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Excellent Start. Good Middle... Rocky Finish.
this drama has everything I like in a drama. Excellent plot, great acting, fabulous chemistry, character growth for at least the leads, and a journey I'm invested in as a watcher. With all that said... why not 10 stars? Let me sum it up real quick...
The beginning was excellent, the pacing was on point, and I was invested in the journey the leads were on and loving the storyline/character development.
The only gripe I have about this drama is after the 5-year time skip. And it isn't because of the change in personality of the ML... that actually made sense. He'd been through hell and back. No one at 25 is who they were at 15. No one at 35 is who they were at 25. I get it.
The real issue for me is it seemed like the leads (both FL & ML) seemed to have regressed in the things that had gotten them that far in the first place. Thinking fast on their feet, being able to get the upper hand, and also the ability to have a straightforward conversation with one another. They spent a LOT of the last 1/3 of the drama not sitting down and talking about ANYTHING. They were always 1-2 steps behind the villains and were blind-sided ALL the time. They played defense (and not well) the entire last 1/3 of the drama or more until finally the last 2-3 episodes where they finally had epiphanies about how the game should be played and how to get the upper hand.
IDK. I guess when you go on a tough journey like this in a drama where the FL/ML suffer a lot and work hard to climb from the bottom... you expect them to... be smarter? More scheming? More "on their toes" or at the very least not working at a LOSS for 12+ episodes? This made it a bit of a struggle to watch but I did still enjoy it. If the 2nd half of the drama hadn't done this, it would have been an auto-rewatch for me and an auto-9.5-10 stars. But instead it firmly sits at 8-8.5 for me and likely not something I'll rewatch in the future.
fyi... another gripe is the main villain's ending. not good enough for me. not only that but how magnanimous and forgiving the FL was towards a few people. Just STOP already. It's OK to not forgive and to be glad some of these folks got their comeuppance! Why did she have to go literally out of her way at the end. The FL was already well established as forgiving, kind, generous, etc. We didn't need to make her go this far in the end.
The beginning was excellent, the pacing was on point, and I was invested in the journey the leads were on and loving the storyline/character development.
The only gripe I have about this drama is after the 5-year time skip. And it isn't because of the change in personality of the ML... that actually made sense. He'd been through hell and back. No one at 25 is who they were at 15. No one at 35 is who they were at 25. I get it.
The real issue for me is it seemed like the leads (both FL & ML) seemed to have regressed in the things that had gotten them that far in the first place. Thinking fast on their feet, being able to get the upper hand, and also the ability to have a straightforward conversation with one another. They spent a LOT of the last 1/3 of the drama not sitting down and talking about ANYTHING. They were always 1-2 steps behind the villains and were blind-sided ALL the time. They played defense (and not well) the entire last 1/3 of the drama or more until finally the last 2-3 episodes where they finally had epiphanies about how the game should be played and how to get the upper hand.
IDK. I guess when you go on a tough journey like this in a drama where the FL/ML suffer a lot and work hard to climb from the bottom... you expect them to... be smarter? More scheming? More "on their toes" or at the very least not working at a LOSS for 12+ episodes? This made it a bit of a struggle to watch but I did still enjoy it. If the 2nd half of the drama hadn't done this, it would have been an auto-rewatch for me and an auto-9.5-10 stars. But instead it firmly sits at 8-8.5 for me and likely not something I'll rewatch in the future.
fyi... another gripe is the main villain's ending. not good enough for me. not only that but how magnanimous and forgiving the FL was towards a few people. Just STOP already. It's OK to not forgive and to be glad some of these folks got their comeuppance! Why did she have to go literally out of her way at the end. The FL was already well established as forgiving, kind, generous, etc. We didn't need to make her go this far in the end.
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