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Following The hatred any drama attemping anything remotely different (TFP2, SG2 and now this) vs easily digestible average typical romances - I expect late 2025, early 2026 onwards we'll just get Typical Kdramas.

There's no point in watching anymore new dramas, anything Remotely Fresh closeminded shallow Kdrama fans will loathe - Looks like Time to go Back to only REWATCHING Kdramas I already know are good, new dramas will just keep Repeating plots like

we didn't JUST SPEND ALL 2024 STUCK WITH DRAMAS REPEATING "CHILDHOOD CONNECTION/BACK TO HOMETOWN/RETURN TO EX" TROPE of 90% of all Romance dramas!!!
.....only for you all to go "WE WANT MORE OF THAT! UNIQUE PLOTS SUCK!!"


or "OMG WHY Leads are single with no rel experience into their 30s-40s"

then when this drama introduces other partners before them, showing them sleeping together before they get together with leads "No no no, they must STAY with them then, sleeping with them/Or just because they're with them FIRST is LIFE commitment don't you know anything else is Cheating!"

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FL is too alien creepy looking (too much plastic surgery?),
would be better if the much better looking Zhang Ya Qin was the FL.

You must watch him then in SQ2, the man was Always Smiling, while doing Evil things LMAO 😅

At least they are Complimenting his Acting without realizing it 😆😆😆

Then consider me conflicted. I can see Both work just as well with Lee Jun Ho. 😅. Pick whoever of the two.

I already do. I skip the Flowerboy Romances and watch Older Lead Kdrama Romances (30s -50s leads) like One Spring Night, Mad For Each Other, On The Way To The Airport, Dinner Mate, Secret, Tell Me You Love Me, My Name Is Kim Sam Soon, When The Stars Gossip, etc.
+ Spanish Telenovelas and Turkish dramas tend to have older leads, I watch those also.


My problem in THIS CASE HERE, is Originally they cast a Non-flowerboy older ML, now they've downgraded


....I also don't like PSH after he posted creepy Rape-Porn pic, but why couldn't they have Found SOMEONE OLDER AS ML REPLACEMENT?!? 🤦‍♀️

This feels like a downgrading....

Kill Me Heal Me - Psycological healing, romance in background

Healer - Action Romance

Mad For Each Other - Psychological healing romance. The most realistic Mental Health themed drama. Far from typical pure romance. Pure Romance fans Hated this drama and found the realistic psychology in it off-putting.

Happiness - zombie, romance

Vincenzo - Action romance

The Atypical Family - Superhero, Psycological healing

A Love To Kill - Revenge Rom

I'm Sorry I Love You - Revenge Rom

Marry My Husband - Revenge Rom

Secret - Revenge Rom

The Last Empress - Revenge Rom

Archeology/Historical Thai Lakorns - a mix of melo, romance and often revenge in historical setting

Love Shuffle - Dark Comedy psychological, only a Romcom on surface, but I guess you got to judge a drama as just a Typical Romcom based on its title

Be Melodramatic - Not a romance, mainly a slice of life, Raw Psychological healing, sismance over the romances

Live Up to Your Name - Timetravel Rom

Will Love In Spring - Psychological, Death-themed, far from typical romance, 10/10 writing that has more depth than on the surface more unique plot dramas

Also I'm semi-liking When The Stars Gossip. sofar(not enough eps have aired) unlike most people on this site who only like Typical Copypaste Romcoms, can't get more interesting unique new dramas because of these people....

etc.


Psychogical healing with indepth writing that makes you think about life, Revenge, Action, Superhero, Fantasy, Archeology/Adventure -Rom is boring to you?


Take not that some "pure romance" dramas I watched In between/Happy Filler dramas is for healing after too melodramatic dramas, they're not serious dramas, I rate them purely on Entertainment value, not quality.
Mostly I don't prefer pure romance, it works better with action, revenge or fantasy, not sure what you're on about lol

One Spring Night might be the only Pure Romance drama I like.


Also medical is boring, not even enjoyable as in between/filler dramas lol

Not for me. I have to at least find the ML somewhat attractive in order to ship him with FL.

Boring plot, must skip drama

Also popular during their airing, but Nowadays way too underhyped, these are still in my TOP 5 best of all time dramas now YEARS LATER:

Healer
Kill Me, Heal Me
Chicago Typewriter

Will Love In Spring
Love Shuffle
Mad For Each Other
Be Melodramatic
Angel Destiny (thai drama)
Mask Girl
So I Married An Anti-Fan
Full House (thai remake that is better than the original!)

the most underrated underhyped dramas of all time.

I don't think I've ever seem Gong Yoo play a villain role before, it was highly refreshing seeing him play a Smiling no matter what psycho salesman lol

"It's ok to rape, beat up women, have 2 DUIs, but how daaaaaaaaare yooooouuuuuu accidentally post spoileeeeeer?!?!??!!! 🤬"

-Knetz.


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This. Ugh I hate it when they cast flowerboys as ML, especially in romance. Hard to take them serious as a love interest
for FL.
Not keen on FL either though.

It's sad cause I like the combination of Food + Timetravel themes....Really hoping they'll change Both leads....

Notice how people are calling 2FL Pretty and picking her side?

Yeah same cause. Both are pretty privilege + stupidity of most kdrama fans

Those are most certainly not exceptions. 😅😂

At least ep 1 is trash in 99% of dramas.
Ep2 still boring in 90%.

You must have really low standard on what you consider a good first 2 eps then, if you think most good dramas have good starts too....They don't.

Lol if I had to be find a drama good before even finishing ep 1, then the total of Completed dramas would be 2, and not 200+.😅

The rare exceptions hooks just AFTER ep1, or during the last scene, some after eps 2-3.
Most are good since ep4-5.
The Fiery Priest 1 and The Greatest Love only got really good since ep10.
Some highly rare times do I find myself not just bored after ep 1, but bored to the point of suffering and absolutely not into the drama at all (Bulgasal ahem ahem ) Most of the time imo it's ridiculous to drop a drama after/before finishing ep1-2.

Exxagerating that anyone looking even slighly older is a grandpa, I think YOU'RE the one who needs to get real, genZer lol

Her pairing with Kang Ha Neul looks much better. Give her that age range for pairings instead.
Ji Chang Wook, Jung Hae In, Na In Woo, Lee Joon Gi or Yoon Shi Yoon, Lee Min Ho, Choi Jin Hyuk, Song Joong Ki, or Kim Woo Bin would be much better with her.
Or give her an older oppa-romance with highly attractive older men like Nam Goong Min who's shiwn himself to suit also with younger.

I haven't watched that one yet. It's in my Plan To Watch.
But if that happens in ONE of her dramas it's far from the "She USUALLY in her dramas plays with strong sex appeal" 😅😂

....literary NOT usually.

I prefer her with someone more mature. CEW still looks like an immature person by his looks and vibes sorry. The too boyish flower boy looks doesn't match well with the mature vibe of this actress.

Yes. 😍

With this type of theme "Death" being all over this drama, they could've easily pulled a "Let's kill off ML/FL or both at the end!" 😅

Luckily, they Didn't! I was Extremely stressed out during airing that they would kill them off! 😱😂