The general dance between love and no love is getting old but it's very valid. Realistically, no daddy's girl…
We'll have to agree to disagree then.
Note that my view is taking a realistic approach. It's a question of empathy. Put yourself in Ji An's shoes and replace Ji An's dad with whomever you care about the most in this world. Few people in this world can look at someone with that unrealistic "love conquers all" attitude when so much pain is attached to that person and that relationship. The origin of such pain being from Grandpa or Mom isn't really of significance.
That ignores the controlling stalker vibes Do Kyung gave off during the entire show. Their relationship was very unrealistic until the end.
Of course, this is fiction and it ended as expected.
Good grief ~sigh~ Ji An, just OMG The guy is NOT his family! Of course, she doesn't know yet how daddy has left…
The general dance between love and no love is getting old but it's very valid. Realistically, no daddy's girl is ever going to look at her lover's face the same after her dad was treated so poorly until death.
Her grievances are all valid. Do Kyung hasn't done anything for her--she's constantly saving his butt--and his family has done nothing but wrong her and her family.
Hopefully, they keep it this way, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends fast-forwarded a couple of years in which they both reconcile and either end the show with an optimistic open ending or reconcile and live happily ever after.
The lost girl plot is done stupidly everyone's reactions was so unrealistic when they exposed the thing what's…
Yep. Male lead is just bad. He has no redeemable qualities. He will eventually insult Ji An's dream profession when she finds strength and direction in life all because he wants her in his life.
He only becomes supportive when he realizes how bad her life was after the reveal. That doesn't change the fact that his pinky is so far in the air. No amount of eating street food will ever change that.
If being good looking and rich is enough to push people beyond such horrible traits,
I think all of these are based on Asian culture and norms, so I try to see it as a different way (not that I would…
"It makes the character more real, and much better than the all bad/all good characters in US shows."
Disagree. Western shows HAD linear characters with no gray area in the 90's but that's far from true now.
Asian media is where western shows were in the 90's. There is no grey area for much of anything. The bad tends to be something along the lines of a fake non-issue.
An example, compare popular recent shows: Game of Thrones and Descendants of the Sun.
Ned Stark, perceived as a good father turns out to have been keeping a massive lie for King Robert.
Tyrion was a spiteful miserable bad guy with logic and reasoning who suddenly defied his family to support a Queen going after his family, only to realize he loves his brother, despite wishing death upon most everyone else.
Choose any of the four main DotS characters and they're all linear good guys who never really stray from it outside of the fact that they can't stop themselves from high school drama behavior despite being special forces and doctors.
Heck, choose a Chaebol show and they tend to always be the underlying theme that family trumps all.
All of the above and:1) Running, running and running - I get it - sometimes it's faster, but when the MC runs…
3 drives me insane. Watching My Golden Life. The lead was trying to be strong and eventually broke. Now that she's strong and found herself, her weakness is love for a weak rich, skill-less lead (though the show is trying to paint him as skilled) that insults her in every way...
The racial supremacy is my number 1 pet peeve. I can get over every single other problem, but every drama throws shades at other non-Koreans in some form or another or attempts to boast Koreans as the absolute best. The most recent I've seen being in My Golden Life with a shade at a Korean being adopted by a black family. I mean, what the heck?
The most common, though, is how supreme Koreans are--typically with the actor being praised for how amazing they are when they obviously are not.
Random white guy: "Oh, who is you?! You're amazing!"
Supporting actor: "Mahhrr nrameen ishjjj Bo Man Siu. I shhhhhtuuudyy arrrt Harrvd ahnnd MBA at Prinshton."
Random white guy: "Oh wow. Your English is amazing. Koreans are the best!"
My biggest pet peeve is the poor English. Perhaps it's because I'm from the US, but it drives me crazy. I loathe…
Same. It kills immersion. The actor is always supposed to be some pinnacle of hard work and success, and the inability to speak properly just throws it off.
It made me realize that Asian acting is a bit overrated and gives an appreciation for modern western method actors who not only engulf themselves in their character from physique to mannerisms, but even to accents.
Sucks getting older and realizing this, but hope Asian media becomes more purely artistic and perfectionistic.
Note that my view is taking a realistic approach. It's a question of empathy. Put yourself in Ji An's shoes and replace Ji An's dad with whomever you care about the most in this world. Few people in this world can look at someone with that unrealistic "love conquers all" attitude when so much pain is attached to that person and that relationship. The origin of such pain being from Grandpa or Mom isn't really of significance.
That ignores the controlling stalker vibes Do Kyung gave off during the entire show. Their relationship was very unrealistic until the end.
Of course, this is fiction and it ended as expected.
Her grievances are all valid. Do Kyung hasn't done anything for her--she's constantly saving his butt--and his family has done nothing but wrong her and her family.
Hopefully, they keep it this way, but I wouldn't be surprised if it ends fast-forwarded a couple of years in which they both reconcile and either end the show with an optimistic open ending or reconcile and live happily ever after.
He only becomes supportive when he realizes how bad her life was after the reveal. That doesn't change the fact that his pinky is so far in the air. No amount of eating street food will ever change that.
If being good looking and rich is enough to push people beyond such horrible traits,
Disagree. Western shows HAD linear characters with no gray area in the 90's but that's far from true now.
Asian media is where western shows were in the 90's. There is no grey area for much of anything. The bad tends to be something along the lines of a fake non-issue.
An example, compare popular recent shows: Game of Thrones and Descendants of the Sun.
Ned Stark, perceived as a good father turns out to have been keeping a massive lie for King Robert.
Tyrion was a spiteful miserable bad guy with logic and reasoning who suddenly defied his family to support a Queen going after his family, only to realize he loves his brother, despite wishing death upon most everyone else.
Choose any of the four main DotS characters and they're all linear good guys who never really stray from it outside of the fact that they can't stop themselves from high school drama behavior despite being special forces and doctors.
Heck, choose a Chaebol show and they tend to always be the underlying theme that family trumps all.
The most common, though, is how supreme Koreans are--typically with the actor being praised for how amazing they are when they obviously are not.
Random white guy:
"Oh, who is you?! You're amazing!"
Supporting actor:
"Mahhrr nrameen ishjjj Bo Man Siu. I shhhhhtuuudyy arrrt Harrvd ahnnd MBA at Prinshton."
Random white guy:
"Oh wow. Your English is amazing. Koreans are the best!"
It made me realize that Asian acting is a bit overrated and gives an appreciation for modern western method actors who not only engulf themselves in their character from physique to mannerisms, but even to accents.
Sucks getting older and realizing this, but hope Asian media becomes more purely artistic and perfectionistic.