Lol You’re not the first one to tell me this, but I am happy that my posts are bringing back a sense of love and joy for this drama in some way, because a lot—a LOT— of the feedback for this drama, especially the latter half, hasn’t been good 😅😅 So, to be able to bring back the GOOD feels that people had felt for the show via my posts here on the Beanies Section… I’d say, my work is done ☺️☺️ But not really because I’m only half way through the drama lol
If you are interested, I think with a little bit of pushing/nudging/encouraging, @isthatacorner is actually—maybe— considering a “buddy rewatch” of “Pretty Noona…” if she has someone, who’s interested, to do it with… Hence, the “buddy watch”
No no no. A rabbit watch. Id buddy watch IHYV or pretty muc anything else. But to get through the impending disaster? noooo I need a group of beanies right there whose snark and analytical minds are set to high.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe (over analyzing??) it during the live-watch in the first place was the thing that brought all the frustrations…. Or maybe it’s because I have high tolerance for stupidity in unrealistic dramas because I’m still okay and haven’t had the urge to throw anything at my screen yet nor a desire to wring Mom’s neck or Jin Ah’s neck yet….
I seriously think that having trope-filled dramas be the beginning to my Kdrama watching journey all those years ago has trained my patience and tolerance up for more tropes & stupidity for dramas that I am watching now, so many years later… My first ever Kdramas were (in no particular order): Hotelier (live watch), Winter Sonata, Autumn Fairytale (live watch), All About Eve
What ep are you on? I dont think that there was a specific moment with either woman (well Jin-Ah had more than one specific moment.) that made me want to wring their necks. It was the persistent lack of anything good. The drama, for me, was best in the little moments.
Count to 5.
The first hand hold.
The constant phone calls (that we didnt hear because they would be of no interest to anyone but the two of them)
And how…..
I didn’t over analyze during the live watch. Ive over analyzed countless times since then to try and understand my own hatred for the backhalf and to try and understand the drama itself. What it boils down to for me is that this is not a romance–noona or otherwise. Its a drama about a woman who is trying to break away. Joon-Hee is the catalyst (she says hes not but I disagree) that she needs to learn how to stand on her own two feet and understand that she deserves love and that she is capable of standing on her own. But then the final ep happens and blows that theory out the freaking water and Im back to…there’s just no joy in the back half and someone taps the writer on the shoulder and says, “we sold this as a romance so……?” and then an ending was slapped on that doesnt do the beginning or ending any justice whatsoever.
I agree!! The drama does best in showing the little moments— hand holds, kisses, phone calls, their “I love you” moments…
This drama is definitely not about the romance, no matter how the PR team or Netflix tries to sell it to me otherwise, but I see it as more of a drama that’s trying to address social issues about women in South Korea’s patriarchal society— just like “One Spring Night”— and trying to show the viewers just how difficult it is to break away and do things “taboo” (like Joon Hee always puts it) and to do things for themselves because they’ll always just end up being pushed back into their corner by the men and by status/money/education (just like how Mom alway likes to remind us 🙄). HA! An ending that was just slapped on in a Korean drama?? Where have I seen that before?? Oh, just about every Korean drama out there… What’s new?? 😏😏 For this reason, I don’t usually expect much from the last quarter of a drama that leads to the ending or the ending itself, but we will see what happens when I get there for “Pretty Noona…”
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Bebe | Nessa❣️
May 30, 2019 at 9:52 PM
KSKalways
May 31, 2019 at 7:42 PM
damn. all your screenshots make me feel like rewatching the show… the FEELS were soooo good in the beginning!!!!
Bebe | Nessa❣️
May 31, 2019 at 10:27 PM
Lol You’re not the first one to tell me this, but I am happy that my posts are bringing back a sense of love and joy for this drama in some way, because a lot—a LOT— of the feedback for this drama, especially the latter half, hasn’t been good 😅😅 So, to be able to bring back the GOOD feels that people had felt for the show via my posts here on the Beanies Section… I’d say, my work is done ☺️☺️ But not really because I’m only half way through the drama lol
If you are interested, I think with a little bit of pushing/nudging/encouraging, @isthatacorner is actually—maybe— considering a “buddy rewatch” of “Pretty Noona…” if she has someone, who’s interested, to do it with… Hence, the “buddy watch”
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
May 31, 2019 at 11:10 PM
No no no. A rabbit watch. Id buddy watch IHYV or pretty muc anything else. But to get through the impending disaster? noooo I need a group of beanies right there whose snark and analytical minds are set to high.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
May 31, 2019 at 11:26 PM
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Maybe (over analyzing??) it during the live-watch in the first place was the thing that brought all the frustrations…. Or maybe it’s because I have high tolerance for stupidity in unrealistic dramas because I’m still okay and haven’t had the urge to throw anything at my screen yet nor a desire to wring Mom’s neck or Jin Ah’s neck yet….
I seriously think that having trope-filled dramas be the beginning to my Kdrama watching journey all those years ago has trained my patience and tolerance up for more tropes & stupidity for dramas that I am watching now, so many years later… My first ever Kdramas were (in no particular order): Hotelier (live watch), Winter Sonata, Autumn Fairytale (live watch), All About Eve
isa: I'm not a serial killer I'm just really passionate about things
June 1, 2019 at 12:19 AM
What ep are you on? I dont think that there was a specific moment with either woman (well Jin-Ah had more than one specific moment.) that made me want to wring their necks. It was the persistent lack of anything good. The drama, for me, was best in the little moments.
Count to 5.
The first hand hold.
The constant phone calls (that we didnt hear because they would be of no interest to anyone but the two of them)
And how…..
I didn’t over analyze during the live watch. Ive over analyzed countless times since then to try and understand my own hatred for the backhalf and to try and understand the drama itself. What it boils down to for me is that this is not a romance–noona or otherwise. Its a drama about a woman who is trying to break away. Joon-Hee is the catalyst (she says hes not but I disagree) that she needs to learn how to stand on her own two feet and understand that she deserves love and that she is capable of standing on her own. But then the final ep happens and blows that theory out the freaking water and Im back to…there’s just no joy in the back half and someone taps the writer on the shoulder and says, “we sold this as a romance so……?” and then an ending was slapped on that doesnt do the beginning or ending any justice whatsoever.
Bebe | Nessa❣️
June 1, 2019 at 8:52 AM
Going to start episode 8 sometime today…
I agree!! The drama does best in showing the little moments— hand holds, kisses, phone calls, their “I love you” moments…
This drama is definitely not about the romance, no matter how the PR team or Netflix tries to sell it to me otherwise, but I see it as more of a drama that’s trying to address social issues about women in South Korea’s patriarchal society— just like “One Spring Night”— and trying to show the viewers just how difficult it is to break away and do things “taboo” (like Joon Hee always puts it) and to do things for themselves because they’ll always just end up being pushed back into their corner by the men and by status/money/education (just like how Mom alway likes to remind us 🙄). HA! An ending that was just slapped on in a Korean drama?? Where have I seen that before?? Oh, just about every Korean drama out there… What’s new?? 😏😏 For this reason, I don’t usually expect much from the last quarter of a drama that leads to the ending or the ending itself, but we will see what happens when I get there for “Pretty Noona…”