If I were in a situation like Pi (hope never), I'd have been happier to know that Warit loved me in spite of knowing I was pregnant and and was sharing my sister's bf and all the other atrocious shenanigans, like Pee does Duen. But since it's not me and a Lakorn above all she's of course happy that Warit had no doubts whatever about her from the beginning so falling in likes was no problem.
If I watch this drama more than once, it'll be for In Guk. Dude's always good but here he's something else. Last favor was composed for him to Doom-walk slomo in green hair. periodt!
Oh mah gad! In Guk is delivering some real cheesy lines with such brooding sexy charm! He's carrying the whole ultrahot Doom attitude so good. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying this drama in spite of its missing real stuffing in it, but those lines... some real boring cheesy ones are going on. "if i was to go back in time i'll still love you", etc. There are some good ones too. It's kind of a mix bag.
Oh I think they are doing the Ten miles peach blossom thing where Bai quian had to go through that mortal realm trial to ascend as the powerful deity. Except here it's reversed and MM has to go through a trial to descend as a mortal. OMG! Did I just figure out the whole fracking series! I am just so smart! Or someone already figured it out and it's somewhere in the comments? I swear i haven't seen any such idea here. So i am not plagiarizing.
This deity kid is getting on my last nerve. Please someone tell me she's a bigger positive purpose in support of MM and TDY behind all her annoying trickstery. Chaebal!
I'm kinda surprised at myself, because I hate watching airing shows (I still remember that I watched Mr Queen…
OMG! YAAS! My babies on my ship! Winter garden! They are one of the big reasons for my holding back. Once I watch them I'll want to everyday. I am watching at least 2 or 1.5 episodes of S1 everyday. This is my way of unwinding after the day. But have got my little dose of them in the trailer and I am going crazy.
Re re re watching season 1 while waiting for Sept 2. Why it seems next life! If only I didn't lose sleep waiting between episodes i'd have watched it airing. Respect to all who'r watching it now.
You should probably move the fact you watched a 16 hour drama in two hours to the disclaimer section. I think…
I read your detailed comment and really like how you write.
Sorry if I came off rude or arrogant in my earlier comment. I thought you were a troll. I get those a lot you see, commanding me to keep my unpopular opinions to myself. People generally don't agree with my outcast opinions and want me to twin with them. That's why i put a disclaimer or note or some such to tell everyone that though I am responsible for my opinion, i am not responsible for their reaction to it because it's not identical to theirs. I generally don't engage with trolls but the 1 or 3 times like yesterday, i think, what the hell let me try to rationalize with them with my logic, the most that would happen would be grapeshot of abuses... I can take that! This is the usual drill. I try to make myself clear once and then stop when the abuses start coming to let them enjoy themselves.
But since this here is not the case i'll try explaining my comment. It's gonna be longer than my original comment. So i suggest you sit with some coffee or tea or what have you to keep you awake through it.
All the best!
I'd admit that i love to rant. Guilty as charged. And also I ramble, like a lot. So i tend to ramble rants or praises. I always have a lot to say and usually my extolling or ranting end before my thoughts run out because my time energy and mood run out before that. This is just 10% of my original rant that was in my head. I had objections and problems with a lot of things in this story.
If i could i would rant or praise every drama i watch but i don't feel like it most of the times because my enthusiasm fizzles out by the end of the dramas.
I don't rant about celebrity personal life or any other personal things. Like if i don't like an actor I'd say i don't like his/her acting and not his face is ugly or some such personal offense stuff. Why i am explaining this to you? Because i am trying to give you an idea of my ranting guidelines. So please bear with me a little. XD
If someone asks me to complete a dropped drama and see it from their pov i try that sometimes, if it doesn't involve themes i don't like, and try seeing it from their perspective and sometimes understand sometimes don't but never change my pov. I understand their reasons for liking it, those just don't fit to my liking.
I don't rant about a drama without at least watching a few episodes of it. And if i drop after watching a few episodes for reasons other than me against the message it's giving off, i don't rant at all.
Now for this drama, let me try to explain why i finished the drama in 2 hours instead of 16 and still ranted. I am not criticizing the execution of it like storytelling or plotholes which would need me spending 16 hours in it, i am instead criticizing the message, the heart, the essence of the show that is romanticizing and normalizing abuse and bullying of every kind. Be it of the lovers, the enemies (this is wont to be toxic i guess but not always), the business relations, the fans, the friends, etc. It's like the writer searched for types of abuses online and put all the varieties she got in it and then made them into funny scenes. Not one of the instances are closed how they should have been. They were all itched and then dusted off like dandruff without giving a proper scalp treatment.
I watched enough scenes to understand that all the relationships romance and business started on abuse and bullying and ended without rightly remedying them, as per my opinion. I don't see any relationship between a bully and the victim but if they wanted to develop it any way, they should have made the bullies realize their behavior and its impact, repent for it by apologizing and some more apologizing to the victims and prove themselves worthy of forgiveness and let the victims have space to process. Also the victims needed to understand that they were getting bullied and they needed to heal from it before marching into a relationship with the same bullies. This whole process in at least 4-5 episodes, slowly. But none of that here. Like when Hoo joon started pursuing geun young in one situation he acted as a savior before her ex boss but when they came outside and gy refused to accept his offer of help he snapped and gy asked him who's the reason for her getting fired. Hj even then didn't apologize or realize what wrong was he doing. I am leaving out all the nonconsensual kiss (yes i thought it was that) or the suddenly dragging her to her parents' without asking anyone for their permission or convenience.
Just because the stalker fan who earlier physically and emotionally abused gy and later threatened her for an intro with hj, realized that gy doesn't seem like an anti fan doesn't make it okay that she doesn't realize she's a stalker and a bully and neither the adults with her (HJ and GY) show her the mirror or try to help her with the issue.
I saw that making gy wipe the floor was not presented as a serious bullying issue in the guise of business as in she'll after all get money for it and also consented for the show so it's okay. Does hj apologize anywhere for acting inhuman to her all the while he was yet to fall in love with her or letting the reality show people having fun and ratings at the expense of her respect and safety? Did those people apologize? What reality show shows this kind of disrespect and bullying without no response from the victim?
The friends, when hj goes to meet them behind her back, why didn't they call her to ask if it's okay to be entertaining HJ in the absence of GY instead of being starstruck or swoon? Did they ask GY if she was mopping floors (after the episode was aired) on her own volition or was cornered into doing so?
I don't find the reasons for GY's falling in love with HJ convincing. I thought she didn't have her own mind to even realize how horrible a situation she was in or she wouldn't have been so easygoing about it even if she thought by doing so she'll probably lighten her suffocation of being in the situation. How do you build up a relationship on a stifling base? How do you love a person who's capable of being this disrespectful to even the person he hates? I don't understand these. I am not for these. May be i am not generous wise and forgiving enough like others.
It's not about man to woman abuse it's the same for me in the opposite direction too. I believe in evenness in relationship. Compromise, yes. But bossing, no.
Trust me i wanted to watch rewatch and rerererewatch this show. Both the leads are my favorites. I waited a long time for tae jun to debut as a lead. I was counting down days to binge watch it. I hoped i was set for a week. I didn't expect this to be a masterpiece but i can do cheesy and stupid when i am so in love with the leads. I can take the usual eyerolling over protective jealous and silly possessive way like "don't talk to another guy without my permission" too if the story is getting told well and it's entertaining me. But what I can't take is toxicity in any kind of relationship. I dropped Something in the rain because of everyone's toxic behavior towards the fl in it just because she was not in her 20s when it was not even presented light heartedly or funnily and both leads are my favorites. I wanted to rant about it but got bored writing. So i didn't finish or post it here. Lucky everyone! Or did I rant about it? I forgot.
Okay i sometimes allow toxicity in my watching too like Innocent man where both parties were equally toxic. Super unhealthy relationship but still there was a long slow burn getting hit by karma and redemption arc there. So it was entertaining for my guilty pleasure pocket I'd say.
But not this drama where the fl is a bottomless receptacle for everyone's bullying, the sfl is constantly tormented by the sml and the whole plot is ridden with it. I didn't watch One Spring Night (again my favorite Jung Hae In) because the bullying of the ml there. By society, by tradition, whatever. I am just dead against bullying. And showing it in a lighthearted way or such serious bullying incidents in a romcom just takes both the Rom and Com out of it for me.
If i was not so choosy and you can say fussy about stuff I would have been able to keep a long list of rewatchable dramas and finish a lot more dramas as well. I'd have love to. But I am how I am. I am also very critical about wring and acting when I finish a drama and didn't like how it was told.
That's it. My reason and focus of the rant. Not the the series of the plots and plotholes in them but the flavor or for me stink of it which didn't let me watch it in a normal pace. I still didn't abandon it after 2 3 episodes and braved the whole show fastforwarding wishing to find some redeeming light in the fragments of scenes so i can start from the beginning again and enjoy my actors' love story. I am a spoiler fan so can watch a drama after knowing everything about it and still enjoy it. When I love a drama I sometimes watch the same episode twice. But there was no light for me here. I saw normalizing toxicity in every corner of this show. That's why I said i was hurt. Even the feeling was triggering for me i still tried to stick through it and ended up with accumulated bad feeling.
Hope i am able to explain my comment without being rude or arrogant here. Sorry for the length. Thanks if you read the whole thing.
Sorry if I came off rude or arrogant in my earlier comment. I thought you were a troll. I get those a lot you see, commanding me to keep my unpopular opinions to myself. People generally don't agree with my outcast opinions and want me to twin with them. That's why i put a disclaimer or note or some such to tell everyone that though I am responsible for my opinion, i am not responsible for their reaction to it because it's not identical to theirs. I generally don't engage with trolls but the 1 or 3 times like yesterday, i think, what the hell let me try to rationalize with them with my logic, the most that would happen would be grapeshot of abuses... I can take that! This is the usual drill. I try to make myself clear once and then stop when the abuses start coming to let them enjoy themselves.
But since this here is not the case i'll try explaining my comment. It's gonna be longer than my original comment. So i suggest you sit with some coffee or tea or what have you to keep you awake through it.
All the best!
I'd admit that i love to rant. Guilty as charged. And also I ramble, like a lot. So i tend to ramble rants or praises. I always have a lot to say and usually my extolling or ranting end before my thoughts run out because my time energy and mood run out before that. This is just 10% of my original rant that was in my head. I had objections and problems with a lot of things in this story.
If i could i would rant or praise every drama i watch but i don't feel like it most of the times because my enthusiasm fizzles out by the end of the dramas.
I don't rant about celebrity personal life or any other personal things. Like if i don't like an actor I'd say i don't like his/her acting and not his face is ugly or some such personal offense stuff. Why i am explaining this to you? Because i am trying to give you an idea of my ranting guidelines. So please bear with me a little. XD
If someone asks me to complete a dropped drama and see it from their pov i try that sometimes, if it doesn't involve themes i don't like, and try seeing it from their perspective and sometimes understand sometimes don't but never change my pov. I understand their reasons for liking it, those just don't fit to my liking.
I don't rant about a drama without at least watching a few episodes of it. And if i drop after watching a few episodes for reasons other than me against the message it's giving off, i don't rant at all.
Now for this drama, let me try to explain why i finished the drama in 2 hours instead of 16 and still ranted. I am not criticizing the execution of it like storytelling or plotholes which would need me spending 16 hours in it, i am instead criticizing the message, the heart, the essence of the show that is romanticizing and normalizing abuse and bullying of every kind. Be it of the lovers, the enemies (this is wont to be toxic i guess but not always), the business relations, the fans, the friends, etc. It's like the writer searched for types of abuses online and put all the varieties she got in it and then made them into funny scenes. Not one of the instances are closed how they should have been. They were all itched and then dusted off like dandruff without giving a proper scalp treatment.
I watched enough scenes to understand that all the relationships romance and business started on abuse and bullying and ended without rightly remedying them, as per my opinion. I don't see any relationship between a bully and the victim but if they wanted to develop it any way, they should have made the bullies realize their behavior and its impact, repent for it by apologizing and some more apologizing to the victims and prove themselves worthy of forgiveness and let the victims have space to process. Also the victims needed to understand that they were getting bullied and they needed to heal from it before marching into a relationship with the same bullies. This whole process in at least 4-5 episodes, slowly. But none of that here. Like when Hoo joon started pursuing geun young in one situation he acted as a savior before her ex boss but when they came outside and gy refused to accept his offer of help he snapped and gy asked him who's the reason for her getting fired. Hj even then didn't apologize or realize what wrong was he doing. I am leaving out all the nonconsensual kiss (yes i thought it was that) or the suddenly dragging her to her parents' without asking anyone for their permission or convenience.
Just because the stalker fan who earlier physically and emotionally abused gy and later threatened her for an intro with hj, realized that gy doesn't seem like an anti fan doesn't make it okay that she doesn't realize she's a stalker and a bully and neither the adults with her (HJ and GY) show her the mirror or try to help her with the issue.
I saw that making gy wipe the floor was not presented as a serious bullying issue in the guise of business as in she'll after all get money for it and also consented for the show so it's okay. Does hj apologize anywhere for acting inhuman to her all the while he was yet to fall in love with her or letting the reality show people having fun and ratings at the expense of her respect and safety? Did those people apologize? What reality show shows this kind of disrespect and bullying without no response from the victim?
The friends, when hj goes to meet them behind her back, why didn't they call her to ask if it's okay to be entertaining HJ in the absence of GY instead of being starstruck or swoon? Did they ask GY if she was mopping floors (after the episode was aired) on her own volition or was cornered into doing so?
I don't find the reasons for GY's falling in love with HJ convincing. I thought she didn't have her own mind to even realize how horrible a situation she was in or she wouldn't have been so easygoing about it even if she thought by doing so she'll probably lighten her suffocation of being in the situation. How do you build up a relationship on a stifling base? How do you love a person who's capable of being this disrespectful to even the person he hates? I don't understand these. I am not for these. May be i am not generous wise and forgiving enough like others.
It's not about man to woman abuse it's the same for me in the opposite direction too. I believe in evenness in relationship. Compromise, yes. But bossing, no.
Trust me i wanted to watch rewatch and rerererewatch this show. Both the leads are my favorites. I waited a long time for tae jun to debut as a lead. I was counting down days to binge watch it. I hoped i was set for a week. I didn't expect this to be a masterpiece but i can do cheesy and stupid when i am so in love with the leads. I can take the usual eyerolling over protective jealous and silly possessive way like "don't talk to another guy without my permission" too if the story is getting told well and it's entertaining me. But what I can't take is toxicity in any kind of relationship. I dropped Something in the rain because of everyone's toxic behavior towards the fl in it just because she was not in her 20s when it was not even presented light heartedly or funnily and both leads are my favorites. I wanted to rant about it but got bored writing. So i didn't finish or post it here. Lucky everyone! Or did I rant about it? I forgot.
Okay i sometimes allow toxicity in my watching too like Innocent man where both parties were equally toxic. Super unhealthy relationship but still there was a long slow burn getting hit by karma and redemption arc there. So it was entertaining for my guilty pleasure pocket I'd say.
But not this drama where the fl is a bottomless receptacle for everyone's bullying, the sfl is constantly tormented by the sml and the whole plot is ridden with it. I didn't watch One Spring Night (again my favorite Jung Hae In) because the bullying of the ml there. By society, by tradition, whatever. I am just dead against bullying. And showing it in a lighthearted way or such serious bullying incidents in a romcom just takes both the Rom and Com out of it for me.
If i was not so choosy and you can say fussy about stuff I would have been able to keep a long list of rewatchable dramas and finish a lot more dramas as well. I'd have love to. But I am how I am. I am also very critical about wring and acting when I finish a drama and didn't like how it was told.
That's it. My reason and focus of the rant. Not the the series of the plots and plotholes in them but the flavor or for me stink of it which didn't let me watch it in a normal pace. I still didn't abandon it after 2 3 episodes and braved the whole show fastforwarding wishing to find some redeeming light in the fragments of scenes so i can start from the beginning again and enjoy my actors' love story. I am a spoiler fan so can watch a drama after knowing everything about it and still enjoy it. When I love a drama I sometimes watch the same episode twice. But there was no light for me here. I saw normalizing toxicity in every corner of this show. That's why I said i was hurt. Even the feeling was triggering for me i still tried to stick through it and ended up with accumulated bad feeling.
Hope i am able to explain my comment without being rude or arrogant here. Sorry for the length. Thanks if you read the whole thing.
take care. Stay Safe.