Alexa please play the Broken Record: Lee Soo Hyuk is Utterly Wasted and has Criminal Screen Time in this Show, and is Completely Overdue a Lead Role -_-
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    At least, this time, he’s in a good drama, not like Doom at Your Service or worse Born Again.

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    I confess that I think Lee Soo Hyuk is much too cold to ever make me care for as a hero-type lead character.

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      If he had a dry sense of humour, though?

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      Isn’t that just cos he’s been hella typecast though? Like we’ve never SEEN him in anything else? (Not including White Christmas).
      Besides, a lead doesn’t have to be a typical warm hero type :p

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        Maybe… I don’t know… His eyes are so cold..
        I didn’t mean a typical warm type. Just the inner passion to make me care.

        I have nothing against him getting lead roles. Just let it not be a show with actors I do want to watch 😁

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          Hmmm curious. Can you expand a bit more on what you mean by “passion to make me care”?
          Like you’ve never cared about any of his characters, ever before? Or you can’t care about him as an actor because of that “cold” look?
          Or can you care about him when he’s not a hero lead? Which is what I thought you meant from the original comment.

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            I have never liked any of his characters. Liked, as in him making me care about the character’s feelings and wishes and goals and intents. To me, he lacks passion, of any kind. Leaves me completely cold and uninterested. So I think if he becomes a male lead I will have no interest in watching and following his story. I might be proven wrong. But I probably won’t try watching.

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            Hmmm ok! Fair enough! Thanks for sharing!
            I can’t wholly relate, although I think I know where you’re coming from; as I mentioned below, I have definitely cared about his chars before, even in Tomorrow. Actually he’s kind of the only character I care about consistently in Tomorrow despite what I think of the writing of said character, lol.

            I also think he has been consistently overly typecast in a certain style of role (cold, aloof, villainous, badass but sexy etc).
            Which is kind of a shame because I think whilst he’s no Ziggy when it comes to acting (few are), I still think he’s capable of more, and for me he always has a unique screen presence.
            I also wonder, how much of that feeling could be contributed to by poor or weak writing. Not to try and convince you to like him if he doesn’t work for you, but because I know so many of them have *also* been weak in that regard.

            Would definitely recommend White Christmas though- and not just for him haha.

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            I have seen bits of White Christmas some years ago but I wasn’t in a mental state to be able to enjoy that type of show. This past few years though I have been preferring much darker shows. So I might watch it some time.

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            You definitely have to make the headspace for it, that’s for sure!

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          You should watch Valid Love, it’s my favourite role for him. He was really good and rocked the carpenter style.

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            I did start Valid Love because I liked the first leads but I dropped it after a few episodes.

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        I remember watching him in White Christmas and being really upset at his character arc (no spoilers haha) so I know I can care about him ^^

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    Even thinking about it makes me mad! What does this man need to do to get his due??

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