Kate

There were so many random unnecessary things in this drama, which made it even bigger mess than it initially was. While about 4 first episodes were really good and I was ready for another 10/10 drama, the further into the plot the more of a trainwreck it was. There was almost no interesting characters in it, no true good villain. There were 2 major plot lines that they tried to connect but it just didn't make much sense. Should have either pick the fantasy story with Sharon or the tragic family story of Soo Ho. Coz now I am not satisfied with either. And the ending. It felt extremely rushed

I mean after Goblin success many dramas use similar styling in their dramas. Since you do what sell. It's not about the plot tbh, more how they shoot it and editing. While I myself did not feel it had similar vibe to Goblin for most parts, the last ep... yeah. It did feel a bit like Goblin episode.

King2Hearts maybe? Moon Embracing the Sun, The Bridal Mask, Goddess of Fire? Those are the ones that came to my mind :)

the thing is... so many people don't want it to stop. I love the ridiculous cliche so much. That's literally why I enjoy this drama.

I watched last 5 minutes of the 4th ep in like 25 minutes. I just could not watch it as I asked myself WHY THE FUCK WAS SHE STILL THERE? I would leave the moments he started reading not my script. And later on I'd just said 'well bitch you obviously don't need me, why would I be there'. also depression or not he needs a good slap back to reality. Still love him tho. And the drama.

the truck of doom!!!! I could not stop laughing at this scene. There are lot of cliche i this drama but that's why I enjoy it so much.

I'm starting to really dislike Jin Sun Mi

I love it truly, in love with this drama

I don;t mind majority of those but Ruler - Master of The Mask was really not good hahaha

Shin Sung Rok and Park Ki Woong in one drama... it's too much... I can't. I will die.

ramyeon I'm a simple girl haha , the spicier the better, with egg. also usually one is not enough but but then two is too much. life is not fair

There are many dramas, where the plot is far from focused on romance, and both leads have to focus on other more important things, but the chemistry is there, in the small touches that would be nothing between friends, or the way they look at each other. Especially since being attracted to someone is not something you can control. So the 'she has other things on her head' idea does not work. I am not saying they should go full romance, but even in the scenes they have I feel no romantic interested and sparks. And as I said, I don't think it's actors fault, since they had some awesome chemistry in their previous works with other people. Some actors just don't match well, and there isn't much to say about it. Usually casting characters does not consider whenever the actors will have good chemistry on screen, since they are all casted separately. And that's a big problem.

yeah sorry, but we talk about DEATH here. It's not traumatizing, since you are DEAD. Talking about context, he said it about really small tattoo on his girlfriend back that was so small he didn't even knew about it up until she died lol How can that be compared to killing someone? Having been forced to be tattooed or killed? the choice it pretty easy. If those two were the same (as Joon Seo claims) a woman being put in the situation when she has to pick one of the two choices, she would not be able.
I mean just ask yourself: would you rather have an unwanted small tattoo your back, or be killed?

well, it was definitely nice having this small discussion with you :) It's all based on ones morality and system/priority of values. All those things are subjective, so basically no one is really wrong in their opinion on this topic. :)

The same way Kings did not really had true power and had to consider what other people say, the same way he could not just say no. Everyone except from Sharon said it must and should be Boon Yi. The 'shaman' dude said he will get healthy kids with Boon Yi therefore it should be her. For us in modern times it's such a bullshit, but in their times it was THE truth. His responsibility (at that times) was to have a child, best male one. They said he would achieve that with Boon Yi. Different times than now. He did not have as much to say in that case as we like to think.

You still need to understand that this situation was 100% normal thing in that era. it was NOT wring for him to sleep with other woman to have a child, if his wife can;t have one. In our times it's definitely seen as immoral, but back then it was just a normal thing that just happens.

Obviously he had his arms open is a 'passive' way. Since he did not, as I said, acted on him feeling UNTIL Sharon abandon him. The moment she said she is not his wife and sent Boon Yi instead when the moment he had NO obligation to be loyal to her anymore. She gave him up 1st. After that, I see no logical reason why he should still reject Boon Yi and live alone on the exile.

The biggest mistake was made by Baek Hee, if she did not switch the kids NONE of this would happen. And you are right, Soo Ho made some mistakes. But the decision Sharon made were not mistakes. You don't burn someone's face by mistake, you don't get someone else torture instead of you my mistake, you don't burn someone alive by mistake.

Women are sneaky while fighting over men, men are aggressive and violent while fighting over women. Why? Not because producers are assholes, but because it is REALITY. Both genders differ in their way of thinking and dealing with situations like that. Love triangle is a thing that will happen till the end of our days in dramas, and no matter what gender the 3rd wheel is they are shown as either cruel, psychotic, assholes or self-centered and egoistic. Same thing happens with female and male characters.

Sharon feelings are valid but they do not excuse her actions. Even before she met Soo Ho she was simply an egoistic bitch, who did not treat people of a lower social status than her as a human beings. She burned Boon Yi face not because she was hurt and jealous, but because she was spoiled and evil child. From the beginning, before the whole love story happened she was a bad character and I truly don't understand why people try to defend her. I love how evil and self-centered she is, that;s what makes her an interesting character. The fact that her 'love' fro Soo Ho is not really pure, and it;s more about herself and not them as a couple. We don't get truly evil female characters often so I am enjoying this ride like never. I hope she will be even worse in a future eps and I hope they will not give her some bullshit redemption story (which is in my eyes impossible, she killed people, what redemption lol).

I appreciate your view point but I truly disagree with many of your point.
It's true some dramas have lower budget (but the same goes for american shows), BUT some top dramas cost few milions to produce like a hit drama Descendants of the Sun which cost over 13 billion won (about $10.8 million) so saying we should appreciate the quality that was produced with little money is far from reality. Same goes for retaking scenes. When you watch some interviews actors often laugh about how they had to redo kissing scenes over 20 times to get the perfect scene. Same goes for all the other ones. The production quality and the time and effort put into Korean dramas and American shows is not that different so I don't see why we should judge them differently.
People here complain if there is something to complain about. if you go and see comments under better dramas like for example Signal, you will see that there are rarely any bad comments there. Some dramas just have major flaws. There is SO MANY good drama out there, pointing out the worse ones is not a bad thing. Sugarcoating something that is not as good as other is the way to turn people away from this culture. Someone checks comments under a drama that is really just 'meh' but sees all the compliments, gets his expectations high and after watching it get's disappointed. Would that person pick other drama up? Probably not. Directing people to the best quality dramas is the way to get them interested.
You said your wife has been watching dramas for years, so did I, I'm sure over 8 years now. I saw over 260 asian dramas (not only Korean), some were amazing to the point I rewatched them few times, some I barely finished and had to skip some scenes. Not every Korean drama is good. Some are pretty bad. Aftr all the hours I spent watching kdramas I think I get pretty good grip on what show is good and what show lacks in some aspects.
All the people taking part in drama production don't do it for free. That's their job, and viewers are the clients. They are the one to assess whenever they pulled the job off or not.
That said, wish you and your wife all the best and thank you for sharing your opinion with all of us.

You can't talk about morality of having more than one woman WITHOUT taking into consideration historical context. He did not say 'fuck you Sharon, I love Boon Yi so I'll go sleep with her". Boon Yi was chosen by OTHER people to be surrogate mother since Sharon could not have a child. Before that Moon Soo Ho did NOT do anything that could be considered cheating. And he didn't even sleep with Boon Yi before the whole 'exile and torture' part. So your argument that he was the one that did something wrong is invalid. It was said REALLY clearly that throughout their marriage he treated Sharon with love and respect even tho she did act like an asshole and was extremely cruel to people working for her (but since divorce wasn't exactly a thing back then, dude did not have much choice). He loved another woman but it was Sharon who pushed Boon Yi into his arm when she lied about not being his wife during the investigation part. " producers love to set up women against each other over a man" <-- this is also not true, coz Boon Yi NEVER fought against Sharon for Soo Ho. It was Sharon who did all the fighing on her own. Boon Yi knew she can't be with him and only after they were both exiled after being tortured and abandoned by Sharon, finally got together. Also MAJORITY of dramas have dudes fighting over one girl, not another way around lol I feel like you see what you want to see and ignore all the other facts.

if you ever have time, you should check Age of Youth. Both seasons are really good, and majority if people agree that Park Eun Bin character is one of the best there. :D

Park Eun Bin is doing good job acting here, just the character she plays pretty much sucks. That's not the type of person I like, so that's why I don't care about what will happen to her. The older cast have definitely better written and more engaging characters. Honestly there are 3 currently airing dramas that are so meh, I really feel like not watching them anymore: Judge vs Judge, Two Cops and Doubtful Victory. All of them have rather poor female lead, boring or messy plot and not much chemistry between lead characters.

I feel like they miscast the drama, badly. IF they did not went with romance between Jung Joo and Eui Hyun it would be fine, but the actors have 0 chemistry. And from their previous works we know they can have an amazing chemistry with co-stars in the dramas. Truth to be told Park Eun Bin does not have good chemistry with Dong Ha either. He is just good at convincing us he loves her, but there is not much of a sparkles between them either. Which annoys me badly, coz the romance is not just some small addition, and they are pushing if more and more with newer eps.