agreed! i thought so too! or maybe i'm just oblivious the fact that i like both of them & i'm just not seeing what ev.body's talking about flaws! but other kdramas we've seen in the past got flaws like lovers in paris, it was so good, i got hooked then booom the ending was the most confusing, lousy one for me at least! up to now i can't seem to get a grip on whether tae young was only writing that script about the whole thing that's happened or was she writing about herself, oh well sorry i got into lovers in paris now :)
back to LTM, i think this drama was good & at least there's no illness or any of that stigma we've seen in most kdramas or stereo-typing if you will! i guess in any movies or dramas for that matter, we are our own judges, so what may be good for me may not be good for everybody! peace!

Sigh.... I'm just glad it is over. Although I love YEH and KJH, I just can't understand why such BAAAAD writers were given brilliant actors to work with. I watch it for the great chemistry between the two actors.....

this drama was so hard to finish.
yeeeeaaahhh... worst drama of 2011 (for me anyways).

I may not agree to some of Jbeans and gfriday's comments about dramas or what-nots but Lie To me being a total nutjob? I totally agree. And yes, Taste is the operative word here..and your taste sucks if you went kookoo for this drama.

Those are diff. genres of shows and may not be to your "taste."

However, it seems that romcoms are to your taste (as they are mine) and a good romcom is a good romcom and a bad romcom is a bad romcom - mostly due to the quality of the script/dialogue.

This was, by far, a bad romcom.

The writing sucked, the acting was mediocre (can't totally blame the actors since bad writing tends to make actors just go thru the motions) and the directing was meh.

first of all I loved this drama... a lot and the best place to go to enjoy recaps and positive comments about the drama is at http://koalasplayground.com. What I see about most of the comments at db is that there are a lot of people who just love to hate. Why keep watching something you hate? Where is the joy in that? If you hate eating liver, you don't eat the whole thing hoping it'll get better.

correct!!!

:O I love City Hunter! I actually liked how the drama wasn't necessarily based on the original City Hunter...I don't think it's a bad thing at all that that just took the the City Hunter guy and dropped him in a totally different plot. (An amazing plot at that)

What's wrong with the Blue House? Unless your father died in there or something I don't think there's anything wrong with certain scenes that might involve the Blue House. O_O

I really think City Hunter is one of the best dramas I've ever seen. (And let me tell you...I've seen a lot.) So far, the drama hasn't let me down, and in each episode, I'm either sitting at the edge of my chair with my faces 2 inches from the screen or running around the room like I'm mentally ill because something really cute happened between Yoonsung and Nana.

The main female lead isn't stupid either, although IQ skyrocketed between episodes 9-10, she actually has some brains unlike in a lot of other dramas. There's a great balance between the revenge and the love scheme which seems hard for a lot of dramas with a strong plot. City Hunter was also very well written and directed.

Enough about my love for City Hunter, back on topic now. LTM lost it's grip on me halfway through, but I lose interest in a drama pretty easily. I still don't think LTM was the best drama ever made, but I guess I was "kookoo" for it in the beginning too. *insert giggle here* It's just not my cup of tea. I gotta admit...it wasn't THAT bad though...haha.

I don't think you have to justify liking this drama by putting down other ones. Agreed with bd -- you are comparing apples and oranges. It's like saying you don't like the movie "The Dark Knight" because it wasn't enough like "Bridget Jones' Diary."

I can't speak for Girlfriday and Javabeans, but I know that for me the above-mentioned dramas are refreshing because they are really different. This drama was okay, but a dime-a-dozen. I was really disappointed because the premise was promising to go in an interesting direction and ended up being like a lot of other things I have seen.

I had a blog dedicated to recapping these shows, I would do the same thing -- focus on the fresh and new, analyzing what is different and exciting about the current shows, and this one, while being entertaining to some degree, just didn't have anything new to offer.

agree w/you on this! i'd rather watch LTM than Ms Ripley or CH! this is one of those Kdramas that didn't show us someone is ill or dying! :)

Because this drama is like a patchwork of almost every single hit romcom that K-drama has to offer ever since the dawn of the new millenium.
Funny, heartwarming at times, but average at best and mediocre most of the time. Why? Because most of us have watched the same trope this drama has going for like 94839084+ times already.
And while I think Ms. Ripley won't land in my Top 10 list of dramas for '11, and I'm still iffy about City Hunter, I'd rather watch any of the two over a very basic rom com like Lie To Me any time.

THIS. ALLLLLLL of THIS.
Dropped this after 3 eps, and it was my first attempt to catch up with dramas this summer.
*going back to House and Mad Men*

because it's fun watching a train wreck like this drama and fun watching pissy fans like you get even more pissy.

I stopped watching LTM, but I agree with you when you say that very few Korean dramas operate on logic. The centerpiece to almost all the ones I've seen is manufactured, easily solved drama. Although I didn't like LTM, I fail to see why this one gets ragged on so hard here as if this was the first or only korean drama to have dumb conflicts.

Even Best Love had some pretty dumb conflicts, but the writers here and viewers here loved it. The whole misunderstood conversation between Dokko Jin and the manager/brother about helping with the CD was just dumb and easily fixable if the main female character wasn't such a wet blanket and clarified--but she didn't even try.

Most korean dramas, especially romantic comedies, are like this. Again, I don't think LTM was good, but I am really confused by the way this one is being treated by the writers here.

For me Lie to Me is a nonsensically enjoyable drama! It's so silly it's fun to watch and poke fun at it. Yoon Eun Hye and Kang Ji Hwan are great, though

LIKE! (Y)

I like your comparison.

I think MSOAN was "better" if you could call it that. MGY and JGS just delivered and were more sincere in their acting. When I watched MSOAN (though I didn't finish it) they made me see the characters not the actors acting as their characters. And yeah, it was much less annoying than LTM (BOTH actors and characters).

i agree with the OTP thing
JGS-MGY-KJW
were better acting wise.

Love YEH, but I have to agree, she resorted way too often to overexaggerated expressions, etc.

Part of that is her fault, but a lot goes to the bad writing and poor directing.

To me, Ji Hwan is a better actor over JGS ... don't get me wrong, I really like JGS and was crazy over him in MSOAN ...JGS is a good actor but I still think KJH is better....he can go from comedy to serious tearjerker in a blink of an eye...of course, that is just purely my opinion.

too many kissing....boring

yup same as Mary Stayed out and Playful Kiss.. being shown in other countries.. psycho..

yup i live in one of those 8 countries, but then again MSOAN is currently showing here also....just goes to show..

I cringe....... I told my friend who works for that network to tell the people up there that they should fire that person-in-charge-of-choosing-imported-k dramas if they dont want their ratings to die. lol! The rival network on the other hand are enjoying good ratings from recently finished MGIAG and now showing Secret Garden.

I'll buy ten thousand bottles for you.
It absolutely amazes me how many people are seriously shipping these two people.
Get real...

hahaha...I like this...a lot

I'll take a shot of soju with you...that might put me to sleep for a couple of days though ...hehehehe

The change in KJ's character seems logical in the mind, but on screen it became a total wreck and his character change happened in a blink of an eye without any explanation. Obviously if you're a hopeless romantic or have the patience to mull over it, you can understand his character in your mind, but on screen, that change was hopeless.

But you're right about the "himself" part. His character got kind of annoying when he was just strict and Mr. Frowny face.

There was some chemistry due to the natural charisma of the 2 leads, but the awful writing really put a hamper on it and what little there was left couldn't save the show.

In contrast, while "My Princess" had its flaws, the chemistry that existed btwn KTH and SSH was made that much BETTER by the well written moments and dialogue for their 2 characters (the writing wasn't so good for the other characters aside from maybe the good prof.).