Aramintai

I agree about lack of specialization. Hanbada's a big company and should have attorneys specializing in different aspects of law, they even mention it in the drama. Even small companies and individually working attorneys tend to specialize. More realistically, they should have given a chance for undefined rookies to work with various mentors.
And some cases were really dumb indeed. The one about public road like you mentioned, or the one where NK woman turned herself in, for example, were so on the surface it just made everyone involved dumb by not looking up the obvious relevant information and laws about them.
From what I've seen from other law dramas, interesting cases are never so easily resolved by simply finding the correct law clause, or hoping that the other side or the judge somehow hasn't looked it up. Attorneys often have to do an extra investigative work, sometimes prosecution misses some evidence. And most interesting cases often have unexpected twists. Haven't seen much of those in this drama.

Yea, I like his brother much more. The writer is all calm, smart and calculating. While prosecutor is just some hot-shot who's always angry at someone and still hasn't contributed much to the case, aside from finding contact with secret intelligence guys, but even that was reporter's contribution.

I've seen other law kdramas where cases were interesting and smartly presented.
But I guess here cases are just a backdrop following the same blueprints that take entirely too much time out of episodes, instead of focusing on much more needed characters development.

Anybody else have a feeling that for a law drama cases were rather weak and almost all of them revolved around FL finding that one law clause in her head library that made an irrefutable counter argument for a case? I get that cases were based on real ones, but some of them were very basic and weak, where it required just to find that one clause to crumble them? Yea, she's quick about it because she's a walking law books library, but anybody can do it by normal means too. Irl both sides go through all relevant laws and precedents prior going to court, here for drama's sake she remembers it at the last minute while already in court and the other side stays dumbfounded. As the episodes went on and this schtick kept on repeating it just became obvious that it's writers way to make FL the smartest by making all other attorneys unrealistically dumb.
It was especially obvious in episode 15, where a senior attoreny was made an utter incompetent fool to show how smart she is. Not to mention her rookie colleagues who don't look like they contribute anything to the cases. Yea, they are shown looking through case papers, but they never came up with any valid ideas. And Min Woo never even represented anyone in court, only in episode 15 he stood up and repeated what FL already said to them.
So all in all, this drama failed to me as a law drama and if FL was supposed to be shown growing professionally it also failed - even by the end she's not a team player, she still acts like that annoying A-student who just has to keep yelling the correct answer before anyone else all the time.

That crazy killer girl character, who's secretary's sister - her actress was the initial choice for FL in Alchemy of Souls? I can see why they ditched her, she has nothing on Jung So Min.

Nobody said her father is smart. On the contrary, he's still a dumbass even after all these years. But he did what he thought was best at the moment, she really wanted to work as an attorney.

There weren't any signs from her, on the contrary, she openly hated him, because she knew he was an ass even from university.
He, on the other hand, gawked at her a few times, if that even counts.
That's about it.

Yea, this is one of the major things that really bothers and pisses me off. What were the writers thinking with this 180 character behaviour?

He did it so that FL could get a job at Hanbada, nobody was hiring her because she's autistic.

Yea, they're not even gonna show that mistreating disabled people at work is bad by dropping Min Woo's character sub plot and making him a completely different character all of a sudden.

Yea, I already lowered my score. Will see how they manage in the last episode, maybe it will warrant another drop.

Yea, forgot about the money, lol. So true 😂 She'll fall into the same trap as with that previous suitor from the club.

Yea, cases should have been shortened and more scenes of characters interactions and character development should have been added instead.

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Nah, they probably gonna date, get married and then only after living with him for several years she'll finally realize what an ass he actually is and file a divorce. That's how it happens irl all the time 🤣

Yea, pacing is all wrong in the later half. But it's actually common in kdramas, they often start great but just don't know how to end them properly.

Yea, and also isn't it the first time he actually stood up and said something in court? And even then it was repeating what FL said to them?
Soo Yeon and FL were doing all the work before that.

She apparently has very low standards and very bad taste in men. Kinda feel sorry for her character.

I'm not sure it will be open. After all, they didn't plan season 2 from the start. It's just because of such popularity they are considering it because 🤑🤑🤑

Yea, the way I see it producers smelled money and want to make it. But none of the actors are onboard, they've had no clue even 🤣 So it's all up in the air.