Ning Yuanzhou telling Ruyi that she lacks the common sense to raise a child on her own and what if her child wants to play with its father? and then saying he hasn't made any plans yet for after he completes his mission... He's so transparent lmao
Okay, seriously, how many bitches does Li Tongguang have and how? First it was a forbidden affair with an imperial concubine, then he almost killed his childhood friend who's a badass assassin and she became his maid, now he's being married off to a girlboss nomadic princess who "hates" him... if he gets the crossdressing princess of an enemy nation to like him too, I'll snap. Yu Shisan can only dream of having this guy's game.
I'm gonna go ahead and say this won't be his first "romcom" either because both the title and the premise are telling me it's not going to be particularly funny... but I don't care because it sounds interesting and I'm sure they'll have great on-screen chemistry! I love the casting and hope they both confirm it soon.
OK, I'm sorry, but nothing in this drama makes any sense.
It doesn't make sense that "I'll tell everyone that you and your sister turn into dogs after you kiss someone" can serve as a credible threat; absolutely no one would believe that in the real world! If you released a video of a terrified woman being taunted and extorted by some guy in a hotel room, people would naturally think he was a nasty douchebag playing some sick game with her, not that the woman babbling about a curse was actually cursed. Even taking a video of the transformation wouldn't get people to believe you! They'd think it was manipulated.
So anyone trying to use that as a threat would just end up looking like a weirdo. "Why is this no-name blogger targeting a random schoolteacher and saying such ridiculous things about her?" She's not even a public figure! She could just sue him for harassment or whatever the South Korean equivalent is. No court would ever ask her to prove that she doesn't actually turn into a dog; it's an absurd claim in the real world, so the justice system would take her side automatically.
It also doesn't make sense that Haena would be *that* afraid of telling Seowon about the curse. It was obvious by the end of episode 2 that he's a nice guy and wouldn't call her gross or blackmail her with that information. But it's now day 90 out of 100 and she's still fretting about what he's going to think about her? Bitch, it doesn't matter at this point! If you turn into a dog permanently, you'll never get a chance with him or any other human! You could have had this sorted out 3 months ago.
It also doesn't make sense that her parents wouldn't step in at this point and just tell him on her behalf. If my child is facing the prospect of metamorphosing into a dog forever and I know I can prevent it from happening by telling the guy she likes (who likes her back!) that he needs to kiss her in dog form, fuck her privacy! I'll just tell him everything and let them sort out their relationship issues later.
It doesn't make sense that Haena and her sister talk about the curse like it's something super shameful and disgusting either. Like, sure, it's very scary because it can become permanent if it's not resolved within 100 days, but I don't think most people's default reaction to discovering magic is real and their partner has been cursed to transform into an animal at night would be to call them gross and scary, take humiliating videos of them and extort them for money. Sure, some people might react badly because humans are all different, but most would be pretty sympathetic? It's not automatically a shameful stigma. They didn't even do anything to deserve being cursed like this, so why would people judge *them* for something they have no control over? Again, some might, but the drama presents it as the default reaction and I don't think that's fair to most people.
There is a lot more nonsense in this drama, but I'll stop here. The characters' motivations and reactions just don't seem logical to me at all!
(And the worst part is that all of these nonsensical twists in the drama serve the narrative purpose of giving Haena things to be pointlessly afraid of so Seowon could show up and save her. It was the same with the three students who were smoking in front of her school; an experienced high-school teacher would know better than to tremble in fear of three teenagers no matter how unpleasant they were. The first thing you learn as a teacher is how to deflate teenage boys' egos and ignore or deflect their provocations! Yet she was about to piss herself because they refused to do what she told them, and needed Seowon to swoop in and beat them up for her, which by the way—I'm not impressed that the ML can beat up some schoolboys! That's not cool! It's lame that they were presented as a threat in the first place. Haena should have been able to shoot back a clever one-liner at them and call security and the delinquents' teachers by herself.)
All that said, I AM enjoying the story and don't really mind the lack of logic, but it's shocking to me that people aren't acknowledging it at all.
Ah, I see! You will be able to find it on sites like dramacool and kissasian, but if you want to watch it in HD, there's a site where you can download kdramas with subtitles in good quality that I'll put under a spoiler below:
I'm on episode 4 and I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be getting out of this...? It's trauma porn basically. I don't care about how the hospital will gradually accept and embrace the protagonist! I just want everyone except for him to die in a fire, including the FL. They're all vile, hateful idiots.
Stop this let everyone watch for themselves and make their own informed decisions but weather it gets reined or…
Well, I agree that Mango TV turns every drama to unwatchable shit with their subtitles and they've prevented me from watching many shows I was interested in, including this one.
Teacher Kang should have gotten run over by a truck in the first 3 episodes instead of inserting himself into Da-hyun's life uninvited, kissing up to her parents, making digs at her boyfriend, etc. all behind her back and ultimately creating all the obstacles to Da-hyun's happiness that he hypocritically blamed Jae-in for failing to overcome. What a delusional, creepy, patronizing, unattractive, DISRESPECTFUL little toerag. The fact Da-hyun never stood up to him and her parents even though she didn't like him and they all kept going on about how much more suitable he was for her when he didn’t even see her as a human being pissed me off even more. If she had just told him and her parents clearly that she had no feelings for him, at least 6 of these insane 26 episodes could have been cut.
Well, that’s probably the explanation the show runners want us to go with, but it’s not realistic. 15 years…
I don’t think she should be more mature necessarily, but becoming less comfortable in social situations, more morose, less expressive, more prone to solitude, territorial behaviour and fits of irritability, having a more troubled relationship with food and crowds (including concert audiences), being less verbal, etc.—these would all be normal developments for someone in her situation, and they would give her something real and meaningful to work on (herself) instead of her stupid childhood dream about her favourite singer.
I'm trying to understand the FLs personality and behavior, there's parts of her that is channeling a bit of Attorney…
Well, that’s probably the explanation the show runners want us to go with, but it’s not realistic. 15 years of solitude would change most people a lot instead of freezing their personalities in time. Plus she was already annoyingly childish as a teenager. And I know people will say that’s because of trauma, but that really only explains her fixation on her interest, which allowed her to escape her miserable daily life, and not her actual personality, which was that of an 11-year-old.
This was enjoyable but very problematic. The main takeaways are basically that a good secretary is the same thing as a girlfriend (which, in turn, is the same thing as a caretaker) and that being a good manager is the same thing as being a real man/good boyfriend. The drama collapses the boundaries between professional and private life in all sorts of unhealthy (and rigidly gendered) ways.
In what universe Xu Si's character is flawed? Are we watching the same show? His character is everything except…
"Flawed character" and "weak character" are two totally different things. No one claimed Xu Si doesn't know what he's doing. Stop attacking people over your own misunderstanding of what they said.
Xu Si is indeed calculating and well aware of what he's doing, but he is causing pain to the person he loves and sabotaging his own personal happiness because he's got his priorities wrong and resorts to hypocritical self-justifications and tricks he learned on the job to manage his private life instead of respecting his partner and growing as a person.
These are personal flaws. His determination to pursue Jiang Hu in the first place was a flaw because it was unprofessional and she told him multiple times she wanted to keep their relationship professional, but he thought he was so great he could get his dick wet and make money at the same time despite the blatant conflict of interest. He's a flawed character. The fact you don't like him right now means he's a flawed character. That's what the other person meant.
At the same time, flawed characters can be well-written, thought-provoking, interesting, relatable, sympathetic, complex, etc. and they can even make you root for them. Some people are happy that Xu Si is a flawed character because they're tired of two-dimensional white knight MLs who don't have their own interests and motivations separate from the FL.
ok fr ik I said I cant complain but im begging I need more trai/riri so bad how could they rob us like this
Agree with everything you said about the main couple’s chemistry and both of them being romance royalty, just two super likable people maximizing their joint slay, LGBTQ rep and how fun and normal that whole gang was, and OMG, TRAI/RIRI! I wanted more scenes with them too! If you watch the closing scene in the garden carefully, you’ll notice Trai touching her shoulder and looking at her while everyone else is looking at Mata and Purim, OMG! But I still needed to see him grovel for Riri’s attention (though she’ll fold like a napkin, I think), come on.
I’ll add that Daddy Grace was one of my all-time favorite parents. Normally when there’s a “wise” parental figure in a drama, their wisdom sounds preachy and cliched to me, and often hypocritical, but Daddy Grace really is that girl. He’s so wise and compassionate and thoughtful, and every once in a while you could see his influence on Mata, like when she paychoanalysed Penneung’s family at the birthday party.
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It doesn't make sense that "I'll tell everyone that you and your sister turn into dogs after you kiss someone" can serve as a credible threat; absolutely no one would believe that in the real world! If you released a video of a terrified woman being taunted and extorted by some guy in a hotel room, people would naturally think he was a nasty douchebag playing some sick game with her, not that the woman babbling about a curse was actually cursed. Even taking a video of the transformation wouldn't get people to believe you! They'd think it was manipulated.
So anyone trying to use that as a threat would just end up looking like a weirdo. "Why is this no-name blogger targeting a random schoolteacher and saying such ridiculous things about her?" She's not even a public figure! She could just sue him for harassment or whatever the South Korean equivalent is. No court would ever ask her to prove that she doesn't actually turn into a dog; it's an absurd claim in the real world, so the justice system would take her side automatically.
It also doesn't make sense that Haena would be *that* afraid of telling Seowon about the curse. It was obvious by the end of episode 2 that he's a nice guy and wouldn't call her gross or blackmail her with that information. But it's now day 90 out of 100 and she's still fretting about what he's going to think about her? Bitch, it doesn't matter at this point! If you turn into a dog permanently, you'll never get a chance with him or any other human! You could have had this sorted out 3 months ago.
It also doesn't make sense that her parents wouldn't step in at this point and just tell him on her behalf. If my child is facing the prospect of metamorphosing into a dog forever and I know I can prevent it from happening by telling the guy she likes (who likes her back!) that he needs to kiss her in dog form, fuck her privacy! I'll just tell him everything and let them sort out their relationship issues later.
It doesn't make sense that Haena and her sister talk about the curse like it's something super shameful and disgusting either. Like, sure, it's very scary because it can become permanent if it's not resolved within 100 days, but I don't think most people's default reaction to discovering magic is real and their partner has been cursed to transform into an animal at night would be to call them gross and scary, take humiliating videos of them and extort them for money. Sure, some people might react badly because humans are all different, but most would be pretty sympathetic? It's not automatically a shameful stigma. They didn't even do anything to deserve being cursed like this, so why would people judge *them* for something they have no control over? Again, some might, but the drama presents it as the default reaction and I don't think that's fair to most people.
There is a lot more nonsense in this drama, but I'll stop here. The characters' motivations and reactions just don't seem logical to me at all!
(And the worst part is that all of these nonsensical twists in the drama serve the narrative purpose of giving Haena things to be pointlessly afraid of so Seowon could show up and save her. It was the same with the three students who were smoking in front of her school; an experienced high-school teacher would know better than to tremble in fear of three teenagers no matter how unpleasant they were. The first thing you learn as a teacher is how to deflate teenage boys' egos and ignore or deflect their provocations! Yet she was about to piss herself because they refused to do what she told them, and needed Seowon to swoop in and beat them up for her, which by the way—I'm not impressed that the ML can beat up some schoolboys! That's not cool! It's lame that they were presented as a threat in the first place. Haena should have been able to shoot back a clever one-liner at them and call security and the delinquents' teachers by herself.)
All that said, I AM enjoying the story and don't really mind the lack of logic, but it's shocking to me that people aren't acknowledging it at all.
Xu Si is indeed calculating and well aware of what he's doing, but he is causing pain to the person he loves and sabotaging his own personal happiness because he's got his priorities wrong and resorts to hypocritical self-justifications and tricks he learned on the job to manage his private life instead of respecting his partner and growing as a person.
These are personal flaws. His determination to pursue Jiang Hu in the first place was a flaw because it was unprofessional and she told him multiple times she wanted to keep their relationship professional, but he thought he was so great he could get his dick wet and make money at the same time despite the blatant conflict of interest. He's a flawed character. The fact you don't like him right now means he's a flawed character. That's what the other person meant.
At the same time, flawed characters can be well-written, thought-provoking, interesting, relatable, sympathetic, complex, etc. and they can even make you root for them. Some people are happy that Xu Si is a flawed character because they're tired of two-dimensional white knight MLs who don't have their own interests and motivations separate from the FL.
I’ll add that Daddy Grace was one of my all-time favorite parents. Normally when there’s a “wise” parental figure in a drama, their wisdom sounds preachy and cliched to me, and often hypocritical, but Daddy Grace really is that girl. He’s so wise and compassionate and thoughtful, and every once in a while you could see his influence on Mata, like when she paychoanalysed Penneung’s family at the birthday party.