Suddenly remember the winter-garden couple from Hospital Playlist, how the writer put subtle hint to their endgame,…
Do you really think the writing of this one will be as brillant as hospital playlist? Winter garden couple didn't had a 3rd angle and there were subtle hints that YYS kind of had a thing for winter from the start... Here dalmi shows no sign of any interest and all the hints and parallels are just there without any base. It's mainly there only for the audience to keep up the team dosan v/s team hjp alive till the end... Even after 3yrs dalmi isn't close enough with hjp to think he has a chance...
At this point the only thing I can hope for is dodal dating for few months and they realising that they are not meant to be... They both couldn't forget each other because they didn't get a proper closure... Then an open ending indicating something might happen b/w dalmi and hjp in the future... But then this is the typical cliched kdrama and I know what's gonna happen...
365:repeat the year only had 12episodes and there was no dragging...Memorist was also good...Dont know why these…
memorist could have been almost perfect like flower of evil if they cut short the episodes to 12-14 episodes... 16 episodes is the reason why they had to go with unnecessary twists... 365 was good as it is and what i like about these two is they didnt squeeze in unnecessary romance for the sake of it and concentrated on the main plot...
I haven't seen Suzy in anything else so don't know about her improvement but I found her quite average and I guess some fault lies on the way her character was written as well... There are scenes were it's hard to tell what exactly dalmi feels like when she kind of had a doubt on HJP and his similarities with the letter dosan, in 2-3 occassions she looks at him which a blank expression which I guess was supposed to be suspicious or curiosity or both... Even when hjp confesses to her at the restaurant she just sits there with a blank expression through out the scene... She is pretty decent when she has to convey the emotions through dialogues but when it comes to convey the emotions through expressions she falls flat.... Then the chemistry b/w the leads are not that great but that's because of the writing of the love story b/w them I guess...
Saha didn't had to expression much emotions in most of the scenes and her overall styling and dialogues goes with her character... So more than half the job was done there... She didn't had much to do performance wise.. so there is nothing much to say...
Injae as a character is strong and since she didn't had too much screen time her character didn't do anything stupid like saha falling for chulsan...I guess the only advantage of having lesser screen time was the makers didn't had time to ruin her character... Kim hana did a good job with whatever she got...
I guess the actress playing the grandma did the best acting out of the female characters... Her scenes with hjp without a doubt is the highlight of the drama and the only time I cried was when she and hip was onscreen together... From her acting to the character everything was nicely done..
Acting wise this drama is quite average... Like none of the actors were bad (except yongsan crying scene which was cringe-worthy) but except for ksh and grandma no one gave outstanding performances either... No one ruined a character by their acting and I guess that's pretty decent...the characters were ruined by the writing and it's not the actor's fault....
10 yrs later young girls who watched this will realize what young fans of boys over flowers realized now about…
Gu junpyo is like one of the most toxic guys out there.. dosan is literally a saint in front of him... Cannot belive there was a time girls wanted guys like gu junpyo as bf... I neve got the appeal of that character...
First post here. I find it fun to review and I understand the frustration regarding HJP and NDS.Myself I quite…
I haven't heard of the novel but it seems like the writer took inspiration from the novel... I guess if she was gonna make dosan the male lead she should have made him more appealing to the audience... I guess it's kind of obvious that dalmi won't end up with HJP...
its a good drama just some of the so called "HJP fans" have tried to portray NDS as bad guy and blame writers…
The same can be said to dosan's character.. if njh wasnt this tall good-looking guy even dalmi wouldn't have given him a second look and she would have went home and burned those letters... It's kdrama, everyone is good-looking... JCW already played a character similar to dosan( a literal living Buddha) and his own fans bashed him for trying out something different...
its a good drama just some of the so called "HJP fans" have tried to portray NDS as bad guy and blame writers…
Well park seo joon played the lead in hwarang and park hyung sik stole the show... this happened before swdbs and before phs became a popular actor... Park seo joon also played the lead in she was pretty and siwan's character was more liked than him even though siwan isn't even that great of an actor...
Its like all the parallels and metaphors have been for nothing. I don't mind Dalmi ending up with Dosan I simple…
Those parellel and metaphors were either there for the makers to continue giving hope to hjo fans and make them watch it the end or were unintentional and hjp shippers read too much into those scenes... The former is my bet... They were just making the hopes up for hjp fans so that they won't drop the drama... Everyone will click on startup Netflix page every time a new episode is uploaded only to see what's happening to hjp... Promotional strategies the makers use to keep the viewership up
Is it only me or people can't understand you can't force love. Yes HJP has been there for her, helped her and…
Yes one cannot force love and that's exactly the reason why the audience cannot connect with the love b/w dalni and dosan which looked forced... There is no depth to their feelings... From dodal falling in love to HJP loosing his chances everything looks forced and unnatural... The audience should feel that dodal had something deep enough for them to not be able to move on from each other for 3yrs... They basically knew each other only for 3months and for more than half the time he was pretending to be someone he is not and she was going on about the dosan from the letter...
I will give you a perfect example... In strong woman do bong soon, the FL was in love with her childhood friend for more than 10yrs but the writers made her move on and fall in love with the male lead in a very logical way and their relationship also had depth... That's how you show a girl falling out of love with someone and then fall in love with someone else... In this process none of the 3 characters were butchered and even the off timing b/w her friend and her were done smoothly without making the viewers frustrated... Everything went with the flow and none of the characters were butchered in the process... Everyone was right in their own place and no one was to be blamed...
This is not the case with startup... They basically forced a love triangle, then compromised on the growth of the FL for it, wasted the potential of a character like HJP and the list goes on...
No clueee. Plot wise totnt is way better than start up but I am not feeling the chemistry between the main leads…
i think the chemistry is fine considering they dont put too many forceful romantic scenes and its definitely better than the chemistry b/w the startup leads... yeon and jiah looked like a couple in the last 2 episodes and the kissing scene in the bed was pretty hot for kdrama standards... they have the passable chemistry that most kdrama leads have... not bad but not too good either...
In Jae was really good in episode 14. love her scenes.
the way she went inside the morning group and insulted her step-bro and walked out like a queen... AMAZING... no matter how much dalmi whins she can never be as amazing as her sister...
this is one drama were all the mass scenes are reserved for the second leads... no wonder HJP and WIJ looks more like the leads even with limited screentime
Suddenly ratings for all the airing dramas have gone down. Dodosolsollalasol, startup, now nine-tailed fox also.
not just the airing dramas, iotnbo fell from 9.2 to 9, hospital playlist from 9.2 to 9.1.. same with flower of evil and a lot others... esp the popular ones
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Winter garden couple didn't had a 3rd angle and there were subtle hints that YYS kind of had a thing for winter from the start... Here dalmi shows no sign of any interest and all the hints and parallels are just there without any base. It's mainly there only for the audience to keep up the team dosan v/s team hjp alive till the end... Even after 3yrs dalmi isn't close enough with hjp to think he has a chance...
At this point the only thing I can hope for is dodal dating for few months and they realising that they are not meant to be... They both couldn't forget each other because they didn't get a proper closure... Then an open ending indicating something might happen b/w dalmi and hjp in the future... But then this is the typical cliched kdrama and I know what's gonna happen...
savage injae.... she shares the same feelings as the audience regarding dodal breakup... lol
365 was good as it is and what i like about these two is they didnt squeeze in unnecessary romance for the sake of it and concentrated on the main plot...
Then the chemistry b/w the leads are not that great but that's because of the writing of the love story b/w them I guess...
Saha didn't had to expression much emotions in most of the scenes and her overall styling and dialogues goes with her character... So more than half the job was done there... She didn't had much to do performance wise.. so there is nothing much to say...
Injae as a character is strong and since she didn't had too much screen time her character didn't do anything stupid like saha falling for chulsan...I guess the only advantage of having lesser screen time was the makers didn't had time to ruin her character... Kim hana did a good job with whatever she got...
I guess the actress playing the grandma did the best acting out of the female characters... Her scenes with hjp without a doubt is the highlight of the drama and the only time I cried was when she and hip was onscreen together... From her acting to the character everything was nicely done..
Acting wise this drama is quite average... Like none of the actors were bad (except yongsan crying scene which was cringe-worthy) but except for ksh and grandma no one gave outstanding performances either... No one ruined a character by their acting and I guess that's pretty decent...the characters were ruined by the writing and it's not the actor's fault....
Memorist was also good...
Dont know why these two are so underrated...
I guess if she was gonna make dosan the male lead she should have made him more appealing to the audience...
I guess it's kind of obvious that dalmi won't end up with HJP...
JCW already played a character similar to dosan( a literal living Buddha) and his own fans bashed him for trying out something different...
Park seo joon also played the lead in she was pretty and siwan's character was more liked than him even though siwan isn't even that great of an actor...
Everyone will click on startup Netflix page every time a new episode is uploaded only to see what's happening to hjp...
Promotional strategies the makers use to keep the viewership up
I will give you a perfect example... In strong woman do bong soon, the FL was in love with her childhood friend for more than 10yrs but the writers made her move on and fall in love with the male lead in a very logical way and their relationship also had depth... That's how you show a girl falling out of love with someone and then fall in love with someone else... In this process none of the 3 characters were butchered and even the off timing b/w her friend and her were done smoothly without making the viewers frustrated... Everything went with the flow and none of the characters were butchered in the process... Everyone was right in their own place and no one was to be blamed...
This is not the case with startup... They basically forced a love triangle, then compromised on the growth of the FL for it, wasted the potential of a character like HJP and the list goes on...
I hate this kind of korean game where the ones that fail don't get to eat...
yeon and jiah looked like a couple in the last 2 episodes and the kissing scene in the bed was pretty hot for kdrama standards... they have the passable chemistry that most kdrama leads have... not bad but not too good either...
no matter how much dalmi whins she can never be as amazing as her sister...
this is one drama were all the mass scenes are reserved for the second leads... no wonder HJP and WIJ looks more like the leads even with limited screentime