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Bruh not to be annoying but so unimpressed watching first episode. Wow you made a kid confess a crime, come on, that‘s not a serious opponent. The product placement of Samsung and Bottega eyroll. The scene where she walks into the office after the interogation: there was no reason for her to go in, sit down for few seconds, then say „I‘m going home“, she just walked in cause the scene required it. Then her team talking about her to her like she‘s not there but also as a celebrity, the dynamic/tone is off.
Also how did they let her keep evidence (The Puzzle) from the crime scene after she submitted it to the police lol

Hi guys. Only reply if you feel the same. So, I‘m a huge Kim Da Mi fan, ever since I saw her in The Witch and Itaewon Class, and Yo Ji Seo is one of my favourite characters in Kdramaland. I was checking this out for her only but I‘m getting such an icky feeling of her character (haven‘t finished ep1 yet). It‘s like a fake is trying to play Kim Da Mi playing Yo Ji Seo (her Itaewon Class character) mixed with some Sherlock copying, Idk what they were going for, especially her style and hair and everything is so unappealing, the character feels so eyerolly to me lol WHAT HAPPENED I can‘t stand how she talks or what she says, it‘s like a crazy kid and everyone around her is normal while she is not and she comes off annoying rather than intriguing (The FL in „Doubt“ did this type of character way better)

They didn’t mislead anyone, the snow man is not even shown in the trailer and just a plot device in the first 2 episodes, he is an irrelevant aspect of the child trafficking plot, which is the actual mystery. Making the figure/ one of the figures who kidnaps the kids more spooky is just deco.
People came for romance and got that and that was advertised. You might find him more interesting but what can you do, you can not please every single person but those for whom this story was advertised for, got what they wanted. To make the argument some irrelevant side piece was used to trick you into watching is ridiculous lol there was more romance than snow man

Bro the Snow Man was a sth they literally made up for the show, he doesnt exist in the book, it’s just there to introduce the child trafficking plot. Why do ya all latch on to completely irrelevant things lol he’s just a „soldier“ of the villain and not important, why would they focus on some spooky caricature in a story that’s a love story of the leads

The plot wouldn‘t be the same, you‘re just filling the what-if gaps with your preference. 99.9999% stories out there are all the same, the point is not to create a-never-seen before story but do the story well, and this story was a literary success and highly celebrated so it did its job right for those whom it was intended. There are plenty of stories where a man has a mission and has no romantic plotlines, me saying „man has a mission and infiltrates and has success“ wouldn‘t diminish the enjoyment people get from that story either. You might not enjoy the romance, sure, but it would be a completely different story without the romance and people that liked the story, liked the romance in it.

They even tones a lot down from the novel so it wasn‘t even as dark as it could have been lol

The story wouldn‘t make sense without romance, the driving force is not just the mystery but the actions and motives of the characters and their fates. Romance plays an important role in why a story/character is driven

I can‘t explain it to anyone who didn‘t enjoy it, you just gotta feel it and if you don‘t , it can‘t be engineered. There are rare gems out there like these, every now and then I find one like this that resonates with me and gets me

very

I used to be like this but by now my absolute favorite 3 pieces in fiction all have tragic endings. I accepted that if a story could make me get intensinely invested enough in it and reach a certain place in my heart, I don‘t mind the sad ending, especially since other stories that have a happy ending but don‘t hit me this deeply can‘t compare.

Dropped by again to proclaim how much I loved this, I feel so happy as someone who hasn’t found sth she enjoyed for such a long time and would drop everything left and right. This was like a cup of tea made just for me. I would really love to read the novel man

The snow man didn’t exist in the novel, I think the show made it up to have a mysterious atmosphere or sth and to introduce the human trafficking plot

that‘s crazy 😭 at least with food it would be a waste to throw it away but the same cant be said about time, it’s always valueable. Life is too short to spend it on anything you dont enjoy.
I get you hope it might grow on you but if you dont like it by now, you wont till the end either and then you‘ll have wasted not 2 episodes but 11

They even toned down some darkness from the novel lol f.e. In the novel Yeol Guk (the dad) punishes the maidservant for letting the real Hongrang die by torturing her and beheading her daughter (the one that helped with the pomegrenate wine plot and got beaten with Jaei) and ML dies through the consequences of cutting the skin off his back (and some poisening aftermath) oh and Hongrang‘s mother k1lled Jai’s mother

yes

the ghost was made up for the show, idk why

why do people do this? I never got it. Forcing yourself to watch sth you don‘tlike. Like I will watch something for 19 episodes but the moment I don‘t like it sth, I‘ll drop. I was so obsessed with My Dearest for the first season and few episodes into the second season hated the direction of the, droppped and never looked back lol. This drama is the first I have completed in YEARS literally and I loved it

Good taste but all got tragic endings lol

There is a link in „Recent Discussion“ above with the plot summary. The snow man didn‘t exist in the novel, the male lead dies through the aftermath of some poison he used to poison the dad and pealing the skin off his his back, she survives. About the title, Idk, good question

If you don‘t like it by now, I don‘t think it will change so best to drop if it‘s not for you