You have more than one issue with FIGHT MY WAY??
Do please tell! I thought I was the only one!

Let’s see. In full disclosure, I did do a “For fun, and perhaps some happy reminiscences™” post about Fight My Way about a month ago (I think) and I stand behind all of the things that I really did enjoy about the drama.

However, that Dong-man clearly was never going to be able to give up risking his life for this stupid blood sport was at the top of the list of things that irked me. I also hated the moronic “heart of a boxer” part of Bloodhounds. Actually I ignored most of Bloodhounds except the scenes similar to the one on my Fan Wall post today :).

I didn’t like that Ae-ra was going to end up being in the ring watching other men beat the living crap out of each other to make a living either. She’s all upset about Dong-man, of course, but actually, it’s the utter horror of humanity that gets me about MMA. No amount of “I get to hold a microphone” is worth that gig.

I’ll give you a third thing and then stop for brevity’s sake. I didn’t like the number of secondary characters whose plot lines had, frankly, more possibilities for depth and intrigue than our OTP and 2OTP but who got no wrap-up love in the final episodes. Nam-il leads that pack, but I’d also put Hye-ran, and even the “landlady” in there too.

How about you, @midnight? You willing to share alike? What didn’t you like about it?

@attiton. With all due respect, you've devoted too much of your admirable critical acumen to this show, which, as I vaguely recall, had few themes worthy of remembering.

Or, it could be, as I realized with the DB feature on him a few weeks ago, that I just don't like Park Seo-Joon as an actor. That said, I'm impressed that he's dating Xooos (or is it Xooooos?), and I'm imagining him in his apartment right now. saying "Xooos, honey, can you get me a beer?"

@hacja, with all due respect, where I place my critical acumen is on me.

I get that you don’t like the drama, and I remain very interested to hear anything more from your perspective.

@attiton My deepest apologies. I was totally teasing! I do indeed have great respect for your analysis of all shows, whether I like them or not!

Never fear, I knew your tone was teasing, @hacja.

However, I clearly had spent quite some time to think through what @midnight had asked of me, and you teasingly dismissed it as not worth my time. It was worth my time…and the proof is that I took the time to do it!

I do still await @midnight’s (and yours, if you like) share-alike commentary on the things that troubled you about Fight My Way.

Well, full disclosure then. I didn't enjoy any part of that drama.

The show's greatest sin to me was how they "dumbed down" Dongman. To make him more likeable? I don't know. But his dumbness made most of his scenes frustrating to me, and hit quite badly in the boxing scenes, making his IQ look very low, and I really really disliked how concerning it all felt.

I hated Aera's ageyo and babytalk. Kim Ji Won did it in a screechy voice which was distasteful to me. We were shown that Dongman hated it too more than once. And then suddenly he swooned for it. Because he had fallen in love? It just made DM dumber to me. Which is really not the way to endear your character to the audience.

I disliked how we had to just witness the second couple's misery like a documentary with barely a satisfying payoff. It was stifling. I kept wishing for something to happen, someone to do something, and it never did. Perhaps this is the slice-of-life genre people love. But I don't.

In the end, it seemed like the show's overall message was settling for whatever you can and just make do with it. It didn't sit well with me. I know it is just a drama. I don't expect it to do better. I just didn't like it, and I seem to be in a stark minority.

In the end, it seemed like the show's overall message was settling for whatever you can and just make do with it.

This is totally fair, @midnight. Totally fair. I probably think less of the drama now, but in the spirit of my really productive Run On Fan Wall post, I’ll think it through a bit longer.

Reflecting a bit on @hacja’s comment, I will say that I’m probably more inclined to forgive PSJ than is reasonable.

@midnight @attiton This totally speaks to my earlier point somewhere - I will forgive a lot if I like the leads. I didn't like the second couple in FMY, almost dropped it midway (screechy and baby voice does not work with me either, the only peeve that I have with Zhao Lusi in Hidden Love) but FMY was one of he series I actually finished because it came togeher for me at the end.

Oh and I almost developed a SFL syndrome lol! I could totally see PSJ's character going back to her, a-la Choi Woong from Our Beloved summer.

@attiton I'm actually an avid PSJ fan, that might be one reason I bristled this much at his characterization.

@minniegupta1 I guess I need to like the actor and the character to be more than reasonably forgiving.

@hacja That makes two of us. PSJ does nothing for me as an actor, and I woukd not watch something just for him, but I do like him.