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I mean, I did enjoy season 1, just less than everyone else. I did give it 8/10 at the end of the day, for BL standards, it's close to gold.

Have not seen season 2 and not planning to. I didn't exactly like Teh there either, so this apparently would be a torture for me. BUT I've got curious about people's thoughts after reading some posts on feeds so I checked comment section. Just based on the reactions in here, the writing must have failed. If good portion of people watching the show (even big fans and people who loved season 1) do not want the main couple to stay together, the writers failed to present why they should care and root for them.

These are my useless thoughts on season two without watching it 🤣

Oh, well that's weird. It shows on laptop, mobile and app for me.
But even with that, the person who got the notification (Reta) was the person I replied to. It's safe to assume, unless you get notification, the reply was not directed to you.

it's not really ambiguous. It's literally a reply to Reta. The grey line connect my comment to hers.

I am really not vibing with female lead, hence a drop.
She says she needs money but has a problem saying no to any situation ever. She takes blame for things she did not do. Pushover at it's finest.
She thinks she did well not telling the wife the truth. Sure let the whole family by lied to by a trash. Definitely he will not cheat later or do other harmful shit.

That's what you are saying, not what Reta says in her comment. Her comment says, I quote: "most people watching k-drama watch them for their cuteness, innocence, and fairytale-like quality." which is not true on two basis:
1. It suggest cuteness, innocence, and fairytale-like quality are the defining qualities of kdramas, they are not
2. Majority of viewers look for these qualities in dramas: which is not true.

If she wanted to talk about relationships representation, she should say it in her comment. She did not.

Yeah... I am one of the people who avoid what you described as cuteness, innocence, and fairytale-like quality and these are the things I usually criticize is the show. "Disney ending" is literally my pet peeve, when "magically" we get a forced happy ending for the sake of happy ending, even if plot progression wise, it makes no sense.

IF you associate "kdramas" with cute rom-coms, then yes your statement is correct. But K-dramas are MORE than that. Since this will most likely not be a cute rom-com it's simply might not be for you. But your statement overgeneralized both kdramas and the audience that consumes then, since it erases all the crime, political, horror, melo, makjang (etc) genres of k-dramas. K-dramas do NOT equal rom-coms.

the contract said she will not feel any pain for the next 100 days. Him withholding his hand was violation of the contract. His deal was: you will not feel any pain. If he made it so she has to hold his hand, it's his responsibility to make sure she can do it midnight every day. His obligation is to be available.

I know he cannot take away her death. I'm saying it makes no sense he can cure some injuries but not other, which is not explained. what is the limit? Technically speaking he could just take away the pain from the cut finger without healing it. The rules are not consistent.

So he can save some people and not others. Nothing was explain. You said it. And that's my problem.

Your diety explanation does not exist in the show. I get people are filling the blanks where something is not shown, but I firmly believe it's not the audience job to come up with theories that full fix plot holes.

"But instead, your choice won't make the world collapse or bring death to the one you love" Doom pretty dead if you ask me.

Whenever I see it it's a poor writing. There are rules not presented to either characters no audience, they are expectations from the rule coz it makes the plot flow easier. It's a bad fantasy writing. Instead of creating a work and making the plot in said created worked of fiction, there is a plot and the fantasy is written around the plot, changed and not explained if it's inconvenient.

Also, I don't think the female diety is all that powerful and the mastermind behind it all. They present her (same as Doom) as someone who does not have that much control over events. She can push things here and there, but overall it's out of her hands. I think the whole story was suppose to be the arc of everyone not doing what fate asks them to do, and do what they want to do, hence she decides to live in this body longer, even tho she is suppose to die, Doom giving up his life for someone else (aka saving life even tho he was created to destroy). Literally first time she goes against what her fate is.

"I can change his fate and yours a bit. I can remove you from his fate, and vice versa. As if you had never met. Then you will die as fated, without knowing anything (...). You won't remember each other, and the contract will be void. But instead, your choice won't make the world collapse or bring death to the one you love".

She did not remove them from each others fate, they did not went to the "as if you never met" deal, she only hidden the memories. Dong Kyung made said choice and took the deal. In exchange the previous contract should be void and the person she loved should not die. Since the first contract was not void, and the person she loved the most died, even tho Dong Kyung did everything she was suppose to do on her side of the deal, diety did break the contract.

There is no way around that. There is no "if by chance you will remember each other again, this contract would be void" element here.

So she lied, So deities can lie. So what's the point in contracts and terms when they can be whatever the deities want them to be and they don't have to uphold their terms? Not to mention this goes against the idea they are there for humans.

Yeah, but it's not interesting enough to just not care about the logic haha
Penthouse is at least wild. Here, there is so much dead screen time, your brain starts to work to entertain itself.

The rules are what the plot needs the to be at the moment.
Definition of poor writing 🤣

you seem to get everything, would you mind answering the questions I had in a reply to Rina_a365? Coz I tried to find them in the show and they are not there.

damn thanks. Been looing for it for awhile 🤣

it's not like people don't understand, it's just too many things were truly not explained:
> why can Doom break some terms of contract but not other?
> why he can break terms of contract but Dong Kyung cannot?
> why can he heal her cut finger, but not her cancer?
> did the female diety break her contract with Dong Kyung since at the end of the day they remembered each other? That would be a different story if they fall in love again, but them remembering it means the contract was broken on the Diety side, why are there no consequences?
> She said she will remove them from each others fates. They will not remember each other so the contract will be void. So if the contract is not valid anymore, it should still be invalid even if they remember each other after a while. She did not say it will be "paused" as long as you both not remember each other. So, can deities lie to sign a contract? Coz Dong Kyung did not break the contract, it was outside of her control whenever Doom contacted her, whenever she remembered anything. So how does that contract makes sense?

There are a lot of shit that needs to be clarified, but most likely won't. So people are frustrated.

Well, any contract without presenting the terms should be invalid, hence so should be this one. This whole contract makes no sense in the first place. He can break all the terms left and right no consequence EXCEPT he has to follow the "person you love with die" deal, why? Why is it okay for him to break the "you will feel no pain" but not the death part? When she forgot him apparently the contract got nullified, there is no reason to believe if they remember each other it will be back in place. Don't make it sound like the contract is invalid if she takes the new deal from the female diety, when it's just paused and still present and potentially could be executed. Also, what if he remembers her but she does not? Would that mean the diety broke the contract? Wouldn't her remembering him also means the diety broke the contract coz she was suppose to remove the memoires and there was no term on "but yeah you might actually sill remember him".

Not to mention this getting 3rd parties involved (the person she loves) in the contract that are not aware of. Doesn't think go against the laws of nature etc. He literally said he should not be affecting the human's word (when he saved the kid), outside of his existence of being doom, but then he drags unrelated person to a contract conditions. The rules of this supernatural world make no sense.

In this world they suggest there is an afterlife, and no where they say you don't remember your previous life. Still believe her living in the afterlife knowing she killed someone she loved would still be better than her living surrounded by the rest of the people who love her and support her, while the other person is dead.

the show just cannot decide on the good supernatural story that make sense:
> Deities are made for humans EXCEPT when it's about contract, then they can screw over humans like there is no tomorrow.
> Some terms of the contract cannot be changed AT ALL, some can be broken with no consequences.
And if there is a happy ending for the couple:
> Everything ends, everything passes. It's important to cherish what you have, it's important to live your life when you can UNTIL magic fixes your problems and you are both, not dead now and with the person you love. No consequences visible. If they will go with :love can conquer everything" I will just put it right next to all the other mediocre fantasy show with unoriginal script and superficial message.

Hopefully it will not go that way tho.

The more I think about it, the more I see how poorly written the show is.
Why was Dong Kyung even scared of someone else dying instead of her, when she got into the contract knowing she is suppose to wish for the doom and the end of the world, hence everyone she loved would die anyway? The writer made her have negative IQ with that.

Also, why can Doom heal her cut finger but not remove the tumor from her brain?

Also, why is she "rewarded" for breaking the contract by being healed? It would make much more sense if she died no matter what, but the penalty was someone she loves dying as the addition to that.

yeah yeah. I just checked episode 2. Someone else suppose to die, not someone additionally will die if she breaks the contract.

I am not really happy. I want them dead lol

I don't know... maybe coz when characters are presented as gay in an original work, people would like to see the same representation on screen? LGBT community barely has any representation in Korean media anyway, so to take a gay character and potentially give him a straight love line is simply wrong. If they are not willing to show a gay relationship, the least they could have done is not give said character any love line at all.

Also, I already replied to you in the previous comment, but for a drama that has romance as just a side plot, episode 3rd weirdly focused mostly on romance. A lot of people complain because this was suppose to be a friendship driven show and focus on self-growth, while the director and writer waste so much time on said romance. Also, usually if the romance is just a side plot, it's not added as a genre. So that's that.