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Watch the first 5 episodes and call it a day
This was a rewatch and apparently the first time I watched it (about a decade ago), I gave it 7.5 stars. I don't know what my past self was thinking. Clearly nothing, which mirrors most of the characters in this show.
This show has one strength - it masters the light, breezy, comedy/back and forth romance vibes.
Unfortunately that does not last enough and that brings up its many, many weaknesses. In no particular order:
- Kim Tae Hee's character, Lee Seol, is the Classic(TM) warm, bubbly, naive girl -- which would be fine if she also could think about things or make decisions or do something OF HER OWN VOLITION. But nope! She cries all the time and gets saved by someone (always a man, of course). She gets into scrapes and never learns her lesson. She has flashes of "I will be a Good Princess and Buckle Down" and then immediately gets distracted. That's not the kind of character I like!!! PLUS, most egregiously, her ENTIRE drive to do anything is to chase after a man (Park Hae Young). It's heinous. EVERYTHING revolves around him for her. She has no thoughts but his/of him. She waits around for him while he treats her like dogshit. He makes her cry ALL the time and she calls him a bastard and then two scenes later, she's forgotten all about it. The entire last episode is about her waiting around for him while she's A PRINCESS and he doesn't visit/doesn't call. I have no idea what her goals are except to be his wife. PASS PASS PASS.
- Like many people have already shared -- the sheer villainy of Oh Yoon Joo is wild. You never find out a legitimate reason she is doing all of that. AND she never gets any comparable punishment for her evil deeds!
- Horrible pacing. What is the point of most of these plots?
- When you get to episodes 10-14, you are begging for someone -- ANYONE -- to use their brain, but NOPE.
- Why did the stylists hate KTH so much?????????
Overall: pass unless you have a higher tolerance for these kinds of characters and nonsensical, dragged out plots. Or if you want to look at KTH. Because she IS simply gorgeous even when she has to play one of the stupidest characters ever.
This show has one strength - it masters the light, breezy, comedy/back and forth romance vibes.
Unfortunately that does not last enough and that brings up its many, many weaknesses. In no particular order:
- Kim Tae Hee's character, Lee Seol, is the Classic(TM) warm, bubbly, naive girl -- which would be fine if she also could think about things or make decisions or do something OF HER OWN VOLITION. But nope! She cries all the time and gets saved by someone (always a man, of course). She gets into scrapes and never learns her lesson. She has flashes of "I will be a Good Princess and Buckle Down" and then immediately gets distracted. That's not the kind of character I like!!! PLUS, most egregiously, her ENTIRE drive to do anything is to chase after a man (Park Hae Young). It's heinous. EVERYTHING revolves around him for her. She has no thoughts but his/of him. She waits around for him while he treats her like dogshit. He makes her cry ALL the time and she calls him a bastard and then two scenes later, she's forgotten all about it. The entire last episode is about her waiting around for him while she's A PRINCESS and he doesn't visit/doesn't call. I have no idea what her goals are except to be his wife. PASS PASS PASS.
- Like many people have already shared -- the sheer villainy of Oh Yoon Joo is wild. You never find out a legitimate reason she is doing all of that. AND she never gets any comparable punishment for her evil deeds!
- Horrible pacing. What is the point of most of these plots?
- When you get to episodes 10-14, you are begging for someone -- ANYONE -- to use their brain, but NOPE.
- Why did the stylists hate KTH so much?????????
Overall: pass unless you have a higher tolerance for these kinds of characters and nonsensical, dragged out plots. Or if you want to look at KTH. Because she IS simply gorgeous even when she has to play one of the stupidest characters ever.
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