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She’s trying to play a woman who doesn’t particularly think much about her looks? Given how many real life people are like that it might be one of the more realistic aspects of the show :)

I think the push for the Thai versions of shows to be “more dramatic” than the original misses the point. Drama is always a balance, and becoming too dramatic is as bad as not being dramatic enough such that the show becomes bland. For me, the charm of the original Korean version was how perfectly it navigated that balance. More is not always better.

I think of it that way, like Murtaugh and Riggs in Lethal Weapon.

If you put “romance” in the title, your gonna get low ratings if people feel like the whole package wasn’t particularly romantic.

It wasn’t particularly heavy on the angst. The mystery of what happened years ago drove much of the show. It had some pretty funny moments but it wasn’t laugh a minute. It was just a good solid show.

Season 2 will be a long time coming.

It looked to me like you got trolled, my friend (someone said something confrontational just to get a response out of you by triggering you and they got it.)

LOL, did his response trigger you that much?

Agreed. The first episode of season two was almost completely devoted to building romantic tension only to see it dissolve over the rest of the season. Season one had it right. Don’t show any romantic connection if there’s not going to be any romantic progress. Plus it felt odd to have season one end with big reveals on both leads past, but then the whole topic gets next to no airtime for the first dozen episodes of season 2. It felt contrived.

A formula that frustrated English viewers with every show that was cancelled after two years.

I thought it worked on every level. I see how the sports story might be more appealing to some, and others might find the murder mystery more compelling, while still others might have a greater appreciation for the love story or story of friendship, but overall I thought all of them were quite well done and kept me wanting more.

I’m a guy. I have no problem acting childish in the right situation with the right person. It’s one form of humor.

The best shows are like a roller coaster ride. Things soar up in one direction then plunge down in different one. This was singularly unidirectional. Things went from bad to worse to disastrous to impossible. As such, there just weren’t a lot of surprises. It had some good ideas and if well executed could have turned out great despite the poor production. As it is, this just didn’t cut it.

It’s the second male lead that’s spineless. He arranges for his girlfriend to marry another man and gets engaged to a woman he doesn’t like because he can’t take the heat for standing up for he wants. Sure he presents a strong and confident aura, but his actions tell a different story, one where he has no conscience and no strength of character.

I have t yet watched this, but are you saying the backstory had no bearing on the characters perspective and personality or resulting actions in the present?

Much as I don’t like the way Hollywood often treats love and marriage , I agree. If her love for either man was not strong enough to make her feel that she couldn’t live without one or the other, she should have kicked them both to the curb and followed her mother’s example and raised the child alone. Relationship are hard and require compromise. Uou need that level of belief and commitment to make them work. Otherwise you’ll eventually wonder why you’re working so hard and compromising:

Your assessment is spot on. Dilemmas are at the heart of most stories but become pointless unless the writer knows how ttey resolve and what message they want that resolution to send.

This makes all stories with second make or female lead a difficult tightrope to walk. You never want to make the audience doubt whether the main couple were meant to be together. If you do, then it assure that a huge portion of the audience won’t care who ends up together. What difference does it make which person you end up with if there’s no real love there, nor the commitment it takes to make things work when things grow tough.

Male lead or second male lead doesn’t really matter. What matters is how deep and consistent her love was for the one she ended up with in the end. If there’s no real deep love then her choice is no more emotional or consequential than what she chose to eat for dinner.

I think the fact she was torn by whom to choose is evidence there was no te deep love between her and either man.

I greatly enjoyed this drama and found it fascinating up until the last few episodes. For me, it just went to far in the sense that the ultimate answer to the puzzles it created invalidated the hearache and drama that came before. In the end logic got lost as several fundamental events were just casually dismissed or forgotten or at the least never actually explained in terms of how things like the end humankind got avoided. Very cool show, with a very cool premise, but I just found myself saying “yeah but that doesn’t explain X” or “okay but what happened to Y” all too often when they finally exllained what was go8ng on.