katgotyourtongue

i think she was just scared for so long of any feelings that it's been a long time since she let herself love. the way i read it, when he jumps in the river and she finally recognized him, we get her POV where we see that she was aware of him since HS and i got the impression that she did like him, but at that point she was too scared and the town forced her out. she kept hoping for a happy ending, or for the curse to maybe not follow her. but it did. so she then became a recluse, worked from home, didn't even shop for groceries. he wants her to finally live a life. i know people call him a stalker, but he was creating his hypothesis and figuring out the variables, and how else would one do that? his motivation however was to have her lead a normal life.

i think the ending both with ML and FML is that they'd rather confess their true feelings and die than live a life without that love. because to them, that's the point of life. to love another person. and so ML hopes FML will love him back, follow him, and he'll at least get to have that peace of having known that even if it meant death - he'd die happy. then FL brings the last complete variable - they have to stick together. and they do. i think this is mirrored with 2ML & 2FL - he has to not only realize his feelings and admit to them, but then also be willing to step away from any fear and jump forward into a life with someone he loves.

i think this story, this curse, is just a fairytale. and like in all fairytales it's broken by a true love('s kiss). they found their true loves - people they love and who love them and have decided to spend the rest of their lives together - so they get the happily ever after.

i think it's like any fairytale curse - you need to find your true love! and if you do and truly love them and stick by their side to have a happily ever after, the curse is lifted.

netflix fooled me into a false sense of security... the last time i'm watching anything japanese as it airs sadly

sigh i got hopeful as it was my first time watching it on something like netflix but i shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. thank you for answering!

does anyone know the release schedule for netflix? when can i expect ep6?

AAAAHHHH DREAM DUO!!!

finally!

no worries i probably wouldn't have noticed tbh had i not remembered the synopsis and caught him say he's 15 and my brain did the math... which resulted in my comment as i'm just shocked he's playing almost 10yrs older... i genuinely can't remember seeing someone do that

it takes me out so bad and tbh she's barely any better in that department. idk if they don't reinforce the age i'll forget about it but if they ever mention being in their 30s i'll die laughing

and to make it clear i've enjoyed them both in dramas so this isn't like a negative it's just hilarious

i think you got confused somewhere? according to the synopsis it's 16yrs between present day and flashback when he's 15, so his character is 31. irl he's 23 and he has a babyface for a highschooler -IN MY OPINION-

i just can't buy him as a 30yo lol

you're telling me he's supposed to be playing someone who's 30???

i agree, i think the main issue is that the korean press and the korean public simply don't have a limit. which is kind of weird as they are quite successful in blacklisting celebrities, you'd think they'd stop at simply removing them from that "job".

but then they don't know the limit! why is the press entitled to follow her to civilian jobs? why do they hound her at courts or at her home? why do people continue the hateful, vile comments online when a person is already deplatformed? and paid their fines/debt to society? why must they put them in a position where they can't even hold a job in a coffee shop, where they can't make ANY living? and it's for a mistake that's ultimately possible to repent for. and another thing is - they never let that redemption end. i think you can choose to not support someone financially at any time (say pay the ticket for their movie, watch their show, buy products they endorse etc) - but to see people cross the line into daily harassment, death threats, if not even physical abuse is something that's truly masochistic and something i haven't seen elsewhere. and it's definitely not proportionate, and has layers of misogyny and homophobia, even racism with foreign idols involved etc.

it's truly sad that she felt she had to take her own life to find peace and escape this abuse. that is never okay.

some people just can't read bc even in my post i said "in a respectable way" and i was personally always respectful. i also mentioned i was glad to see her getting roles again and that she had her whole life ahead of her to do great things. i just didn't agree with minimizing someone's actions when they were actually quite serious. and somehow they equate that with harassment. who really harassed her was the media that followed her from job to job, was the korean public that b*llied her and the netizens who made her unable to live her life. i'm sad she felt the need to end her life and i just hope she now has peace.

100% on the maturity. it was so refreshing to see them flirt without stuttering, touch without jumping away and kiss without one of them looking shocked like a fish. finally adults behaving like adults while still having a nice amount of those charming, in love, giddy moments!

setting it up against the oscars or golden globes is a stretch (especially when they have their own important awards lmao) and everything is subjective. i get your point but many don't agree with award show winners and campaigning is always more important than the quality itself (emilia perez's 13 oscar nominations)

people are allowed to be stingy with their 10s but also allowed to give them out if a show satisfied them or if they just feel like it, this is arbitrary and unserious.

to OP, i think an 8 is a valid score for the show and i think the finale was rushed so that might be why the rating is going down. also some such as myself wait for the finale to rate so maybe with the influx of new ratings it's evening out to a truer score. what matters in the end is what you thought of the show, everything else is arbitrary and doesn't matter, or at least matters much less than your opinion and feelings. art is subjective!

the whole cheating discourse cheapens the drama imo. the whole theme of it was when does a person truly die and when do feelings die? when do you let go, how do you move on? i think the takes that this is glorifying cheating or whatever are way too harsh as the characters are never presented to be in the right. when miki confronts saeko, saeko is honest and direct about being selfish and seeking what is left of yusuke, etc... it's good to see complicated, flawed characters especially when we see other characters manage to empathize with them and we as audiences do as well. ultimately miki understands saeko, even on that train stop. she knows she'd be doing the same as saeko. is the series perfect, no, but i think it's quite human. grief is a complicated beast, this is just how one person handled their situation. i think the audience is being harsh in their judgement.

lmao it doesn't happen like that as fiction often embellishes but "dating with the idea of marriage" or "dating with marriage in mind" is a big thing in asia, imo it can't be put in the same basket as regular dating.

this is a very normal type of statement often published by companies who start legal actions, it's a standard thing and is often followed up with updates of how cases have been handled. i do think the fact that they publicly say they're suing deters a lot of trolls

love the actress so i'm giving jang kiyong another shot. don't let me down

saying "i hope she gets a lead role some day" is one thing. saying "she should have been the lead" is another and you said the 2nd thing. because whether it's convenient for you or not the lead actress was cast and exists. you saying "i wish it was x instead" does immediately mean you wish it wasn't her. simple. it's disrespectful and it does have internalized misogyny to be dismissive and ignorant of a woman you don't like. misogyny isn't simply hating on women, it's internalized biases, it's taking other women down, dismissing other women for a favorable woman, etc. not even a "...but congrats to this actress" at the end of your post. it just read badly. imagine how you would feel as her fan when she gets cast as a lead if you'd seen someone say "i wish it was another actress". wouldn't be nice, would it?