Vals Stor

A promising story,

a very bad execution.
The ML couldnt act...AT ALL.
The pacing and storytelling didnt let me feel anything for the couple. I just didnt care.
Everything felt as if you didnt know why it started, who started it, if there are feelings, what kind of feelings, all of the things that make the audience feel empathy and agony for the fate of a couple.
I could easily fall for it if only the acting was good. But especially the ML...oh god, he had ONE expression throughout the whole thing, plus 1-2 times when he almost cried -and that was even worse

A perfect example of: how to ruin a good and intriguing storyline step by step (esp concerning the taboo topic of North n South Korea(s) unification. I couldnt believe my eyes and the amount of cringe i got.

wtf was that?

The whole thing was weird. A strong premise turned out to be a disaster. It was like watching a commercial or something. Cringe as hell, the political storyline was as if a 10yo kid wrote it, scenes were cut in a very abruptly way-i dont even know where to start.

Im getting punished too for a similar reason, choosing dramas cause i like the ML, or the couple, or the story, or my bad guilty taste ahahhahahaha

Im getting punished too for a similar reason, choosing dramas cause i like the ML, or the couple, or the story, or my bad guilty taste ahahhahahaha

You are also a Destiny deity but you plagiarize a human's high school novel. LOL

People are comparing this one with Goblin?
LOL

Though i dont find her clothing ugly, its a standard thing for many kdramas (the crappy ones): FL should look way worse than the ML, so that she can be relatable.
If you ask me, i find it very sick as an idea, but these dramas target in very young audience.

Well imagine if i got mad over a show 🤭
Just pointing out some things that i find extremely ugly or ruin the whole aesthetics of a show. I know the purpose of his make up. I just find the certain makeup and general embodiment of his character, not convincing and at times, overacted and fake

During the first episodes it was not just make up. It was humiliation. A mafia guy doesnt have to look like a vampire. Not even a vampire has to look like one-its enough if he/she can act like one.

ehm ok...my point is not his will to follow director's orders. Is the ridiculous director's perspective of things

I know his voice i ve seen him in a movie but its not the tone, its the pronunciation speed and the hoarseness. Its clearly the director s order . Not to mention the whispering

How to cringe your audience to the bone-a safe guide for a wannalooklike mafia guy:
-wear the darkest makeup -esp dark brown contouring on your cheekbones
-try to imitate Don Corleone's voice
-have panic attacks and get hysterical each time you feel horny

Sometimes i feel so sorry for the actors-especially when they already have potential and skills-but have to work in such humiliating projects to make a living.

Often it happens when you dont have anything interesting to give overall, so you keep little things and throw them later here and there to keep the least of audience's interest high. In any other case, you are right, all characters introduction happens in the beginning and the story starts to develop.

I wouldnt expect a whole new idea-as in art there's no parthenogenesis anymore. But if you re gonna use a cliche, at least you have to do it in a unique way. E.g. in Its ok not to be ok, there was a childhood incident and a very unique one, as the FL there was a bit of a sociopath with a traumatic mother-daughter relationship, so the trauma was there and we saw an adult FL and ML dealing with that trauma-having their sexual attraction per se on a new level and all this, wrapped in a creepy fairytale cover which was also related with the FL's profession. So, we had the cliche of childhood backstory but given in an intriguing way.
The audience has to be curious about what's going to happen, otherwise a show is just a flat story that doesnt deserve to be told.
Of course there are plenty of shows that dont even use the childhood sweethearts in the first place and the main couple doesnt need a past to be attracted to each other.
In MSM, there is already an opposite's attraction element: a mafia guy and a naive woman. We didnt need their story in their childhood (neither we needed the ML being a virgin but that's another totally unrealistic trope in kdramas: virgin 35+ yo guys that fall only for the FL as if they had no life before her or even worse, being stuck in their childhood memories). So the basic reason for the attraction was already there: they are attracted to each other physically plus their totally different personalities which intensifies the attraction. No need for buried boxes in the garden, pat pats on the head and childhood memories. Even if they used it to show how the ML had to change so to inherit his family's mafia gang and property, its useless. We could see him as a child and then the turning point when he had to be someone he hates.
To see if a story element is useless you just have to remove it from the story and see what would happen. Here, if her childhood buddy was the prosecutor, the story wouldnt change. She would still fall for the ML cause as an adult woman she wants him. She is attracted to his face, his body, his hidden pure and soft self (at least in her imagination as it always happens in love: you imagine, you wish, you fall, and if you are lucky, the things you imagine come true for the other person)

Oh i also enjoy cliches and tropes at times! Especially in such genres. its just the overusing that bothers me. (2000 is my fav time in korean and jap dramas/movies, i dont always like the melo stuff of that time but i still go back and enjoy the unique stories!). Yes, its a matter of taste after all. I hope all watchers here to keep on enjoying the drama, cause after all its entertainment! Happy watching to everyone no matter the show!

According to a generic belief (in most eastern asian cultures that were nurtured by buddhism plus the local pagan sub-cultures) there is a thread-a karmic thread that unites human souls but it has nothing to do with lovers. It connects each person with souls that he/she meets at first into the family environment and during next lives we meet them again in or outside the family depending of the "depts" we owe to each other. But this is universal cultural thing that was mostly developed by literature not always under the karmic explanation, and afterwards by movies poetry, tv shows etc. Now, if we re talking about tv shows, they dont express any noble cultural idea. Just lazy writing when there's no inspiration.

I can see your point but overusing such tropes makes dramas losing their value. In terms of storytelling, it doesn't matter how unrealistic a story is as long as you can convince the audience that the world you create exists. Childhood friends that become lovers as adults is ok. Is not ok when 9/10 dramas build their story on that element. Thats why there are still rom coms that differ on that aspect though they also take the same idealistic dreamy road. (Lol you described perfectly the heroine s plain beauty -which is noticed only by the 2 gorgeous males surrounding her)

I'd be fine even with the love at first sight thing which is 100% realistic, the kind of crazy, spontaneous, hormonical thing that makes people fall in love. Why do they need such a silly excuse? After all, to have a childhood friend-even if you are at an age where you "love" him/her, there's no bonding that you can refer to (emotionally) when you grow up.