Brogana Sunfrog

Mindless fluffiness that invites total escapism

I have no idea why I like this so much. perhaps it's the mindless fluffiness that invites total escapism when your brain just wants to over load on sugar ?
Upon 1st viewing , though I liked it, he the lead girl's character is VERY immature
( as if she were 12 ).
Some time later I watched the 2004 version of this and then immediately rewatched this & this is a MUCH nicer version for alot of reasons, most of which were to do with the innocence of the characters. The 2004 version's characters were not innocent enough & too much of the dialogue & storyline dealt with sex . This version has maybe 3 uncomfortable instances that I wish they had not included but were dealt with so that it wasn't overdone. I would have liked to see more of why the male lead fell in love & the reason behind his dedication. The ending is tidy & happy.

***spoilers**
Male romantic lead is given a questionably sexy magazine by another guy. Male lead sees tiny girl naked. Female lead transforms from tiny to big & ends up naked on top of guy (who is under a sheet). only her shoulders are shown on screen.

it's implied that they will end up together (married)

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I love it, I hate it-somebody slap the writers !

I loved this drama but what starts out as a delightful screwball comedy turns into a maudlin , painfully drawn out drama that drags you along & has you wanting to slap whoever wrote episodes 30-35.

*** Spoilers***


They didn't even put any effort into the supporting character's romance so it never goes anywhere.
I mean Roy Choi is a delight, but if I watch again I will stop at episode 29 and pick up at mark 33:59 in Episode 35, before they totally ruin Roy's character [ & have him become a spineless moron .]
The end is happy, but only just, [ in the last 25-20 min]
And the wedding is dulled somewhat by the fact that they thought it would be funny to keep interrupting the kiss and you want to slap them because they never do kiss & you have just gone & had your fun, heart warming rom-com destroyed by the 5 episodes preceding the end so you've gone through the wringer & want to see a happy ending kiss !

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SO much fighting , cruelty, beatings & blood.

I was not expecting this drama to be as engaging & interesting as it was because it's very violent with alot of military & political drama. [not topics of interest to me]. Excessiv amount of fighting , cruelty, beatings & blood. ( Would have given a higher score if there was less of that). The leads do a great job & are very appealing. What they are up against is insurmountable so you have to suspend disbelief. Though there is no "romance" per say, the main characters have a definite connection & though there are no sparks or warm fuzzies, there is a happy ending for main couple with a satisfying kiss at the end [ for those of us who like tidy relationship conclusions]. I thought there were too many bad guys & that it seemed like it was - again-, the older generation who were the worst offenders (like it's always up to the younger generation to fix things !)

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Exhausting relentless pacing.Red herrings everywhere.Violence screentime is Excessive

Let me start with this :
there is NO Romance.
There is a bit of creepy shamanism presented as being possessed.
The pace of this drama is pretty relentless, which I found exhausting. The sheer number of times there is violence on the screen seemed excessive. "Red Herrings" abound with a string of suspects with the final reveal like a rabbit out of a hat trick. Inexplicably, but thankfully no beloved characters die & there is a tidy ending (except for a few characters that you are left wondering about-see spoilers if curious). Female lead is unbelievably dull and boring. Side characters are endearing.
This was a drama that benefits from fast forwarding through the many tedious flashbacks of killing & torture. I didn't want the male lead to die, BUT they kept saying he was dying yet he kept bouncing back with no explanation.

**********Spoilers & Complaints***********

?Does the person the Eraser die at the end ? I felt like they left that hanging.
Does the Male lead now have 2 abilities? (did he always have 2?) & we are never told where the abilities came from.
?What happened to the Ex-mayor's pregnant wife ?
It would have been nice to see the male lead in a slight romantic relationship, like with someone who only has good memories or someone he can't read at all !
I was kind of rooting for the male lead to actually lose his ability!
The way they kept suspecting the wrong person over & over & over again made them seem incompetent .

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Interesting story but female lead doesn't "sell" it. Surprising villain reveal

Who the villain is, was a startling but sad surprise.
Lee Hye Ri isn't very expressive & her character is very hard to like as she's shallow & selfish. Male lead's character isn't all that great either, though at least he has a great back story that explains him.
The romance was lacking though there is a happy {wedding-less] ending for main couple.
Some plot devices were really really distasteful & unnecessary (bedsides making no sense so they seemed forced)
such as:

**** Spoilers***

Her first "ghost" was a child-when her boss later literally says about another child's funeral, that it's too soon for her to be in charge of a child so soon in her job experience , so ? That she is in charge of her father's body preparation !? NO NO NO ! they use that just so she can have closure, but honestly it was weird & wrong!

Male lead was with his ex for 10 (?) years -how can we not empathize with her ?

I did really like how all the people that she was in charge of [ ghosts] were related to a certain event, but I found it odd & confusing that the event had nothing to do with her, but instead had everything to do with her boyfriend.
[OK, that's forcing & taking intertwined-ness & destiny tropes a bit far !]

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Watch if you need a meaningless violence "fix"-twisted, dark & a bunch of people die

OK : don't watch it unless you need a meaningless violence "fix". Incoherent "slasher" movie waste has you scratching your head. Really it's just got a alot of people being killed & As for who the monster is ....you decide because there are alot of super evil people stuffed in this plotline and not one of them ends up without blood on their hands by the time it's over! This is an unsatisfying story, with a cast of characters you could care less about, [except, well, there is that grade school girl & she's a kid, so we don't want to see her die, right ?]

There's no way to explain further with without spoilers


**************Heavy-Explanation/Spoilers**********

The female lead is mentally challenged & feels wronged by alot of stuff because she doesn't have the capability to actually understand (Autistic maybe ?) So she's like a 4 year old. But the overarching storyline pretty much revolves around a younger & an older brother. Apparently the younger brother has no qualms about killing, which he demonstrates as a 5(?) year old by "offing" his abusive "monster" of a father (relationship accuracy unclear) This younger brother will grow up to live reclusively in the woods, killing people (for hire?) then burning them & using the ashes to make urns (that he sells?) His estranged older brother contacts him & asks him to retrieve a cell phone from a young woman who is blackmailing his & her boss (boss hit her & she recorded it). Younger brother confronts woman & uses too much force & oops, she's dead. while pillaging the house, he runs into & kidnaps woman's elementary age sister (it is unclear if she knows where cell phone is). Back at the pottery barn, younger brother tells girl :runaway, I'll start chasing you when I finish this wine bottle & BTW-if you tell anyone about this, I will kill them too. Little girl runs into 2 orphan sisters & does NOT tell them anything-they take her home. next day all 3 are walking in the fog & are attacked by Younger brother (but, like hey??!! she told them nothing) he kills oldest (normal) sister but younger mentally challenged sister hits him over the head with a rock. She runs to get help but.....
OK, now the plot runs into problems because people are able to get places, locate others & survive things that is just inexplicable , impossible & unacceptably dumb [in the context of the real life setting that has no new (special) cell tech.]
Monster? they are ALL monsters

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Light drama with just the right amount of romance, mystery , suspense & action

This was a light drama with just the right amount of romance, mystery , suspense & action, (for a light drama).I really liked how the theme of steadfast friendship was expanded throughout the drama & how they showed that social responsibility makes everyone's life better. I was disappointed with how they switch character attractions, but it was satisfying how things are worked out so you see that
1) no one is leading anyone on , and
2) real love that will last is shown as knowing & respecting the other person as a whole & being sacrificial, forgiving, steadfast & deeply caring .

The plot was good for the kind of drama this is & the ending (& then the 5 years later ending ) was satisfying, if not incredibly romantic. My one complaint is that they didn't they let Lee Hyun Woo keep his blonde hair through out the series !

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Sad, Snail paced, montage bloated but satisfying conclusion

Well, I went from "not interested" to completed & have mixed feelings about my viewing experience. This is NOT my kind of genere. I watched Mystic Pop up bar & Oh My Ghost, & both topics were out of my comfort zone , but they won me over. This drama was VERY slow paced. It was beautiful they way that the dead were remembered & respected. At the same time, the stories were also heartbreakingly sad with some parts graphically disturbing. ( I mean the subject IS death, so what were we expecting !?)
The montages of the way the people died were mind numbingly SLOW.
The series has a satisfying conclusion except they give the impression that there is a budding romance between the autistic man & his long time friend which was nonsensical. I only watched it because it was free but overall it was not that enjoyable

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unexpected charm, but has some gaping flaws. Bland ending

This has a certain amount of unexpected charm. The male lead's anger is mostly used for comedy but he goes berserk a few times & it is not pretty to watch. The female lead's paranoia seem a bit unfounded until near the end when you see why she's that way. I warmed up to the leads but the story lost me when the lead female kept pushing the guy away too many times. An incident made it hard to really like the lead guy I found the last 3 episodes a bit tedious & could not figure out where or why the lead female leaves for some time before returning. A very bland happy ending.

**Spoilers******

Female lead's trauma is a result of being beaten.
which makes the fact that the Male lead he accidently punches female lead problematical

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I wish I had quit early on .mostly creepy mysticism , evil & what not.

I'm just realizing that the more frustrated I am with a drama [because it didn't live up to it's potential] the longer my reviews!
I will attempt to chop things into bite size pieces;

1) First 3 episodes have alot of creepy mysticism , evil & what not.
It was hard to get through & diminished my interest
{ If I had known that the whole series would be mostly dark , I would never have started it.}
2) CGI guys should be proud for making an evil entity so scary I had to turn down the sound & look away.

3) Too much screen time given to incantations, swirling black & demonic attacks.
The male lead turning into the smokey evil entity got boring real fast.

4) Inconsistent boundaries of his "affliction "considering that early on the evil in him manifested whenever he was in the female lead's proximity-
[which changed later on as he cozied up to her quite a bit without any problems.]

5)Sooo much time is spent seeing them paint.

6) Around Ep. 13 they rushed some plot points with lame flashbacks.

7) What happened to /where is the crown prince ?

9) The magic painter helper said something secret to the female lead that we never get to know what it was.

10) It is never explained why she never went mad-we get some very weak nonsensical reason.

Will any of these things be resolved in the last 2 episodes ? I really didn't care by Ep.14


11) Male lead's character was bland & boring most the time & only got interesting when he morphed into the evil entity & then it's hard to appreciate his acting as he's mostly all blurry !

12) He 'accidently' kept physically hurting the female lead -Not exactly "couple's goals"

13) Lead's chemistry wasn't note worthy


*********heavy spoilers******

A) They actually never showed the crown prince as an adult and there is no mention of him actually dying. Previous king had miraculously revived only to say he was dying, yet 7 years later he is still lingering with the 3rd prince now the crown prince.

B) WHY is the 2nd prince still alive & in prison 5 years later-ridiculous! And Why does he still have demon stuff on his chest !!?
C) There is a 5 year time skip ! a few episodes before the end and the main couple's happy ending comes 2 episodes before the end as well. The last 2 episodes I did not have access to, but also, they started to go back to former plot points & it felt like those should have been part of episodes 13 or earlier, so the end of Ep. 14 was incredibly odd

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Give yourself permission to pass

I watched this at a time when this genre was new to me & I hadn't found mydramamlist yet. So not only did I not have a way to "vet" a drama before watching, but I also was not in the mindset where I gave myself "permission" to drop a drama.
I viewed this at Amazon video under the title :Love Mr. Right .
Where do I start to describe how wasteful a time this is ?

1) maudlin, depressing
2) Bloated-This story could & should have been completed in 20 or 23 episodes, because
3) by the time you get to ep 20 they are recycling plot devices & the same problems are re-re- resolved .
4)Main characters become more annoying than endearing .
5) Happy ending only occurs in the last few minutes of the last episode [& quite a few leading characters are eliminated along the way]

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