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Is it ever shown on screen? If so do you have a timestamp?

End of episode 2 is revealed that ML/FL dated in college before he got famous. ML is still deep in feels for her, but turned it into a grudge for the most part probably due to her lack of attention/"hostility" toward him. He seems so bitter about it haha😂

Also the signs were all there with the way he hovered around her "to annoy her" and always looked for her in the crowd etc, It is an interesting dynamic ngl, as exes back to lovers are quite rare in dramaland afaik. Reminds me of "our beloved summer" in this regard, heh.

Korean wordplay you would miss/not get if you dunno hangul. The korean word for shooting star is 별똥별 and it is a compound word out of "star, poop, star," hence shooting star or rather shitting star here, lol. (It also contains the implication that the PR team has to clean up the shit stars produce, lol.)

Korean has a lot of amusing compound words btw, "water meat" for example for (non food) fish, among others xD

I like that they are exes, lol. Much better than the same old childhood/friends in school/college trope. Now that is a proper enemies to lovers tho i have the impression main lead is still deep in feels, but bearing a grudge about her not contacting him when he was away. Their dynamic is amusing tho,

I cannot unsee him as corrupt lawyer in vincenzo tho xD (He is everywhere tbh)

I only know him as the abusive SML asshole from extraordinary you which he admittedly played well buuuut i am not sold on him here as ML yet. We will see.

That is exactly the reason to "nitpick" because this shit never is not insulting. Like it would have taken one google/naver search for the drama's writers to pick one of the 54 countries on the continent and maybe five minutes more to not feed into the poor africans in mud huts need saving cringy stereotype, IF they had to go this shitty charity in africa route in the first place. What they did was just super fucking lazy, when there are at least a dozen other ways without the gross generalization of a whole continent to show how "kind and charitable" the ML character is.

Yeah it is one of these korean jokes which does not translate well, or at all if you don't know korean hehe

Yeah, that is a good and accurate point from the cultural side. I don't mind childhood friends or if they knew each other in most cases or can overlook it. But it is just that every romcom drama seems to have that trope and it is so overdone that i am tired of seeing it every single time tbh. Agree that seeing something different for once or twice would be nice then

OOOOH 👀 I wish there was a way to see/know your reactions when watching it haha

Yeah, same tbh.

Joke aside, i expected they play the song for parodies'/comedy sake, but they were completely serious with that instead. That is when my cringing started, tbh.

Lmao😂

Agreed. I hope they are going somewhere with that ....outside it being a remote connection/ lazy reason for them to fall in love as usual lol. I don't want to be too quick in my judgement here but i also rolled my eyes and sighed when she found that photo, ngl xD

Yup, exactly, lol.

I agree totally, but do not forget that it is a SK show/drama, aka from east Asia ;)

Yeeah, these people also have super impressive memories bc i would not remember a boy or girl i played or met once when i was six or something lmao. Nor would it have significance to my life now outside of an one-line of oh hey, we met as kids, cool right? one liner before i would move on with my life lol.

I don't mind the trope if it has significance for the character(s) story (like in mr. queen) or if the drama is build upon friends to lovers which explains their connection, but why tf does every drama throw it in as if it is a downright requirement for ML/FL to fall in love? Like i am aware dramaland is not reality but this is still not how it works and really annoying tbh, lol.

Why the fuck are you arguing with people living there and knowing their country on the continent way better than you ever could, when you would spend your time much better in sitting down, listening and learning instead? Your generalized outside perception does not trump their lived experience, ffs. And it is not about that these problems you bring up again and again as a gotcha do not exist (do you have any idea how freakin large the continent is even?) but that is ALL that is portrayed in media which IS an insulting stereotype and untrue. This stereotype is used as a lazy backdrop in the drama and this is what is upsetting or what you call "triggering." Plus as this article says:

"The reality is that there is poverty everywhere. If you stand in your own backyard, I am almost certain that you will not have to travel very far to find a community in need of help whether that be emotionally, financially or otherwise."

https://afropunk.com/2018/06/white-savior-your-volunteer-trip-to-africa-was-more-beneficial-to-you-than-to-africa/

So kindly stop arguing and start listening. Ignorance is never a good look, tbh.

I like the drama (outside the whole icky "africa savior" trope and generalization about a WHOLE continent used as a lazy backdrop. Super cringe) but i am also so tired of the childhood friends trope that every drama throws in for the heck of it. Can two people just meet later in life (and fall in love) without having met prior as six/ten or twelve years old kids all the time? Jeez.

Can recommend Crazy Love as well. Starts slow but then does it ever live up to its drama title xD 🤣