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When the Stars Gossip korean drama review
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When the Stars Gossip
8 people found this review helpful
by SaffronBlaze
Feb 26, 2025
16 of 16 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 3.5
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 1.5
This review may contain spoilers

Plot holes and the sacrifice trope only hurt an already mediocre romance story.

The visuals here were good and the acting was above average, but there were so many plot holes that I began to roll my eyes every episode. I get it is a challenge to deal with all the implications of being on a space station and aspects of it were compelling so as not to be a distraction but others were so obvious you wonder did the writers ever take a course in logic. One big let down was the lukewarm chemistry between the romantic leads. It had potential but the uncompromising female lead almost pathological need to value process over people, at least until the end, you knew she would have to pay a price for that. As such, the ending was particularly bad, including the blatant misdirection, twice, from the writers on the likely outcome in the last episode was very cheap, manipulative and annoying. While an obvious outcome given too many writers seem stuck on this K-drama trope of having someone sacrifice to atone for a past character failure. What was a mediocre romance drama, for several reasons, was certainly ruined by the ending.
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