Very emotionless! And for me she looked a little too old for this role. Not that she is old just that she looked…
I like the fact that she is a few years older, even older than the male lead. She is a military leader, with experience. Age just makes her character more interesting. She has the emotional expression of a grown woman, I like it.
Oh yes, could it be that this series really has a female lead that's a whole actual person, not a charicature of femininity!?! Please, please let it be so! I'm tired of finding the depictions of women too irritating!
I'm so confused by the ratings on this one, I came back 2 times to be sure I was watching the right show :oI just…
The wig crimes go away, mostly. The actor playing Jay stays at his iffy level. I got over the issues from episode two onward, because Sun's character carries the show, he stays consistent. If you get him and his psychological profile, you get his dynamic with the other ML Jay, and that kept this interesting, instead of seeing it as gratuitous noncon. The subtitles I had were horrendous though, and made the emotional conversations the leads had burdensome to decipher, especially if you didn't have a solid read on their dynamics. I'd rate this an 8.
It's the style of the show. There are plenty of shows that do this. Personally, I'm not a big fan of the pouty idiot treatment characters get with this over the top stylistic choice.
I'm not a prude, but I can't even take Goblin seriously. She is a legal adult at 18, I get that but, I think teenager and older person relationships are not okay in romantic comedies, indeed they could've made her a college student at least. When I was in high school in my country, the age of students was 16-19. One of the former students got married to a teacher and we thought it was weird then. People under 25 rarely get married, unless they belong to a strange religion or sect, let alone to a teacher. As expected they got divorced some years later, even thought their age gap was relatively small, considering the circumstances, at around 6 years.
Is it that the original Klao didn't know Phop is in love with him or did the original Klao know and turn Phop down? This keeps bothering me. I mean it looks like the original Klao was a drunk womanizing menace to society that kept running away from Phop, but did he know or not.....
During her conversation with her dad, when the flashback was shown from her dad's point of view, I felt a little…
"But changing will? Nope, her father has the right to decide who his heir will be, his dumb legal son, or his intelligent illegal daughter. "
That's entirely culture specific. In the USA you can leave a child with nothing, in much of the res of the world that's illegal. In Europe where I live, all children have a right to an inheritance from a parent, also a widowed wife/husband is protected for life, you can't throw them out of the house etc. If you write a will that gives away a child's protected share, the will is simply invalid and illegal. It's similar in Korea: you cannot entirely disinherit a child in Korea, children are guaranteed a minimum portion of the estate (usually 50% of their statutory share) even if a will states otherwise.
No matter how hard I think, I can't find a logical reason to pity the ML. The FL is hella rich but is treated…
I'm not pitying the prince excessively, but he is pitifull in the sense that he wasn't and isn't treated like a person but as a title, an object to be admired and fantasized about. As a child his name was repeatedly changed, his father didn't want him to have a personality, his accomplishments weren't to outshine his older brother the crown prince etc.
The ML Prince regent was trying to be a human person to his little nephew, he dressed in clothes the child gifted him instead of following cold impersonal court protocol, he offered the child emotional support when the Queen mother demanded the child perform like a machine just like the the Prince regent was expected to by his father the King. The little Crown prince's dead father even wanted to give up his title, because it was so suffocating. The Queen mother told the little Crown prince not to call the Prince regent his uncle, too familial, even though a child needs closeness like that. You could see that the Prince regent knows the Queen mother does not wan't him to be close with the little Crown prince and the Prince regent is conflicted over that, because he knows the little prince needs family., just like he did.
Also, when the female lead asked for an audience, the Prince regent accepted only after she referred to him and their relationship on a personal level, him as her senior at school. Finally, the prince said to the FL, if you want my hand in marriage, I want your love. So, emotional intimacy is a theme here. The female lead doesn't have much of that either, so the FL and ML have that in common.
This is a really good and entertaining representative of the style of romantic comedy it aims to be. It's a gender role reversal of the more typical rich insensitive chaebol man (IU, the unsentimental business woman) and a girl in trouble (Byeon Woo Seok, the sad prince). When it's not the traditional boy saves girl, the story can look at things from a more interesting perspective, the characters are more interesting people, even if the story style is still the traditional romcom.
That's entirely culture specific. In the USA you can leave a child with nothing, in much of the res of the world that's illegal. In Europe where I live, all children have a right to an inheritance from a parent, also a widowed wife/husband is protected for life, you can't throw them out of the house etc. If you write a will that gives away a child's protected share, the will is simply invalid and illegal. It's similar in Korea: you cannot entirely disinherit a child in Korea, children are guaranteed a minimum portion of the estate (usually 50% of their statutory share) even if a will states otherwise.
The ML Prince regent was trying to be a human person to his little nephew, he dressed in clothes the child gifted him instead of following cold impersonal court protocol, he offered the child emotional support when the Queen mother demanded the child perform like a machine just like the the Prince regent was expected to by his father the King. The little Crown prince's dead father even wanted to give up his title, because it was so suffocating. The Queen mother told the little Crown prince not to call the Prince regent his uncle, too familial, even though a child needs closeness like that. You could see that the Prince regent knows the Queen mother does not wan't him to be close with the little Crown prince and the Prince regent is conflicted over that, because he knows the little prince needs family., just like he did.
Also, when the female lead asked for an audience, the Prince regent accepted only after she referred to him and their relationship on a personal level, him as her senior at school. Finally, the prince said to the FL, if you want my hand in marriage, I want your love. So, emotional intimacy is a theme here. The female lead doesn't have much of that either, so the FL and ML have that in common.
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10 Dance from Japan, a movie
https://youtu.be/E0LyJ62xSzE?si=n6A26sekMuvzu8gi
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