Them straight up ambushing Song Yan, putting a bag over his head & beating the shit out of him in the middle of the street... has to be one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a drama. That's my power couple.
I'm sorry but them SLAPPING the bird (not a real bird, I know) is making me dislike them against my will. Like, stop slapping him!!! He's just a little guy! They're hitting him so hard, wtf;;;
The names *are* weird. It's very clear that they are supposed to sound like Western names, but they don't. They sound like a person who doesn't speak English trying to come up with western sounding names and failing. Failing very very hard. They're phonetically a monstrous hodge-podge of Latin, French, English, Germanic, and like--- Indian? Rashta & Sovieshu straight up sound Indian? The setting is clear, the competence is not. They're worse than the supposed "English" names in Death Note, and those are awful. Hearing those names in Korean phonology is going to sound even stupider. (And while it might have billions of viewers, billions of readers is.... uh... not correct. That's very not correct.)
I'm about 30 episodes in, and I gotta say- this is shockingly good. I usually tire of dramas like this- they can…
I *really* wanted Ji Bozai to be like "No, mom, I don't resent you because you traded me for another child when I was a baby because I didn't have a magic vein. I resent you because you were a shitty abusive mother to my wife, and even after raising her for 20+ years, still thought it was okay to tell her that you never thought of her as your child."
I'm about 30 episodes in, and I gotta say- this is shockingly good. I usually tire of dramas like this- they can get really tedious. But this hasn't had that feeling *at all* - they seriously put some special sauce in this one. The chemistry is *electric*, the leads are gorgeous, the plot EXISTS, and I actually feel like the drama appreciates my time- instead of like other dramas where important things only happen like, every 6 episodes, and meanwhile they're just treading water.
At this point why don't they just recast his role. I feel bad for the rest of the cast
The whole drama is filmed already, it'd be crazy undertaking to change the lead. (I mean, granted they did it before with that historical drama, but a year+ out since it was filmed and it'd be an impossible task.)
Honestly, this drama was better than I expected it to be, and the length definitely helped. It was fluff with heart. It was short and sweet, but still had enough substance to be interesting- the FL's arc of recovering from the trauma of a breakup was done pretty well, and some decently clever things were done with the ML to make his role and his affection obvious even when he wasn't on the FL's radar yet.
(The AI slop images all over the sets was a huge flop though. As for the FL's acting; don't believe anybody complimenting or criticizing it too much. It was competent idol acting, nothing more, nothing less. Seo In Guk is a really phenomenal actor, and he acted enough for the both of them.)
The theme of the show is one thing- I'm not done yet, but I can't imagine the ending will be like "and the AI boyfriend dating service was an objective good. the endddd :)"- but holy shit, the AI slop pasted all over the walls as concept art kinda pisses me off.
Talk about maladaptive hobbies. This is the feminine version of all of those "man enters a fighting video game and absolutely kicks everybody's asses while women fawn all over him" stories, and I'm ngl, I think I'd be cooked. (I was already 100% in for Seo Kang Joon as an artificial intelligence boyfriend in "Are You Human Too?"- this role seemed like such a natural extension of that drama.)
So I know we can appreciate this drama for all that it's doing, but my heart loves a romance, and I gotta be honest- this drama will legitimately gain a full point for me if they give us real substantial Albert/Geumbo bits at the end. I love them so much. I can't help if my heart yearns for romance in everything I watch, dangnabbit!
I've said it before, I'll say it again, the names are so fucking stupid it's gonna be hard to take the drama seriously if they don't change them. They're seriously *so* damn stupid.
...right???
(The AI slop images all over the sets was a huge flop though. As for the FL's acting; don't believe anybody complimenting or criticizing it too much. It was competent idol acting, nothing more, nothing less. Seo In Guk is a really phenomenal actor, and he acted enough for the both of them.)
(I was already 100% in for Seo Kang Joon as an artificial intelligence boyfriend in "Are You Human Too?"- this role seemed like such a natural extension of that drama.)