Kn0cturnal

I don't think you understand how real world works. Yes his sister is not a nice person and she could treat employees better but their company is not just their company and they have a board of people who invested into company and they expanded in 3 different big services not just hotel and created many jobs for the people. His sister is not really mistreating employers, some managment does. Sister is kinda indifferent to it as she is probably emotionally represed because she got disapointed by every relationship she had so she goes full on being CEO and pleasing the board because that was the consistant and successful thing in her life so she feels fulfilled by it.

Sentimental values and doing nice gestures is nice but in such big company and 3 branches ceo simply can not realistically connect to people. ML succeeded because it was written so in script but realistically employes wouldn't care to be paraded on some anniversary where suits rub their backs on how good they are and employes are there just to make them look good. ML did this as a nice gesture which is fine even tho it probably wouldn't be perceived that way but lets ignore that.

Speaking about ignoring, he completely ignored and did not please key investors and big names who grant them permitions and deals that make their airline margin prices managable. So what does that mean ? Ton of down sizing and reduced bonuses for employees. Now that employe that got their 5 min on stage will be really happy that he has potential to be fired or be afraid in future to work in financially unstable company that can go under at any time because of poor managment.

I am not saying that sister does not have lack of empathy but when she works with such big scale and based on her past you can understand her character and while she may not be nice, pleasing person atleast she creates jobs for people because she knows how to do deals with people in power and be a bridge. ML has no such experience and is unfit for CEO position and while his attempts for nice gestures is fine you can clearly see he is very biased and wastes resources and do nice gestures on rates that are not substainable long term for company budget. He also lacks any connections with key players and politicians and doesn't know how to deal with them and even actively provoke and displease them which is awful. He also doesn't have any communication or relationship with board members. He also has no experience or know-how in many other things CEO does which is mostly boring bureaucratic paperwork which he for sure would be miserable to do based on his past scenes. Just because he is unfit for ceo he can still be board member and owner and let his sister or outside hire be CEO.

I asume what this show will do is make both ML and sister work together in the end and will explain more for people who already don't get it why his sister is the way she is. That also can indicate how if ML was CEO would effect on his relationship. If he dedicated so much time for the company for everything to run smooth in all 3 branches, his relationship with FL would suffer and be basically non exsistant and he won't have any time. He will be prisoner to the work and be tied to the office and considering sister seeks fulfilment in that and it makes her happy it's perfect position for her. ML would be realistically miserable in that position, would have ruined his relationship and ruin company and lose ton of jobs.

So would you rather have a boss who does some nice things or would you prefer better paying and secure job so you can get loan and not be afraid if you have kids to lose a job ?

It's ok show that has many flaws but is still watchable. I think that being overly praised and rated highly gives very high expectations and this show doesn't even come close to meeting them.

If it was presented as average kdrama with good lead chemistry that makes it worth a watch with few skips or faster speed almost no one would have issues with it. Tho chemistry is good initially, relationship doesn't develop in any way and them randomly saying they love each other makes no sense so they just distract you and insert more random kisses.

And I agree about the ads. This show has so many ads and they are so in your face and annoying. They really take you out of the moment and they even made whole episode ad for tourism or whole long sections scenes exsist just for the ad and serve no purpose to the story. Not even clever tie to the script. It kinda feels like they first got ton of sponsors and made script around it because that would make sense why there is no story.

Also ML is awful for the company and abuses the company resources and position and does no work. He is only there because of nepotism and his sister is shown as a villain but she seems perfect for CEO. She is very bussiness focused, pragmatics and has good sense to make it all flow. She even spinned his ridiculous usage of helicopter into good PR. ML is idealistic clown and would cause so many jobs being lost and ruin company and bankrupt it if he was ceo or cfo. He has no experience to even be considered taking over and whole premise of him even being potential ceo is absurd. High managing some off hand branch is probably best case scenario where he won't hurt anyone and cause the least dmg to the company.

Wdym ? It was like you are watching 1 hour AD.

Well, there is report button for such people.

This review is the most confusing and conflicting thing I read recently. First 5 paragraphs made me lose hope then next ones you write some based takes about the show then lose me again with the end with the cringe.

This felt like it started out being written by a kid and then parent took over after 5th paragraph only for the kid to come back after parent was finished.

2nd fl feels kinda sussy to me. She gives off sociopathic / narcissistic vibes. Something is off about her.

It's a bit of a stretch to asume butler would know his descendent after 100 years would be his love. How would he even know it would be a girl that generation.

2nd female lead is the investor and FL didn't buy anything, only browsing and making a list of what to buy for when the renovation is done.

The amount of times they showed same flashbacks to pad time they could fit in material for another whole episode.

You will be more disappointed with each episode if you expect much from this.

It has few good scenes on it's own but as a whole it's a mess and makes no sense.

You can watch it speed up / skip a lot.

When you think they can't possibly fit any more ads in one episode they make whole episode an ad..

You are being parasocial and cringe.

Yeah, it's very 1 or 10 here.

Saying show is 6 or 7 with flaws but still enjoyable is not an option here it seems.

Like I enjoyed many mediocre stuff I know it's objectively not that good and I don't give it a 10 just because I enjoyed it.

I learned that MDL overall score is useless and overrated shows set my expectations higher and I end up being disapointed compared to if I went into this expecting average lighthearted copy pasta.

You gave me PTSD.

This review describes my experience with cdrama perfectly.

I start watching very highly rated and praised show, find out it's mid, falls apart in 2nd half completly, scratching my head if I am the only sane person, I try to objectively point out some flaws respectfully, get attacked with essays from fan girls who completely ignore my points, end up regretting posting and engaging with community.

Btw I didn't watch this thanks to your review.

Well I didn't say she was wise I just asume dynamic is sorta like she is his guardian because of the past so it doesn't feel equal atm. Hopefully in next few episodes it gets addressed and their relationship evolves. Prob also has to do with her fear of losing him again.

Well she is much older when you combine all the lives and she originally spent most time with ml when they were kids and mostly acted as his guardian on request of his mom.

While review bombing can be unfair it's very effective because it can hurt their revenue. This is the only thing that makes them budge and change their ways. If profits didn't suffer they would ignore it.

While this is hurting show revenue it's not really true for the production team, actors ,etc. They already got paid.

Producer and everyone in chain gave OK for product to be shot and edited in a way we got it. It's their responsibility and consequences may come.

Yes I just wanted to say that things you pointed out are not the way they are because of director sex but because that's how they translated script into visual media. What they do is mostly technical and creative visual stuff and directing actors according to script. But it's very flex on the amount of responsibility depending on production if it's indie movie, spot, series, feature film, etc.

As someone who works in the industry mostly as DOP and sometimes director I would like to let you know that unless director is very famous or also wrote the script they don't influence the story or any of these aspects much. Reasons you point out you like in this series is that way because it was written so in the scripts and producer approved it. In this case creator and scriptwritters are all also female.

So the reason why it's not filled with damsels in distress, stupid fl leads, ml depending on fl is not because of director choice. Directors in kdramas don't adapt and write scripts in most cases.

Directors also do director cuts with editor but usually producers make their own cuts after to maximise profits etc. That is why we sometimes have movies with director cut because in cinema we get studio version. In kdramas directors usually have less then usual power and are basically there to just get the job done without much input being allowed. Producers have all the power and make all the key decisions and they decide how much power they delegate to director. In this case producer was a male and he chose female director to do the job and chose to be ok with aspects of original content or scripts be potrayed the way you see it.

Your idea of director is probably romanticised version of famous hollywood director who also helped in writting the script or pitched movie themself and are treating it as passion project.

I don't wanna downplay influence directors have their hands in all aspects of the final result but their influence is limited based on project, enviroment, producer. They make sure vision is realised and they make many decisions in collaboration with many people behind and on screen, it's just that reasons you pointed out are not because of director input.

I say this just so you won't have the wrong idea about the way things are done and not as a attack on what you said 😀

As I always say you can love something but still be critical of it and see for what it is. You seem like either very dismissive person or/and have selective reading based on your reply.