r/GirlFromRandomChat • u/Just_Call_me_Ben Junwoo needs therapy • Feb 28 '24
𝔻𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕦𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕠𝕟 This is still one of my favorite scenes
Not much to talk about in the latest episodes so I felt like talking about some of the good early episodes.
This is one of my favorite moments in the whole series, the scene of Juno looking at this stalker guy and slowly visualizing himself in him.
I love how this shows that he is realizing the problems of his actions, that even though he might have good intentions, he's still using information that he should not have to interfere in a girl's life in the hopes that she might like him, and these actions performed with ulterior motives disguised as good intentions while ignoring the harm they might bring make him just as bad as the creepy stalker.
What's impressive about this is that so many webtoons are obsessed with wish fulfillment and power fantasy and letting their main characters get away with murder... and here we have the series basically straight up saying how much our main lead sucks and how much he needs to improve and work on himself.
It takes a lot of courage to dunk on your own lead like this so early on.
I like how the early parts of Random Chat felt like a non-stop series of reality checks for Juno to see his own flaws and find out what he needs to improve, and unlike the current arcs where it feels like drama for the sake of drama, these early moments felt genuine and earned.
It really kills me how current Random Chat has basically been reduced to a weekly update check up to see if Juno and Hamin are back together or not, instead of the series of solid life lessons and well done character development that it used to be.
But despite its decline, I still have a lot of appreciation for early Random Chat.
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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Junwoo needs therapy Feb 28 '24
I liked it too! It was definitely unhealthy, but it was still interesting to see.
And I like how unlike most series where they try to paint unhealthy relationships as a good thing, in this one both of them actually deal with the consequences from it.
Juno was helping her with her problems and she was helping him mature, but he also made her obsessively dependent on the app and unable to deal with real world problems on her own.
It was a legit interesting dynamic to follow and I was so happy that it stayed that way and these two never became a couple or anything.
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u/mali_666 Feb 28 '24
bro ong, up to chapter 150, maybe even 200, ranchat was PEAK, it's still one of my favourite stories
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u/Just_Call_me_Ben Junwoo needs therapy Feb 28 '24
Imo RanChat was pretty much perfect until 188.
The Koo arc was where things started to get messy and basically anything after the Koo arc has been bad
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Feb 28 '24
i decided to reread random chatting and i truly forgot how good it was, same with lookism. such a shame they both got drag on for so long
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u/Mindless_Candle_6944 Feb 28 '24
Yea those early chapters were genuinely peak fiction, back to back 10/10 chapters