Beanie level: Water maid

Just wondering. Has anyone watched Battle for Happiness or Happy Battle on Viki? I guess it came out in June of this year. I’m on episode #1. It looks promising.

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Hubby said I misspoke. We DO go back in time in ep#9. However, it doesn’t yet answer the ‘why’ of their pdestinies. It shows them as youngsters.

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    Ep 9 seemed to narrate the first half of their love story. I’m hoping 10 will explain the rest. 🤞🏽We already got a flash to the red hand.

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I’m struggling with SY’s parents storyline. The dad is rude af to the mom, takes her for granted, & stands her up. She acts ditzy and immature which drives me nuts. That baby talk voice has to go!

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    I’m starting to believe that her immature behaviour is a way of protecting herself from what she feels is a loveless marriage (or a marriage in which she is considered to be inferior). If she never shows her full true self to dad, he can never “really” hurt her.

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      Right now I can’t really make out if she is really that ditzy and immature or is it a defense mechanism … feel it is the latter.

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Plus, why are SY/HJ still fretting about spells? The shaman said no matter how they fight it, they’re destined for each other. Also, the show is trying to make us think JY is a bad guy. Hmm? Is he?

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Destined W/ You is driving me nuts. We’re halfway through the show tomorrow and we’re still clueless as to why the leads are compelled by the past to be together. Time to move forward w/ the story!

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    Strangely both ep 9 and 10 seemed fillers … I was expecting a time travel to Joseon … but the few snippets were no more than just an intoduction to the past life characters.

    Only new information was perhaps the creepy garden and SFL connection.

    We just seem to be going around in circles and why does SFL have her claws in Shin-yu so deep?

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The idea the love spell only enhances potential feelings of attraction/love/obsession (flower guy) is a legit one. SML doesn’t treat FL much better after the potion. He begrudgingly accomodates her.

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I find it ridiculous when you have a conniving, duplicitous character like the SFL yet her bf of 2 years have zero inkling of her true colors. Please. That mask would have slipped on occasion by now.

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Here are my thoughts on DFY.
So far, the writers are relying on visuals v plotting. There’s minuscule forward movement each episode but there’s endless close-ups of Rowoon and his jawline.

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The REAL missed opportunity is Celebrity. It’s got such potential and some very good moments, but overall the production value feels tacky and chintzy. Park Gyu-Young is terrific.She’s worth watching

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I’ve decided neither KTL or 19th are worth sticking it out. I’ll read recaps and comments and maybe jump in here/there. KTL has SOME potential (Yoon-ah isn’t very good), but 19th is too slow/dull.

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This is TOO MUCH! Why can’t poor Hae-yi get a break? Of all the characters to continue to dump on. And don’t get me started on Jae-woo and Young-Joo. I can’t believe they’ve put them as a couple.

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    It’s an obvious ‘considered’ decision by Hae-yi with her own reasoning. She’s wise beyond her age (and definitely heaps more brainy than her mum) – it may be her way to fix her mum and not to drag the other family members down. Sounds like noble idiocy but could be the only way to get that mum out of the scene for good. Another 24 hours to find out.

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    The relationship between Jae-woo and Young-joo is gross.

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      They should have never had that earlier arc of Young-Joo leading on. It cheapens the whole plot line to make the subsequent development palatable.

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        It’s a standard case of emotional manipulation. She raises the idea, he reacts badly, she gets upset, he feel bad about her being upset and acts to remedy the situation as though it’s his failing and not hers. I hate that he has never once shown any evidence of a sexuality or romantic interest in anybody. He’s just trying to make her happy at his own expense.

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        What do you guys think of the final ending for these two? I’m not shocked they’d go there, I’m flabbergasted.

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I know it’s being used as a plot point, but Hae-yi’s mom muscling her way in is against everything we’ve been shown about Hae-yi’s personality. It’s lazy writing and an overplayed trope in my book.

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Ep 15 of Crash Course in Romance. NO WAY Hae-yi would tolerate her birth mom elbowing Haeng-seon out of the way to take the spotlight. It’s against the character as written in the last 14 eps.

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    I was so expecting her to say “she isn’t my mom, SHE (points at HS) is my mom” and then the annoying woman and Chi Yeol would leave the room.

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    I don’t think she is, I think she feels guilty about how much Hang-seon has had to give up because of her and now she has to deal with her awful sister coming back and hitting her boyfriend up for money as well. If she leaves with her mother for Japan, in her mind she’s killing two birds with one stone. Freeing Hang-seon up from caring for her and having to deal with this terrible woman at the same time. Bear in mind she’s long blamed herself for things like the scandal and the misunderstanding that stopped them from getting together in the first place.

    It’s Noble Idiocy.

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The last Interest of Love recap is coming and I gotta say: Nope, nada, no way, forget it, way too little way too late. What a messed up, unnecessarily complicated show. Waste of time, waste of talent.

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