I honestly thought that in Ep31 when DoHee came to JiNi's office to bully her, that JiHu or his dad may walk in…
DooDoo knew that nobody was around :) and she prevented JN from taping the conversation :) DooDoo is a PROFESSIONAL psychopath that is why she is so dangerous - she is very cunning
It's episode 30 and Ji Hu still not breaking up with that brat, so annoying
100% agree. I like Ji Hu role and I like the actor, so I wish to see him on the screen more, he is very charming (and I hope he gets more meat on him, he is too skinny and pale). So I want to see him dumping DooDoo, clearing his family, and then starting with JiNi. JiNi role is really nice but JiNi actress is the weakest actress in the entire drama... :( So I wish she takes some lessons asap so that we can see her on the screen some more with ML
If you skip the synopsis and just look at the plot, it's clear there's only one main character in this series—a…
I saw this argument somewhere and I already replied. So I am done with it. What you are saying is THEORY. The drama unfortunately did NOT work that way
That actress is TERRIBLE, she cannot act, and the script for that role is terrible.
I am catching up, in middle of ep 32. . Omg Se Ri is hopeless.. she just gotten a little softer and more fun, and now is trying to prevent Sa Bin from going with 1stWife... WOW THAT IS ROTTEN!!!!
1stWife is playing games with Sa Bin..... First of all, why did she go on dates with Sa Bin if she didnt want to go on dates???? Yeah I agree with her now, she will have to ask Sa Bin to cut out SeRi.
Se Ri actress is just phenomenal in his role. Such a TRUE NARCISSIST. Seemingly so fun but soooo selfish...
DooDoo is into action, as we expected. And that stupid ML is still with her. ML is nice guy, and I love the actor, he is very charming, but the ML role is getting to be too stupid. That dude is still hanging with that anaconda around his neck... If he doesnt ditch her soon - voluntarily and out of conviction, on his won will - then I am gonna think of him very badly
Ok sure. I am aware of those kdrama U-turns so I always try to watch a few eps. These days I am learning to drop fast after that :) Rare are dramas where I just know from ep 1 it wont work lmao
100% agree. Way too many romcoms are trash. Rarely any good one. Agreed on those good romance ones you listed…
I watched Discovery of Love a long time ago and then rewatched it. That one is super powerful and changed my life. That drama is difficult but not draggy. There is a difference. it is difficult bc it goes DEEP into psyche and rooting out some very deep egoistical habits, e.g. addiction to complacency
Discovery of Love has a super profound message. It shows utmost evil and egotism and personal inner death disguised as pleasant convenience. The acting is FANTASTIC the dialogues, the scenes... wow!!!! that most slimey scene when she hides in the closet to seduce him and he takes it and forgives her cheating... wow!!!! Also it shows the process of MAKING A DECISION and then sticking to it. It shows some clarity
I didnt like the ending, I think she has not put in enough effort and has not grown enough, he had to notice she wore his bag and necklace..
Marriage Not Dating on the other hand is more showy and "action packed" but a lot more shallow and eventually it is about more shallow parts of the psyche - trauma requiring someone to not be alone or to be alone, confusion, very bad communication, not being aware of what you feel, being sidetracked into dating, flirting, s.x, dating experiments, etc ... It is a very young ppl drama :) ... It addresses some childhood trauma but does not go as deep as Discovery of Love, which nails some very basic fundamental principles of egotism , e.g addiction to self-comfort and easy way out, without thinking of consequences
Marriage Not Dating makes plot out of FL not being able to say I NEED TO GO TO RESTROOM NOW and then pooping around and causing other consequences. FL is so immature..... That makes it "difficult to watch" bc it is simply stupid. Sure you can say it is a satire that tries to show externally what the characters go through internally. Sure! I take that. But imo Discovery of Love conveys a lot more by implying it, by carefully selected scenes, like FL hiding in the closet to seduce SML and he accepts it. THAT SCENE IS 100% CREEPY. It is watching deep layers of egotism unmasked. Mariage Not Dating has so much plot bc of obvious manipulations of ML's mother and ex and FL and ML falling for it. That makes it difficult to watch bc again it is shallow simple cartoon-like, villains are 1-sided bad and ML and FL are 1-sided good. The main characters wrestle a lot more with external evil instead of their own egotism.
Discovery of Love has no fluff "stupidity" plot or 1-dimensional characters in a cartoon battle. The characters wrestle with themselves and with each other and each one of them is complex "good and bad". And they TALK and interact deeply with each other. That makes it "difficult to watch" bc it is DEEP all the way from start to end FL is weak but she is a super crafty parasite. So she is hard to detect and uproot.
Discovery of Love is about "ordinary functional successful people without any problems". Marriage Not Dating is a flashy drama about flamboyant and "off the charts" characters.. FL is almost alcoholic and is very promiscuous and rash, FL has 3 guys to pick from and cheats with 2, ML has 2 girls to pick from, ML's mom and ex are extreme sociopaths, etc.
Marriage Not Dating can be titled "s.x and the city" and Discovery of Love is "how to keep love alive for decades"
Discovery of Love shows deeper layers of egotism... The more quiet, polite and calm egotism is, the deeper and stronger it is... and that kind is shown in that drama Marriage Not Dating is more raw, more "childishly naive" more "young and lacking wisdom" drama, it is drama for ppl under 20 or 25 or maybe 30 if they are really late bloomers lmao ppl who are just starting their love life and have NO experience. The drama is about STARTING the journey. Discovery of Love is for ppl who have some love experience, walked that road a while and now finally encountered the real road blocks. The real road block is not your mother or your ex, it is YOURSELF.
Marriage Not Dating starts as a heavy duty rom com - there is so much com, it is hilarious!!!! and then goes into ... soap :) It has so much action and locomotion but we do not get to see how the characters work inside themselves, how they wrestle and how they grow. So that is why it is a difficult watch for me - bc it is SHALLOW. Her mom, his mom, his ex, her current, ... his confusion, her confusion, ..... it is a hot mess of characters and events.... but it is shallow. We do not see some deep conversations or self reflections. Well that drama starts from "i will give you money to lie that we are dating" and then progresses into "ok lets date"
Discovery of love has very little comedy... It is a drama about mature love and about turning every unturned stone to find love under it... It is a deep digging psychological drama about being true and honest with ONESELF It starts with "I ran away from responsibility, so I force myself to pretend I am ok and I use a boy toy as a consolation prize" and "I was dumped without any explanation, I missed you for 10?yrs, now I know what to change to win your heart and I am doing it" and "She seems so nice but why do I feel so shitty and fake with her"
Eric Moon as the ML and the actor who is SML are absolutely perfect. FL actress is the same in every drama I saw her and she is always a flakey female. She was perfect for this role
Haha I like Se Ri's and Yeong Ju's new found "friendship" but I think it will be short lived? I have a…
Well there is deep seated resentments that led to revenges like not donating to O'Reum
but there is no Crazyville plot here, the toxic soaps typical for dailies .... ridiculous plots that make most dailies so trashy and soapy over the top... meaningless scripts and awful acting...
So yeah, I am glad this is more like a weekend drama in shorter episodes. This drama is very high quality, imo. The plot makes sense, is tight, is moving, and the acting is superb.
A lot of people here hate SR, but I'm with you on this. I really don't see what gives the daughter the right to…
Wow wow arent you very ... blind here? Let's backtrack - SR forbade JN to donate bone marrow and policed her to make sure SR committed suicide to spite her daughter bc she donated bone marroe SR mortgaged the house to invest, without telling JN all the crap SR did at the funeral etc etc etc all SR's lies, manipulations, gaslighting, hate, ...
I am surprised that JN still keeps in contact with SR - imo it is to the point that JN should just leave SR and never keep contact except to send a "Happy New Year" card -
SR IS NOT JN'S MOM - SR IS A HEAVY STONE AROUND JN'S NECK
i skipped last 5 episodes bc i was so sick of the daughter attitude towards her mom. the way she is being nice…
wow arent you very ... blind here? Let's backtrack - SR forbade JN to donate bone marrow and policed her to make sure SR committed suicide to spite her daughter bc she donated bone marroe SR mortgaged the house to invest, without telling JN all the crap SR did at the funeral etc etc etc all SR's lies, manipulations, gaslighting, hate, ...
I am surprised that JN still keeps in contact with SR - imo it is to the point that JN should just leave SR and never keep contact except to send a "Happy New Year" card -
SR is not JN's mom. SR is a heavy stone around JN's neck
SR is a narcissist, she has a personality disorder, imo. Ppl are fooled by her nice look and her nice words and her crocodile tears :)
Also - the audience members can be a narcissist/toxic person or have a narcissist / toxic family, parent or close family member whom they have not processed yet, so they will be blind to these violations and justify them us "family ties" . THat's precisely how toxic families work :)
"Be blindly loyal to me bc of our family ties" is one of the main arguments with which SR and 1stWife gaslight their families into being their doormats - e.g YOU ARE MY FAMILY THEREFORE YOU SHALL LEAVE O'REUM TO DIE TO HELP ME KEEP MY GRUDGE
wah... don't understand whats wrong with SeRi.. SaBin clearly says he love YeongJu, but SeRi then try to gaslight…
SR is a narcissist, she has a personality disorder. SB was her lackey and her toy, so she is not giving him up to anyone, and esp not to 1stWife her sworn enemy
With only 20 episodes left, I am still not sure how they are going to wrap up the drama in 20 episodes. The drama…
Let;s brainstorm... there is a lot of growing up to do.. EA has to understand what she did wrong, her dad too, G has to calm down and give up his childish approach, ... is there hope for DaiChi/Crystal, EA's dad, SR and her father? I dont think so. Grandpa, EA's mom, MH and SR's mom have to figure what happened and take action from there... Eldest son and his ex need to part for good :) and let CR enter.. Her grandma should be dating - even marrying - the exSecretary Youngest couple needs to grow up esp her beyond elementary school Plus some extra scenes of the next 2-4 weddings and at least 1 hr time skip to new house(s) and newborn kids. So yeah all that in 20 eps.
As others said, the drama is Our Woeful Days for the last week or so.. .. as everyone is stuck in their own little wants... so.. so move it move it!!!! The clog is real, EA followed the slimy example of her father and lied straight to G's face in very contrived elaborate ways, several times. Also she played God and made decisions on behalf of G how "G could not take it" to justify lying to him. Kaepul! Sekiya .... l
EA protected her father instead of helping G. She should have at least told him that they will tell him.
So G is justified in being furious and feeling betrayed. But he is stuck instead of working it. He still did not confront EA's father enough yet, and EA's father did not come forward enough yet. EA's father is a slimey slime...... a rat. And G is .... not very mature... and EA is .. not very mature....
and EA is totally the daddy kind, still not able to see what she did wrong. All her whining and worrying about G not eating - yuck, she is treating G like he is 2 yrs old and she is his mother. This is not a romance, this is codependency. G is guilty too, he was a needy child rather than a man to EA
I really hope MH catches on and SR loses her privileged status. She has been using and abusing MH. Once and for all, I want SR to be stopped and to grow up. Well if she can. She is sooooo weak and fragile... just like her father...
DaeChi is a disgusting slime, officially a criminal (slush fund, hit-and-run, etc) yet so super cute in that pinstripe suit and with his family etc. He is such a great example of how someone who is inherently not an evil person but IS a spoiled brat can be so dangerously poisonous. That actor is fantastically great in that role. Crystal actress is a perfect match. Omg her roses.. and the gossip as to why things happened.... Those two really make the drama so much richer.
The youngest couple disappeared.... The lady is not really good at acting so I am not missing her... but the guy is a riot
gyeol is so furious but he is so unfair to eunae ..... how long the writer will keep this abnormality .......
but she openly lied to his face, several times, in rather contrived and elaborate ways too!!! lying is a big no-no in a relationship!!!! Of course he lost his trust. I totally understand him. If her father was not letting her speak, she SHOULD HAVE SAID SO - at least. SO SHE WAS PROTECTING HER FATHER INSTEAD OF HELPING G. And I dont understand her. She still does not think it was a big deal. She is too much of her father's slimy kind...
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DooDoo is a PROFESSIONAL psychopath
that is why she is so dangerous - she is very cunning
I like Ji Hu role and I like the actor, so I wish to see him on the screen more, he is very charming (and I hope he gets more meat on him, he is too skinny and pale). So I want to see him dumping DooDoo, clearing his family, and then starting with JiNi.
JiNi role is really nice but JiNi actress is the weakest actress in the entire drama... :( So I wish she takes some lessons asap so that we can see her on the screen some more with ML
What you are saying is THEORY. The drama unfortunately did NOT work that way
That actress is TERRIBLE, she cannot act, and the script for that role is terrible.
I am done discussing this. FAREWELL
1stWife is playing games with Sa Bin..... First of all, why did she go on dates with Sa Bin if she didnt want to go on dates???? Yeah I agree with her now, she will have to ask Sa Bin to cut out SeRi.
Se Ri actress is just phenomenal in his role. Such a TRUE NARCISSIST. Seemingly so fun but soooo selfish...
DooDoo is into action, as we expected. And that stupid ML is still with her. ML is nice guy, and I love the actor, he is very charming, but the ML role is getting to be too stupid. That dude is still hanging with that anaconda around his neck... If he doesnt ditch her soon - voluntarily and out of conviction, on his won will - then I am gonna think of him very badly
Rare are dramas where I just know from ep 1 it wont work lmao
Discovery of Love has a super profound message. It shows utmost evil and egotism and personal inner death disguised as pleasant convenience. The acting is FANTASTIC the dialogues, the scenes... wow!!!! that most slimey scene when she hides in the closet to seduce him and he takes it and forgives her cheating... wow!!!! Also it shows the process of MAKING A DECISION and then sticking to it. It shows some clarity
I didnt like the ending, I think she has not put in enough effort and has not grown enough, he had to notice she wore his bag and necklace..
Marriage Not Dating on the other hand is more showy and "action packed" but a lot more shallow and eventually it is about more shallow parts of the psyche - trauma requiring someone to not be alone or to be alone, confusion, very bad communication, not being aware of what you feel, being sidetracked into dating, flirting, s.x, dating experiments, etc ... It is a very young ppl drama :) ... It addresses some childhood trauma but does not go as deep as Discovery of Love, which nails some very basic fundamental principles of egotism , e.g addiction to self-comfort and easy way out, without thinking of consequences
Marriage Not Dating makes plot out of FL not being able to say I NEED TO GO TO RESTROOM NOW and then pooping around and causing other consequences. FL is so immature..... That makes it "difficult to watch" bc it is simply stupid. Sure you can say it is a satire that tries to show externally what the characters go through internally. Sure! I take that. But imo Discovery of Love conveys a lot more by implying it, by carefully selected scenes, like FL hiding in the closet to seduce SML and he accepts it. THAT SCENE IS 100% CREEPY. It is watching deep layers of egotism unmasked.
Mariage Not Dating has so much plot bc of obvious manipulations of ML's mother and ex and FL and ML falling for it. That makes it difficult to watch bc again it is shallow simple cartoon-like, villains are 1-sided bad and ML and FL are 1-sided good. The main characters wrestle a lot more with external evil instead of their own egotism.
Discovery of Love has no fluff "stupidity" plot or 1-dimensional characters in a cartoon battle. The characters wrestle with themselves and with each other and each one of them is complex "good and bad". And they TALK and interact deeply with each other. That makes it "difficult to watch" bc it is DEEP all the way from start to end
FL is weak but she is a super crafty parasite. So she is hard to detect and uproot.
Discovery of Love is about "ordinary functional successful people without any problems".
Marriage Not Dating is a flashy drama about flamboyant and "off the charts" characters.. FL is almost alcoholic and is very promiscuous and rash, FL has 3 guys to pick from and cheats with 2, ML has 2 girls to pick from, ML's mom and ex are extreme sociopaths, etc.
Marriage Not Dating can be titled "s.x and the city" and Discovery of Love is "how to keep love alive for decades"
Discovery of Love shows deeper layers of egotism... The more quiet, polite and calm egotism is, the deeper and stronger it is... and that kind is shown in that drama
Marriage Not Dating is more raw, more "childishly naive" more "young and lacking wisdom" drama, it is drama for ppl under 20 or 25 or maybe 30 if they are really late bloomers lmao ppl who are just starting their love life and have NO experience. The drama is about STARTING the journey.
Discovery of Love is for ppl who have some love experience, walked that road a while and now finally encountered the real road blocks. The real road block is not your mother or your ex, it is YOURSELF.
Marriage Not Dating starts as a heavy duty rom com - there is so much com, it is hilarious!!!! and then goes into ... soap :) It has so much action and locomotion but we do not get to see how the characters work inside themselves, how they wrestle and how they grow. So that is why it is a difficult watch for me - bc it is SHALLOW. Her mom, his mom, his ex, her current, ... his confusion, her confusion, ..... it is a hot mess of characters and events.... but it is shallow. We do not see some deep conversations or self reflections. Well that drama starts from "i will give you money to lie that we are dating" and then progresses into "ok lets date"
Discovery of love has very little comedy... It is a drama about mature love and about turning every unturned stone to find love under it... It is a deep digging psychological drama about being true and honest with ONESELF
It starts with "I ran away from responsibility, so I force myself to pretend I am ok and I use a boy toy as a consolation prize" and "I was dumped without any explanation, I missed you for 10?yrs, now I know what to change to win your heart and I am doing it" and "She seems so nice but why do I feel so shitty and fake with her"
Eric Moon as the ML and the actor who is SML are absolutely perfect. FL actress is the same in every drama I saw her and she is always a flakey female. She was perfect for this role
but there is no Crazyville plot here, the toxic soaps typical for dailies .... ridiculous plots that make most dailies so trashy and soapy over the top... meaningless scripts and awful acting...
So yeah, I am glad this is more like a weekend drama in shorter episodes. This drama is very high quality, imo. The plot makes sense, is tight, is moving, and the acting is superb.
So ... I say we need more dailies like this!!!!!
SR forbade JN to donate bone marrow and policed her to make sure
SR committed suicide to spite her daughter bc she donated bone marroe
SR mortgaged the house to invest, without telling JN
all the crap SR did at the funeral
etc etc etc
all SR's lies, manipulations, gaslighting, hate, ...
I am surprised that JN still keeps in contact with SR - imo it is to the point that JN should just leave SR and never keep contact except to send a "Happy New Year" card -
SR IS NOT JN'S MOM - SR IS A HEAVY STONE AROUND JN'S NECK
SR forbade JN to donate bone marrow and policed her to make sure
SR committed suicide to spite her daughter bc she donated bone marroe
SR mortgaged the house to invest, without telling JN
all the crap SR did at the funeral
etc etc etc
all SR's lies, manipulations, gaslighting, hate, ...
I am surprised that JN still keeps in contact with SR - imo it is to the point that JN should just leave SR and never keep contact except to send a "Happy New Year" card -
SR is not JN's mom. SR is a heavy stone around JN's neck
Also - the audience members can be a narcissist/toxic person or have a narcissist / toxic family, parent or close family member whom they have not processed yet, so they will be blind to these violations and justify them us "family ties" . THat's precisely how toxic families work :)
"Be blindly loyal to me bc of our family ties" is one of the main arguments with which SR and 1stWife gaslight their families into being their doormats - e.g YOU ARE MY FAMILY THEREFORE YOU SHALL LEAVE O'REUM TO DIE TO HELP ME KEEP MY GRUDGE
SB was her lackey and her toy, so she is not giving him up to anyone, and esp not to 1stWife her sworn enemy
Eldest son and his ex need to part for good :) and let CR enter.. Her grandma should be dating - even marrying - the exSecretary
Youngest couple needs to grow up esp her beyond elementary school
Plus some extra scenes of the next 2-4 weddings and at least 1 hr time skip to new house(s) and newborn kids.
So yeah all that in 20 eps.
EA protected her father instead of helping G. She should have at least told him that they will tell him.
So G is justified in being furious and feeling betrayed. But he is stuck instead of working it. He still did not confront EA's father enough yet, and EA's father did not come forward enough yet. EA's father is a slimey slime...... a rat. And G is .... not very mature... and EA is .. not very mature....
and EA is totally the daddy kind, still not able to see what she did wrong. All her whining and worrying about G not eating - yuck, she is treating G like he is 2 yrs old and she is his mother. This is not a romance, this is codependency. G is guilty too, he was a needy child rather than a man to EA
I really hope MH catches on and SR loses her privileged status. She has been using and abusing MH. Once and for all, I want SR to be stopped and to grow up. Well if she can. She is sooooo weak and fragile... just like her father...
DaeChi is a disgusting slime, officially a criminal (slush fund, hit-and-run, etc) yet so super cute in that pinstripe suit and with his family etc. He is such a great example of how someone who is inherently not an evil person but IS a spoiled brat can be so dangerously poisonous. That actor is fantastically great in that role. Crystal actress is a perfect match. Omg her roses.. and the gossip as to why things happened.... Those two really make the drama so much richer.
The youngest couple disappeared.... The lady is not really good at acting so I am not missing her... but the guy is a riot
DaeChi looks super cute in that pinstripe, doesnt he? Crystal is a riot
SO SHE WAS PROTECTING HER FATHER INSTEAD OF HELPING G.
And I dont understand her. She still does not think it was a big deal. She is too much of her father's slimy kind...