Han ji min

I too feel kdrama has made me see every korean as an inherent bully waiting to manifest. Whats more awful is the way they normalize and rather romanticize it as if its a likable characteristic. In ep5 the confrontation between ML and 2ndML where ML "requests" the later to undo what he conspired against the FL is so dumb. IRL 2nd ML would have been beaten to a pulp and would be an outcast for his trash attitude. They try to legitimize the head coach by making him tear up the contract implying we should now forget all the bitchy things he has done until now and accept he was a gud character all along. The daughter of head coach aint no saint either in that aspect. The senior lady player who harrassed FL in initial eps is now suddenly all changed in ep5 out of the blue without any contributing factor and starts shielding FL by asking her to "isolate" while being bullied. The writer first of all has written such a crappy characters and over that he keeps changing the core behavior of a character out of blue.... its so trippy. Also the 2nd ML who is on a vengeance drive for his "ex" is already courting the coaches daughter???? and coaches daughter knows what a scum the 2nd ML is and the way he treats her father and herself included and yet she is head over heels for him even after all that happening?.......either the koreans irl are actually this messed up or the writer keeps his brain at home and comes for work. even wannabe wattpad writers have a better story line and character build than this crap.

ok...now am honestly confused if she even knows she is secretly meeting the king every 15th??? wtf

all those ppl replying to u saying its not promoting are prime examples fo how this show is influencing them to think its otherwise okay to be in that situation...to see them defending it so religiously when u just stated what seemed like same to me as well...nowhere in this drama do they show what actually happens in that sitation, leaving social stigma aside, the doctors foremost will directly flag teenage pregnancies to legal authorites and parents are made to know immediately. this drama is twisting teenagers view of reality and thats what am seeing in the comments section down here the way hardly anyone is raising a red flag at how the system is being portrayed here...

whats worse is he will be married to a career woman at 25 while himself being unable to earn a decent living and without even a high school graduate degree. leaving aside his insecurites, the way they show the girl to be proud in this drama, she herself at 25 will be feeling she can dump him and move on cuz she feels she will do better alone. Pretty impractical in todays life to think like this and drama culture to influence yougsters that its okay to be this way.

Although its commendable how the teenage couple is handling the situation and how their batchmates are supportive, yet what they are doing is foolish and honestly for their age they are too immature to understand the consequences of it all. The main problem i have is how they depict as if hospitals and doctors just stay silent in this drama. irl doctors take up an active role of counsellors and actively get the parents involved for informed decision making and dont let it fall onto an underage teen. Also a/c to law underage teen pregnancy is ruled as rape irrespective of it being consensual or not. Dont know how it works in korea. Also atleast in countries like India under 18 pregnancy is reported by doctors to police by default as law of land......i initially thought of keeping this a spoiler but i understand this comments section is full of illinformed teenagers and it will do them gud to have a better understanding of world.

유성은(U Sung Eun) - Till The End........finally found the song!!!!!!

this drama is obviously written by someone who doesnt understand how sports people are...if the writer knew he would realise that such coaches dont last long and are scrapped by authorites. The players straight away refuse to play under certain coaches irl for the very same reason and nowadays no matter how influential the coach or the player is, they are shown their place if they start acting up.

i bet by ep 14 they will make it look like all these trashy characters are actually good ppl...thats the worst thing i hate abt kdramas.....bullies and ppl who harass others seem to be let scott free at the end of every kdrama without any consequence and are easily forgiven for all the torture they give to the leads for major part of the episodes. its like karma doesnt exist in kdrama land. also the coaches and the male bullies will physically assault punch etc but never get beaten in return.

ur actually defending their behavior lol....also rumors of having bribed and actually bribing are two different things...the show has been emphasizing that there were rumors that she bribed...there wasnt any official enquiry after which she was thrown out or anything. bullying first of all is bad which yall in the comments seem to think is "nice" judging from the way u romanticise the bullys. but bulling over a supposed rumor....yikes.

ikr....i now understand why stove league never showed the actual matches for the same purpose,,,,either u show a game the way it is supposed to be shown else dont show at all and just focuse on the story part of it. fake game s with horrible camera angles kinda kill the aesthetics of the show

Prime example is the coaches daughter who's falling for the bully. She is seemingly smart and realised in first ep seeing how he disrespects her father, yet in third ep they show her falling for him for no apparent reason. Infact he undermines her, talks down on her, criticises her style of play and also uses her in his quest to bully another girl.

It's funny how this kdrama will once again romanticise and justify all the bullys and crooked coaches in this drama in the end. I can already feel it, just cuz these bullys being played by pretty faces. Such assholes remain assholes through and through irl. Don't let this drama let u think otherwise.

i get what ur trying to convey :)...its like indian and turkish daily soap operas that go on for hundreds of episodes. But i dont understand why do they apply that same technique to these limited episode series where they have the ability to deliver some solid story telling and normal acting i wonder...regarding ur theory of no formal acting schools there to teach them....i feel their thai) movies are on a far different altogether.

Literally any decently produced Thai drama be like....hot actors and actresses with oozing sexual tension, but literally the dumbest characters written in history of mankind. Like i haven't seen even a single decent Thai storytelling which is mature enough till date. Is there even one? Will there ever be one? Probably never cuz the Thai target audience itself can't comprehend normal acting I suppose. Pretty cringey stuff....

tbh this drama doesnt deserve anything more than 7.5 rating...

the easily impressionalble teens liking this drama now and commenting in favour of this toxic show will 100% vomit at their own perspective looking back at this 10 yrs from now for sure.

Yes it will, just like "circle", "moon lovers:scarlet heart", "memories of Alhambra", "Sisyphus" etc

I honestly don't understand why do all kdramas depict lady cops always as someone without brain cells, always dumb and acting on impulse without thinking twice and who think they are in a world of their own. Such two dimensional caricature does more harm to women representation than gud. Does being a cop give them the authority to just flash their ID cards and violate someone's personal property and space? Cops aren't allowed to simply barge into
private property just by flashing their IDs especially when the owner ain't present.Do Korean cops have the permission to simply taze someone just on circumstantial evidence without any damning proof? Kdramas make me believe Korean cops are snowflakes smh. I honestly hope Korean cops aren't such dumb personalities irl hopefully.

exactly!

Thanks for explaining.... would never know it if not for u.😌😌. And thats how normalisation of harrasment in kdramas affects minds of youngsters like this Mr. Nauriya who end up sympathizing the wrong kinda mentality.