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An alright office romance
I am tired of sad trauma pasts for main leads in romance kdramas, why is it always something in rain scenes, something in fire etc. Can't two people come from normal family and fall in love? The drama mostly revolves around the work theme "scouting" a lot. It is a slow burn romance, although I personally didn't feel any burn due to lack of chemistry but if I strictly go by story, the love progress between two main leads it is very naturally written and is mature in its approach which is one of the plus sides I liked inititally.
But as I continued to watch, the biggest dowside for me to drop this drama is the dramas focus on two genres at once, slice of life with love story and the office genre which takes nearly 80% of screentime. Either be an office drama or be a love drama, especially when you have only 12 episode committment. Ok maybe this drama can carry all kinds of stories like the drama Attorney woo. Attorney Woo had love story, friendship, law firm, trauma issues all going on. But here's the difference. all those different things had progress, they had 16 episodes to address everything and they had dedicated storyline and screentime that flows naturally. Most importantly there is progress that shows the story is going forward. Not saying attorney woo is absolutely perfect, but I am just giving example on top of my head for comparision.
In this drama also so many things are going on. but even at episode 6 they are still left unaddressed. So far I watched half the drama and there is no progress except for male lead and female lead getting closer and starting to feel liking each other. Both leads have past trauma but they weren't addresed even at episode 6 and it is always those typical flashback scenes only, FL started the company all on her own, she also has a rival aka the villian but even that isn't going anywhere. ALso FL relationship between her and her investor isn't unfolded properly as the investor is pushing female lead to marry his son. Also the worst love traingle where both second leads like both the main leads for so many years and so far nothing towards it had happened, like are they going to pursue or they going to give up? Like I said except for the love story blooming between the main leads and work place situtations nothing else really happened. 80% of time in every episode goes to office genre and 20% goes to love progress between FL and ML. Also talking about the second leads, why do we even have second leads if they barely have two minutes screentime in every episode, at that point why even call them second main leads when they are not contributing anything significant to the main story.
I cannot wait progress of all the pending things in later episodes where everything is rushed. I am already past 6th episode and I didn't find it clicking for me personally. I don't like watching dramas when it tries to be like an all round drama but only the female and male lead gets character growth and no one else. It is fine if drama focus in only on the leads but this drama is trying to be inclusive of all by contributing 80% of time to scouting situtation at work, yet shows no real development towards secondary characters except for little tid bits now and then to show they are important.
But as I continued to watch, the biggest dowside for me to drop this drama is the dramas focus on two genres at once, slice of life with love story and the office genre which takes nearly 80% of screentime. Either be an office drama or be a love drama, especially when you have only 12 episode committment. Ok maybe this drama can carry all kinds of stories like the drama Attorney woo. Attorney Woo had love story, friendship, law firm, trauma issues all going on. But here's the difference. all those different things had progress, they had 16 episodes to address everything and they had dedicated storyline and screentime that flows naturally. Most importantly there is progress that shows the story is going forward. Not saying attorney woo is absolutely perfect, but I am just giving example on top of my head for comparision.
In this drama also so many things are going on. but even at episode 6 they are still left unaddressed. So far I watched half the drama and there is no progress except for male lead and female lead getting closer and starting to feel liking each other. Both leads have past trauma but they weren't addresed even at episode 6 and it is always those typical flashback scenes only, FL started the company all on her own, she also has a rival aka the villian but even that isn't going anywhere. ALso FL relationship between her and her investor isn't unfolded properly as the investor is pushing female lead to marry his son. Also the worst love traingle where both second leads like both the main leads for so many years and so far nothing towards it had happened, like are they going to pursue or they going to give up? Like I said except for the love story blooming between the main leads and work place situtations nothing else really happened. 80% of time in every episode goes to office genre and 20% goes to love progress between FL and ML. Also talking about the second leads, why do we even have second leads if they barely have two minutes screentime in every episode, at that point why even call them second main leads when they are not contributing anything significant to the main story.
I cannot wait progress of all the pending things in later episodes where everything is rushed. I am already past 6th episode and I didn't find it clicking for me personally. I don't like watching dramas when it tries to be like an all round drama but only the female and male lead gets character growth and no one else. It is fine if drama focus in only on the leads but this drama is trying to be inclusive of all by contributing 80% of time to scouting situtation at work, yet shows no real development towards secondary characters except for little tid bits now and then to show they are important.
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