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I haven't finished it but honestly why every drama of Lee Se Young have bad endings

The one in og is even worst

Yes “Mingyue” is park dal in OG and the one character that is missing is is the other friend Tang

You are not the only one she is more horrible here. Also something to point is Dal mother is also toxic here in OG Mingyue mom was a tiger mom like if she won’t her child might lose good things when the child is literally high schooler then a working women with a proper job but Dal mom is classic toxic korean mom who is like i will control everything cause my child is good for nothing and can never be as good as me

Ikr, I’m sorry but i haven’t finished replay 1988 but it is wild to ask the question who end up with whom when the plot is so much focus on family friendship and community. The fact that 2521 is my absolute fav drama i have no beef with that the ending, it was perfectly done; but it breaks my heart to see people hating it so passionately and also commenting its only 15 episode for me……. Hmmm… excuse me. I enjoyed LR but yes I dont think it’s great. It’s like people watches kdrama with one thinking that is great visual with added romantic story. It’s like no other genre exist in kdrama and even when they watch romanace if its not the same things or chose same route it’s again worst and time waste

I guess the huge reason we know this, was episodes of back story from half of ep 9 and ep 10 and ep 11 which I see a lot of people complain about

Agreed. He just loved a girl said no to other, and then he died.

That is one of the most frustrating thing to me when ever I want to see the rating or if any new drama just finished aired every one is like , "happy or sad ending", "love triangle" and it just gets me like the plot the story the actor nothing matters and then those people are very active when it comes to rating and often leave a ambiguous review that makes other wonder "am I wierd that I liked this"

To me that was a bit necessary. Cause the way story was going, up until episode 8, even half of episode 9, I trusted no one. Honestly, not even seon Hui (for the death of Kyeong ho) so even when two different sets of story was told one to seon Hui under captivity and other to police officer I had no idea whose to believe. The bio dad said which also made sense and the adoptive parents skipping the part that the kidnapper is the biological dad of seon Hui and telling he is killer of their son (which is true) to police, made me still suspect them. When the story begin to unfold for biological dad in second half of ep 9, it was still confusing; him getting flashback of happy memories while seon Hui is holding on his wound and then minutes later we see how toxic he was. It was like two different sets of information.
When the story leds in ep 10 you actually see the full variations of his true colors. He is money obsessed person so much so that he doesn't bother killing his own daughter, and then I don't know how happy memories he was talking about being shot. Also from the very start of his appearance the fact what happened to Sang ho was a mystery, if writers didn't addressed it properly, it would have been a bigger plot hole. Also if the scene where he was manipulating them was absent it wouldn't made sense why a prosecutor was helping a man who came as culprit and would be a joke that just cause he had same name the prosecutor was affectionate (what an idiot!) that entire ep also shows the fact that how the adoptive parents were way more human and affectionate people as often believe got foster parents are not good.

Sorry for this long comment

The first time that biological father lied of being an uncle that was the limit for me. I was like i don't trust a single word coming out of this persons mouth. And I was way to right about that hunch. He is epic piece of sh*t.

I don't know whether you noticed this but su Yeon adoptive parents were shown in later episode like either in 6, 7or 8 when they came a day before to see suyeon and left doing the formalities and was to come next day (the day fire happened) and then the adoption was pushed it's not very clear if they really said no (which I think they did) or orphanage did let her go as they were talking how the expenses to cover burn surgery is extra so why would anyone want to adopt a child with added expense. And yes those two are different sets of parents

I'm on ep8 and I trust no one here. God! The unhealthy way I have binged this drama is beyond my own understanding. I'm watching ep9 but wanted to write this here before 😅. I don't trust the adoptive parents, but I doubt biological one way more. At this moment I don't even trust Seon Hui, the amount of blood she has walking back home, makes me think otherwise. At times, I thought she might have killed others too, blacked out her trauma, and the adoptive parents are protecting her in name of being a perfect family in the society. Other times I thought the parents were fucked up, especially the dad cause the way he was and mom is same way but little less. Then recent episodes makes me believe mom is more unhinged one and the dad has to cover her tracks. But now I don't believe anyone not even Hyeon Woo. I love the way the series is write and the actor are playing their part.

thank you for the rating who said "not for everyone" that's why I watched it cause I have seen the dramas i enjoy often have ratings as not for everyone on MDL.

I agree on that as well. I said I don't know what specifically she meant as she said after 20 episode the romance portion began around 24-25 episode and then become main plot and had more screen time that stopped after couple of episode. And after that the ling xiao mom part was toxic as well

I don't know what you are exactly pointing out here but as many Cdrama go ahead is also divided into different plot every 10-12 episode. If you have paid attention, first few episode was childhood then after that was highschool and then leaving then the time apart then then coming back then for 5-6 episode the romance then back to overarching plot of the mom trying to take back Ling Xiao second time and him finding strength to say no and Ziqiu finding his mom. Many Cdramas are like this. Here the lead were 5 people so the small plot was for all five and side plot was for side characters. Now if a Cdrama has multiple couple as leads then episodes divides itself in almost equal parts or scene given to each couple

Not wrong their will be time skip. Not going in much detail as it will be considered as a spoiler

Episodes 3&4 done. I'll go the usual way to describe what I love so that I can see this series as stand-alone. So here it is. In initial episodes, meaning 1&2, the story seems much more like a true copy-to-copy remake with a little twist here and there. Maybe that's why I found myself drawing more comparisons between the OG version and the remake. By episode 3, it was very easy to see clear differences in the remake, and now I want to address this as a story inspired by GO AHEAD rather than a true remake. I can easily see it as a stand-alone series, I'm enjoying it even more; not saying that I hate it in the first 2 episodes; just putting out how the first 2 episodes, especially one, have scenes true to the OG.

Now keeping this aside. I'm in love with the cinematography. I like the character and their emotions here. While in OG, the character is way more layered, here not too deep, still not one-sided. Haejun seems to get triggered in violent ways when someone says Mom here which is very different from Ziqiu, who gets triggered more protective way when people talk about his mom particularly. Sanha has a different arc as well. We see the clear difference he put from the beginning when it comes to Juwon and his mother, which I found more interesting than Ling Xiao, who had so much trauma that he was easily pushed over by his mother and the relative on the mom's side. I still find Li Jianjian and Juwon's characters very much similar, although, in the first half, the younger version of Jianjian was very jealous (sorry for the lack of a better world here)/protective of the family unit situation had created. Juwon is more protective and isn't very jealous when the new sister is in the picture. Even with parents character. I am still hopeful for more scenes with the two fathers. Now, to talk about Haejun's biological dad, he was straightforward and started blackmailing Ziqiu and complied him to leave with him for England; Haejun's dad didn't seem that bad till now. Sanha's mom I didn't think Ling Xiao's mother's character could get nastier than that but I'll give her the grace that when she wanted Ling Xiao back she admitted to treating him bad in her own ways and wanted to keep him just to make herself feel okay that now she is a caring mother but Sanha's mom is still blaming him for the death talking about the ignorance while being a negligence parent herself; although they both had the same vibe as soon as they married in the rich family their state is suddenly okay while still blaming and creating a burden to their ex-husband and the child they abandoned.

I don't know if you watch go ahead to the end. Ziqiu didn't fall for Jianjian, though he proposed a marriage so that the family became legally one and he was legally registered as a member of the Li family. Even later in the episode, li Jian Jian knows this. That's why she turned down the proposal and talked frankly about this to Ling Xiao and Ha Ziqiu. He did admit that he liked Jianjian, but the romantic feeling was not there, but he was okay to get married to her if she wanted that.

IKR! It was 5 leads. There are many Cdrama that has multiple leads rather than traditionally ML & FL. And they give them proper screen time to tell their story

Yes to all that you said. Genuinely speaking I had feared the most was if kdrama went too much in a love triangle it might end like true beauty where viewers remember it mostly for SML syndrome; when Zi Qiu's character's intention to propose was to be included in the family register legally and not romantic like Xiao.

I read few comment here only who said they didn’t watched the OG drama cause Steven Zhang didn’t get the girl while other commenting that they had sml syndrome so they didn’t even bother to watch it. It broke my heart a little that such beautiful drama is only weighed if the sml got the girl or not. Also it feels like people are so used to kdrama ml, fl & sml trope that they seems to skip the part where most of cdrama has multiple main lead per say having different story arc. Even cdrama list them as main leads and not ml, fl or sml

Agreed that's why I'm saying I want to see Park Dal and Hae Jun to end up together. I wasn’t saying I was disappointed with Ha Zi Qiu’s character not getting a love arc I love the character the way it was written in Go Ahead he was my favorite right after Li Baa. I'm just saying when story went with jian jian and zi qiu to have romantic feels and viewer got torn that he didn't got the girl, I was pointing that his pairing with Ming yue looked much better and by the end writer also hinted they can be a couple.