Eleison

I would also love for it to die. I had similar issues with Pursuit of Jade as well. Couldn't finish it.

The yodeling was legit weird. 😅 It'd be like an American western movie with cowboys riding on their horses to a soundtrack with Chinese opera singing in the background--it's distracting, and doesn't fit! 😅

A Splendid Match put Win Win on my radar; he was excellent in that!

But there are no women in the lineup of main or support actors? What is the reason/purpose for this scene?

This is such a strange premise for a drama. I'm not convinced it will land. I can't see how it will not be cheesy?

How does it end?

Is there a Kdrama set during this time period that does NOT have a tragic ending for at least some of the main characters? I can't think of one that does... 🤔 (Still need to watch Chicago Typewriter but I heard it's sad, too)

A similar Korean drama, Descendents of The Sun, actually has the ML in a special forces military task force that DOES get called from out of nowhere to tackle military emergencies abroad. That makes more sense because these sorts of emergencies will be less frequent and extremely specific (and an extremely niche skillset is required to handle it), whereas local, domestic, emergencies in a city this big will be ongoing/perpetual. You can't have one team handle them all.

These are all great points; however, I was just building that assessment from the way the drama deals with the issues. They establish that he's SWAT (which means he/his team deals with more high profile/dangerous domestic emergencies than a typical policeman). This coincides with the type of work SWAT do in the U.S. (hostage situations, bomb threats, etc.) which is the kind of stuff the ML is dealing with in this drama.

To me, it makes sense for a properly functioning city to have more than one team of five people or so that deals with such emergencies. Even if this is more of a military setup, where his time is never really his own, it still doesn't make sense that only one team in a city of millions would be "called in" whenever an emergency of this magnitude crops up. It would be literally impossible for him to respond in time to an emergency if he's on leave on the other side of the city from the emergency, etc. This situations escalate quickly and cannot wait for the captain to show up from across town after taking time to arm himself, get properly assessed on the situation, suit up and drive over.

Sure, but that doesn't mean they can't have people take shifts while other people are off? It just think it seems silly and unrealistic and inefficient to have one team deal with every serious emergency that pops up.

You just sounded so confident, I figured you must have ready evidence to back up your claims.

I think you'd find people more kindly disposed to dialogue in a friendly manner if you sounded less like you were talking from on high to all of the peons about your wealth of knowledge. I know you've said you're connected to the film industry before; surely there must be other community forums where people can more readily appreciate your expertise?

However, that said, you frequently make yourself the victim of "haters" and say people are rude to you, but have you ever read your comments from an objective standpoint? They make you sound like an arrogant jerk...

"There is no AI in Ba Sing Se." 😆

Where did they say it themselves? In an article or video? Please link.

She would've made a great addition to the Wonderfools. :)

I've now seen two recent Kdrama romcoms back to back where the writer doesn't give up on the story in the last 1/3. So refreshing.

One of the admins commented that the writer doesn't have a page yet, but they plan to add her soon.

I think this dramas and Our Sticky Love are a similar caliber of drama.

Fairly strong, fleshed-out characters and consistent pacing with tropes we've seen before, but still solidly (if not creatively or originally) executed. Both have massive amounts of suspension of disbelief required in order to enjoy them for what they are.😏😅 Both are enjoyable and endearing, but not iconic or distinctly memorable.

They ARE slightly different takes on the Kdrama romcom, with OSL leaning a bit more into the melodrama/action, with TCOMH leaning more into the warm and fuzzies. I can see how they wouldn't hold equal appeal for all (depending on people's preferences).

I feel like the last good one was The K2, though the romance wasn't great in that (the action, however--peak, over-the-top, makjang-esque, wildly unrealistic action portrayed the most entertaining way possible). One of my favorite Ji Chang Wook dramas. :)

But it didn't have four ir five episodes of angst and filler this way... I actually thought it worked fine, and felt the pacing was pretty solid. More than 10 episodes would have probably made it fall flat.

They could have done more with her powers, but this way they focused just on the progression of the leads' romance and the parts of each of their story that came into contact with their romance. It made the story feel cohesive in a way many dramas fail to accomplish.

So many old, iconic romcoms have whole swaths of the drama I skip on a rewatch because those parts were boring/filler/extraneous and unnecessary to the main movements of the plot.

Zhou Yi Ruan is only 26; he's young and a big name. I don't see why he wouldn't be suitable?