They forgot about business and were in a triangle that didn't exist

I don't know if the most, but maybe one of the most frustrating dramas of the year, that in script development ... A writing that started out good and ended mediocre, maybe that's a great definition for Start-Up ... I vaguely remember (and feel ashamed of) how when this drama started I indicated it to all my friends, because the first episodes were very good and an atmosphere was created that at the beginning referred to the struggle for a place in the sun (in the world business). And although I received the catfish plot strangely (lie and win / lose), I really didn't realize how harmful that plot would be.

Anyway, what should be just a subplot gained space during the dramas and unfolded in several lies, initiated by the most sympathetic character in the drama, the grandmother of Dalmi and Ji Pyeong. Lie that started with the letters, a not so smart way to deal with the suffering of a young girl when she saw her world fall apart, her world that was her family. I think that a therapy session would be much better than suspending a girl from reality and making her believe in an idealization, something that was possible because of a fanciful and somewhat naive mind for an already pre-teen. Dalmi's grandmother and JiPyeong participated in this lie, but unfortunately or fortunately, this lie gained a certain amount of truth, as they both felt comforted by it.

Behold, here comes the second and third lies, the second is that the card boy was the first love, a boy who was a creation but who also had part of the male secondary dreams / drawings, but as a character if you love can you love someone? This is Dalmi, who grew up cultivating a dream and speaking words that she barely knows the meaning of, love is a very strong word and not everyone deserves to say it. The third lie is Nam Do San, who started as a character that made identification possible, but developed in the opposite direction, lying and being aggressive, a protagonist with flaws, I think the idea of ​​trying to break with the concept of protagonist is a good point perfect, but we were faced with too many failures and almost unjustifiable mistakes. So we have the fourth lie, which is to get Nam Do San into Dalmi's life, a person who had nothing to do with the history of the letters, but who destroyed his memories with his hands (that was the funniest line that read in a script). With that, Do San enters Dalmi and Ji Pyeong's life and the romance begins ...

I mean the "frustrating triangle begins". And the lie becomes more accompanied by mistakes, "mistakes" made to keep the audience and the audience engaged in the dispute for couples, which only brought prejudice to the drama and left it tiring. The catfish that should have lasted only 4 episodes (in a sensible script) took 8 episodes to finish, and was also accompanied by episodes of regrets, cries and a Dalmi confused only in words because the actions already showed the decision she had made, although there is a lack of coherent reasons beyond what she said to Do San regarding her feelings for him, in this sense you can understand Do San's insecurity, which is plagued by an imposter syndrome (although he talks about freedom, he navigates without a plan and sometimes be violent, atypical). In some novels at the moment of confession, we always have that old cliché phrase of "Because it's you" and its similars, which may seem in the mind of some as something creative, but it only shows a poverty of writing, remembering that during those moments we always had an attempt to keep a viewer stuck in the drama.

But let's discuss other errors in the script. If this frustrating triangle were not enough, the brilliant plot of revenge for suicide is inserted. What made me more frustrating, because in addition to making the plot tiring, he showed immense carelessness in dealing with such a sensitive topic and also responsibility. This is supposed to bring about a change in the character Han Ji Pyeong seen as rude (things of those who do not know the business world or have never worked under pressure) by telling hard truths, but which in reality only served to keep him from the central stage. Now, if the secondary was removed, why only define the couple in episode 15? I repeat, just to hold the audience and generate repercussions, although most of them were negative and hindered the unfolding of the story, because it is because of revenge (and also because Nam Do San jealously, Chul San Greedy) that one of the worst decisions is made, we see the dissolution of the Samsan Tech team, unjustified violence (fight between Nam Do San and Ji Pyeong), tears and more tears, in short, unnecessary things. The interesting thing is that at this point all the words spoken in mentoring and previously in the drama, most of them by JP made sense, that emotionally unprepared developers wanted to be what they were not, that is, entrepreneurs, ceos ...

And what about the letters? They were forgotten for the longest time, proving that Dalmi's "first love" was just one of his many illusions, having a closing scene of that pathetic plot in the final episode.

What about grandma? One of the most important characters has been forgotten, just the initiator of the cards and the one who has a connection with almost all subplots. But before that, she gets a disease and here we see Do San's kindness being demonstrated, creating a non-profit business just for "kindness". And Injae? She only appeared on the posters and served more than half as Dalmi's "final enemy" by speaking unpleasant words, being defeated and remembered for her mistake in not choosing her sister and father. At least, she is with her sister, although we don't know how we already had a 3-year skip team (which has led to almost no development in history other than making Samsan's 3 rich and this reconciliation). The interesting thing is that it was supposed to be the female secondary, it was reduced to almost an extra and in most of the drama it had less relevance than her own mother, having as one of her main actions the lie of the Sandbox (in which she pretended to be the sister, that served as an idea for the creation of this support program for start-us) and serve as one of the catalysts for the rapprochement of Dalmi and Nam Do.

And finally, about Ji Pyeong? The best-built character lost to the poster boy (the name by which an influencer I know called Wes calls the protagonist). He became a supporting actor in his own story and ended as he started, that is, alone, having nobody but his grandmother, because I honestly cannot consider Dalmi, Do San, Chul San, Yong San to be good companies.

Finally, I need to score something. I heard that this story of starting in high school was an attempt to subvert the idea of ​​first love and give a narrative turn? But what first love? what turn? What I saw was just one mistake followed by another ...