oh i totally get it and it must be demotivating to gif/it only takes more out of your time ! personally i’ve dropped the show around ep4/5 because i don't want it to ruin my experience and i really did love the first season a LOT and i want to be able to keep it in my heart. i have so many issues with it aside from the camerawork, etc, the writing is just nowhere as robust. like idk how people are finding jaehak buttering up to junwan for the 123354084950th time endearing theyre repeating it into oblivion/there has been so much repetitiveness. it makes the characters fall from my eyes and it’s sad cause i actually used to really like jaehak? he had a lot of substantial patient interactions (like the strawberries scene/the patient that he had to pretty much beg to live) and his whole being a ‘late bloomer’ thing was quite reassuring in s1 but now he’s reduced to junwan’s fanboy. or songhwa’s off-key singing. or food monster duo with interventionist ikjun. or songhwa laughing at ikjun's lame jokes. or jeongwon’s pettiness (honestly don’t even get me started on how dirty they’ve done this character and how much they’ve watered him down for being so core to the the message of the 1st season but i don’t want to leave another essay in your asks:,). it’s become a formula like just throw one of these 'character quirks' in each episode and it’ll work!
anyway sorry about long ask!! it honestly is really frustrating for me as a prev passionate viewer to see all this glowing praise for this season when i don’t feel it at all and i personally feel like a lot about s1 went underappreciated but people are singing the praises of this lukewarm at best season instead. idk man. okay end of essay
hi again hosplay anon! yeah don't worry about it i totally understand where you're coming from. it always sucks when you're so attached and in love with s1 of a show only to have s2 completely fall apart in your eyes and disappoint in so many ways (ahem might be speaking from recent experience with ipytm here 🤪).
like i said i’m a pretty casual viewer so i definitely haven’t analysed it as much or compared it as deeply with s1 but you’re 100% on point about the repetitiveness at parts.
as a song hwa/ik jun fan going into s2, i was really so excited when they started hinting more at the set up of their relationship but then i think for 2-3 consecutive eps, i noticed they just kept using the same ONE thing to establish that - how song hwa is the *only* person to find ik jun’s lame jokes funny. and i think for 2 of those times jeong won made the exact same comment about it too. sun bin also mentions a few times about how ik jun’s the only one to make song hwa laugh etc. etc. i mean yes that’s true, but there are plenty of other reasons why they’re perfect for each other, so let’s see them!!
