Sassy Go Go
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satalasers Pretty cute! Teenagers! Cheerleading! Evil teachers! Kind teachers! Pushy parents! Scheming students! What's not to like?
- I really do like the premise, that the smartest and least smartest groups have to work together and become a cheer-leading club. It's very feel good.
- Shoutout to the very cute one note Headmistress and Vice Principal, who delighted in only caring about good grades, and get overthrown. If anything, I wish that they had a larger role and were even more antagonistic. The vice principal was SO hammy, so I liked him just a tad more, but I super loved that headmistress really only cared about good grades and getting money, and was corrupt to boot.
- Su-a took a while to like. The more monstrous she became, I definitely began to feel bad for her, pushed to be perfect and alone, because her mother wanted her to be The Best. I kind of don't think she earned her redemption, though I don't know what would have cut it. Honestly, I do think I would have preferred if she had moved away, though her failed to have been reached out by the students would have undermined the feelgood feeling of it all.
- VIP, to me, of course was Ha Joon. The actor totally took my breath away, and I really liked him here! I totally shipped him with Yeon Doo, though, and his confession via gummy bear was adorable, also that 'if he cheats on you, come to me! i would never do that!' was utterly cute too. I do wonder if this show wanted Ha Joon to end up with Su-a, though. There were a couple of scenes that almost read like they were setting that up, TBH.
- Mind you, I suppose you could say the same for Dong Jae/Su-a, but they felt pretty platonic to me. Like, she messed him up, by getting kids to rough him up knowing that he has a phobia of being touched. But Dong Jae could tell that she was getting lonelier and self-hating the more episodes continued, and in the episode where she decides she's going to commit suicide, she's actually very nice to him, apologizing, and wishing him the best -- and so, I kind of thought it was nice that it's because of Su-a, in a moment of without thinking, just acting, it's Dong Jae that saves her life, and is able to pull her back.
- (Although, I kind of thought Dong Jae and Yeon Doo were going to be the endgame ship, several times. I just really enjoyed their friendship, and wouldn't have minded them ending up together either.)
- The friendship between Ha Joon and Yeol was adorable. The show didn't shy away from Ha Joon's self-harming, and that Yeol often acted in ways to protect him was very cute, and I really enjoyed their heart to hearts. They're such best friends!
- Yeol was so cool! He had such a devillish/angelic smile, and I liked how he helped and hindered things at times. He was astonishingly cruel at times, even if you could say it was pretty justified.
- I kind of really did like Teacher Yang Kae Beom a lot, and how he looked out for the group. He was nice, and I kind of wanted him to end up with the cheerleading teacher. But nothing happened between them :(. But still, I liked how he tried to reach out to Su-a (which failed), but he often gave nudges for Yeon Doo in the right direction, (which succeeded), and it's because of him sticking up for her is what leads her into sticking up for him, when he's been falsely accused of sexual assault.
- I really did like the contrast of the smart group, who studied too much and cared far too much about grades, and the least smart group, who cared much more about having fun and forming genuine connections with each other, and so when the two groups merged, it took a while for them to find that balance. But they got there!
- I would have liked the romance so much more if Yeol and Yeon Doo's parents weren't going to get married. Granted, it's not quite like Love Rain, where I'm still not entirely sure what the best solution is: probably, letting the kids get married, and the parents date and stay together in America; and Yeol decides to get emancipated from his father, and be legally his mother's son, but IDK. Is that enough? But, the parents wanted to get married, and I kind of though they were sweeter than the kids (in Sassy Go Go), so I wanted the parents to have the happily ever after, while the lead kids stayed platonic. I mean, okay, like in Love Rain, the kids didn't know what was going on with the parents and their love affair, so them falling in love unbeknownst to that potential complication is... fine? maybe? it's when the marriage becomes legal, that it's the problem.
- But I still don't know if I can call it Second Lead Syndrome, because in Hwarang, it's like, if maybe the lead male wasn't the lead female's brother, that it makes sense that of course I'm going to prefer the other guy. Because you don't have that Not Quite Incest complication. At least in Sassy Go Go, I really liked Ha Joon/Yeon Doo, and thought maybe they could end up together, because they got so many scenes of them looking out for each other and being good friends, whereas in Hwarang, it was pretty obvious that A-ro and Moo Myung were going to end up together and Jwi Di, didn't stand a chance, and he'd given up halfway anyway. They just seem lesser evils rather than, oh, the second lead is a better match -- something along those lines, Like, yeah, I prefer the alternative ship to the main ship, but I don't have particularly strong feelings about it.
Maybe I'm being a bit mean giving it a 7.5/10, but though I liked a lot elements, I'm not entirely sure how much of it gelled well..
- I really do like the premise, that the smartest and least smartest groups have to work together and become a cheer-leading club. It's very feel good.
- Shoutout to the very cute one note Headmistress and Vice Principal, who delighted in only caring about good grades, and get overthrown. If anything, I wish that they had a larger role and were even more antagonistic. The vice principal was SO hammy, so I liked him just a tad more, but I super loved that headmistress really only cared about good grades and getting money, and was corrupt to boot.
- Su-a took a while to like. The more monstrous she became, I definitely began to feel bad for her, pushed to be perfect and alone, because her mother wanted her to be The Best. I kind of don't think she earned her redemption, though I don't know what would have cut it. Honestly, I do think I would have preferred if she had moved away, though her failed to have been reached out by the students would have undermined the feelgood feeling of it all.
- VIP, to me, of course was Ha Joon. The actor totally took my breath away, and I really liked him here! I totally shipped him with Yeon Doo, though, and his confession via gummy bear was adorable, also that 'if he cheats on you, come to me! i would never do that!' was utterly cute too. I do wonder if this show wanted Ha Joon to end up with Su-a, though. There were a couple of scenes that almost read like they were setting that up, TBH.
- Mind you, I suppose you could say the same for Dong Jae/Su-a, but they felt pretty platonic to me. Like, she messed him up, by getting kids to rough him up knowing that he has a phobia of being touched. But Dong Jae could tell that she was getting lonelier and self-hating the more episodes continued, and in the episode where she decides she's going to commit suicide, she's actually very nice to him, apologizing, and wishing him the best -- and so, I kind of thought it was nice that it's because of Su-a, in a moment of without thinking, just acting, it's Dong Jae that saves her life, and is able to pull her back.
- (Although, I kind of thought Dong Jae and Yeon Doo were going to be the endgame ship, several times. I just really enjoyed their friendship, and wouldn't have minded them ending up together either.)
- The friendship between Ha Joon and Yeol was adorable. The show didn't shy away from Ha Joon's self-harming, and that Yeol often acted in ways to protect him was very cute, and I really enjoyed their heart to hearts. They're such best friends!
- Yeol was so cool! He had such a devillish/angelic smile, and I liked how he helped and hindered things at times. He was astonishingly cruel at times, even if you could say it was pretty justified.
- I kind of really did like Teacher Yang Kae Beom a lot, and how he looked out for the group. He was nice, and I kind of wanted him to end up with the cheerleading teacher. But nothing happened between them :(. But still, I liked how he tried to reach out to Su-a (which failed), but he often gave nudges for Yeon Doo in the right direction, (which succeeded), and it's because of him sticking up for her is what leads her into sticking up for him, when he's been falsely accused of sexual assault.
- I really did like the contrast of the smart group, who studied too much and cared far too much about grades, and the least smart group, who cared much more about having fun and forming genuine connections with each other, and so when the two groups merged, it took a while for them to find that balance. But they got there!
- I would have liked the romance so much more if Yeol and Yeon Doo's parents weren't going to get married. Granted, it's not quite like Love Rain, where I'm still not entirely sure what the best solution is: probably, letting the kids get married, and the parents date and stay together in America; and Yeol decides to get emancipated from his father, and be legally his mother's son, but IDK. Is that enough? But, the parents wanted to get married, and I kind of though they were sweeter than the kids (in Sassy Go Go), so I wanted the parents to have the happily ever after, while the lead kids stayed platonic. I mean, okay, like in Love Rain, the kids didn't know what was going on with the parents and their love affair, so them falling in love unbeknownst to that potential complication is... fine? maybe? it's when the marriage becomes legal, that it's the problem.
- But I still don't know if I can call it Second Lead Syndrome, because in Hwarang, it's like, if maybe the lead male wasn't the lead female's brother, that it makes sense that of course I'm going to prefer the other guy. Because you don't have that Not Quite Incest complication. At least in Sassy Go Go, I really liked Ha Joon/Yeon Doo, and thought maybe they could end up together, because they got so many scenes of them looking out for each other and being good friends, whereas in Hwarang, it was pretty obvious that A-ro and Moo Myung were going to end up together and Jwi Di, didn't stand a chance, and he'd given up halfway anyway. They just seem lesser evils rather than, oh, the second lead is a better match -- something along those lines, Like, yeah, I prefer the alternative ship to the main ship, but I don't have particularly strong feelings about it.
Maybe I'm being a bit mean giving it a 7.5/10, but though I liked a lot elements, I'm not entirely sure how much of it gelled well..
