Another Ms Oh takes the cake!!

They were both awful people who somehow became even more insufferable when they got together.

Dear Hye-ri so so much!!!
I don't know that it was the *fastest* ship-out, but definitely the strongest. Even stronger than "Jealousy Incarnate".

Reminds me of 1997, the SML and the FL 🤢🤢🤢
But to the writers', director's, and actress' credit, it was clearly depicted as "not right". Best depiction of the WRONG age gap ever, and also of the WRONG power gap.
That the ML tired the FL down so he could sleep with her in spite of her elaborate attempts to throw him out, that made me want them to not be together either.
She had even called a cab for him so she didn't have to invite him inside. He frantically guessed her door code and then refused to go with various excuses and promises he didn't keep until he had cornered her, tired and not as strong as him.
Yes, she desired him - but she also desired finishing her education and not be pregnant, and he just didn't think she should have the chance to stand her ground. It wasn't exactly a r*pe, but it was close.
I did not think it was charming at all. But the drama thought it was adorable and fun, apparently.
Really nice BTW, that the ML wasn't a homophobe and didn't get disgusted by his friend being gay, and admitting to have a crush on him. No waking up screaming here - just a gentle peck, and they could move on to loves fitting for each of them.

“I did not like the ML’s haircut” 😂😂
Valid point there. The heart likes what it likes and vice versa.

I totally repsect ypur opinion. But could you please elaborate on why you didn't like the IkSong ship from Hospital Playlist?

The romance I could not sit with was Junwan and Ik-sun. Reason? Jun-wan deserved better.

Doona 😲 I am definitely with you with that one. She was a nightmare and he was such a sweet young man. Yes, she had been treated badly but directing her bitterness at him was just not the way to start a relationship. I don't see what she was offering anyone. She needed therapy and when she had reclaimed herself she could consider a healthy relationship.

Mental coach Jegal it felt so shoe horned in that I don’t get what demographic they were aiming that at, it made no sense for their characters.

I didn’t buy into any of the romance in HOSPITAL PLAYLIST particularly the Jeong-won (YYS)/Gyeo-ul (Shin Hyun-been) pairing.
I read that Yoo Yeon-seok was making a cameo appearance in RESIDENT PLAYBOOK. In my mind YYS should be returning to Yulje Medical Center as Fr. Ahn hospital chaplain not Dr. Ahn.

Oh, yes, Captivating the King! They weren't even trying to make her look like a man. I kept thinking that everyone in that drama was either blind or a moron.

I loved the actress of impossible heir, actually. I thought the story of the older brother was weird, though. I would have liked a more ... palpable plot around him.
PS: The initially evil older sister was a smack hit. And her sense of fashion gave me the chills. So radical, so cool!

Thank you for validating my feelings about Memories of the Alhambra! I couldn't stand the FL. Made me dislike that actress for a while. It wasn't til I got to see her being funny in Dr. Slump that I started to see why she's so popular.

Fwiw I put Brave browser’s AI to the test with this query:
“is actor Yoon Shi Yoon signed for a new drama”
AI response:
“ As of April 28, 2025, there is no information available about Yoon Shi Yoon being signed for a new drama. However, fans are eagerly waiting for his next project.”

All I can say is: Amen! Yoon Shi-yoon come home!

I forgot about "Spring!" I agree that the main couple was a no-go for the reason you mentioned. But they also had zero chemistry, imo.

The main couple in Dear Hyeri was a mistake from the beginning. I couldn't stand them.

The main couple in Dear Hye-ri was an excellent depiction of a horribly toxic relationship. At first she seemed crazy for asking all that confirmation all the time, but when we got the backstory, it was clear that he had done his best to completely shake any natural feeling of safety she could have had, always signaling one thing, then saying the opposite, from the very first date that he declared wasn't a date. Then he stayed away for months before suddenly dumping himself in the seat next to her on the bus, and as I recall, now saying they were a couple ... Anyways, the first ten minutes of one of the near-end episodes was a horror show of a back story, quite apart from that he actually said to her, in the dramas present timeline, that she should get (mentally) ill again often, so he could come to her. 😱😱😱
He had treated her so most girls would have run away after the first date (which she actually also tried) but she had just lost her sister and granny, and was now all alone in the world and more vulnerable to a gaslighter like him.
This would have been a great drama if they had ended up moving on, her happy in a relationship with the ox-eyed Kang, (Ox-eyed is a complement. Just check out 1) Homer's Illiad and 2) and actual oxe's eye. Big, dark, soulful eyes), and he - the Ex-ML - could be just unraveling what he had been doing to her all this time, and then slowly move on like people sometimes do IRL, understanding that he much more than her was the one who needed therapy, so he could stop being a terrible person masking as a hero.

That whole romance was so weird--it was like they were simultaneously trying to tell two stories. In the first, he never reciprocated her feelings (and that would have been just fine) and in the second, he did but didn't realize it until he almost lost her. But since both stories were told half-heartedly and completely cancel each other out, the result was so unsatisfying, made the FL look ridiculous, and resulted in some very awkward final moments. Some creative spat clearly went on behind the scenes of that one.

Ugh, yes! I started feeling embarrassed for her.

Probably the first romance I've seen where the age gap was the least messy thing about it. I remember getting so annoyed because we had 2 other plotlines in the drama of guys obsessively chasing women who didn't want them, and it being treated as a bad thing. But for some reason, when the FL does it, it's...romantic?? Very odd.

I feel the same, which is too bad because before she caught feelings I thought they had some sparks that could go somewhere interesting. But now I only like their scenes when she's not viewing him as a potential boyfriend.

YES to this.

It’s uncomfortable to witness on so many levels.

I was shipping them at first - I thought they had nice chemistry. But after he shut her down I got uncomfortable with her not taking no for an answer (and he had very good reasons to turn her down, not only for not reciprocating her feelings).

Sigh indeed.

Yes, and the fact that she lived with them as a high schooler gave off grooming vibes. I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable throughout the show.

THIS. Probably the unconscious reason why I couldn’t even finish Ep. 2 of the drama and dropped it altogether. Never went back to try again

And she was destined to be his from when she was an embryo or even that word I ought to remember after that space drama. A cluster of cells, the first stage after fertilization.
And you are right, she could have come back to him when she was a grown-up, at least the second time around.
Admittedly, in that first life with him (actually, the second, as I recall) she was an orphan living with a nightmare of a family, but she should be very unhappy to end up like that in her next life, too.
They could have used some of all that staring-in-the-middle-distance time to make her grow up in a nice middle-to-upper-class family, getting an education -have several boyfriends and then returning to ML when she was ... idk, at least in her mid-twenties. Ready to live a grownup life with a man who had been a grownup swoon-inducer for 900+ years.

EXACTLY! I agree with every single word!!!

I hated Deuk Sun dating a spoiled oblivious man-child who was used to getting his own way by silent tantrums, his friends always babying him, and his father waiting on him hands and feet. She will be serving him her whole life having no-one to lean on.

I love that it's your evil ex who ruins it for that innocent actor!
I know the feeling, though, not from anybody looking like my exes, but just that they look like someone and it makes the feelings overlap.
Disclaimer for wildly generalising here - I know there are Asian-Americans and Asian-Danish, for example, so "Western" is not an actual parallel to "Asian",but bear with me:
It's fun how many actors look like some Danish or American actors considering they are obviously Asian. Just goes to show that they don't "all look alike", even if there are some fundamentally Asian / Western features.

Yes, agreed. Nothing else needs to be said here.

Yeah, this is the one lol. The power inbalance between the 2 was too aggressively lopsided to be enjoyable. Shame too, cos I really like Seo Hyun-jin.

I'm also totally fine with flawed, problematic characters as long as the show acknowledges that the flaws are actually a problem, not a cute, cuddly "quirk" that will just make the romance that much more "fun".

accurate

Ditto on Weather.

Their romance was a major flaw in Forecasting Love and Weather. Their first time together on screen told me I'll never like this pairing. The ML was just too immature for the FL. And that immaturity was played for young blood energy. As a young person, it was patronizing cause I have seen better bedside manners than the ML from young bloods.

Someone earlier did mention Yoona and all her ML's.

That space ship was never open for boarding. 😂

Did it ever exist? I've forgotten that drama ever graced the screens.

If it had just stayed mainly with
- ML kindly helps woman survive, granting her emergency abortion
- ML has his career ruins and is going to the dogs
- Chaegirl likes him and can save his career. He thinks she's nice and want to help her. Never loves her.
- ML is sent to space because of horrible chairman's agenda
- ML is misunderstood as a person by MF, who thinks he is a spoiled privileged rich boy, not a three-mothered orphan and passionate midwife who nearly was becoming an alcoholic for lack of work
- ML and MF fall for each other's passion for fertilization, pregnancy, and birth
- the rest of the story is about freeing the chaegirls from their horrible father or -in-law, landing them safely outside of s*icidal thoughts, getting a succesful career for the FL space captain, and for the ML without being married to chaegirl, possibly (though I don't like the waste of money, but this is a fairy tale) on a space station with momma space captain and
-having Western astronaut get a child like he so dearly wants to
...This could have been fine - I liked how they liked each other first. But I did NOT like him forcing his way into her teeny weeny private space-space on the spaceship. All the things he did overstepping her limits in a super-uncharming way when she ahs no way of getting away from him, that just made me feel sick. And the morale, I guess, about a heroic mother sacrificing her life for the baby, and that was supposed to still be sweet, and then baby-daddy staying in space even if it could cause him to become multi-handicapped, because apparently he thought that was what the baby needed; a blind and lame father! I def. could have lived without that.