Kate

Yeah. I didn't hate it, but I for sure expected a better conclusion for the show.

While I personally enjoyed the show and rated it rather highly for a rom-com, I still agree with many of your points. I think it just start airing in the right time for me, when I was truly in a mood for a silly rom-com that would help me relax a bit after work :)

Having both Tae-moo's grandfather and Young-Seo's father disapprove of their children's relationship was a bit too much < AGREED! Honestly, when we were first played and saw the dinner where Young Seo's dad accepts their relationship, I was so happy. I thought yet again they set up a trope to break it later. But this one time they followed the well known formula, and I was a bit disappointed...

Damn, this was fun and refreshing format for a review!
The usage of a time skip. I do not mind this trope, however it feels a bit of a cop-out. < completely agree. Honestly, the whole last episode was rather disappointing for me...

It's tropey, sure, but the drama executed it so well! < this line sums it up pretty well. Honestly, there is nothing wrong with cliches and using well known tropes in dramas and movies, it's all about the execution of them :)

but I can't say whether that's because of the writing or my feelings towards Alzheimer's after experiencing it through my grandmother. < similar situation here. I' always hesitant with dramas that talk about dementia, because it's a sensitive subject to me.

But the choice of whether or not to watch it should be theirs to make. < completely agree. The subject is too serious for some people to just go blindly watch the show without being warned before. Luckily I knew there will be some kind of plot twist when I started watching it, and after episode 3 I was fairly sure FL has a dementia and is actually old from the start of the show. Thanks to that, I was prepared for my theory to be proven and not as affected by the big reveal.

The story itself was phenomenal, you cannot predict anything < this makes me sad. I think I would loved the show if I did not suspect the dementia from like episode 3. Because of that, the reveal just did not hit me at all, I was ready for it.

I think this is my favorite performance from Nam Joo Hyuk from all the titles I saw him in.

However, it gets to a point where that I think the constant barrage of melodrama honestly detracts from the message, and borders on comical (unintentionally) at times. < exactly. To be honestly there was so much angst, melo and sadness, the closing narration in the last episode just did not do it for me. It felt flat after all that suffering the characters went through.

"the slow pace of life shown reflects the actual message from the series - life is quite mundane and ordinary most days, but we must find the beauty and meaning from it where we can." < really like how you summed it up with this line.

Nam Joo-hyuk did sooooo well in this role. I'm honestly not crazy about him, and the first time I liked his acting and role was in 2521, but after watching this right after, I think he truly aced the role.

"While 12 episodes is short I felt they should have condensed it further to 8 and I would have probably appreciated the story more. " < I have to agree. There were some scenes and plot lines that were either unnecessarily detailed or overall unnecessary. I think the show would flow a little bit better if it was shorter.

"The romance didn't feel fleshed out enough and I struggled to route for the characters." I did not even think about it myself, but now reading it in your review... it make sense and I agree. I get that we observed the romance as just part of the memories she still has mixed with reality she created, but it was not grounded enough. Their romance, be it past, the fantasy she created, or just memories, a big part of her journey, but it seemed really underdeveloped.

did you rate it? Or will you just keep it out of the completed list forever? 🤣

i knew there will be plot twist, predicted what it was on episode 3.
When it was officially revealed in the drama, was extremely disappointed and it just did not have much impact on me 🙃

If you know there will be some kind of plot twist, it's rather easy to see what it is early on.

Listen, I don't trust my judgement. I can turn shit into gold with overanalyzing hahahaha

I see a lot of people saying Da Un was not developed enough, but for me the way they presented his character makes perfect sense in the context of the story.

The same way we are bombarded with information about Si Won, since his personality is more open and he also opens fast to Da Un (episode 2 exactly, when he talks about his insecurities when he is drunk), we only get to know Da Un's thoughts in the last episode with sudden addition of his internal narration - because for him opening up was a slow process, hence the way his character was presented was also a slow process.

sure they play with expectations, but here they were rather clear about the fact these two did not end up together 🤣

Moreso, the writer created an illusion alluding that YJ was still present in HD life < yeah but I'm not buying that. If he was still in Hee Do's life, her daughter would know about him. For me it was more of a symbolism that she hold the memories dear to her heart, bot that he is truly still in her life. Everything went against that idea.

How can people say the drama writers played with viewers and kept the hope for happy ending till the end when from the start we know Hee Do's daughter had Kim surname, she does not know who Yi Jin is and does not recognize him from the photo?

I see your comment twice hahaha it did not disappeared hahaha