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I felt the exact same way as you at that point and it DOES get better so kepe watching, but the FL is frustrating throughout

I think you really exaggerated that there weren't signs he liked her before episdoe 6, I felt like that was pretty obvious from the beginning. Him getting her the coffee (was made clear he got two to give one to her even if he denied it), him going to more team dinners and always seeming to be pretty satisfied when they had to spend time together, and just a lot of littel things about the way he acted, like I noticed like after they would have meetings he would stop at the window outside the room and just watch her for a few seconds, stuff like that.

But I totally agree with your other points, even if there were signs there was not enough of him and enough of their interactions and I actually watched quite a bit of the first half in 2x speed because of the amount of time spent on her dating the virtual guys.

I actually think all of the boyfriends did something important for the story, the first one helped her understand romance writers and help the crazy writer lady out, seo kang joon helped her face and work through the breakup with her old boyfriend, and then later highlighted how noen of these virtual bofyriends are really "hers" and I actually thought it was great that her "ideal" virtual boyfriend looked just like the ML in real life. But it didn't work overall because of how little and late the actual love story between her and the ML developed, and it took her sooo long to actually give him a chance.

The episode where we finally see how the ML has been feeling this whole time made me kinda mad ,because it made him such a different character, and also SIG is such a good actor and I agree he was wasted for the first half.

Okay I read down and I guess her real BF ditched her to travel and had his friend (Seonu Chan) talk to her in his place in the chats. So the person she fell in lvoe with was Chan, or at least partly was him, I guess? I wish they'd have just shown that at the end of the first episode

I feel so dumb but I'm sooo confused who the ML is and how he knows the FL and who was the guy who died, like I'm just so lost after the first ep that I can't get into the drama because I don't even know what's going on and don't know if I should continue it. Like.. I don't know if the ML actually knew the FL or did he just meet her once in the past, it's just making it hard to connect to the characters

Probably because people rated it on average 8.4 out of ten.

It's been too long since SIG graced our screens as a romantic lead. Gawd I actually still remember when he got cast in Reply 1997 and everyone said he was gonna be trash cause he was just an idol and then he blew everyone away.

I would agree if K drama writers could write a decent story that length. They're always so good for like 6 eps then fall apart and eps 7-11 drag, fall back on ridiculous tropes, reuse the same plot points over and over, and then sometimes stick the landing ep 12 and sometimes not. Better to just keep it short and high quality all the way through

I've been keeping my eye on this drama cause I wanted to binge it at the end, seeing it plummet in the rating is so unfortunate! Seemed like it had so much potential

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I would guess the majority of people who hate love triangles actually hate love triangles that are thrown in lazily for fake drama, like where the second lead is clearly not even in the running yet keeps getting in the way cause the writer can't think of anything more creative.

If this show is actually about a woman who is drawn to two men for different reasons and throughout the drama grows by unpacking her attraction to them, it could be a dynamic that's interesting to explore. Ideally they all become friends and it's less about who she chooses and more about all their different interactions together.

That's a big "if" tho.

I liked the drama but too many characters were underutilized and too much of the plot was resolved before it got to go to the depths it could have. The set up, the overall plotlines, the backstories of the characters were so well drawn out, but the execution was shallow and disjointed. I enjoyed it well enough but it's not a drama I will be thinking about next week, and it dosen't stand with the greats of the sageuk genre.

Same tho. I've never watched a C drama live but I think I'll make this my first

She was soooo good in Tempted, she was an awful person yet I could not hate her and was riveted by her in every scene, the FL could not hold a candle to her. Exquisite is the right word. She is wasted on all these innocent, plucky, upbeat characters. I wish she had been cast as the lead in Dear X, she needs a role like that.

I love watching two assholes with a heart of gold out-petty each other this is going to be fun

This feels like it's going to be everything I wanted King the Eternal Monarch to be

This is going to be the hit of the year. IU is on an amazing streak of dramas. Amazing director. BYS chose this very carefully as his followup to lovely runner. The synopsis sounds intriguing with strong characters. Wish we knew more about the writer,. Musta been a strong script tho for all the above to get on board.

Dynamite Kiss that the ultimate opportunity to subvert the trope and make it a fake love triangle that woulda been hilarious but they chose the lazy path yet again

I had the exact same thought, I thought it was a different actor at first. Maybe it's the lighting/makeup, I hope he didn't get work done as he looked perfect already

Why even bother coming here to write a coment?

This show has really gone downhill from such a promising start, I'm disappointed. It's silly in this day and age to have both male leads entire personalities revolve around loving the FL soooo much that they will die for her. And even the 2FL's entire personality is loving the ML/FL, she literally just pops up out of nowhere to fuss over the two of them and has no existence outside of that . Eun Jo is the only one with a full personality including dreams and goals of her own that don't revolve around anyone else.

Man all these characters seemed so good on paper. A cold hearted bastard noble son having a change of heart because he learns the power of kindness and wants to honor the integrity within himself--love it. A prince too afraid to be ambitious suddenly deciding to boldly fight because he can no longer stomach the injustice of the common people --SO interesting . But that's not what we get. We get a couple dudes who happen to do good things cause of the girl they're both obsessed with. Neither of them get any real goal or dream of their own except "protect eun jo." IT's just so superficial and bland. Add in the cliche super evil sociopath minister, the cruel and ineffectual king--both one dimensional stereotypes we've seen over and over again. These characters are so boring at this point even Eun Jo or the romance can't save them.