leadtheprotection

Ya but this year had way better romcoms with healthy reciprocal relationships. This drama just followed the same puppy ml with no personality concept they've been doing since at least 2022 consistently which is a shame since the first 2 episodes made me think they'd go for a different vibe. But not only did this turn out to be the usual love triangle concept, it even has the most caricaturish sfl who is evil for no valid reason and several other used and reused tropes so that's what makes it disappointing :(

Last episode she says "it's kinda scary to see a tanned guy like you with a frown" (she could've just said "a big guy like u") and how throughout the series, she keeps specifically mentioning he's tanned like it's some kind of accessory when it's completely unnecessary and adds nothing to the plot other than expose skorea's well known stereotypes towards tan skin and associating that with "scary" people whatever that means 🤦‍♀️

This story started out promising, now I have no idea who the leads are, especially who the male lead is. He was pretty much absent in the last two episodes. Like u could replace him with an AI dummy and u wouldn't be able to tell the difference. Even the average female lead has more personality, screen space and stuff to do in a romcom than the ml in this series smh. This feels like the fl's solo story (as is the case with most shin hye sun dramas so i should've known better) with a generous sprinkling of people who kiss the ground she walks on (aka the ml, the sml and her team) and the sfl who fights against them coz the writer told her to and because she hasn't outgrown her adolescence yet...

Cute simple story except for the mention of "tan" skin like it's a disease

This man is leading man material. I'm calling it. Please get him in a romcom/melodrama asap. I will take anything as long as there is romance and him in it lol. Azure Spring was his audition and he has passed with flying colors as far as I'm concerned ✔️

Love how water is the recurring theme in the show...everything ties to it including how the ml's friend tells her to pull him out of the water if she meets him again :"))

I think the apartment's outer view at the end was AI too...at least it was sort of tastefully done ig

Huh...but wi ha joon said he's looking for romcoms 😭😭😭 ig he's been typecast like kim namgil who has also been looking for a romcom since at least two decades 😅😅 can't blame the makers tho coz both r made to do action 🫠

Thanks for this! Among all the raving reviews i was looking for someone to comment on the ml's character, but looks like his character stays the same throughout? Is that the case? As someone who dropped the show at ep 2 coz of the ml and everyone around him enabling and romanticizing his bad behavior, i was waiting until it finished airing to come back and see if there would be some level of change in him? Does that happen or does everyone including the fl and his brother keep coddling his bitterness because he struggled for a decade?

Why do they need to filter max this to infinity and beyond tho?? Such a gorgeous man like SIG does not need half these filters 🫠 hoping they don't do this with the actual show...

Aside from that, excited as always for a new seo in guk drama!! Hopefully this one's better than the other office romcoms that released this year. Have high hopes on this one!

I don't really know why dong hyun wants the leave so bad anyway...i know he needs the break but i did feel really bad for him when all the people in his life seemed too busy to catch up with him on his break. He seems to have a much better brotherhood in the military with people like seong jae who actually care about him 🥹 and maybe that will be his arc: how when he's about to be discharged and can finally leave, he doesn't want to anymore lol

Also park ji hoon and jeon so young have such good chemistry especially that high school scene was just *swoooooon* and it was just them talking to each other 😍 I'd love to see them as leads in a proper romcom someday!

Glad to see seong jae find real passion in cooking. He's clearly found his calling and now the rest of his time in the military will only make him (and hopefully dong hyun 🤣) better!

This show really set me up with the 4 leads lol...i really got fooled into thinking this was going to have 2 couples just to end up being the same old love triangle. Props to them for setting it up as a twist tho lol which is exactly why i feel like i got played 🫠😅

Apparently coz of the olympics, platforms dont want to release their shows in june and r waiting for july so july might have maaany releases 🫠😭 but in the meantime they might release a few in early june like mo li🤞

Arent these shows scripted? I dont understand?

Especially for their romance movies! Also lee do hyun seems typecast in tragic endings atp...🙄

This show does such a really good job at empathizing with teens and treating them with dignity and respect. It's rarely ever done, let alone rarely ever done well. My respect for Ga U Su not just as a teacher but as a person grew 10x after hearing his advice to Eui Ju before meeting the principal. He couldn't have said anything better to her in that moment. It wasn't blind encouragement nor was it a cruel reality check. He simply told her what she needed to do and gave her the agency to grow through a setback, exactly what a teacher's job is.

Also love Eui Ju's parents and her friends who have her back. Her dad's advice especially had me tearing up a bit ngl, that's sage advice for a lifetime that I know Eui Ju would've been eternally grateful to hear.

I know kids can be mean and blow things out of proportion and Eui Ju isn't completely blameless either. But one of the kids saying something like, "what if she wrote lesbian novels about us" made me realize that everyone regardless of age will have different perspectives on the same things but also that I think things like this start looking more amusing than life altering/weird when you get older. Like at my age with the experiences I've had, if someone wrote a lesbian novel with me as their inspo, I think my first instinct would be to laugh it off. There's so many other real pressing stuff I need to deal with daily that something like that honestly might even feel like an honor lmao, that someone thought of me as their muse would be a welcome disruption to my everyday chaos lmao...so I can understand Ga U Su's perspective and the other teachers not wanting to escalate this as well...

This drama started off pretty cliche and became one of the best romcoms this year for me from ep 3 but ofc it's upto to continue or not coz everyone's individual taste is different 🤷‍♀️

Also loving the pace of this drama! This is how u do a 12 ep romcom and make use of every episode 🙌

So in love with yejin and mechoori...i usually tune out of shows the moment the leads get together but i could watch another 20 episodes just with these two enjoying their domestic life together lmao...love the restraint and affection from both yejin and mechoori towards each other. It shines in every scene they're in together 🥹😍

Ya i thought about that too after this episode honestly...the ceo did say he was going to take responsibility and figure it out...it wouldn't make sense for him to take a bribe and then kill himself either...

Damn i couldn't have seen that plot twist coming in the end...that snake did a great job hiding himself all this time...or did mechoori always know it wasn't the ceo but didn’t have evidence to prove it? He's never bad mouthed the ceo or said anything against him in all these years and now with this new context, it makes me wonder if he knew all along...