ABSOFRIGGINLUTELY LOVED LOVED LOVED IT! So frustrating that MDL doesn't have gifs to express my love for this show 😥
And to think i was gonna drop it after the first 10 minutes. What a loss it'd have been!
Shim Woo Joo is love 😍 She's one of my all time fave characters in dramas. I hate to dislike fls but honestly 98% of fls in asian dramas are just so uninteresting and annoying. Woo Joo is such a prize! And I adored Hang Dong Jin too.
Loved the platonic friendship between Yoon Joon and Woo Joo and so glad that t was not put into another triangle packaging with both the males. And how I appreciate the total subversion of the kdrama ocd trope " bitch ex-gf triangle" and the correct use of another kdrama ocd trope "time leap".
I love how the characters are written. All the characters except Heeja are combos of different traits, some good, some bad. Heeja is also the only character with 0 redeemable qualities. i didn't mind that so much though.
A special mention to Kim Ye Woon, a super talented but very underrated actor. She is just so damn versatile. This is a role i saw her play the first time and she nailed it as usual. I have developed my love for her acting through hating her characters. Every character that I have seen her playing has been of a bitch except for Waikiki 2 and Who are you (my intro to her). But every time I hate her character with a vengeance i love her acting with a passion. Shim Hye Seong too is unlikeable to me as a person but i like how the character is written as a potpourri of mealy-mouthed doormat with outside peeps and bfs but self-absorbed and slightly immature personally and always looking for a bf which could be the result of her loneliness alongside her romantic personality despite her circumstances and also a low self-esteem, and also love for her fam, etc. etc. etc. i mean all the characters are like this. They are just layers and layers of traits and emotions and personalities. Love the heck out of the constructions. I was hooked by the characters and their emotions. The drama is like an atmosphere that sucks you in.
I have so much to say about it but just too emotional to write coherently so this all coming out as rambling. Had to unload some stuff right now. Prolly will settle all the emos and write a proper comment later.
Okay... this is some mind reading magic shit 😬 I always wondered how these 2 will do in each other's roles... Now I am scared that GMM is spying on my thoughts 😲
The leads are ridiculously good-looking and hot and that last kiss scene was amazing like they concentrated all 8 episode of chemistry into that one scene. I really liked the whole explicitly "I like men" coming out of Jae Woo. This gay affirmation is refreshing. Most bls are still stranded at "gay just for you".
The show itself however was not that great for me. The story was kinda boring. The romantic chemistry was missing except for that last scene and it was not for lack of kisses in the rest. I feel the chemistry should start cooking before the coupling happens. It should bubble up to brim so i can't wait for them to be together. This rush was not here. It could be the writing, or I don't know, directing.
I am gonna start by saying that Wan was so unfair by running away out of reach like that after confessing to Ki tae and kissing him confused. However, I am him. If I ever even confessed (forget kiss) to my crush in high school, I'd have had jumped off the roof with a parachute, moved galaxy, switched specie. So I understand him. And if somehow I came back as a human and met my crush in a situation like this here where he also liked me and confessed thrice a day, I'd have had a heartstrike... i mean heartstroke. So I understand him.
I liked the show. It was cute and fluffy, and a very breezy watch. The writing was a bit messy and incomplete, nonetheless, the two leads were too cute with their chemistry and those faces to make this show enjoyable.
I especially loved Lee Jong Hyuk's interpretation of Lee wan as an introvert guy crushing on another guy who's opposite of him.
I didn't get know much about Ki Tae to understand when he so deeply fell in love with Wan. I mean I understand his fear of Wan running away again was the consequence of Wan running away once. But I never got to see anything from Ki Tae's perspective to fully understand his feeling. So I had to conclude that from him or someone else telling me through dialogues and not the show showing me. The epilogues too were all about Wan's crush on Ki Tae. Ki Tae could easily have been a "there's more to that extroverted pretty face" character with some details on him sprinkled here and there. I wanted more on him. I think some of the screen-time for the side characters could've been allotted to fleshing out Ki Tae's side.
And to think i was gonna drop it after the first 10 minutes. What a loss it'd have been!
Shim Woo Joo is love 😍 She's one of my all time fave characters in dramas. I hate to dislike fls but honestly 98% of fls in asian dramas are just so uninteresting and annoying. Woo Joo is such a prize!
And I adored Hang Dong Jin too.
Loved the platonic friendship between Yoon Joon and Woo Joo and so glad that t was not put into another triangle packaging with both the males. And how I appreciate the total subversion of the kdrama ocd trope " bitch ex-gf triangle" and the correct use of another kdrama ocd trope "time leap".
I love how the characters are written. All the characters except Heeja are combos of different traits, some good, some bad. Heeja is also the only character with 0 redeemable qualities. i didn't mind that so much though.
A special mention to Kim Ye Woon, a super talented but very underrated actor. She is just so damn versatile. This is a role i saw her play the first time and she nailed it as usual. I have developed my love for her acting through hating her characters. Every character that I have seen her playing has been of a bitch except for Waikiki 2 and Who are you (my intro to her). But every time I hate her character with a vengeance i love her acting with a passion. Shim Hye Seong too is unlikeable to me as a person but i like how the character is written as a potpourri of mealy-mouthed doormat with outside peeps and bfs but self-absorbed and slightly immature personally and always looking for a bf which could be the result of her loneliness alongside her romantic personality despite her circumstances and also a low self-esteem, and also love for her fam, etc. etc. etc. i mean all the characters are like this. They are just layers and layers of traits and emotions and personalities. Love the heck out of the constructions. I was hooked by the characters and their emotions. The drama is like an atmosphere that sucks you in.
I have so much to say about it but just too emotional to write coherently so this all coming out as rambling. Had to unload some stuff right now. Prolly will settle all the emos and write a proper comment later.
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The show itself however was not that great for me. The story was kinda boring. The romantic chemistry was missing except for that last scene and it was not for lack of kisses in the rest. I feel the chemistry should start cooking before the coupling happens. It should bubble up to brim so i can't wait for them to be together. This rush was not here. It could be the writing, or I don't know, directing.
I liked the show. It was cute and fluffy, and a very breezy watch. The writing was a bit messy and incomplete, nonetheless, the two leads were too cute with their chemistry and those faces to make this show enjoyable.
I especially loved Lee Jong Hyuk's interpretation of Lee wan as an introvert guy crushing on another guy who's opposite of him.
I didn't get know much about Ki Tae to understand when he so deeply fell in love with Wan. I mean I understand his fear of Wan running away again was the consequence of Wan running away once. But I never got to see anything from Ki Tae's perspective to fully understand his feeling. So I had to conclude that from him or someone else telling me through dialogues and not the show showing me. The epilogues too were all about Wan's crush on Ki Tae. Ki Tae could easily have been a "there's more to that extroverted pretty face" character with some details on him sprinkled here and there. I wanted more on him. I think some of the screen-time for the side characters could've been allotted to fleshing out Ki Tae's side.