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its fun yet can be serious when it needs too
genuinely one of my fav kdramas and I rewatch it a lot, sure the side couple were a bit boring but the main couple made up for that.the fl is quirky and cute but not enough to the point where you get annoyed. the ml is mature and serious but not in a nonchalant way. you can tell that he genuinely loves and cares for her. the two together are abousutly perfect.
also the family issues really stick despite being very far from the average person. you understand when Hae Jun gets mad at San Ha for not welcoming his mom with open arms, and you sympathize when Ju won is at the hospital in Seoul to visit San Ha and thinks San ha sees her as less than his biological family. and also when Ju won overhears that the two guys are going away after highschool and leaving her to be alone.
also for the people who were off put by the whole ‘foundfamily’ trope my general rule of thumb to see if it’s acceptable or bordering incestual behavior is if the two don’t consider eacother family.
in San Has case he never considered Ju Won as an actual younger sister the way Hae Jun did. he doesn’t call her things like younger sister or banter the same way as Hae Jun does, there’s a clear difference in the way the two treat her.
for Ju Wons case she did Consider him family once but after 10 years of not seeing eacother or talking regularly they grew apart. and added onto that is the way they left things when the guys left home. Juwon took it as confirmation that she’s the only one who consideres them as her brothers and from that point on she considered them as ‘people she used to be close to and live with’. also there’s a huge difference in the way she treat San Ha after he’s back.
anyway a fun show that also delves into the themes of complicated families.
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