I totally agree with your opinions but because the characters are so cartoonish and unbelievable it kept me hooked as to how much more ridiculous it will get. It's one of those series where I torture myself but since it's 1/2 an hour daily 5 nights a week it's bearable.
Yeah, it's not that atypical of a KBS daily drama.
This one is more shrill than the ones they've ran in the last 2-3 years, but you'd expect to have a mean grandma, a scheming mom, and often meanspirited female rivals. Usually somebody has a physical ailment. And there's a lot of excessive weeping.
This one is kinda appealing in that a lot of the themes cover the social politics that can go into marraige between two families. The convenient hypocrisy that not only rich people, but all people practice in condescending who or who does not have a right to marry into family. The emphasis upon "face"/image/perception in evaluating prospective in-laws into the family and so on. Kang Hosae has almost willfully rejects this at every turn, and this is a big, big reason why his mother had not accepted Sabyeok.
KBS daily dramas tend to more "conservative" than the dailies from other stations. The bits about two siblings falling in love with the same family as well as neurotic intensity of this show's filial piety are less stressed in other daily dramas from other stations.
]Taepoong sympathetic???? I've disliked him from the beginning. He stole money from
his grandmother and thinks violence is the first course to take for all problems.
Yeah, but the violence bit is fairly stereotypical for the "hot-headed" Korean protoganist. I didn't like Taepoong at all in the beginning (hypocrite like his brother), but he grew on me. I confess casting Lee Ji Hoon makes that easier.

My reaction to Kim Ho Sae has been the opposite.
What's worse is now there are making the doctor into such an idiot for actually thinking he can fall in love with such a pyscho.
Yeah, but that's because the doctor started to know Soo Bin more or less after she lost the war. If he only knew . . . I think actress actually has done a pretty good job considering how wacko "Evil Eyes" is!
