Eleison

Aw, thanks for replying! I don't know about you, since you said Ran Joo and her mom felt like filler, but I ended up really loving the scenes between Ran Joo and her mom in Episode 11. I've loved all the Ki Ho/Mok Ha scenes since the beginning, but those scenes between Ran Joo and her mom might have become my favorite. I just LOVED the theme for that episode about Takers vs. Givers. I thought it was so lovely; it was framed so well when they had Ran Joo complaining about being a Giver just in time for her to discover--nope, she was a Taker, too! That's why she praises Mok Ha, because she doesn't take for granted all the things she's given and wishes joy on everyone. 🥰 I hope you enjoyed it, cause I want everyone to fall in love with it like I did, haha.

Also wasn't a fan of Heirs, but it felt like a Kdrama Rite of Passage (like BOFs or Goblin or Crash Landing), so now I can say I've seen it. It took me a while to get into My Father Is Strange, but I ended up loving it by the end. I also loved the chaos of the big family since most Kdramas only have two kids max in a family. That made it extra fun!

It depends on your taste, but if you like other dramas by this screenwriter, you will probably love this. It's become one of my favorite dramas and I've seen many, many dramas! If you like the first two episodes you'll probably like it all the way to the end. :)

As If It's Your Last Day, I think, but it's not released yet. :)

Oh, I know! While the suspense was a little much for me, I loved the friendships and bonding between all the students and their commander in the first part. I didn't even try to watch the second part since I read some of the spoilers and couldn't believe how epically downhill it went. 😳 Yikes.

I just realized this drama was written by the same screenwriter as Dr. Romantic! I love her Dr. Romantic dramas. But what a genre shift! 😅 And it would be fun to see Park Seo Joon in something since I don't think he's done a drama since Itaewon Class?

Will see what everyone says here before I take the plunge since I don't like horror, and made it through Sweet Home with great care...

There's more romance in Part 2, but the characters kind of switch roles in the next season. The ML becomes dark and moody and the FL becomes talkative and cheerful.

I don't think Cdramas tend to have them. They do seem to be a perennial feature of Kdramas, though!

Oh yes, the ending of Vagabond was not my favorite, haha. And yes, can't wait to see what he does when he gets older!

Oh, also, Woo Jin (young Ki Ho) was the nephew of the ML in Vagabond which is where I noticed him the first time (he was so good in that one). The cropped hair, glasses and growth spurt threw me off in this one at first but I remember thinking, "This kid's acting is too good for this to be his first drama. He has to have been in something else I've seen." And sure enough. Already quite the versatile actor despite his age!

Was waiting for you to post this; 😁 also, I loved your review of the drama!

Yep, couldn't have said it better. Loved all the same parts as well! I loved that actually most of the things we loved about young Ki Ho found in older Ki Ho almost take a rewatch to find/appreciate, they're so subtle; but they're there. Everyone who maintained Bo Geol was Ki Ho because of his expressions was picking up the hints they were dropping for us, and of course, later episodes filled us in on all he'd done behind the scenes. I loved all that showing rather than telling. CJH proved he could pull off the subtlety necessary to deliver on the young Ki Ho's inspiring portrayal while simultaneously trying to hide his identity and pretend to be a completely different person. I also liked how they showed him unable to sustain the duplicity any longer as he got closer to Mok Ha again. 🤣 He wasn't a perfect character (as none of the characters were), but deeply sympathetic and relatable.

The young and adult actors for Mok Ha and Ki Ho definitely collaborated on body language and mannerisms. Loved the little consistencies they kept between the actors!

Anything by this screenwriter, though Start-Up is a toss-up as it has a lot of lying. It's a good drama, just less enjoyable than this one or this screenwriter's other dramas. The screenwriter that did Crash Landing also has good dramas, and the Dr. Romantic seasons are also good. 😏 Some of my favs!

Definitely food for the soul! And I agree, I think Episode 1 was objectively the best. Young Ki Ho just owns the screen whenever he's shown, and young Mok Ha was great, too. Episodes 7 and 11 are hard on Episode 1's heals for me, too, though. Then Episode 5, cause the wedding scenes were really sweet and we finally got more Ki Ho and Mok Ha. 😏 But there were cute scenes throughout all the episodes; those were just my highlights.

I liked Someday the best, too (of Park Eun Bin's songs). All the other songs were lovely and quite good, too, but that one stuck the most (Dream Us was cute, too). I ended up liking As If It's Your Last Day in Episode 11 the most out of all of them, though. Overall, such great listening throughout! They did an amazing job writing both a good script and good songs for this. That was probably a harder goal to achieve than we realize! And the song lyrics intertwined really nicely with the themes, too. 😊

And thanks! Her lip syncing during the music video looked more realistic, so that makes sense.

Almost got an 80 minute episode!

I suppose it depends on what you find annoying, since there are a lot of ways love triangles can be handled. 😏 In this, the 2ML does like the FL and is sad he can't be with her, but that's about it. No angst or drama or conflict. There are some questions about love triangles below, too, and you can see how people responded if you want more details. :)

Yeah, for some reason she's not in the cast list. I wondered who sang her song, too, since it's obviously not Hyo Jin or Eun Bin.

Hope to see him get more lead roles! Have loved him in everything I've seen him in and he's good looking AND can act. He can do subtle facial expressions which is a must-have for a character who doesn't rely on words to emote and communicate.