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How to lump as many Kdrama tropes as possible
I was excited for this series because I watched a ton of BTS videos on Youtube between Park Eun Bin and Rowoon and they have some of the best chemistry I've seen. They're so cute and so funny together.
The series was a giant hot mess. From start to finish, I began pointing out all of the stereotypical KDRAMA tropes from, "we met while children and became each other 1st love then fatefully reunited later as gorgeous adults", love triangle, female-disguised as male but falls in love with the right hand, etc etc etc. It just felt like the writers wanted to lump in as many tropes as possible while simultaneously stretccccching out the series to an unnecessary 20 episodes.
I liked watching Rowoon and loved that he accepted his sexuality and loved Eun Bin despite full-heartedly believing she was a man, versus Park Bo-Gum's character in Love in the Moonlight falling in love with his eunuch and discovering he was a she BEFORE the kiss scene, which felt a lot like gay-baiting to me because I loved his self-discovery regarding his sexuality too and thought it was a cop-out for viewers to be tricked into thinking he still thought Hong Sam Nom was a man during the kiss scene than in the very next episode revealing he'd seen Sam Nom change her clothes and reveal her true gender before he'd kissed her in the garden.
I couldn't finish this series. I literally skipped through the majority of them after faithfully watching the first 6 episodes. If you want to watch great chemistry, watch their BTS videos online. This series ain't it.
The series was a giant hot mess. From start to finish, I began pointing out all of the stereotypical KDRAMA tropes from, "we met while children and became each other 1st love then fatefully reunited later as gorgeous adults", love triangle, female-disguised as male but falls in love with the right hand, etc etc etc. It just felt like the writers wanted to lump in as many tropes as possible while simultaneously stretccccching out the series to an unnecessary 20 episodes.
I liked watching Rowoon and loved that he accepted his sexuality and loved Eun Bin despite full-heartedly believing she was a man, versus Park Bo-Gum's character in Love in the Moonlight falling in love with his eunuch and discovering he was a she BEFORE the kiss scene, which felt a lot like gay-baiting to me because I loved his self-discovery regarding his sexuality too and thought it was a cop-out for viewers to be tricked into thinking he still thought Hong Sam Nom was a man during the kiss scene than in the very next episode revealing he'd seen Sam Nom change her clothes and reveal her true gender before he'd kissed her in the garden.
I couldn't finish this series. I literally skipped through the majority of them after faithfully watching the first 6 episodes. If you want to watch great chemistry, watch their BTS videos online. This series ain't it.
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