Thanx a ton for that microbit spoiler. Do not reply to this comment coz if I'm wrong I'll go crazy. I just hope he doesn't die in the end. Opening ending is fine by me. I guess I'm starting it again sometime this week. Thank you!
Thanks for that. I absolutely love Jang Hyuk but many of his drama start on a makjang type note, that gives me the feeling that this won't end on a happier note for his character, and so after starting to watch them with full energy I get stuck after 3-6 episodes. I don't know when I'll resume this one but thanks anyways.
O hesitated also when i saw that jo seung woo was not the main main lead. But dont worry coz he really looks like…
I did start watching it the day after your reply and it's okay. Okay coz until episode 5 there's not much screen time for JSW and it kept bugging me. But I got stuck in episode 5, it's been 5 days now and I am still stuck. It's the scene where FL goes to president Goo and takes him on a tour of the hospital wards. I haven't finished that scene but it bothers me. At 1st, it was because I thought he's going to fall for her and in the end will have a heartbreak. Later, as I kept visiting this scene in my mind, it started bothering me for an entirely different reason. I thought it was really degrading to women. And here's how I reached to that conclusion. These drama writers want us to think their FL is an independent woman who can take care of herself and people around her, both, emotionally and financially. They are tough and firm. But then they go ahead and pull the shit like this scene. They say you're tough and independent is all well and good but you look nice when you look after the kids, when you are all soft and kind and MOTHERLY. In my head, this looked more bad than actually telling her to stay home and do the house work. Now why can't his dr friend do this scene when they already are close enough to talk casually with each other? Why is she needed to do this scene when there has never been any interaction between them at all? I'm trying not to get so much bothered by the dramas since they are all but means of entertainment but I am not able to move past some things. I'm writing to you in hopes of getting an answer that says from this point onwards there's so much screen time for JSW and no he doesn't suddenly get soft after falling for FL.
I don't know what I was expecting when I wrote my comment here. But you've spoiled it for me, just kidding! No but really! I'm stuck at epi 6 thinking how sad it'll end. Maybe I was expecting an otherwise reply that'd tell me to go on watching without any worries about the end, that he'll get a happy ending.
I haven't read the full article, reading is not my forte so it was a bit long for me, but I can tell it's a good article. Thanks for it. I've watched the show. I had little expectations of it since both the leads were new to being leads. But it surprised me when both of them carried such a heavy story and did well. I liked every little scene of it and, just as you analysed, what it meant to all the characters, 2 brothers, 1 sister, a mother, the heroine and the father. Thanks for reminding why I truly loved the show once again.
This drama is never balanced and so it'll never become a good drama. In every scene there's always something lacking. Writer probably had an idea/outline of a story but he was in such a rush that he started shooting the drama never really finishing the script for each episode. I know this is supposedly based on Manhwa but the scenes never make sense. Random emotions are depicted at random times. And so everything feels out of place. The actors somehow are doing their job but it won't hold the drama together till the end. Sure it'll hold if the audience keep playing who should her husband be but I think most of them should be tired of it by now. And just why did Moon Chae Won and Yoon Hyun Min decide to do this drama? Hope the next week I'll get to see something more composed.
Your article makes me want to watch it. I also had it on my watchlist for the same reason as you, Jo Seung Woo. But later I saw that he's listed as 2nd character which meant he'll be the evil one in this power struggle drama. And so I dropped it. Spoil it a little for me. Just as how many kdrama go is he only evil and no good in him? Does he change only after meeting the girl? Does it have a love triangle even if it were for lesser time? If his attitude is same (what I mean is he doesn't suddenly get soft because he's in love or something) over all the drama I'll watch it.
This will be really hard to watch since Luther is a very dear character to me. And honestly, Shin Ha Kyun is nowhere near Idris Alba in my eyes. Plus I don't really trust kdrama writers to make this at the levels of UK drama. This will always remain Less than LUTHER.
It is a matter of taste. What's wrong with secretary Kim is a first korean rom-com I have watched and I liked…
Yes it is. And i was so disappointed that I really couldn't think of writing down through a neutral perspective. And that's why I wrote it down in a comments section and not as a review.
I've watched all these except Hana yori dango and Pin to kona. Out of 9 I loved every except for Moonlovers, which looked like a stupidity to me, and Noble my love, which didn't really had the time and so they ended up with a vague story.
I'm sorry, but will you please explain to me what "makjang" means? I'm a bit dim to get it lol.
I don't really know it but here's what I gathered from what I have seen in some dramas. Have you seen What Happened in Bali or Innocent Man or Bad Guy. I remember these only. Makjang is most of the time a revenge story which never really moves towards revenge or love. It just stays there till the final episodes and at the end the person who wants revenge dies or something and we never get a happy ending. That's just my idea of makjang.
I see the 'makjang' tag appeared on this page...is it really going to be one? It'd a change for both JNR & CJH, but it'd be irritating to watch such a long drama if it's going to be a makjang one.
I just hope he doesn't die in the end. Opening ending is fine by me.
I guess I'm starting it again sometime this week. Thank you!
I absolutely love Jang Hyuk but many of his drama start on a makjang type note, that gives me the feeling that this won't end on a happier note for his character, and so after starting to watch them with full energy I get stuck after 3-6 episodes.
I don't know when I'll resume this one but thanks anyways.
But I got stuck in episode 5, it's been 5 days now and I am still stuck. It's the scene where FL goes to president Goo and takes him on a tour of the hospital wards. I haven't finished that scene but it bothers me.
At 1st, it was because I thought he's going to fall for her and in the end will have a heartbreak.
Later, as I kept visiting this scene in my mind, it started bothering me for an entirely different reason. I thought it was really degrading to women. And here's how I reached to that conclusion. These drama writers want us to think their FL is an independent woman who can take care of herself and people around her, both, emotionally and financially. They are tough and firm. But then they go ahead and pull the shit like this scene. They say you're tough and independent is all well and good but you look nice when you look after the kids, when you are all soft and kind and MOTHERLY. In my head, this looked more bad than actually telling her to stay home and do the house work. Now why can't his dr friend do this scene when they already are close enough to talk casually with each other? Why is she needed to do this scene when there has never been any interaction between them at all?
I'm trying not to get so much bothered by the dramas since they are all but means of entertainment but I am not able to move past some things.
I'm writing to you in hopes of getting an answer that says from this point onwards there's so much screen time for JSW and no he doesn't suddenly get soft after falling for FL.
Maybe I was expecting an otherwise reply that'd tell me to go on watching without any worries about the end, that he'll get a happy ending.
I've watched the show. I had little expectations of it since both the leads were new to being leads. But it surprised me when both of them carried such a heavy story and did well. I liked every little scene of it and, just as you analysed, what it meant to all the characters, 2 brothers, 1 sister, a mother, the heroine and the father. Thanks for reminding why I truly loved the show once again.
And just why did Moon Chae Won and Yoon Hyun Min decide to do this drama?
Hope the next week I'll get to see something more composed.
I also had it on my watchlist for the same reason as you, Jo Seung Woo. But later I saw that he's listed as 2nd character which meant he'll be the evil one in this power struggle drama. And so I dropped it.
Spoil it a little for me. Just as how many kdrama go is he only evil and no good in him? Does he change only after meeting the girl? Does it have a love triangle even if it were for lesser time?
If his attitude is same (what I mean is he doesn't suddenly get soft because he's in love or something) over all the drama I'll watch it.
This will always remain Less than LUTHER.
Out of 9 I loved every except for Moonlovers, which looked like a stupidity to me, and Noble my love, which didn't really had the time and so they ended up with a vague story.
Makjang is most of the time a revenge story which never really moves towards revenge or love. It just stays there till the final episodes and at the end the person who wants revenge dies or something and we never get a happy ending.
That's just my idea of makjang.