The first few episodes of this drama where they played the younger characters were enjoyable. I thought to myself…
Oh, ok. Yeah, if you skip over Soo Wan's wildly out-of-character pity party scenes, then the show is tolerable and interesting. Kang Ji Woon was a character criminally underutilized.
On a scale of 1 to 10: how violent is this drama? Meaning, how bloody and/or gory is it? I know there are going to be fight scenes, but are they gratuitous?
My niece asked my wife and I to watch this with her a few months ago. We enjoyed it so much we started looking for other kdramas and now we're hooked! I wonder how many people got pulled into drama through this show?
Does anyone actually like the ship: Hoon x Jae Hee? I don't, and I know many other people that don't as well.…
There's a logical reason why everyone ships Hoon x Soo Hyun: they're the ones that actually seem happy being around each other. This show doesn't do a very good job of making the love between Hoon and Jae Hee feel "real" to the audience. It's really the show's only weakness.
I see you have yet to give this one a shot (I stalked your list a little). I'd recommend it. For me, the first two episodes were the worst part of the show, but after that it got better and better. Gave it a 9.5.
This drama was not bad at least in my own opinion, all of the hate on it just because their favorite couple did…
I feel you. I posted my thoughts on this elsewhere, but I'll paste them below:
((Yeah, i completed this finally and I'm with you all the way. But I think I figured out why we don't like Jae Hee...
In a romance, we want to see people being happy together. Park Hoon and Oh Soo Hyun flirt and joke and enjoy being around each other. When that happens, WE SHIP! On the other hand, Hoon and Jae Hee are NEVER happy together! You see them happy together for like 10 minutes of show, and then you spend the next 19 hours not trusting or believing anything they say to each other. And they always seem sad and miserable together.
So when you've got Soo Hyun right there who is so beautiful and caring and doesn't have any of the heavy baggage that Jae Hee brings, you start to think "Man, Park Hoon should really just spend his time with her and be happy."
I think that's where the show did a bad job: they failed to make us appreciate the context of Hoon and Jae Hee's love. They're just like "They're childhood sweethearts and that should be enough for you!" But it's not enough. And unfortunately for the showrunners, Lee Jong Suk and Kang Sora happened to have quite a lot of chemistry together.
I DO think they did a good job of bringing the audience "into" the Hoon/Jae Hee relationship by the end, though. But that was too-little-too-late, I think.))
I would give 9-10 point to the first two episodes. They were awesome, refreshingly realistic for me. The story…
You thought the first two episodes were REALISTIC!? O____O
Wife and I had completely opposite reaction from yours: after we watched Episode 3 we said "That was the best episode so far" and then we said it again after Episode 4. And from there we were hooked. It was Episodes 1 and 2 that made us want to drop the show.
Yeah, because of the "Under 8" score I kept waiting for the show to disappoint me and, y'know, it never really did. I gave it a 9.5. Would have been a 10 if the main romance was developed better. Really have no complaints about the acting, story, production values... any of it.
now i understand why everyone is rooting for Kang Sora. I tried to like Jae Hee but there's just something about…
Yeah, i completed this finally and I'm with you all the way. But I think I figured out why we don't like Jae Hee...
In a romance, we want to see people being happy together. Park Hoon and Oh Soo Hyun flirt and joke and enjoy being around each other. When that happens, WE SHIP! On the other hand, Hoon and Jae Hee are NEVER happy together! You see them happy together for like 10 minutes of show, and then you spend the next 19 hours not trusting or believing anything they say to each other. And they always seem sad and miserable together.
So when you've got Soo Hyun right there who is so beautiful and caring and doesn't have any of the heavy baggage that Jae Hee brings, you start to think "Man, Park Hoon should really just spend his time with her and be happy."
I think that's where the show did a bad job: they failed to make us appreciate the context of Hoon and Jae Hee's love. They're just like "They're childhood sweethearts and that should be enough for you!" But it's not enough. And unfortunately for the showrunners, Lee Jong Suk and Kang Sora happened to have quite a lot of chemistry together.
I DO think they did a good job of bringing the audience "into" the Hoon/Jae Hee relationship by the end, though. But that was too-little-too-late, I think.
Still loved the show, though, and am now on the Kang Sora bandwagon.
On episode 19 and I can't take it anymore: sorry Chang Yi, you're adorable, but Oh Soo Hyun has my heart completely. To borrow anime parlance, her "ultra-tsundere-ness" has completely won me over.
And... you know... she's just so darn earnest and lovely and likable... oy...
But it looks like you've completed WAY more dramas than me since watching this.
Perhaps your heart should not be so silent...
((Yeah, i completed this finally and I'm with you all the way. But I think I figured out why we don't like Jae Hee...
In a romance, we want to see people being happy together. Park Hoon and Oh Soo Hyun flirt and joke and enjoy being around each other. When that happens, WE SHIP! On the other hand, Hoon and Jae Hee are NEVER happy together! You see them happy together for like 10 minutes of show, and then you spend the next 19 hours not trusting or believing anything they say to each other. And they always seem sad and miserable together.
So when you've got Soo Hyun right there who is so beautiful and caring and doesn't have any of the heavy baggage that Jae Hee brings, you start to think "Man, Park Hoon should really just spend his time with her and be happy."
I think that's where the show did a bad job: they failed to make us appreciate the context of Hoon and Jae Hee's love. They're just like "They're childhood sweethearts and that should be enough for you!" But it's not enough. And unfortunately for the showrunners, Lee Jong Suk and Kang Sora happened to have quite a lot of chemistry together.
I DO think they did a good job of bringing the audience "into" the Hoon/Jae Hee relationship by the end, though. But that was too-little-too-late, I think.))
But I gave this show a 9.5. It was awesome.
Wife and I had completely opposite reaction from yours: after we watched Episode 3 we said "That was the best episode so far" and then we said it again after Episode 4. And from there we were hooked. It was Episodes 1 and 2 that made us want to drop the show.
Count me among the Hoon/Soo Hyun shipping horde as well. Disappointed, but with everyone happy in the end, I can't help but be happy too.
In a romance, we want to see people being happy together. Park Hoon and Oh Soo Hyun flirt and joke and enjoy being around each other. When that happens, WE SHIP! On the other hand, Hoon and Jae Hee are NEVER happy together! You see them happy together for like 10 minutes of show, and then you spend the next 19 hours not trusting or believing anything they say to each other. And they always seem sad and miserable together.
So when you've got Soo Hyun right there who is so beautiful and caring and doesn't have any of the heavy baggage that Jae Hee brings, you start to think "Man, Park Hoon should really just spend his time with her and be happy."
I think that's where the show did a bad job: they failed to make us appreciate the context of Hoon and Jae Hee's love. They're just like "They're childhood sweethearts and that should be enough for you!" But it's not enough. And unfortunately for the showrunners, Lee Jong Suk and Kang Sora happened to have quite a lot of chemistry together.
I DO think they did a good job of bringing the audience "into" the Hoon/Jae Hee relationship by the end, though. But that was too-little-too-late, I think.
Still loved the show, though, and am now on the Kang Sora bandwagon.
And... you know... she's just so darn earnest and lovely and likable... oy...