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Most of her projects aren’t good though 😭 A lot of her dramas did well at the time and had big names so a lot of hype and they’re considered classics cos of the nostalgia but they haven’t aged well if you look closer. Plus idk how she’ll do with a makjang type genre lol. Since it’s just eight eps I’m hoping it can’t get too bad. If she gets whoever ghostwrote Mr Sunshine then maybe we can expect a good script 💀

I don’t mind him being paired with older women per se but yeah at this point it’s a bit repetitive lol

He will definitely gain viewers and buzz because right now if you look at Jang Kiyong he’s benefitting from being associated with her in terms of brand rep, social media buzz etc. but yeah other than that nothing 😭 and his character will be different from this I guess but I don’t think he should do another school revenge plot right after this. I don’t know if he’s not getting attractive scripts or if there aren’t enough interesting roles to play for his age group or what. As far as I can see he still hasn’t confirmed it from his side so I’m still hoping he might withdraw lol

This drama is just meh imo. Like I didn't even have that much of a issue with the romance part since they're adults, it's definitely a bit odd that can't be denied like four years is not that long a time sorry 😭 but ok it's a drama and Dohyun and Soojung are good enough actors to be able to sell it I guess. But idk the drama as a whole is just not working imo I really just feel like shit just keeps happening in it for the sake of it, it's hard to get a real connection or feel for any of the characters or their motivations. I mean the script does pretty much spell out everyone's motivations for us but I personally just don't FEEL for anyone while watching it's just a detached experience.

Even after the time skip, BSY shows up four years later and he's all confident and has a motorbike and all like sure LDH is hot and maybe the show will go into his experiences over the four years we skipped later but it all just feels so.... random.

Wrt the relationship with Dohyun and Soojung's characters, I really feel it would've been better if they'd gone into how he was an abused and truamatised kid and so when the first person to care about him and connect with him over one of his interests was a teacher and a good looking woman, he developed some feelings towards her that he classified as romantic. From a psychological standpoint it's not necessary that those feelings were genuinely romantic though and a responsible way of dealing with it would've been to reflect on that instead of having him come back as a stud some years later to woo her and act on those feelings 😭 it's all so shallow idk.

Same thing with all the evil school people imo I don't even mind an evil rich people plot but they all just feel so 2d and mediocre.

Anyway I'm sure as the show goes on LDH and Soojung being as good as they are (and they do have chemistry too), their relationship will turn out to be the better part of the drama but yeah. As a whole it's pretty meh idk why either of them chose this one. I do hope it'll get better soon though.

And I kind of don't want LDH to do The Glory after this now like a similar revenge plot with a far less talented actress than Soojung and another bad screenwriter.. why 😭

Exactly I really feel like if this drama had come out before covid I would have found it far fetched but after covid it makes sense to me. I've seen people do all kinds of things and this is an even more accelerated and desperate situation than that

Wait i just saw that novelist's brother's part again and you're right! I think he just wanted to show off and pretend like he's actually brave and in charge and knows better than his sister at that point but idk. I think it depends on the viewer's perception to some extent also.

As for saebom that part didn't really stick with me, she could have just said that as a vague reassurance to herself too that it's ok it's just one week and the things will be fine. To me by her actions she seems to have been intent on protecting the apartment since the ending of ep 3 so it's just that which stuck with me so far

For me personally the inconsistencies also make sense. This is an extreme situation, in such situations people won't act 100% rational tbh.

As for saebom I don't remember her saying let's stay in the apartment this episode though? I feel like since episode 3 she's been pretty much on apartment protecting mode. But maybe I'm missing something 🤔

Episode 7 was soooo good! And I’m shocked that some of you are still surprised at how the residents are acting after we just saw how selfish and short sighted people can be during an emergency situation just last year. If we hadn’t lived through covid I would have found it far fetched but after seeing the way people acted... nah. Maybe you guys are lucky enough to be from countries where most people are sensible and considerate of each other but nothing is shocking to me here. At some level I can empathise also because it’s very difficult to just live your life having your own plans and dreams and ambitions and suddenly one day it’s all turned on its head. Not everyone is going to have extremely sensible and logical reactions to such a situation.

Neither is it shocking that the leads want to help because 1) they have clearly always had a sense of duty 2) during the pandemic when we saw people acting shitty and selfish there were also a number of people who genuinely went out of their way to help people they didn’t even know. Idk why it’s so shocking to some of you that some people are good and will try to do the right thing in most circumstances 😭 and the leads aren’t perfect either, they have clearly had their own outbursts and moments where they’re very close to going too far. They are fundamentally good people who try to do the right thing in the situations thrown at them but they aren’t written to be unrealistically perfect.

or maybe it’s just me. I don’t mind watching leads who are trying to do the right thing. It’s a drama there’s enough of nasty selfish people in the real world I’m okay with my drama leads being good people lmao

I don’t think there is anything wrong with ‘promiscuity’ she can do whatever she wants, I don’t have an issue with her being sad either but the problem is they’re just not giving us substantial enough writing or acting to make it believable 😭 and the other problem is that the drama WANTS us to believe she is this cold and mature female lead but then nothing holds up. Like her whole response to being ‘ghosted’ by the brother makes no sense, why would she not even make an effort to find out if something happened with him if she’s that sensible? 😭

her story with jky makes no sense either like why would she have such strong feelings for him rn because there’s absolutely nothing to back it up so far except that 1) they slept together 2) he keeps following her and encroaching on her boundaries 3) they keep staring sadly at each other 4) apparently it’s fate because they were supposed to meet once a bunch of years ago and she liked some photo he took back then. Like in real life and for real women I’m sorry but none of this would be enough to fall in love instantly, maybe lust but that’s it and his creepy behaviour would actually be a turn off 😭 it’s so odd. Just everything a mess with this drama honestly.

Of course there'll be some people who are always quick to criticize female characters, especially older ones, but I genuinely don't believe that's what's happening here. I would really love for her to be the collected mature and rational female lead you guys are claiming she is but neither the script nor shk are selling it.

you guys really need to stop making excuses like this is a mature female lead you just don’t get it and all, the acting and writing are both falling flat for the character and that’s a fact 😭 there’s a direct comparison you can use with search www. bae tami was also an older career oriented and mature woman and people didn’t have the same issues there because she was actually well written and acted lol.

I saw some of the comments here before starting this and I really thought I’d dislike saebom but I don’t understand what any of you are complaining about at all lmao, I honestly think she takes decisions that are right in the moment and that han hyojoo is doing a great job of making her seem charming and personable when we haven’t really seen all that much of her personality yet.
My only issues with this drama is that the science is def a bit wonky and I know there will be logical points that fall apart if I think a bit too much but otherwise it’s engaging so far and I like both the main characters even though we are still discovering things about them. I hope I keep enjoying it!

Also i think hyungsik did a great job in ep 5.

I feel like in such situations you really realise how much chemistry depends on the script and the way the characters are written, as well as how the actors choose to interpret it 😭 i would say there’s a problem in all these areas in this case, jky and shk probably have better chemistry off screen but it’s just not translating here imo.

That’s still not okay though it doesn’t matter how scared he is 😭 it was still a dodgy thing to do, not to mention they haven’t even known each other that long for this to be that big a deal for him tbh 😭 idk i just found it very uncomfortable personally

I'm just going to rant a bit cos I found this third episode so frustrating. First of all, I'm sorry but it's not enough to just have two hot people making out for there to be chemistry and I just genuinely feel no chemistry between the leads.

Secondly, I found it very questionable how he went back to her house in this episode to "know" or whatever when he knew he was keeping something that big from her cos I'm pretty sure she wouldn't have chosen to hook up with him at that point if he had revealed the identity of her ex. Either way he should have told her about it and seen how she reacted instead of just keeping it from her and sleeping with her again?

also the office dynamics aren't fun either the way they were in search www for example. Her closest 'friend' we get to see being her boss who makes use of her constantly is just so meh when we could have had a strong friendship or a rivals to friends kind of situation or something. It's sad cos I actually like the actress and think she's vibrant and brings some energy to the show.

Also shk really just does the same thing in every drama 😭 I feel like it's okay if you just watch one drama of hers but any more than that and it gets monotonous and boring to watch her.

One more thing which is small and random but i just find that whole thing of her being coincidentally obsessed with that photo he took as an amateur so corny, I know kdramas like their cliches and I would usually overlook if the rest of it was working for me, but it’s not, so...

On a positive note the ost is nice and everyone is definitely very pretty lmao. I wanted to like it because I'm always on the lookout for well done romcoms/ romantic stories in general but this is just not it so far. I def hope it improves but I don't think I'll be watching anymore.

Right and the politics in all of these dramas seem the same to me at this point like someone is trying to kill the prince etc etc, just the same kinds of power struggles so I feel it’s really important to have strong leads with interesting main character interactions to make it worth watching. which hopefully this one will continue to have! And you are right, the focus in this one seems to be on the leads and not too many random character introductions so that’s good too. I just hope they have enough material planned for 16 eps lol

I was so pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed the first two eps! A lot of these historicals get boring at some point for me with the same type of court politics and all so I’m keeping my expectations low but as long as they can keep things between the lead characters interesting I think it’ll be okay for me.

I actually liked the first 2 eps cos I went into it with no expectations except that I like both Dohyun and Im Soojung. I also usually don’t watch this genre so I’m not as bored of the background corruption stuff as everyone else, like I think it’s all a bit one note like evil people blah blah but it’s fine. The character among all of that who is most interesting is def Yiren for now. I liked the rapport between the lead characters too and I’m interested to see how their stories are told!

Oh I agree 😭 honestly i think even a lot of parents in these kinds of environments don’t take the time to understand the different levels or the particular skills of their children. Once they see their kids are getting good grades they suddenly want them to be the best at everything. Like you said someone who gets good grades in regular math exams wouldn’t necessary perform well in an Olympiad. there’s also a lot of rote learning techniques that’s pushed for good grades which is obviously not the kind of thinking required for such competitions. I guess the point is that while I do think it’s all a bit campy here for drama purposes I just don’t think it’s completely unrealistic that some parents would push their kids like that 🤔

what I got from it is that most of the kids there are smart, not geniuses for sure but competent with the privileges that come with being rich like private tutors etc of course. So it’s not a stretch to assume that they’d make it to college but I guess such institutions are more about the competition and who is the best of the best and it’s mostly parents pushing and conditioning their children for the sake of their own egos. And as for bribing uni admissions idk about sk but it’s def a regular thing in American ivy leagues except that they don’t call it bribes 😭 since they have the policy of legacy admissions... people from rich an influential families whose parents or grandparents have gone to the same schools are favoured in the admissions process and that’s just considered normal like it’s not even a scandalous thing lol