User talk:Chocoppang

Wikipedia is open to anyone to edit, and I welcome your contributions. I myself want to edit the page further by adding characters and actors’ names to the synopsis. I would ask only that you do not disturb my introduction and that you do not give away too much of the plot. I deliberately gave a detailed set-up, but I didn’t want to be a spoiler.

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I already corrected the mistake about how many people Koo Joon-Gyeom killed (remember, he said he killed three people, including his mother, but he was speaking figuratively about two of them).

I think if we are to deal cooperatively in editing this synopsis, you and your friends need to meet me part way, as I will try to do with you. For one thing, let's not underestimate the overwhelming importance of lying in this drama. I define lying as not only outright falsehoods but evasion, obfuscation, misdirection, staying silent when no decent person would do it. I can't think of a single character who doesn't do it about critical points. Many of them lie repeatedly. There are countless examples. You cannot say that this show is not about falsehoods and their consequences.

Somewhat related to this is how the female characters are repeatedly shown not defending themselves by failing to speak up and tell the truth - it takes a man to rescue them. Think of the disciplinary hearing. Wouldn't a normal person have said: "When I was 19, I tried to kill myself after enduring years of brutal bullying, which included violent physical assault. I was not responsible for Koo Joon-Gyeom's decision to die. He saved me not from drowning in the river but from drowning in self-pity and self-loathing. We fell asleep that night, and I actually thought, after the day we spent together, that he wasn't going to go through with it.  When I awoke and realized what was happening, I did everything I could to save him. I didn't tell the truth about what happened at the time when, in a state of shock, I went along with my mother's explanation which I believe she intended both to protect me and lessen the pain of Koo Joon-Gyeom's mother. The rest of my life has been spent trying to atone for this one terrible mistake. Do you not believe in redemption?" Instead, it's Captain Moon who comes gallantly to the rescue, but it's ultimately a knight in shining armor (or uniform) that saves her - she's too weak to save herself. This is only one of many examples in the drama where the female characters have no backbone and it takes a man to put it right.

Your point about gloom - did you count the number of times KSA and KCA (not to mention others) cry their eyes out? How many times did you want to throttle some of the characters who inflicted pain on others and made us feel that the course of true love not only never ran smooth, it had obstacles that could never be overcome?

Moving in your direction, I agree that this is also a story about love. How it begins, how it develops, what gets in the way, and how it triumphs. It's a story about how family bonds get in the way when family members have more regard for their own feelings and their own self importance than for the lovers and then use appeals to family bonds to get one lover to betray or cruelly dump their true love. It is - and there are episodes still to run - I hope a story about the triumph of love over hatred, over prejudice, over jealousy, over circumstance.

So, perhaps we can balance our synopsis in a way that acknowledges both aspects of this very provocative and engaging (also infuriating) drama. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjakarlin (talk • contribs) 22:56, 3 March 2020 (UTC)

Beautiful Love Wonderful Life
I think I have agreed to change the emphasis. As I said, let's try to meet half way. And we should perhaps let the show play itself out so we see how it ends. Not too much longer. Please give me the chance to edit it and see what you think. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mjakarlin (talk • contribs) 00:16, 4 March 2020 (UTC)