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you get to see Noh Min Woo shirtless
I almost stopped watching this show at the first episode but Noh Min Woo is eye candy so I continued. The show starts out antagonistic and remains that way to the end. We know that the FL is supposed to see through the ML's personality and see the heart inside. Honestly I don't think they had enough of those moments. Her bond with the SML was much stronger. If the SML didn't look scarily like my younger brother then I would have rooted for him.I could connect with the ML's loneliness and the personality he presented to keep himself from being hurt but that he didn't let go of the connection he had before he thought the SML had betrayed their friendship. I think the mending of their relationship was far more powerful than the relationship between the ML and the FL. This alone made sitting through all the episodes worth it.
And of course the number of times we go to see NMW shirtless.
What didn't work...
1. Hair
a. the times they straightened the ML's hair or styled it back was just awful
b. the FML's hair was awful until they straightened it
2. The fashion
a. ML - perhaps just a tiny but stuffy but there was nothing wrong with how he dressed
b. FL - dressed like an old woman through most of the show
c. SML - his outfits were mostly horrible
3. The SML's airbrushed abs. Thankfully that pain is over in the flash
4. The SML's illness
[spoiler] I thought it was odd that getting glass in his eye as a kid would cause degenerative nerve damage to his eyes. Then they fixed it with a cornea transplant. I'm not a medical professional and even I can tell that this isn't even a possibility. If the nerves are damaged then replacing the cornea isn't going to fix that. If it was a cornea problem then he should have had the issue with his sight being very bad since childhood. If it was the injury from childhood then the loss of sight should have only affected the eye that was injured. It would have been better to have him loose his sight from a degenerative issue and have him perform blind.[/spoiler]
Over all if you have the time, watch it
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I liked the atmosphere, the songs and the scenery
But I didn't like the cast/acting and story that much.
Why?
The story is not predictable at all! I was shocked very often and till the end I was pretty uncertain about who shall get Man Ok. But as I saw the end already... I think of it as pretty predictable. But while watching it wasn't. Thanks to all of those new detailes you go tto know about the main persones and the scandals. Which were pretty much a mess. Most of the detailes were just annoying and didn't fit at all.
Also the ending was just... too much. I know, such endings are very loved by the directors, but this time is was little bit too much. I did not like this end at all. It was dissappointing
All in one the story was pretty oldfashioned but with so many new detailes that made it a complete mess out of unneeded detailes who should've make the storyline more interesting
My Second least favorite point was the Acting/cast.
There were too many to be hated and everybody had min. one WHOLE episode in which they would get on all of your nerves. I hated Man Ok for example, because she had so many bad acting moments and was getting on every nerve of mine. I only came to like Tae Ik and... I guess this is it?
Of course they all had their good moments like Kang Whi or whatever his name was.
I really liked him at the beginning! But in the end I was just like "Nah"
This drama reminded me in many ways of "You're beautiful" Sadly the female main lead wasn't that pretty, but the male main leads were beautiful as gods.
Like "You're beautiful" the ending wasn't making me happy, it was too much. But the music was so good!
But still because of the storyline and the acting I wouldn't say this was so good. I don't even think about rewatching it because Man Ok was so nerveswrecking, and all of the other personages (exept Tae Ik <3). Still the rewatch value isn't high. I would be able to remember everything even after one year because the main storyline was so simple.
But if you have some free time and are thinking about watching "Full house Take 2", do it.
It's not that bad, so make an opinion yourself.
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I'm actually ok with different story because it's more fresh and it doesn't fall into the danger of being too similar to the original and being redundant. I'n this version there's 2 idols instead of actors, and the female is this tomboy martial artist/designer-wannabe. In the end, I won't really be viewing this as a Full House remake, but just as it's own show
I've only seen No min Woo and Park Ki Woong in 1 small roles but I'm really enjoying they're characters in the show and they have good chemistry; I would say most of the fun is between these characters. I'm unfamiliar with Hwang Jung Eum and so far her character and acting's average. So far I'm more invested in the 2 male leads than her. I like the directing of the show so far too and I'm looking forward to the rest of the show.
P.S I HATE the main leads curly hairs, both guy and girl look terrible. Hwang Jung Eum looks super Ahjumma-like and No Min Woo looks plain weird and comes off kinda metro-sexual like. I'm diggin his hair when he's in idol-concert-mode though.
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This could have been great. This could have been the next You're Beautiful with a more memorable female lead, but it just wasn't. The story is nothing too unique but it's definitely fun and if executed well could have been excellent. The begining was slow but not horibble and towards the middle I really started enjoying it but unnecessary drama happened and the quality dropped. The story was going nowhere for about 8 episodes or so.
The main female lead wasn't really unique but following her was fun nonetheless. My feelings towards Lee Tae Ik and Won Gang Whee changed as the drama went on. At first I wasn't fond of our main male lead's unique or shall I say feminine personality but by the end I loved him for who he was and enjoyed a really interesting character, because we don't see that very often. The second male lead...while I really liked him at first towards the end my feelings changed drastically. During the start I even wished that he would end up together with Jang Man Ok but he did a thing that I hate the most - he played the victim card. Now me disliking Won Gang Whee is a really personal thing, ( and maybe influenced by the fact that he was an obstacle for the ship to sail ;> ) because a lot of people seemed to have liked him till the end. And sure, no spoilers, but I know that his situation was hard to endure and all but I do not have to force myself to feel sympathy for him, I don't have to make myself feel anything, the writers who wrote the drama dictate whether I should feel happy, sad or angry and if the mood doesn't match my feelings that is in most cases a sign of bad writing. But again that is just my personal opinion and don't let it hold you back form watching this drama.
Another thing is that they focused so much on the unnecesary drama that they left a lot of plot holes, especially ones concerning the characters's past. It angers me, because they could have spent all those hours on some decent characte development.
The music was...while a lot of people praised it I had really mixed feelings about it. The melodies were fun and catchy but the lyrics were...well I didn't like them at all, I thought they were cheesy and it felt like not a lot of thoughts went into writing them.
Overall the drama was average maybe less. I really wish that some writers wouldn't try to overcomplicate stories with love triangles, bad exs, unnecesary drama and bad attempts at making a story deep and meaningful, because without all these Full house take 2 would have been an excellent drama.
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