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Quite refreshing
Firstly the pros: both leads are really interesting and have interesting personalities and backstories. I really liked the age gap with reversed power balance since she's 5 years older, but he's her boss. I also liked that he never really abused his position as a boss as we see in many boss/employee dramas. They both cared and protected each other in a cute way, without the "I'll give up everything to be with you". They both wanted to keep their position, their career, their hard work and ambitions, and that's what made them feel like such a good match.
About the hobbies, I thought she would go back to gaming, she seemed to enjoy it a lot, and that would have been a nice touch. They could play together properly again, including with Ha Jin and maybe the old team members.
The male lead's back story was well developed and had the appropriate closure. I felt like although the female lead also had and interesting past, it wasn't nearly developed as much.
Cons: I thought the second male lead's acting felt weird and awkward, i didn't really understand him.
The closure with his grandma felt so rushed. one day she hates his guts, and the next she's crying for forgiveness.. they should've given her at least a few days to accept that she was wrong, idk.
They could've given Su Jeong's mom more scenes, or just talked about her a little more, that plot felt like it was buried deep.
Kinda funny how they didn't break up for the reasons the should, like the fact that they could both loose their jobs, and his grandma could target her for being with him. but broke up because... they met idk how many years ago.. they could've just talked about it. they broke up as fast as they got back together too, omg. it felt like a childish thing happening in the middle of much more serious things.
their break up was extremely unbalanced and they never acknowledged that properly. Ju yeon was a kid when they first met, and he lost everything he had that day, friendship, love, his cherished things got burned, his grandma abused him. when they got back together, it was like he got everything back, only to lose it again, because he could only like things freely when he was with her and his things were in her house too, so he couldn't even rely on that. what she lost at first was a person she leaned on, and her first love. what she lost later, was just a boyfriend, because she didn't need a person to lean on so desperately anymore. the stakes were just so much higher for him.
but it gave us a very cute choi hyunwook crying scene, and i loved her crying scene too, it was so impactful specially the built up of her dad and brother trying so hard to make her open up, because she never cries or show her emotions in front of them
Weird details: she hated knitting, but you want me to believe she knitted him a flawless scarf using the tiniest yarn and needles? that scarf looked 100% machine made, come on..
She "never spends money on herself" (according to her family) but she NEVER repeated clothes? I think the only thing I remember seeing more than once was that red shirt and red cardigan thingy.
I saw someone's review saying they thought it was stupid that liking cartoons and rock music was considered a bad shameful thing. But I thought that made so much sense in this story. He's already young, and people judge his competence because of it. Of course liking children's cartoons and rock music could potentially jeopardize his image. And i think the whole point of that was the contrast between him and the other chaebols. While the other chaebols were involved in gambling, drinking, prostitution, and drugs, and were living freely, he couldn't live freely even though his interest were extremely innocent, because his grandma despised everything he liked. He grew up getting shamed for it by his only family member, of course he thinks it's shameful, and that sentiment grew when he saw people making fun of the toy they found in the office. In the end, it wasn't as shameful as he grew to believe, but we can't deny that liking children's cartoons and wanting to eat happy meals for their toys is childish.. imagine being a die hard Paw Patrol fan at 25.
About the hobbies, I thought she would go back to gaming, she seemed to enjoy it a lot, and that would have been a nice touch. They could play together properly again, including with Ha Jin and maybe the old team members.
The male lead's back story was well developed and had the appropriate closure. I felt like although the female lead also had and interesting past, it wasn't nearly developed as much.
Cons: I thought the second male lead's acting felt weird and awkward, i didn't really understand him.
The closure with his grandma felt so rushed. one day she hates his guts, and the next she's crying for forgiveness.. they should've given her at least a few days to accept that she was wrong, idk.
They could've given Su Jeong's mom more scenes, or just talked about her a little more, that plot felt like it was buried deep.
Kinda funny how they didn't break up for the reasons the should, like the fact that they could both loose their jobs, and his grandma could target her for being with him. but broke up because... they met idk how many years ago.. they could've just talked about it. they broke up as fast as they got back together too, omg. it felt like a childish thing happening in the middle of much more serious things.
their break up was extremely unbalanced and they never acknowledged that properly. Ju yeon was a kid when they first met, and he lost everything he had that day, friendship, love, his cherished things got burned, his grandma abused him. when they got back together, it was like he got everything back, only to lose it again, because he could only like things freely when he was with her and his things were in her house too, so he couldn't even rely on that. what she lost at first was a person she leaned on, and her first love. what she lost later, was just a boyfriend, because she didn't need a person to lean on so desperately anymore. the stakes were just so much higher for him.
but it gave us a very cute choi hyunwook crying scene, and i loved her crying scene too, it was so impactful specially the built up of her dad and brother trying so hard to make her open up, because she never cries or show her emotions in front of them
Weird details: she hated knitting, but you want me to believe she knitted him a flawless scarf using the tiniest yarn and needles? that scarf looked 100% machine made, come on..
She "never spends money on herself" (according to her family) but she NEVER repeated clothes? I think the only thing I remember seeing more than once was that red shirt and red cardigan thingy.
I saw someone's review saying they thought it was stupid that liking cartoons and rock music was considered a bad shameful thing. But I thought that made so much sense in this story. He's already young, and people judge his competence because of it. Of course liking children's cartoons and rock music could potentially jeopardize his image. And i think the whole point of that was the contrast between him and the other chaebols. While the other chaebols were involved in gambling, drinking, prostitution, and drugs, and were living freely, he couldn't live freely even though his interest were extremely innocent, because his grandma despised everything he liked. He grew up getting shamed for it by his only family member, of course he thinks it's shameful, and that sentiment grew when he saw people making fun of the toy they found in the office. In the end, it wasn't as shameful as he grew to believe, but we can't deny that liking children's cartoons and wanting to eat happy meals for their toys is childish.. imagine being a die hard Paw Patrol fan at 25.
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