I like the main character's siblings the most so far, although I'm not thrilled about the age difference between Kang-rim and his student (though the characters themselves are both likeable). I hope Bo-ri will get a romantic interest and regular screentime because she's pretty fun.
I absolutely hate the main character's husband and mother-in-law, though. I'm worried the drama will follow the same arc as Once Again and have the leads separate and give the FL a new romantic interest (her new boss, maybe? he seems to like her) only for the divorced couple to reconcile in the final act of the drama. My problem with that possibility is that Lee Sang-yeob's character in Once Again was far less objectionable than waste-of-space mama's boy Kang Nam-goo. (Also, I like what I've seen of Cho-hee's boss, whereas in Once Again the SML annoyed me.)
No. In the novel Qing Kui is the older and gentle sister. Ye Tan is the younger cunning sister. Li Land Di plays…
Great, thank you! So the bad girl/good boy couple will be the main one. Good to know! I don't mind the idea of a cdrama with a less innocent and naive FL.
Just to clarify, Li Landi will play the elder sister and Chen Xingxu will play the demon king she marries by mistake, is that correct? Not sure which of the two couples is considered to be the main one.
OK, I've watched all 15 episodes so far and I hate Yu Dong-man more than ever lmao. When he saw Kang Seonho at the Academy and started bullying him, it made SH believe he didn't deserve to be there and needed to bust a gambling ring in order to atone for his crime (as opposed to, you know, studying and doing normal student stuff). Since YDM had already let him go in the past, he should have just stood by his decision--police investigators have discretion over whether to forward a case to the prosecution or not and he exercised his; that should be the END of it, jeez--and pretended not to know SH/watched him from a distance so that SH could have a fresh start. Instead, he dragged KSH, who's a university student!!!, into his bullshit, gave him self-esteem issues, put him in danger multiple times, put HIMSELF in danger, got KSH disciplined and almost expelled & was, to top it all off, completely useless when KSH decided to withdraw from school.
He's such a poor teacher/mentor, he has no regard for his duties as a teacher (namely to protect his students from harm and, you know, not fuck up their self-esteem by putting the weight of the world on their shoulders) & he keeps getting into dangerous situations.
I really thought they'd do a better job redeeming him after the first several episodes. As it is, you can trace every single bad thing that's happened to KSH directly to some stupid decision YDM made, including the fact KSH thinks he's not good enough to be in school or whatever. And KSH is such a good, upstanding person; he really doesn't deserve all this shit. YDM is such a useless unprofessional manchild, I swear.
Also smart choice for removing the minor romantic plotline from the trailer, I heard the oath of love was postponed…
I doubt they removed anything to distinguish themselves from Oath of Love; based on the plot and the age of the main characters, this was always going to be a more adult and medicine-centric drama than Oath of Love. I do hope we get a compelling mature romance like in Surgeons, though.
I think it would have been funny if we'd gotten a hint of romance between Moon-sik and Hyun-ha in the last episode, as a portent of future chaos in the family amidst all the peace and happiness of the Mi-yeon/Hyo-seop wedding and Eun-tae and Yoo-ha riding off into the sunset.
There was definitely some romantic subtext between them throughout the drama, but the writer should have brought it out at the end at least IMO.
Every time I see the phrase 'forced romance' I read 'I don't like dramas that focus on women and their feelings, so all romantic subplots seem unnecessary to me.' Because it means nothing otherwise. What the hell is an unforced romance anyway?
I loved the concept of Hyeon-woo and Jeong-eun in theory; JE's eccentric yet strong personality was refreshing, and Kim Jae-won infused HW's ambiguous character with a dark charisma and his smile was deadly in the few lighthearted flirty scenes HW and JE had together. I also liked the premise of their relationship because I'm trash for revenge romance.
But I found the execution to be lacking, unfortunately. The drama didn't do enough to establish HW's feelings for JE for me. I know he was supposed to be dead-set on revenge and his feelings for JE were a distraction from his plan, but we didn't see the actual distraction part, just the part where he treated her like shit. There should have been more romantic interactions between them to make their arguments over HW's plans feel like charged confrontations between star-crossed lovers rather than like JE being a nuisance and HW being a psycho (which is how he tried to present their dynamic because he was in denial, granted--but again, I wanted to see more proof of the actual feelings being denied!).
Basically, I felt like their romance was a bit neglected/underwritten. Fewer scenes of Mi-joo being the stereotypical clingy rich fiancée and more scenes of JE and HW being cute and sexy together would have improved the drama massively.
By the way, I liked that the mother in this drama didn't actually want her children to live with her and wasn't the stereotypical controlling shrew. Sure, she was very unreasonable and mean at times, as all parents are in family dramas, but the drama presented her tantrums as childish and comedic instead of as expressions of maternal concern that have to be waved off/forgiven because of emotional blackmail.
Ru-da should have just told her creepy ex he's trash for humiliating a patient with depression and low self-esteem like that and abusing his professional position instead of starting some competition with Ji-hyuk over whether she could ~fix Young-shik. It doesn't matter how pathetic DYS's life is or isn't; what Ji-hyuk did to him (to say nothing about his original intention, which was to hurt and pressure Ru-da by embarrassing Young-shik) was completely shitty in every way and is more than enough reason for LRD to never talk to him again. She doesn't owe this dick an explanation for dumping him or proof that there's a better man than him in her life! He sucks!
Can someone spoil what really happened with the Fl's mother why she was jailed. I don't have the energy to watch…
MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR THE WHOLE DRAMA AHEAD:
The FL's mother was having an affair with the ML's father and had visited his room just before his death. The ML saw them kissing that night, but in the confusion after his father's death and at his mother's urging (his mother knew about her husband's affair and hated the FL's mother) he did not tell the police that they were kissing, just that he had seen the FL's mother in his father's room before his death. His testimony, plus the evidence his mother planted at the crime scene, was enough to get the FL's mother arrested.
At the same time, the ML's mother was also having an affair and had asked her lover to come over and kill her husband because she was mad at him for loving another woman and having a child with his mistress (this child being the FL). Her lover decided he couldn't murder her husband, but her lover's younger brother snuck into the house with the intention of killing HER (the ML's mother) because she had ruined his brother's marriage. However, he ran into the ML's father first, the ML's father realised his wife's lover's brother was there to kill his wife, the two got into a fight, and the ML's father died. The killer ran away. The ML's mother covered up for her lover's brother (while thinking he was her lover and had killed the ML's father at her request) and framed her husband's lover (the FL's mother).
To sum up, the FL is the biological child of the ML's father and the ML is the biological child of his mother's lover, so they're not blood-related. And there's never a moment when they think they are, since the fact the ML is not his father's biological son is an open secret in Kougetsu An, so there's no fake incest or anything, although the fact they turn out to share a father (biological in the FL's case and adoptive in the ML's) is weird.
As a bonus, the killer ends up falling in love with the FL...
This is all extremely convoluted, so sorry if I didn't explain it clearly enough.
honestly, i loved the story and its many twists and turns, but i hated the romance. all of it felt SO forced and…
I loved the romance actually. I thought it was sexy and fun in a slightly unhealthy way that preserved the dark atmosphere of the manga. I was very glad I didn't have to sit through 10 episodes of stupid love triangles, misunderstandings and denial of feelings. Instead, the main conflict driving the relationship development between Nao and Tsubaki was their belated realisation that they really were in love with each other, instead of just engaged for strategic revenge/power trip reasons, and that being together for real seemed next to impossible.
Basically, the drama skipped all the stupid cliches and jumped straight to the good shit (angst).
If by rushed you mean that it's weird they slept together after being engaged to each other and sharing a bed, well, I didn't find it that unrealistic, personally.
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I absolutely hate the main character's husband and mother-in-law, though. I'm worried the drama will follow the same arc as Once Again and have the leads separate and give the FL a new romantic interest (her new boss, maybe? he seems to like her) only for the divorced couple to reconcile in the final act of the drama. My problem with that possibility is that Lee Sang-yeob's character in Once Again was far less objectionable than waste-of-space mama's boy Kang Nam-goo. (Also, I like what I've seen of Cho-hee's boss, whereas in Once Again the SML annoyed me.)
He's such a poor teacher/mentor, he has no regard for his duties as a teacher (namely to protect his students from harm and, you know, not fuck up their self-esteem by putting the weight of the world on their shoulders) & he keeps getting into dangerous situations.
I really thought they'd do a better job redeeming him after the first several episodes. As it is, you can trace every single bad thing that's happened to KSH directly to some stupid decision YDM made, including the fact KSH thinks he's not good enough to be in school or whatever. And KSH is such a good, upstanding person; he really doesn't deserve all this shit. YDM is such a useless unprofessional manchild, I swear.
There was definitely some romantic subtext between them throughout the drama, but the writer should have brought it out at the end at least IMO.
365: Repeat the Year had some action/suspense elements and sustained its momentum throughout the entire drama IMO.
But I found the execution to be lacking, unfortunately. The drama didn't do enough to establish HW's feelings for JE for me. I know he was supposed to be dead-set on revenge and his feelings for JE were a distraction from his plan, but we didn't see the actual distraction part, just the part where he treated her like shit. There should have been more romantic interactions between them to make their arguments over HW's plans feel like charged confrontations between star-crossed lovers rather than like JE being a nuisance and HW being a psycho (which is how he tried to present their dynamic because he was in denial, granted--but again, I wanted to see more proof of the actual feelings being denied!).
Basically, I felt like their romance was a bit neglected/underwritten. Fewer scenes of Mi-joo being the stereotypical clingy rich fiancée and more scenes of JE and HW being cute and sexy together would have improved the drama massively.
By the way, I liked that the mother in this drama didn't actually want her children to live with her and wasn't the stereotypical controlling shrew. Sure, she was very unreasonable and mean at times, as all parents are in family dramas, but the drama presented her tantrums as childish and comedic instead of as expressions of maternal concern that have to be waved off/forgiven because of emotional blackmail.
The FL's mother was having an affair with the ML's father and had visited his room just before his death. The ML saw them kissing that night, but in the confusion after his father's death and at his mother's urging (his mother knew about her husband's affair and hated the FL's mother) he did not tell the police that they were kissing, just that he had seen the FL's mother in his father's room before his death. His testimony, plus the evidence his mother planted at the crime scene, was enough to get the FL's mother arrested.
At the same time, the ML's mother was also having an affair and had asked her lover to come over and kill her husband because she was mad at him for loving another woman and having a child with his mistress (this child being the FL). Her lover decided he couldn't murder her husband, but her lover's younger brother snuck into the house with the intention of killing HER (the ML's mother) because she had ruined his brother's marriage. However, he ran into the ML's father first, the ML's father realised his wife's lover's brother was there to kill his wife, the two got into a fight, and the ML's father died. The killer ran away. The ML's mother covered up for her lover's brother (while thinking he was her lover and had killed the ML's father at her request) and framed her husband's lover (the FL's mother).
To sum up, the FL is the biological child of the ML's father and the ML is the biological child of his mother's lover, so they're not blood-related. And there's never a moment when they think they are, since the fact the ML is not his father's biological son is an open secret in Kougetsu An, so there's no fake incest or anything, although the fact they turn out to share a father (biological in the FL's case and adoptive in the ML's) is weird.
As a bonus, the killer ends up falling in love with the FL...
This is all extremely convoluted, so sorry if I didn't explain it clearly enough.
Basically, the drama skipped all the stupid cliches and jumped straight to the good shit (angst).
If by rushed you mean that it's weird they slept together after being engaged to each other and sharing a bed, well, I didn't find it that unrealistic, personally.