DramaHeroine

Yesssssssssss. I am so hype for this.

Wish I'd known about this before they stopped streaming the movies. I definitely would have watched some of them.

I don't get all that excited about Kdramas that much anymore (been finding my groove with Jdramas lately), but I'm super hype for this. It looks like a bit of an old-school feel with some classic rom-com tropes but in a modern interpretation. I'm living for it, lol.

I can't wait for this. It looks like a bit of an old-school drama feel with some classic rom-com tropes but in a modern interpretation. I'm living for it, lol.

Definitely adding this to my plan to watch list. It sounds fascinating.

I didn't even know this existed, but now I have to watch it, lol.

I'm gonna have to check this one out at some point. It sounds really fun.

This is the first drama I've actually ever fast-forwarded with, and it definitely has helped, lol. As traumatic as it is, the whole abuse-relationship with the one couple is so...I don't know the right word, but I'm so desensitized to it that I don't care about them at all at this point, and I skip all of their scenes. Those parts honestly have little bearing on the overall plot anyway.

"sometimes the only way to watch is to rant!!!" I feel that in my spirit, lol. I'm not a fan of over-the-top, melodramatic, makjang-like dramas, which I had a feeling this drama might end up being, so I went into it with the attitude of 'Just enjoy the ride and don't take anything too seriously.' It's mostly helped, because the more insane bits I just laugh at, but there are some parts that still get me frustrated (or mostly confused because of the terrible editing). Your comment provided just the right amount of spoilers to tell me that I want to keep watching.

This is my favorite comment on this entire site. I've never read a MyDramalist comment that was this helpful, lol.

Is anyone subbing this?

Related but not, I'd personally really like to see the Kdrama industry try shorter episodes and different numbers of episodes. They don't have to throw out the 16 episodes at an hour and 30 minutes a piece format, but I definitely think the rigid inability to stray from it has hurt some dramas. Adding too much drama, stories spinning their wheels, episodes where nothing of importance happens, are all a common occurrence in Kdrama. If writers weren't stuck having to use the standard format, it might help with some of that. (That and I also finding the first two problems kind of infuriating and would like to deal with them less, lol.)

My question is how do you know a drama is going to have an intense love triangle ahead of time? If I could know that upfront, it would honestly be really helpful, lol.

I dropped Cheese just before the ML does his disappearing act, and I've always been rather glad I did. How utterly infuriating and frustrating that would have been to watch.

I only come to dislike secondary male leads when they start interfering in the main couple's relationship more than I can put up with. I get really frustrated when a story spends time trying to make me want the SL to get the girl rather then spending time making the ML worthy of her. I'm like 'No. I don't want this. I want you to write in some character growth for the male lead, please. That's all I want.'

Yeah, I'm always confused when people are like 'I wonder who she'll end up with,' because it's obvious from the writing who the male lead is. I have to remind myself that most people don't know anything about how storytelling works, or what the common tells are in writing. (Still drives me a little nuts though, lol.)

I think...we may be kindred spirits, lol. I wouldn't say I always love the male lead in dramas. There are plenty of male leads that I think are the worst. But I'm generally always committed to the main pairing in the story, even when the male lead is being a horse's rear end. My brain just goes 'The writer has chosen to put these two together, and let no man put asunder.' And it's not even intentional. My subconscious brain is just very decided on this issue. And when a second male lead starts trying to pull the female lead away from the male lead, even when the male lead Deserves to lose her, it almost always just pisses me off. It comes across as clingy to me, and I can't stand clingy second leads. I'm still not sure if I've ever truly experienced SLS, because even when I have loved the second male lead (The Master's Sun, anyone?), I almost always still want the leads to end up together. What my subconscious always wants is for the male lead to shape up and become deserving of the female lead, and my subconscious brain will hold out for a loooooong time waiting for that to happen. I'm definitely like you in that I'm not willing to bet on the second male lead, because I know that only leads to heartache. Of course, trusting in the male lead has led me to a lot of rage and frustration, so it probably evens things out, lol.

Last year was my first time attempting the drama challenge too (I've been watching dramas for over 10 years), and I failed miserably, lol. I don't think the drama challenge works with the way I consume dramas. I start dramas solely based on how I'm feeling in the moment, so if I don't feel interested in watching something right in that moment, then I won't pick that drama up. I think, in order to succeed at the drama challenge, I would have to plan like you are going to, and I just don't watch dramas that way. That adds a layer of stress to my drama viewing, and I just don't need that.

Okay, lol.

I really like the ambiance they created, and I think that's why I kept watching for so long. It kind of hits one of my sweet spots in fantastical story settings, lol.