DramaHeroine

Well, I did it. I finished the drama. God help me, I finished the drama. And the finale wasn't...a total waste of time. But yeah. Overall, this drama was a waste of time. Should have just finished Another Oh Hae Young Again instead. You live and you learn, I guess.

12 is the last episode. I wasn't sure how many eps it was going to be, because on here it has said 16, but on Viki and Asianwiki it has said 12. But now we know for sure. It's 12.

I'm a hopeless drama addict who keeps giving dramas second chances when she shouldn't. Dropping a drama is not an easy proposition for me, lol.

I actually really like the other girl playing her alter-ego. Her acting is great, and she's really hamming the character up. The writers just haven't bothered giving our main girl any real screen time with the male lead. They haven't given her any chances to show him just how great she is the Way she is. It's upsetting.

Uuuuuuggggggnnnnngggggghhhhhh. This drama is really testing my patience.

We're getting absolutely no insight into why our characters are making the decisions they are making, no deeper look into their inner struggles and motivations and desires, no inner dialogue to give us hints, no revealing conversations among the characters, just a bare bones story trying real hard to be devoid of any substance. (Which is all the more frustrating as it has so much potential for substance.)

We have no idea what Seul Bi's ultimate goal is, or if she even has a goal. Is she hoping to find a way to stay in this new body forever? Is she wanting to trick him into falling for this version of her so she can do a big reveal later on and go 'Surprise! I'm actually Seul Bi! You still love me now, right?' Does she just want to use the coffee as an excuse to live out her crush as long as possible until he either finds out or she's gotten it out of her system and is ready to move on? Is she unsure of what she wants and just letting herself give in to her impulse to be near him and desperation to be seen as beautiful by him even though how she's going about it is really not fair to either of them? What does this girl want?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Everything in this drama is being done at the most shallow, surface level possible, and it's making me want to rip my damn hair out.

AND NOW WE HAVE EPISODE 8!

These writers have the gall, the GALL, to have our leads kiss For A Second Time while she's in her coffee form AND THEN INTERSPERSE A SHOT OF HER KISSING HIM AS HERSELF LIKE IT'S SOME KIND OF SIGN THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO INTERPRET AND BE HAPPY ABOUT, BUT WHAT THE HELL IT'S MEANT TO BE SIGNALING, I DON'T KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOW.

I'm sure it's supposed to reassure me that she's going to get the guy in the end by being herself (and I fully admit that the real her kiss is just as good as the coffee her kiss, and yeah, that makes this seem like a real possibility), but I sure don't Feel reassured. These writers put literally zero work into earning that moment. They have spent Zero time laying down a foundation for it and making me believe that there is a real chance for them, and I am NOT here for it.

At this point, I don't know why I'm putting up with this. It is a waste of my time.

So I guess I'll see whoever else is still watching this drama tomorrow in episode 9 when something else infuriating happens, and I need to shave my head and sprinkle ashes over my body in anguish.

DF was part of Warner Brothers which is owned by AT&T, and AT&T announced about a year ago that they are building a competitor to Netflix. DF was simply the first of what I imagine will be many streaming sites being shutdown by AT&T so that they can channel the money going to those sites to their new streaming site instead. They've already shut down two other niche streaming sites they own for this reason, one that stream classic films and onw dedicated to horror films.

DF was part of Warner Brothers which is owned by AT&T, and AT&T announced about a year ago that they are building a competitor to Netflix. DF was simply the first of what I imagine will be many streaming sites being shutdown by AT&T so that they can channel the money going to those sites to their new streaming site instead. They've already shut down two other niche streaming sites they own for this reason, one that stream classic films and onw dedicated to horror films.

I’m at ep. 13 of this drama and really enjoying it so far, but man. I got some feelings I need to work through, so I'ma write a long ass comment about them, because you are definitely care about what I think and feel, lol. City Hall is honestly so good I’ve been willingly overlooking that it does a pretty terrible job of balancing humor and angst. The angst is slowly increasing each episode and the humor decreasing, and I don’t like that. I miss the hijinks and goofiness the early episodes had, and I wish dramas didn’t do this so often, start light and fun before turning all moody. But boy do I Bloody Love Everything Else. I even like a lot of the angst, despite wishing there were a little more comedic relief sprinkled throughout, because it all feels very real, the situations the characters are faced with are ones I can empathize with, and having lived in South Korea for a year myself, can honestly believe could and would happen. (In fact, I know they do.) I’m also not feeling upset about the possible future ‘cheating’ the writers seem to be hinting at like I normally would. Cheating in dramas, in any stories, makes me livid. It's cheap and unnecessary, and if it's going to be written into a story, I need it to be handled appropriately. No justification or excuses or brushing it off like it's no big deal. If this were real life, and these were people I actually knew, I would definitely be upset with them. Mi Rae for not making it clear to Jo Gook that she won’t be party to cheating, because as far as she is aware, he’s taken and off limits and that should be the end of it. And Jo Gook for subtly, and not so subtly, pursuing her and creating the situation they’re slowly finding themselves in instead of taking stock of his feelings and doing the right thing by ending his relationship with his fiance. But there’s an underlying current to this situation that makes it feel very different from typical cases of cheating. It’s still wrong, and both parties have a responsibility to do the right thing, and at this point in the drama they don’t appear likely to, but it also just feels different. It's very clear that Jo Gook and his fiancé have no genuine love for each other and are only in the relationship for status and financial gain. Neither one is actually happy together, but they’ve committed to whatever end goals they have in mind, and don’t want to give those goals up or admit that they’ve made a terrible decision (multiple terrible decisions). And not once have I felt like Jo Gook was just putting on a show to trick Mi Rae into doing what he wants for his own gain. In fact, the thought hadn’t even crossed my mind until reading some reviews and recaps by other people, because every step of the way, his feelings have come across to me as very genuine. To me, it seems like he Wants it to be the case that he’s just using her and there’s nothing else going on, but he’s really just falling for her and failing miserably to hide it and all the political stuff has turned into an excuse for him to be close to her. Obviously (hopefully), this will come back to bite him in the ass when Mi Rae realizes just how he’s manipulated her, and good. I’m glad. He needs a wake-up call. He's playing with fire, playing with hearts, playing around with his own life, and is about to send himself down a one-way track to misery that he won't be able escape from. Someone or something needs to get through to him before it's too late. I'm sure, as time goes on, they will become more entangled and start crossing more boundaries they probably shouldn’t cross, and I’m going to become more and more frustrated with the cheating and probably even outright livid and screaming at my computer screen, but I don’t plan on quitting this drama because of it. I hope that my faith in it will be justified.

I can't help you with finding data like watch history, but there are sites that basically copy pasta'd articles and Dramaclubs, etc. from Dramafever to their site if there were any you wanted to save.

That might have been me, lol. I was a volunteer for the site until it shut down.

I know one of them personally, Coco from Kdrama Fighting, as I was a volunteer for the site, and she was one of our contacts. They walked in, sat down at their desks, starting working, and then were told they didn't have jobs anymore. They're probably not talking about it for a lot of reasons. Shock, have to focus on finding new jobs, maybe aren't allowed to or aren't allowed to talk about certain things, too upset to talk about it. Lots of reasons, honestly.

Considering they didn't care enough about the other employees or the volunteers or the userbase of the site to inform them of the shutdown ahead of time, I'm not sure why they would really care about changing emails.

I. Hate. Netflix. Search. Setup. HATE IT!

Realize now after reading comments that other people have already pointed out how AT&T is creating Netflix competitor, and that has more to do with the closure of Dramafever than anything else, and my comment might not be useful at all. Oh well, lol.

Yeah, they know literally nothing about the Asian drama fanbase. A large portion of us started watching dramas cause we were sick of Western media and wanted something different.

This. I know people who worked there up until the last day, and they weren't aware of any financial issues. Licenses had gone up, but the company wasn't in financial trouble over it.

Dramafever was actually doing well financially up until their closure. Adding things like the Bachelor and Spanish language programs didn't affect them negatively. The problem is they were a niche service, and there is a ceiling to how much money a niche service can make. An all-in-one streaming service came make a ton more, so AT&T decided to go that route instead.

I'm glad to hear people are actually getting refunds. I was really concerned about that.

I would absolutely pay for dedicated streaming services from the Korean cable networks, whether separate ones or packaged together. And girl, I was on the Dramaclub for 100 Days My Prince, so I feel you on that one.

I haven't done a deep search to see what they've grabbed. I'll need to go look now. Not that them picking up drama's from Dramafever makes me any less perturbed with them for picking up the sequel to Age of Youth while it was airing and then not uploading it until MONTHS LATER!