ponnu

ya absolutely... i never get when people say they get sls from swdbs.. for once the female lead let go off her childhood crush/first love and fell in love with the guy who treated her with respect and love.. guk do and bong soo had the childhood connection, rude guy-submissive girl, first love thing going which normally happens b/w main leads in kdrama..

exactly.. the second lead isnt a second lead if the female lead falls for him at the end.. i guess the only exception is the king loves but the story mainly focuses only on the male lead..

swdbs should be the last drama to have 2nd lead syndrome.. except for the character is played by jisoo there is no explanation for having SLS.. he was rude and bossy towards the female lead from the start and took her for granted.. it is one of the few times the girl chose the guy who treats her right.. in a typical kdrama world guk doo would have been the male lead and min-min the second lead..

i have watched 10 seasons of friends for times i dont even remember..

the one cliche i hate the most is how the 2nd female lead is most of the times the selfish bitchy one.. on one hand 2nd male leads are the epitome of kindness and selflessness and on other hand, the 2nd female leads are the selfish, self-centered bitchy ones..
if she is the ex of the male lead then most likely she is the one who left him but when the ML decides to move on she comes back to claim him back like he is some kind of object she used to own..
it doesn't matter that most of the times the 2nd female leads are rich, educated and has a successful career, all that matters to these girls is the male lead. they crush their self-respect with their own high heels and goes after the ML even after multiple rejection and humiliation.

1. the length of the drama should be based on the genre of the drama.. like if a drama is purely a suspense thriller then it should be of 12 episodes like 365:repeat the year, i guess even rom-coms should be 12-14 episodes long.. most of the 16-20 episode long rom-coms end up being draggy in the 2nd half and at times have a rushed ending as well.. family dramas or multiple genre dramas or slice of life dramas which needs a slow pace at the start and historical dramas based on real personalities should be the only ones with 16-20 episodes or more..

2. the 2nd lead from swdbs dont deserve the FL as he himself ruined his chance with her.. he was the typical alpha male who thinks women needs to be protected and was always screaming at bong soo.. it was his fault that he never saw how do bong soo felt for him when literally everyone around her knew it.. swdbs is one drama where the male lead deserved the girl..

also, most of the times the second male lead is shown to be too good only to gain sympathy from the audience and most of them fall in love with the FL even after knowing she already loves someone else.. the only kdramas i felt the 2nd lead deserved better was school 2015 and reply 1988.. i watched both knowing the end and still felt bad for the 2nd ML.

3. hate fish kiss. thankfully nowadays kdramas have good kissing scenes.. dont remember watching any fish kiss in recent kdramas

4. as long as the childhood connection helps in moving the story forward i dont mind it.. i guess the childhood connection from wwwsk was unnecessary.. it contributed very less to the main story and except for the fact that the ML had a soft corner for the FL because of their childhood connection, it did nothing.. same with shopping king louis..
iotnbo childhood connection is understandable considering they both lived in the same town..
i guess most of the times kdrama uses the childhood connection even though its irrelevant to the story is just to show that the leads are destined to be together.. destiny and fate are one of the biggest cliches in kdrama..

5. breaking up and getting back together is a universal cliche of rom-com genre.. its not just limited to kdramas.. product placement as long as it dont ruin the flow of the drama is fine like them dinning at subway or dominos..
you forgot amnesia..

from shahrukh khan to aamir khan to ranveer singh and varun dhawan almost all top stars have done songs shirtless or muscle revealing shirts.. srk did dard-e-disco and its purely an item song dedicated to his female fans.. tiger shroff might have done more shirtless scenes than with shirt..

people think the accomplice is the ML and he was aware of his father's crimes.. one of the main reason is to clear his name.. then its the duty of the police to find any culprit regardless of how old the crime is esp when similar cases are happening..

I am talking about the coversation he had with his daughter at the restaurant after he made her apologize to her classmates..
I don't remember the ep no..
This scene and ep 16 are two different scenes..

He admitted to jiwon that he was being manipulative in ep 16 and he also admitted to his daughter on why he made her say sorry and even told her that next time if she does something wrong nobody will doubt her..

he was being manipulative in both the scenes.. he said he forgave the man only to make him feel more guilty and confess the truth.. he didnt had any consideration towards that guy.. he manipulated to get what he wants.. thats why ji won had it enough and decided to end it with him coz only he can tell whether he is lying or being sincere..
he didnt made his daughter apologize coz he didnt want to create bigger issues b/w the parents.. he did that so that his daughter wont be suspected again when the toy disappears.. after that he took the toy and dumped it.. this time no one will question or doubt his daughter for the disappearance of the toy.. he was teaching a 6 yr old child to be maniplative.. thats very twisted..
also kids fight and the other kid is also just a 6 yr old and taking away her toy was not a cool move.. he did that as a revenge and someone with a normal mind wont do such things to another child..

emotional quotient..

the last 2 episodes didnt add up to the initial episodes and i dont feel satisfied after watching it like other suspense thrillers..
they could have easily shown jea han exposing the bad guys and the trio has a happy ending.. it kind of dragged a little in b/w.. it should have been 12-14 episodes instead of 16..

she clearly is a good and responsible mother and knows her daughter very well.. thats the reason why she stood up when her daughter was wrongly accused by the mother of the other child.. she also taught her daughter to be good and straightforward and didnt tell her to apologize when she is not at fault.. she didnt even once doubted her daughter could be wrong because she knows her daughter isnt capable of lying or doing something like she is accused of.. ji won also taught her daughter to respect and love her grandparents even though they never respected her or accepted the daughter.. she clearly spends enough time with her to know about her daughter and teaches her good morals..

hyunsoo loves and takes care of the daughter more but he clearly isnt the good influence she needs in her life because he was teaching her to be manipulative.. he forced her to apologize to the mother and classmate only coz if his daughter does something wrong the next time no one will question her and he even taught her that.. he dont care if his daughter does something bad, he was teaching her to get away with it.. he even took the toy of the other child and dumped it.. the other child is also just a child.. it was her mother that was being problematic.. ji won saw 2 children fighting as something normal whereas hyunsoo and the other mother took it personally and got themselves involved in it.. ji won clearly was a better parent out of the 3.. the other mother is shown as a housewife and she clearly isn't a better mother than jiwon.. so being with your kid 24x7 isn't a criteria for being a better parent.. its the values and teaching that you insert in them that matters and jiwon clearly knows how to do it..

hyunsoo at the start clearly wasn't capable of teaching her to differentiate good and bad because he himself wasn't aware of it.. so its obvious that all this was taught by jiwon and her mother..

a lot of fathers miss the first word or first steps of their children.. will their parenting skills be at question just because they missed all of that? why is ji won's parenting skills being questioned just because she isn't as involved in the daily activities of her daughter?

i hope you will be an epitome of forgiveness and grace when you find out that your husband and father of your child has been lying and manipulating you for 14 yrs and said never loved you even for a second and is also a murder suspect with a serial killer father..

will you still do all of that if your husband is perfectly capable of doing all that like hyungso? you clearly have to do all that because you yourself said your husband is not perfect at it and its tiresome to handle both..
you will let him handle the kid if he did everything perfectly esp if your work keeps you busy like jiwon.. she is a detective in the crime department and has to work around the clock.. she isnt an office employee with a 9 to 5 job where she can wake up at a fixed time and go to bed at a fixed time..
the father has equal responsibility towards the child and if he is willingly doing all that, then why should jiwon do it? its not that jiwon let him do it, he does it on his own and its also not like she has no attachment towards her child.. the daughter loves her a lot and thats why she excluded her father from her drawings and she never rebelled with her mother to meet her father even though she knew he didnt go for vacation.. she was a good mother and thats why the daughter chose to trust her even though she is more attached to her father..
cooking food, cleaning up the house and bed the kid is not the only criteria to be a good mother or a good wife.. if so then what is the criteria to be a good father or a good husband?
you need to think out of the patriarchal norms set by people.. will do hyung so be called a bad father if he was the one who has to work around the clock?

you are not extremely critical about drama, you are extremely critical about working women.. i am pretty sure no one would have questioned the absence of one parent in the day today life of a child if it was the father.. even though she wasnt there to take the daughter to the school or make her food, she clearly taught her good things.. she tried hard to make her daughter love her in-laws even though they were terrible to her and the daughter.. just because the man did what normally a woman does for their child doesnt mean the woman is a bad mother or bad wife.. it just means the husband knows what gender equality means.. he dont think doing house-hold things as something only women can do and she dont think force her husband to have a 9 to 5 job and let him pursue his hobby..
if the child didnt love her mother, she wouldnt have been considerate towards her and kept out her father who she loves the most from her drawing just so her mother wont cry..


she blindly trusted her husband for 14 long years and she comes to know he has been lying, manipulating and forged his identity for 14 yrs.. she handled all of that really well. did you forget the fact that he is a suspect to a murder and has psychological issues, on top of that she heard him saying he never loved her.. anyone with a brain wont try to provoke a person with psychological issues by directly confronting him and she had the brain.. even after the betrayal she gave him a benefit of doubt and didnt go by the evidences that proved him to be a killer.. she tried to find out the truth about him.. the least she could do is show her pend up frustration and she has every right to be angry with him..

just because he was perfect at looking after the daughter and doing the house-hold doesnt compensate for the fact that everything about him was a lie, starting from his name and family. forget married woman, will any woman handle the fact that the guy she loved lied about himself from the start? she still chose to trust his good behavior towards her and their daughter above the pile of lies he has said to her..

for someone who is so critical about dramas they watch you seems to turn a blind eye towards all the flaws of the ML and just bash the FL for literally nothing..

i like the way he talks back at his colleagues and manager at work..

JH didnt do anything and if that video gets out then her name will be cleared.. she was also unaware that someone recorded their convo.. we have to wait and watch whether the video will be a pro or con for her...
as for the rest of the staff, they hate her because they believe whatever is said by the other woman.. so if she gets exposed JH wont have any problem at the work place... it will be harder for the bitchy woman to work there as no one will believe her after that..

dont go by the electronics they use.. its probably product placement and they dont really care about when those products were launched..