MadelineMaureen

It was worse in Go Ahead. He had physical scars from burns and glass from when she threw boiling water and broke things in anger. She was physically, mentally and emotionally abusive to her son. He was held hostage as she literally took and locked away his passport, making it impossible for him to leave her. Repeatedly threated to kill herself and possibly her daughter with her so she wouldn't be left alone. Blamed the son for everything. He had no one to talk to as the brothers had sort of lost touch. He would get simi regular updates from FL's best friend about FL, and he clung on to that like a lifeline. He became obsessed with getting back to FL. He became a dentist because FL was scared of the dentist, but loved sweets. He came back with the sole purpose to pursue the FL and sabotaged her relationship with her boyfriend(he was a pos away, but still).
He was completely lost without the FL and broke down at the mere thought of her rejection. He was codependent with the FL similar to the ML's mother's codependence on HIM. Kissed the FL in front of his mother and her friend just to piss off the mother(and a bit to feel grounded in a moment of turmoil as the mother was invading his space and trying to set him up on a blind date.)
The 2ml ends up in the hospital because the ML put his pills for anxiety and insomnia in vitamin bottles to hide them from FL and 2ML. 2ML thought he was taking a multi vitamin and almost ODed.
Their relationship in GA was 100x more violent and 100x more manipulative than they've chosen to depict in FBC. He has a stronger support system in FBC than he did in GA as well. He is much more willing to open up and get others to open up. He doesn't feel as fragile/on edge as he did in GA. It always felt like if FL had really rejected him that he would have rather not lived anymore. She was his way out of his living hell, and if she wasn't able to pull him out he would have drowned.

Salt, incense, holy water the whole shebang .
If there was ever a need for a the infamous kimchi slap it is now. Do it you cowards.

I do feel like we missed a bit of her perspective in those episodes. With everything going on with the mothers I feel like her internal struggle/realization wasn't touched on as much as it could have been.

They are doing sooooo much better with the mental health aspect of the story in this one. The main leads are actively trying to break the cycle that hurt them as children by communicating with each other & stand up against those who hurt them. Even if they have a hard time one of the main 4 will encourage the other to speak up & ask questions instead of being stuck in their own head for too long.
I feel like the ML in this version isn't as codependent & mentally/ emotionally unstable as he was in the OG. I love that it was the brothers who kept intouch the most while separated. I like that the brother(2ml) is the one with the love triangle & completely oblivious to someone liking him. It checks out with his personality. The relationship with the 3 main leads is so well balanced.
I love 'Go Ahead', but I also love this adaptation.

There isn't a love triangle with the main leads. But HaeJun has always felt like a third wheel with everything. So when he finds out they are dating he feels hurt & like once again he is being left behind & abandoned. Not because he likes Juwon romantically, but because if they aren't all siblings what is he to THEM.
They actually do a really good job of showing the complexity of all of their feelings & past trauma when it comes to family, and how they are working towards breaking that cycle.

No...not even a little bit

Episode one. Our boy can't even tell that his online friend is talking about him. I'm dead. Does he think she's in a different city or something? She names the book and the exact situation that he was just on the other side of and can't connect the dots. I'm dead.

The main couple do not kiss, but the second couple(main couple in the novel) have two. Ep 17 & ep27. There is a forehead(?) kiss of the leads in episode 32.

This is one that could benefit from a season 2, but a season 2 isn't completely necessary. I would want either like a movie length special or 24 episodes tops season 2.
This one actually had a much longer time in the real world than most in the last episode. But I still wish shows would have a full episode or episodeS in the "real world" to finish off certain stories. Did I still enjoy the ending we got? Yes, very much. That doesn't change the fact I would have liked to see her meeting her classmate and getting to know the adult him. And maybe finding a firmer footing in her professional life after getting a bit of herself back...she had stopped standing up for herself and others because of what happened to her father and found that side of her again in her "dream" so I would have liked to see a follow through.

Their fathers were business partners together. They aren't related except by family association. Like the steward of a family isn't necessarily blood related but would still have a title linking them to the family.
At closest relation they could be cousins, but I don't think that's the case when they explained their past connection to one another.

I fear the writers ate and left no crumbs.

kisskh just now has episode 29

waiting for the last few episodes to get subbed. Hopefully in the next hour or so or I'm going to fall asleep.

You get me...which is why you got the essay.

Yeah, but to use the same technique repeatedly is either lazy writing or just lack of creativity. It's just that it keeps happening over and over again with very little difference in start to finish and not a single character other than named characters going "time out and lets hear the other side". Its on the same street....after repeatedly being proven wrong with ulterior motives at play. I need a different technique used to take them down is all I'm saying.

I will never understand someone hell bent on revenge for a family that treated them poorly. I get wanting to claim back somethings that once belonged to said family. But they treated their own child badly & then you find out they are also directly responsible for the death of 100s of people from another family(and others) with one known survivor left and are like "I need to finish what they started." Girl, sit down, get some help. You should be girl bossing your way to the top as you dance on their graves. You were never going to win daddy's love girly pop.

PS forgot to mention this same thing happens AGAIN in the next episode...which is why I'm having a bit of a rant about it.

So comment ended up an essay...my bad.
Yeah, I get the mob mentality pile on, but like this is the 4thish time it's happened in the show in the same town(on the same street) and all other times the side yapping the loudest was in the wrong so you would think it would give the town idk sooomme kind of pause to think it through.
But they see a well dressed man and are like "I believe everything coming out of this person's mouth"
I think there have been less than a handful of shows that depict a crowd having someone logically question what is happening in front of them that isn't a named character. Most of the time it's multiple people in the crowd with the same complaint before a whole mob of people chime in with support. Or multiple plants in the crowd to drum up negative sentiment.

But for some reason in this town all it takes is 1 to 2 men talking over the person they are accusing with little to no receipts to back their public claims before the whole street is like "burn the witch".
2 men harass and SA people in Clear Mind and then try to say they were threatened/hit by the Clear Mind workers...they were being kicked out of a private business for harassment. We've seen countless shows of people being tossed out of businesses & I'm just like...wth...I also get the fact that it's because Clear Mind is run by women that that issue was able to escalate, but still.

I just need them to stop using this "outside business call out" because it's getting repetitive and I just need more stealth moves being made by the bad guys, because they be acting like the CoolAid Man busting walls down. If the "good" guys are the only ones able to work in the shadows the game of cat and mouse becomes less interesting. But the pawns aren't as smart as the power behind them aka Prince Ying and Dock guy who was "friends" with DuanWu's father...i don't care what anyone says that man is sus as fuck and he killed Lil Shrimp. The one person who is aware enough to realize that something is a trap by ML is a woman, so of course she gets talked over and disregarded as "overthinking and worrying for no reason".

Apparently you can yap in front of any place of business in this town and lie and cause a scene and get your way without anyone in the crowd questioning your motives. I get it I do...but not ONE person is like "Humm this grown man is throwing a hissy fit in front of a group of strangers instead of going to the authorities with a complaint. Seems sus."?

They(mother & son) handle things in a similar way. Feeling shameful & burdensome to their loved ones, so I liked they parallel each other a bit.