Kate

so?
it's a bit unnecessary to comment this under the article.

I just drop dramas SO easily, it makes sense that I give them 2nd chance hahaha
But yeah, it's a project that will not fit everyone :)

"I think, even if he had this disorder, till the end of the drama he was able to cure from it" which basically means he did not have a disorder to begin with hahaha I find it a new trend lately on mdl to diagnose various characters with disorders. Best thing that happens is when a character actually has a disorder but viewers starts to diagnose them with something else hahaha

Anyway, Run On is for sure a fresh concept among the rom-com genre. Wish it was a little bit shorter OR develop some side stories more.

The ost was awesome, and as you said, the comedy was gold many times. The gif you used for the birthday party - one of my favorite scenes. It was just so all over the place but in the best way possible :)

damn! And here I am, picking dramas to watch that are not on my ptw lists hahaha
Good luck with your project! For me it would be impossible to do. Once I dropped 3 dramas in a row from my ptw on one day, after watching just one episode for each hahaha

the thing is, if someone has been watching dramas for few years, chances are their taste change. The dramas I might have dropped years ago might become my favs now (doubt that, but it's fun to try lol).
Glad you liked the article. Rather short, just wanted to share my experience with this 2nd chance challenge since i've been doing it for a year hahaha

Well they did lol I felt nothing when i should be crying my eyes off (and it really not hard to make me cry 🤣)
He was doing a good job distracting me with his body in these tight clothes tho hahahaha

Just finished and I have a beef with one scene in the last episode. They wanted to leave the ending open for interpretation, but for me one scene made it just a big ass contradiction.

Yan Liang, Yue Pu and Chen Guan Sheng are either dead or alive depending on what the viewer want to believe. BUT one scene just ruins this ambiguous ending for me. The idea of the 3 being dead works only if after their death we witness them interacting only with each other or Chao Yang (since he was the center of the plot and we view the conclusion from his perspective/narrative). Then, as viewers we can truly question: are they alive and well or are they dead and Chao Yang is the lone survivor.

But then they do show us Yan Liang give the statement in the police station to two other cops except from Yue Pu. Including the two character who we are suppose to question if they are alive or not, interacting with other DEFINITELLY alive people just ruins it for me a bit.

It's like with Six Sense, by the end you like "holy shit, he truly did not interact with anyone except from the kid", but here it's another way around "but... they interacted with other people than the main lead".

With overall such a well constructed show, I just don't get why that scene was included. It was literally maybe 5 seconds of content. But instead of building up to the ambiguous narrative, it was straight false narrative, and it cheapened the ending for me a bit.

I myself like some rom-coms now and then. Sometimes the most cliche and obvious ones bring me the most joy and entertainment.
I do have a problem with writers adding other genres to romance and rom-coms just to fill the screen time to get these 16 episodes long format. Murder mystery there, business and politics here - and none of them is well constructed coz they were never the main plot lines, the romance is. So I end up with a good romance story, and mediocre supporting plot lines - and how to even judge a show like that, acing one aspect and completely flopping at the other.

Im Hyeong Rak saying in episode 13, that he underestimated Suk Gyu, because he made a copy of the Widow's Cruse Project files... Sorry but this is not underestimating your opponent. This is having negative IQ. It's not like making a copy would be such a smart and challenging task that Hyeong Rak could not predict it. It's was obvious he would make one "just in case".

It pains me but this show if quite poorly written. We are told the characters are capable and smart, but all they do is making mistake after mistake - lack of working braincells is strong.

There scenes that were suppose to be funny made me bored, but the serious ones got me almost one the floor laughing lol

It's weird that the main couple was the weakest part of the whole show.

It's sad, coz it would not be that hard to fix it and make it better :(

I was ready for them to confirm Sun Aliens... but they didn't :(
Or like... the energy disruptions caused by sunspots awaking whatever was hiding the the deeper layers of Earth. They just dropped some hints at the beginning, but then never came back to this idea.

Thanks for the quotation of the review, but I am a bit confused why it's a reply to my comment hahaha

Daniel Lee's theory was that tho, he himself associated psychopaths with serial killers and used the terms interchangeably. That's my problem, his theory was WRONG but he was shown to be genius and was nominated for a nobel prize lol WHO would be on his ass fast if this happened in real life. All his theories, hypotheses and results would be checked by countless of other specialists and criticized.
IF they showed a backlash towards his theory from scientific community, and him just going forward with it regardless, I would be fine. There are bad scientists out there. He would be Wakefield of drama world. But they showed him as a legit scientists with legit theory... when it was not.

Well, I don't plan to finish it. Also my 2 friends were watching it and spamming me with the plot in the chat, I know most of the plot more or less.
For me the set up was weak and unrealistic so I just lost any interest in the show after that.

Then they should have made up a gene. Not use one that truly exists and pretend like it's a psychopath gene, when it is not. They want to use real scientific research and finding as a set up for the plot, they better do it right. Otherwise, just make things up, so no one can complain it makes no sense.

I have a degree in clinical and neuropsychology lol Don't need an education on the topic.
The gene is LINKED to specific set of behaviors. It's not a psychopath gene tho. It's also linked to other disorders, even depression. So it was misrepresentation of a scientific fact, which in my eyes is basically unscientific. Also, they kept using serial killer and psychopath interchangeably: WRONG. Planty of psychopaths that ain't killin anyone and are in fact quite successful. The fact that they presented a dude who claim all psychopaths are killers and breaking the law and removing psychopathy from the gene poll altogether would remove the crime from society as some genius that might get nobel prize was laughably dumb and insulting to anyone who ever studied psychopathy or psychology.

I'm glad so many people loved the show. Always better to love than hate anything (unless it's a hate watch, then we love to hate hahaha).

I sadly dropped it on episode 3. I was too "triggered" by all the psychological unscientific stuff. The 3 I've seen just left me angry. The psychopath premise was too dumb for me to handle. So even if the mystery itself was good, the world building killed my braincells.

One thing tho, I would not dismiss people who fast forward so quickly. If so many people felt the need to fast forward, chances are the drama itself is at fault, since it failed to grab the attention of so many of the viewers.