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Of course.

Despite being flawed, this remained a fascinating show with a good story that kept me guessing until the end. By flawed, I mean every one of the characters were irredeemably flawed from the very start, each for their own reason. Just for starters, in the first few minutes we learn that the FL uses her body to scam men. She was essentially a con artist and prostitute. Even worse, in my opinion, the ML was a drunk who had been abusively neglectful of his innocent teenage daughter for her entire life. It made me not want to continue past episode one, and their behavior in following episodes remained bad enough to make me frequently wonder why I would care about these people. Usually, if the acts of the leads are so degenerate that it makes you feel they don’t deserve redemption , it ruins the show. But maybe because the leads were both irredeemable in their own way, they deserved each other, and perhaps, for me, that was enough. To be honest, when I think back to the start, I don’t think they ever did fully redeem themselves, but it was okay. They turned into a sort of family who were trying to be better people, and that was enough to satisfy me in the end.

They had already left the room and been excused and his temper had cooled. He wasn’t going to order them back in just to execute them. He’s an out of control maniac. You can’t stay with him 24/7 at risk to your own life to stop him from going in another rangpagw.

This remained excellent, in my opinion, for about 30 episodes. Then it got a bit dark for a couple episodes, but instead of resolving things it went in several strange and incomprehensible directions that didn’t work for me. For example, the ML’s excellence that attracted the FL in the first place became a stumbling block between them in ways that didn’t quite make sense. In the end, she never once went to him. It was always him pursuing her, him apologizing to her, him wanting a life with her but her sending every signal that she didn’t want him to be a part of her life. It just made for a very unsettling ending with a fully one-sided commitment to the relationship.

At that pint she had a choice. She stepped in to keep him from executing some servants, but she could have done so and left. He never ordered her to stay, she did it willingly.

At that point she had a choice. He hadn’t ordered her to wait on him. She had to save the maids from his wrath, but she could have done it and left. Kept as much distance from him as she could.

I think some people don’t get the humor, so if you don’t find it funny I can see how it would be boring. For me it was great for about 30 episodes, it got a bit a dark for a couple episodes, which is to be expected, but then lost me altogether at the end. The woman spent way to much time with her work partner (why do we never see the man going for weeks having dinners and lunches with a female work partner and the woman uncomfortable with that) Then, in the end, he wanted to be with her and she didn’t feel the same way about him, which to me isn’t a satisfying ending.

Look, after the jealous emperor killed your cousin in front of you (or so you thought) because he thought you were lovers, and you pushed away the man you love to keep him from suffering the same fate, would you, a few scenes later, be taking care of the same dangerous, power mad, deranged emperor when he becomes sick? Not to mention, the entire audience could see it was going to endanger the ML? Look, I don’t agree with the post you responded to. It wasn’t a terrible show, but it had flaws. For me, those flaws simply a required a greater suspension of disbelief than I could muster.

I just thought she was flawed in an unrealistic way. The entire audience could see how her behavior was going to threaten her and everything she cared about, but she couldn’t? I don’t buy it. I simply couldn’t suspend my disbelief to that extent.

If the show had focused on them running towards their freedom, I would be right there with you, but that wasn’t the ending, and that’s the whole point. Instead, it turned that poetic engine into an aside by focusing the final shot on the emperor. Do we really care what happened to the emperor at that point? I didn’t.

Statistics say cheating doesn’t happen in most marriages, though not by a huge margin or anything. People always look at things negatively. They say stuff like half of all marriages end in divorce without realizing that it means half of all marriages never divorce.

Well technically, she didn’t fall for him. He fell for her or she would have kept her emotional distance and never considered dating him (I mean she was going on blind dates.)

I see your point, but there’s a difference between closing your eyes to avoid seeing something you can never unsee, and fast forwarding out of impatience or boredom. The later gives you an incomplete picture of the show and can make you miss points that skew your judgement of it. I’ve heard people make claims about shows that were clearly not true and then you find out they fast forwarded through parts of it.

I think she came off as weak because she was so much more calm and less demonstrative
than the male lead. So she just didn’t react or overreact to stuff. You can be strong without being in someone’s face. It’s more of an inner self confidence rather then the ML’s need to express himself.

I think her relative calm and unflappably nature was a good balance for his over the top blustery nature.

You do realize every domineering CEO drama has to have the woman end up not working for the man. It’s like an unwritten law that no woman shall end up lower in a given hierarchy than her partner. The reason is obvious. Most of the time she ends up working in another organization, though she can start her own company, the man can lose his position, etc.

She can do zany physical comedy so well.

I find them annoying when they do things with the second lead that would make them jealous if their partner did it with another man or woman. Really? Is it so hard to put yourself in someone else’s shoes?

Never watch Color of a Woman. The leads spend 90% of their time with the second leads. Worst ever. This one, there’s not a lot of flirting before they get together because of the way the comedy works. There’s tension at first as there always is, but it’s clumsily handled with no veiled interest or sense they are a match for one another. Later there’s loads of denial, so until they get together there’s not much room for flirting. Once they do get together it all changes.

It’s clear he likes her before they get together and some of the humor is watching him not even be aware he likes her in moments like the one where he blurts out “because I worry about you.” And even after that he still doesn’t realize he likes her. His lack of self-awareness is comical. She is in complete denial that someone as outstanding as him could like her to the point she finds the most rediculous alternate explanations for even the most obvious act of interest. Her imperviousness makes flirting nearly impossible, but it’s still fun to watch. After they get together he’s the ideal boyfriend.

I loved her in Love Is All-because she was so far over the top. I like her in this one. Humor can be tricky. I think some of the criticism here was because the humor utterly failed for a lot of people, to the point they didn’t see it was a comedy,