Rewatching and I'm even more annoyed... the episode is nearly 2 hours long, so it's not like anyone could even make the excuse that there was a shortage of time because there literally wasn't, and yet with all that additional time they still chose to pay the other two couples dust in favor of subjecting us to 5+ mins of Khanin x Charan aimlessly strolling around the mall and 10+ mins devoted to their final love scene.
Aside from the screen-time hogging being an obvious disservice to the other two couples it did no favors for the main couple it was meant to benefit either! How do you make an insufferably boring main couple more palatable to your audience? By weeding in other characters and/or couples to offset the focus a bit. Throughout the series it only HELPED Khanin x Charan to have other characters with side stories of their own around as those two other couples provided a very necessary respite from their boring coupledom. So why the heck would you not lean into using those side couples more in the finale when you have even more time than you did in a typical episode to do so? Makes no sense!
And yes, I know and understand that this is technically THEIR series but they're undeniably boring characters, both by themselves as well as together, and if and when that can be helped it most definitely should, right?
I don't know who the writer or director of this mess is but he should really take a hiatus. I don't know who the writer and/or director of this mess was but he needs a hiatus.
This lost me in the last half but it's also not a genre I especially like so for it to have been engaging enough for me to at the very least want to see it though to the end is something.
If anyone from Domund/Mandee is lurking – now would be the ideal time to fast track release of Zomvivor. Your general audience needs a reason to forgive & forget the colossal disappointment that was The Next Prince and what better way to cleanse that palate than with zombies?
Zee really needs a new partner. ORThey should pair Zee and Max for their next project.
omg, the wars that pairing would trigger 🤣 I would love for Max to work opposite of someone else but I don't know about Zee lol
I think these studio heads need to deprioritize fixed pairings (unlikely they'll do away with them altogether) and get back to the basics of holding AUDITIONS for each and every role. If a pre-established duo is right for the gig then so be it, but this whole GIVING fixed pairings projects on the basis of popularity alone is clearly not it.
Quite possibly THE most cringeworthy wedding scene I've ever had the displeasure of seeing in a drama.
and why the heck were Tony + Winner in attendance?! Like what am I supposed to make of THAT?! Did we enter some alternate timeline where Tony's alive and all is forgiven, or did Babe + Charlie wait until everyone was dead to exchange vows in the afterlife?
It feels like I missed something but I really don't think I did?
I don't think it was a snoozer but it's sort of falling apart in these last two episodes. They've made the supporting…
I thought Cutie Pie 2 was cute (lol) but I would've preferred it to have been a spinoff series for TutorYim's characters instead, but I guess there was no spinoff novel for them like there was for the Naughty Babe characters 🙃
Honestly though, do you think this series would be holding up right now with two other actors in the lead roles? Zee + Nu were the reason I watched in the beginning and then I kept watching for the other two princes, who haven't gotten much play and now they're destroying what little they've built up for Ramil! This series just seems really confused as to what it actually wants to convey lol
Do you anticipate there will be a special episode? It seems like a lot of series are utilizing them now to close up their messy plots they had going up until the very last episode rather than the cute bonus episodes they were intended to be. Annoying tbh
At this point I think it's well understood that not every novel can or even should be translated to a screen adaptation and while I believe that's part of the overall fail here I think the real crux of the issue is the story is LAME and WEAK and DULL (as are its characters) and that in and of itself is so not worth a hefty investment, no matter who the leads are. Because at the end of the day it comes down to Zee + NuNew. The big investment wasn't in or for the story itself but in their attachment to the project. They were the investment. If it were any other pairing in their roles this series never would've made it past the pilot stage, if even that.
Also, was the novel written FOR Zee & NuNew? I vaguely recall reading that somewhere before the series released but it's possible I misunderstood and am now just trying to rationalize their commitment to this snoozer 😭 because if it was in fact written for them or with them in mind then maybe they felt obligated to take it on? Let me stop 🫠
In any case, a whole ME$$! As much as I like Zee + NuNew together I think it's an awful business model to invest in CPs ahead of the stories themselves. Without a good story, people will lose interest, and at that point a CP's popularity can only do so much to keep a sinking ship afloat. As evidenced here!
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Aside from the screen-time hogging being an obvious disservice to the other two couples it did no favors for the main couple it was meant to benefit either! How do you make an insufferably boring main couple more palatable to your audience? By weeding in other characters and/or couples to offset the focus a bit. Throughout the series it only HELPED Khanin x Charan to have other characters with side stories of their own around as those two other couples provided a very necessary respite from their boring coupledom. So why the heck would you not lean into using those side couples more in the finale when you have even more time than you did in a typical episode to do so? Makes no sense!
And yes, I know and understand that this is technically THEIR series but they're undeniably boring characters, both by themselves as well as together, and if and when that can be helped it most definitely should, right?
I don't know who the writer or director of this mess is but he should really take a hiatus.
I don't know who the writer and/or director of this mess was but he needs a hiatus.
I would love for Max to work opposite of someone else but I don't know about Zee lol
I think these studio heads need to deprioritize fixed pairings (unlikely they'll do away with them altogether) and get back to the basics of holding AUDITIONS for each and every role. If a pre-established duo is right for the gig then so be it, but this whole GIVING fixed pairings projects on the basis of popularity alone is clearly not it.
Janine: Ugh, that was dramatic.
Janine's weirdly emotional in this exchange...
It feels like I missed something but I really don't think I did?
So disappointing 😩
How are y'all even watching this?
Honestly though, do you think this series would be holding up right now with two other actors in the lead roles? Zee + Nu were the reason I watched in the beginning and then I kept watching for the other two princes, who haven't gotten much play and now they're destroying what little they've built up for Ramil! This series just seems really confused as to what it actually wants to convey lol
Do you anticipate there will be a special episode? It seems like a lot of series are utilizing them now to close up their messy plots they had going up until the very last episode rather than the cute bonus episodes they were intended to be. Annoying tbh
Also, was the novel written FOR Zee & NuNew? I vaguely recall reading that somewhere before the series released but it's possible I misunderstood and am now just trying to rationalize their commitment to this snoozer 😭 because if it was in fact written for them or with them in mind then maybe they felt obligated to take it on? Let me stop 🫠
In any case, a whole ME$$! As much as I like Zee + NuNew together I think it's an awful business model to invest in CPs ahead of the stories themselves. Without a good story, people will lose interest, and at that point a CP's popularity can only do so much to keep a sinking ship afloat. As evidenced here!
Rant over for real this time 🤣