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I hope this is not THE timeline and just the "past set up" coz Heo Nam Joon CANNOT pass as a 12th grader 🤣 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN'S CHEST? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

HE IS SO HOT THO OMFG 😭😭😭😭😭

Reading the lyrics to the song played when Yeong Rye meets Jae Pil the first time... damn it's basically perfect hot oppa theme song 🤡

I'm sad it's not a BL and GL lol The meeting of female leads was soooooooooo rom-com coded and they have GREAT chemistry and their personalities match perfectly for a romance. And male leads could have been awesome friends to lovers 🤣

Overall, episode 1 was fun in a calming way. Nothing truly happened, but I was not bored. Mostly set up for the plot, the characters, the mystery bit and the overall tone of the drama.

Ko Yeong Rye is this innocent bubbly genius with many skills and smarts.
Seo Jong Hui is this confident badass who actually has probably many scars and troubled past.
Han Jae Pil is your typical "family issues, I don't want to do what my dad wants me to do" dude.

I'm honestly not sure if they are setting up a love triangle... Maybe not.Tho Jong Hui saying she hated one-sided crush seems like a typical hint of what's to come 😅 That said, if they will actually mix shit up and Yeong Rye won;t end up with Jae Pil, just for that I might add 1 to my final rating, whatever it will be 🤣

To episode two 🤡

of course 30 can act 40, if they look OLD FOR THEIR AGE. Coz then they look similar to how young looking 40 would look like.
Someone who is 30, but has a baby face and actually looks 20... yeah they cannot play 40 for it to look serious. Kim Go Eun has one of the biggest baby faces in the industry... She can play a high schooler and it would be more believable than her playing 40...

It's not that hard to grasp you know. Cast actors who visually fit the roles.

"walk down memory lane" this has literally no importance here. Whenever it's all them in 40s, half in 40s, just one episode in 40... when they are in 40 cast people who fit the age. It would take a lot longer casting wise to find actresses that would look similar to their younger co-stars but it's not impossible. I don;t get why people don;t want better produced dramas with more thought put into casting 🙂

yeah but here we do not have one lucky lady looking early 20s when 40s. Both leads no not even look 30, yet will be playing 40 while also being friends/being connected to each other. This is lazy casting and I do not think it's unfair to criticize it and want better casting for future projects, ones that make more sense

Name me one drama they made someone older and it wa believable lol And I mean subtle older.not making someone a grandma (that is easier with prosthetics etc). It's easier to make someone look younger by 10 years with proper make up, hairstyle and styling (+adding tiny amount of filters) than to make them 10 years older.

It makes no difference how long they will be in any age. The overall lack of fuck dramas give in terms of casting is ridiculous and it's been like that forever. Having same actresses playing all that age rage is cheaper. They picked money over quality of production and I as a consumer have the right to criticize it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Who the fuck thought it's a good idea to hire actresses that are 34 and 30 to play 42 years old women 🤣
It would be better to have 3 sets of actors - kids, teens and 20s, and then 30s and 40s the same people. With current technology it's easier to make people look these 10 years younger, than to make them look 10 years older.

I wanted to watch it coz i love the cast, but I read the synopsis and had to double check if they are for fucking real 🤣 Yes, there are many actresses in their 40s looking as if they were in their 30s. But these lead actresses here are in their 30s looking like they are in their 20s 😅

Have not read the webtoon so I cannot say what happened there 😅

Kind of, but not really. He has an ex that is part of the set up, but it;'s not what we typically think off when we think "love-line". There are barely any scenes between them etc. Like... it's not a romance love line.

I asked admins, apparently it's a bug and nothing has been changed about the minimum number of symbols. Still... by all means this review and the other one sentence one should be deleted 🤣

I'm only 3 episodes in, but so far I just feel that the statement "every kid deserves parents, not all parents deserve kids" is a fitting statement and true.

It was broadcasted with 46 shorter episodes but then put on streaming platforms with 40 longer ones. Content was the same just different places where they cut the episodes

yeah i think he will reincarnate and will have the memories of when they met in his life as a king.

well that's the bitter sweet part of this ending - he will live life without her in the past and they will only reunite in present.

so I finished this today 🤡 and this I for sure agree with "Lee Joon Gi (Do Hyun Soo) was phenomenal here." 🔥 the way his eyes and corner of his lips twitched when he got pressed was amazing!

Do Hyun Soo is an unreliable protagonist. < this tho 🤡 he was the least reliable for himself. Damn the level of gaslighting he did on himself was just... something else 😂

Anyway you can't deny truth: she is bland and age gap is big. < I in fact can deny it. For me she is not bland. Whenever you feel she is, or I feel she is not is subjective and not objective statement.

Also, yes the age gap is big. So what. I don't see an issue in it, you do. Again it's a subjective thing, not objective.

Also, I don't react hard, whatever that means. I just simply disagree with your statements. You are the one saying you got "triggered" coz of Yoona not having the lead factor for you. I dunno why u react so hard to a fictional drama and a casting for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Than complain they should have cast an older male actor. By all means it's more of him not fitting age wise, not her. Seeing how second female lead is 36, the actor playing his brother is 47 and the actor who plays Chief royal secretary who was his friend in childhood is 41. You are directing your complains in wrong direction. Yoona is cast perfectly for the role. It;s him who stands out age wise, so direct the annoyance at them hiring too young of an actor, not too old of an actress.

it's 100% a dude 😂
empty account of a sad person who takes joy in annoying people.

There is like 0.000001% of dramas where they hire actors of the same age as the characters they are playing. If it bothers you so much I honestly have no idea how you watch anything. There are 30 years olds acting as high schoolers, 35 playing 27 is a weird hill to die on.

Anyway putting it aside, IF anything the actor playing the king is too young (looking at all the other cast members) and if you want to complain about something complain about them hiring "a baby" and not a proper man or something.

For me this pairing looks great ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Even 100 layers of makeup can’t make it believable < what make believable? Do we even know how old the king is? I kind of assumed it's canon he is in fact younger than her. Not by 11 years sure, but they made a point plot wise that she is in fact "older" and not young.

exactly. rom-coms are build on cliches, it's how they are executed that matters, you can tweak them here and there, but the cliches became cliches because people loved them and they worked 🔥

i need a full on reincarnation happy ending, i don't care if it's cliche or it makes no sense 😂