, handing the case over to attorneys, who rack up HUGE attorney bills and then just take the apartment / town home without any judicial intervention to pay those bills.
2. they sue owners for ridiculous stuff and use corrupt judges to rule them huge attorney fees. To collect that, the homeowners association then forecloses on the property - and buys the property for nothing
SINCE THEY GET THE PROPERTY FOR NOTHING, THERE IS ALWAYS MONEY STILL LEFT TO PAY, SO they SEIZE ALL OTHER ASSETS OF THAT OWNER
So from a totally bogus fake false lawsuit, you can generate profit of seizing several condos worth $1.2 mlllion. I have all evidence for a case like that.
One case in Colorado against a disabled single woman homeowner - the attorney just issued her an order that her private land belongs to a HOA and then they took the house for attorney fees.
One case in Hawaii - Varta vs PMK - $150 house rules fine for having a dog turned into $50K attorney fees and condo taken
The 2016 Brown at al vs PMK and another law firm for non-judicially foreclosing on I think 70 condos in 7 building, 70 ppl lost their homes... THIS WAS TOTALLY KEPT OUT OF NEWS IN HAWAII...
The fun part is that many such attorneys and judges own private companies related to real estate and its stocks... very often those companies are under their family
The fun part is that insurance cooperates with such judges and attorneys to condemn the homeowner, so that insurance does not have to pay
**** This is an epidemics in the USA, esp against elderly, disabled, single women, and minorities. *****
Some States like Florida have wealthy elderly so it is harder but it still happens, search for Hammock HOA case, or in California bc it rather wealthy it is harder,
But most States are in bad shape, attorney general and everyone else just stays out of this, nothing is enforced, and especially the states with lots of minorities and/or absentee owners.... and state officials and judges APPOINTED by the governor, like in Hawaii,
To understand what they are doing: usually a new judge was an attorney. They start in First Circuit Court, then proceed to appellate court. Appellate Court is THE bottleneck because the lower courts CAN DO WHATEVER THEY WANT if they have a buddy at the appellate level who will deny all appeals against the lower courts :)
Appellate judges then get promoted to the Supreme Court, and there is nobody above it...
AND, State judges get promoted to the Federal District Court of that state.
So what I am saying, it is all the same people shuffling around and getting higher and higher up. So if you have some "smart" governors who appoint "their" judges - eventually ... the entire legal system is "theirs"
The USA already legalizes abusing ppl by big companies legally forcing their customers to resolve disputes in arbitrations - but the law says that arbitrators are allowed to make mistakes lmao and those mistakes somehow are always in favor of the big companies...
Esp in Hawaii, where Hawaii Rail - kinda imitation of San Francisco Bay area BART rapid rail transit system - was authorized without approval of the locals, and yeah the lawsuits against it were shut up - and costs so far huge amounts of money and is super late - it was $12.5 billion dollars and 11 yrs late in 2021.... , to the point that Feds started investigating - but miraculously - omg... what a coincidence lmao during COVID, those feds left and the issue was dropped... Just search Hawaii rail stats money and you will find lots of articles ...
Hawaii is similar to Japan, it is an island where "everyone knows everyone"
Also, the court system is dominated by Japanese, as they immigrated to Oahu in huge numbers in 1970s and bought the downtown Honoluly land and put skyscrapers and apartment buildings, making Oahu super urban congested
Now there are brand new "towns" of Hawaii Kai, Kapolei, etc. all town homes and apartment buildings :) Hawaii has 1200 apartment buildings. Practically each one pays about $2000 per month for maintenance to some property management company.
So a big company like Associa Hawaii or Hawaiiana has ... 300-400 HOAs to manage... that is ... half a million dollars per month budget... and if you search online you will see that many Hawaii legislators are employees of Associa or PMK.... and you can see how much money they got.
Hawaii legislature ROUTINELY ruled to adopt rules that suit the developers and property management companies and are against homeowners.
The interesting thing is that Maui fire happened shortly after one such legislator Rosalyn Baker retired and moved to Maui...
SO IN SHORT:
having all that "common funds" for a building is an open invitation to abuse -
**** Hawaii especially island of Oahu and the South East of the USA are notorious for corruption and stealing property.
Also, there is even worse systemic stuff.... Hawaii island of Maui fire case of 2023 should be made into a movie because they essentially killed several thousand people to steal the land, allow millions of gallons of scarce water for agriculture (the fire started just as the locals were going to extend the court ruling that the big agg has to take less water), and allowed building apartment buildings and townhomes lmao Police directed hundreds/thousands of people to drive into the fire. The home-made videos of direct witnesses were all hushed. And it was all hushed and the official lie is that the electrical stuff gave but that is not true.
For some weird reason, everything blue in the fire stayed intact, so cars and houses and trees burned, but not the blue plastic bins for recycling.
This is a movie on its own. Or a drama, of how Native people are chased off their land.
Another trick is just using the land for a long time without permission and then filing a lawsuit that it is theirs just bc they used the land. Natives fight by filing Quiet Title lawsuits but - suing requires time effort money stress so many ppl just back off. Corrupt judges and attorneys are the key here.
In Hawaii the law is that all HOA money has to be kept in a local Hawaii bank, but property management companies send money to the continental USA and then back... yeah the word "laundering" comes to mind, doesnt it?
Esp since Hawaii is a huge harbor, large international airport with a huge tourist transient traffic, and a very corrupt state so it is super likely that all kinds of drugs come through Hawaii...
Hawaii has epidemics of crystal meth, many ppl make it in their kitchens, marijuana is grown and used extensively, etc.
and then they used Mutual of Omaha bank from Nebraska , then it was renamed CIT, now bought by First Citizen Bank which opened an office in Hawaii without a teller, and those banks always kept very cryptic bank statements, and property managers do not disclose their own books to owners - although the law requires them to, there are "condo law" statues HRS 514B - so ... the money operations are usually hidden from owners.
In Hawaii, the law regarding condos and town homes is not enforced, and you will see that if you google cases. Names of law firms such as Porter McGuire Kiakona not Porter Kiakona Kopper, and property management companies like Associa Hawaii, branch of Associa based in Texas and founded by and now presided by a former congressman John Carona who was accused of changing laws to fit his business - check out his Wikipedia page and reviews for Associa - not those on Associa page lmao but independent...
The public is dumb and greedy... In Hawaii, there are so many remote owners who run illegal vacation rentals and do NOT care at all about maintenance of the buildings etc they just collect the huge amounts of money for rent and let the property manager and Board do whatever they want...
So just like in this drama, there are HUGE fights and LOTS OF CHEATING to have "their" people elected on the Board, bc the Board has 100% authority to disperse common funds of an association. This drama is making plot based on that.
One of the most fun parts is that there are "public figures and groups" out there to supposedly help homeowners but .... they seem to be just a very suave way to keep the homeowners scared and silenced, and also to monitor what ppl are doing, as many members of such groups are actually attorneys and other employees/invested in the financial scams that the group is supposedly trying to expose, stop and prevent.... .
**** So this is a GOLD MINE OF TOPICS for dramas and movies **** and I will be glad to help. I have tons of evidence that I collected over the years
The problem with this drama is that it is equally stupid from ep 1 to ep 128. There should have been improvement
A good recipe for drama is: 1/4 for the original stupid/bad setup, 1/4 to overcome and get together initially, 1/4 to overcome additional problems that arise from solving the original problem and getting together, and 1/4 of executing success.
for example: 1/4 for HY wrecking chaos to naive Dumb Mi and her family, 1/4 for DumbMi to get smarter and get together with BH etc and start fighting, 1/4 of fights HY gang versus Ma/Mi/BH gang for real, and 1/4 of Ma/Mi/BH gang taking HY down.
***** IT IS EPISODE 128? and Chairman has no bodyguard or cameras .... etc etc etc that kind of stuff is just not OK for the last 2 weeks of the drama. DO YOU GET IT NOW? *****
Not to mention deeper stuff - have you EVER heard DumbMi self reflect? or BH and JM talk about anything but how they gonna catch HY? etc etc etc This drama is FLAT LIKE A PANCAKE. it is so shallow!!!!
FYI no drama can be made if there are no problems, every single story must start with a problem to solve, and then show failed attempts at solving it, otherwise there is no story, there is no VICTORY. And the only way to truly solve any problem is INNER CHANGE and also cooperation with other people.
THE POINT OF HAVING THE STORY IS TO OVERCOME THE PROBLEM
if the ppl dont struggle to change to overcome the problem, if ppl stay the same, if ppl dont clear things between them, if ppl dont reach a higher level, that is absolutely NOT worthy of a story, it is just yet another casualty to be tossed out as a failed experiment.
Practically all American movies portray such casualties (OR magical overnight "success" by magical intervention of something mysterious or someone rich lmao like they win a lottery lmao NO EFFORT).
For such "stories" without any struggle or with meaningless/useless struggles that lead nowhere, i.e. spinning the wheels in the same place - Sure it is good to know what did NOT work and sure it is good to know that there are ppl out there who do NOTHING to help themselves or feel powerless to help themselves, we can and should learn on mistakes of others, HOWEVER
**** it is a waste of time to spend a whole movie of drama on just failed experiments and hopeless cases. In this case, 70 hours of bologney. Life is too short, who has the time for that????
if it is going to be a good drama or movie, there has to be some failed experiments, learning from them, character growth and progress, until finally the problem is resolved/transformed
and IT HASNT HAPPENED HERE
the writer is completely incompetent to create a story
and from bad story comes bad acting. Very skilled actors like Professor and his Wife can make their role a little more rich and convincing and fun, but ultimately they are limited by the script and so that is the bottom line. Even good actors cannot revive a dead script. And when you add to that a bad actor like JH actor, then you really get something DEAD.
This drama is STALE, that is its main problem. It starts as Stupidville and stays Stupidville to the very end, CHARACTERS STAY THE SAME plot stays the same stuff just in different forms.
In other words, CHLOE HAS TURNED EXACTLY INTO THAT WHICH SHE IS FIGHTING, so she is yet another monster
and so her role is super boring.
And flakey G - is still not thinking about staying in Korea.. ? WHY was he so scared? He lost his mom, he lost his dad, ... so is he scared he is gonna lose EA too? Makes sense
Mr and Ms Satan are not killers though, they barely have the guts to go looking into a safe, but ... how did G's dad die?
The nice sophisticated thing about this drama is that it doesnt have serial killers in main roles lmao and doesnt have murders, which is refreshing, finally something "ordinary" and WATCHABLE. There is just financial and other scamming and frauds, which is bound to happen around a big company / rich ppl
I LOVE that this drama does not depend on some super complicated, ridiculous and/or bloody plots, but on RICH DETAILS from daily life. It is light in some ways, serious in other ways, and very warm and DEEP. We get to watch people growing and changing. It is truly masterful script and acting. Such a pleasure to watch this.
I dont think EA will follow G to NYC. She belongs in Korea. So ... the flakey G is gonna leave on his own and then have regrets later and come crawling back.
SR follows G to NYC, he helps her settle but does not date her of course, and then... he goes back to Korea to EA and SR stays alone in NYC lmao which gives her a chance to get an MBA and kinda grow up and even try dates
SR needs to live without MH for a while so that she can learn to appreciate him
Meanwhile MH finds another date - someone new and peppy - and gets rather happy - and has a growing period where he becomes an adult finally. He needs to live away from SR for a while and hang out with a "normal" woman who will not tolerate his tantrums and who will love him freely, so that he can stop being spoiled cruel brat on one hand, and a total doormat on the other hand.
and SR realizes she cannot find anyone, so she rushes to kiss as@ of MH to take her back - and after MANY episodes of her really realy really trying.. MH might consent
I dont think it is boring that SR chases MH :) I think it should be HILARIOUS - he should try everything she did to him, just to teach her some lessons. She really took him for granted for too long
Meanwhile Bunny and Lion have zillion kids and live happily ever after
It was grueling to watch this drama bc it is just a blood bath and torture. And I already knew what all that stuff happens and I did not really want to SEE HOW EXACTLY IT HAPPENS,
however, the time is not entirely wasted, at least the movie deepened my knowledge, like the grandma who sets ppl up to be kidnapped, using kids for eyes, using kids to deliver drugs, make drugs, cash credit cards, etc So now I am armed with more knowledge to WARN PPL to stay away from what is shown in this movie. And a lot more protective of children. It is terrifying what happens if a child goes missing. Also, if their parent is incapable and/or missing.
Via this drama we people from the brighter side of the life got to see what happens in bad neighborhoods, in poverty, and in night life, and the message is clear - STAY AWAY FROM THAT.
But the message is even deeper - this is a SOCIAL COMMENTARY OF WHAT WE CREATED AS A SOCIETY.
The value of this movie is a social commentary of what happens with the poor, and what it means to use drugs and to go to clubs.... .
THE MOVIE SHOULD SCARE EVERY CHILD TEENAGER ADULT AND PARENT TO STAY AWAY FROM DRUGS AND CLUBS AND POVERTY AND BAD NEIGHBORHOODS
bc if you dont , then you get sucked into this kind of world, which exists bc of the rotten and selfish nature of our societies.