Alright, now that I’ve seen the first two weeks of My Strange Hero, I’ve got a good idea of what this show is trying to do and I’m not a total fan. It feels like this show basically took the premise of taking down school corruption from Angry Mom, added in a melo love-line, and then threw in some slapstick-esque comedy to make sure the show isn’t all dark and serious.
On the positive side, I like the Angry Mom similarities and that’s basically what’s keeping me from dropping the show. I can also live with the over-the-top comedy, even though I think it’s not really fitting in that well; it feels someone’s going “Wait! We labeled this as a rom-com so it needs to have comedy!” and throwing in random funny scenes just for the sake of being funny, even though it breaks the tonal flow of the show. What I can’t get over though is the melo love-line.
Soo Jeong’s character is quite frankly terrible. Not because she’s a coward that continually makes bad decision after bad decision, but because the basis of those bad decisions is her continued choice of making assumptions without ever once bothering to ask about the other side of the story. I can get behind a story of a jaded by the hardships of life bad teacher learning how to be the ideal teacher, but I can’t understand how any decent person would screw a person over multiple times without ever bothering to try to understand them first. It makes all her good moments fall flat and she feels like a character with no relatability because of it. I’d like this show so much better if they made the focus Bok Soo’s revenge against Se Ho and instead just had Soo Jeong be the random teacher that hates her life but gets dragged in the middle and ends ups falling for the protagonist as he turns her into an inspiring teacher.
All in all, if the misunderstanding that’s forming the basis of the show so far is going to be dragged out for 10 episodes, I’m probably not going to stick with this long. But since it’s not a wholly terrible show and I have nothing else to watch after Just Dance ends, I’ll keep it as a casual watch for now.

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    Also, as a pet peeve, I can’t believe 1. A 27 year old guy never bothered to take the GED test after being expelled and 2. A person can fall off a 3-4 story building rooftop and survive without at the very least needing a wheelchair for the rest of their life. But I guess every drama needs at least a couple logic flaws.

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    What were your favorite shows this year? No, I’m not trying to defend Strange Hero, it’s just that your kind of criticism seems like the things I’d say ehehehe.

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      Sadly, I only have 3 favorites this year, but I also only watched 6-7 shows in total this year. It often takes me a long while after watching a show I really loved to get in the mood to watch something different. Anyway, my top 3 this year were Just Between Lovers, My Ahjussi, and Just Dance. I actually originally passed up My Ahjussi since I don’t tend to gravitate towards heavy or dark shows, but I loved the OST so much that I ended up starting it and getting hooked.

      The other shows I watched in case you’re interested:
      I’m Not A Robot: Liked but didn’t love. Would have been better as a 10 episode series.
      Hwayugi: Please give me the hours I spent on this back…
      Mother: Liked but not enough for it to be an all time fav cause it’s too fictitious
      Switch: Not great, but not bad. An easy, breezy, low-key watch
      *You Who Forgot Poetry: This was supposed to be on my favorites list until the writer completely ditched her main lead (yes, I’m pretty sure Minho was actually supposed to be the lead in this) and turned it into The-Drama-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named for me.
      *Miracle That We Met: I actually really liked this one at the start but then it lost it’s luster about half-way through.

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        Thanks! 🙂 From these favorites I enjoyed the main story in My Ahjussi, and will give a chance to the dancing show because many seem to like it!

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          I hope you enjoy it! It may not be on the same level as the others, but it’s hitting all the right spots for me being a fun, relatable, and addictive watch.

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        Re: You Who Forgot Poetry.
        I’m pretty sure that’s not just you either. I read somewhere he was supposed to be the lead but because of fans they went the other way. I can’t remember where I read that though… :/

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          It was probably from the same article where the director mentioned he apologized to Jang Dong Yoon cause he felt so terrible about the character he ended up having to act out. Even without that though, I could still list at least a dozen reasons supporting why I believe he was originally the main character. It’s one thing for her to switch who gets the girl, but the biggest wrong she did was setting up Minho’s character for this great big character arc (he had tons to delve into with the family issues on top of his history with Bo Young that we never got to see his side of the story) and then basically writing him out of the story once she switched the leads and completely ditching all the character development he was supposed to have in favor of making him simply play a needless obstacle to the Ye-Line romance. And the kicker is that I’m pretty sure I read somewhere, perhaps it was from the press conference, that this was supposed to be a character drama and not big on romance. Yet, lo-and-behold, the romance definitely ended up taking center stage, most likely because once she ditched Minho’s storyline she didn’t have enough backstory about Dr. Ye to fill up the show without adding a bunch of romance fluff. Gah, it boils my blood just thinking about it lol

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