But I can’t decide who’s more adorable, Shi Won or Deok Sun. It’s a tie. These K-pop idols have some great acting talent.

But Deok Sun made the better choice, picking the nice guy over the asshole. I hate Yoon Jae. He treated Shi Won like shit, shutting out this person who’s like his sister even though she did nothing wrong. It was because of his own dumbshit, self-centered psychodrama. She never asked him to fall in love with him, and he didn’t even tell her. So what, is she supposed to read his mind? What a selfish dick. And then when she finally tells him she likes him and asks him how he feels, he says nothing? Why doesn’t he take it out on his brother instead of on Shi Won? Shi Won would’ve been better off with Tae Woong oppa, who always acts like a kind, decent person. Or with Jun Hee, another kind and decent guy, but too bad for her he’s gay (that aspect was handled surprisingly well in this show).

And the last straw for me is when Yoon Jae basically date rapes Shi Won. Come on you ship seki, no means no. You can’t break into a girl’s house and force yourself on her when she keeps saying no. And of course, his loutish behavior is rewarded. But I guess things were different in Korea in 2005.

Also, I wish they had cut back on all the references to pooping and farting. I know it’s a cultural thing, but this show had way more than most.

Another thing that should have been cut was most of the boy band fangirl stuff. Sure, it’s a big part of the girls’ culture, but we don’t need almost an entire episode spent on them camping out at the awards ceremony and getting into all the details of the rivalry because that’s just boring and irrelevant to the main story.

Aside from that, there was an admirably small amount of filler. 1988 had way way more filler, which is one of the reasons I like 1997 better. 1997 focused on a more reasonably small number of characters and showed them behaving in more realistic ways.