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I’m sorry, Yoona and JunHo.
I really really like you two, but I like Zhao LuSi and Chen ZheYuan more this time around. I’ll catch this show later.
Enjoy the show!
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Thanks @pkml3! Even I cannot squeeze in time to comment on this show. I can probably watch with some FFDing of those long drawn out staring at each other scenes. But other than kyaaaa… I may not have much to say!
Kalimera Everyone!
I am watching the show and I find it interesting in some parts. We get to see that Gu Won’s father was an idealist too, but he set aside his kum in order to be an realist.
At the same time, his children are representatives of what the father believes and believed.
Gu Hwa Ran is not only a realist, but a person who thinks that things should be done in a very specific way. She doesn’t care about her employees but only about numbers.
Gu Won on the other hand is an idealist, he knows that the company exists because of the people who work for them, and that’s why he chose to give them the spotlight in the 100th King Hotel Anniversary. It is not that he doesn’t know how to be a realist. It was his sincere thank you towards to the people who works to them, that made him to chose that theme, something that even moved his father. Yes, he indeed has conscience.
Two different worlds will clush. Go Hwa Ran who believes she has the royal blood and Gu Won who is looked down by his sister for his blood.
His mother is a nobody she keeps saying to him, but I think she was jealous of her step mother, that’s why she keeps saying that. If you are jealous of someone, you look down on him.
Yes, it is true, that Gu Won’s mother could be sick. She could have a mental problem or a blood disease like leukaemia.
What Gu HwaRan doesn’t understand is, that she is an sad little person who claims she is someone superior from others, when in reality she is unhappy with herself and her life.
She may be right that they need the politicians to give them the duty free permit, but in order to get there in one and half year, they need the people who work for them to continue to thrive and do the sales numbers she presses her departments to bring her back every month. Without incentives, just overworking them.
I am curious to see how that will go…
Kalimera,
So, the age of misunderstandings started in the last minutes of Episode 12… Let us see how they will manage to overcome this one.
Last night, I was furious with Gu HwaRan and how she talked to her son. The boy came from the US to see her because he missed her and she ordered him to return back to the boarding school to “live his life”. When you are 8-10 years old, a boy cannot live his life alone without his parents.
Seriously, she is so focused to win her brother and she doesn’t know how to behave as a normal person?
She wants to do cuts while Gu Won doesn’t. Let us see how that will go…
Hard to comment re KTL. I had higher hopes for this drama as apparently Jun Ho had over 100 scripts to choose from after his success in The Red Sleeve. He is a fave of mine and I was eager to be enthralled.😂 I’d say his physical attractiveness is being used to compensate for weakness of the script. It is often too predictable and full of too many Kdrama memes thrown in willy-nilly.
Won’s personal secretary has become more irritating than amusing over the course of this drama.
The product placement is over the top. Ep. 11 was an hour production that could have been produced by the Thailand Tourist Board. The gifting of Tiger Balm to Won’s father, and the extolling of its virtues was too much.
Obviously, I’m a bit cranky for expecting more than this drama is delivering.
😂😂 @LootieLynn,
I get your frustrations.
Even if I want to overthink something about this drama, there’s nothing worthy to overthink. It’s glossy and glammy, but bereft of substance.
Can I say fan service?
I was expecting a romcom in the mold of “A Business Proposal.” That drama had tropes galore too. But they were written, directed and performed with great panache. There wasn’t a dull moment.
I couldn’t say the same with KTL. It bored me from the beginning. I remember Ep 1, I was looking at the time, and wondering when the funny moment would come.
It doesn’t help too that Yoona has grown so bland over the years. She’s still projecting that good girl, “butter-won’t-melt-in-my-mouth” image.
I can’t see her rapport with Junho.
Even that kiss scene in Ep 8 lacked sizzle. 🙄 Junho did all the work, along with the background music. Turn off the music and you’ll see what I mean.
The desire (or semblance of desire) was coming from Junho’s intense look, hand on her hair, and leaning body. His body was leaning forward, entering her space. Meanwhile, her upper body remained perpendicular to the kitchen counter.
Lol. If she wanted this guy, shouldn’t she lean forward too and meet his kiss halfway?? Or draw her shoulders in like she’s curling up to him.
What’s wrong with picture?
Instead they looked like a right triangle in that position with Yoona’s shapeless/uncurvy/rail-thin body looking like the two perpendicular lines, and Junho the hypotenuse.
Nope.
@Packmule 3,
That is a perfect description of the body positions📐during the kiss😂. Will stick it out until the end of the drama now that I’ve hung in there this long. Hope Jun Ho finds a meatier role next time around…and soon.
Did you see what I mean, @LootieLyn??
They were supposed to be kissing like it was a meeting of their souls. But their body position was a bloody right triangle.
Geesh. Who kisses like that? I wanted to give Yoona a hard slap on the back to push her forward into that kiss and to yell at her, “Cleave, woman!! Cleave!” Lovers in love stick to each like cheese on pizza.
But she looked like she was afraid to have a single hair of her body touch Junho’s.
Bah!
Laughing here… ‘Cleave, woman!! Cleave’!
I’ve just re-watched that scene and the lip action is quite good.
But you can tell that YoonA is in her head rather than in the kiss in the moment.
She has a quality of – definitely bland – safe detachment. She doesn’t fully commit to being in that moment and in that kiss.