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Mark as spoiler please!!

2022 really puts a huge limit on things. If you mean Kdramas (which mostly all I watch), there's only really been a handful this year, and they have been nothing like this one. The only other ones I've enjoyed have been Ghost Doctor and From Now On, Showtime! and tonally, they are not like Golden Spoon at all, as they are much more light-hearted.

Yes I too have issues with the writing.

I wasn't really enjoying this until now, but episode 5 was fun.

What! When did this happen?

I hope the romance between SeungChan and Juhee doesn't work out, because once they (particularly Juhee) grow out of their idealistic youth, they'll be miserable together.

Also I find Juhee pretty boring as a character, and though I'm pretty bad at spotting it, I spy no chemistry between them at all. I feel nothing when watching them interact.

Now YeoJin and Seungchan. Heh, they're a delightful mess. I kind of want to see that catastrophe happen.

Oh yes, this is making me lowkey anxious. But also, I'm really curious to see how they choose to portray this karma. Because they will.

Hm. I like him, but in a way that I would also be perfectly fine watching him crash and burn. I like how unlikable he is. How he's not really a good person. How he's intelligent and jaded, but also young and inexperienced.

He is a sympathetic character for me, because I experienced (mild) poverty growing up, so I know what it's like to not afford all the food you need. To be jealous, just enough to put you on edge, of you well-off friends and their shiny new things, all while embarrassed of your own second hand things. It's such a human thing to feel, and such an ugly thing too.

Seungchan is basically an incredibly exaggerated example of this, just as Taeyong is by contrast, the opposite. So I don't like the ML as a person, in part because I sympathise most with the ugly parts of him. This is what makes him such an interesting character and protagonist. Also, this is not an attempt to make you sympathise. I'm simply attempting to add to the conversation.

I do hope Taeyong learns what's going on soon though. He really doesn't deserve this confusion.

The spoon "Yeojin" threw into the lake was actually hers, as she no longer had need of it. The one hidden in her vase was Seungchan's, which she'd secretly stolen. Taeyong is going to remember it and accidentally use it, thus resulting in a switch.

Not sure how likely this would be, but it would be a pretty interesting turn of events.

Theory post ep 5:

For a supposedly competent lawyer, the FL is really quite terrible at arguing.

Agreed. Parts of this drama I find so-so, but that was brilliant. An absolute breath of fresh air.

"I find" implies this is my perspective. Also, I am watching all ongoing kdramas rn, aside from Little Women and that contract marriage one. So most, but not all. I said "one of the more", not "the most", so there's room for error.

I don't find Blind particularly intense because 1) I'm not invested in the characters and 2) I'm fully expecting it to go off the rails, because there's been some small examples of poor quality writing/directing. I've seen a lot of dramas with this tone, so not particularly engaging (for me).

I'm not watching Little Women, probably one of the few dramas I'm not, because it just hasn't interested me. Besides, it's almost over.

Cheer Up mystery is not intense at all - the thriller aspects feel a bit goofy, in a ghost-story-around-the-campfire kind of way.

This drama has both high stakes and complex characters. It's a serious story with drama first and not much comedy. I find it easy to get invested in a scene, and anxious about the outcome. Therefore, it is pretty intense.

I find it's one of the more intense ones airing at the moment.

There was no romance with the female detective. She clearly liked him, but he never indicated that kind of interest, so it was one-sided. But he was clearly interested in Raika and Garo.

Hopefully they go down a more convincing route and realise that they've loved each other all along. Then again, no one is watching this for realism are they?

Agreed. It was an interesting concept, but no matter how the actors acted, the characters were just written so flatly. 12 hours, and I absolutely didn't care.

I'm an ace person who, like probably many others, didn't realise until pretty late. Growing up, I always assumed I was bi or something, as I noticed no preference for either gender, even though the label did not fit at all. Everyone around me completely failed to mention asexuality as an option - I first encountered the term down an internet rabbit hole reading fanfiction.

It's a pity I can't find this legally, a real shame. More people need to see it.

Agreed, I hate love triangles. But I was bored, so I started anyway.
The 2ml doesn't look like he stands much chance, and the ml is pretty great (though fl currently thinks he's a crazy weirdo) so I'm not disliking it. But it's very early days, so it's hard to tell.