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I feel like the whole memory plotline is kinda weak anyway, and just thrown in to add unnecessary mystery. There is enough conflict with just the main premise on its own. So taking that out of the story would have made it even stronger

We're at the "episodes long misunderstanding that could be cleared up with a 5 minute conversation" stage of the drama. Sigh.

Writers love throwing this kind of unrealstic scenario in purely for drama, it's so tedious. He had understandable reasons for not telling her at first and then got in too deep and was overwhelmed at how to come clean. He def should have told her earlier, but there wasn't any malice or manipulation in it, he was just being understandably human. Her not even letting him fully explain comes off as such manufactured drama and angst, especially after he'd been saying for days he had something he wanted to tell her. Even if he explained fully she would still feel hurt and need to take some time to deal with the truth and things wouldn't be the same between them for a while, but it would moving and realistic.

I don't mind a slow burn, but we're not getting enough engagement from the guy. He seems to really just not have even suppressed romantic feelings for her at this point and so it's really fizzled out for me. I need SOME indication that he is longing for her in some way.

People saying Ka Young can't handle a role like this need to go watch Tempted, the drama sucked but she was amazing in it, she played a layered and serious character with a lot of deep pain and acted circles around the FL. She is way more capable than her romcom roles of recent years and I actually think she suits melodrama roles more

Chan seems to feel like he only deserves to be happy if he makes others happy, like he has to earn it, and it really breaks my heart. Haran warmed up to him not just cause he was nice to her, but when she found out what he had been through and saw what kind of person he was. I feel like he will just suffer in silence once she finds out the truth about the past cause he won't want to hurt her even if he hurts himself more in the process, and that's gonna be hard to watch.

I'm kinda upset at Haran and his grandma for pushing Chan and his dad to reconcile, the man was abusive and drove his son to suicide, that's not something you just forgive and forget cause it's been a few years.

Okay wow, he has my attention, I love this darker side we’re seeing.

This is a rare show where I completely get why the ML isn't being honest, cause telling her who he really is would also reveal her BF was a cheater who didn't even care enough to send her a few texts, which would be really painful after everything. I still think it would help her move on better, but I wouldn't be eager to tell someone that either.

It's also so refreshing that the FL has self awareness and is actaully changing and not making the same mistakes over and over, I have seen FLs not change in an entire season as much as this FL does in one episode.

I like the ML a lot but I find the way he forces smiles uncomfortable, but I guess that's the point? He flipped so hard to the happy side that it's more like toxic positivity at times, but he is realizing he has to face his past one way or the other, cause he got hella baggage to work through still.

I love the warmth and easy connection that has formed between them, and how they've both already been able to open up and learn from eachother. I am not bored in the slightest. I binged all 5 eps in one day and was so sad there wasn't a 6th!

It's easy to convince yourself that someone is just busy, esp when they're telling you everything is fine, she's human after all. And for the time the ML was talking to her instead she developed a closer bond, tho to me her deep sadness/trauma about it all was less how much she loved him and more about the fact that he died suddenly, just like her parents.

Imagine calling Koo Kyo Hwan, Kim Seon-ho, Lee Jee Wook, and Seo In-guk ugly with your full chest, how embarrassing I would literally quit the internet

I wouldn't call her a great actress, but calling her "wooden" is pretty wild. That's why I can't take any of these negative comments seriously. You can tell when people are just commenting out of pettiness when they exaggerate. She has great chemistry with her costars every time, has good charisma, and does certain emotions/expressions/vibes very well. There are truly wooden actresses who she acts circles around, and there are actresses who act circles around her especially in some areas of more subtle acting. But she is talented enough to be given main roles like this esp if the director and writer believe in her ability.

SIG is sooo good once he actually has a part to play, it is worth the wait. But I don't think the second half washed out the bad taste from the first half, it's still quite frustrating even after it shifts more to the real world focus

This show has its really funny, dreamy, and even moving moments, but I'd suggest heavy use of the 2x speed button for this one. The first half really drags, I can only watch the FL fall for so many other dudes while the sparkling SIG is standing around in the background looking more handsome than ever and BEGGING to be the actual male lead. And once he is by god does he deliver, he is so wasted in this drama. I thought Jisoo brought a lot of energy into the role, but the writing for the FL (and maybe partly her performance) made her seem super capricious and that made it hard to really believe in their love. I really only cared about it cause Gyeon Nam is the weirdest, cutest little puppy ever and deserves to be happy.

I felt the exact same way as you at that point and it DOES get better so kepe watching, but the FL is frustrating throughout

I think you really exaggerated that there weren't signs he liked her before episdoe 6, I felt like that was pretty obvious from the beginning. Him getting her the coffee (was made clear he got two to give one to her even if he denied it), him going to more team dinners and always seeming to be pretty satisfied when they had to spend time together, and just a lot of littel things about the way he acted, like I noticed like after they would have meetings he would stop at the window outside the room and just watch her for a few seconds, stuff like that.

But I totally agree with your other points, even if there were signs there was not enough of him and enough of their interactions and I actually watched quite a bit of the first half in 2x speed because of the amount of time spent on her dating the virtual guys.

I actually think all of the boyfriends did something important for the story, the first one helped her understand romance writers and help the crazy writer lady out, seo kang joon helped her face and work through the breakup with her old boyfriend, and then later highlighted how noen of these virtual bofyriends are really "hers" and I actually thought it was great that her "ideal" virtual boyfriend looked just like the ML in real life. But it didn't work overall because of how little and late the actual love story between her and the ML developed, and it took her sooo long to actually give him a chance.

The episode where we finally see how the ML has been feeling this whole time made me kinda mad ,because it made him such a different character, and also SIG is such a good actor and I agree he was wasted for the first half.

Okay I read down and I guess her real BF ditched her to travel and had his friend (Seonu Chan) talk to her in his place in the chats. So the person she fell in lvoe with was Chan, or at least partly was him, I guess? I wish they'd have just shown that at the end of the first episode

I feel so dumb but I'm sooo confused who the ML is and how he knows the FL and who was the guy who died, like I'm just so lost after the first ep that I can't get into the drama because I don't even know what's going on and don't know if I should continue it. Like.. I don't know if the ML actually knew the FL or did he just meet her once in the past, it's just making it hard to connect to the characters

Probably because people rated it on average 8.4 out of ten.

It's been too long since SIG graced our screens as a romantic lead. Gawd I actually still remember when he got cast in Reply 1997 and everyone said he was gonna be trash cause he was just an idol and then he blew everyone away.

I would agree if K drama writers could write a decent story that length. They're always so good for like 6 eps then fall apart and eps 7-11 drag, fall back on ridiculous tropes, reuse the same plot points over and over, and then sometimes stick the landing ep 12 and sometimes not. Better to just keep it short and high quality all the way through

I've been keeping my eye on this drama cause I wanted to binge it at the end, seeing it plummet in the rating is so unfortunate! Seemed like it had so much potential