Imri

Veronica Park is the SFL standard all other SFLs fail to measure up to

I think there was actually a lot of pain and struggling and unemployment in those 3 years, and they needed to skip it to have an ending that could be described as happy

I was hoping she just couldn't not give in to his pretty face crying. But no. She never wanted to break up. She wanted to continue to stay with a man who never once thought about her feelings. The amount of time he spent focusing on how *he* felt was absurd.

Came here to also say that in my headcanon, Yu Jeong and Ye Na are absolutely a couple, and I love it

I also think about the line from Ever After where Drew Barrymore convinces the prince to let her servant go: "You gave one man back his life, but did you even glance at the others?" How many other people has he hurt in creative ways for the good of the company? Honestly, he lost me when he sent her termination up because he missed out on a deal. She was being tormented. Again. Because of him. And he fired her so he could feel better about his job. NOPE.

I am concerned about that child's home life in general...

At this point, So Baek Ho can go down with the burning ship I am pulling Kim Mi Kyung off of. Even before the episode 10 reveal, they were not really making each other happy.

I enjoy this drama, but it's making increasingly little sense. Why are so many people still doing Seo Myeong Ju's bidding at this point? I really keep hoping her #1 goon will have a story that explains why he does anything she asks, but it's a little late at this point for him to suddenly grow a conscience

In general, this drama distracts me enough with the shenanigans and adorableness to prevent me getting hung up on plot holes. Which is honestly a remarkable feat

Agreed, especially since younger male agent's behavior toward younger female agent sometimes crosses the line from into harassment

Seriously, the villainous school chairwoman is the weakest part of the show by far. I too have come to the conclusion that she is overacting.

Also, it is ridiculous that they got out and have all the fancy education service black car backing. They had very obviously and publicly murdered people and abused their power. I know high level corruption is a theme in kdramas, but usually they can pin things on someone else.

Agreed. ML crossed a line for sure... the one where I might throw him in the trash. We aren't quite there, but...

I am also weirdly curious about Park Ki Se's motives here. Like he's clearly garbage, but sometimes I feel like we're supposed to sympathize with him? So weird.

Yes. The reason this drama works so well for me is that they each give as good as they get. The bonus great thing is that they do it in different ways that are completely aligned with their personalities and uniquely infuriate the other

Vengeance apologizing is a new and fabulous addition to the enemies-to-lovers trope repertoire

I was actually wondering if it was her maybe-evil dad's connections

I feel like they're doing a great job of showing what bullying is really like for girls. Where things are much more subtle than with boys, the perpetrators are usually victims of the same kind of manipulation violence, and part of the process is denying their own experience because they empathize with the perpetrator. The fact that Hae Seung walks in and is like, "This is messed up and has to stop," and Su A tells him he just doesn't understand girls is another layer on what's happening.

I know! I love it all (except the villain, who's kinda cliche and boring), and I'm getting a little scared 12 episodes won't be enough

A theme I kept feeling as I watched episode 3 was "Sometimes when you're suffering, it's hard to remember other people are suffering too." The heroes in the story are the ones who are able to step outside of themselves for a moment and remember that heroes are there to protect imperfect ordinary people, not just people who pass a litmus test of worth.

I thought the school bullying story had more nuance than we're used to seeing. When we found out that Park Tae Soo was in over his head with online gambling, it didn't excuse his behavior but hinted at systemic cycles of abuse and lack of solutions for people in trouble. I also like how we saw the much, much more subtle way Ahn Yoo Jung is being bullied.

I'm half an hour into episode 1, and I don't think the writer ever played an MMORPG.

This drama feels definitely not designed for American audiences in some ways. The poster of Seo Kang Joon with a gun in a school uniform scans very differently in the US.