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I think we'll eventually have to see some of their dating days just to make sense of their relationship. So I'm assuming those might air at some point

Aw thanks. I'm really enjoying this one. It's a great blend of genres and I find the characters easily relatable. I think the drama has done a great job fleshing them out into interesting characters.

Saw a couple posts point out scenes we haven't seen yet! One of Se Na hugging him in the rain with a yellow umbrella, and another of the two of them at an aquarium! Can't wait.

There's enough crumbs to ship Do Ki and Go Eun and I'm living on those. But it's not a focus and will likely not be canon.

The trailer calls it an "idol defense romance". https://youtu.be/AEDsXd_1Z7c?si=E20wpk66-06V7UtH

At the end of the day it's still a romcom and will behave as such.

I think people dismiss their fleeting teenage meeting too easily. I think it's gonna be the key to their relationship (maybe this is obvious and I'm preaching to the choir?). La Ik's major issue is people not liking the real him, only liking the shell. But Se Na became his fan /because/ she liked him prior to fame not simply because he was famous. His act of kindness, his song, saved her and it's what made her a fan in the first place.

considering this is exactly what's written on the tin I'm not sure what people were expecting from a drama clearly marketed as a fan/idol romance. I think it's pretty grounded considering. I mean we knew from the get go that she's both his fan and his lawyer and that this a romance. Any moral/ethical questions a viewer might have regarding those relationships really should have come up before episode 6, I would think.

I think in some ways the drama making Se Na a real fan, behaving as many fans do, takes some of the shine off the fantasy. And that makes some folks uncomfortable. They were fine with the fan/idol romance until the fan had a "cringe" moment. But I like the balance it's trying to strike here. It's a not a drama where the fan gets swept off her feet by her idol and they all lived happily ever after. If anything her status as a fan is a detriment to their relationship that they are now going to have to work through.

Lol and here I am thinking it's paced just fine 😂😂

One of them was from Hong Kong, thus the English.

Only in terms of general plot elements (ie escaping to a small town) but definitely not in tone or characterization imho. This is leaning way more into slightly absurd comedy.

Se Na showed no interest in fandom before realizing La Ik was the guy from the river so honestly if she ends up with him I kind of see her giving it up or at least toning down.

I don't think it's based on anything so not sure there are spoilers re the ending but it's a romcom at heart so I expect a happy ending here regardless.

Haven't read the source material but in the show he works at a solar power plant and that's all we know. I think the "thugs" are just part of the continued misunderstandings surrounding the characters. The whole point, imo, is that people have judged him unfairly based on appearance.

I think 7 will be angsty and then 8 will resolve it.

Oh it doesn't bother me either. In fact I think making her a flawed obsessive fangirl makes her a far more interesting character than the alternative.

I hate the ratings on this site so much. If you enjoy non-serious romcoms this is a treat. Everything is just a little over the top but hilarious. If you're looking for realism here you won't find it. I assume the comedy isn't hitting for some people or folks just hate romcoms.

I think she said he denied the rumors in 2022. She says the exact date of the press release at one point, pretty sure it was 2022.

I've been hoping we'd have the angst out of the way by the end of episode 8. That seems long enough, lol.

Yeah okay their whole relationship and chain of events makes no sense to me.

When she's ranting about why she cheated she implies it's because he didn't publicly acknowledge her (or something to that effect, I can't check right now). So I wonder if he denied the dating rumors before that meeting we see with the reporter. And the meeting we saw was just further denial. Without knowing when that meeting took place it's hard to say.