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Totally agree with you. I'm missing her.

For me, the worst thing was that they spent minutes sitting in the car discussing whether they should follow the car or help Kim Do-gi. Instead of discussing, they could have helped him.

Episode 6 made little sense to me. Jang Sung-chul visited the two children living with their adoptive parents. However, just a few minutes later, the adoptive parents live somewhere else and get visited by Kim Do-gi? Also, the children's role in the bad guy's scheme was not explained properly. I still don't know what the idea behind this story was (apart from bad guy doing bad stuff). :/

I haven't seen the actor in any dramas before (I think), so I'm unbiased in this respect. Nevertheless, he's like 5 seconds in this drama and already veeeeeeeeeeery interested in the main characters AND snooping about. How is that not suspicious? XD

No worries, you are entitled to your opinion. I understand that you are coming from a good place and that you have the best intention in mind for PMY. However, I consider it part of cyberbullying when random people on the internet demand that actors should reject a role even before the drama was released.

You don't know if PMY is suffering from the criticism she recives. You also don't know her opinion about the role in this drama and the age gap. Maybe she wants take this role. Maybe she wants to be part of this drama. Maybe she wants to be in the same drama as one of the actors you don't deem fit for the role.

Imagine she would read your comments. Would she be happy? Probably not. When feeling sad/depressed (for example, due to cyberbullying), she would probably prefer to read something like "I'm looking forward to seeing PMY in her new drama" by a fan.

I don't regard myself as a fan of anyone but I would love to see PMY in a revenge drama. I also don't mind the age gap as long as the FL is not grooming some minor like the ML in "Goblin".

I did watch "Queen for Seven Days". To me, it's the same role. PMY is always cute, flirty, a bit crazy but still lovely. I'm currently watching Healer. Same role albeit a bit more hyperactive. I also started a few other dramas with her in it but I'm not that into romance, so I dropped most of them.

By the way, if you read my previous answer again, you'll notice that my question was about "rising actors", not about NIW. The age of a "rising actor" is not limited to <30 years old.

And why do you even care about "the hate" PMY gets? She's rich, she's been successful for years. By telling actors to reject a role just because some people might criticise the actor, you give those people more power than they actually have.

I recently watched "River where the moon rises" and I thought NIW did a good job. The annoying Mary Sue story was mediocre, though, which is certainly not the actors's fault.

Ok, I don't know the webtoon, so I am willing to trust you in this respect and believe that NIW might not be the right fit for portraying Yoo Ji Hyuk, for example, because of the age gap which is not true to the webtoon. That's a good argument.

However, why can't "a rising star" be Yoo Ji Hyuk?

I watched a few PMY dramas. She seems to play the same role in each drama. Same set of cute facial expressions, same way of talking. Very predictable. I like PMY and her "same role" but I don't see why a skilled "rising star" should not be the ML.

Is NIW a bad actor or did he just have bad luck? I mean, just because his previous dramas flopped (did they?) does not mean that they flopped BECAUSE of him and that he will make "Marry My Husband" flop or PMY look bad.

@Strwberis, I hope you are aware that "have risen more than tenfold" does not mean that there are more victims than in the "good old past". Unfortunately, most people don't realise that "have risen" just means that more cases have been reported.

Great actors. This drama started promising. It felt a bit lengthy but since most of the characters were well written, I remained interested until episode 13. Despite ML's past, the relationship between him and FL is healthy. I really liked the FL, which was surprising because I thought she would be a tough Mary Sue but, fortunately, I was wrong. I even got used to the actress's botox face.

Just the last like 4 episodes felt reeeeeally draggy as if the authors suddenly had no ideas for the team genie storyline anymore, instead they rushed through a gang crime story where the intelligent characters suddenly behaved in a stupid way, and the crime story ended in like 5 minutes with no real showdown. The last 2 episodes were full of blah blah and basically no story. I have to admit that I'm a bit disappointed but, at least, there is a happy ending.

This is the first drama with SJK in it that I completed. I started Vincenco a while ago but haven't completed it yet. I think he's good looking (not my type, though), and I understand that he has got many fans. However, I'm not sure if he's a good actor or maybe just not the right fit for this role. He's almost 40 and, while looking younger, he displayed some weird faces during the drama which probably were supposed to look cute and young. Not sure if that's his acting style or if the director asked him to do that. Even the heavily filtered Kim Hye Soo was more convincing at playing a cute girl in her early 20s in Signal despite being 40+ and definitely looking significantly older than 20.

Maybe my problem was LSM who played the grandpa increadibly well. Too well. He had so many different facial expressions, his character felt real and old (despite not looking that old). Next to him, Jin Do Joon just felt one-dimensional, which may or may not be due to SJK's acting. It would have been great if the grandson had had more subtle facial expressions, just like the grandpa.

All in all, I enjoyed the drama until episode 14 or so, especially all scenes with the grandpa. The ending was not my coup of tea.

The drama started promising. Unfortunately, the story lacked substance. 16 episodes were a bit too much for my taste but that's how I feel about most K-dramas. However, the fighting scenes and the action in general did not disappoint me. It was great to finally stumble upon an action drama which delivered the promised action.

Choi Yoo-jin was an amazing female villain. Probably the best developed character in this drama. Song Yoon-ah is a wonderful actress.

That's not quite true. I remember well the drama around Leonardo DiCaprio in the 90s when fans were literally camping in his grandma's staircase hoping to meet him. It was absolutely insane, and the BRAVO (one of the most popular German teen magazines back then) gave those crazy fans a lot of attention and articles. Of course, the BRAVO condemned those fans's behaviour but they didn't stop publishing articles with pictures of that poor grandma's staircase.

I think the main difference between Western and Korean fans is that the majority of Western fans eventually lose interest in controlling their idol's private life once the idol is 30+ years old. Apart from a few crazy idiots, nobody would write angry letters demanding to cancel a 49yo DiCaprio if he decided to marry.

This drama was okayish but watchable if you value romance more than an interesting story. While the beginning was intriguing, I felt the drama lacked ideas for a more solid story as of episode 8. I probably would have enjoyed this drama more if it had had like 12 episodes only.

I'm wondering why, after all those unrealistic scenes, they had to opt for a somewhat realistic ending. That was a bit disappointing.

One thing impressed me, though: Hyun Bin's German pronunciation. It was fantastic. I don't know if he actually speaks this language (with an accent) or if he "just" put effort into an accurate pronunciation. He not only spoke a few relatively long sentences but was also able to convey emotions while doing that.

I think you are right regarding the love marriage but the writers could have put more effort into the future princess's character like they did with the other ones, or they could have made her rather "unremarkable" but still lovely. That would have been more pleasant, in my opinion. :/

The sageuk story was nothing new but I enjoyed the different perspective. The main character is an older queen and mother. She's intelligent and brave but in a realistic, not in a strong woman™ or Mary Sue way. Despite her being a heroine, the drama still felt like "the past", not like fantasy. Kim Hye-Soo did a really great job portraying this character.

The princes had different personalities and their own wishes. They felt like actual people, not like replaceable NPCs. The same applies to some of the concubines and even servants.

I just wished they had put as much effort into the politics as in the characters. The enemy spent two decades to come up with a plan, which gets defeated within less than half an episode. The conflict had been so promising.

One thing really annoyed me, though: the forced romance. I don't know if that one female character was poorly written or if the actress lacked talent but she basically had two facial expressions (grinning and not grinning), and apart from that, she was a stalking Mary Sue with an annoying voice. Very romantic.

All in all, I liked this drama.

My suggestion for people I don't know is always the same: If you have no other drama to watch, simply start watching this drama. If you like it, keep watching it. If you don't like it, drop it. :)

The ML likes/loves the FL but he's not a stalker and too busy as a lawyer to "chase" her. She doesn't appreciate that anyway and prefers to be independent. There is almost no action. The story mainly focusses on investigations and politics.

I've completed the drama, even though I forced myself through basically every single episode. It had a few interesting scenes but that's maybe 10-15 minutes in total. If you didn't enjoy episodes 1-3, you probably won't enjoy the rest either because nothing changes.