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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.

I’m constantly reminded of Dilbert.

Only in the sense of shows like My Roomate is a Detective , where there’s strong camaraderie.between the male leads. Like solders who have fought together.

Loved it. It had a tinge of classic fantasy like Edgar Rice Burrouhs or JulesVerne but with a dark and distinct Chinese epic fantasy feel. Nothing about it was remotely groundbreaking, yet it was unique, and that alone made it worthwhile.

The effect you’re referring to seemed to go away once he knew and they were discussing it. Yet after that she still kept what she knew to herself and didn’t warn him a killer was going to kill him. As a result of him not knowing he stumbled right into the killer and died. So what does she do? She ends up back in the future where she could tell him everything and still doesn’t spell it out for him how his life could be in danger.

Overall, I enjoyed the show but it wasn’t easy. Early on the FL was alone and forced to handle everything by herself and I greatly enjoyed her antics. However around halfway I started to feel she was wrong to try to handle everything herself.

Around halfway people began to figure out what was going on which opened up the possibility that she could confide in and warn people who were in danger. It started to feel wrong to me that she steadfastly refused to do so, leaving those who were in dire danger completely unaware and vulnerable. Inevitably when her strategy led to disaster, rather than think “hey maybe I should have warned that person”she doubled down and took her failed strategy even further. It made it really hard to sympathize with her at all.

Even so, the ML was heartbreaking to watching through much of the show and the ending was well done. I just wish I hadn’t found myself thinking so often that she was being immoral by not telling people when they were in mortal danger.

Not in any believable way since, in that universe, there have been no women since the 1600s. To give some perspective, Frankenstein wasn’t written until 1818. Not to mention, it wasn’t until 2020 that a mouse fetus was grown outside a womb. Womb’s are kind of essential for birth and men don’t have them.

For me it was opposite. I felt for the ML and I totally bought his portrayal of a troubled teen and later a heartbroken college student. For me, the FL was hard to feel bad for when her insistence on shutting the people she cares about out and dealing with life and death situation on her own was the root of all her problems in the last half of the show. It also just didn’t feel genuine to me, like she had created this false narrative that it was all on her to fix other peoples lives and it drove everything she did. It was one thing when no one believed her, but she kept doing it long after the ML knew everything, and her selfishness in keeping it to herself lead to his death, as you might expect when someone is left in the dark that thier life may he in danger.

Loved Reset. Someday or One day was excellent too, agreed. But I think too many adults get hung up on not acting like a kid, I know a few 60 year olds that speak to thier dogs in baby talk.

I had trouble with the romance too, but it was more because I eventually couldn’t empathize with the FL always trying to handle everything herself. If someone you love is in mortal danger it’s just wrong not to tell them. It felt selfish to me the way she decided other people’s lives and fates on her own.

No offense, but I think you’re being a bit harsh. I don’t think there was any malice in the hearts of the writer, director, or actors. Moreover, if Korean dramas had a pattern of portraying homosexuals in a bad light, Id agree, but I think their only flaw is to play into stereotypes a bit too much. Thing is, they do that equally to every gender, skin color, profession, religion and sexual orientation. In this case, I think they just saw a way to throw in a cool plot twist and went for it. The problem is, we will never reach the point of equate, diversity or inclusion if every killer has to be straight or someone cries homophobia..

She was 19, the age of majority in Korea (though a year shy of the age of consent) and he never did anything even slightly inappropriate. I try not to get too hung up on age differences in a story with 500 year old mythical creatures.

She was a vet, which requires better grades than medical school. She did do a couple stupid things, but I’m not sure what she did that you are calling an airhead.

I liked the show despite the fact it seemed to go out of its way to be confusing. They let the audience in on way to many things the main characters didn’t know, which often made them seem like idiots for not catching on sooner, at least until you remembered that they didn’t know what we knew. The pacing was often jerky and the characters didn’t explain why they were doing what they were doing which often confused. There were a couple cases where the FL did incredibly stupid and life threatening things, which strained credibility, Even so it was an amusing story even if it wasn’t all that well told. I especially liked the FL’s unflinching determination. She knew what she wanted and was often discouraged but never deterred.

For me it was none of that. It was that around episode eight the main characters started to do things that made no sense. It was as if they were only behaving that way to hype up the drama. It lost me.

Try Love Between A Fairy and a Devil. Like Alchemy of Souls, it’s got the costumes of a historical drama but it’s in a fantasy world with its own rules.

It’s got a pretty darn high rating. That’s probably more representative of how it’s remembered than the comments of the last few people (like me) who saw it. Also, ratings and comments affect one another. If it has a low rating viewers go in with low expectations and are more likely to see it as positive. If it has high ratings it can suffer from too high expectations from viewers and get negative reviews.