The thread is now open for spoilers and comments.
Let’s enjoy the show!
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This is an homage to “Forrest Gump.” But lol we saw this, too, on “Start-Up,” too.
Gif credit: Liveasbutterflies’ tumblr
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My “First Impressions” is late. I was going to post it yesterday but I discovered that all my screenshots were gone so I had to redo them elsewhere.
I know, but YUCK. My daughters use those for clearing pores and I’ve seen the inside. 😱😆
Thank you @packmule3 for the post. I hope that the comic moments continue.
The cameo by Danoh and Baek Hyung was so funny! I really miss these characters!
Can I just get a second and slap Suho for disturbing the kiss in the shadows arrrrgggghhhh 😂 Or I think they actually kissed? Yeah I’ll just leave it at that since they are actually still Kyung and DanOh 😢😂.
I wonder if they’ll appear in one of the comic books to be read by the leads? And that cinema scene where the ml disturb the kiss would be in one of the panels? That would be awesome! But then they are into goth/horror genre! Well, they could at least incorporate that, right? It’s really gonna be an awesome easter egg.
🤪 Danoh is still Haru’s girl, @ LeeDale9198.
They didn’t get to kiss because
A. Suho interrupted them
and
B. It “clicked” — signaling that the “Stage” was switched off. That’s why she remembered “Haru!” and ran off.
Hahaha. Kyung still didn’t get DanOh.
DanOh was only watching the movie with Kyung bec she was performing according to the comics, and NOT because she wanted to be on a real date with Kyung. 😈😂🙂
Too bad Rowoon wasn’t there. That would be funny: Cha EunWoo and Rowoon. Who can act better? 😂
@packmule 👁👄👁 😭😭😭
You didn’t have to do this to me maaaa 🤣🤣🤣 lol jk
I’ll just savor that behind the scene photo of Hyeyoon and Jaewook. They really look so happy there, enjoying each other’s company! I’ll wait for the BTS video too. Everyone, the staff and crew, really enjoyed their visit and cameo so can’t wait to see that.
😜 And because PD didn’t let KyungDan couple to happen here, that sealed the deal for me to NOT watch True Beauty, like ever! 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha.
You wouldn’t be able to resist, LeeDale. Just give in, and watch True Beauty with us.
I told you I like Lee JaeWook. I like intensity. I like intense guys like him.
But in the story, his character just doesn’t work for DanOh. I have to separate my personal preferences or “biases” from the writer’s preferences.
LeeDale9198,
The way Baek Kyung called “Eun DanOh. Eun. Dan. Oh!!!” was exactly how I remembered him yelling after her.
😂😂
Also, he wasn’t even attempting to kiss her. I think he was checking something in her eye or on her face.
That’s why I wanted Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol to be perfect for Lee JaeWook. But instead I got this crappy story. 🙄🤦♀️😒
I’ll have to wait again for the next romcom for him.
I didn’t even watch DDSSLLS, I can resist True Beauty just fine thank you very much 🤣😂.
But it’s sad to know DDSSLLS become crappy. Well, there’s still time for Jaewook to be in more dramas. Hope it could be with Hyeyoon 😍.
Yes. I wouldn’t mind Hyeyoon and JaeWook too.
Hyeyoon is so cute. I wouldn’t mind a daughter like her. But then I’d make an insufferable stage mom 😣 … so it’s good that I don’t have daughter like her. 😂😂
Sun Ho didn’t interrupt the kiss, Baek Kyung was helping Danoh with something. But Baek Kyung learned his lesson even when he could he didn’t kiss Danoh because she didn’t love himm he’s a good boy but still with his character. The way he called her was so him :D. In three different manhwas, Danoh always loved Haru, it won’t change even if in True Beauty 😀
For the acting, I prefer Rowoon to CEW. He acted more different characters than CEW. In About Time, his character was so different from Haru. Sunbae, Don’t Put on That Lipstick’s poster is so beautiful. His character will be very different too. He will talk :p
Good point, Sayaris!! It’s always Haru for our girl in all three reincarnations (or manhwas) and one cameo.
🙂 If Rowoon and CEW were to enlist at the same time, the average Handsomeness Quotient (kinda like IQ) of the enlisted men would be raised significantly. 😂😂
Kim Hyeyoon is cute. She would have been my first pick as the female heroine of this drama. But Moon GaYoung is doing awesome in her performance as JK and Kim Hyeyoon probably didn’t want to be typecast in these bubbly high schooler roles.
So I have now decided that I do love this drama. I have so much fun with it, and there are moments it gets deep and relatable for me. Especially with the focus on bullying, the real life effects of it and more. It’s great to see that this show actually makes me smile and it’s breath of fresh air from all the other heavy dramas I watched this year I think.
Shallowness wise I still prefer RooWon than EunWoo so far but probably because of EY. But I still have plenty of room in my shallow heart lol..
I actually looking forward to Sunbae, the poster and the teaser intrigue me..
Ok on to catch up TB ep3&4 😆
Between Rowoon and EunWoo I personally prefer EunWoo’s looks. His face. It’s so nicely proportioned. Although for some reason his head looks too small for his body? 😂. I love how JuGyeong stares at him as he is trying to teach her math and her comment isn’t, “how can you have such a perfectly flawless face?” Instead it’s “how can someone with such a small head solve such a complicated maths problem?” 😂. Her naivety begs belief. But somehow MGY delivers and I am inclined to believe her?
HyeYoon and JaeWook were great as cameos. Love HyeYoon to bits. Can’t wait for her next drama Snow Drop.
I know what you mean about MGY and her successful portrayal of a naive girl.
Also I’ve heard her normal voice in “Tempted,” and “Find Me in Your Memory.” She doesn’t speak in this soft, airy, breathy, wondering voice at all. But she adopts this voice bec her character is supposedly an ingenue.
And it works for me.
This is the same type of childish voice that never fails to turn me off whenever I hear Yoo InNa does it. For me, Yoo InNa is too old to use this baby voice. I wished she’d drop the act. It sounds like an exaggeration and a fetish already. You know, the mature women being infantilized and needy for “Big Daddy.” 😂
@packmule3
I actually check back Find Me in Your Memory when I watched TB Ep1 to see if MGY delivered her lines this way lol..
Also yes yoo inna finally someone said it, she always using baby/aegyo voice whether in MLFTS, Goblin, and that drama with Lee Dong Wook. Should go and check her interview and see if she talks like that in RL
The other thing that has me curious is uniforms in South Korea. It looks like you’re allowed to customize your uniform to a certain extent? With jumpers and pretty bows and different shoes? Is there no standard? Unless this is because it’s based off a webtoon and not reality. Maybe I come from an era of stricter schools but I am pretty sure my kids were pulled up for wrong color hair ties or non-standard issue jumpers or black shoes that weren’t the recommended style.
@packmule3 I need to check out Find Me in Your Memory if I get time. I tried starting Run On but that FL isn’t doing much for me. She’s supposed to act ditzy but I just can’t buy it so I am dropping it.
Yes, Yoo Inna’s voice drives me nuts. She’s almost 40 years, and she acts and SOUNDS like a “choding” — I think that’s the Korean word for it. Elementary school kid.
Maybe that’s acceptable in Korean culture because of all the “aegyo” stuff. But that’s a no-no for me. I wouldn’t hire, much less, interview someone who acts and sounds like a child. A baby voice simply doesn’t inspire confidence.
I tried to watch “Run On” last night, too, and no.
She whipped out her iphone to show her idol/actress a message and that already had my hackles up. There she is again, acting like a giddy girl.
I think this actress is good for two things: acting giddy (check!) and rolling off two fat tears down her cheeks.
But I can’t grasp her inner thoughts in between those two extreme moments of giddiness and sadness. It involves too much work for me. lol. So nope.
Okay, I just want to tell everyone here that I love Jugyeong and Seojun’s cat-dog relationship. I love how they are always chasing and running around each other, them bickiring is just so cute and fun to look at.
I may not be watching the drama itself but I would search for Seojun-Jugyeong scenes on twitter. Yes this is what I do if I am struck by the second lead syndrome. I’m already biased for the actor Inhyeop to begin with and we’re not totally impressed by CEW either so there’s no point watching the drama as I would probably skip scenes where our 2nd lead is not involved.
So yeah just a pro-tip for those who are rooting for the 2nd leads (especially for new lurkers here who are team 2nd leads), we can actually just do fine with only watching the second lead only, but if we are to criticize the drama and be mad that the 2nd lead didn’t get the main lead, better watch and learn and understand the whole story. There’s always reasons why 2nd leads are 2nd leads. And most of the time these reasons are reasonable. Also we know by the time we begin watching the drama that our 2nd lead is the 2nd lead so if we catch the 2nd lead syndrome then we better prepare ourselves to be hurt. So by the time the drama is airing and ends, we will not be overtly crazy and delusional like the JP fans out there ☺😊.
Okay this is all, just wanna share my syndrome symptoms and medication here 😂.
I think her relationship with SJ is like her relationship with her younger brother. As of Episode 4, when their mothers introduced them, they began looking like siblings who got on each other’s nerves and teased each other as payback for some real or imagined offense in the past. Tit for tat. She isn’t shy with him because she doesn’t see him as a love interest.
I did like her letter of apology to him when she realized that her brother sold off the helmet without permission. I also like that he “contained” his anger and didn’t show the guys the letter to embarrass her. I thought that whole “Where’s my helmet?” was a good ploy to keep him in the running in the boyfriend sweepstakes. I also like that she filled the helmet with candies.
SeoJun isn’t a jerk unlike Baek Kyung (in “Extraordinary You”) and JP (in “Start-Up”). He looks like a decent and caring guy. He hasn’t done anything wrong…not that I can see.
But unfortunately, he isn’t the guy-who’ll-get-the-girl-in-the-end. As Hamlet would say, “Ay, there’s the rub.” 🙂
It was a funny scene. Then having Soo-Ho hiding from Ju-Kyung and her blind date afterwards and asking himself why he is being such a loser. Many comic moments this week.
If Hwang In-yeop is really singing, he has a very nice voice.
@nrllee, I was thinking the same about the uniforms. My daughter’s school won’t even let them wear a same-colour sweater under their blazer unless it has the school logo.
Soo-Ho has been doing quietly gentlemanly things without having ulterior motives. – The blazer at school; the bandage for her knee; the cushion for her hemline at the karaoke. Well, that was partly for his comfort, too. 😉😁. And he said that he saw no difference between Ju Kyung with or without makeup.
He was annoying with his do-this and do-that demands, but I rather think he was doing them to spend more time with her. He always looked surprised when she ran off. I’m glad that the ‘impersonation’ is resolved between them. Also he realised that his demands were much more of a burden to her than he could have imagined until he had the flashback of her on the roof and had the perception of what led to it from her words.
Oh, her dance ‘audition’ . I was laughing. And Soo-ho’s face and recollection later. He’s hooked.
For Yoo In Ah, I really love her in The Spies Who Loved Me. Her character is one of the best female character in Kdrama! The plot is more about the relationships than spy stuff.
I don’t really have second lead syndrom because if I like their scenes together, I don’t like the fact one of the reasons he approached her was to bother SH.
It’s funny how SH is more flustered by JK than her by him.
@Fern, Inhyeop has a singing scene? I was not able to finish watching the clip of them in a karaoke, so this is new info for me!
He sang too in 18 again, the drama that I first saw him. But I thought it’s not his voice at all so I just assumed he lipsynced. Definitely gonna check Seojun singing now.
@packmule, it’s great to know Seojun is not a jerk (yet). But some are not liking him because as Sayaris said, SJ approached JG to annoy SH. I don’t really know tho, I will just gonna enjoy Seojun-Jugyeong scenes on the sidelines 😃.
Update: Our man Inhyeop can sing!! You go rise boy! We’re gonna see him skyrocket more into stardom 😃
@LeeDale9198, I believe you are smitten. 😊
Yes, I couldn’t tell if it was dubbed or not, but if it wasn’t, he has a good voice. Unlike Ju-kyung, whose character sings worse than I do. I’m surprised that the other students weren’t laughing at her practice. Good thing she decided to dance. 😉
I thought JK’s obsession on the make up is showing us a lot more aspects of make up than Record of Youth. I wonder how much money she must spend on all that!! She can be a make-up artist.
Also love the cat-dog r/s of JK and SJ! JK has this very neutral comfort around guys as in she is innocently oblivious to their advances or expression of concern. So it is as if she treats them like her friend or brother. Having a pesky younger brother probably helped. Gosh the sister-brother sibling fights remind me of Deoksun-BoRa sibling fights.
The other thing while she is obsessed with her make up facade to be accepted, I love that she is not swayed or affected over boys’ handsome looks like her sister when she came home drunk, or her mum who saw SJ and swooned over him.
Loving InYeop’s role here as SJ! He was in “18 again” as a bad boy bully turned good. In True Beauty, he still has the same bad boy vibe but the surprising quirky parts that shows a funny side of him. In one of the cast interviews, SJ is described as chic, condescending…and sloppy, and that’s why he is cute! No second lead syndrome here cos I love SJ-JK’s cat-dog r/s better. 😛 In the same interview, SH is described as JK’s first love and SJ as JK’s male friend.
@Fern haha I’m just amazed at how he could reach this stage of his career at his age. Definitely tells me that there is really time for everything and that we have different timelines.
I’m gonna look forward to the continuous rise of his career, be a main lead of a tv drama, maybe release an album because he has a voice.
What I wrote:
’m so happy Kyung called Suho out on his bullying even if that’s not what he meant it as. Again with the scene where those people were speaking to her and calling her names; this show doesn’t try and hide the severity of how harsh they are with their words and actions, how cruel they are just once they see how she looks. They don’t see a human they see someone so far below them and for what? Because she looks ugly? Like it’s insane but you know what they’re people who go through that in real life, who get bullied for something they cannot control. People with severe acne and other external issues always feel this sad anxiety and pain because of something that they can’t control. It’s like it’s a curse to be out with your face like that because it’s bothering other people. But why should it be this way?
Why are people so cruel when it comes to looks and what they think is ideal? Why can’t we feel comfortable just being our true selves? Why do you have to make people feel like they have to hide who they are to survive? That’s what this show is tackling it may be a cute Romantic comedy fantasy about the ugly duckling becoming a swan or whatever but someone like me who knows how Kyung feels it’s like a trigger into my past memories.
Kyung isn’t being dramatic that she wants to hide from people knowing she’s ugly, she’s seen what it can do to her when she’s just being her self. That reiterated it again, no matter how much she wants to be her self and feel happy and free being that way people look down on her and treat her like she’s worthless just for her external looks. It’s disgusting and yet that scene showed again that the way she’s running for Suho and others is not just a dramatic thing she can easily overcome: it’s not easy for you to say to say aww just be confident and be yourself because it’s not easy to do that when people have made this girl feel like it’s a sin for her to be alive because of how she looks. And it’s honestly painful to see that. With Suho he’s falling for her without the make up because of her just being her self but he also aligned with those people probably not understanding why she was standing on the rooftops that first time he met her, probably didn’t understand how much she suffered for the reason she was hiding. I’m glad he apologised and I can’t wait to see their relationship change. Time to see what his own secrets are next.
I think this show has actually gotten my interest, I look forward to see what next episode brings and if I will start to look at it even more analytically.
I do like how JK’s character is written though. What I do like especially is the fact that she still stands up for herself and is spunky? She pushes back when people tell her she’s ugly? Her family aren’t terribly supportive either so it’s coming from within. She didn’t follow through with her decision to take her own life. She has enough self worth to keep living. Actually what happened to the farewell message she left her mom? JK really had no one to lean on with all the bullying happening. And out of the goodness of her heart (true beauty), when she was at her lowest, she still found it within herself to offer encouragement to SH? As she said goodbye to him after the incident at the rooftop? It takes someone special to look beyond your own problems to try to help someone else with theirs?
@beingwritten, I think that the lingering effects of all the negativity is what causes Ju Kyung to still react strongly to comments about her face. I saw this in her running away from former classmates, her desperate attempts to fulfill Soo Ho’s demands, her deer-in-the-headlights reaction to the men outside the shop. It will still be some time before she can stand firmly before her tormentors.
I agree with nrllee that JK is more assertive than before with her brother and she is comfortable enough with SH to often push back when not in school. I think she’s given up with her mother. That line about how the drain/sewer smell is more important than her was telling. The mother observed it and wondered about it, but never asked JK about it. Although I have to admit there was a comic element to her sprawling across the doorway and her mother and sister stepping over her. (My daughter used to do a similar thing when I said it was bedtime – fall over and not get up. I had to resort to tickles.)
I wonder who the Mr Choi is that Soo-Jin’s father has arranged for them to meet at dinner? She was so upset, washed her hands, smelled them and then scrubbed them again. Is Mr Choi or the situation that creepy? 😱
Fern,
Like you, I sensed that SooJin is being sexually harassed by a grown-up but she couldn’t do anything Perhaps this Mr. Choi, who’s a visitor at her home?
@packmule3, I’ll guess we’ll see. Her actions really spoke of revulsion. I wonder if her dad is trying to arrange a marriage. But she’s too young. 😣
My favourite part of episode 4 was when JK said she was nervous to meet a boy outside for the first time (implying her first date with a boy).
And Suho just had this face, when he said, “Didn’t you also meet me outside?”
I love how JK doesn’t see SH as a romantic prospect at all!
@Fern @packmule3 same thoughts regarding the SooJin hand washing scene.
🙂 Let’s see how the writer and director will handle this. This might be more than they can chew.
I wasn’t particularly happy with the dance that JK performed on stage. Especially the sexually suggestive parts like bending over and wiggling the butt.
In real life, the administration or whoever’s working backstage should have turned on the lights to let her know that she was auditioning in the wrong auditorium. The adults shouldn’t have been watching that kind of dance from one of their student anyway, and she shouldn’t have performing like that in front of adults.
Anyway, I’m taking points off for that segment. I don’t know how the writer is planning to tie that in with the drama…especially if one of the students, SooJin, is a victim of sexual abuse.
Finally caught up with True Beauty!! as a fan of the webtoon series I must say they’re doing a good job with it, despite many differences from the webtoon. I like both men for Jugyeong. They totally changed the first meeting of each characters but they still made it work here. But kinda wished they kept Suho to be the one who gave Jugyeong the signed comic book like in the webtoon. I also wish her encounter with SeoJun was like in the webtoon too though but I understand since this is an adaptation.
Even in the latest chapters of the webtoon we still don’t know who she’ll really end up with especially since *webtoon spoiler* she broke up with Seojun *webtoon spoiler*
I’m curious with how they will show SooJin’s backstory, SooJin in the webtoon has a different story and she is also labeled as ‘attention seeker’and is also not BFF with Sua, so im really curious how this plays out. Soojin getting that message and the way she washed her hands there’s definitely a story there but I agree with you @pm3 this is another issue that should not be taken lightly.
I’m also not a fan of that audition piece wished they asked her to do something different 🙁
Thanks for the telling us the difference bet the cartoon and drama, @ foreverinreverie.
This Director worked with adaptations before and it seemed (to me, at least) that he was willing to deviate, or give the original story a spin of his own.
We shall see. 😂 We can’t be so lucky as to have two good kdramas back-to-back, right? If all else fails, there’s always Start-Up.
I agree about the audition dance. Not a fan. Why did she change her mind? I thought she was going to sing? She sang off key outdoors when she was prepping?
Also not a fan of her Unnie. And her romance (?) with the Lit teacher. 🙄. Her younger brother? There are some angles where I swear he’s a young version of Yeo JinGoo. 😂. And the shared bathroom scene? Where her brother was on the toilet? Also not a fan.
Having said that I am not exactly watching this for the plot or story development or depth of character. I am watching it just because 😂. Mindless entertainment.
@pm3 you’re welcome!will share more if I notice any other significant difference. hahaha yes, at least we still have start-up.
@nrllee
They changed the sister liking the professor bit. In the webtoon it was actually the professor Mr. Han? who asked Jugyeong to set him up a date with her sister. They didn’t hit it off. Hahahaha
Did this writer change the first encounters (or the “meet cute”) for the leads?
So tell me again please? It was Suho who gave “The Cursed Mask” to JK in the cartoon? But did he also save her from jumping off the ledge?
It makes more sense that she had the book bec it changed the “power struggle.” SHE has something he needed and not the other way around.
But then he found out about her secret, so he had the upper hand again. But the bleeding knee shook him up. He realized that what started as a prank for him to get her to come running to him anytime he wanted ended up physically injuring her.
I also don’t get the fuss about JK’s dad. Every time the ahjummas mentioned how handsome he was, I’d scratch my head. What on earth are they talking about?!!
@packmule3 I didn’t get that about the handsome dad either (he’s not particularly good looking)? And the fact that JK is supposed to take after her mom? (In Ep1 when she was a child). Did I hear wrong? And her siblings take after her dad (the supposedly “good looking” side of the family)? If that’s the case, then the mom would be “ugly”? The mom’s response (to JK) to all the ribbing by the extended family is “get better grades”? Huh? 🤔 As if that would solve everything? Shouldn’t the mom defend her? If JK takes after her mom, then surely the mom would’ve suffered similar ridicule when she was growing up? And therefore she would be more sympathetic to JK’s plight? Instead she makes her feel worse? As a few of us have noted before, her mom’s a beautician? Yet it doesn’t look like she did anything to help reassure JK about the rude comments she was receiving? Or give her tips about makeup? Her family bothers me a lot. She really is “alone” in her struggles about her looks. 🙄
@nrllee
Kdrama and their toilet joke 🤦🏻♀️ somehow I’m very slow in finishing TB, very hard to finish it in one sitting.
Yes, you got that right, @nrllee. JK is said to look like her mom, implying that her dad was the husband one in the family. When I looked at the dad, he looked ugly?? Perhaps the mom was ugly when she was a kid, but because of her make-up, the face we’re currently looking at is already the “improved” version. I don’t know. I thought the mom looked better than the dad.
The dynamics of that family is a weird one. If the mom had been made fun of in her youth because of her looks — then, you’re right, nrllee — she should be displaying empathy and support for JK’s condition and INTERVENTION to stop JK’s depression. What kind of mom would let her child go through the same ordeal that she went through??
But I’m laying the blame for this nonsense on the writer, especially the webtoon writer if this family dynamics was already written in comics to begin with. 🙂
Yes, the ‘meet cute’ is wayy different.
In the webtoon, JK did not attempt to jump off the ledge. Nothing like that happened in the webtoon. The only one who did jump off the ledge was Seyeon.
The first time SH and JK meet is at the comic shop. It was only when she went to school the next day that she realized they were schoolmates. Like in the drama they often meet at the comic shop, SH gave JK his signed copy of the comic as a thank you gift for recommending other horror comic books lol.
SH found out about JK’s face w/o makeup when they accidentally met outside a cosmetic shop after school. SH recognized her because of a broken chibi skeleton keychain she uses.(he has the other part of the keychain because he saw when it fell/broke when they were at school and he was the one who picked it up. ) SH called her name and she turned around. To get out of her dilemma, since they are out in public she made a scene implying that SH is trying to recruit her in their cult. Lol. Then the next day when they met at school JK begged SH not to tell anyone and that she will do anything for SH. SH then made use of the ‘cult’ thing, and said since he is the cult master she must serve him so he made her do tasks but not the same extent as the one in the drama. It only lasted for a day. And they did share SH’s lunch at the rooftop. SH also asked JK to watch a horror film with him at the cinema as part of her “task”. *smooth* (SH kind of like wants JK to be his friend since he doesnt have any, and also because they bonded already through the horror comics so he is comfortable with her.) SH is an introvert and not really that kind of jerk like in the drama he just likes to keep to himself.
The bleeding knee is not really connected with SH in webtoon, SeoJun is the essential character with regards to the knee. Like SH, JK met/saw SJ outside school, and she only found out the next day that they were schoolmates. They are all in different classrooms.
Their encounter was at a fastfood joint, JK slipped and landed on her knees hence the bleeding knee, due to the impact, some of her cola flew to the shirt of SJ’s friend. But SJ was indifferent to her that time. They become friends through the help of SJ’s sister Go Woon.
From what I remember JK’s dad in the webtoon was mentioned only once. he is of no importance in the story. Lol. I also scratch my head whenever they say that his dad is good looking lol.
Ahh I hope this helps and is understandable.. english is not my first language hahaha. the webtoon is an easy read you can catch up with it in a week or depends on how fast you read. It has around 120+ chapters translated in english.
I found myself enjoying the drama more and more by trying not to compare it to the webtoon, because it’s very different. I try to see them now as two entirely different things.
While I find the boys gentler in the webtoon, they are more playful in the drama, which I find necessary to give way to the comedy gold that we get every episode. For episode 4, I laughed out loud when Suho saved Jukyung in the bus by accidentally grabbing her face, lol. So many funny and adorable scenes the last two episodes, too. I always enjoy Jukyung’s monologues haha
Though I hope there’ll be less wrist-grabbing in the next episodes. But I do appreciate Jukyung grabbing Seojun’s wrist to escape the bullies haha.
The family scenes are hard for me to watch, and the mom’s comments about Jukyung’s looks are specially hard for me to accept. (I still wonder whether she had listend to Jukyung’s voice message when she attempted to jump off the ledge!) I am now tempted to fast forward her scenes, but I’m hoping that she’ll change her behaviour towards Jukyung.
I also scratch my head in confusion when the father is regarded as good-looking haha! I love the actor, though, and I’m still waiting why they added the father to the drama version.
@foreverinreverie, thanks for the breakdown of the webtoon and drama differences! I read the webtoon but forgotten a lot already. Do you remember if Seojun express romantic interest towards Jukyung early? If I remember correctly he didn’t exactly make a move/show interest so early in the story. But I might be wrong!
I agree that the dance could have been stopped earlier and still had the same comic effect. It was similar to many girl group dances so I wondered if the dance was the same as the MV; but no, it’s much tamer. Still not the thing to happen between a student and teachers. It was one time when I appreciated the blustery principal who changed the atmosphere so quickly by scolding the teachers.
So much of this melding of webtoon and kdrama seems awkward. I think it’s because I am not familiar with webtoons and culturally, to be fair, I’m watching with a western sensibility and through the eyes of a parent.
The things that I’ve noticed are the very broad humour and exaggerated violence. The mother in particular, is like a panto caricature, only caring for her more attractive children and physically beating everyone else. On the other hand there are subtle and tender moments. Is it possible that the screenwriter and director have made a big effort to keep some of the style of a webtoon in this drama? All of the pre-release frames of the animated characters next to the actors playing them seems to suggest this. Yes, it may be difficult to combine the genres.
I like JK’s dad. He is supportive and generally a ‘glass half full’ sort of man. The photo of him and JK shows his appreciation of her. The move made him recall his happiness as a newlywed while his wife mourned 8 wasted years. (Of course *he* was the one who lost the money. 😄) I admit that I admire his ability to iron knife pleats.
I like JK’s sister, too. She told JK that she likes being very forthright in relationships. Judging by the indecisiveness of the Mr Han the teacher, she could be looking at a repeat of her parents’ relationship. I noticed his retro tastes. She’s into gaming while he has a gramophone, a record player, a reel-to-reel tape deck, an old-style fan and a vintage space heater. Like his car, they may have come from his parents. (Could the pink wall indicate that he is still living at home with his mother?)
@Fern I agree. In part that is why I am letting some of the more exaggerated scenes and caricatures of the characters slide. On the assumption that PD and writer are attempting to film it like a ManHwa/Webtoon. Extraordinary You was much better at this because there was NO doubt whatsoever where the comic and real world divide was (and it actually parodied it) and therefore no ambiguity. This drama on the other hand, is more ambiguous and that’s why I am having problems deciding where the line is?
Hi @jinyangie, SeoJun kept his distance by having a platonic relationship with JK cause he figured out early on that JK and SH liked each other.
I’ve been rereading the webtoon right now and I finally caught up with the latest chapters, and I need to correct some stuff,so apparently SeoJun and JK’s first encounter in the drama is much more similar to the webtoon. JK called the cops when she saw SJ getting beaten up. But it was only SJ who recognized her as someone from school because he saw sh and jk together previously.
Just caught up on this, had no intentions of watching it but I have a lot of free time because of Christmas break and nothing from my to-watch list looks interesting right now 😪
I agree with the problematic elements people have pointed out about this drama. The audition was so unnecessary 😕 And I really dislike the dynamics between the parents. I’ve never understood why dramas have such parents and normalise wives been abusive to their husbands, if it was the other way around it wouldn’t run.
The cameo was rather cute, there’s a Dan Oh in Uncanny Counter and every time someone says her name I always hear Baek Kyung’s shouting “Eun Dan Oh”😂
What episode in Uncanny Counter??
It’s becoming a meme this “Eun DanOh.”
It was in Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol. Lee Jae Wook’s character entered the room of somebody name Eun DanOh.
I can tell you right now: if I were to hear somebody shouting in the middle of a busy street, “Eun Dan Oh!” in the same exasperated intonation as Lee JaeWook’s in the drama, I’d stop dead in my tracks and look back to see who the heck was calling.
I’ve internalized that name.
@packmule3 It’s the girl that goes to the same school as So Mun that they found in Hana’s old house. Not sure if her surname is Eun, the police woman only calls her Dan Oh in episode 8. Oh yeah, I remember that scene in DDSSLLS. Guess this might go on for a while due to the popularity of EY. I’ll look out for it in Kim Hye Yoon and Lee Jae Wook’s next dramas, lol.
And I don’t blame you, I would do the same too if I ever hear that name on the street😂