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Spoiler warning. For the first few episodes, the push-pull is fun, but once the couple gets together, it becomes deadly boring, unless you're the type who likes to watch couples being lovey-dovey in the park. There's also no real substance to the plot, and no real conflict. This is a romcom/love story, as far as I know, so the conflict should be with the actual relationship. But as with most other kdrama romcoms these days, it's fluff over substance. The relationship is picture-perfect and so fluffy and fuzzy that it loses all value, except to the abovementioned park voyeur perhaps. Seems like real conflict has gone out of style in kdramaland. The trend these days is to get the couple together as fast as possible, make the relationship perfect, make it rain fuzz, and then in the end insert a very weird and forced conflict, not with the relationship at all but with the main couple's entangled past (usually with a twist that is as colorless and insubstantial and illogical as the rest of the plot). This then gets easily resolved in one or two episodes and is not only out of sync with everything that came before, but is totally unnecessary and does not provide tension, excitement, or catharsis. And then of course don't forget the obligatory childhood connection thingy -- also totally unnecessary and just casts a creepy, cringey, incestuous shadow over the entire relationship (they were brought up or lived together or treated each other like brother and sister, but fell in love). If this is what the replacement formula is, give me the trusty old cliches -- the third parties and evil mother-in-laws and unrequited love. And the sparing love scenes that were too fleeting but made you feel so much more than these neverending, nauseating fluff-fests.
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