littleberry09

no, I've just finished watching it and they never show this Uncle's face. Only the voice and him showing moves to Ga-min

yes I got a little whiplash over by how quickly he and everyone else got over it LMAO. like I get that he forgave everything because of Duk-mi's younger brother who died, but it doesn't explain how he got over years of trauma and nightmares of being abandoned. Coincidently he doesn't recognise Duk-mi's mother until much later on when it was the right time.

I really liked the drama for a romcom and I'm still glad they didn't turn it too dark though 😭

honestly you might as well give it up then. I actually really liked the first half over the second half. If you don't like the first half already into Ep 5 then it may just not be for you.

ironically I thought the girl who played Sang Zhi in The First Frost was perfect for young SZ at the time they filmed Hidden Love. She was the right age (13-14) at the time too. I don't know why they deliberately cast an 11 year old girl when she looked nowhere near 14 and as you said, neither did her classmates. It just made seeing her with adult Jiaxu more difficult because his actor always stays the same. It's my only complaint about this drama.

It wasn't about gender role reversals? It was about a matriarchal society where women lead over men, not that women had to do non-traditional roles. All the women were pretty traditional apart from Chuchu.

it has a pretty closed ending, don't feel there was a need for a season 2. If you make it to the end you'll understand why. It remains hilarious throughout and is never sad though

I didn't question really every single action, but there's a limit to what the viewer can digest and let go. When it's more than 10 episodes of the bad decisions there's no way I couldn't question it. It makes it worse when she's actually a 34 year old woman so supposed to much more intelligent and mature than she was at 19 - but it happens the other way round, she returns atleast 3 times yet her decisions get worse each time. Ultimately she learnt nothing and took time travelling into the past for granted. I agree the writers/directors were lazy and didn't see how her decisions contradicted with her aim. Her whole mission was trying to save Sunjae but ironically she WAS why Sunjae got harmed the final time. When she remained back to the village without him, instead of the safest option which was to stay on the train with him I had had enough. It was only because there were 2-3 episodes left by that point which is why I managed to finish it.

I watched it this year and still think of it as so funny. I can see why it's a classic comedy, even if the romance is outdated and red flagged.

Marry My Husband, Perfect Marriage Revenge, Twinkling Watermelon are top tier dramas with time travel that fits more in those settings. I think the problem with this drama is that she goes back and forth from present to past several times, and each time it makes less and less sense meaning more plot holes than those other dramas I listed. She also doesn't learn from her mistakes or plan better to make time travel beneficial.

Brilliant review, and you said everything I wanted to say. I don't understand how this can be rated as the best drama ever. I'm not taunting people's choices but just as you said, it's full of clichés and terrible logic like it's a wattpad story from the 2010's. The fact that there was no character development, and no improvement to the plot which steadily gets worse was tragic. Giving it a 6 was even generous of you. Congrats on getting the best rated review here too, it seems many agree with you despite this drama getting a lot of fans hating on you 🎉

it was the character development that was lacking here. As you said they could have centered her character around doing other things for disabled people, but it's like they forget she was in a wheelchair in the first original timeline. Instead whenever she goes back to the present her character is still fully immersed with Sunjae-ah, even her career lol. she doesn't change one bit from the past timeliness to when she goes back to current time.

I just finished it a week ago and I went into Ep 11 completely unaware...boy did I regret, coz up until Ep 14 it was just so painful watching it go so downhill. It felt completely unnecessary and watching her make bad decisions was a waste of time.

I think you pinpointed why I didn't really like it either (other than the ost which was fire). i might have liked it as a teenager and overlooked it's faults, but in my mid 20's it seems like too much - eventhough fantasy is one of my favourite genres.

I don't expect realisticness, just as you said from the moment she went into the past the first time we knew to throw logical thought out of the window. I love fantasy so I didn't mind that aspect anyway.

where it doesn't work is when it starts to affect how you see the characters and emotions of the drama. Half way through it was FL making stupid decisions (especially the 2nd and 3rd times she went back) and not the time travel that annoyed me.

Can't a romcom be made without adding a complicated serial killer plot??? Like for real, if I wanted that I would just start a drama from the thriller/horror genres. I went into this expecting only a nice romance but felt it was wasted because of this.

yeah and I think you only notice this after the drama 😩 that literally everything he did in his life since high school was to do with her, eventhough he hadn't met her for 8 years by the time of the first episode. A very unhealthy characteristic and completely unrealistic, this is why he remains fictional only lol

also When I Fly Towards You ❤️ not one of the Sang siblings stories but by the same author. I think all are amongst the best dramas so far

I agree on it being depressing but somehow it also feels comforting. It's about FL learning to heal as she's so traumatised. Having such a strong ML definitely helped in this regard.

I think HL was an easier watch because it was so much more lighter (if that works for you) whereas this one is more heavier and has triggering/mature themes. You notice as soon as you start it, even this drama's colour palette was literally only dark colours to fit the emo mood.

The premise and starting had good potential, but as others have said it dipped and became disinteresting later. I was just waiting to finish it half way through eventhough it was only 14 episodes (which is nothing for a Cdrama!)

I also didn't realise she was Jiang Jia from When I Fly Towards You! I must have been blind 🙈