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But it's one of those dramas that grow on you. Not the kind I'm rushing to watch raw and then rewatch 10 times, but a mature rom-com with a modern stance on delicate issues.
Also, it's not frustrating. I think it was the perfect time for me to watch such a drama, after coming out of an emotional explosion.
I'm a slow watcher, as I'm sure you've understood. I watch a mx of 2 dramas at the same time and unless it capture me completely, I can easily let weeks pass before I watch the next episode.
I'm completely with you about the gloss thing. When I'm tired of it, I usually transfer to Japan, where they seem a little less glamourous and deal with different issues other than romance. :)

Hello Bladey,
always a pleasure to read you.:D
You actually took the time to read my profile, I thought I was the only one who did so. :D
Possibly because I'm not watching any drama at the moment, I am a little critic towards them, more than I would be normally. I am ready to forgive the same traits I rant about if the drama truly capture me, so I'm not as consistent a judge as I would like to be. ;)
Would you believe it I never saw anything with So Ji Sub? I know nothing of him except that he's considered hot. LOL Not my type, though, at least not from the photos.
As for I do, I do, I didn't think I would end up liking that drama the way I did. In the beginning it had a few very clever scenes, but nothing to really capture me.

Hi my dear,
please forgive my slow replying: indeed, I shouldn't be here reading your comments, I should be reading other things you sent me. Have patience with me, I beg you. I need to have a full day of leisure, which I couldn't get until now.
I haven't been much around for 2 reasons: a lot of unexpected visits and sudden work duties and the fact that I'm not watching any drama at the moment. Not in the mood.
;)

While I usually agree about not liking nor approving of reviews written before the drama has ended, THIS particular instance is not the one people should rant about. A review written 1 episode before the ending is more than justified: if a drama is splendid or if it sucks is definitely not decided by the final episode. One cannot forget 15 or 19 hours of watching in favour or disfavour of 1 hour finale.
Also, remember that when we drop a drama we rate it too, most of the time. We all do it bar a few.
Reviewing a drama after 3 episodes is unfair and superficial, but reviewing it with 1 episode left is perfectly legitimate.
And yes, I'm partial because I dropped this thing at episode 1. Without rating it, although my fingers were itching to.

She's so beautiful, although I'm a woman I could watch her for hours. Very... classy. :)

I wish there were a way to only rate a drama after, say, at least half of it has been watched. These are the dramas which often make it to the top 10 just because a group of fans (not for nothing the word fans comes from fanatics) decided in advance that a pretty face makes the actor and a pretty/known title the drama.
:P

Wow, now I don't know if I should thank you and blush or if I should better laugh with you and always beware of the latent sarcasm... ;););)

LOL, I don't know if you changed it: I watched that movie an eternity ago and have no plan to rewatch it, so I'll just let it sit there with the vague memory of a funny enough romcom. This does not change my opinion of your review, which was hilarious. I have a penchant for well written, sarcastic reviews, regardless of what I think about the show they rave or rant about.
So, please keep the fun alive! LOL
;)

I know you do, and I obviously don't like cruel men either. But it all depends on the woman: if she has the intelligence and the strength to stand up to such a man, then their battles are even and I accept them, I even enjoy them. As a classic example, Joo Won is an obnoxious bastard, but Ra Im has the guts to fight back, which at the end of the day makes them even. And she's not someone who stays glued to him in the hope he will change: she rejects him, several times. She even asks his mother to guard him 24/7, LOL!!
But you know this story as well as I do. :)
I think cruel men are not fashionable anymore in asian dramas - high time too! - the last things I've watched all tend to depict stronger women and reasonable men - with the exception of the Hong sisters who insist in their image of a silly woman, constantly surprised by life. That's why I can't stand their scripts.

Here's my theory: the painting was surely an expensive piece of art - monetary value being the criteria by which many buy art, regardless of what they feel for it - and she used it as a... declaration of her power. Something like "see how generous I am. It's grim and you must like it because I gave it to you, but always remember who's in control here. I'm giving you an expensive token, show me deference". If you remember, she first gave a painting to Na Ri (perhaps the same? we will never know). And if Na Ri hadn't finally grow the balls to say goodbye to her spiteful "mother", she would have lived a life of servitude, of which, as I see it, that painting is a symbol.
Perhaps it's even a masterpiece by some Flemish maestro, who knows, but I would use it to scare away undesired visitors. LOL ;)

Thank you! :D It's always rewarding to be complimented for a review. I loved yours too, and I agree wholeheartedly about the clothes and shoes! I don't know if the actors have a say in their drama wardrobe; i'm almost inclined to think they do, since Kim Sun A was wonderfully dressed in Scent of a Woman too.
She's got class, that's for sure. :)
We may write to her and ask if she lends us some shoes? LOL ;)

You know, another thing I loved about this show is that the b*tchy business ahjumma - as you rightly say, an ominous and invariably evil character in k-dramas - has power out of marriage (or inheritance, I didn't really get who created the company). She doesn't have a creative talent, or a particularly good taste, or even the basic requirement for a good business-(wo)man, which is recognizing people with true talent and do everything not to lose them.
She was just exercising her power over others and deriving satisfaction from belittling the daughter of another woman.
In a drama which is intensely feminine and gives us smart females, the contrast is striking: talent vs. undeserved power. And talent wins: hurrah!
;)

If it can be of any consolation for you - it is for me anyway - I too am much better at ranting than raving. My dislike for a drama draws out that hint of sarcasm which would never be effective at explaining why I loved something. Love is somehow... sobering. And while it's easy to pinpoint that scene, or ridiculous line, or bad acting chop which makes one dislike a drama, it's at time almost impossible to say why we feel a thrill, or a heart-jolt or a shiver of anticipation.

And I loved the ending too. I was actually hoping they wouldn't make it end the traditional way. I'm happy they did not marry - not because I don't want them to, but because I didn't want this drama to take the conventional route.

But this drama left me with a little nightmare souvenir too: that portrait of a scary matron! HAHAHAHAHAHA

It was a truly lovely drama on every aspect. It made me laugh till the end, without EVER becoming sugary, or slapstick funny. I usually expect this delicacy from Japanese, more than Korean. Therefore, I'm very happy to be proven wrong.
I can easily imagine how your fingers were itching, LOL! :D

Omni, I loved your review of I do, I do. No surprise there. :D
I have written one too, I hope it won't sound redundant now. We say different things, even though the heart of it is more or less the same.
I'm particularly happy of your final lines: I too hope dramas like these can set an example, and that we can get more and more smart stuff in the future. :)

I'm so glad you liked Zenkai Girl. I loved it too. And I'm glad to read a review of yours once in a century! ;);)

Goodmorning lovely lady!
Have you been on a holiday, or simply on a drama break? I haven't seen you in a while. :) You're doing fine, I hope! :D
I'm very well, enjoying the Summer, watching less drama and eating a lot of icecream, LOL. ;)

I'm equally annoyed. The first that come to my mind are the one in My Girlfriend is a Gumiho, My Girl, again YaB, Personal Taste... all dramas I did not enjoy mostly thanks to the females, either leads or secondary. It irks me that not only the leads are portrayed as ignorant, but the secondary have to be evil, scheming and wasting their time away being mean.
I don't know women like those, nor do I wish to meet any. I'd rather watch a realistic portrayal of women friends, because despite what men like to think, women know friendship among them very well.
And while I can accept the occasional evil character, I can't stand to find her in every other drama; it truly gives the wrong message: as if hot, rich guys can only love stupid, naive girls and hot, career girls can only be mean.
Grrr.

LOL, she's a symbol!! ;)

Then I'll send you the link in the next days, no problem at all. :D
Please, Jeanie, don't expect a "clever" drama, or a particularly well acted thing. But it's young, and refreshing, and cute. I dare say, perfect for the Summer. ;)