Kate

I mean... I'm biased but not blind. This drama had a lot of problems with pacing, editing and screen time ratio even before the covid-19 happened.
I love it for the reasons stated, but I don't want to lie to people saying it's the best show ever. Stating the problems is the only fair way of appreciating the drama. So when someone decides to watch it, they will know what they are getting themselves into :)

the review is scary long. I wrote it more for myself to remember all the feelings I had while watching tbh. I just invested so much into this show... what is friday without Why R U? hahaha

After posting the review I feel so empty.
Gosh I will miss this show, even with how messy it was at times.
I just got too attached to these characters.

He would cry if he read it lol So much love in these few lines hahah

true... but I literally cannot imagine how they would fill 2 episodes of just the beach scenes (since Saint said the last episode takes place on the beach). It would be the 9&10 episode all over the place and it would be a bad idea.
anyway, I'm confused, I guess we will see this Fiday

I've checked. U are right. The statement says 14 eps. But then i have no idea why the whole twitter (including the cast) acts as if the last eps airs this friday. Also, if this is not the last, it means we are getting 2 beaches episodes again...

Last official statement said 14 episodes INCLUDING special. So 13 for the plot.
No one knows the ending, but the novel have a sad one. BUT what we know they changed the ending in the show and it does not follow the one that was in the novel. So basically no one knows anything.

leaving last page blank would work but only if ALL characters were self aware. If not, then it would be like being stuck in a loop of diving the same day over and over again for the ones that are aware. Since all the people around them would not have a story written for them and would kind of work on auto-pilot. Saying same lines and doing the same thing. Which sounds more like a horror story than a happy ending hahahaha

I mean... how high of an expectation can I have when we have sexual assault in first 5 minutes and them going full rape-ish? the bar it set LOW with this one
War is doing a good job tho and I must say the production value (especially editing) improved compared to Tossara (which I dropped coz I could not stand the editing).

sure, tho honestly not much point in hiding it since everyone talks about what happened in episode 11 in comment section without using spoiler tag.

I relate so bad. I'm still not really an article writer (definitely prefer to write reviews) but I did enjoy the ones I did and co-wrote.
The first article I wrote was simply my take on Extraordinary You ending, coz I found it so amazingly tragic but I saw a lot of people saying it's a happy ending. Just wanted to show a different point of view. And it was a lot of fun. Planning what I want to write, but to separate different sections, editing and the layout of.
I hope with your article more people will be brave enough to write something themselves :)

Nah I get what you mean. It would make the scene and the break up less tropy for sure. But I think it could make it hard to keep the scene short. Coz knowing the reason (evil dad) Fighter would not give up so easily. So the scene would be far longer and might drag. I believe the only reason Fighter agreed to the break up was coz he didn't know the reason but be believed it was bad enough to make Tutor miserable, and he didn't want that. If Tutor said F's dad is a dick so I want to break up, F would be like: you f kiddin me right? I just feel like it would be harder to build the scene IF Fighter knew.
But then... we all have different interpretations and expectations. I wouldn't mind Tutor saying Fighter about the dad, but I just think it would make it harder to write and film the scene hahaha it's more on the technical and less of the "emotional" side.

I'm spamming comment section, but I don't care lol I'm just fascinated the more I read people's interpretations of the events from 11th ep. Basically how I see it there are 3 types of people:
1. Writing sucks, they went full cliche "breaking coz of the parent", Tutor is an idiot and him not talking to Fighter and just giving up makes no sense. Basically Tutor sucks.
2. The break up made perfect sense. Tutor has had enough, hit the breaking point. He has no strength left to fight for anything. That's why he breaks up with Fighter. Awesome writing and perfectly in line with how the character was written so far.
3. The break up make sense. Tutor is a dumb ass but he is strong in what he is doing. He wants to take the whole hit of Fighter's dad shitty behavior himself and does not want to ruin Fighter's relationship with his dad and burden the guy he loves even a little bit. He did what he though was best.

Same show, same episode, same scene and yet we all see it in such a different light. Fun :)

Look at that, I have all that Tutor has, and still have suicidal thoughts. More often than not the personal happiness is not based on the external factors but the internal interpretation of them. As I said, from what was shown in the drama and from what Tutor said in the break up scene, he put way too much pressure on himself to be strong, perfect, helpful, mature. We saw him crying over the lost part time job, or when few people he was tutoring had to quit. How se cried but still said it will pass and he can get through it. How he did not ask ANY of the people around him for help. That's why I think he is not doing well emotionally. Coz in situations like that people not be building these thoughts up, knowing well that they have people around them willing to help, they would call for that help. But Tutor doesn't. For me it was clear that he is "the giver" that wants everyone around him to be happy but forgets about his own well being in the process. But everyone has their breaking point. And what happened after they came back from the beach trip was the breaking point. We can all interpret characters differently. I see how Tutor was not that strong person and I'm not the only one who thinks that. You can not see it and it's also fine.
That said, there is a reason everyone is always so surprised after someone's commit suicide and we keep hearing how they had amazing family, well paid job, supporting friends and there was not reason from them to do that.

You can have the most supporting family and no "big problems" in your life and still be emotionally broken and exhausted. Do I think he put a lot of pressure on himself which led to him breaking down like that: yes. Does not change the fact we could see throughout the drama how he was slowly breaking down and simply tired. You don't need to be slammed on the face with information and everything does not need to be explain with clear narration to see more in the character. We can see that he struggles admitting his weaknesses and always want to deal with all the problems himself.
Sure, if you just watch and do not analyze what you see, everyone will be just a puppet to progress the story. For me he is well written character and all his behaviors make sense.
I don't know how much of it was a good writing and how was just luck and accident, but the end result for me is: both Tutor and Fighter are well written and interesting characters.

I appreciate your view point. I see quite a few people saying Tutor should have just talked to Fighter and tell him everything. But it's not that easy. For me, it was quite obvious Tutor is not as strong as he presents himself. And that he is extremely giving person, always thinking about others well being rather than himself. He himself believe he is strong enough to deal with whatever will happen. They hinted how all the piling up obstacles are starting to be too much for him to handle. But since he always dealt with everything alone, he doesn't even know how to ask for help and say he might be overwhelmed. For me, with Tutor's personality, expecting him to face fighter's dad and talk openly with Fighter about it is close to asking depressed person to just be happy and maybe go for a walk.
What I want to say, for me the whole break up was perfectly in line with how both Tutor and Fighter's character were written and presented since day one. But we can all interpret it in a different way :)
If you are interested I wrote a (long lol) comment down below on how I see Tutor's behavior is ep 11.

Exactly, everything you said is correct. People saying "Tutor should just tell Fighter how he feels and about his meeting with the dad" is basically the same as saying to a depressed person: why won't you just be happy? It doesn't work like that.
As for Fighter and the preview, let me copy what I wrote in a comment below, how I still have trust it will not go bad way:

"In Fighter I put my trust and here is way:
Let's start with how misleading the teasers are. Remember how in the teaser of today's ep Hwahwa was shown as a total angry B? Well... she turned out to support the boiz and fangirl over them. We might get similar twist in the FighTor "problematic bed scene".
What's more: how selfless was Fighter during the break up. He was totally clueless. He has been ignored by Tutor for quite some time after all the promises they made. He had NO idea where the break up is coming from and yet he apologized to Tutor! He wasn't angry, he wasn't throwing a tantrum. He accepted Tutor's decision and kept the promise he made: he let his hand go. He know if he broke down if front of Tutor it would be even more painful for the boy he loves so much so he kept smiling. He did hide his pain just to make sure Tutor will suffer a little bit less. Up till now their WHOLE relationship was build in consent and assurance. I refuse to believe the writers will ruin it with the scene shown in preview.
The magic of editing is wild. I trust they were assholes and put the scene in the preview as a shock value, but it will play differently in a full context. I believe Fighter is a sweet potato and not human trash.
That's it. I am not willing to give Fighter up just yet.
But if I'm wrong... damn it will hurt even more."

So I still believe there is hope it will all turn out "unproblematic"

I believe with Tutor it's a bit different. His whole life was a "hard time" and he acted strong and tough for years... so when he found out he needs to fight for yet another part of his life and happiness, it was just too much.

I was honestly so annoyed with people hating on Tutor I wrote a whole essay about it lol
I feel like majority of people that started to dislike his character did not understood him at all from the beginning.

This happened with 2moons 2. The main couple and Phana (main dude) were more or less walking perfection. They talked and communicated with each other and were sweet and there was close to no drama between them, but rather around them... and people did say they were boring and liked the "more dramatic" side couples more.

I would understand the anger if this whole break up and what Tutor did was out of the character, but it was not. It's the breaking point for him, it fits in how he was written up till now and makes him that much more interesting characters with more layers.