Since comments have slowed down to a halt, deservedly so, as this manure of a show hopefully gets forgotten about... i feel the need to write one last postmortem. You know having watched the first two eps of the successor weekender Live Your Own Life really makes it even more apparent how backwards and outdated, even downright misogynistic this drama here is.
Like watching Live Your Own Life feels like it is made in 2023, but TRHC? It is somewhere stuck in Joseon era, or 1970 if we are feeling generous. Worst of all is that all of these backwards views of the writer is covered under a mantle of pseudo LOOK HOW MODERN WE ARE progressivism at first. But you always get glimpses of his true views here and there, those bits of misogyny, how a woman is not allowed to exist without a man and husband, the complete obliteration of FL's career in favor of letting her housewifing it out all day, his obsession with bloodline superiority portrayed by the grandmother at first who feels like a writer mouthpiece of his own views in hindsight. Because for a show supposedly about how family is chosen and that chosen family is just as valid as bloodlines, he does his damnest to portray adoption in the worst light, as lesser and fatal flaw a person can have. Later on ML is also CONSTANTLY ridiculed for wanting to take over the father's role for FL's baby because he is not the true blooded father, not valid nor good enough and every character lets him know so. While the literal shithead of dna giver of the child is elevated to the writer's favorite pet the narrative want to force you to feel sorry for a literal stalking, harassing, cheating, blackmailing, threatening and gaslighting abusive bastard who made the leads life hell for 30 eps plus. But he is the "father" of FL's child so he has a "i can do what i want" permit of the writer who seems to sympathize with abusive men treating women like shit and objects to possess waaaaay too much if you ask me. Yikes. But of course none of the stalking and domestic violence is ever addressed or SML held accountable, nope. Of course not. It was just there for shock value and to show you that this poor poor man just did all this because he was lonely and upset of not seeing his child or something. Awwww. FUCK OFF. The trivialization of abuse (that starts not just at physical, mind) is staggering and super disgusting, but totally in line with this writer's overall misogynistic views.
Which perfectly shows in the complete obliteration of FL Yeondoo's personality, except for her apologizing and cowering to everyone no matter what and why, if she is allowed to speak at all. In latter eps you even have ML, her husband, speaking FOR her even if she is directly addressed by others and yikes. Not to mention how her career fell sideways and was forgotten about in favor of her letting it housewiving out without any discussion about her future, what she wants. The complete lack of agency while two men have a the worst written and factually incorrect "custody" battle over HER child, for whom she is the sole custodian parent, is more than appalling, it is downright sexist. (In fact, no female character is allowed to exist or act without a man in here, again yikes.)
While the show was airing, we have talked at lengths here why the romance is not romancing, especially of the leads who are like roommates raising a baby together post timejump. A lot of it comes down to this asshole writer and simply baaaaaad direction but there is more to that. It is the pure dislike of the writer for romance in general. Watching this, you get the clear impression that he always found romance and calm scenes boring, and not just in regards of the leads. Every romance subplot we had in the first half was dropped after the worlds worst and most unneeded timejump and forgotten about. The singular one we had aside the leads (romance, what romance?) with the youngest couple was a trashfire of circular on/off nonsense going nowhere, but oh well that fitted into the rest of the repetitive narrative dragging on to the point of complete suffering. Which, coincidentally was THE motto and theme for the last quarter of TRHC. Joy was killed as was the lead's romance before it could ever fully bloom and develop by this hack, replaced by a onslaught of perpetual misery piled on misery, especially for the leads. Whose actors looked progressively more exhausted the longer this overwrought, pointless drama dragged on, reflecting the audience perfectly. It feels from eps 1 to 50 AJH and BJH have aged several years, and with this shitty script and dialogue they were forced to follow i am not surprised. Bc in the end it was just pure suffering and exhaustion to watch the backyard bin Iteration of Groundhog Day with every repeating over and over, down to what i would call the worst written drama in recent years after Woori The Virgin.
So, in case you are insane enough to still want to watch this trainwreck on top of a flaming pile of garbage... my advice is still to run away and find something better to do with your time. Like take a walk, work out, pet a dog. So much that you can accomplish in 50 hours that is not watching this dungfilled, backwards ass mess. Failing that however, you best watch eps 1-33, mentally slap a one year timejump under it and go to eps 39, watch that. Then jump to 41 to see the leads register their marriage and then go DIRECTLY to eps 50 for closure. Do not stop at start and look at the mUh bLoODliNEs Kim Junha writers pet show this drama becomes in the last ten eps. I repeat: DO NOT STOP AND GO DIRECTLY TO THE ENDING EPISODE and thank me later for having spared you ten hours of your life as nothing of value happens in there. Except a lot of pointless bs and abusive man apologia but that is right in line with this wreck of a writer.
It is a staple of a family drama in the beginning. Because if you don't have chars at their worst what will you do with them for 50 eps? Their journey to become a better person through experiences and character development is half of the fun after all. Hell, even Once Again had its chars at their worst and lowest at the start to continously build them up throughout the story then. So yeah.
You mean ML? Hajoon is finally male lead in a drama, lol. Deservedly so. His dynamic with Uee is already a lot of fun, even with these little scenes they had together yet. I look forward to their bickering and Taeho crushing on HS in a way that he wants to impress her with lifting weights (gone wrong)π€
did my job as mdl tag crawler and added a lot of tags here as they are very lacking atm. I don't envy the mod…
Oh wow, they are already approved. That was the fastest approval of tags i have ever seen, especially for so many. I think i caught a mod who saw my text wall of explanation for each tag and was like NAH NOT READING THAT and just clicked approve π
did my job as mdl tag crawler and added a lot of tags here as they are very lacking atm. I don't envy the mod who has to read thru my 1k words explanation for every of my 40 tags added tho haha (in order to approve them)
So, it looks like we are going to watch another long daily drama with 'love triangle' , and this time it's between…
SML has his own loveline tho with a rich tv news lady, so it won't be dragged endlessly and seems an one-sided crush from SML's side. Will be more the "makes leads realize feelings for each other and/or push a reserved ML forward to act on his feelings (he will very soon develop as their rivalry and him trying to impress FL with lifting more he is able to is part of the highlight reel vid which does include the first 6 eps or so, lol.)
I canβt wait for her to get more independence so that her mom realizes how valuable she is
Taeho will be the catalyst for this, so i expect it to happen during the first ten episodes. Highlight reel vid and first episodes show Hyoshim already being 10000% done with everything. So it won't take long for the proverbial drop to fall to make it all spill over.
Storylines and chars are well introduced and structured. Plot relevant Infos are shown early and lovelines set up for later. Not many likable characters so far which is normal as they are always starting out as their worst selves,with a clear designated drama villain. Has some tropes/typical setup you will recognize if you ever watched a fam drama but overall it has a much more modern feel to it than the backwards ass trash fire TRHC. Leads are interesting and so is their upcoming bickering and enemies to lovers progression with a healing component for both.
When I first saw Rowoon in XU I was ~not impressed~ cause his character seemed bland and LJW was just so good…
XU? Extraordinary You? Yeah the character is written to be like that, so this is not on Rowoon but an acting direction given to him. Makes sense when you think his character there is a nameless extra that is existing in the bg and only gets more attention (and name) thru FL. I am glad i saw him first in The King's Affection tho which started my whole kdrama journey at that, lol, since he is very lively (and cute) in there. I may have misjudged him otherwise too. But thanks to that being my first drama (and ML) i have seen, i have been watching his drama projects ever since and he has been improving in every one he did, indeed.
Needless to say Destined With You is his best role yet where he really shows what he has learned over the years and since Extraordinary You.
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it is true tho, it reminds me to work out on the weekend π
Like watching Live Your Own Life feels like it is made in 2023, but TRHC? It is somewhere stuck in Joseon era, or 1970 if we are feeling generous. Worst of all is that all of these backwards views of the writer is covered under a mantle of pseudo LOOK HOW MODERN WE ARE progressivism at first. But you always get glimpses of his true views here and there, those bits of misogyny, how a woman is not allowed to exist without a man and husband, the complete obliteration of FL's career in favor of letting her housewifing it out all day, his obsession with bloodline superiority portrayed by the grandmother at first who feels like a writer mouthpiece of his own views in hindsight. Because for a show supposedly about how family is chosen and that chosen family is just as valid as bloodlines, he does his damnest to portray adoption in the worst light, as lesser and fatal flaw a person can have. Later on ML is also CONSTANTLY ridiculed for wanting to take over the father's role for FL's baby because he is not the true blooded father, not valid nor good enough and every character lets him know so. While the literal shithead of dna giver of the child is elevated to the writer's favorite pet the narrative want to force you to feel sorry for a literal stalking, harassing, cheating, blackmailing, threatening and gaslighting abusive bastard who made the leads life hell for 30 eps plus. But he is the "father" of FL's child so he has a "i can do what i want" permit of the writer who seems to sympathize with abusive men treating women like shit and objects to possess waaaaay too much if you ask me. Yikes. But of course none of the stalking and domestic violence is ever addressed or SML held accountable, nope. Of course not. It was just there for shock value and to show you that this poor poor man just did all this because he was lonely and upset of not seeing his child or something. Awwww. FUCK OFF. The trivialization of abuse (that starts not just at physical, mind) is staggering and super disgusting, but totally in line with this writer's overall misogynistic views.
Which perfectly shows in the complete obliteration of FL Yeondoo's personality, except for her apologizing and cowering to everyone no matter what and why, if she is allowed to speak at all. In latter eps you even have ML, her husband, speaking FOR her even if she is directly addressed by others and yikes. Not to mention how her career fell sideways and was forgotten about in favor of her letting it housewiving out without any discussion about her future, what she wants. The complete lack of agency while two men have a the worst written and factually incorrect "custody" battle over HER child, for whom she is the sole custodian parent, is more than appalling, it is downright sexist. (In fact, no female character is allowed to exist or act without a man in here, again yikes.)
While the show was airing, we have talked at lengths here why the romance is not romancing, especially of the leads who are like roommates raising a baby together post timejump. A lot of it comes down to this asshole writer and simply baaaaaad direction but there is more to that. It is the pure dislike of the writer for romance in general. Watching this, you get the clear impression that he always found romance and calm scenes boring, and not just in regards of the leads. Every romance subplot we had in the first half was dropped after the worlds worst and most unneeded timejump and forgotten about. The singular one we had aside the leads (romance, what romance?) with the youngest couple was a trashfire of circular on/off nonsense going nowhere, but oh well that fitted into the rest of the repetitive narrative dragging on to the point of complete suffering. Which, coincidentally was THE motto and theme for the last quarter of TRHC. Joy was killed as was the lead's romance before it could ever fully bloom and develop by this hack, replaced by a onslaught of perpetual misery piled on misery, especially for the leads. Whose actors looked progressively more exhausted the longer this overwrought, pointless drama dragged on, reflecting the audience perfectly. It feels from eps 1 to 50 AJH and BJH have aged several years, and with this shitty script and dialogue they were forced to follow i am not surprised. Bc in the end it was just pure suffering and exhaustion to watch the backyard bin Iteration of Groundhog Day with every repeating over and over, down to what i would call the worst written drama in recent years after Woori The Virgin.
So, in case you are insane enough to still want to watch this trainwreck on top of a flaming pile of garbage... my advice is still to run away and find something better to do with your time. Like take a walk, work out, pet a dog. So much that you can accomplish in 50 hours that is not watching this dungfilled, backwards ass mess. Failing that however, you best watch eps 1-33, mentally slap a one year timejump under it and go to eps 39, watch that. Then jump to 41 to see the leads register their marriage and then go DIRECTLY to eps 50 for closure. Do not stop at start and look at the mUh bLoODliNEs Kim Junha writers pet show this drama becomes in the last ten eps. I repeat: DO NOT STOP AND GO DIRECTLY TO THE ENDING EPISODE and thank me later for having spared you ten hours of your life as nothing of value happens in there. Except a lot of pointless bs and abusive man apologia but that is right in line with this wreck of a writer.
Either way, thanks mod lol
Needless to say Destined With You is his best role yet where he really shows what he has learned over the years and since Extraordinary You.