DrKay

I've seen dramas without skinship too. That is not and will not ever be a problem. (I've even gotten ready to write an article on those dramas though the article got buried in my closet). I've seen no romance dramas and shipped the lead characters in them even though they never had any romantic scenes. I never thought they wanted to replicate CLOY, I just didn't like them making that drama as their framework/benchmark of sorts. Again, speaking as someone who enjoyed CLOY. QoT and CLOY are two essentially different stories that need a differing take on them, not one that converged so often. I've made a clarifying comment regarding this just now.
So, when I said there were no kisses/hugs, what I meant to convey but apparently couldn't was that they reduced the romantic interactions between the lead characters to words when they had shown the skinship initially. Which is why I used the pictures from the first half as well. The shift was too abrupt and I couldn't relate to their emotions anymore. So for me, romance didn't work. For several others it worked and that's fine. It's a subjective interpretation anyway.
I would like to think I complained alright, just didn't whine along with it :)
I remember there being one scene of the miscarriage and another of the nursery being dismantled and their subsequent fight over it. I don't remember where else it was referred again but if it was, I missed it ok. My main discontent is this: because of the poor narration of their love story, esp after their marriage, it didn't have the desired impact (on me). It needed more explanation (as in screentime, not words).
Not contesting you for what you said. Just letting you know my thoughts.

Clearing this up since I was not effective in communicating my comparison between CLOY and QoT. I compared the two because I felt the writer-director duo tried to replicate some of CLOY's camera work and narration in a script where they would be unsuitable. The comparison came in due to the deliberate parallelisms drawn by the makers technically. That was my whole problem- that the makers screwed up QoT while trying to incorporate some CLOY moments needlessly. Vincenzo got a clever introduction that included several of the actor's past characters. It was effective. I felt the epilogues would have sufficed as a hat-tip to CLOY but there were so many that they spoiled this story. What they made happen in one case, they couldn't in the other. And that ruined the story for me.

Don't come at me saying I'm changing my words now. I've mentioned it in my original post already- that CLOY suffocates QoT but because of the many comparisons that I've given as examples between the two dramas, the essence was lost and many ardent fans of QoT didn't even think it necessary to actually read the article fully as they themselves claimed in the comments. For their and everyone's benefit, I've highlighted those sentences in the conclusion in bold and italics. The others who've fully read the article can confirm the truth of this.

"Another CLOY fan": "The shadows of CLOY near fatally suffocate QOT. It deserved to be treated separately from the other drama and not as its subset."
My disclaimer and bio essentially are saying the same thing.
While you re-read these two sentences from the article, let me just sign this autograph and this new contract with this agency that will give me more attention. Ok?

"Another CLOY fan": "The shadows of CLOY near fatally suffocate QOT. It deserved to be treated separately from the other drama and not as its subset."
My disclaimer and bio essentially are saying the same thing.
While you re-read these two sentences from the article, let me just sign this autograph and this new contract with this agency that will give me more attention. Ok?

I will surely watch it. Sometimes, I'm in the big alpha man phase. The rec will come in handy then. Thank you.

Thanks for suggesting the Chinese version. I'll check it out.

It's not so much as missing those points as it is that they didn't show them properly. I have mentioned it- the divorce was not given airtime- meaning that they talked of divorce multiple times yes but they didn't actually show that happening on screen.
I'm very critical with the illness bcz I'm from the medical profession. Inventing an illness with just the loss of time and space- I couldn't wrap my head around such a pretend illness bcz I know brain symptoms don't work like that. I just can't be lenient there.
Of course, they showed that she suffered miscarriage- never properly showed how it impacted them both.
Grace- please. It was a positive comment on her that she's the MVP.
Hae In's miscarriage was not revisited. They mentioned it in one episode. That's about it. They never expanded any of the actual points that they brought forward as the deal breakers. That is what I said- their story was getting solutions earlier than they showed the audience what and where the problem lied. Which is poor narration. They had good points, just didn't present them well to have the impact.
If the family was not allowed to leave the country, technically nor could Hyun Woo and Hae In. Did we see them getting special permit to go? That bugs me. With all the time they had for one episode in the drama, surely two or three minutes could be spent on that.

Thank you for making it possible Tine🫶🏽

I watched Blueming, Where your eyes linger and Choco Milkshake already. I'll add the rest to my list. Thank you for the reccs! I like the colourful way of presentation of your articles :)

Oh ok. Get it now. Thank you.

Ok so your hate was all for mdl. I really shd hv understood that from your first unedited original comments. How immature of me.
I used rando in the same manner that you did- a random person expressing their displeasure with mdl on a review that you didn't like.

Rando! Have you read the other comments? Another user also disagreed with me. You can see the words they used to disagree and then decide whether yours was offensive or not.
I wish when you grow up, you understand sarcasm and what it means to be offended two months later.
I don't consider myself an expert in writing or comprehension. You do. I see you've also edited your comment. Maybe bcz you had no real response to what I said?
Either way, you liked it, I didn't like it and you're having a problem bcz I wrote about why I didn't like it. And mdl published the article esp for clicks from haters alone.
No matter how I see, I'm not the one with the problem.
So I hope you have a good day that is not spoiled by the likes of mdl or me.

Thanks for the link. What I meant by repetitive is expressing the same opinion. I agree not all the dialogues were forced or repetitive. I watched this drama particularly bcz it was by the same writer as Crash landing on you. I even liked the similarities until there were no differences btwn the two dramas. That's why I called it a subset. Regarding another comment, I don't think that the script was planned 10 yrs ago should justify poor writing now, esp after their own well written successful dramas aired.

Clearly, you have no idea of how mdl article publishing works or read the disclaimer that said it was a highly subjective review and the points of interest will differ or actually employed the reader discretion the disclaimer talks about. I will make sure to leave you a link of the article list and publishing schedule next time I'm writing an article so that it doesn't offend you two months later.
But since this needs a clarification to many other ppl as well, this article was written back when the show finished. Not yesterday.
And if I were you, I would watch your name calling. If you could also go so far as to check my profile, you would realise that I'm not a paid member either. And mdl isn't like other social media where clicks get you something.

Such a unique article. Had fun reading it👍🏼

Hey! that's one thing I never thought of. Interesting.

Hey! that's one thing I never thought of. Interesting.

You should! It's not perfect but it's largely enjoyable.

Never before been something like it!

Thank you!🥺🫶🏻