The webtoon was brilliant as it was. They could have just made an exact copy of the webtoon and it would have been a great fluffy drama.
They did not need to make a poor cdrama knock off.
This drama is way too crappy. From the looks of it, these kinds of dramas do seem to be a thing in Asia.
Let me show you how crappy this drama is -
30 year old gorgeous girl, rich and CEO of a company. Has studied abroad in best colleges worked abroad as well. Somehow she never liked a guy or ever dated one either. This lady comes back to Korea and due to circumstances meets a guy who is average, parents have fried chicken set up and they just get by. So, one day out of blue this guy, the ML starts crying in front of our gorgeous woman CEO about how much he loves another girl, how much he misses her and how he has been deeply in love with this another girl for 7 years. In bizarre twist, our CEO girl starts liking this weepy man who is open about his feelings etc etc and starts simping him and chasing him. A few days later, this man who has been deeply in love with another girl starts making out with the CEO girl who is chasing him Now the girl ML liked for 7 years starts getting jealous and starts being mean to our CEO lady...... the story continues in predictable way
Anyone seen a drama with this story? Absolutely not. None of us have since it is an absolutely nauseous story line and we all know the reason(s) why this story has never been made into a Cdrama or kdrama.
If the above was a crappy premise for a drama, why would any story with swapped genders become suddenly good? And it's not like it's an unique drama. Half of Cdramas have exactly the same story line including the characters, the weepy scenes, the 2ML etc etc.
with next episode preview it's pretty apparent this drama is a poor knock off of cheap Cinderella-CEO Cdrama. At least the Cdrama has chemistry going for it. This one does not even have that - hence the poor knock off.
The ML and FL are exact copies of every cinderella-CEO Cdrama the 2ML is the ever present Cdrama 2ML
Every episode is never ending ugly cringe-fest and the episode preview where the ML gets punched and the FL acting that way is just way too shitty. I thought CEO simping girls was a Cdrama thing, looks like we have that in Kdramas as well.
Why would these guys lie that this is based on the webtoon? except for the names of the characters, there is absolutely nothing in the drama from the webtoon. If anything this is an exact copy of dozen other Cdramas this year with CEO as ML and that too a shitty copy.
The already stupid ML now is considering dating other women. Considering the shit he just went through, one would think he needs some time to reflect and get a measure of control on his life. But the idiot feels the need for another woman in his already messed up life. Would any sane person who went though what the ML just did feels the need to have another woman in his life? What is he offering this new woman anyway? No love, can't or won't protect her and when she faces difficulties he will outright abandon her.
The ML is incredibly stupid, pathetic and insane at this point.
Business Proposal is a poor Cdrama knock off of Cinderella - CEO story with one dimensional characters and cringy…
It seems so, turning the girl into a pathetic idiot seems to sell in Cdramas. What's ironic is that these same women are projected as strong women but they come across as anything but that. The number of Cdramas where the FL is made into a retarded monkey by the 2ML is countless.
When you watch historical/wuxia Cdramas that blow your mind in a good way & then you watch romance Cdramas that blow your mind in the worst possible way - it's insane.
Business Proposal is a poor Cdrama knock off of Cinderella - CEO story with one dimensional characters and cringy…
ML acting is a bit stiff but the drastically changed story line, characters and Cdrama Chiches are the main put offs.
By episode 4, it resembled exactly like 10 other Cdramas I watched in last few months with Cinderella - CEO story, including the scenes where a grown woman is crying in front of a not close man about her crush not into her. Never met a grown man or woman who cry about their love failures in front of strangers, ffs even teenagers would be aghast at crying about their crushes not materializing in front of others.
Not to mention the absolute lack of chemistry. One really need to place their brain in a freezer to watch these grown up ML and FL behave like pre-teens
Business Proposal is a poor Cdrama knock off of Cinderella - CEO story with one dimensional characters and cringy…
In the webtoon, the ML is sweet to the FL through out. Only that the FL misunderstands his sweetness as him taking revenge on her by making her fall in love with him.
In the drama though ML is a pompous bully and the FL is pathetic.
Agree on ML and FL in Crazy Love being crazy in a good way.
Business Proposal is a poor Cdrama knock off of Cinderella - CEO story with one dimensional characters and cringy…
They managed to take a wonderful webtoon with adorable characters and turned into an abomination. Except for the names of the characters, the drama has no resemblance to the toon.
It's probably targeted to early teens who think those pathetic cliches in the drama are great. had to literally control my disgust at some of the things shown in that drama.
“pathetic Cdrama idiotic FL whose character cannot exist without certain affirmation from the ML”1) your stereotyping…
Crying in front of ML is not the problem. In fact she does cry in front the ML when he truly becomes some one she loves and becomes dear to her. In fact crying in front of your near and dear ones is not a weakness, as you said, it is a strength.
The reason for crying and who you are crying in front of is also important.
Would any girl like if their husband/boyfriend start crying about his failed relations and how much he loved other girls? Or imagine if a girls colleague who is not particular close to her starts crying about how much he loves a girl and goes on about it..
That is not a strength.
Coming to the parents & her crush it is a red flag, a huge one, may be it's a thing in asian culture where the girl is confirmed a particular image but it is extremely patronizing. Problem with that scene is that by this time the FL is well and truly into the ML and the crush is starting to look like a douche.
The character growth for FL comes from the fact that she sees a bit of herself in the cowardice of her previous crush and decides to be brave about her feelings for the ML.
Character growth seems to have taken to a backseat to pandering to certain sections of viewers who like Cdramas with incredibly pathetic FL's.
“pathetic Cdrama idiotic FL whose character cannot exist without certain affirmation from the ML”1) your stereotyping…
There you have it.
On it's own, the drama is any other Cinderella CEO romance drama with certain Ripleys believe it or not scenes in it.
BUT this drama has a source material, has been sold to viewers as such as well. Adding and removing scenes is all acceptable as long as the core theme of the source material is adhered to. Clearly the drama makers pissed on the source material.
Was watching 'twenty five twenty one', easily the best Kdrama of the year. There is a scene where the FL is listening to tape of ML confessing to another girl. the ML is mortified seeing FL listening to it. By this time the FL is pretty much his bestie and they have been the go to people for each other to share their happiness and sadness. Yet, the guy was mortified. That's pretty much how humans are. romantic feelings are pretty much intimate. They are not easily shared with 3rd parties. Cdramas have the FL sharing these feelings, wailing and crying about them to the nearest man who happens to be the handsome CEO. Even imagining the incredible cringy patheticness of this unrealistic scene is beyond me. Hence my shock at seeing something like that in a Kdramas which usually have strong FL.
The parents casually throwing the FL on the floor and wiping it with her was another one. It was as if the parents are like, as a man you should do our daughter a favor and marry her. We know she likes you, we also know you don't like her but we beg you, please please be our SIL. However casual, thats basically how it came across.
“pathetic Cdrama idiotic FL whose character cannot exist without certain affirmation from the ML”1) your stereotyping…
There are a dozen Cdramas in the last few months that have similar story line to this one, have the same type of ML and FL, same crying scenes, same cringy parents making the FL look like an idiot. The only saving grace for Cdramas is that the leads tend to have great chemistry.
This one right now is a basically a Cdrama minus the chemistry.
Where as the original webtoon was fantastic love story with awesome chemistry, in drama I don't feel it.....yet.
Instead of asking me to drop it, go and read the webtoon and then you will probably understand what 'explosive chemistry' is. They screwed the FL character, even 10 year old have more chemistry in their love story than this one and those cringy stupid unrealistic scenes are hard to get over.
Unfortunately this drama does not have even 10% of the chemistry the webtoon has.
FL confession to ML who she was clearly one of the best in the toon. She by then had already started to fall for the ML and that reflects that. In the drama it was a 'meh' moment.
This drama's major turnoff's is how pathetic FL has turned it. First it was the crying about her crush in front of ML Now her parents just wiping her on the floor in front her crush.
The ML is coming back to being Taemu.
No matter what they say, this drama went down for me the moment the idiots made her cry in front of the ML over her crush. This turned into one of those idiotic Cdramas.
usually Kdramas are much better in building their characters. Here, they took absolutely adorable FL in the webtoon and turned her into pathetic Cdrama idiotic FL whose character cannot exist without certain affirmation from the ML. And the chemistry is almost non-existent compared to the webtoon.
There are just 4 episodes left & the ML is still indecisive even after learning the truth. Why would anyone trust this guy to be with them in tough times when the first instinct this guy has is to bail out.
Utterly disappointing character growth for ML. FL deserves much better.
Got to say that this show is fast becoming my fav show this year.
There are many adorable characters in the show. The scene where the office colleague enters the basement and sees the guys working hard to bring the AC back up - then proceeds to bring them some cold drinks. These little bits showing how the characters are some of the gems of this show. The lady who supports her husband to take a break for studies and her whole positive attitude about the whole thing. the boss who seems to be supportive of his staff. The misunderstood senior who does not fit in with his family
The show is giving all these support characters great story lines and scenes.
Don't count her crush out yet, they definitely had something between them, I wouldn't be surprised if he comes…
A spoiler,
In the webtoon, she does cry in front of the ML and the author nailed it. It's when the FL has completely fallen in love with the ML, she is thinking he hates her, she is fearful for herself & future and yet cannot stop being in love with the ML. At that moment, in her mind she has completely fallen in love with the guy who is out to destroy her - her tears makes sense.
When you see how beautifully the author goes about it for the FL when she was feeling sad in front of ML & then you see this crap in the drama, you will understand why this was so out of place.
They did not need to make a poor cdrama knock off.
This drama is way too crappy. From the looks of it, these kinds of dramas do seem to be a thing in Asia.
Let me show you how crappy this drama is -
30 year old gorgeous girl, rich and CEO of a company. Has studied abroad in best colleges worked abroad as well. Somehow she never liked a guy or ever dated one either.
This lady comes back to Korea and due to circumstances meets a guy who is average, parents have fried chicken set up and they just get by.
So, one day out of blue this guy, the ML starts crying in front of our gorgeous woman CEO about how much he loves another girl, how much he misses her and how he has been deeply in love with this another girl for 7 years.
In bizarre twist, our CEO girl starts liking this weepy man who is open about his feelings etc etc and starts simping him and chasing him.
A few days later, this man who has been deeply in love with another girl starts making out with the CEO girl who is chasing him
Now the girl ML liked for 7 years starts getting jealous and starts being mean to our CEO lady......
the story continues in predictable way
Anyone seen a drama with this story? Absolutely not.
None of us have since it is an absolutely nauseous story line and we all know the reason(s) why this story has never been made into a Cdrama or kdrama.
If the above was a crappy premise for a drama, why would any story with swapped genders become suddenly good?
And it's not like it's an unique drama. Half of Cdramas have exactly the same story line including the characters, the weepy scenes, the 2ML etc etc.
The ML and FL are exact copies of every cinderella-CEO Cdrama
the 2ML is the ever present Cdrama 2ML
Every episode is never ending ugly cringe-fest and the episode preview where the ML gets punched and the FL acting that way is just way too shitty.
I thought CEO simping girls was a Cdrama thing, looks like we have that in Kdramas as well.
Why would these guys lie that this is based on the webtoon?
except for the names of the characters, there is absolutely nothing in the drama from the webtoon.
If anything this is an exact copy of dozen other Cdramas this year with CEO as ML and that too a shitty copy.
The drama masterfully subverted a cliche and created a new genre.
Imagine every house wife who raised a man's children being told that!
Refreshing perspective.
The already stupid ML now is considering dating other women.
Considering the shit he just went through, one would think he needs some time to reflect and get a measure of control on his life.
But the idiot feels the need for another woman in his already messed up life. Would any sane person who went though what the ML just did feels the need to have another woman in his life? What is he offering this new woman anyway? No love, can't or won't protect her and when she faces difficulties he will outright abandon her.
The ML is incredibly stupid, pathetic and insane at this point.
turning the girl into a pathetic idiot seems to sell in Cdramas.
What's ironic is that these same women are projected as strong women but they come across as anything but that.
The number of Cdramas where the FL is made into a retarded monkey by the 2ML is countless.
When you watch historical/wuxia Cdramas that blow your mind in a good way & then you watch romance Cdramas that blow your mind in the worst possible way - it's insane.
but the drastically changed story line, characters and Cdrama Chiches are the main put offs.
By episode 4, it resembled exactly like 10 other Cdramas I watched in last few months with Cinderella - CEO story, including the scenes where a grown woman is crying in front of a not close man about her crush not into her.
Never met a grown man or woman who cry about their love failures in front of strangers, ffs even teenagers would be aghast at crying about their crushes not materializing in front of others.
Not to mention the absolute lack of chemistry. One really need to place their brain in a freezer to watch these grown up ML and FL behave like pre-teens
Only that the FL misunderstands his sweetness as him taking revenge on her by making her fall in love with him.
In the drama though ML is a pompous bully and the FL is pathetic.
Agree on ML and FL in Crazy Love being crazy in a good way.
Except for the names of the characters, the drama has no resemblance to the toon.
It's probably targeted to early teens who think those pathetic cliches in the drama are great.
had to literally control my disgust at some of the things shown in that drama.
This one is way better.
Lot of fun and very interesting characters.
In fact crying in front of your near and dear ones is not a weakness, as you said, it is a strength.
The reason for crying and who you are crying in front of is also important.
Would any girl like if their husband/boyfriend start crying about his failed relations and how much he loved other girls?
Or imagine if a girls colleague who is not particular close to her starts crying about how much he loves a girl and goes on about it..
That is not a strength.
Coming to the parents & her crush it is a red flag, a huge one, may be it's a thing in asian culture where the girl is confirmed a particular image but it is extremely patronizing.
Problem with that scene is that by this time the FL is well and truly into the ML and the crush is starting to look like a douche.
The character growth for FL comes from the fact that she sees a bit of herself in the cowardice of her previous crush and decides to be brave about her feelings for the ML.
Character growth seems to have taken to a backseat to pandering to certain sections of viewers who like Cdramas with incredibly pathetic FL's.
On it's own, the drama is any other Cinderella CEO romance drama with certain Ripleys believe it or not scenes in it.
BUT this drama has a source material, has been sold to viewers as such as well. Adding and removing scenes is all acceptable as long as the core theme of the source material is adhered to. Clearly the drama makers pissed on the source material.
Was watching 'twenty five twenty one', easily the best Kdrama of the year. There is a scene where the FL is listening to tape of ML confessing to another girl. the ML is mortified seeing FL listening to it. By this time the FL is pretty much his bestie and they have been the go to people for each other to share their happiness and sadness. Yet, the guy was mortified. That's pretty much how humans are.
romantic feelings are pretty much intimate. They are not easily shared with 3rd parties. Cdramas have the FL sharing these feelings, wailing and crying about them to the nearest man who happens to be the handsome CEO. Even imagining the incredible cringy patheticness of this unrealistic scene is beyond me. Hence my shock at seeing something like that in a Kdramas which usually have strong FL.
The parents casually throwing the FL on the floor and wiping it with her was another one. It was as if the parents are like, as a man you should do our daughter a favor and marry her. We know she likes you, we also know you don't like her but we beg you, please please be our SIL. However casual, thats basically how it came across.
The only saving grace for Cdramas is that the leads tend to have great chemistry.
This one right now is a basically a Cdrama minus the chemistry.
Where as the original webtoon was fantastic love story with awesome chemistry, in drama I don't feel it.....yet.
Instead of asking me to drop it, go and read the webtoon and then you will probably understand what 'explosive chemistry' is.
They screwed the FL character, even 10 year old have more chemistry in their love story than this one and those cringy stupid unrealistic scenes are hard to get over.
FL confession to ML who she was clearly one of the best in the toon. She by then had already started to fall for the ML and that reflects that. In the drama it was a 'meh' moment.
This drama's major turnoff's is how pathetic FL has turned it.
First it was the crying about her crush in front of ML
Now her parents just wiping her on the floor in front her crush.
The ML is coming back to being Taemu.
No matter what they say, this drama went down for me the moment the idiots made her cry in front of the ML over her crush. This turned into one of those idiotic Cdramas.
usually Kdramas are much better in building their characters.
Here, they took absolutely adorable FL in the webtoon and turned her into pathetic Cdrama idiotic FL whose character cannot exist without certain affirmation from the ML.
And the chemistry is almost non-existent compared to the webtoon.
Why would anyone trust this guy to be with them in tough times when the first instinct this guy has is to bail out.
Utterly disappointing character growth for ML.
FL deserves much better.
There are many adorable characters in the show.
The scene where the office colleague enters the basement and sees the guys working hard to bring the AC back up - then proceeds to bring them some cold drinks. These little bits showing how the characters are some of the gems of this show.
The lady who supports her husband to take a break for studies and her whole positive attitude about the whole thing.
the boss who seems to be supportive of his staff.
The misunderstood senior who does not fit in with his family
The show is giving all these support characters great story lines and scenes.
In the webtoon, she does cry in front of the ML and the author nailed it.
It's when the FL has completely fallen in love with the ML, she is thinking he hates her, she is fearful for herself & future and yet cannot stop being in love with the ML.
At that moment, in her mind she has completely fallen in love with the guy who is out to destroy her - her tears makes sense.
When you see how beautifully the author goes about it for the FL when she was feeling sad in front of ML & then you see this crap in the drama, you will understand why this was so out of place.
For most of the drama the poor girl has been fighting a solo battle to save her love.
YG is a yellow bellied coward and an moron to boot.
Definitely not what the writers intended for YG but that's how pathetic he comes across at this moment.