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This show did a pretty good job of explaining it, but not in a very sensible way. The vampire thinks it’s worth being mortal if he can just once experiences a love that makes his heart beat. What makes this a bit illogical was that he’s been longing for centuries for the woman he so desperately loved. So how goes it make sense to have had an epic love but still be waiting for one?

The problem with this show is the ending, but not necessarily in the way some people are thinking. In stories the ending needs to be the payoff for what came before. If it’s James Bond in Bond film, he has to have never been in greater danger, the plot must never have been more sinister or epic and it must seem hopeless. Yet Bond finds a way out.

In a murder mystery the mystery must seem completely confounding, and yet some twist at the end allows the detective to explains it all. In most stories the characters simply find themselves faced with unsolvable problems and yet some new information or turn of events allows them to resolve it in a surprising way. Even in a tragedy like Casablanca, the story of two people in love expands at the end and becomes about something bigger than the two of them. It becomes about the fight against Nazi Germany, and it resolves in an a way that wasn’t entirely expected.

In this show we got none of that. There were no twists, no unexpected turns of events and no payoff. The loose ends weren’t tied up in any particularly surprising way. Events played out as expected and you were left waiting for some surprise or twist that never came. In that sense it was entirely anticlimactic. In a way, it felt like the writers painted themselves into a corner and just gave up on trying to find anything big, fresh or surprising at the end. At which point the story just fizzled out, which was a shame given the shows potential.

A lot of Japanese shows have good endings. Zom 100, Bucket List of the Dead had a great ending. Hold my hand at Twilight was great. I agree, a lot of them miss the mark because they are trying a little too hard to be shocking or novel, or they are too abrupt, or they leave too many loose-ends, but there are still gems out there.

My wife decided to stick with it and I think she found it okay in the end. I really enjoyed the music and liked the show. Double the amount of great musical performances and it would have been fantastic for that alone.

I think it’s reasonable to expect comedy to have a happy ending . You didn’t watch a comedy to cry. However, I don’t think the problem was a tragic ending, it was a confusing ending and not remotely surprising. You’re expecting some kind of surprise or twist but what happened was exactly what the show led you to believe would happen.

You may have missed that it goes on after that, After the smile, we get a long shot where everyone else disappears and all that’s left is a the ML on the balcony. What the heck was that supposed to be

Loved this show. The main couple were great. Any other actors and it might not have worked. She especially might have come off as abrasive. It takes good acting to say “you’re such an idiot” and make it sound like the most sincere love confession. I especially liked the message that dreams are important and they can give your life meaning the purpose, but they won’t always make you happy.. I don’t know if it was a point the show set out to make, but in an achievement obsessed world, it’s an important message for people to hear.

I can see boring but I don’t get unrealistic, I dated my wife for two years and we never argued. We were in love. Everything else seemed unimportant.. However couples do argue, but it’s usually over mundane boring stuff. When was the last time you saw a drama where the couple had a knock down drag out over him leaving the toilet seat up? Or the woman rip into the man because she fed a bad day at work and was taking it out on every thing about him that ever annoyed her. No, it’s dramas that are unrealistic, but that’s what makes them interesting.

As for the mumbling. I didn’t like it either, but I’ll take that over every other Korean show where someone asks a direct and pointed question and the other person stands there and says nothing.

The Spy who Loved Me. It’s a love triangle that can’t be solved. Plenty of conflict.

I think the love rivals were introduced more to show how normal, intelligent people would avoid misunderstandings and conflict. Half the charm and surprise of the show was showing how the leads avoided doing stupid things that could jeopardize their relationship. I know it’s a bit boring when drama is avoided, and I I understand why you didn’t like it. I don’t blame you, but I found it a refreshing change of pace.

They discussed this in an episode. She is 22 and he is 29.

It’s not just too much angst and misunderstandings. I love it when they are well crafted and genuine. But so often they are borne out of idiotic behavior like having dinner alone with another guy when you’re dating. Most people know that might create suspicion and avoid those kinds of situations. In that respect , it’s refreshing and surprising to see a drama where the ML deliberately flirt with the FL in front of a possible female love rival specifically to avoid a stupid misunderstanding.

I’m only half way through and I like it and my wife doesn’t. I think you explained our two views nicely. For me it’s refreshing to watch a mostly drama-free show. To her, it seems pointless. I can understand her viewpoint. Without conflict or suspense it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. However, stories can also be built on surprise and the voice acting and songs are surprisingly good. The way the leads manage to avoid idiotic mistakes or leave room for trumped up misunderstandings is truly surprising when they are the staple of literally every other drama. I’m enjoying it for what it is, but I think I’ll watch it on my own and find something else to watch with my wife.

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I tend to like slice-of-life dramas, and this one has so much going for it that I really wanted to like it. Yet, for me, its own confused message left a bad taste in my mouth and left me feeling uneasy about the future of the primary relationship in the story.

At the center of this drama are tale after tale of how a blind pursuit of a better education, a higher paying job, and a better future can destroy relationships, tear families apart, and impoverish communities. The ML is a warrior in that very struggle. He left behind a lucrative, high-profile career in the big city to develop his small, impoverished home town. He wanted to stop the drain of talented young people leaving thier parents and community behind for better pay in the big city.

He also wanted to save the children who were being torn from their parents to live with relatives in better areas where they could get a better education. The reverse happened too. A parent would leave their child behind with a relative in order to work at a higher paying job in the big city to better support their child’s future. In other words their children’s future careers were more important than whether they grew up without a mother or father. It was awful to see a child having a meltdown as they watched their mom drive off, not to be seen for who knows how long. So much of the story illustrated how destructive things can happen to marriages and families when sacrificed on the alter of a better career or better future.

Yet, at the very heart of the story is a woman who was uncompromising in term of putting her career before her relationships. The show repeatedly established the theme that for women, careers come first. Even in the final minute of the show the FL is revealing to the ML that she has made elaborate plans for her future and it’s clear that he wasn’t even given a passing thought in those plans. In other words, if he wants to be with her, it’s up to him to figure out how he fit into her life because she wouldn’t do the same for him.

The striking thing was how blissfully unaware the show seemed of its own conflicting messages. Which is true? Is it destructive to put your job and higher pay before your relationships or is it to be celebrated and encouraged.

Time and time again the show illustrates how damaging it can be when people put careers, education, and earning more money in front of relationships. It even tells the story of a man who moved to a different city to better provider for his family. As a result he and his wife grew apart and she eventually divorced him. Yet, at the same time, it seemingly celebrates the FL planning on her own to eventually do the same thing.

Other aspects of the story were just as jarring. The FL becomes furious when the ML hides things from her, yet when she is confronted by an angry mob of men she hides it from him. She makes elaborate plans for her future and never even mentions them to him. At the same time he repeatedly gets the cold shoulder for days at a time for not telling her of every detail of his life and work.

It was a great show in so many respects but left me feeling unsettled. I couldn’t shake the feeling the FL’s double standard on communication and her refusal to consider the ML in her plans, would eventually doom their relationship, just as the pursuit of a career over relationships had done for so many others in the show.. As a result it was impossible to feel satisfied at the end.

It’s got to be a bit hard though, regardless., a wife watching a husband kiss another woman or in this case vise versa. .

I think they messages vary a lot. This one was pretty balanced with both the relationships and careers being important. Meet Yourself had a mixd message, showing the damage that can happen when putting ambition before relationships, except it oddly sent the opposite message for women who should put careers first. Hidden Love showed how careers can be reshaped to accommodate love. I think it depends on what shows you watch.

I really liked this show. There was nothing deep, dramatic, or complex about it. It was fun, cute funny and touching. It was balanced in that for the first half, she had a huge crush on the guy, but in the second, he grew to love her enough to reinvent his whole life to be with her. In an era where careers are all to often worshiped over relationships, it’s refreshing to see a love story that celebrates love above all and shows people willing to change their life and their ambitions to be with the one they love.

I loved her in Love Is All. She was so off the wall. It was great.

You have a point. They do get a bit wordy. IMHO, synopsis are too breif to capture the real spirit of a show anyway, so in most cases less is better. Condense it to the stuff that will grab people’s attention. Your synopsis is pretty good in that respect. It sets the stage, doesn’t give away too much you don’t learn right away, and l look wages in the intriguing serious fit the show.

You partly made my point. He already knows she didn’t come back only for him because she left in the first place. Given that, I’ don’t think it’s ever mature to send the message to your partner that they aren’t they important to you at the start of a relationship. Maybe it’s just the way men think, but if you’re going to start a serious relationship you have to take some responsibility for the feelings of the other person. You can’t just bail on them when it becomes advantageous to your career. Part of being mature is recognizing that getting into a relationship involves commitment.