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Cons: Bad Story, Bad match between Crystal & Rain. The age difference made the chemistry bad. It is also creepy whenever Rain see's the older sister in the beginning when it is actually the younger sister present. As a person from the U.S., I also felt that the taboo of not being able to date the younger sister because he had a relationship with the older sister was frustrating to watch.
The romance got better towards the latter part of the show, but the ending was also fustrating to watch. I recently disovered that most Korean dramas seem to have this ending where usually the female lead disappears for a while and the guy is helpless to find her. Most of the time it works to make the ending more dramatic and the reunion sweeter, but not this time. Just pissed me off.
Overall, loved Rain, Crystal was just ok, she was better in HEIRS, disappointed not much music in a drama about the music industry. Feel Good Value in the End: 7 out of 10. Rewatch value: 7
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I would have given this a higher mark if not for some of the pissed off moments I had watching a really naive to the point of being stupid female lead. It was really annoying seeing how many times she did the damsel in distress moments by physically falling down in front of her man. Aside from that, excellant drama, my first China drama, I look forward to seeing more dramas from there now.
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***Addn'l comments:
I wrote the above review while only half way thru the drama, something which i probably do again. I still liked this drama very much and look forward to more dramas by both main actors/actress and contrary to most of the bad reviews I understood why the 2nd half of the drama was written this way. It was not boring nor did it drag for me. Having said that I did understood everyone's frustration with how the main characters reacts while being manipulated and abused by family members. They became like doormats especially the female character. It became really hard to believe someone can accept some of the stuff being dished out to her and she not only does nothing, but also says "it's ok". Being a hot headed person myself, it was very frustrating to watch to the point where I wanted to either throw something at the screen or just scream at her. Ending however was to my satisfaction, I'm a big believer in Karma and the belief of "be careful of what you wish for", lol. Final ending sceen was VERY CUTE! all in all, I still liked the drama and would watch again.
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Appropriately named Drama "Doom"
The first episode hooked me with some promising scenes of Doom doing his thing, getting the bad guys. However, further into the drama, it became evidently disappointing and eventually boring. I actually wanted to drop it, but held on because I was such a big Seo In Guk fan, hoping it would pick up later. The the ML & FL had no chemistry what so ever, I began to fast forward scenes of them together. I dont know why, but I could not relate to the FL at all, overall I think the storyline was pretty bad. Surprisingly, towards the middle I started gravitating towards the 2nd Lead couple, Team Leader Cha Joo Ik and the BFF Na Ji Na. Now she was a spit fire, I loved her. And I started to fall in love with Team Leader Cha Joo Ik, he was so cool. I started to look forward to more of their storyline and wishing they were the main characters instead. I hope they do get their own drama oneday. Overalll drama was "Doomed" to fail.Was this review helpful to you?
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I was initially weary of going thru 55 chapters, the drama was good and did not drag so the chapters breezed by. Like the classic older Korean dramas, this had all the trimmings, Martyr daughter-in laws, evil mother-in-laws, poor girl marry into rich chaebol family and suffers in silence, etc... you get the picture. The poor girl who was the main character had the heart of an angel, kind, hard working, filial, and then of course the worst things always happen to her to the point you are wondering why is god (or the writers) doing this to her??? The redeeming part of the drama, however, is her gorgeous and equally kind hearted boyfriend later husband. I really fell in love with him.
What I liked about this drama was it showed good side and bad side of all the characters. The person(s) you thought you would hate to the very end of the drama, you will kind of forgive in the end. It shows that we are all human, capable of extreme selfishness, of mistakes, of change and also kindness.
I thorough enjoyed this drama and would re-watch it again in the future.
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