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I'm a man by the way, and I don't care one way or the other. Whether they're "pure" and "virginy" means nothing whatsoever to me.

You're complaining about your delusion that women get to fool around but men are supposed to save themselves, ergo my comment about you being an incel.

Get your incel ass out of here.

You're talking about Japanese media, in Korea it's different.

See, how right was I...?
I guess it's time to switch to another country, since I can now predict how the plot of Korean romcoms is gonna play out about every 4 out of 5 times.

It's pretty much the most common trope in Korean (or even in general) romcoms that one of the leads has a hidden, long-standing crush on the other. It's basically why the childhood acquaintances trope exists.

Precisely. Now it fells like it's just gonna go the generic route of the ML having been in love with the FL since they were kids, and the FL eventually realising "OMG, I've loved him for forever too", with hours of awkwardness between them and the ML doing stupid shit to avoid showing he loves her.
So boring...

And I bet the ex fiancée will pop back up for some extra pointless drama.

The show couldn't even last 2 episodes before brute-forcing romance... The leads interacting as actual friends was such a breath of fresh air, but now that's gone and it's back to the regularly scheduled awkwardness and schoolyard crush behaviour.

Same, though Cdramas have their own issues that start becoming obvious after a while, namely propaganda (in non-fantasy ones), old-school patriarchy,...

Personally, I'd be fine if they'd just tone it down a notch...or two...or six. Everything in Kdramas, no matter the genre, be it characters, events, plots, tropes (dear god do these need to die off yesterday), traits,..., seems to be turned up to an unrealistic, and sometimes downright moronic, degree.
Comic relief characters are batshit, antagonists are almost comically evil, "good guy/girl" characters are impossibly naive and/or go-with-the-flow,... It's just too much, and after about a year or so, I got fed up.

P.S. And for the love of all that is holy, give romcoms a proper freaking epilogue.

The one ray of sunshine in Part 2 was that South African guy's comic relief. Tough soldier in full tacticool gear but with David Beckham's voice :p.
Everything else was meh.
I didn't care about any character except for the one who got kidnapped at the start and never showed up again.

Does the male lead actor have some deal with the CCP? This is his second show (that I know of) after You Are My Glory with heavy overt Chinese propaganda.

Wow, the FL is the most egocentric female lead character I've ever seen in any Asian show. I'm in the middle of episode 30, and so far she's only ever taken herself into account, whether work- or relationship-related, never anyone else. She has never tried to look at things from another person's perspective.
It gets so bad in this episode that I'm actually thinking of dropping the show, even though I'm only 6 episodes away from completing it.

This show better end with the leads broken up, as the FL quite honestly doesn't deserve the ML.

So, this is a spinoff? Neither of the main characters from the movies seem to be part of it, nor their mother.
What the hell happened, did the movies not generate enough profit for them to make the 3rd part?

My point exactly, they were picking up young girls *at the border*, by pretending they were there to help. They didn't go into Ukraine when they could easily abduct the refugees, and they didn't grab them off the street when there were plenty of virtually willing vulnerable victims.

After episode 3 I skipped to the end because it was just too boring, but I'm wondering if it was ever explained why they were taking children?

That part of the plot just makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. There is one reason, and one reason only, why people would take children en masse, and that's sex trafficking, but that is just extra work in a scenario like in the show, where you have an entire continent full of refugees whose children no one but their parents would miss.
Throw in the bit about the asteroid fucking up the climate for the next 30 years, and there's even less reason to go to ground zero to kidnap kids.

Oh yeah, there is no denying that it was extremely popular.

Name recognition a.k.a. star power. Take away the fame of the people involved, and it'd be rated at best slightly above mediocre, and even that mostly because Koreans seems to love melodrama involving rich families.

I dropped it on episode 2, and later on, I think it was last week, seeing an article about a character getting amnesia, the tropiest of tropes, I just don't get it.

I've gotta agree with wheezythew8ve that it's purely run on star power, because it makes no sense otherwise.

I wasn't trying to say plot-driven storytelling is better than character-driven, I was saying it's better *for me* ;), as they both have their advantages and which one people prefer is entirely subjective.
Also, I was saying that nowadays virtually everything is slanted heavily towards being character-driven, as in overly dramatized.

As for Star Trek vs Star Wars, I much preferred Star Trek, as that was Sci-Fi, vs Star Wars' fantasy in space, but that's a genre, rather than a storytelling, preference.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not totally against character-driven storytelling, I enjoy it even, if it's in an appropriate setting, like concerning a person or persons (like for example Darkest Hour being about Churchill rather than WWII).
But when I go watch or read something specifically about an event (apocalypse, first contact, war,...), I expect character drama to be minimised or even non-existent, though I'm constantly disappointed because of said expectation.

"The main focus of the show is 'reveals' instead of emotional bonds between characters. "

Personally, I see that as a benefit rather than a drawback as nowadays, everything has boatloads of character drama shoved in where it has no place being.
Virtually everything is now just the same drama in _____ (space, zombie apocalypse, war,...), and studios just mix and match the world around it.

This sucks especially bad for me because I just don't care about the characters outside of their effect on the story. I don't care who someone is sleeping with, cheating on, pining for,... I watch films and TV shows for the world they create and the events that take place, not for the characters to go through the same exact series of events they go through in damn near every other film or show.