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really thought i was just sitting here thinking this alone every ep LMAO

i haven't cried this much over a show in a while. like every other episode i have something (usually something new) to cry over. i am glad i decided to watch this show bcs i haven't been this pulled into a drama similar to this in so long.. i want a few more silly family type scenes though in 1987 so i hope i get at least one more. i didn't expect to like the parents story at all but they are actually what had me crying and rooting for them the most.. i hope their ending is good, i really liked them in the past.. but i have to say, lee won jung has stolen the show for me. i love his acting so much.. may even skip through a rewatch as soon as the last ep is out just to see his scenes. he didn't even have as many as i expected either (from my own expectations of what the drama was going to be lol) but i enjoyed all of them, especially the ones with yoon young !!

i guess that's one way to look at it! as i said i seem to be in the minority for not liking the confession/ending, but that's some of the enjoyment of dramas to me that we can watch the same things and have totally different opinions on things like this. if the confession he gave had happened at the dinner/coffee meet up they had halfway through the ep i'd have loved the ending too! i just feel like she had given him plenty of chances (minus her seeing her ex, as i said i did not like that either) and made it clear enough but he was exactly the same as he was at the beginning of the show until the last 5 minutes when they made him super romantic and open about it, even verbally, which just felt strange to me personally.

exactly my point. it felt like the writers just wanted to draw it out which was upsetting because i had been pretty happy with the writing until these past two episodes -- it felt like pointless conflict a lot of the time. it just felt.. idk, hollow to me? as i mentioned i do enjoy what he said in his confession, but if he had been able to articulate his feelings at that dinner i'd have probably given this closer to a 10. felt like the only one with (unforced) character growth was bora.

guess i may be alone in not loving this ending but that's fine, everyone has different opinions. i did like his confession when it finally happened but it just seemed like if she hadn't given him an ultimatum he would have been exactly the same as he was in his previous relationship. i wish it had been different but i have seen worse endings so i'm not too upset with it!

this is almost an essay LOL i didn't realize i had written so much till i was done.
i have not been a fan of the past few episodes, which is sad because i loved the whole show apart from the last two episodes -- even ones people said dragged. maybe i had hoped for things the writer never had in mind but i felt unsatisfied by a few things character wise. i still definitely would recommend it to people who haven't seen it as it is an interesting and fun rom com with a surprising amount of depth sometimes; i had some issues with it as it was so close to being a nearly perfect drama for me but i don't think the issues will stop me from rewatching eps 1-12 again. i doubt i will ever watch the last two again though lol
i love bora, let me start off with that. one of my favorite FL's i've seen in a while. yes she had a few lows but she bounced back and became better from them. i am able to look past the few things i side-eyed her for the past 2 eps if i look at her overall growth throughout the show. in the beginning she was practically putting on a play for everyone, including her then boyfriend and even sort of herself -- about how her life was this magical fantasy with a great boyfriend and job, how she was a perfect and chic woman who wouldn't lose her cool over a man, and how well she knew men/relationships to becoming someone who was open about her struggles with her breakup and seeming so much more comfortable being who she is rather than the character she had been playing. she also went from scared of being the one who loves first, loving more than her partner, or 'losing' in the relationship to becoming someone who was sad but ultimately okay with her confession not being reciprocated as it was her choice to confess. i just am so happy with the direction that they chose for her character.
onto the next part, i'm a little sad bc i liked him so much from around episode 4 to the middle of episode 13. but suhyeok just genuinely had NO character development until the very end and it's frustrating. i don't need or expect him to gush he loves bora every 5 minutes as that is not who he is and it would have been very out of character for him to do so (that is kind of why the ending felt out of place when he suddenly was able to write a book about how he loved her. like is this the same guy?) all i wanted was him being able to care about her enough to say "i like you too" after she worked up the courage to confess. it seemed like they had developed such a strong bond over the middle episodes i didn't expect him to still be unable to say it (especially after that is what ruined his last relationship and he was torn up about it.. if he cares about bora, work on being able to do it right this time!!) i'm not a fan of him having to basically read her mind (her book's draft) to decide -- she already told him during her confession he was the one she wanted and was always herself around. i'm confused if he didn't say it back because he didn't fully trust what she had told him, if it was his pride like bora said, or his stupid thinking that he was getting in the way of her and her ex's 'happy ending.'
i love bora as a FL, however i do not love how she would not just tell her ex to get out of her life when he tried to come back. i can excuse a dinner to say "goodbye, thank you for the past few years, but never talk to me again." i have been pleasantly surprised by how real this show is in some ways but i don't know anyone who would continue to give ANY of their time and energy to an ex who said horrible things to them -- and that they had already gotten over! but to give a small praise for the show being realistic again in my opinion, bomi being sympathetic while bora was going through her breakup and then when bora is better returning to her old self in some ways seems much closer to real life than that event having changed her personality. at first i was annoyed how she treated bora the past few eps but when i think about it that is just who she is (+ the pregnancy and hormones could be a factor but i think it is more likely just who she is) i am a bit neutral on her but leaning more towards the liking side bc she cares and is there when it counts, plus that scene of her crying when she couldn't get bora to open the bathroom door sticks in my mind and had me crying for so long. you can tell she does genuinely love and care about her sister from her actions, she just isn't always likeable but i like the consistency her character usually had.
i think i'd give this a 8.5, which for me means i enjoyed it a lot but found it lacking in one way or another. unfortunate the lacking part happened in the last 2 eps or it may have been a 9.5 for me which is only my top ~15 dramas. however as i said i definitely do recommend it though!

i don't know, in my opinion the drama did what it was supposed to -- it's a romcom and i felt like a lot of it was poking fun at tropes and doing some differently. it isn't my favorite by any means, but if you want something that is easy to watch and can't find anything else i'd recommend this.
comments about the FL and how it was annoying she wouldn't confess.. like episode 1 or 2 it is discussed how even when she thought her crush liked her back and she had no bad past experiences with confessing she STILL got nervous and decided not to more than once. why do they expect her to go out of character and confess to the ML after having 2 bad experiences in trying to do so? i figured we'd be in for a long ride -- i think why it felt so long is the ML was so obvious about his feelings from early on . i had been watching the first few episodes as i did some stuff and forgot where i was, and based on his behavior i expected it would be episode 6 or 7.. nope, it was episode 3 lol and the kiss that happened really early on. he also was a walking green flag who clearly had feelings, but she acted as if it was impossible for it to happen between them. i like tian xi wei and have been putting this off but i'm glad i watched it. don't think i'll rewatch but i got what i expected out of it so i'm not mad at it

i so wish i could forget this show and rewatch it again. probably my favorite youth/school drama i have seen, and even though both leads are rookies they played their parts so well! the ML is adorable, his smile made me so happy and the FL has such a great personality and is so pretty like i'd fall in love w her too!!

finding another drama like this may be hard. however, i do recommend pretty much any of the dramas on my watchlist (https://kisskh.at/list/1xrmR0w3) that are an 8 or above, and you may like some of the ones rated lower too as it all comes down to personal taste. another drama that made me emotional i guess was Pinocchio, but from my memory it wasn't the main couple that made me cry like in this drama but rather the family bonds. an underrated drama i just recently watched that was really good was 'salon de nabi' (both are on the list.) hope this helps, sorry i can't give you a more specific answer!!

no love triangles. i guess you could say each of the couples had a break up but they make up so quickly (within an episode or 2 at most) that it isn't frustrating and both happened for reasons i could totally understand. i really enjoyed it

this drama was so great. i loved how it took different stories we had seen before and made them their own. ML (in my mind, ML is mooyul) is in no way perfect but i still really like him, and i love the FL though some may find her frustrating. side characters are great, some of them annoying but most of them are just so fun to watch and root for. i wish this drama had been aired as it was supposed to so more people knew about it it's so good

this will forever be my favorite drama i think. yes, there is things that could have been cleared up by talking about the past earlier but the point of the show in my opinion is that these two were fated to be together. even without knowing that they had known e/o in the past they fell for each other all over again when they are 30. they both had their time 'stopped', seori physically and woojin emotionally. that is one of the reasons they are so good together, both of them are incredibly mature in some ways but immature in other ways due to their past trauma. i remember crying the first time i watched this when they were on the bus together and woojin started singing in front of everyone. seori really helped him open himself up and become who he was always meant to be if the accident hadn't happened. seeing heesoo and woojin's sister's reaction to woojin's change is one of my favorite things about this show. i love how heesoo knew from early on it was because of seori. it was so bittersweet when seori found out the reason woojin had been living like that was because of her and his guilt. that is why i love the scene when they are on the bridge in episodes 13/14 and seori is explaining to him how the accident was tragic but would have happened to her even if they hadn't spoken that day.. no matter how many times i watch this it makes me just as emotional as it did on my first watch. chan is such a sweetheart, one of the best SML's i can think of (though he was mainly a SML only in his mind lmao.) to people calling him annoying.. he is literally a teenager in the show experiencing his first love. AHS played his part very well and i never found him annoying at all. jennifer's backstory makes me cry every time too. i don't think i'd change anything about this drama i love it that much. interesting and enjoyable side characters, heartwarming plot, amazing leads, incredible acting from the entire cast, the right amount of comedy/sadness.. i just love it.

i'm so 50/50 on how he reacted when she was worried about only her friends. like, i understand both sides -- he has been trying to get her attention and i think he knows she is interested but for her own reasons won't commit. if there wasn't that strange instance of him showing up when the baby was there i wouldn't have questioned how he reacted at all and would have understood him. but because of that i'm like okay he is a little weird.. if he is some kind of stalker or obsessed with her i assume he will immediately accept jigu's confession but i hope he won't. however i have a feeling he will as this season they don't seem to be a focus and there is only 2 eps left.

my only guess so far that would make him not a weirdo is if sieun/jo yuri's character had somehow talked to ji gu that day w/ the baby and then told wooju. it's been shown that sieun has been calling ji gu so i wondered if maybe later, it will show that she is the one who told him about it. my only question then would be how did sieun know where ji gu lived so it doesn't really fit, i just love yoon shi yoon and want him to be a good guy so i'm trying to rationalize it lmao

i do not like what jiyeon did at all or even understand her reasoning. like, she is lucky ji gu put up with it for as long as she did.. i can understand wanting to test your friends love interests but like the director said is it even her place to do that? especially when she never even told ji gu why she was doing it? and if she were worried about her friend spending less time with her bc she got a boyfriend, is she not just speeding up the process by being horrible to her friend? was she going to sabotage every guy who came around ji gu until she got married herself and then didn't care anymore or what? i'm glad sohee wasn't okay with it either and finally said she had chosen a side in this argument, even if she was a little harsh it was deserved because jiyeon really went too far. i hope mr nice paper doesn't end up accepting the confession right away and they take a bit more time to get to know each other, but i also don't fully trust him yet so i think he might. i still am a little weirded out by how he showed up at their house and had heard about the baby they were taking care of w/o ji gu ever telling him about it.. oh and also jiyeon had made ji gu so anxious the day before, they never really made up and then she comes to ruin her date. like the slap was deserved and i was nodding when it happened. i'd have been just as angry as ji gu.

said i'll watch when i finished finals.. nope. they are next week but i could not wait anymore and binged it in a day, no sleep just so i could lol. i love them so much, i'm gonna rewatch soon my heart :( they are so wholesome.. i want more devoted to her as long as she will take him, once she does never letting go ml's like YZ and cute bubbly fl's like LW who also have good EQ and IQ. i just love them and their journey together and the last 10 or so episodes had me grinning and replaying parts so much. i actually laughed at a lot of the scenes throughout the show which i only do if i am really enjoying a show, the characters were great, and the 3rd prince went from someone i hated to one of my favorites by the end. i can't recommend it enough

once my finals end i am binge watching this, i'm so excited. this is a pairing i never expected but from what i've seen they look so good together and the reviews i've read have been great. hopefully the ending matches up so i can go into it all positively !!

i will agree with one comment below though and it is what annoyed me first time i watched, there is a lot of repetition. waiting for gi seok's dumb*ss to give up was SOO annoying lol and tbh i don't think he ever really did cuz he was still lowkey looking depressed on the date in the last episode. also, both fathers are terrible, ji ho and his dad are the only dad's that i didn't want to punch. the reasons i didn't like it as much first time i watched is what i listed above but when you get past that... the romance is so good. ugh, the sweetest scenes.. when she says she's gonna be a tough wife and he laughs a little and says he knows while still tearing up-- forget that, ALL the times he almost cries cuz of her (in a positive way.) the scene where his mom comes to his apartment after meeting jung in and he runs out when jung in texts him, his mom watching with a smile as they goof off while he walks her back.. when he drinks with his friends after promising her he won't and he gets on his knees but ends up making her laugh w how cute and charming he is, and the scene after that almost broke my fricken back button. how they always are laughing and have so much fun when they are together, their trust in one another, i was jealous for the first time wishing this was my relationship. and on the acting side, han jimin and jung haein truly seemed like a couple to me. the way they displayed skinskip, especially cuddling and kissing, seemed so realisitic to me. again, i could go on as i have more things i love, but i will stop here. UGH i love this show.

feel so empty now that i finished this rewatch. loved it SO much more the second time around as well, went from my ninth favorite to second in my watchlist. the negative things i remembered about this drama can be easily ignored and if you do so it is one of the sweetest romance's i've ever seen -- there was 7 or so scenes i spent like 15-20 mins rewatching (each.. like hitting the back space 10 times to watch the scene over again and again.. and i still am tempted to go back and watch them again after writing this) and i have never done stuff like that before, but this drama is just so good. both leads were amazing but i have to give it to han jimin who always made me sympathize with jung in even when she was not making the most morally correct decisions. i want to keep gushing about this drama, but if any of these reviews are making you wonder if you shouldn't watch, or you feel weird about the beginning, please give it a try until about episode 5-6. for me, i will be coming back to this drama way more often now when i want a pick me up. the stupid smile i had on my face often matched ji ho's whenever he saw jung in. i feel him though.

the kim jong kook iconic "of course" scene thrown in especially in that way had me ROLLING lmfao

this drama was insane. the first two episodes are so jarring and kind of boring at the same time, but from then on it kicks off and is both amazing and horrible all at once. i have never seen a drama that has left me so confused if i loved or hated it. i will just say, it is so out there i have to commend whoever came up with it. and the ACTING.. top tier from pretty much the entire cast. episode 7 fr had me shaking at the end with how well it was acted out. also, mini spoiler thats mainly just my own thoughts after watching the show -- jihyo and bora are gfs! love them!