Kate

So my interpretation on the characters.

3 characters are rather set with their morals, goals, ambitions and plans: Yo Han, Sun Ah and Soo Hyun. Ga On is a bit all over the place, but I feel like that's the point.

Yo Han does shady things for his understanding of justice. He is on his revenge trip, but his morality "limits" his actions. He tries to cheat the system to get what he wants.

Sun Ah doing shady shit for power and control (might be also motivated by her sense of justice and trying to create a society she deems just, even if it's fueled by resentment). She wants to control the system and make it what she wants it to be.

Soo Hyun represent the normality - how the system should work. Doing what is just. She gets involved not because of her personal reasons, but because that's what she should do as a police - investigate the crimes. She cannot turn a blind eye to injustice.

Ga On knows the system does not work, but still tries to work within it, not approving of the shady schemes happening. But he is being swayed by different sides and we witness his journey to getting the answers and making his own judgements.

As for the romances and bromance. I love the chemistry Yo Han and Ga On have, but with Yo Han's story ain't possible to "ship" it. The strong connection is there coz Yo Han sees his dead brother in Ga On. They will form a strong friendship and partnership, but I can't see more.

Yo Han and Sun Ah - ain't no romance happening there. She is obsessed, Yo Han has no feelings for her. The tension is there, chemistry is awesome, but it's on the "testing your oponent" type of way.

I love Ga On and Soo Hyun. From the start it's obvious they both like each other, but Ga On is "denying" himself a chance to be with her, for whatever reason. As if them being happy is an unobtainable dream in a current reality.

I like first 3 seasons the best. The quality of production got better with each season, but it also became more predictable, the guests less funny and the contestants less talented/tone-deaf...

Duo Duo. But I honestly did not ship her with Fan Xian. They had massive BFFs energy for me.

As for Princess Agents, I actually liked Yuan Chun's arc a lot. How she was literally drove into madness coz her innocence was used against her over and over again. For me it was well written sub-plot. She was not a strong female character, she was a tragic one. While Wan'er was... well... nothing 🤣

I did not mind her acting, but the character was just poorly written, especially compared with literally any other female character in the show...
And I was not a fan of this childish romance... like falling in love coz she ate chicken? What is this? elementary school and boys liking a girl that is "not like other girls" lol

About the ending:

I love me well written open ending - this ain't that. I get that there will be season 2, that will explore the plot lines and conclude them BUT as a viewer I still want some type of closure for the 46 episodes I have seen, and I've got none. But here... they just kept opening new door with all the plot twists, not closing majority of them.

There was no climax to the story too. For me, the best seasonal shows are the ones that provide both finished stories for the separate seasons AND an overall plot linking all the seasons together that gets resolved at the end.

It's especially infuriating, taking into consideration season 2 was confirmed only months after season 1 finished airing, which leads me to believe it was more of a chance: if the drama gets popular it will get season 2, if not - we will not produce it. This level of open ending should be used ONLY if the production team is 100% sure they will be able to deliver another season.

YJ and SH friendship[ feels more fleshed out because it's better written, not because the directing focuses on it more.

They had to somehow fit SB as YJ romantic partner and main character but they failed into making her a stand alone well written character, so even the portray of her relationship with YJ suffers.

The directing itself if far more focus on the main couple and not the main friendship. There were episodes 70% focused on SB and YJ, and SH barely having any interaction with YJ.

I was not reading the webtoon at first too. I was only watching the show, and started reading the webtoon on a steady pace one episode ago. So my judgement does not come from comparing, coz for the majority of episodes I had nothing to compare to.

The drama does need to have love triangle and unreasonable behavior for it ot be romance driven. If a show has good 70% content center around the romance, and some characters existence literally has only romance behind them, it is a romance driven show. Does that mean it's only romance? No. But the romance between So Bin and Yeo Joon does take a center stage here.

I compared it to ordering one and getting something else coz that's what I've got: the synopsis does not match the content. For all the descriptions of the show from different website, the only one that even mentioned romance was viki, but even they failed coz it made it seem like it's gonna be between the main 2 characters. And yet, the drama is good 70% romance.

What many viewers expected was friendship, character development, overcoming trauma, healing, striving for better, but in the show all of this is overshadowed by the romance which is not even good, coz So Bin barely represents anything and exists mostly to be Yeo Joon's love interest.

Also, for someone who says there are more important things in life than complaining, I find it amusing how you decide to write a comment basically complaining about people complaining.

They don’t owe us anything < well that's wrong. It's their job and we are consumers. Would you be be like "the chef of this restaurant does not own me anything!" after you've got a burger when you ordered sushi?

Also... if you are watching it on paid streaming service... they do get the money from it and they are profiting of it 🤣

Putting aside webtoon, many people have problem with it outside of the fact it's not like the source material. I only started reading it good few episodes in the show, so I initially went with no bias... still found it mediocre. Had great beginning, first two episodes... and after that it became yet another romance slice of life when it could have been more.

Glad you are enjoying it, but let people voice their criticism if they want to, instead of saying they should stop complaining.

Well, the biggest mistake she made recently was following a guy into the university room alone after the whole Yeo Joon being beaten up. Like, the idea she should feel safe coz it was around the university is just dumb, coz Yeo Joon was also beaten up in the university, in front of many people.

Like, I'm fine with making her a main character, but... make her main character 🤣 They can't just give her more screen time but don't put actual content and story in it.

If they want a stand alone drama they should have made a new script and not try to profit out of an already existing fandom of a webtoon, but then change the story to such an extend it hardly resembles the original work 🙃

OR how about adapting one of the slice of life romance driven webtoon, there are many. I just don't get the mindset of adapting a webtoon that is not focused on romance, and then change the story so it's driven by romance. Like... what's the point? Just make an adaptation of rom-com webtoon if that's what you want.

I wrote long ass comment about it under spoiler down below, if you care to know 🤣

Overall, majority of plot lines are underdeveloped coz romance took over, by episode 10 we should see more character development from So Bin (especially since she had a looot of screen time), but there is just little here and there and even now she still makes the same mistakes. Majority of her and every female character's point is to be love interest for the male leads. There is more, but I don;t want to just rewrite what I already wrote earlier.

well, glad you could relate to what I wrote 🤣
I was so excited and loved it so much for the first few episodes.
but after that... it just got more and more messy

pretty sure they will go far more chill and predictable: family issues
He said he was never complimented by his parents, so he simply lacks love. He looks for validation and appreciation among strangers and friends, hence he is always nice and helpful.

He will slowly discover that it does not make him happy, thanks to Tae Kyung, who is straightforward, and slowly helps Da On open up more and be a bit more "selfish", like the scene in the cafeteria: Da On was acting as if nothing happened when he soup landed on him, asking if Shin Woo is okay, while Tae Kyung stood up for him and demanded apology.

So given rom-coms Da On might fall for Tae Kyung coz of that, and we will have the love triangle - Da On, Tae Kyung, Shin Woo, and Da On for the first time going where his feelings lead him, and not just giving up out of fear he might hurt or offend someone.

And then Shi Woon might end up with So Hee

I can't believe I wrote all of this 🤣

I'm not gonna lie, I heard it quite a few times on mdl 😂

"An alpha male is a man who takes charge, one who imposes his will on others, not the other way round. An alpha male intimidates, he's unquestionably in charge, no matter what the situation." from the google, coz it's faster to copy than to type it out hahahaha

1. The whole point of manipulating someone is not forcing them, but making them do what you want them to do, even if it's out of their character or not something they want/enjoy 😂

2. He is open about being playboy. One does not exclude the other. Also, no one was angry at him kissing Na Bi that time, people were annoyed with Na Bi kissing him so your point is not valid.

3. Not necessarily manipulation in a strong sense of that world, but it is part of his game. If he cared about her feeling uncomfortable etc,. he would not take her clubbing and then smiled when he was clearly not enjoying herself in the middle of the dance floor covering her ears.

4. He was NOT okay with getting close to the younger guy. That's why he acted all possessive in the art studio where the 3 of them met.

5. That is too extreme of a situation for me to call it a manipulation, so I would agree with you here and not with other people. Just because overall he plays games and is manipulative, does not mean everything he does is a mean of manipulation.

6. That's literally not true. He pulls and pushes her away, so she stays slightly anxious around him but also intrigued. That's the whole point of his game. And that's what made Na Bi so interested, coz she could not figure him out so she kept thinking about him.

7. People are criticizing Na Bi too. More people in comment section said they dropped the show coz she is so naive than coz he is a red flag.

Yeah but usually we see SOME kind of arc and journey to that redemption. Here she was bitch one episode, and was ok next one, without any change in the plot, any significant scene indicating any type of change in her views and attitude lol

Like... the open all the doors and windows but don't close any. There is no conclusion to majority of plots they created 😂 ad it does not seem like there will be.

Tae Kyung giving whole ass alpha vibes, I live for it.
And Shin Woo being soft dumb potato not knowing how to deal with his crush 😂

"내가 싫으면 좋아하려고 노력해 봐"
DAMN. That's the whole problem Tae Kyung, he likes you too much so he panics 😂