Do give it a read, and if you have seen the Season - do let me know your thoughts. AND PLEASE do share theories (use spoiler tag) in comments - LETS DISCUSS!
tbh, I don't agree that the current relationship manifest overnight I think it was that a misunderstanding was…
So I mentioned it another post - and yes, I know it is a dramaland and follows drama logic. But while the leads may have harbored feelings for each other as kids - I believe as they grew up as adults they did not have much interaction or time to get closer. Even if we disregard all that as it was not shown- we at least know that the last 3 years of marriage they were both indifferent to each other. At least the FL was frustrated to a point that she used the kidnapping opportunity to get divorced.
Therefore am unable to grasp how years of frustration/indifference and other negative feelings for the ML are forgotten in such a short span of time. Even if the ML is paying more attention and doing all kinds of heroic scenes - still as a woman I'll still be skeptical of the mysterious person keeping secrets rather than throw myself in his arms and confess that she loves him.
Had they shown that she slowly starts trusting him and begins helping him to bring down the kidnapper duo and then like mature adults they would have given a chance to the relationship as ML confessed why he was keeping her at a distance. At present it seems like they have totally forgotten the past few years and their hardships/communication gaps just for the events that happened in few days/weeks.
But then it is my take - hence I am fast-forwarding the romance scenes, because I am unable to digest the pace in which it has taken shape. But am okay with most people loving it. Both are valid - just wanted to share my point, that's all.
Hehe, I know he can pull off any look and role - but this is the first time that I am seeing him in a lighter hair color, I was taken aback. It looks absurd in this picture - but waiting to see how it looks once it is in video, when he is in action.
Have a major thing for anime guys with white hair (Kakashi, Gojo) - looks like need to add him to the list too 💖
FINALLYYY! EP 8 - where were you all this time? This episode has made weeks of ranting/ waiting worthwhile. WHY?
1) the suspense/mystery is finally unfolding and am loving the direction it is headed. The innocent folks are looking sus and the already sus people are making bold moves. GAME ON! Can't wait for the finale to come in and reveal it all.
2) I am still FF-ing the "apparent" romance parts. But a scene that made me smile, without rolling my eyes at the forced chemistry. It was the elevator sign lang conversation. Rather it was YYS - after the FL exits and ML practicing the smile sign on his own. Cute! Afterall only YYS can pull off the goofy aspect while looking suave AF.
The mystery is the only reason that has hooked me to this drama. The romance part is still not working for me. The main leads are my favorite actors and they are doing the part - but am still unhappy how they have been directed to become a lovey-dovey couple overnight after years of neglect/indifference.
STILL - glad that the story is getting closer to the finish line, and I can't wait for the mystery to unravel. In my mind I have now given up on the romance, it is just not working for me. The chemistry is as good as the infamous K-drama cardboard kiss/fish face kiss - just extrapolate it to overall romance.
I have watching this drama twice - it was not flawless, but oddly addictive. But one thing I have not been able to fully grasp is why her friends/neighbors were hiding the affair from her - and happily were partying with the mistress? And why FL forgave them in the end.
Like I know it is a drama and follows drama-logic but I still don't understand why even though I understand the reasons the drama told us. For her husband - I am okay, hence the title and stress on the fact that it is strange being in the "world of married" but am not able to grasp it for the friends and neighbors.
KBS and MBC (SBS stopped making dailies like 3 years ago iirc) would rather invest more money into the prime time…
Thank you so much @cosmiccosmetics (Love the username BTW) for the detailed explanation. I have always wondered why the short episode dramas look different from the long format ones.
And just because as an international audience I am not watching it at the time it is aired - so I did not not what were aired in prime time and what on off-peak time. But your explanation made me understand - and ofc, it makes more sense why the production house is putting money according to the viewership and target audience.
I will definitely look out - Game of Witches, it had been on my radar for quite sometime. I'll skip Amor Fati - I believe you when you say it is bad.
Just 6 minutes into Ep 7 and I almost need to pull my hair. This drama clearly is not paced well, characters and…
Main Issue - and evidently highlighted in Ep 7 Start:
They both are supposed to hate each other and have been doing so in some capacity in last few years.
Even if the ML is pretending to hate her all this while and he wants her to hate him back so that they don't get closer. They carried this out for 3 years at least. The FL too has hated/disliked him - and which is why she went ahead with the plan to use the phone and blackmail him. In her anger, frustration, hatred - call it what you want - but it was definitely not care/love.
Understand that they went about their business as it is for 3 years, and this phone call/kidnapping became the catalyst and which is why the events/this story is taking place. But then how can they forget everything of the past 2-3 years in a matter of minutes?
Overtime as drama progressed - we are seeing that okay they are not sworn enemies as the ML and FL were childhood sweethearts. BUT BUT BUT - it is evident that there has been sometime in between where they did not care for each other and carried on their on ways. Which is why somehow Paik Sa Eon was supposed to marry I-na. Therefore, even if we know that the ML had feelings for FL - the FL definitely did not feel anything till then.
But then suddenly she was forced to marry him. Should she not resent him for that which derailed her own life goals/plans and everything else that made her life be nothing more than a puppet of ML and his family and ofc her own family?
How can all those pent up frustration, anger, dislike, non-care attitude, what she heard when kidnapped, initial reason to leave him - all vanish? And suddenly they are declaring and confessing their love for each other.
It really makes no sense - which is why I blame the pace, storytelling capabilities of the writers and directors of this show.
I continue to wait and watch this show only cause I NEED to know the past stories/mysteries and ending. Everything else till now is flawed.
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Shared my thoughts in a review here: https://mydramalist.com/profile/omo-omo-omo/review/414036
Do give it a read, and if you have seen the Season - do let me know your thoughts.
AND PLEASE do share theories (use spoiler tag) in comments - LETS DISCUSS!
Can't. Wait. ~12 HOURS to GO!!
Therefore am unable to grasp how years of frustration/indifference and other negative feelings for the ML are forgotten in such a short span of time. Even if the ML is paying more attention and doing all kinds of heroic scenes - still as a woman I'll still be skeptical of the mysterious person keeping secrets rather than throw myself in his arms and confess that she loves him.
Had they shown that she slowly starts trusting him and begins helping him to bring down the kidnapper duo and then like mature adults they would have given a chance to the relationship as ML confessed why he was keeping her at a distance. At present it seems like they have totally forgotten the past few years and their hardships/communication gaps just for the events that happened in few days/weeks.
But then it is my take - hence I am fast-forwarding the romance scenes, because I am unable to digest the pace in which it has taken shape. But am okay with most people loving it. Both are valid - just wanted to share my point, that's all.
Hehe, I know he can pull off any look and role - but this is the first time that I am seeing him in a lighter hair color, I was taken aback. It looks absurd in this picture - but waiting to see how it looks once it is in video, when he is in action.
Have a major thing for anime guys with white hair (Kakashi, Gojo) - looks like need to add him to the list too 💖
1) the suspense/mystery is finally unfolding and am loving the direction it is headed. The innocent folks are looking sus and the already sus people are making bold moves. GAME ON! Can't wait for the finale to come in and reveal it all.
2) I am still FF-ing the "apparent" romance parts. But a scene that made me smile, without rolling my eyes at the forced chemistry. It was the elevator sign lang conversation. Rather it was YYS - after the FL exits and ML practicing the smile sign on his own. Cute! Afterall only YYS can pull off the goofy aspect while looking suave AF.
The mystery is the only reason that has hooked me to this drama. The romance part is still not working for me. The main leads are my favorite actors and they are doing the part - but am still unhappy how they have been directed to become a lovey-dovey couple overnight after years of neglect/indifference.
STILL - glad that the story is getting closer to the finish line, and I can't wait for the mystery to unravel. In my mind I have now given up on the romance, it is just not working for me. The chemistry is as good as the infamous K-drama cardboard kiss/fish face kiss - just extrapolate it to overall romance.
Always up for some old J-Pop!
But one thing I have not been able to fully grasp is why her friends/neighbors were hiding the affair from her - and happily were partying with the mistress? And why FL forgave them in the end.
Like I know it is a drama and follows drama-logic but I still don't understand why even though I understand the reasons the drama told us. For her husband - I am okay, hence the title and stress on the fact that it is strange being in the "world of married" but am not able to grasp it for the friends and neighbors.
Given both are completed I think I'll give them a try. They are definitely long but am oddly addicted to them.
And just because as an international audience I am not watching it at the time it is aired - so I did not not what were aired in prime time and what on off-peak time. But your explanation made me understand - and ofc, it makes more sense why the production house is putting money according to the viewership and target audience.
I will definitely look out - Game of Witches, it had been on my radar for quite sometime. I'll skip Amor Fati - I believe you when you say it is bad.
BAE In Hyuk is definitely BAE 🥰
They both are supposed to hate each other and have been doing so in some capacity in last few years.
Even if the ML is pretending to hate her all this while and he wants her to hate him back so that they don't get closer. They carried this out for 3 years at least. The FL too has hated/disliked him - and which is why she went ahead with the plan to use the phone and blackmail him. In her anger, frustration, hatred - call it what you want - but it was definitely not care/love.
Understand that they went about their business as it is for 3 years, and this phone call/kidnapping became the catalyst and which is why the events/this story is taking place. But then how can they forget everything of the past 2-3 years in a matter of minutes?
Overtime as drama progressed - we are seeing that okay they are not sworn enemies as the ML and FL were childhood sweethearts. BUT BUT BUT - it is evident that there has been sometime in between where they did not care for each other and carried on their on ways. Which is why somehow Paik Sa Eon was supposed to marry I-na. Therefore, even if we know that the ML had feelings for FL - the FL definitely did not feel anything till then.
But then suddenly she was forced to marry him. Should she not resent him for that which derailed her own life goals/plans and everything else that made her life be nothing more than a puppet of ML and his family and ofc her own family?
How can all those pent up frustration, anger, dislike, non-care attitude, what she heard when kidnapped, initial reason to leave him - all vanish? And suddenly they are declaring and confessing their love for each other.
It really makes no sense - which is why I blame the pace, storytelling capabilities of the writers and directors of this show.
I continue to wait and watch this show only cause I NEED to know the past stories/mysteries and ending. Everything else till now is flawed.