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Excuse me, I just watched the first episode &- HOW do you expect me to go on after that ~insane ending?! WTF?! I haven't been this sucker-punched by a drama's starting point since ep01 of "Shut Up FBB" (I think) some years back.. that was just ~cruel. But I still have to watch at least one more ep cuz I do everything in pairs & I have this "curiosity addiction" thing.. aarrghh! >.<

Yes, it fully finished the last week of August, right before PBG left for the military.

I was just going to cmt about it.. ugh. Literally the first (& probably only!) gay character in this story & it's someone who becomes bitter & mean (& also kind of ~threatening, wtf??) after being (rather decently) rejected?? & by someone who's HALF THEIR AGE anyway! AND the jerk ~still holds a grudge about it even years later..(!) pfftt. That whole part just hurt my soul.. other LGBTQ+ viewers shd be ~warned just in case; like both the eps were overall good except that mess which happened in ep02.

Plus it really put a damper on my hopes for HaeHyo (I just really don't want to see him get heartbroken), like it kinda feels he may love HyeJun that way too but is the type to keep it quiet forever to protect their friendship.. & I don't think my heart can handle it- & what is UP with the so-tiired trope of "neglected or ~smothered rich leads ("main" OR "second") getting pushed into ~cliche triangles, often (tho not always) even pitted against someone they've been close to for forever over it"?? The story goes, "here's our pitiful char & here's our more successful (or stable, etc) char, & to "win", try & guess which one will eventually sabotage their friendship over inferiority & jealousy issues.." Bleh!

Fingers crossed for smth better, but not holding my breath. ;(

Monthly revisit to this cmt section to chime in with my vote for.. HY/SO, just cuz. ;P

Btw, can't forget to link this: https://kisskh.at/profile/simbiani/recs/50847

I second that R88 rec, preferably watch that one before anything else cuz his char is sooo quiet & subtle there, just so impressive, it deserves to be a fresh viewing without thinking of other chars.. then either avoid (cuz of PAIN&ANGST) or ~try not to be too traumatized by "Hello Monster / I Remember You" heh <3

More like they're keeping it a total "surprise"/"mystery".. ;P

Here's a link, sorted by "most viewed", with the keyword being their characters' ship name (NamSoon + HeungSoo = [HeungSoon], lol):

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22heungsoon%22&sp=CAMSAhAB

With the filter options, you can also sort by "most recent".. & try other keywords like their own names, the series title, etc too ;P

Everybody DID ship them, just check out YouTube- there's tons of videos from btwn 2013 to now for them because of this, & some talented fan-editors even combined clips of their other dramas to create "new" ones of them together- it's awesome! <3

Also if anything, it's not that it "wasn't supposed to happen" but that it ~couldn't (or just couldn't be MORE obvious, lol).. so that's why they had to be as "subtle" as they were xD

..indeed ^-^

Still waiting for a ~reunion, actually.. xD

Hopefully by 2023 at the latest, LOL <33

LOL same.. had to browse the comments to see if anybody else noticed that xD

A character chart is out but the only confirmed connections are btwn two *mutual* love-lines; the main couple & a minor couple, lol. Meanwhile, the second lead is left mysteriously ~unconnected.. not even showing a line of "unrequited" love.. hmm. https://kisskh.at/photos/18gpd_3

- Idk, complicated things don't usually go that good, lol xD

Plus that's not really a "complicated" love triangle, that's ~still a *cliché* triangle.. Regardless of gender mix, if the only *mutual* feelings are btwn the "main leads", then it's just ~typical. But.. if at least one- or especially *both*! lol- of those mains actually ALSO liked the second lead *back* (romantically) ~then it'd be genuinely ~complicated. Those are my favorite stories! <3 {trio-shippy}

That was exactly my thoughts- & even if any of the characters do turn out to be LGBTQ+, if it is handled as ~badly as it was in Sweet Munchies, I know I'll resent this deeply.. but damn my curiosity, I still wanna watch it anyway! ;( *fingerscrossed*

{up to hour 06 of 12, eps 11-12 of 24}

Only halfway thru & they're already hurting my JaeSun/HongJo shipping heart.. this trio could be such a cute OT3, if only everything wasn't so ~melancholy.. <3 *rewrites*

Not if you found nothing worth "sticking around for" in those few episodes, lol.. multiple characters get so much worse, some don't progress at all, some do yet barely.. decide by figuring out how much you like the actors vs seeing them do senseless things xD

Grandma never met DO, that's why she didn't recognize him, AJ had never told her anything other than "let's just pretend that guy died", same as what she told her daughter.. ;( Grandma didn't even know his name (even tho they were supposedly together for "almost a year") that's why she thought it was RJ when HN said she had confirmed it.. plus when the guys showed up that time when AJ was drunk, Gdma thought DO was "just the author" (CEM) at that point.. there was never anything to contradict that, but it ~is just weird that AJ never brought DO home to meet her mom back in those college days..

MDL is not really an app itself, it's a ~website for *tracking* your dramas activity, just like https://MyAnimeList.com another big tracking site but for anime, which also ~has a little "mobile app version" to simply access the site on mobile without visiting in a browser, lol.

The top *video streaming* services for ~viewing dramas include Viki & Netflix, plus there's some on YouTube & Hulu as well. Then there's iQiyi, which does have offline viewing just like Netflix (Viki, Hulu & YT do not).

If you're specifically interested in ~this drama, the King: Eternal Monarch, it is only really available on *Netflix* officially, out of those mentioned.

Hope this helps! & welcome! ^-^

*me reading a certain line in an article*

"A remarkable number of middle-sized and small-sized production companies [have] acquired exclusive rights to create adapted works without the actual capacity to realize their ideas.”

*me side-eyeing "Thumb Film".. pfftt*

~source: http://archive.is/SiSsM (it's about television projects, but it still fits)

That is extremely unfortunate.. I'm just so sick of the "left outs", & the "die-offs", & "pairing the spares"; I need ~more of stories like My Love Patzzi, Protect the Boss, Panda & Hedgehog, && She Was Pretty, where the love is *equal* or "close-enough" in all directions, ~especially btwn the "rivals".. with nothing (or almost none) "unrequited", just ppl who stay together in love no matter what <3

As for Jealousy Incarnate, it's every bit as BAD as its title.. the very reason that I've been so jaded the past few years over "triangles"- because so many writers seem to have a thing for making everything get destroyed by ~immaturity ;(

There was only E88, R94, A97.. & all those ended their triangles rather badly.. tho I was still head-over-heels for the various ships in R94 cuz of all that ~potential <3

I'll have to check the other titles you mentioned tho.. xoxo

Happy Birthday anyway <3 https://youtu.be/sOWPbqQsEu0