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Also, people are anxious because there's so little time left for all those storylines. I want this family plot to be fleshed out, treated properly, and not just thrown in. If this show would be 20 eps or longer, I definitely feel that people, myself included, would be less anxious

I honestly felt so heartbroken when JH had a fight with his friend over YW. That was overall a very happy episode for our couple, with the first kiss and everything, but all I could remember was this fight - how hard it was for JH and what would YW feel if she found out. That plot really resonated with me. So I honestly have no ill intention in pointing out that overall I don't like the "your family doesn't accept me, so I'm gonna break up with you for your own good" plot. I think a family plot should appear, but maybe show us a different approach to solving it. Leads talking it out with each other. Working through it together. Of course I have no background on how things like that turn out IRL for autistic people, so I really hope my opinion isn't offensive. Once again, I don't know if that will happen in ep 14, I'm just speculating. If a plot like that appeared in a US show - I wouldn't have any problem with that, cause non-accepting family it's not really a cliche which would appear there. It's just that in Korea it's so often used as a cheap way to make some drama near the end. And especially with Jung attorney's sickness happening at the same time. I hope I managed to explain myself a little.

Yes I somehow love it about that plot. Shows that there's not much more to him than his physical appearance and that's just the truth

Also I feel like it came in a bad moment, with Jung attorney's sickness and MW and SY attraction just thrown at viewers all at the same time. Making it seem like just another one of those 'cheap' plots which are supposed to make the viewer sit on the edge of his seat - WILL THEY BREAK UP OR WON'T THEY? It should be more properly executed in my view

Yes, I completly understand! That's why I wrote that this plot does generally fit in EAW. My view is more of a general note on the plot being so overused nowadays in dramas that it loses its impact, making the viewers more frustrated than anything. Especially when it leads to another overused plot - breakup, and only a couple of episodes till the drama ending. But I get that it's a valid example of what autistic people experience. I just wish that it will lead to the leads talking and not jumping into a breakup.

Also, maybe that's realistic in terms of korean culture, I'm not the one to judge as I'm from Europe. But these are fictional stories, and while they should be based to some degree on the cultural background, you really don't have to put this hurdle in every other show. Just like the main characters can be shown to live in awesome, designer flats (even if they earn just so-so), and you don't mention housing crisis in Korea. Just a sidenote, not in relation to EAW

Also, family drama over the relationship really fits into this one. But I'm just too tired of the family making the leads break up in every single drama with bullshit reasons:
- cause of the partner's disease
- cause the partner isn't rich enough
- cause the partner is too rich
- cause partner's parent is a murderer
- cause the partner has a kid from a past relationship
- cause partner doesn't have a good job
It's just a never ending list.

I just want more dramas without family angst. Or dramas where they decide to work it out instead of breaking up right away. Once again, I know that in EAW those prejudices are realistic, but I'm just too tired of these plots. Let's hope for a good resolution of this in ep 14

Haha, exactly. With all the kdrama cliches they put in already, we're only missing a long-distance relationship and a time skip. Or childhood friends maybe?

But I'm really hoping for them to resolve it quickly, like you said, with a 2-episode arc. I have some hope after the episode in which YW resigned from Hanbada, she was right back just the next episode.

I kinda feel like it's pushed on the writers by some execs or something. It's really hard for me to believe that a person, which created a great show up until now would really believe that watchers would just LOVE to see for the millionth time the same shit cliches and there's just no other way but to include them. Like, it's not like I expected YW and JH's relationship to be all roses and sunshine. But the overall amount of angst is just unnecessary. I just hope it will all be resolved asap

YES, exactly. I won't enjoy any episode until I learn how and when the break up bullshit is resolved

The worst part (besides the obvious MW being trash the ENTIRE series) is that we didn't have any buildup for SY liking MW? How are they gonna throw it in for the last 4 eps? SY was just getting over 2 other guys in previous eps. I hope she will realize that she doesn't need no man.

OK so went down the spoiler rabbit hole and watched preview of ep 14. My heart cannot take YW and JH breaking up - if they really do, I'm gonna wait to the next week to watch all 4 eps at once. I can't function the whole week with a broken heart, I have a job to attend. I know it might actually make sense in this drama but honestly, it's such a cliche plot, I can't take it, I'm too old for this. Fingers crossed they are somehow baiting us with that preview.

I'd gladly contribute to those numbers, if Netflix actually released EAW here on the premiere day...

I agree! It's hard, cause I feel like the writer is using the time in the drama to the fullest, but at the same time I feel like I would like to see so much more of every plot. The court cases are very good and give YW the opportunity to develop (and if they weren't so fleshed out, they could feel flat), but I want to see more backstory to every character...

With most of dramas it's easy for me to say where I see weaknesses and how I recommend to make it better, but with this one I'm at a loss of words - and the only thing that comes to my mind is that if the episodes were longer (though they already aren't the shortest) or if we had 20 eps instead of 16...

I think she is aware of how other people may react. Like she said in ep 10 "it isn't easy to love me". So I don't think she will be taken by surprise whan she hears that, maybe little sad and taken aback. I hope it will lead to more communication between YW and JH and figuring out their way to solve problems, and not some sudden unnecessary drama

Yes it was heartbreaking that they ended ep 12 with that misunderstanding and no resolution as of now... How can I wait after such a scene...

You can go to recent discussions section, there are a lot of great threads about that

In dramas, the MCs are often extraordinary in some way - be it IQ, talent, wealth. I feel like it's getting better nowadays with "normal people (in terms of intelligence, money and so on)" being shown in media more. But even in my youth the main trope for YA books/movies was "the FL seems to be just an ordinary girl, BUT she has a very special quirk (reading minds / singing prodigy / queen's daughter/ best car mechanic in town at 15 / whatever)". Even though they were supposed to represent the everyday girl, they all had something that made them stand out.

In my mind, I feel like YW's super-intellingence is just used here to show us she's really good at her job and give us some entertaining "eureka!" moments. Also to show the discrimination - that bar results don't matter when you're autistic and looking for a job. But it's shown time and time again that intelligence isn't everything. She has to put in a good amount of effort into something which just comes naturally to people - saying objection!, understanding when a person lies, being softer to an abused witness and so on. Not even mentioning her struggles in personal life.

Of course she's talented and has the prerequisites for her job. But we are shown a lot of other attorneys which are great and not autistic. You just HAVE to be great at your job to be at Hanbada level. If she wasn't such a great lawyer, this show wouldn't exist.

Also, this show doesn't step away from showing that YW also loses cases. That there are things even she didn't think about (ergo the North-Korean mother case). She's far from being some perfect attorney. And this is the image I will take away from this show. Not her being unimaginably brilliant, but her struggling to act normal in the courtroom, struggling to kiss, all of that.

Last but not least - I'm not saying that representation of non-brilliant autistic people doesn't matter. Just that media tend to show brilliant people in this kind of dramas. And for YW being brilliant, they still give her so much room to grow, and that will be the image I will get when I think about this drama in the future.

I'm kinda wondering if the MW's villain arc is something that's not the writer's idea, but maybe some executives' order with the purpose of making the show more 'exciting'? Just a long shot, the episode where he blamed YW for getting preferential treatment had a lot of sense, but now his schemes are kinda squished in. Just my thoughts though, it doesn't bother me all that much - I mean MW' behaving like a trash but it's not all that out of place.

Also, this show reminds me so much of Hospital Playlist S1. The cases which are so focused on people, the friendship between the characters, the out-of-the-box romance, slow but steady character development... Damn, I could watch EAW for another 50 episodes and not get bored at this rate. I feel there's so much more potential in it. After watching every episode I feel unsatisfied, meaning that I WANT MORE.

And besides, why did he try to control himself? For what reason? Another unsolved mystery