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I'm sorry, I can't give this drama a full 10. The sudden jump in speed and even jerky pacing really bothered me. Furthermore, the drama started with a well-crafted slow pace. However, the sudden shift to a fast with uneven pace, tone even character orienration was truly make me disoriented.

There were many scenes that suddenly jumped without adequate explanation. I believe this was because many scenes were deleted to shorten the 40-episode timeframe.
I think this drama needs at least 50-60 episodes to balance the pace.

Hmmmm, more like a painful journey to a happy ending.

They also both together in Song of Youth but they are not a couple.

After 3 dramas, both bailu and WXY never got along in the ending, let's see if in this 4th drama, they will get along in the end.

Because Jang Hyun was considered an accomplice of the Crown Prince, anyone associated with him, including Ryang Eum, was also considered a criminal by King Injo.

However, the next king, Hyojong who became king at the end of ending (9th year in office), was the Crown Prince's blood brother and shared the same mother.

In "history," not only the Crown Prince was exiled to China, but also his younger brother, who would eventually become the next king. During their exile in china, they were very close. However, this was not shown in the drama.

However, in the final episode, several scenes were cut
(The latest full ending episode version is shown in Korea and on YouTube and now also on Netflix). .One of them was the appearance of King Hyojong, who imprisoned Ryang Eum in a mental hospital "to protect him," as the political conditions were unfavorable when he first ascended to the throne. The complete scene also shows Ryang Eum being freed at the ending.

Genie, Make a Wish is a Netflix "Exclusive" drama. So, yes, they certainly have a crazy production budget and massive marketing efforts, including outside of South Korea.

Meanwhile, Bon Appétit, Your Majesty is a non-exclusive drama and premiered on tvN, which also airs on Netflix. I'm sure their budgets are very far apart.

The sad part is, Bon Appétit was a drama that was made quickly. Filming only started at the end of January 2025 (even the male lead was a sudden decision), and I'm sure it finished filming close to the broadcast date. Meanwhile, Genie, Make a Wish began two years ago and wrapped up a year ago.😅😅😅

I haven't watched "Anna" yet, but I might give it a try. Hopefully, my perspective will change after watching it. I haven't even been able to distinguish her character in nearly every drama I've watched.

And yes, I personally also "previously" categorized Yoona and Suzy's acting on the same spectrum. Their characters and acting in each drama are almost indistinguishable. And of course, there would be a very big difference compared to Kim Tae-ri for example, as this year's Baeksang winner. I can really distinguish her character in every drama and movie, feeling like a completely new and different person.

I crown this drama as Kim Eun Seuk's worst drama that she has ever written and that I have ever watched.

The plot is meh, boring and disconnected.
This is made worse by Susy's acting which is always flat and is just like that without any improvement at all since the last 14 years of her career.

It's a shame, even though I had higher expectations for this drama. This drama is the opposite of the drama Bon Appétit, Your Majesty which I underestimated. And I predicted Kim Yoona's acting would be bad as usual, but nope, that's drama was quite successful and surprisingly, Kim Yoona's acting was very improved.

Yeah i agree, it's possible that the number of episodes also influences it. Apart from that, the story also has another focus in the world of food which takes up quite a lot of screen time. This drama has potential, with both actors delivering quite decent acting. Its okay, I still have high hopes for the next few episodes.

I personally can tolerate cliches in rom-coms, but having "three" falling scenes in one episode is too much. The relationship development between the two leads also felt rush and unnatural in the last two episodes, not to mention the last two episodes were full of filler scenes.
But let's see what happens in the next few episodes. I hope things got improve.

Episode 5 was very good in my opinion, but it went downhill in episode 6. Oh boy, 3 falling scenes in 1 episode is no longer categorized as romantic but running out of ideas.

Yeah i agree.watching a romcom and expecting a serious plot is considered psychotic.🤣🤣🤣

Clichés and minor plot holes in rom-coms are forgiven. What's most important is the execution and the placement of these elements must be perfect.😁

The main plot like this is actually quite generic. But whatever, the most important thing is the execution. I think the first two episodes were quite successful, although there were a few minor plot holes. I'll forgive them because this is a rom-com. As long as they're not major, they won't be too disturbing.

Yoona's acting once again seems to have improved compared to her last drama, King the Land. I still remember how bad his acting was in Exit (movie) and K2.

Let's see the rest of episodes what will be like.

Whose historical king that inspiration this drama?

This drama is the perfect combination of romance and thriller mystery.

Combining these two genres, in my opinion, is "very difficult."
To date, no drama has been able to do it like this.

@Dammyxoxo He doesn't have the guts like Geum Myeong's father, because of how his mother raised him from childhood. He can't even choose for himself.

But we also know that he's not the right partner for Geom Myeong, from her perspective.

And we know they were meant to be apart, even though it was painful for both of them.

Sometimes a problem has no solution at all other than to part with it.
.that's just how life is.

It's big Plot holes for me, doing nothing to to all the situations that happen in the first half of the drama it's contradict character motivation and characters.

If he had the motivation of "not wanting change" as you said at the beginning of the story, it would be even stranger, when he didn't do anything to the blind saman.

I'm not talking about all of them but Kim Bong In the chief state councilor and King maternal grandfather.

He is a character connected to many antagonists, but feels like a patched-on antagonist. His goal is clear. His position is clear and not even known to the protagonists until almost the end of the story. But at the first half of the story he doesn't do anything after so much has happened with all information and clue he haved.

The most obvious thing is, the main human antagonist in the story, despite being very close to the protagonist, with such closeness as if knowing nothing and does nothing during the first half of the story.

Even though he has connections with other antagonists he seems to completely disconnect from them in the first half of the story.