I think maybe they mean even being cable or network show they all seem to have a lot of disparity to fan appreciation and the amount of awards they get. Just see that Kim Tae Hee got best actress for Yongpal and best actor was given to Lee Jun Ki over Joo Won when Joo Won carried the entire show and Scholar was an average show at best. Even I Remember You which had hands down some of the most amazing performances of the year didn't get a single award. Daesung was given to Kim Soo Hyun and not Ji Sung and Ji Sung played 7 roles! Rookie award was given to Lee Soo Hyuk over Ji Soo, when LSK isn't even a rookie! Actors Yeon Jeong Hun and Choi Won Young got no recognition for their chilling performances.

It's always been Pretty stars>>>>>>>>plot/acting capabilities and then ratings>>>>>>>>quality

@twotwo
The korean award show is mostly bias , but the public and their popularity doesn't.
Almost all the comment point out about jisoo, jisung, joo won, no one take that award when they knew there's better winner, how about punch, it's well received and well awarded.
People appreciate good things which yikes tend to disagree...

It's not always visual that make the drama successful, people praise Misaeng and Signal to high heaven, dare to said something bad, they judge you don't have taste but in this case eps DoTS, it's deserved, it wasn't some sort of heavy crimes.

@dena I understand what you mean but more often than not it seems that good shows like I Remember You fly straight off th radar. No mention of it anywhere in awards and not good ratings, I don't even know if it god good critic review in Korea but internationally it was very praised. Actors like Seo In Guk are so underrated when a lot of DOTS's success is entirely because people love Song Joong Ki.

@twowoo
I really need to said this
DoTS success doesn't lean on SJK alone, he is the lovable actor but he at the time the drama start wasn't kim soo hyun, jun ji hyun, hyun bin level in popularity,
It because they also got SHK and THE EPITOME of nice guy, nice people.
When all drama is about bad people get their way, unfairness, impossible shenanigans, revenge and there's one drama about humanity, romance, mature interactipn and not light nor dark enough, people take i terest and appreciate it.
It wasn't just because of the visual, even if people now is in SJK craze, it because they appreciate nice guy played by fine actor, but it wasn't because Song Jong Ki alone.

@TwoWoo, I think you are mistaken re LJK being given best actor over Joo Won, cos LJK didn't win any awards for Scholar.

It's airing in July and it unfortunately won't be pre-produced.

Oops I read your comment wrong, I need sleep. The pre-production has already begun and they start filming in May.

Nono, last I heard of this show this was the exact plot premise that was going around:

W is a story about a surgeon (Han Hyojoo) who is searching for her missing father and gets kidnapped by a mysterious man (Lee Jongsuk?). They travel between reality and virtual reality. It’s described as a suspenseful love story melodrama.

At the time the synopsis, ‘a love story between a man and a woman in their 30s’ was all I knew too so I did expect THAT plot at all lol. Like the time travel aspect was entirely why I was so onboard with Jong Suk signing with them and it seemed right up the ally for the writer of Nine. Is this not correct then or has the story been revised?

I mean the writer even did Queen In-Hyuns man so I was really banking on it being about time travel. And what does it mean that Hanjoos dad "created" Jongsuk in a horror suspense comic book' ? Does he technically not even exist in the same reality as her ?

Yeah I knew what you meant, I think that's still part of the plot. We just don't know how it goes into motion since we're only getting fragments of the plot here and there.

"And what does it mean that Hanjoos dad “created” Jongsuk in a horror suspense comic book’ ? Does he technically not even exist in the same reality as her ?"

Presumably.

Thank you. The premise sounds something to the extent of Last Action with Arnold Schwarzenegger, except for instead of a kid and a huge buff dude it's this pretty pair.

I mean he's only been on a hiatus for a year and some months by the time he comes back with W which is a lot shorter compared to other "top actors" lol. Also, you could argue that airport scandal didn't really affect him that much. He still landed Pinocchio which was a commercial and critical success. It's a lot more talk than actual consequences for his career. He's still popular, but there's a new "it boy/girl" every other day - look at the Reply and SJK hype.

I feel the opposite about AF, it will do well because of the plot hitting a nerve with viewers. KWB is more hype than substance at this point considering he's been basically given a trendy male actor title without even having proven he can carry a drama - all the other hallyu stars, lmh, ljs, ksh, have already done that already, and multiple times as well.

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The literal definition of "You obviously don't understand how much direction goes into kiss scenes!"

Plus, she basically played young, naive, inexperienced girls up until a few years ago (i'm excluding her films), so yeah she's not going to be puckered up like how DB likes it.

FBND being PSH's best performance is your personal opinion and not a matter of fact. To me it was just another extension of the kind of roles PHS has been playing until know except for this time the reason for the stilted acting is *social anxiety*. And you didn't get my point at all, I'm well aware that an actress isn't solely the romantic interest for the male lead (which thanks for pointing that out, real nifty of you) but when PHS seems to only ever play Candy Girl characters, than that's exactly the only thing her character is limited to: the love interest for the male lead.

But yeah you can go ahead calling it the directors call to play her scenes that way when she's worked for different writers and different directions with limited to little variation in her character portrayals. Her kissing honestly didn't even bother me until the rapey aspect of the Heirs kisses came into play, and that turned me off from LMH & PSH for good but people continue too amend that it was a *surprise* kiss, when literally every scene between the leads had a similar dynamic. Maybe she's turned that all around seeing how great she was in Pinocchio, but somehow I think that was just a one off.

@ Bam

"FBND being PSH's best performance is your personal opinion and not a matter of fact."

Gee, that's probably why I literally wrote "imo" which is an abbreviation for "in my opinion" when I wrote that comment. Reading skills are important.

Also, you seem to miss my point as well. I wasn't claiming you were the one saying that female characters are reduced to just being the male's counterpart, I was trying to explain how the original commenter's comment came across, and why I responded in such a way.

Also, if you don't like PSH and LMH based off of one drama, that's great. Don't watch their dramas anymore, which based off of your knowledge of Pinocchio I'm assuming you still do.

Also, I'm not going to get into a debate about the state of roles available for actresses in their 20s and how the wide-eyed, fish kiss seems to be a staple in kdramas because god forbid the female lead character owns her sexuality because that would mean she's not the plain, vanilla character the audience has to relate to.

Yeah, so, excuse me if I, rightly so, believe it's a pretty common practice among scriptwriters and directors.

@dontrememberusername

Have you ever considered that there are other actresses that are better than PSH? And thus far more deserving of chances they never get. Kim Ji Won being one of them, she far outshone her in terms of acting in Heirs and yeah her kiss with with Kang Haneul had a lot more spark than any scene between the leads in that show, which given the context it wasn't suppose to be seeing as how the two characters were faking it. I'm only mentioning this because you keep pointing out that certain scenarios require specific reactions when it comes to PSH's performances, but there hasn't been a lot of disparity between those different situations.

Anyways yeah there are a lot better actresses who don't have the same fame as she does but I don't see how that has anything to do with PSH getting hate for her style of acting or why people criticizing her are supposedly "jealous" I gave you clear reasons why her character protrayals weren't my cup of tea and I gave her props where it counted, I don't see how that's me hating. Once again, I hardly think one great role is going to change her entire perspective on acting, for some actors that's all they have just that *one* good role and the rest are all mediocre.