I don’t
think I need to mention that I’m not fond of following a drama while it airs. Most
dramas are entertaining and fun enough approximately up to episode 8 or 10. After
that we usually start the downhill path that will either make us want to curse
the writers/directors or stop watching entirely.
Although sometimes
despite our disappointment we’ll give some dramas a second chance depending on
whether we hear positive reviews about it or whether it has a happy ending.
At large
it’s much wiser to just wait for a drama to end before wasting our time with
it.
Unfortunately knowing doesn’t mean doing.
Unfortunately knowing doesn’t mean doing.
I should
know better than breaking my own rule. Because once you start watching the
first episode and you’re hooked, adhering to your principle isn’t that easy. You’ll say:
let’s see if the second episode is better. And when it does, you’ll continue to
the next episode hoping that it’ll get much better. That’s how it all starts.
I started
watching the first episode of The Greatest Marriage simply because I hope to
see Park Shi Hyoen (박시연) in a role that will deliver another
awesome female lead like her Eun Young character in Coffee House.
And guess
what.
Although
the first episode is a little shaky at first but by the second episode I totally
love it. I like the premise and I like Park Shi Hyoen’s character. A lot.
Here’s a female lead who knows what she wants in her life and not afraid of getting it. I like how she openly says that she likes Park Tae Yun when he asks her why she wants to date him. Note the word like. Not love.
I like how
she doesn’t confuse her feelings with love.
She likes
him enough to have him around and even sleep with him. But not enough to sacrifice
her free time (me time) for him let alone spending the rest of her life with
him.
I like how
she refuses to change her clothes into a traditional one when he takes her to
see his parents. If being married to this guy means changing her appearances
into something that’s really not her, she should say no.
I like how
she refuses to hear her parents being insulted by his parents. If being married
into a chaebol family means accepting them bad mouthing her family, she should
say no.
I like how
she coldly tells him to get lost when he dares to tell her to get an abortion
when he finds out that she’s pregnant and when she angrily says she doesn’t
want to marry him (his family).
If being
pregnant means she has to marry the father of the child even when the said
father doesn’t inspire her respect or trust – and let’s not forget the fact
that she doesn’t love him – she should say no.
This
setting reminds me of Bad Couple a little bit. The difference is in the Bad Couple
the female lead tricks the male lead in her quest to have his baby.
Cha Ki
Young doesn’t trick Park Tae Yun to sleep with her or to have his baby. She doesn’t
even try to hide her pregnancy from him and happily informs him that she’s
pregnant. She is being fair and square in her dealing with him.
The
pregnancy is an accident and not by design.
As much as
I like her, I don’t feel the love for both male leads yet. Park Tae Yun (No Min
Woo/노민우) is clearly no match for her. She’s
too much for him. He loves her from the start despite professing to just
wanting a casual relationship.
She on the
other hand just wants a casual relationship with him. She never wants marriage.
At least not with him even when she carries his child. And especially not after meeting his parents.
The other
male lead Jo Eun Cha (Bae Soo Bin/배수빈) isn’t that great either although I
have to admit that he’s rather hard to read at this moment.
Like Park
Tae Yun he seems to have more than enough brains but if Park Tae Yun chooses to
spend his time harmlessly doing whatever he likes, Jo Eun Cha seems to do
whatever he likes without much caring for the consequences.
And whenever
he’s caught in the fire it looks like he prefers to take the easy way out to
solve his problems. His easy way outs means doing everything that doesn’t
require sincerity or integrity.
OMO!
That’s why he wants to be a politician! *Light bulb moment*
Despite
having Park Tae Yun’s baby (which in kdrama sacred book means that she’s going
to end up with him) I don’t see a future between this couple. He clearly loves
her from the beginning but I don’t see how her feelings for him could change.
On the
other hand, although she hates Jo Eun Cha, and there’s no reason what so ever
at this moment to like him, considering how little we know of his personality,
I can see a future for this couple.
Despite
his sleaziness I long to see the real man underneath. The brains that he uses
for useless thing, the heart that he doesn’t use to feel. The talent and skills
that he waste for all wrong reasons.
There’s a
lot of room for development.
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