grapejuice

I think you aren't somebody who can get past sloppy, absolutist, immature thinking so I'm not going to spend any more time trying to help you understand that the world in your imagination isn't what we call reality. Good luck with your life's learning curve. Maybe you'll even get a job, understand the work world and make it to the ripe old age of 28 some day.

Good luck to him. Hopefully he can get on with his life, the dead can rest in peace and the guilty will be punished. These kinds of accusations belong in courts of law where victims can properly allege real crimes. Onlookers can then wait and watch while evidence is shared and the accused can get a fair trial with a real opportunity to defend themselves. Once that's done the way it's supposed to be done ... we should all move on. He's proven that he was targeted unfairly by people who made serious money attacking him. The party who was certainly guilty of a crime is being dealt with. Now the victims can move on. And, hopefully, some netizens will learn to hold judgement rather than ruin someones' life without due process and examined evidence. You don't do any real victim any good in this world by rushing to convict everyone who has been accused. Hear both sides. Honour and defend real victims. Don't make them look questionable by automatically believing every story and rumour that goes viral. Let them speak, be heard, prove their truth and see real justice being done.

So far it's a marriage in name only. They're actually friends who are looking out for each other at this point. Very platonic. Very supportive, green flag stuff from a ML who wants for the FL whatever she wants for herself.

Get your terms right. pedophilia involves adults who have sexual fantasies, or worse, about prepubescent children; 11 years and younger. This, on the other hand, was a highly monitored workplace situation where a professional actor who has been working for many years landed what is the best role of her career to date. The story being acted out is fiction; not real. She looks exactly right for the part; a young bride but nothing out of the ordinary for the kind of time period being depicted. And the ML was apparently cast and contracted before the FL was chosen so he didn't choose the situation. There's nothing predatory there. He should be suing people like yourself for defamation. Why? The FL is not a child. She is now 18. The ML is not an old man. He is now 28. The only relationship they have is a professional one between two actors. So, please try to grow yourself up to see that there isn't anything disgusting going on. There are actual problem situations out there for actual children. How about you don't confuse the two and put your outrage where it honestly belongs.

It deserves more imho :-)

It's excellent so far. In every way ... characters ... story premise ... plotting ... cinematography. It moves very quickly and has some twists so I found it a bit disorienting at the start. But everything quickly became clear and it's just getting even better and better with each new episode. I don't think you can go wrong if you at least give it a try..

Hmmmm. You don't remember the scene where he describes how he used the people he hunted and captured as slaves. He would make them try to kill each other in order to survive. Then he would take the survivors, turn them into his own soldiers but make them act as the cannon fodder kind who would be seen as traitors and end up getting shot by their own families and countrymen. I think that little speech was meant to prove that he was a far worse kind of dude than our ML. Would WuYi do such things or play as dirty as the Eagle King did in the mounted archery tournament? I mean maybe he will turn out to be another plot twist but ... shall we bet on it? :-)

In Prisoner of Beauty he was (and he caused) comic relief ... in part because of the muscles :-)

I wondered this too. We find out, from the mom, that Mao is the tutor's son ... but then we also find out from her, a few episodes later, that LeJun is not his daughter. Mum and dad's conversations are pretty important up front there. She just says these things though ... so I hope we'll get enough information later to really understand what she said.

I have a problem with your comments. She's open and energetic and warm, friendly with everyone ... not just men ... not just some men or particular women. She's the same with everyone. She's not afraid to be nice and supportive of others. She's genuinely herself and people take that as being flirty and a negative thing that she shouldn't be. This is why women have to shut themselves down and fit themselves into a box made by others. You know, I live in a FIFA town and I'm a lot like the FL so when I got into an elevator on Friday and began talking to some football fans who were also getting in, I was just being myself and the guy closest to me looked me straight in the eye and explained that he and his friends had girlfriends thanks very much. One of his friends apologized but the other two had just smirked. I mean seriously? Instead of being friendly back or just smiling and turning away, he decided to read me wrong and humiliate me? This is just one example that I don't get. Why are people so quick to think she's flirty? Why do women have to be too afraid to be friendly or enthusiastic?

They had a memorable experience together in the past. She's suddenly having to deal with her most important person's imminent death ... but he's managed to get her grandma into a cancer treatment study for patients in stage 4. Wow! That's huge. So, are there people who wouldn't hug him under those circumstances? Even the jealous ML seemed to think that the clinical trial put the hug into an understandable perspective. Although I did think that they shot it to look pretty ambiguous for the ML to get deflated.

superior. arrogant. condescending. close minded. self absorbed. why would i want to waste my time on you now that you've proven all that?

The ML is slightly unhinged and off the cuff on his good days. He's always reckless and doesn't think in the heat of the moment the way that you would want him too. I suspect that you are putting your own way of doing things onto the character when calculating a revenge would be ooc for him. At least in those first moments, his anger will take over.

She's having nose bleeds well into the drama. The happy days you're describing are at the end in the last two episodes. Also ... as a really pale person myself ... who looks stupid with too much coloring makeup on ... I object to your point. But also, Korean beauty standards are Korean. They don't exist to sell Koreans to Westerners. That's just Western arrogance talking. Of course you're entitled to your preferences. It's just not reasonable for you to expect that whole other nations share them alongside you or share them for your sake.

I hope I got it right. It would be great to hear other opinions too. Dong Man and Jin Man are interesting individuals; sensitive, creative, eccentric, wounded, long suffering survivors. And their relationship is intriguing and engaging too. Not always easy to understand since they are so alike and so different at the same time. I still have a couple of episodes to watch so I'm still hoping to learn more about their family upbringing in childhood. And I keep imagining a particular ending but I'm not there to see it just yet.

I could be wrong but my take is this: Jin Man couldn't hit the person that he truly wanted to hit. Gyeong Se. Because it would only have made things worse if he attacked Gyeong Se. GS would sue and put him in prison, for sure. But he wants to keep his brother away from that old 'friend' so he made that known by hitting Dong Man instead. On the one hand, he's telling his kid brother that he's an idiot for his bad behaviour and for sticking where he isn't wanted. But he's looking at Gyeong Se and GS is left in awe. He's pretty clear what could happen to him next time when there are no witnesses around. It's like , on the other hand, he's saying ... 'this situation is so wrong and it makes me so angry that I'll do this to my own brother ... imagine what I will do to you, if you keep treating this situation and my brother the way that you have been.' And, I think, it works. Little brother feels the point and GS is truly left in a state of awe and fear at the end of the demonstration. The message is crystal clear that he is taking a huge risk when he messes with this guy's kid brother. Stop now or you're next.

I don't know what the ratings were like for The Smile has Left Your Eyes but the script was good, it was a serious role, definitely not a rom-com and she killed it along with her costar. It absolutely proved her acting chops to me so, if you haven't really watched it, you should. With that and AOS it hit me that she's one of the most reliably talented FLs in NKorea. She definitely has range in her performances even if she and her team have chosen a few projects that weren't also exactly to my taste. Very few actors have a resume with no bad choices on it. Look at Yoo Seung Ho. Great actor with some great roles and quite a few bad ones as well. These two are similar to me in this respect.

thank you !!!

Is there a point where the he stops hating her and she stops humiliating herself? If so, please let me know what episode to skip to. I'm on episode 3 right now and I can't take it anymore.

I love how you speak as though you're right and nobody else can have an opinion. But of course, I disagree.