Not everyone would be okay with kissing their colleagues, so I don’t think actors should be penalised for how well they can carry out a kiss scene. But I can understand that can be uncomfortable to watch them being uncomfortable when their character is meant to be having a romantic moment.
As for her acting in outside of those scenes, well she’s not insufferable but not great either. How well she’ll perform in her upcoming drama we can only find out after. So until then, let’s reserve judgment and hope for improvement and a good script which can allow the actors to grow and the audience to like them.
aww thank you thank you ;DI probably put more thought in this review than the writer did with the script xD
Nah she didn’t even do that. If she did, she’d have found a witty way to insert the various products. This was just normal ads interrupting the screentime.
20...last time I remember that is a consenting adult. Stop projecting this bullshit. Its a show. Drama. Fiction.…
I love time-travel too. There was a period where I looked up many fics that dealt with characters “reliving” their life in a sense.
So I understand some of your concerns. There were some authors who ended up unintentionally painting their characters as creepy manipulative pedophiles - middle aged time travellers becoming kids again and trying to hook up with the innocent mini versions of their future lovers and sometimes manipulating them into a relationship though, out of ‘love’, regret and longing.
With this drama, I think I can give it a pass for these reasons.
• He didn’t have a relationship with her in the old timeline. He barely even knew her. So whatever they build in this timeline, it will be new and without expectations of the ghost of a past erased relationship. At the least he will not be manipulating her into dating him because he loves another, older version of her.
•He really seems to not care about romance. He didn’t have an interest during his old life either and neither in this second chance. He doesn’t have time for girls and relationships and is more concerned with his chaebol family politics and grand revenge plots. So it’s going to be a long time before a real relationship blooms between them even if it starts right now. There’ll more one-sided crushes, some sexual tension, a few hormonal moments but not a real relationship and by then she will have grown older, more mature and not equivalent to a child/prey vs his 40 year old (miserably single) ahjusshi brain.
Even if he still holds the memories and personality of his old life, I still believe that his younger age hormones do have an affect on him because he’s not just spending a few moments or hours in the past in his younger body but growing up with it again.
The DRAMA is not the shit. The problem is people need the concentration and a brain to understand this drama (…
LOL Instagram followers has absolutely no connection to acting skills.
On the other hand, visuals have a direct impact on popularity. Young and gorgeous famous people get more famous, older or less attractive actors, even if far more skilled, simply don’t garner as huge a fan base even if the audience likes their acting.
I remember dropping Ghost because of how horrible the plot was and I couldn't look at the main male lead's face…
Considering the man’s charges and history, I don’t think Lee KY is capable of playing a good guy. Or people don’t really care to cast him in a good guy role when someone else with a better reputation and better acting can do it, plus he does his standard version of the bad guy well
Also dig the through the OCN folder for anything that catches your interest and you haven’t yet seen.
Oh it’s just a Korean cable tv channel’s name - the sister channel to the TvN group
They primarily broadcast crime related dramas with none or little romance. Bad guys (which has more than 1 season and a movie) and 38 task force are also OCN dramas.
20...last time I remember that is a consenting adult. Stop projecting this bullshit. Its a show. Drama. Fiction.…
If he had just transported back in time maybe. But he actually lived out being a real kid again. Yes he has his memories from his past life but dude went through puberty again (and may also serve in the military for a ‘second time’). His physical body is of a 20 year old, his hormones have been that of a child for all the years he’s reliving his life, he’s been in this timeline long enough to genuinely grow attached to his new family, new brother, new father, even his old identity is also only 20 right now…
At this point he is no longer 40, nor a normal 20 year old. He’s just a guy with memories of his past life. And doesn’t look all that interested in knocking up some girl lol. She’s the same age as him in both timelines, she just doesn’t have special memories of a past life. There’s likely to be more time jumps, you don’t expect them to stay in college forever do you ? And in case they do get romantically involved she’s definitely going to be aware that he’s not normal. Even his brother knows about his future jokes.
She's the screenwriter of Crash Landing on You. I'm pretty confident this is gonna be good.
There is plenty of cheese in CLOY as well. But the excellent actors, real life couple chemistry and the topic of North/South make it a great watch. Also people don’t often expect too much from their romcoms.
If she’s trying out a new genre or fantasy element or unconventional style of writing, which I suspect by the title and the decision to cast an actor that she has already worked twice with before (My love from the star, Producers, +He did a cameo in CLOY)…
(I also wonder if this has anything to with her other older dramas that are similarly titled “Queen of ___”)
I think it’s best to have low or moderate expectations and then be wowed when the time comes than be seriously let down from high expectations.
He has a decent amount of screen time as a side character.
He is the second male lead. But not in terms of kdrama love triangle crap. He has his own love line with a side recurring character. His character in Do do sol sol la la did nothing for me but I loved him here (although I personally didn’t ship him with his love interest)
It's extremely clear that it's not your genre and nothing in the drama is false. People in villages are kind of…
Likewise it’s nice to a have a healthy discussion😊
I have sometimes lurked on mdl for years but only bothered to make an account recently, so yeah I’ve no idea how long I’ll stick to the 1or10 rating. (Hopefully mdl will switch to 5 stars? No? Okay…)
I am taking into consideration overall value of drama vs what made me rate it low. Perhaps some ratings I may only change if the overall rating/response changes. Some I’ll take down just as quick as I uploaded them in a fit of annoyance.
Some others, okay… the overall drama may be a good watch with top notch acting, OSTs, layered characterisation, etc…. but they have a key element that sends a wrong message to the society. Those are forever going to be a zero, no matter how well made and/or enjoyable it is. Like Ye Ji’s drama is a red flag from the actual title itself (it’s okay? to keep being a psycho?) or the many cold manipulative abusive MLs that are never called out on (women already have a tendency to think they’ll be ‘the special one’ or “their” bad guy will be ‘different’ or especially that they can “fix” their broken bad guy if they just give enough love and ‘understanding’). So yeah some dramas can be enjoying to watch or even be a guilty pleasure but I care more about the effect on our real life society that media plays a role in than some drama.
sorry but i couldn't take the leader of this cult seriously, who would trust an old man with platinum hair which…
If you come across some real life crazy missionary videos there’s some downright WTF happening where it’s hard to believe anyone is sane and this is actually happening.
You don’t necessarily need to be polished and charismatic to influence people these days or to lead cults.
whatever Sang Mi dad did was for his family but it was too much that i hate him
Worst dad ever. It’s better to not have a dad than have a parent like that.
He’s not a villain but a fool and it’s more dangerous to have a fool friend than an intelligent enemy.
As a character though he is a great inclusion because he represents the kind of thinking that leads people to joining these kinds of cults/religions/ideologies and hurting their children in trying ‘help’ them.
Loved your comment - Netflix in general has completely ruined Kdramas in my opinion, esp romcoms. It is filled…
Netflix in general has had a problem with misrepresenting anything that is not American and Americanising non-American dramas. Which means they lose their charm and appeal against trashy American entertainment, plus the local industry looses its footing. Asians really should stop chasing the Western world and not give into aggressive foreign investment.
At the end of the day, Netflix like any other big company, only cares about money and delivering their own agenda and ideology to the mass public.
It's extremely clear that it's not your genre and nothing in the drama is false. People in villages are kind of…
Going by OP’s high rated watchlist, I’ve only just started My Liberation Notes but there are definitely judgemental people around in that and When the weather is fine (my own current favourite) also has plenty of judgemental villagers (or other characters sometimes) in the background. So characters being judgemental isn’t a flaw in itself but how they are dealt with, balanced, their screentime and what they contribute to the show makes a great deal of difference.
So characters can be annoying if they don’t appear to add anything of value to the main plot or theme or serve any purpose other than to annoy viewers. Also how realistic any character or their actions appear. If they feel like props to the plot or just situated in place to appropriately ooh and aah instead of showing a bit of human psychology.
These are just general thoughts, I don’t have any strong opinions on the villagers of Cha Cha Cha. At times I liked a few of them, wasn’t really satisfied with how their arcs ended and at some moments they came across as props.
Something organic felt missing sometimes, feeling like we leap from characters constantly bickering, unable to stand each other’s presence to Kdrama romcom cringey lalaland.
As for her acting in outside of those scenes, well she’s not insufferable but not great either. How well she’ll perform in her upcoming drama we can only find out after. So until then, let’s reserve judgment and hope for improvement and a good script which can allow the actors to grow and the audience to like them.
Creepy either way.
I find this writer makes it reallllllllllllly hard to ship any of her primary romances.
So I understand some of your concerns. There were some authors who ended up unintentionally painting their characters as creepy manipulative pedophiles - middle aged time travellers becoming kids again and trying to hook up with the innocent mini versions of their future lovers and sometimes manipulating them into a relationship though, out of ‘love’, regret and longing.
With this drama, I think I can give it a pass for these reasons.
• He didn’t have a relationship with her in the old timeline. He barely even knew her. So whatever they build in this timeline, it will be new and without expectations of the ghost of a past erased relationship. At the least he will not be manipulating her into dating him because he loves another, older version of her.
•He really seems to not care about romance. He didn’t have an interest during his old life either and neither in this second chance. He doesn’t have time for girls and relationships and is more concerned with his chaebol family politics and grand revenge plots. So it’s going to be a long time before a real relationship blooms between them even if it starts right now. There’ll more one-sided crushes, some sexual tension, a few hormonal moments but not a real relationship and by then she will have grown older, more mature and not equivalent to a child/prey vs his 40 year old (miserably single) ahjusshi brain.
Even if he still holds the memories and personality of his old life, I still believe that his younger age hormones do have an affect on him because he’s not just spending a few moments or hours in the past in his younger body but growing up with it again.
On the other hand, visuals have a direct impact on popularity. Young and gorgeous famous people get more famous, older or less attractive actors, even if far more skilled, simply don’t garner as huge a fan base even if the audience likes their acting.
“of”가 missing 있어… “of”가 ㅠ.ㅠ
(“of” is missing)
They primarily broadcast crime related dramas with none or little romance. Bad guys (which has more than 1 season and a movie) and 38 task force are also OCN dramas.
He also looks far too old to be cosplaying a 20 year old just out of high school kid.
But they’re actors and this obviously isn’t a school drama and the plot requires all the cast to play a range of different ages across the timelines
He can really play abnormal kids really well.
At this point he is no longer 40, nor a normal 20 year old. He’s just a guy with memories of his past life. And doesn’t look all that interested in knocking up some girl lol. She’s the same age as him in both timelines, she just doesn’t have special memories of a past life. There’s likely to be more time jumps, you don’t expect them to stay in college forever do you ? And in case they do get romantically involved she’s definitely going to be aware that he’s not normal. Even his brother knows about his future jokes.
If she’s trying out a new genre or fantasy element or unconventional style of writing, which I suspect by the title and the decision to cast an actor that she has already worked twice with before (My love from the star, Producers, +He did a cameo in CLOY)…
(I also wonder if this has anything to with her other older dramas that are similarly titled “Queen of ___”)
I think it’s best to have low or moderate expectations and then be wowed when the time comes than be seriously let down from high expectations.
I have sometimes lurked on mdl for years but only bothered to make an account recently, so yeah I’ve no idea how long I’ll stick to the 1or10 rating. (Hopefully mdl will switch to 5 stars? No? Okay…)
I am taking into consideration overall value of drama vs what made me rate it low. Perhaps some ratings I may only change if the overall rating/response changes. Some I’ll take down just as quick as I uploaded them in a fit of annoyance.
Some others, okay… the overall drama may be a good watch with top notch acting, OSTs, layered characterisation, etc…. but they have a key element that sends a wrong message to the society. Those are forever going to be a zero, no matter how well made and/or enjoyable it is. Like Ye Ji’s drama is a red flag from the actual title itself (it’s okay? to keep being a psycho?) or the many cold manipulative abusive MLs that are never called out on (women already have a tendency to think they’ll be ‘the special one’ or “their” bad guy will be ‘different’ or especially that they can “fix” their broken bad guy if they just give enough love and ‘understanding’). So yeah some dramas can be enjoying to watch or even be a guilty pleasure but I care more about the effect on our real life society that media plays a role in than some drama.
You don’t necessarily need to be polished and charismatic to influence people these days or to lead cults.
It is funny though. But reality is funnier.
He’s not a villain but a fool and it’s more dangerous to have a fool friend than an intelligent enemy.
As a character though he is a great inclusion because he represents the kind of thinking that leads people to joining these kinds of cults/religions/ideologies and hurting their children in trying ‘help’ them.
At the end of the day, Netflix like any other big company, only cares about money and delivering their own agenda and ideology to the mass public.
I like this description of this drama being more of an average American chick flick rather than a Korean value production.
So characters can be annoying if they don’t appear to add anything of value to the main plot or theme or serve any purpose other than to annoy viewers. Also how realistic any character or their actions appear. If they feel like props to the plot or just situated in place to appropriately ooh and aah instead of showing a bit of human psychology.
These are just general thoughts, I don’t have any strong opinions on the villagers of Cha Cha Cha. At times I liked a few of them, wasn’t really satisfied with how their arcs ended and at some moments they came across as props.
Something organic felt missing sometimes, feeling like we leap from characters constantly bickering, unable to stand each other’s presence to Kdrama romcom cringey lalaland.