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After Snowdrop's ending, I needed something light & decided to rewatch this. I had forgotten just how cute Yoo In Na is in this role.

Agreed, though I believe it'll take a while before her next project as there are rumors that YG is planning for BP to go on tour this year.

You won't find many fans who speak favorably of the way they manage their artists lol Hopefully, it won't be a problem for her to continue acting & it won't take years for her next drama.

I don't know how people were able to write reviews as soon as the drama finished because I'm still trying to process what we watched. Thinking about it, more than a political drama or a sad romance, this was a story of choices individuals make based on greed, power, duty, & love or lack of it for me. I guess that's why I'm too attached to it & see it in a more favorable light than some viewers. It is interesting to see the different ways - bad or good - that this drama has made an impression.

YG is very restrictive with the music their artists release, like they mostly only use in-house producers, so I'm not too surprised. But, yeah, her voice in ballads tugs at the heart so I would've loved to hear her sing an OST.

As you mentioned, there was much foreshadowing in the drama, & comments made even before it aired, that told myself to prepare myself for his sad end. I kept some hope they'd both be able to survive but then they kept talking about meeting each other again & my hope became nonexistent as the finale began. As much as I would've liked Sooho to survive, the situation he found himself in didn't allow for that - at least not the writer had been setting up. That's why I feel like it was a realistic ending, though of course I agree that he didn't deserve that & neither did Youngro.

Aside from those foreshadows, what Haein said before the broadcast sounded as if Sooho had regrets about what he couldn't tell Youngro so that also gave me a bad feeling for him. I can't remember the last time I cried as hard as I did for a character in that moment. As you said, the fact that until the very end he protected Youngro was too much to handle. & I was nervous that she was also going to get shot & die in his arms but seeing her hover above him as he took his last breaths is haunting.

I stopped at 6 because I need a break & then many episodes piled up, so I thought maybe I'll watch it in the future.

Didn't he say the final scene (being him singing) is memorable for him?

I saw that you're watching Bulgasal (I actually dropped it since watching these two simultaneously wasn't working out for me) so it probably is a good idea to hold off.

Yeah, I was thinking along those lines. Out of the loose ends that people were brining up that was the only one I agreed with that should've been addressed since she's FL & some viewers were left wondering, though not being explicitly told as others want doesn't ruin the story for me.

It's a habit because I found myself back here too. Yes, the ending didn't surprise me & I do like that it was a realistic end for him, even if it broke my heart. What hit me hard was seeing the way he was shot down in front of Youngro, like I wasn't expecting it to happen like that. Also, Sooho is now one of my favorite characters so that didn't help me.

I was thinking of getting my sister to watch & rewatching it with her but now I dropped that plan.

The only one that bothers me a bit is not knowing exactly how Youngro was free after Taeil's accusations against her. Though since he & her father ended up locked up & the president of their party was denying his closeness to them, I assume it has to do something with that & public opinion.

I personally didn't find it draggy, though understand why others feel different. Episodes focus on the choices characters will make so it's a matter of viewing preference. It is sad but I don't regret watching it.

I'm currently rewatching Touch Your Heart.

I feel you because I know I'll be watching another sad drama in the future lmao

I don't know if you got an answer already, but no. It's realistic though.

I'm sure that I'll watch it eventually but its release was too soon for me.

No. She sufferers from ptsd & saw her son in him.