theematchabun

In the webtoon, JE not written to have a proper backstory seems to have a purpose as in he’s not suppose to feel like a realized character the audience should feel attached to. He’s temporary so NB’s moments with him is temporary as in she finally leaves that kind of toxic space & found peace with herself & has a diff/positive mindset on love. I read that he’s much more a douche-bag & worst in the webtoon while in the drama he is tone-down & romanticized.

The screenwriter didn’t know whether to make JE a stalker-like casanova or a stalker-like romantic so they did both, which is lame lol. This is why some people can’t differentiate what is sincere or sinister when it comes to seeing toxic weird behavior or actual love when they get fed this kind of cheese-ball writing.

If someone stole my sketchbook of drawings & drew it in without me knowing I’d be mad as hell. Like where the flip is my stuff lol. It’s JE, he can’t just do things like regular person would. It feeds his weird ego. Dude, just tell her you outright like her. Talk like an actual person would. The fact that people will look at this & say “ this is sooooO sweEeett AnD RomaTIiicccc.” All his weird gestures reads like wattpad level of cheese ball writing with the whole ‘love at first sight’ bs. I don’t buy it one bit. Nobody acts like this in real life if you sincerely like someone. Only a stalker would lol.

I guess DAYS isn’t just this years disappointment. This drama has an early 2000’s kdrama rating lol which is pretty befitting. I’d say 7.7 is way too generous.

I feel like the writer tried to implement the essence of the webtoon early on in the show but cared more about the nonsense romance between the two ML. I’d say the screenwriter painted this to be a romance overall than a psychological-horror one because if it was a truly horror, JE would be just exactly the shit stained he was in the webtoon but they water-toned him down for the drama because a ‘bad boy’ must get the girl at the end because he’s not sooo bad & miraculously changes because of lOoovE.

That’s why I say JE exhibit stalker vibes/traits. He acts like a weirdo yet some people find him oh so attractive & dashing blah blah blah.

Pretty much. It was pretty obvious that JE already knew who NB is from ep 1 when he acted like he was seeing someone else when he clearly was not. Also, he touched her, someone he doesn’t even know so casually without her consent all knowingly the vulnerable state she was in. This isn’t romantic at all.

Yep, totally realistic like the dirt in my toenails lol.

I’m not angry. I never said you disrespected me lol nor said that you say I couldn’t have an opinion. I simply said this is a public forum so people will say whatever they want. Just like how you say whatever you want.

JE exhibit stalker vibes. That’s not attractive. That’s alarming. It’s not a coincident they met at the bar in ep 1. I agree, the dialogue is bare bone. Too much eye gazing like cardboard cutouts dripped in pretty aesthetics with pretty actors.

I didn’t say you said it wasn’t toxic. I was just talking about how toxicity comes in diff form. From a writing standpoint, the screen play is dry & falls into typical cliche tropes in kdramas.

Toxicity isn’t alway overt & ‘in your face’ kind of behavior. Just because he didn’t physically hit her doesn’t make how he was in the drama less or not toxic. That’s why people stay in toxic relationship even when they don’t realize it. It comes in all form, whether it be verbal or physical, etc, even in subtlety. That’s why gaslighting is a thing.

Well, the drama started with a 7.8 rating & ended with a 7.8 rating lol. Not surprised one bit.

Honestly if JE wasn’t played by SK & was played by a less attractive-unconventional-non mainstream actor, no one would give two sh*t about JE or JE&NB pairing and would straight out call them toxic but nope, two pretty people just HAVE to be together because of lOoooVE, blah blah blah.

Never touching anything this screen writer writes in the future, even with a ten foot pole. Good riddance. Like I said before, the romance genre is truly a dead genre in kdramaland :/.

This is a public forum so people can comment & reply however they please. Like if you like this drama then ok, I’m more so critiquing the writing.

Yeah like toxic relationship exist but I was was referring to your comment about how this is just a ‘drama’ when people who liked the drama saying how it’s realistic lol. The writing feels all too cliche in my opinion.

Well the consensus of people who enjoyed this drama were ‘championing’ it as “mature, original, & realistic” and SO different from other kdramas when it is NOT lol.

JE is literally a walking red flag from the get go. The moment he asserted himself in NB’s space at the bar while ALREADY knowing that she was in a vulnerable uncomfortable state because he saw how she was displayed at the art exhibit from her ex-shit boyfriend. He was already a serial womanizer & exuded toxic traits to wrap NB in his clutch. He could have introduced himself like a regular person would at the bar in the ep 1 but nope, he touched her without even knowing her, acting as if he was there to see someone else. Just because he isn’t beating the shit out of her doesn’t make him not toxic. Toxic people can show good traits. Toxic relationship can be subtle & people don’t truly know when they are in one or when their partner is like that.

Honestly, JE can be complete garbage on paper & onscreen. The only sensible option was for NB to live & work on herself. My issue is viewers will watch this drama and think “wow, this is so romantic or this is love. Let love love” blah blah blah…Like I get it, it’s not show writers to teach people about what’s toxic or not but there are young impressionable people out there. This drama literally romanticizes toxic relationships having it all adorned in aesthetic & prettiness with pretty actors & shallow-worms for brain-dialogue.