mari

No offense, this was already answered in your previous posts. It was never a question of morality of the characters involved, but how it is conveyed (execution) in every scenes. The struggles and complexity of the characters have to make sense. This drama was clearly lacking in providing context and details due to episode constraint. But I understand that there are some people that does not require much for that to be explained. And that is okay.

Instead of repeatedly calling out those that did not like this drama, you might as well leave a comment on why future watchers should watch this drama despite the pointed out flaws. Just leave your counter-arguments on how it should still be watched despite the illogical business moves, lack of chemistry, dull scenes, and supbar writing.

You can't really control how people would score this drama. We all have different standards on what is good and what is terrible.

At the end of the day, those audience with discernment would not really rely on the overall score here. They would probably read on what particular aspect of this drama was not appreciated or what part of the drama is tolerable.

No, Hee Joo did not. Tae Oh is alone by the end, but it seems as though the director wanted the romance aspect to end up open ended to avoid backlash, I guess.

Did they end the filming before releasing the episodes because it feels like the ending was somehow changed or something?

Being cold and ruthless does not mean the character should be devoid of expression. She is just inexperienced, and the director also somehow picked bad shots of her to highlight.

Yeah. I think it is more plausible that Hye Won and Tae Oh are just on a break and will get back together in the future. I really think he only regards Hee Joo like a sister or a friend he cares for. And I am satisfied with that.

Don't want Hee Joo to be treated as second best because Hye Won will always be first for Tae Oh. He literally risked his plan just to be with Hye Won. And writers only made Hye Won contribute to all of Tae Oh's plan. It would not make sense that all that deep affection would be gone.

Honestly, with how things are executed in this drama, I am always confused.

She just decided to go on a long trip. She sent some updates to Tae Oh. I didn't want to construe that as something romantic though. Hope someone else can clarify again.

I thought it was Hye Won and Tae Oh pursuing their relationship more in the future. The last shots are the two of them together. I think he only regarded Hee Joo like a sister.

Tae Oh

Was there even a trigger warning for that? I just skimmed, haha.

I think the writers also got lazy on writing the ending. The pay-off is not that satisfying. But at least this torture ended.

Points:
1. Hee Joo went on a long trip somewhere. That's it.
2. Tae Oh is the impossible heir.
3. In Ha was jailed and committed suicide.
4. Chairman is alive. (Why was he so thankful that he would pass the company to Tae Oh again?)
5. Do not understand what happened with Hye Won (Why is she looking into the distance? Can someone explain her relevance at the end?)

Finally, we are free! Just skipped right through it. Nothing interesting happened.

One thing I am happy about it that Hee-Joo will do some soul-searching. She only appeared briefly. They did not make her a villain.

As for the rest of the characters, it is everything that everyone predicted. Although, I do not understand why, haha. Hope someone can summarize it again.

The preview for the last episodes is actually decent with just the two leads and Hee Joo.

There is definitely romance here—in the sense that it became the conflict of interest among the three leads. It's just unwelcomed. In fact, it's integral in the story.

Given that money is so accessible for them and they have this magical hacker, there was no need to infiltrate Kang Oh for a long time and perform this illogical business maneuvers.

Have you also seen her pouting scene in the mental ward? It kinda work as a comedic relief.

Her agency should be more discerning on the roles she could take next time.

Precisely. It would be funny if the writer was lurking here.

They should have provided a better establishing love line between Tae Oh and Hye Won.

Just him being supposedly entranced by her beauty and captivated by her determination is not enough reason for him to pine for ten years and suddenly risk everything. There was no good build up between the push and pull between them after the time skip. And there was no good reason to convince the audience that Tae Oh will ride or die for Hye Won. All that it shows us is that Tae Oh is a simp.

Foremost, it's the script. It had a great premise, but this show won't give you intrigue and politics it promised.

It only gives you questionable romance and character decisions.

Characters were written to be vague. But instead of thinking of a way to hook the audience with the mystery, it just became the writer's crutch to arbitrarily change the actions of the character to force a narrative.

No actual hardships for the main lead either. Everything works out in their favor.

It has really bad execution that it's so boring to watch. You will either get bored by this or frustrated.

Another thing that deterred the audience is the female lead. She is an inexperienced actress. It definitely sticks out throughout all the episodes and never improves. It's like you're just watching a person reading their line with zero emotions.

With respect to not getting gray area characters, it's definitely not that. It's more of how poorly written the characters were.

And relatively, this drama could be considered terrible due to the expectations it set. Most fans of both male leads highly anticipated this show. Furthermore, it is a big budget show. And it promised to deliver intrigue and politics. It's a disappointment to be given a subpar drama once it came out.

Anyway, there is no issue if you're already satisfied by the drama.

Just continue liking it and let the others trauma bond over it. Some are just pushing through this to support the other actors, and some might be carrying through for the sake of finishing it since they already started.