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I like the characters and their interactions, but as with 99% of Korean romcoms, the premise, namely the rationale for why the leads are forced to interact, was at best an afterthought, if that.
I assume it's gonna turn out that the leads were together in a past life, before the ML became a demon, so that's why his powers transferred to her, or God did it, or some cliché like that, but that's just dumb.

Episode 1 was great, up to the final scene. After that, including all of episode 2, it's been mediocre, solely because of the ML acting like an utter idiot due to the idiotic premise.

Make him lose his powers because he failed to collect on a deal and so he hangs around the FL to get her to sign one to get his powers back, or make the FL sign a deal with him for safety but use her experience as a CEO in contract language to trick him into acting as her bodyguard in person to keep them interacting, anything but this mess.

"he never wanted to live even after living through his last 13th life"
This is precisely what I was wondering with the synopsis. It presents an entirely different story than the one you've described.

I most likely won't watch it because I've got more than enough dark material in my head, and I mainly watch/read stuff as a means of escapism, but nevertheless, thank you for taking the time to write this reply.

Oh, I didn't notice that, maybe it was in later chapters.

Still, the webtoon's intro was terrible; he got something shiny and instantly wanted to live after not just being suicidal, but actually going through with it.
It basically presents being suicidal as a monetary, rather than psychological state.

*edit*
I looked at the webtoon and it's terrible. There is no reason whatsoever. He sees a shiny watch on his arm and just decides he wants to live.

The premise is that a **suicidal** person must attempt to survive certain death multiple times, and then in return he gets rewarded with... life?
Am I missing something? In context, that's not a reward, that's a punishment.
Like, I know that it's probably gonna end up with him somehow realising that gee golly, ain't living just so gosh darn swell and all that jazz, but how could the writers rationalise him not just saying no to the game and killing himself? What's Death to do, kill him if he doesn't participate?

The pre-ghost ML is a hypocrite of epic proportions. He murders people but then prays for them as it wasn't him who did it, all to allay his guilt (has the stink of "I was just following orders" all over it). I 100% agree with what the FL said at the stone memorial (as well as in the cave, because I like my vengeance cruel).

He also says he had no choice but that's a blatant lie, there's always a choice (or several in this case; try to convince the king not to go to war, refuse to go to war, desert, rebel,..., or just straight up kill yourself), it's just that avoiding responsibility is always the easiest one and therefore the one almost always taken.

Oh no, whatever shall I do, someone called me a name on the internet. I need my mommy!

Off the top of my head, I'm guessing:
-Her sister or the henchman.
-He's her biological grandfather, she was born to his hidden child who died or was forced to put her up for adoption, likely due to his actions.
-That'll be done in the last episode, nothing to uncover there, just waiting for the FL to get off her ass and gather the evidence.
-He's the ML so no, at most the brother tricked/forced him into it (or just plain lied) if he's an antagonist, or it'll turn out to have been some wild misunderstanding if he's not.
-Yes. He did know the FL's name before they met, he didn't react to her telling him info from the future,...
-Same as the mother.

The show seriously needs a melodrama tag, that way I could've avoided this freakshow.
Also, a third of the show's done and there's been no marriage, much less any revenge. Everything the FL does is just reactionary.

Majority is not all, and I assume the part that's still forgotten has something to do with the FL.

It's not just the story, but more so the characters. Everything was just so over the top and dumb, but lacking any self-awareness, as opposed to the original.
The show seems to be taking itself waaay too seriously in the wrong places.

Thanks.

Which episode were they in? I dropped it after episode 2, as I felt the cast had nowhere near the charm of the original to make me suffer through the cringeworthy plot, but I'd definitely like to watch the scene with their guest appearance.

"Plot reminds me a lot of k-drama , "Happiness" which also deals with similar issues and how humanity can be pushed to dark lengths in name of survival."

Shame, as while I loved the idea of Happiness as a look into the early stages of a zombie apocalypse and the breakdown of society (other zombie media always just instantly switch from "everything is fine" to "everything is fucked"), I absolutely loathed all the drama around the residents in the apartments.

Agreed. It's shiny, which is a praiseworthy achievement outside of Hollywood, but it's just monumentally stupid when it comes to the science and plot.

I want a light-hearted and fluffy romcom, and those poorly or un-resolved issues you listed bother me as well, along with some others, like the ML's relationship with his mother being instantly all hunky-dory despite her abandoning him when he was a kid,...
Especially this; where do the ML and FL live after getting married? After all, he runs a hotel chain based in Seoul, while she runs a 1-room B&B somewhere on the beach.

Goblin's ending wasn't happy, as the ML was still immortal, the FL would still die, and everything about the Grim Reaper and Sunny was just tragic.

I know what you mean though, and it's the definition of deus ex machina.

The ending was so bland it was practically non-existent. She didn't tell her mother she came back, she lost all her memories, there was no form of epilogue whatsoever,...

Thing is, it wasn't a systemic issue, it was just a manufactured witch-hunt by the media that got her transferred (judging from what was shown and said in the show), and she could easily sue or file a complaint, but that's just handwaved away in the show by her superior saying if she wants him to get screwed instead of her.

Regarding the transfer coincidence, it's just too much. There's like a dozen tropes/clichés all jammed into the transfer, and I just can't suspend my disbelief that much.

The transfer wasn't because of the child abuse case and cops getting fired. She was transferred because she passed a candidate who turned out to be some higher-up's son, which she didn't know as she passed him because his scores were the highest, and the media kicked up a storm because the son fucked something up, so she was transferred as a scapegoat.
As for how she ended up at the station where the cops who got fired worked at; of course she staked out her original transfer station to see her new boss (that she doesn't want to work for) there and asked for another station, and of course her old boss warned her "cinematically", by not telling her that's the station of the two fired cops and just saying she's gonna regret it...

It all just so fucking stupid and lazy and that's why I hate everything about her job.