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When reading novels you most certainly CAN skip or skim thru lots of things. Just as you can do with any creative narrative.
It still requires some knowledge of the plot to figure out what's important.
I could take a lot of films, dramas, books, and reduce them to a tenth of their length while still retaining the plot, but I'd have to KNOW what that was first.

I blatantly admit I'm watching this purely for Yoon Shi Yoon. LOL

Right, cause obviously I'VE got NO experience comparing different media LOL
Nope. Sorry. Concept ENTIRELY the same no matter WHAT you are skipping thru.

Oh, I do believe both brothers are equally intelligent. Just that one was definitely favored by Mom. The one with the iffy morals is the OLDEST brother, BTW.

I did indeed like that line LOL

Skipping thru like that is similar to skimming thru a novel. I'm an English lit major. I've done it - w/Cliff Notes or a synopsis to help. You HAVE to understand what the story is in order to know what parts are important. If you just skim over scenes that initially seem 'boring' or don't have the actor you like in them, you will INEVITABLY miss out on very important plot points. Again I ask you, HOW did you figure out the important parts without having a guide?

So how did you figure out the STORY??? Read the synopsis?
You didn't watch that drama. You watched clips.

Your choice. Don't watch this then.
I'm delighted to see a realistic treatment of the subject. I haven't see Go Back Couple, and I'm thinking that the loss of his kids IS going to hit him like a ton of bricks sometime in the drama, but we will see.

Really??? And you STILL are ranting about this realistic depiction of a 2-parent family? Oh, you wanted them to be WELL-ADJUSTED or you aren't interested, that the deal?
Look, dear, I not only lived thru this scenario but worked at DSS (Social Services) for 25 years. This is a very realistic depiction. Just because YOU didn't act like this hardly detracts from the reality. Also, seeing it AS reality doesn't make it a GOOD thing - just a real PROBLEM to be dealt with!!!! Very decent, ordinary people faced with uber-stressful circumstances and not dealing with it very well - I'm thinking that's kind of what this drama will address which is great!

And I'm not PASSIVE aggressive at all = I'm IN YOUR FACE with my opinions :D No problems about it. I'm going to try not to be RUDE or insulting until someone insults me or makes disparaging remarks, but LOL LOL LOL Passive LOL LOL LOL
I'm Southern so I use sweetie & honey a lot. Deal. I'm to old to stop that. Don't care if you don't like it. Not my problem.

This reminds me a lot of a film I saw called The Family Man with Nick Cage & Tea Leone, which also has a man looking at the difference a choice in his life made.

Ahhh, real life sucks, doesn't it?
This is real, kids. Having a couple toddlers in the house, while having to both hold down jobs that aren't sympathetic nor supportive of things like childcare etc, with the resultant stress, does this to the nicest people.
SOME of us remember this and sympathize, but of course all you young single people out there haven't a CLUE and just hate on this young couple.
I laugh. I give you a few years & we'll see. Unless you're one of the few fortunate ones with MONEY, this will happen to you if YOU get married & have kids LOL

So I guess this IS going the same way as the original...
Still, EXCELLENT adaptation :D

Sad to not be able to appreciate a well-done piece of work unless it's in a genre you like :(

Healer. Can I just say.... (the no break-up part anyway...)

Much as I do love Secret Garden, this drama is MUCH more realistic and has far more believable characters and situations than SG. Not messy at all - the drama was making subtle, nuanced fun of romcoms in fact.

This show simply charmed me. Cute, sweet couple, depicted differently than in most KDramas, lots of funny moments and secondary characters, no evil villains nor even nasty in-law problems - just a lovely little story about 2 rather quirky characters who found out they did indeed care about and need each other.
All those who say it's not realistic that 2 people could work together for 9 years and not recognize their feelings just watch too much TV and rely way too much on fiction in general. This had one of the most realistic scenarios available in romcom land. Our CEO did know who this girl was, hired her because of this, and helped turn her into a great secretary, but he certainly didn't do it out of his LOVE per se. He did it out of gratitude. That little girl had kept his younger self able to deal with a horrific experience, at the time at least, because he focused on protecting her. Therefore he felt gratitude towards her. Mi So didn't remember him (although she WAS looking for her oppa from her childhood) but she did learn to be great at her job and become quite an accomplished professional.
She quit her job because she'd become a workaholic, and she felt she needed to take time off, partly to truly look for this childhood friend but also mainly to find herself.
When she DID this, of course, it was a total wake-up call to our CEO. He immediately realized her importance in his life, and although he didn't articulate it very well even to himself, he found he'd taken her presence for granted and he truly did care about her.
She found out that she'd just assumed he had demanded all these things of her when in fact he hadn't (he didn't of course do such a great job about ASKING if she enjoyed doing everything, but turns out if she had put her foot down earlier he'd have gone along with her). People in general, we see, have assumed he was more demanding and harsh than he actually was.
Mi So, throughout the drama, is finding that she actually DID love her job! She found it empowering and fulfilling, and she was excellent at what she did. This makes the drama a great deal different than the normal KDrama romcom, despite the love story, and the CEO marrying a poor girl trope. This drama in fact keeps turning cliches around thru-out, very subtly and gently for the most part.
If you like things 'happening' all the time in a drama rather than seeing an interplay of relationships together with humor, which pokes fun at lots of typical romcom situations, then don't watch this.

~sigh~ Proving yourself incapable of understanding the English language, I see.

Why would I be hurt?
You make a comment as if it's a universally held opinion, I refute it, you continue to make these comments, I back UP my statements (ie that yours is not the popular consensus) and suddenly I'm the one looking for attention?
But but but
YOU'VE been answering me, and you still don't rationally support your statements about Goblin - by that I mean that however sappy etc YOU think it is, you STILL seem to think that lots and lots of people share your opinion, which they DON'T
I mean, why are you doing this? Anyone can Google the reviews the show had.
Admit that. YOU think it's overrated. YOU didn't like the story. You absolutely should not watch Mr. Sunshine of course, since you obviously don't like this writer - which is your choice. We all like different things.
But to argue that somehow your opinion is a mainstream one, and that I'm the strange one for pointing out that it's not, is just, well, a bit weird.

In YOUR opinion. For what that's worth.
In the opinion of critics - as in professional critics, it was not. The common criticism lay with the age difference between our Goblin Gong Yoo & his Bride. Product placement being even more obvious than usual was another complaint.
However, reviewers both amateur and professional gushed about this drama, in Korea and internationally. Gong Yoo and Lee Dong Wook got immense praise for their acting, the lead girl Kim Go Eun also got accolades, it won Baeksang awards for acting & for overall drama (Grand Prize)...
So you are in your own special snowflake category here. Be happy. Own your opinion. But don't pretend many people share it.

Oh, dear.
Please explain how Goblin was CHEESY. I really don't think you understand the meaning of the term.
Cheesy - over the top, exaggerated, cliche-ridden, almost a parody
The only one of these that could objectively describe Goblin even slightly might be the cliches - although name me any TV drama that doesn't have some...
If you think Goblin is cheesy, I guess you think 99% of KDramas fall into that category LOL and a good proportion of any TV shows anywhere.

No, it's for saying that the writer is known for creating cheesy dramas. She's absolutely not. This has nothing to do with whether someone likes or doesn't like Goblin.