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So the more articles there are, the truer a story is? I could make some AI write thousands of made up stories about actors, call them articles, and all those articles automatically become true just because they reference each other? It's "interesting" that those who point at others demanding to "educate yourself" are often the ones lacking media literacy.

Hey, internet, I went to the same kindergarden as this user. We were basically best friends, so what I'm telling you is totally true. I was bullied by her and have PTDS now. Everybody who says I'm lying or that I should prove my story is defending bullies. I know it's not important as I'm the victim here but I need to mention that I have a PHD in telling the truth, so I'm totally not making this up. Please help me get justice, and also share your own stories about her. It doesn't matter if they are actually fiction because it's for the right cause. Everything helps. Thank you for the support, guys! ♥

Well, I think this drama made it pretty clear that your interpretation is right. It was mentioned and repeated multiple times in the drama that the monster exploits people's fear and hate.

Wow, I haven't watched any drama with so many intriguing ideas executed so badly. Basically all stories ended with "oh, by the way, that's the baddie you've been looking for, and now he/she/it gets killed, and that's how it ends". So much wasted potential but still relatively entertaining if you ignore all those plotholes.

If I remember correctly, we don't get any details on the other locations. Just because there are 4 places mentioned, does not mean that all places are maintained. They could be former places, or wrong places, or whatever. Perhaps there are even more than just those 4 places.

Why "finally"? It's basically what you wrote in your first comment. I just added my own thoughts why I agree with you. ^^

The most interesting thing for me is: Song Ha-yoon has been on screen for years. In all those years, the alleged victim did not say anything. However, when Song Ha-yoon played a villain in some drama, people suddenly remember that she's always been evil deep in her heart and need to point that out on social media? That's in fact suspicious.

Well, ML is "special". I think he was supposed to have an unsexy laugh, so it's clear that he's not everybody's cup of tea, and that he and FL are meant to be together because they accept each other the way they are (including the unsexy laugh).

I, too, like about Sung Hoo that he still looks natural and healthy. I don't think, though, that South Korean media regards his looks a flaw. Otherwise, he wouldn't get any main roles because there are hundreds of other actors who do meet South Korea's beauty standards. Show me one other bad actor who does not meet the beauty standards but still gets to play "the attractive main lead" again and again. Sung Hoon is either the only one, or his looks are not seen as a flaw.

I'm wondering if he enjoys acting because Cha Eun-woo, who is not exactly known for his acting skills either, at least seems to try to improve his skills, albeit with baby steps. Sung Hoon doesn't seem to try anything. Except for the hotel scene when his character wanted to share the bed with FL after they married. ^^

What do you mean by "the last few episodes"?

Here are the most important events:
- Reporters find out that Ji-han and Ah-jeong are cheating.
- Ji-han tells the reporters that he approached Ah-jeong. Then he breaks up with her and "disappears".
- Do-han (and we) learn that grandpa has known all the time that Do-han is gay.
- Do-han calls the marriage off.
- Do-han moves back to NY to proceed his artistic career. He comes back to Korea for an exhibition.
- Ah-jeong becomes a successful actress. Her dad gets a hair transplant.
- Ah-jeong and Do-han become a couple again.
- While Ah-jeong is acting as a bride in a drama, it starts to rain. Ji-han 'objects' the marriage as a joke, then runs away with Ah-jeong while it continues to rain.

Well, that's it basically.

Yeah, Do-han's storyline was the most interesting one for me, too, because he had unique problems compared to the other characters in this drama and even compared with other mainstream dramas. I had high expections for more complex drama in his life. Unfortunately, the writers rushed through his story and ignored the whole potential. Instead, they added filler love stories with the barista and the secretary(?) which did not contribute to the main story in any way. This could have been a really interesting and somewhat unique romcom if the writers had explored Do-han's life a bit more.

Basically everybody's taste here is bad if you ask people who don't watch Kdramas. We love our trash, and we also enjoy discussing. Read comments as a form of entertainment, not as an evaluation of your personal taste. If you enjoy a drama, you enjoy it. :)

As it seems, the brother things that FL is not good enough for Do-han. She's a 'failed' actress and not suitable for future company boss. Usually, the children of chaebol are supposed to marry children of powerful people.

What about his age? He's 40 and still looks fine, in my opinion. In this drama, he wasn't supposed to portray a teenager or someone in his 20s but a man in his 30s. I'm always glad to see an aging actor who looks "his age".

That was an interesting read. Thanks for sharing. :)

#2 In short, Goffman's theory is that everybody is an actor in real life who plays different roles depending on the context. (Of course, "all people" is short for more or less healthy people and does not include, for example, comatose people.)

#3 Yes, that's right but I doubt that Over9000 was interested in the actor's actual sexuality. At least, I hope so because everything else would be either creepy or suspicious. It's no coincidence that I mentioned the woke agenda after he used that word because that's exactly what many of the wokists do: checking if an actor is "pure" enough to play a fictional character. If you want to encourage somebody to reconsider his point of view, the best approach is usually to try to understand his point of view, and to speak his language.

In my personal opinion, everybody is entitled to his personal preferences even if I don't share them. Life is too short to waste one's time with watching dramas just to please other people.

If those were fake cigarettes, I'm really awed because they looked so real (to me as a non-smoker), and the actors also looked as if they were actually smoking on screen.

Thanks to you, I've just figured out that there are herbal cigarettes. I cannot believe, though, that it does not affect your health in any way if you smoke them the whole day for multiple weeks, and so do the people around you.

Also, the herbal cigarettes in the videos on Youtube do not look like actual cigarettes when being smoked. I somehow doubt that they added special effects to each cigarette in this drama because that would be very expensive.

#1 Yes, there are people who show their religion. In my country, those people are not perceived well if they are within my country. Showing one's religion is associated with zealotry. Also, I never claimed that all feminine men were gay.

#2 Do you know "habitus"? And do you know Erwin Goffman's "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life", a very important sociological book? (Important if you are interested in human social interaction.) Of course, those are concepts/theories, not the truth™. However, they explain certain behaviours I'm interested in well.

#3 I wasn't talking about conversations. Acting gay in public while no other gay people and only strangers are around is not a conversation, it's a rutting call. (Same for the straight macho.)

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Yes, I'm very interested in the difference between normal and not normal. That's not a secret. I don't think, though, that there is a clear separator because there are so many different factors. However, just because there is no clear separator does not mean that there were not different categories. The "normal" part is the area where you thought I thought the clear separator was.

What makes you think that I were angry at FL? I didn't write that anywhere. Unlike the brother, she's not a cheater but made a few mistakes in my opinion.

If you read carefully, you'll notice that I was mainly adressing the bad writing. The drama repeats multiple times that FL and Do-han were best friends but, as @Onelastgoodbye stated, there is no "best friends" vibe.

In good fiction, you always have to "prove", not just claim. You named yourself after a drama in which the ML is supposed to be Italian. If he had never spoken any Italian while in Italy, nobody would have bought the Italian part. The writers proved that the claim regarding Italian was true.

If this drama here had better writing, we would get proper explanations. Even IF FL decided to focus on the brother only, there would have been scenes where she discussed that matter with her best friend, and where she at least tried to help him find a solution for his problem. In the end, they made a contract, she agreed to help him with his plan. Every decent human is true to one's word, or, if there is a good reason why one cannot be true to one's word, one would at least tell the other person about it as fast as possible.

In the eyes of the society, her best friend might look like a loser who cannot control his cheating wife. Remember that the purpose of the whole marriage is to make Do-han look "good" in the eyes of the society. FL is a grown-up woman, so she knows it. So do the writers who are Koreans.

If it is still not clear what I mean, here's an analogy: Imagine the ML of "Vincenzo" was claimed to be an Italian lawyer with mafia connections, yet you never hear him speak Italian in Italy. When he acts as a lawyer, he not even once takes a book on law, or mentions a paragraph, or consults anyone. Yet the drama constantly mentions that he's a lawyer. He shows up in court, and once the judge sees him, Vincenzo wins the case because the judge got persuaded by Vincenzo's good looks. However, this is not comedy, the writers expect you to believe that it works this way in real life. ML is also claimed to be part of the mafia. Yet you never see any weapon, no explosion, no mafia guys. It's just a claim. And the whole drama consists of ML flirting with the woman while eating in Subway and advertising products and companies. Would you have enjoyed it as much as you did if it had been like I described? Or did you just like it because of the main lead?

If you don't think you had enjoyed that drama, would you have complained? If so, how dare you complain because the Italian mafia lawyer is flirting with FL, so he does not have time to do the mafia and lawyer stuff, and since FL is Korean, he does not need to speak Italian. Promises he made to the mafia? Well, that's not important if you have a future wife in front of you, so think twice before criticising ML.

If the writers had dropped the unnecessary "barista love story" side story, which does not contribute to the main story in any way, there would have been room for solving problems, and to focus on building the romance up. I mean why are we supposed to be interested in the ML's assistant's love story while Do-han, one of the main characters, gets neglected storywise?

When I watched episode 8 (I think), I had to check a few times whether I accidentally skipped an episoded because Ah-jeong and Ji-han were suddenly a lovey-dovey couple not worrying about anything. I was like "wait a second, when and how did that happen? And what about Do-han? Did FL and/or Ji-han speak with him, and I missed that part?".

I'm not that into romance but, like you, I enjoy it a lot if it is built-up properly, so I can reenact the "stages" step by step.