Colum H
UK - Yorkshire Free State
Shin Mi Rae! Shin Mi Rae! By the end of the first episode I was already on her team, just something about her attitude appealed. I really enjoyed her transformation into a force for political reform, morals, ethics and the ability to whether the blows rained upon her. I can't say I followed all the political vagaries but for the most part I rarely skipped past anything. Supporting characters had at least enough flesh on them to recognise them and their roles and the 'set pieces' worked well.
The main criticism I have with it and what ultimately made me drop it is the 'Romance'. Almost from the first time Jo Gook arrives on the scene I'm wondering how they are going to make Mi Rae fall for him in a convincing manner. I mean handsome and rich was a fair enough initial interest ploy but his almost immediate acting like a twat made it sputter out for me. Not only that, he's the sort of politician she ends up fighting against. So when this strong, moral woman keeps getting dragged into such deeply compromising situations with him both in a personal and a political sense I'm like..Why? The way that he treats her and she just does it again..Why? She's not stupid or weak willed and...just why? I mean camping? alone? in one tent? Why? I mean a couple of ok gestures but on the whole he treats with little respect. And I just don't get a fatal attraction style chemistry from them at all is it really just because he's rich and handsome?
The clincher for me and why, even though I was eager to see what happened in her political life I gave up on this, was again a compromising situation, alone in a hotel room with a single man. Who says to her (from memory) - you're alone in a hotel room with me, there's a bed there or a sofa if I can't get you that far, I'm stronger than you, no one would hear you shout, I could do anything I wanted to you, I mean you could try and fight me but hey what good would it do you...ha ha ha?
I think she calls him a 'Player'...I skipped back, read the subs again and then turned it off in the sure knowledge I couldn't watch them kiss from there on in.
The main criticism I have with it and what ultimately made me drop it is the 'Romance'. Almost from the first time Jo Gook arrives on the scene I'm wondering how they are going to make Mi Rae fall for him in a convincing manner. I mean handsome and rich was a fair enough initial interest ploy but his almost immediate acting like a twat made it sputter out for me. Not only that, he's the sort of politician she ends up fighting against. So when this strong, moral woman keeps getting dragged into such deeply compromising situations with him both in a personal and a political sense I'm like..Why? The way that he treats her and she just does it again..Why? She's not stupid or weak willed and...just why? I mean camping? alone? in one tent? Why? I mean a couple of ok gestures but on the whole he treats with little respect. And I just don't get a fatal attraction style chemistry from them at all is it really just because he's rich and handsome?
The clincher for me and why, even though I was eager to see what happened in her political life I gave up on this, was again a compromising situation, alone in a hotel room with a single man. Who says to her (from memory) - you're alone in a hotel room with me, there's a bed there or a sofa if I can't get you that far, I'm stronger than you, no one would hear you shout, I could do anything I wanted to you, I mean you could try and fight me but hey what good would it do you...ha ha ha?
I think she calls him a 'Player'...I skipped back, read the subs again and then turned it off in the sure knowledge I couldn't watch them kiss from there on in.
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