2022 Roundup
27 – Freestyle – The moment I should have dropped this drama – but in a good way. Business Proposal: at ep. 11, with the bedroom scene. No suddenly out-of-character grandpa, no timeskip, no BS, just the Happy Ever After we were promised all along. Kiss Sixth Sense: at the end of ep. 10. There were some loose ends, but enough of the OTP connection and other plot threads were visible that it was easy to fill in the blanks, and we’d already seen all of the delicious, HOT namesake kisses that mattered. An episode 9 epilogue with a 2-minute exposition of the childhood connection would have been enough. Love Is for Suckers: at 12 (or sooner). Many torsos had been displayed, our OTP had finally gotten together, and we wouldn’t have had to suffer through the FL’s blank faces and weird squirming in the bedsheets while the ML cooked breakfast. On the other hand, we wouldn’t have seen the best of John and Ji-wan, the true OTP/secondary couple of the year, so (in the absence of space lasers) I still have mixed feelings about when to end. Love in Contract: when Sang-eun and Gwang-nam got married. She’d have had the next 15 episodes to learn to appreciate him and he’d never have known that Madam Yoo even existed, let alone made him buy special tomatoes. Win-win.
Each of those dramas felt like they’d wrapped up the main story at those points and it was easy to guess what would happen in the remaining plotlines; if I’d stopped watching then, I’d have gotten almost all of the fun out of them while avoiding the majority of the letdown, and that would have left me feeling like I’d seen a better drama.
Counterpoint – Our Beloved Summer: Before I started. I kept waiting and wanting to like it and never did, and meanwhile it teased me with a lot of frustrating might-have-beens. I did love the scenes where it was gradually revealed that Ung was actually a famous, successful, really good artist and not the slacker he seemed (and that Yeon-soo thought he was), but I’d sacrifice that to avoid all the other frustration.
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December 26, 2022 at 11:28 PM
2022 Roundup
27 – Freestyle – The moment I should have dropped this drama – but in a good way.
Business Proposal: at ep. 11, with the bedroom scene. No suddenly out-of-character grandpa, no timeskip, no BS, just the Happy Ever After we were promised all along.
Kiss Sixth Sense: at the end of ep. 10. There were some loose ends, but enough of the OTP connection and other plot threads were visible that it was easy to fill in the blanks, and we’d already seen all of the delicious, HOT namesake kisses that mattered. An episode 9 epilogue with a 2-minute exposition of the childhood connection would have been enough.
Love Is for Suckers: at 12 (or sooner). Many torsos had been displayed, our OTP had finally gotten together, and we wouldn’t have had to suffer through the FL’s blank faces and weird squirming in the bedsheets while the ML cooked breakfast. On the other hand, we wouldn’t have seen the best of John and Ji-wan, the true OTP/secondary couple of the year, so (in the absence of space lasers) I still have mixed feelings about when to end.
Love in Contract: when Sang-eun and Gwang-nam got married. She’d have had the next 15 episodes to learn to appreciate him and he’d never have known that Madam Yoo even existed, let alone made him buy special tomatoes. Win-win.
Each of those dramas felt like they’d wrapped up the main story at those points and it was easy to guess what would happen in the remaining plotlines; if I’d stopped watching then, I’d have gotten almost all of the fun out of them while avoiding the majority of the letdown, and that would have left me feeling like I’d seen a better drama.
Counterpoint – Our Beloved Summer: Before I started. I kept waiting and wanting to like it and never did, and meanwhile it teased me with a lot of frustrating might-have-beens. I did love the scenes where it was gradually revealed that Ung was actually a famous, successful, really good artist and not the slacker he seemed (and that Yeon-soo thought he was), but I’d sacrifice that to avoid all the other frustration.