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368 I am glad I have drama amnesia where I forgot a lot of the details or even all of the outline of a drama once I finished watching. So if I do re-watch something, it feels fresh because I don't remember the scenes. Randomly re-watching a local drama thanks to youtube. No idea why it is still riveting even though I have seen it before. Guess it is because the leads had great chemistry (they were rumoured to be dating) and the story was so volatile especially in the beginning. Too bad the second half of the daily drama was quite bad but still the first half is rather riveting. Spot on emotions and great dialogues. PS -- does anyone want to join me in watching weekend kdrama beauty and mr romantic. there is hardly any activity on the thread and so it would be nice to have people chatting even if the drama sucks...

Can one of the aunts die? They add nothing to the story. Chairman romeo was spot on in his assessment. Hye Won likes to talk big but she had the run of the company for 5 years. What did she achieve in that period? So she must not be that great at her job. She just thinks she is better than everyone. Also, he said what I felt from the start -- whatever happened between art MIL was between themselves. They were a couple. Who is Hye Won to poke her nose in? No one really. Her reactions always seem so overboard that she feels like the villain. Chairman Romeo is using Hye Ji as a tool for revenge. He feels Hye Won was the one who brought all the ill luck to the family and so the one who can cleanse her out is Hye Ji. He is going to sit back and watch the mess. As he is dying, he has also letting go of the past and going for someone he has always truly wanted -- regardless of who she is, he loved Hye Ji sincerely and she was the love of his life. So his actions make sense. If he had a good relationship with Hye Won, he may not have chosen that option but he can't stand her at all.

418 @partyon ~ I watched about 20 minutes of ep 1 and I am feeling sleepy. I don't get the wife. She thinks her hubby is good because he hasn't got the opportunity to cheat yet? So the woman is internally waiting for him to mess up. Also I don't get what kind of hospital is this where there seems to be only doctor. Surely there are other surgeons. Why does she have to rush from home? There is a reason people get off work -- to refresh. Otherwise, how are they supposed to be alert and do long operations. Shaking my head at lakorn logic.

how many characters has been killed in this drama? at this rate, we should have a poll on how many characters will be left still alive at ending episode.

@partyon ~ I will try check it out when I have time. Been a while since I saw a good lakorn. Most of the ones I drop within 15 minutes. 438

I don't think these two are the villains because they are not pretending to be something they are not. Rather Hye Won supersedes them as she acts like she is just and she is the judge. These two are just in her way and so they are her roadblocks.

@joccu ~ I watched ep 1 of weekend drama beauty and mr. romantic. it actually looks like it will be interesting to watch. check it out. 448

checked out ep 1 and it was better than I expected. not sure what I thought it would be like but based on the initial synopsis, I didn't think it would be this melodramatic. there is a note of desperation, sadness and a kind of weariness of life peppered throughout...

I wonder if they will cheat us by having a grey lead. Unless the child dies or she loses custody, she may not go fully villain. They might keep as a bit of a grey character who dabbles with darkness but does not cross over. She has two guys in love with her as well. So who knows if the writer will allow Hye Won to go fully dark... Or they might just continue to pretend that she is good. I was rolling my eyes when she told Chairman Romeo that she only took the CEO position to gain custody and then adds that she will keep her position for the sake of her son. The kid is five and she intends to sit in the chair for the next 20 years to keep the seat warm for him. Pleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaassssseeeeeee... Writer-nim, no need to fool the audience. Just say Hye Won is on her way to being full on greedy.

Either it is the craziness of rage or it is pure deflection. Am leaning towards the latter. As Hye Ji and chairman Romeo have noted -- Hye won acts like she is judge, she is most innocent and she is overconfident in her own beliefs. Hye Won stirred up the bee hive when she obsessed over art MIL's death. Even when Ji Chang asked her to let it go, she wouldn't. When he asked her not to use the recorder, she said she would anyway. So he had to step in and his way of controlling the situation was to off Hye Ji. So in some ways, she instigated Ji Chang to do something, anything -- that was the only she was going to accept him or their marriage or the company being uninvolved. If Hye Won thinks about it, she also had a hand to play in the steps Ji Chang took. She wouldn't let him grieve the way he wanted because she was obsessed over her own rage. She didn't care for his thoughts or opinions and pushed him to take action when he didn't want to. So Hye Ji is an easy target to get angry over. Otherwise, she would have to look in the mirror and see the role she played...

the hardworking truck of doom -- that unites couples and repairs all sorts of broken relationships. the therapist that every kdrama character needs but no one appreciates. how sad for the truck and the unknown driver.

I wondered if there was some scene missing -- just like Ji Chang's death, I wondered if there will be some additional scene revealed later that shows her actions more than indirect. Instead, like Ji Eun, she walked away and thus leaving her to die when she could have been saved..... re: @nohamahamoud2002

no. I actively avoid noona romance if it is a short series. these are the main tropes I have seen and they annoy me so much.... #1 -- the lady is super immature twat who hasn't got her life together. so she goes for a younger guy because her peers aren't interested. she then gets frustrated that he is not mature till she realizes that she isn't any better. #2 -- the pseudo mom. he is supposed to be more mature for his age but really he is more like a kid. and she moves into mothering type role. yea, that sounds really romantic. face palm #3 -- the lady is domineering personality and therefore no one wants to be around her except the jolly immature kid. essentially the lady is a loser and she comes down to younger guy because she can't do better -- that is the implied message the only sensible noona romances I can think were in the weekend dramas where they were one of the couples. one had happy ending and other realistic ending #1 -- guy is his in 30s and she is in her 40s. his father owns the publishing company and guy is the lazy entitled son who doesn't have his life together. the lady is one of the top execs in the company and he has always known her. they have a drunken one night stand where she gets pregnant. she decides to keep the baby because this is her only chance of children and shows up unannounced at his house. the father has enough of the son's shenanigans and makes him into the housekeeper and cook to learn responsibilities. initially he is awful but eventually he starts to take pride. in the end, he realizes that he is just not cut out for corporate life and he is more happy to take a backseat to his wife who is ready to lead the company. while it was a 10 year age gap, the personalities meshed. so their pairing made sense. #2 -- guy is mid-20s and she is in her 40s. she is coming out of a divorce and is technically related to him through marriage of one of his brothers. the relationship would be something like aunt. so the family all have meltdowns when they find out these two are attracted to each other and kind of started dating. there is the age gap as well as the family relation. in the end, they break up not because of the opposition but because they realize that they are at different stages of life and they can't break that gap. he is trying to figure out his life and career while she is looking at middle age and what she would like to accomplish by herself. so that realization makes them say a mature goodbye and they leave it at that. 470

996 it was a hot hot hot day today.

So it was one sided obsessive kind of love. Ah, now Hye Won's behaviour makes sense. Now she transfers that obsession to Ji Chang. I find it interesting that neither of these relationships had much depth. She is very much a solo person in terms of doing things on her own and never letting people in. She didn't value Ji Chang's opinion or his feelings. Similarly with art MIL, she was more offended than MIL on the divorce. She never involved the family to investigate or even shared her findings because this wasn't a two way relationship. Hye Won is someone who does not know how to love or truly have a relationship with anyone. So her going team bad degree by degree is the right path for her.