cindesaurus

I’d like to politely ask why you even watch kdrama romcoms if that is your view?

Almost all of them feature a surprise kiss, aggressive jealousy over minor things, treating partners like they own them, and boss/rich ceo poor employee.

Like i said in the post later, romcoms are written to let the audiences know the protagonists pov. If we learn two people like each other, it implies tacit consent - which is why we let our partners kiss or hug us without asking first. It’s the foreknowledge that the other person won’t mind that makes it acceptable.

In this particular instance we know that Da Rim doesn’t find him creepy or repulsive and won’t be traumatised by his kiss. Even if she didn’t find it appropriate at the time.

Consent is all about context. I’m a lawyer and I can tell you that consent is not objective, and the position of power argument is mainly used in relation to minor/adult relationships or teacher/student. Dating your superior is very common.

I love a cohabitation trope. Excellent work with the mothers, I’ve never seen it done this way before, but I love it! 🤣

Everything can be interpreted as harassment or stalking unless explicit permission is given.

The key point of romcoms is that the viewer always has the pov of the protagonists - and we, the audience, know that they like each other. That’s why you can have surprise kisses and unexpected tension - whereas you would not have that in real life with someone you barely know!

Lord knows half of the romcoms where they pine for each other could easily be seen as unusually obsessive behaviour, if not for the fact it’s reciprocated.

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Thanks!

Someone update me please! Dying here!

I love CXX - was waiting until the end to see if I should watch or not. But from clips it doesn’t look like there’s a lot of romance. Is it mainly an action/adventure?

I love me a good romance!

https://youtu.be/TjJqNLwvFUc?si=Kb7AJ3jhtKa00YTZ

Just when I thought I’d give up on Dynamite Kiss, this AI voiceover speculating the next episode has gotten me giddy expecting Da Rim’s apology 🤣🤣

Be Wednesday already!

I am only watching clips - will binge once it’s all out. But I’ve just watched the clip where JH sees the kid call Da Rim Auntie. Is Da Rim dressed up to go to JH’s engagement party? Why does she look so happy??? 🤨 I feel like I’m not getting anything from the FL 😩 It’s such a flop when it’s just one person in love.

In the webtoon he chooses an Jin over his brother too. But in the webtoon it is hinted that AJin actually feels something for Jaeo. Maybe not love, but a feeling of being seen by him and protected by him.

I like it when women faint or get weak because of their period 🤣 Or they forgotten their sanitary towel and ML has to buy them because she can’t walk.

I haven’t started watching yet, glad I made that choice. Even waiting for the clips of them actually finding out the truth is dragging on me - and I haven’t emotionally invested in anybody yet. They started with a bang, but have just had the same episode of hiding the secret for the past 3 episodes. And tomorrow we will only probably find the truth is only told right at the end . Uuurrrghhh! Disappointed.

Yeah, sorry. Really hate the simp in modern romcoms. No need for a ML to be a doormat. He’s being betrayed and lied to, at a certain point, it’s not funny, it’s humiliating.

I am not watching the drama because I don’t like waiting for episodes, but I’m keeping up with the story. I love a good romcom and I love that I’m in good company here! A good romcom isn’t easy! People think it’s just throwing cliches together, but romcoms are actually so hard to do well.

I loved the scenes I watched from the beginning, but this middle bit is starting to stress me out. Like it is going on too long - usually the ML would have found out by now and is finding ways to test the FL and play jokes on her. But in this, the ML is getting anxious and upset, and she’s becoming annoying by acting oblivious/leading him on? Correct me if I’m wrong? If she tricks him for too long it is no longer amusing, it’s cruel.

She shouldn’t show up at his apartment - she shouldn’t be going out of her way to create opportunities for them to be together since she knows she’s supposed to be married. She can’t be that dense. It makes her look like a scummy person.

Urgh! Why do so many romcoms fail me halfway through 😭😭😭😭

Interesting. I have watched her dramas, but I never really found her convincing in her roles. The innocence too fake, and any assertiveness didn’t work because she was too young. Basically I didn’t like her either, haha. But maybe I’ll give this a try!

How does he come back from that? Even if it’s a bag of blood in his pretend chest that got stabbed, he clearly also spit out blood, and the blade was long! Why can’t the director get his stabbing scenes right? Each one in this drama is right in the heart! Like when mudan stabbed his heart and it barely hurt him?? Stop pretending you can patch up a stab in the heart!

I’ve been watching preview clips on bili bili and I can’t for the life of me work out how JCY faked his death. It’s, like, a very clear death 🧐

Miles and the County Princess are my favourite characters! They’re such good actors, very natural, and they really bring their characters bitterness to life. I loved their wedding scene in the first season.

They’re well written. As for the others… 🥴well, Liu Lang is awful.

Haha, very nice. It does feel like it!

I expected the scene where Liu Chang found the sleazy secret room to be hilarious, but JCY was not being convincingly light-hearted or sleazy. Also, that tied up bondage doll made it look like a sordid murderer’s den!

As much as I love Li Xian, I don’t think he’s that convincing as a sleazy, carefree greedy minister.

Does anyone remember the scene in Romance of Tiger and Rose where they find sleazy paintings in Zhao Lusi’s belongings? That’s hilarious. I thought it would be like that scene.