Same on love-hate with romcoms, kdrama ones in particular. My main problems are that I: a) often disagree with their definition of funny/swoony personally and culturally; b) find the traditional investment in relationship gender imbalance where ML pines/loves/desires/sacrifices for FL way more than she ever does for him rather off-putting and not romantic in the slightest (unpopular opinion, I know). Ofc there are examples of the opposite, sometimes even extreme ones - for the record, I do NOT like those either. If my OTP isn't mutually ride or die for each other, I couldn't care about them, sorry. Which is why I prefer my romances in - ha! - either historical dramas and/or dramas where romance isn't the main genre, because those usually give me stories where OTP have to fight to be together very literally and struggle with getting there NOT due to petty reasons that only make me doubt the supposed greatness of their love. I also have a raging dislike for libido-free FLs because what's even the point of narrative to "reward" them with hot as hell MLs if they aren't gonna properly appreciate their luck? But that's a topic for another day...

Extreme beatdowns of FLs - or MLs, for that matter - in modern shows aren't very funny, I agree. I'll take 100 blood spitting torture-filled crappy days for the hero/heroine over 1 with office coworkers from hell anytime, tyvm.

Thanks for your kind words, this DB community has so many generous beanies who modelled how to maintain a safe warm place and I tried to reflect that🥰

Don't worry. I get it now. ^^

Song Kang-ho might win his first New Actor award for TV drama. 😂

Same. After two episodes, the history nerd in me wants to keep watching it, but my plate is full, so I'll probably binge it after JoL 2.

Have fun at the real life celebration and when you next log in hopefully the weekend go slow will be over and you can catch up stress free.

I am so glad this hangout appeared because I wanted to chat about this drama with other beanies.

I have been pleasantly surprised by the fast paced storytelling. It has been interesting to go back and forth on the timeline to see how each of the characters were shaped by their early circumstances.

Uncle Samshik is like a Grandmaster chess player; he has the game played out in his head and just waits patiently for it to come to fruition. He has all areas covered from the plan to funding streams, and people in key positions from politicians, to the heavies. I do wonder whether Samshik is opportunistic; the plan seems too intricate to be his own and the sidekick ‘professor’ may well be the actual brains behind the whole operation as they seem a mismatched pair.

Samshik trusts no one and his loyalties shift with the power so I am keen to see how despite his approach to life the balance of power shifted. The drama began with the end of the story and we are slowly being shown how everything came to be. Looking forward to how the last 5 episodes bring it all together.

Your brain is nothing of the sort! I like your brain! I didn’t want to take the risk of revealing something that I’ve found out so was declaring my intention to be silent on that front.

Ohh.
My dumb brain read "mum's is the WORLD for me", so I thought Woo Ju's mom was your new favorite character. 😂 Oops.

Huh. Another inconsistency!