Castaway Diva Ep10
SPOILERS

Why did our Mokgeolli get a break up scene/scenario without ever getting together?? 🥲
Also I hate when noble idiocy trope is written in a way that can make sense!!! Not fair ><

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    Seems like it was just a box to tick. ✅

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      It’s the fact that they forgot to tick all the other previous boxes that gets me, tbh 😅

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    On second thought, maybe it doesn’t make sense… because Mokha already has that connection with Kang family; is cutting them off now really that helpful???
    Pfft..some ruthless ent. news reporter could totally write some unfavorable article based on all the time she’s already spent with that “criminal family”…
    This to say, at this point she should have just said, forget it! I’m already screwed, I’m not gonna leave you!! 😂😭
    Ehhh…I don’t know anymore 🙈

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      Hope writer-nim has a card up her sleeve for the finale.

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        I really hope so!!

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          I do have faith in the writer. Castaway Diva feels little more uneven because it has only 12 episodes but she did manage a satisfactory (depending on who you ask) ending for Start Up. Here too the threads are neatly placed to be tied by in the final week. Actually writing needed to be tighter for 12 episodes.

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            The arcs in the drama are all engaging just that the pacing seemed to be more for a 16 episode drama therefore this somewhat underbaked feeling is there.

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            That’s true!
            I’m not sure if with more episodes we would have gotten more focus on the interesting parts of the show, or just more fillers, though I can’t help but thinking “what if”, in this case.

            Overall, considering the shorter episode run, the writing was quite well paced, imo, but I still wish there was more time to delve deeper into certain aspects (NOT EVIL DAD…there was too much of that already xD)

            I’m pretty confident the finale will be satisfying, plot-wise. I just hope it will be well executed too! With lots of cute and happy scenes to make up for the recent hurt!! ahaha

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            Actually it started off pretty well. I mean the first episode with time jump and rescue was very well done and considering the amount of storytelling did not seem rushed at all. Then the pacing was somewhat off in dragging the Ki-ho reveal and actually setting up the OTP. Your comment of the breakup without an “actual relationship” is pretty much spot on: In fact because of casting / promotional materials we already knew who the ML was and therefore were waiting for the reveal otherwise purely from the story point of view it was not clear. When a viewer need to consider external factors to understand a drama, that means the writing is somewhat off.

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            @seeker
            I believe I misunderstood you earlier…I really don’t think the writing could be that much tighter tbh, it’s just that the show should have been longer ahah!

            On another note, the reveal of Kiho was 100% clear once the writer made it so (around week 3). In the previous episodes there were numerous hints that obviously pointed at BG being KH, for example:
            – Bogeol buying Mokha new shoes right after setting foot in Seoul.
            – The montage of Kiho waiting at Seoul station even during his military service. Knowing that Woohak lost his memories during high school, we could safely assume that it couldn’t be him, waiting for someone he did not remember.

            Of course there are potential, more convoluted, explanations of WH being KH despite the memory loss, but luckily the writer didn’t go there and stayed true to a more consistent story telling.

            Knowing that CJH is the ML helped confirming suspicions, but that’s not what the reveal was based on.

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            @cubely I think we are on the same page. 🤣
            The show definitely needed more episodes.
            There was never any mystery about Ki-ho for the viewers.

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    I KNOW. I will only forgive the writers if they play “Night and Day” during their reunion scene

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      PLEASE!! 🥺
      (I’m currently listening to it even!! Ahah!)

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        I’ve been listening to it for the past four weeks (mostly the contest version but I sometimes will include the acoustic and OST versions). I have a serious probelm.

        Although I’ve been listening to “Until the End” a lot today because I REALLY like it. It gives early Taylor Swift vibes IMO.

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    Also, how horrible was it of them to put in the Saturday instead of the Friday episode? Don’t make me wait another seven days for the pain to end!

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