itwillneverbefar

Why does this have such low ratings?? It made me think it wasn't that great but it's quite popular and people say they love it. MDL rating system is so out of whack.

It was a joke.

This is such BS. All the popular BL is the same tropey straight romance but with 2 male leads, and relies on the very taboo that keeps it from becoming more accepted to get straight young women's knickers all curled up so they'll binge watch episodes, as they have the highest viewership by far for BL. The BL that tries to tell an authentically gay story for gay men has no popularity.

This is some weirdly misplaced and ignorant entitlement.

This gonna be one hell of a love triangle.

I thought the same when that happened, but by the end I was even more connected to the other boys and cared about them so much.

Minki needed to make a super strong impression to set up the story of the other boys, so his death SHOULD hit that hard, unfortunately it's not a show about him, it's about the remaining boys and how they carry on his dream. It's a shame to miss out on that beautiful story of all the other wonderful members of the band.

I am dying to see WDH in a comedic role, he has impeccable comedic timing, I need this to come out yesterday.

I can't get over the name Lloyd lolllll that's like a name for the weird guy who runs the run-down bowling alley down the street.

The synopsis got me tho! Looks really fun.

I'm guessing they asked a question because they don't know the answer.

Go look up a drama where the FL is older than the ML. I'll wait.

They are co-leads, so one of them will get first billing. It is because he's her senoir, people need to stop reading into it. It's equally as unfair to say he is not a lead, they both worked very hard and carried the show together.

They're the co-leads and he's her senior, in Korea seniority (based both on age and on when one entered the industry) is very important, so he would be named first. In dramas where the woman is the senior she is named first if they are co-leads. Did you really just come here to rant without doing any research into it at all? Stop spreading misinformation just to complain about something.

Shit I forgot KHY was there when LJW made such an impression in his very first bit part role that Hyun Bin signed him immediately to his agency. And was there when LJW carried the hugely popular Alchemy series to become an international hit. Oh wait, she wasn't. And she also wasn't the most buzzworthy actor in XU-- that would be LJW who in his second-ever role turned a cliche and very unlikable 2ML into the most popular and memorable character of the entire series. But yes, he's mediocre and owes all his fame to her.

tl;dr--you're delusional.

I disagree that it was insulting at all, rather I'd call it somewhat poor writing/execution.

A show is allowed to feature disability as a story element/plot device without making it a central theme. Your argument makes more sense if it was a theme, but they never set out to tell a story about disability or the effects of disability on someone, or ableism in society. The themes were about the nature of fate/memory/time and their relationship to love. So the plot naturally focused on that aspect.

I didn't see them at any point show that a disabled person was "less than" but rather they realistically showed the effect of someone losing their ability to walk in their teens and how that would affect life for them. Sol is not somehow a traitor to disability activism for being happy she can walk again. And in fact, when Sol in still in a wheelchair SJ is still just as in love with her, and at no point did they imply he would not love her if she was disabled.

Furthermore, she didn't go back in time in an effort to walk again, she went back to save Sunjae--the disability was IMO a nice way to explore the main themes about time/fate and to drive the interweaving crime plot. Her being able to walk again was a silver lining, and never something implied she needed to be "whole". It was SunJae's love and well being that she needed to be whole and happy, which aligns with the theme.

It would have made for a tighter plot for them to provide more emotional closure to that disability element they introduced, but since it wasn't a main theme the plot just didn't have room for it, especially when it moved more towards the crime story in the second half. That was some poor writing on the part of the show, but again, wasn't insulting or "wrong" in some way. They did show her making a movie with a disabled character at the end, which I thought was a touching way to revisit that element.

So when people say "it wasn't that type of show" they're right-- you're complaining this show didn't have a different central theme, so it does seem like you were looking for a completely different type of show than this set out to be.

I cried the most when granny told SJ to live a long life now and he broke down, it all just hit me all once there, too.

Yeah and also I don't think she would have been as thrown off by seeing him again and still so so determined to not to spend time with him to the point of pushing him away so aggressively, 15 year is a really really long time.

My man needs a lead role stat.

I've been waiting for his ultimate realization and the montage of all the timelines of him falling in love , such a satisfying moment! It was shot and portrayed so well. There's been so much heartbreak in all these timelines, but he now gets the memories of multiple lifetimes of falling in love with her so it makes it not seem so sad, and as long as the ending is happy it's just made their love deeper for him

It's comforting to know SunJae is a loser in every timeline

I don't think so, because TS said he's only been feeling weird about her lately, seemingly since she came back to the present. I think she must have lived the few months back then to avoid SJ, became friends with TS, then jumped back to the current time and has been living in that about a year.

This story is essentially a love story version of the 1st law of thermodynamics. Just like energy cannot be created or destroyed, love cannot be created or destroyed, and the fates attached to that love cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed in some way.