InspectorMegre

I cant find that post now where someone said that JH had a smile when he saw that the bonsai went to the kids and the commenter was hoping that JH is on the side of the good team... Ppl still think there is something nice left in JH?

. I just watched that ep, JH certainly did not have a smile, and certainly was PISSED OFF that HY got robbed. JH is totally on HY's side. He is a perfect gang boss in HY's gang

And HY is done, since SmartMi figured out how to beat HY :) so the drama is ending... All the good stuff left for the very very very very end...
Imo the bonsai donation should have happened in ep ... 30!!!! then HY could steal the trees back, or ... whatever. There should have been more back and forth, not only DumbMi eaten alive by anakonda HY for 135 episodes....

Quote of another hilarious comment from @potato:

"Day 1050 of waiting for Bokgil oppa to rise from the dead! xDD"
lmao

LMAO I am gonna quote you lmao this is hilarious

Indeed he is so cute here - annoying immature brat but super cute, so expressive and lively and communicative, like a little pomeranian doggie :)
I just saw he was in Beyond the Bar - I cannot remember him... ? ??? where was he in that drama... ? That drama was .. well.. sooo.... sterile droning .... had the exact droning feel of bureaucracy and paperwork. ....

dont you think you have prejudice about what is attractive and lovable and what isnt? Ppl are ppl and they fall in love and the looks behavior etc is just ... not so important

you need to learn what love is
"loving" only a certain way is not love :)

He fell in love bc she is the first and only one who SAW him for what he is, who was honest, who praised him and thanked him when he did well, and scolded him when he didnt. She was genuine and treated him as genuine. That is huge

imo you have prejudice and set ways of what you think a woman should do / look like. That is sad, bc you are leaving behind about 90% of women as "not womenly enough"

Imo she was dressed so cool!!! I LOVE HER WARDROBE! it was so creative. modernized version of Joseon clothes, it was AMAZING!!! i think FL was a great fashionista!!

and her behavior is totally cool too! She is a gangsta and I loved it.

Hm ppl do not live in vacuum - these ppl will have pasts and presents and circumstances - families, exes, their own unfillfilled crushes, office politics, debts, past mistakes, hobbies, side kicks, secrets, shames, diseases, addictions, failures, successes, etc etc etc

so having "just" a rom com is practically impossible with adults :)

Maybe... a pure rom com could be about a bunch of middleschoolers on vacation :) and the drama spans like 2 weeks at a summer home -
so they are so young they have no past, there is no adults around with pasts and presents, there is no money problems and they can just flirt and date lmao

already with highschoolers it becomes complicated lmao bc they already have BAGGAGE

oh yeah hwood, 2 ppl on a vacation lmao

Actually hwood has some interesting relatively pure romcoms, about ppl who have everything in their life and arent thinking of anything beyond just living well,
Jennifer Aniston has several of those at least...

The best part of falling apart dramas is the commentary section, where ppl make memes and make fun.... I didnt watch the drama but I read the comments lmao This @Shinubi comment got me rolling off the chair and it sums up the plot:

"This is what will be happening for the rest of this drama: each day someone will return from the dead. They will pop up one by one, returning from the graves, including the cats"

Enjoy!.

lmao the cats I will quote you lmao

i did

I really enjoy watching Dai Chi and Crystal, they are fantastic villains :) They are annoying and nasty as well as fun, so COMPLEX, and acted so well, they are just fantastic villains
I want to know how Dai Chi turned out to be the way he is and where he comes from. Who is his mother, what happened with her, why we never saw Dai Chi as a boy while Grandpa was dating Grandma with her daughter. We saw grandma's daughter but not little boy Dai Chi - where was he??? he must have been in the picture back then. His mom was somehow gone and Grandpa found Grandma - but where was Dai Chi? And what made him so bad? Did Crystal ruin him? he must have been bad before that too, otherwise he wouldnt like someone like Crystal ... she is a poisonous rat

EA mom will hate Grandma at least for a while... that's what I had in mind.
Plus, Dai Chi is gonna hurt EA's dad, and EA's mom already hates Crystal....

and yeah G will be bundled up with that bunch bc he the idiot did not tell EA that is he their son only on paper and hat they HATE thim
PLUS G is prone to bailing out and probably will

100% agree. Well said :)

From that drama and also from 100 Memories I learned the power of the director/script writer to KILL any actors - to make them be a deadbeat poker face.
it was a hard lesson to learn to see the masterful creatively rich actor King of Shopping Louis etc be forced to be robot-like in Boyfriend on Demand...

And 100 Memories REALLY drove the point home bc I saw this deadening in reverse.... 100 Memories turned out to be a quite lame drama, a lot due to a poker faced ML..... he was so boring and thus the drama was so boring..... and I saw him in one more similar boring support role - so I really thought he cannot act - but then I saw him as ML in Royal Nemesis and he ***can*** act a wide range - wow what a surprise!!!!

Then there is Legend of Kitchen Soldier where a whole bunch of actors who are usually grumpy villains or grumpy fighters got a free ticket to horse around and have fun.... and they had a BLAST ... and made the drama so good...
Or Recipe for Love where again veteran actors got a permission to act to their heart's desire and wow that is so fun to watch, esp Uncle actor is just SHINING... and compare that to their previous drama For Eagle Brothers, which was soooo boring flat flat flat ...

***** That's when I realized the POWER of director/script writer to TOTALLY kill a drama - or make it good - if they let the actor express, or force actors into a box - *****

and that's when it struck me how the "slave driver" director/script writer can just order actors to turn into poker faced robots and just KILL a drama

and anyone stupid thinks that poker faced robots are cool bc those are the tricks of FASHION SHOWS .... and yeah... Hwood... as kdramas get dumbed down to appease Western audience who just watches trash, s.x. violence, car chases, drugs, just shocker scenes without content, and that's it.... So to them even the most boring kdrama is like a PhD dissertation complex... their brain on antidepressants, pain killers, sleeping pills, marijuana, and who knows what else... just cannot think ..... so yeah flash some scenes and they will think they are watching a masterpiece... Cdramas totally exploit this and consist almost 100% of flashy meaningless scenes and meaningless "serious" dramatic scene, the feel of a military parade... . Perfect Crown was a great example of totally manipulating western-oriented audience lmao

but a drama is not a fashion show, it is a STORY, it has to be ALIVE

ML in Sold Out on You was the most recent victim of this slavery to the cool robot image, as I know, because they made a perfectly alive, peppy, happy person act like a totally shut down idiot, all the way through, it was just .... aaaagh.... more than boring - infuriating ..so OVERSIMPLIFIED and so flat...
ML actor in Practical Guide to Love was visibly BORED TO DEATH with really stupid script and making him into a dumb, slow, oversimplified "elderly" character, he barely survived that drama lmao
before that it was Park Seo Joon, a fantastic comedian who can express all kinds of things, forced into Surely Tomorrow bs where he had to essentially shiver in fear and anger and sadness the entire time in this oversimplified 1-dimensional character. It was sooooo boring awful FLAT
This deadening is routinely done to female roles, bc of sexism, they are made dumb, clumzy, overreactive, naive, etc. so the only emotions are fear, anxiety, confusion... Like ... FL in Nice Guy which she repeated in the recent drama too... omg soooo boring stupid!!!!! such dramas are really really really stupid
So yeah a great example of that is FL in Would you Marry Me, and the actress copied 100% her character from My Father is Strange... sooooo dumb boring stupid one dimensional!!!! And ML actor in WYMM was sooo bored and so impatient, his face had this vibe of "I am gonna endure this until we finish filming but omg is this boring get me out of here!!!"

SO YES I LEARNED ABOUT IMPORTANCE OF DIRECTOR/SCRIPT WRITER. They are like Goddess Kali - have the power to kill or to rejuvenate :)
to force oversimplified 1-dimensional characters or to let actors express as complex as they want

well the truth is, some actors probably just have the face and no acting skillZ so the director kinda tells them to do this or that, such actor cannot act more complex even if you tell them to lmao

but from what I have seen, many kactors (ladies or gentleman) CAN

but then the drive for money squishes them into commercial boring roles

ah this is nowhere to be found. Not on Viki in my area either. I had to give up Viki bc of that.
Can someone grab it from Viki and put it on bilibili or Dailymotion as a private video and give us a link for a limited time? Thanks

well he is on the top and even if he not the Chairman of the company, he gets a lot of money anyways

G is flakey so he will bail out as soon as it gets rough
I hope EA is not one of those dutiful daughters that follows her mom's order to hate, I dropped REcipe for Love when they started that. It is kinda ... totally obsolete for year 2026.

OK lmao SR and Crystal were sooo predictable lmao but EA was *not* that was hilarious
EA is a real gem. And SR at this point has nobody rooting for her lmao Even I dropped her :) I used to feel sympathy but I lost it. She is too mean and dumb, she is like that infamous nasty spinster type. She should go become a catholic nun or something like that and then she will have plenty of chances to be mean to others.

I am wondering why FL's dad married FL's mom when she is so ... unstable

me too :)

I cannot even image what kind of stuff SR will try to pull now lmao Would she still go to NYC? Would she start harassing EA? Would she ...
First of all... what will the snowflake G do... ??? He still talks about going to NYC soon...
And what will the villains do? They are hilarious! Dai Chi behaves like an old lady and Crystal is like the mean high school bully... The best villains in a long time!

But now I know why SR is so off the deep end - her father who is the strong and silent type, and she is imitating HIM.
I can see why that guy is driving SR's mom bananas. But SR's mom is quite an unhinged case herself, to think she should be privy to his work stuff.

I cannot imagine what will Dai Chi and Crystal do next - will they ever resort to real violence.... how far will they go?

Wow writing a script requires so many ideas - so a good script writer must have seen a lot of different life stories

Hm I was thinking how well G and MH characters are scripted - like yin and yang..
G is the yin part, the skinny scrawny scared quiet secretive flakey dude - who also can be sometimes warm and caring
MH is the yang part, the energetic exuberant radiant glowing expressive happy strong muscular dude who also can sometimes be mean and greedy

Now we know why Chorung spends so much time caring for Bit Na - Chorung had her eyes on the Oldest Brother since high school!!!! So yeah it is time she replaces the wrongly picked wife. I guess the wife was more pretty and stylish, but she is just a dumb moron. Chorung is less attractive but is a GOOD partner. I do hope he picks her.

ok thanks

Which "pure" romcoms are good, iyo?

Imo, there arent really any "pure" romcoms bc romance is a part of life, so ... there is always something besides the romance... It is not THE ONLY thing ppl do 24/7 :)

So I am curious which dramas you think are pure and good rom coms. Thanks.