It was funny because I would be super invested and interested and then there would be an episode that caused me to want to stop because it was no longer interesting but then something interesting would happen again, and repeat like a cycle. I would be bored, interested, bored, interested. So keep in mind that though it may seem like a slight drag, it has another twist/relationship/love interest coming up. The female actress was witty and she wasn't swooning over the character until literally the last 5 episodes, which I like because it didn't make it dramatically cheesy. But I AM IN LOVE WITH THE PIRATE'S PERSISTENCE AND LOVE for the girl, its so cute. especially the small things. However, the girl is lowkey whiny and slightly annoying at times, however I quickly got over it lol. It does get cheesy at times, and I am not a huge fan of cheesy romance. It did drag at times with the outside characters and their relationships so i lost interest/skipped those, as well as the evil plot behind the show made me skip at times. But overall minimal skipping, and super ML chasing FL. I really enjoyed the jealousy of the ML as the FL was naive and super friendly with everyone lol.