It took me a looooong while to warm up to Bo Ri, too. I was fine with her as a child, but as an adult, I didn't find her that endearing. She's rather vulgar and mean-spirited (if not mean-hearted), but given the way she was raised, I'm not surprised. She starts getting a little better after the 5-year jump. She's less of a doormat, although she's still somewhat crass or rough around the edges. I find myself rooting for her more, so that's a good thing.fun said:I kind of dislike Bo Ri. I hate candy heroine who allows other to beat them up if they upset their older siblings. That mother can dig a whole and die, she couldn't even tame her wild child. Min Jung adult version by far is already killing me and I am only at 10. I don't think I can stand her in 40 more episode of her. I am sorry but even her younger self was smarter. I sort of wish they will take the lakorn route and have her die LOL Death is just too easy but to deal with her, I rather have her die.
I guess the Aunt is unaware of Bo Ri's real identity. How can you spend 15 years in the same block and not see Bo Ri as a kid? Writer-nim is sure on my nerves LOL Ga Eul is a high school drop out?
I also thought it was poor writing to have the aunt and Eun Bi/Bo Ri in the same town for years and never have them run into each other. Sure, maybe you can claim Eun Bi probably went straight to school and straight back home to the restaurant, but that doesn't mean they wouldn't have run into each other. It's a different story if they were living in a big city, but their town seems just slightly bigger than a village. However, sometimes I suppose that could happen when your personal world is narrow enough. The aunt didn't meet Bo Ri until she was a teenager, which accounts for the reason why she doesn't recognize her, but that supposed meet can be explained by the fact that that was probably when Bo Ri started doing deliveries so she had to go out more and broaden her world.
I never have much faith in dramas that are 30 episodes or more because they tend to drag out the ridiculous, but I tune in for some of them in the off chance that they might actually turn out good. Feast of the Gods was horrible. May Queen was a major disappointment. I haven't finished Scandal yet, but I'm hoping to in the near future. I'm on 10 or 11 of Hotel King, but I'm waiting until it ends to marathon it. I wasn't that invested in this drama (I was only watching it for the lead actor and actress - still am), so I didn't mind watching it as it airs, and like every drama of this kind, it's beyond ridiculous and filled with plot holes and contrivances to wring out the maximum nonsensical drama, but I think by episode 20, the drama is finally settling into place. I think if they had skipped everything in the 15-year jump and gone straight to a 20-year jump, it would have made for a much better story.fun said:Finished up to ep.15
And i thought Hotel King was bad, this is worse. I have absolutely nothing nice to say about this drama. The writernim is trying to hard to make the audience sympathize with min jung. She has taken the crown to most conniving bitch nang rai from the nang rai in stairway to heaven. It has almost been a decade since i hatedkim tae hee lol
As for Min Jung, OMG, don't even get me started on her. The actress who plays her was hateful in Twinkle Twinkle (another switch drama), but at least in that drama, she had some humanity in her (though I didn't think it at the time). In this one, she's just plain selfish and sociopathic. There is nothing they can do to her that will make me sympathize with her character because she brought it all on herself. What disappoints me the most is that MJ was given every chance in the world and she uses it to latch on to a rich guy? I thought she'd make the most of her opportunity and become one of the genius elites that Korea seems to love. With her smarts and ambition, I thought she'd be at the top of the world when we saw her as an adult again, but boy was I wrong. She just became a more educated version of her mom. Also, she spent practically no time learning how to sew hanbok, and I'm supposed to believe she's any match for Bo Ri, even if she learned design? The plots aren't woven very well, but as this is a 50-episode family makjang, I just go with the flow and pretend it's logical, and since I'm gradually beginning to like it a little, that must mean this drama has improved (or I've gone brain dead - maybe both). I hope Bo Ri's true identity is discovered soon (but I doubt it), but I think if they only focus on Bo Ri and Jae Hwa, I'll be content since they're finally making strides in that corner.