H8rs, get over urself already

Just because you shipped the other ship, it doesn't mean you can generalise that Yi an- Eun bi was not a good couple. And if you have seen life, just because a guy is nice, you don't accept his love. Eun bi always liked Yi an. End of the story.

There's still hope for tae gwang!!!.........in 15years...... I still cannot understand why she picked yi-an and I was on shipping neutral ground(but I guess I was secretly hoping she would pick TG)

"I would definitely rather that the cute awesome boy love ME, and not my mom"

Most definitely!!.. Lol reminds me of when I was a teenager, i used to have d world's biggest crush on a family friend and this dude was legit crushing on my mom. Like I'm here tryna hang around u, and u using me to hang around my mom. Lol I was so jealous of my mom then. At least now its a story we both laugh about.

Funny. That is EXACTLY the ending I've dreamed up for Gong Tae-gwang and Go Eun-bi. And Yi-an and Eun-byul can have their best-friends-in-love realization too. Ha.

I love the raging about school's ending because that is still me whenever I think about it.lol I know there are those who will disagree vehemently but if this were in the reverse I think the response would be similar..in any case thank you for showing how totally invested and upended we as viewers sometimes become because of our dramas. :)

Both dramas made me scream a lot, especially for Bok dong-ie and Gong tae kwang.
Can I have both of them in my life? If I can't have it, please give me one of them... *pray*

Thank you!!! I needed this comparison!! I loved Angry Mom and Who Are You more or less broke my heart because, really...Han Yi Ahn, Lee Eun Bi? Blind and stupid much?

When it comes to both the dramas it is really a battle of Bok-dongie or Gong Tae-gwang? for my viewer heart.
But would I rather be Eun Bi or Oh Ah-ran. I think Eun Bi, because a world where the adults are as scary or scarier than high schoolers is a bit better than a world where highschoolers are the worst. At least people leave high school after four years.

Yup.. blind it is! Thanks, that made me feel better. That drama left a bad after taste with the love triangle.

Bok Dong definitely is more heartbreaking (lonely boy can be eternally hopeful but it's also not gonna happen) but Tae Kwang's heartbreak is pointless (I mean, how could she not pick him?) and that makes it not ok on a different level.

If I was Eun Bi, I'll definitely choose Yi Ahn.

I think what bothered me the most about School and the way it turned out the most was two things.

First if it was ultimately just going to boil down to a love triangle, they should have kicked Kim So-hyun, Yook Sung-jae, Jo Soo-hyang, and Lee Pil-mo, out of the cast and replaced them with less talented actors so they wouldn't be so wasted.

Secondly the love triangle reminds me of the Japanese drama Tokyo Love Story in which Oda Yuji had a choice between a real live girl or a piece of cardboard, in the end he picked the cardboard. Here Eun-bi also had a choice between a real live boy or a piece of cardboard and like Oda Yuji 24 years earlier, she picked the cardboard.

Do Asians have some kind of weird cardboard fetish? That would explain the birth rate problems.

Angry Mom though was so freaking awesome and they were willing to go so dark. School though just quit everything except the love triangle and as a result none of the resolutions made any sense. Literally none of them.

If I had to pick I'd much rather live in School's world because Angry Mom was dark and dangerous to the end whereas in School's world bullies apologize out of the blue for no reason.

Wish this is the end for school. Taekwang-ah~ My poor heart.. TT-TT

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Love the comparison, especially the discussion on the guys, I LOL-ed a lot! Honestly, I don't understand why Ah-ran ends up liking Sang-tae when she was bullied and harassed by Bok-dong on his order. He warms up toward her ever so slightly toward the end, but still... however, when it all boils down to "Kim Yoo-jung may have gotten a flawed boyfriend, but Kim So-hyun may be blind" well I guess I can't complain, haha.

Because seriously my heart still bleeds for Tae-kwang. I kind of get it why Eun-bi chose Yi-an, but then there was Tae-kwang... arghh I don't know anymore. On a flip side, she's (and they're) only 18, and if he'll eventually get the girl 10~15 years down the road, I'll gladly wait for that sequel ;)

Honestly, I was a fan of Yi-an, so all this Yi-an hate is really starting to piss me off. It's one thing to hate a ship, but another to insult its fans by extension - and by claiming Eun-bi was essentially stupid for not preferring Tae-gwang, you're pretty much saying all the Eun-bi/Yi-an supporters were stupid for preferring him too. And clearly, though we're a small minority, we exist, as evidenced by this very thread.

It's fine to have a ship, but at least be tactful about it. And frankly, I think part of my anger stems from the hypocrisy of it all: I can't count the number of times Javabeans and Girlfriday have explicitly asked fans to keep the shipping war/comments respectful and under control (at least in other dramas) yet the moment a ship THEY feel passionately about falls, they pretty much start LEADING the hate-war. True, it's their blog/website, and they're entitled to their opinons, but I truly wish they'd express themselves in a way that didn't alienate a portion of their devoted fanbase, or go against the very principles they've argued for in the past.

End rant.

My own comparison:
Which one is better, Kim So Hyun or Kim Yoo Jung?
Kim So Hyun had meatier roles, but Kim Yoo Jung ended up in better drama.

I think School 2015 underutilized its potential and cast. While in Angry Mom, almost everyone showcased good acting and the writing is better.
But then again, I didn't watch School 2015 till the end, dropped the drama from ep 2 and only read recaps so my impression towards this drama maybe wrong.

Ah seriously that School ending. I admit that I found YA and EBi cute at the start, when she didn't know she was not Ebyul. Then she remembered, and that is when I became against shipping them (regardless of how I liked TK). First of all, EBi should already know that YA is courting the person who he thinks is EByul, so that affection shown to her was not meant for her (really she inherited everyhing that was EByul's beside TK). That thing where YA mentioned he likes the "new Ebyul", it came off to me as YA liking that 'EByul' reciprocating his feelings now unlike before. Pissed me of as hell whenYA also used that as a reason he liked EBi. I mean, come on man, you said that when you still think she was EByul, haven't you thought that you said that because that "Ebyul" now wants to date you?

Then the writers didn't even showed us YA-Ebi developing their loveline without that misconception. They didn't show us solid proof that EBi liked one over the other either (because they effing deleted those scenes). Its no wonder I just started watching it for EByul, TK, and KSY, they show how they really are With their actions.

I love this Thing v. Thing!! Also, Angry Mom is my favorite drama of the year so far. And at this point, the competition for the rest of the year is not looking like there will be anything to replace it. That may be an unfair competition, given how much I like film noir and how there's not like, ever any other film noir in dramaland... that I've seen anyway, aside from Angry Mom. So, it'll be hard for any other non-film noir-esque drama to supplant it. In my heart.

That was more of a rant than I intended ;)

That was so fun. You're awesome !

Thank you !

I loved DRAMAbeans recaps. Lately you guys are just going overboard about whiny second leads.

The peck on the cheek (and please, its not even a kiss on the lips- dont understand why its such a big deal) by TK should not have happened and if there's anyone to be blamed it should be TK himself for refusing to listen. EBI already told him VERY clearly in Ep 13 in Tongyeang that she cannot return his feelings but she thanked him for being a friend and she even wanted to shake on it. TK refused and instead changed the subject. EBI tried asking him how long he was going to behave in such a way but he brushed it off. Looking back now the writer had already given us plenty of hints who was endgame because in the same episode we see YA making peace with EBYUL and his feelings for EBI more or less sealed when his thoughts flashback ed to the hospital scene where he had a glimpse of EBI'S feelings. Remember he was also excited when he thought he was meeting up with EBI on the bridge at night but it turned out to be EBYUL instead. We could see that he had had enough of EBYUL'S inconsiderate actions and he was mad enough to walk away from her this time, and not hang around trying to please her. And the icing on the cake as to how he feels about EBI was SY voicing out those thoughts- that he got into an accident because it was about EBI and not EBYUL. My guess was it was at that moment that he realised that his choice and only one choice was EBi. And I love how we see the anguish and worry on his face as to how SY was going to reveal the truth about his feelings for EBI to EBYUL. NJH definitely did a wonderful job in acting as YA because his actions are more subtle and we rely more on his facial expressions to understand his thought process whereas for TK is the direct approach-which is simpler to do and anyone with some acting exposure would be able to handle. So yeah. For me NJH to an awesome job.

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<When you put it that way, maybe it’s better to be the forgiving, kind girl who gives the bad boy a second chance. Not the blind girl who has bad taste. Poor rejected puppy. It’s the heartbreak of the year.

I really liked Tae-kwang a lot. Yi-an was too boring to me (and underdeveloped as a character), but that said, I don't see anything wrong with Eun-bi having a relationship with him. He's reasonably nice, if uninteresting. Bad taste? Well, people like different people for different reasons. Nothing wrong with that. Plus, I see no point in a relationship if only one person is interested: and Eun-bi clearly wasn't interested in Tae-kwang. He deserves someone who likes him as much as he liked Eun-bi.

With Baro, I see red flags. He's a bully. Presumably reformed but if he really doesn't get that his bullying wasn't courtship but plain wrong then there's a lot of issues.... Bad boys being given a second chance by kind girls is exactly how you end up in abusive relationships – I'm not saying that's what would happen in the drama, but in real life, I wouldn't take the chance. In real life, the bad boy can clean up his act on his own and start with a clean slate with someone else.