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Didn't the parents wonder in the last episode why the girl became their daughter?

And that makes the whole revenge even more ridiculous. The parents claimed they were doing that for their daughter but if you are right, her parents are as bad as the bullies because they use their daughter's work to torture innocent people, especially her daughter's best friend.

I had the same questions, except for 3).

Since the the game was hyper realistic and ran smoothly, the parents obviously use superior hardware. Se-eun could be some AI character. The parents know their daughter and could have fed the AI model with the relevant data.

You are revealing a lot of details. Would you mind editing your post and enabling the "spoiler"?

Next time I see a mediocre picture, I'll humbly tell the artist to never draw anything again. Sounds ridiculous? If so, why would anyone demand that somebody who wrote a mediocre drama should never write any drama again?

Despite the interesting topic, this drama was rather underwhelming. Unlike the mafia and the bullies, the civilians were fairly boring. Important roles such as the doctor and the police were not fleshed out. Those characters became important for like 30 seconds: "ABC died. Btw, did we mention he was the doctor and revived EFG? And XYZ was the police, and she's dead now, too."

Also, FL was analysing the situation the whole time, especially the corpses. I expected her to narrow down at least one of the mafia guys this way but she only found one culprit with the most obvious evidence: a shoe print. Funnily, the mafia didn't try to kill her first despite her being the most likely one to identify one of them.

The mafia were surprisingly cold blooded. While I am willing to believe that there is one psycho killer among them, I find it rather baffling that the other mafia members didn't mind killing directly or indirectly either.

The "ghost story" and the ending were quite interesting but the drama instantly became ridiculous when the parents even blamed their daughter's best friend. That whole revenge makes little sense.

Lots of followers of the famous religion of peace are known not to respect any different opinions on their idol(s). We'll very likely see their lovely behaviour in a couple of days again. Since they are followers of an established religion, we don't call them mentally ill, though. In other contexts, we do call people showing the same behaviour mentally ill. Examples would be people who worship a specific actor, browse the internet, and insult people who don't agree that their idol is not perfect. Fortunately, we are still anonymous on the internet and won't meet in real life.

I don't care about Cha Eun-woo's popularity. If you like him, that's good for you. Nobody told you not to like him.

As I wrote in another comment, I assume that you are either a child or somebody whose native tongue is not English. If you are an adult native speaker, I would recommend to read my initial comment again, especially the part about the pretending.

Here is a little help for you:
"Some people just want to pretend that this wasn't true."
=> "Some people" != all fans
=> "this" == Cha Eun-woo is mainly casted because of his good looks.

If you feel you were among those "some people", there is a proverb: "The lady doth protest too much, methinks". If you don't count yourself among those "some people", let's agree that our discussion was a misunderstanding.

Since I'm a nice person, I assume that your native tongue is not English, or that you are a minor who's not that educated yet as other people. If you are a native speaker and a grown-up, you would have noticed that I didn't write that all fans pretend that Cha Eun-woo had talents. He does have talents. However, I've seen plenty of self-proclaimed fans, especially toxic fans, who pretend that Cha Eun-woo got casted in dramas like this because he was the most talented actor out there, not because he's got the perfect look for roles like these. Everybody who's not a child is able to see that his acting skills are rather limited. People who acknowledge his limited acting skills are not necessarily hating him, and we are not necessarily jealous. We would not waste our precious time watching dramas with him in a role if we hated him. If all you see is either hate or love for Cha Eun-woo, you are hopefully a child because, for adults, this behaviour would be ridiculous.

@amanu35, Nobody wants to steal Cha Eun-woo's role. Cha Eun-woo is successful without you insulting people on the internet. And he certainly does not care about you who makes him look bad. Or maybe he does because people like you make him look bad and feel bad, which not only affects his mental health but also his career. Do you want to make him known for his talents or for having a toxic fandom? If it's the latter, please continue.

@amanu35, Believe me or not, there are people out there who don't care about so-called idols and who watch dramas to get entertained, not to drool over some person. I'm not one of you creepy stalkers who claim to be fans, who harass their idols until the idols become suicidal, and who insult other people on the internet who dare to express an opinion which is not shared by the so-called fans. I will stop acting bitter and jealous if you stop to be a creepy stalker who believes that some idol cares about random people's opinion. Let's make this world a better place. :)

Why do you feel that he's bad in romcoms? From what I see, romcoms are mainly about good looking people looking good. Cha Eun-woo does a pretty good job at looking good. Say what you want about his admittedly limited acting skills but he did a great job in the kissing scenes.

Ignore the user. If you want to say something about his looks, do that. Almost everybody knows that Cha Eun-woo is casted because of his looks, not because of his acting skills. Some people just want to pretend that this wasn't true.

I wouldn't say, though, that Cha Eun-woo couldn't act at all. In the later episoded of his drama, he showed a range of facial expressions which were quite convincing, in my opinion. Compared to other actors in his drama, his acting is not the best but he seems to put effort into at least a few scenes.

This drama is very good at showing human characters. Even the support roles had unique stories. Everybody had his flaws. Unfortunately, this drama felt fairly draggy, so I fast-forwarded a lot. It would have been better if it consisted of 8 or 12 episodes only instead of 16. ML's additonal drama in the last episodes did not add anything to the overall story. Also ML's and FL's past were repeated over and over again without adding any new aspect to the story, which felt repetitive and boring. Last but not least, after the characters had worked on the construction side for so many episodes, I was fairly surprised that there was no real ending in this respect. The story felt rather incomplete to me.

At the end of episode 8, ML kisses FL (dog). We also see the first true kiss between ML and FL (human). As of ep. 8, FL's and ML's story seems to be basically over because there are no real goals anymore regarding their relationship. They are a cute couple now, and that's it.

The rest focusses on SML's tragic story. I haven't dropped this drama (yet) because I found he Joseon(?) story relatively interesting.

If you don't like so-called idols, check the actors's bios, for example, here on MDL. If you don't like how the ML or any other actor in this drama looks, don't watch this drama. Nobody is able to tell you "how bad" this drama is.

What? Sa-wol is also from Joseon? No way!!!!!! Thanks for pointing this out. It's not like my previous post implied that. Of course, you are absolutely right. Since she's from Joseon and an illiterate maid, we don't need any explanations or scenes that show her struggling or learning in the modern world. As maid from Joseon, she's basically a modern woman. Only highly educated people such as the FL struggle because illiterate people don't have any problems in our modern world let alone in Seoul. Thanks to you, I finally realised that this is what the writers actually wanted to tell us. :)

Actually, the happy ending makes no sense at all in the context of the story. Both FL and ML committed a grave "sin" for which they would have been killed. The risk of getting killed was a huge topic in many episodes. However, for whatever reason, this subject suddenly got dropped and forgotten in the last episodes. The ending also felt a bit rushed. Maybe the writers didn't want us to think too much about the "forgotten" details. XD

If you are looking for a happy ending with marriage and happy family scenes, this drama is probably not what you are looking for.

The grandpa is a really ambiguous character. First, he's joking around with FL, then doing shady stuff, then being nice to ML, then being not so nice. I hope we'll get an explanation for his odd behaviour in the remaining episodes.

Yeah, it's a bit baffling that she adapted to the modern world in no time while Yeon-woo keeps struggling with the simplest things. Sa-wol seems to know things she could not know and nothing seems to surprise her, not even the technology, which must look like magic for Joseon people.

It depends on what you expect. The last scene in the last episode implies that ML and FL are becoming a couple.