Despite the high expectations for ‘Ask the Stars’ after a huge production cost of 50 billion KRW was invested, the drama ended with harsh criticism as a ‘flop’.
The final episode of tvN’s weekend drama ‘Ask the Stars’, aired on the 23rd, recorded a viewership rating of 2.5% (provided by Nielsen Korea), far below expectations. It started with 3.3% in the first episode, recorded its highest rating of 3.9% in the second episode, but hovered in the 1-2% range, ultimately failing to rebound.
In the last episode, the story of the first human childbirth in space of Dinosaur (Lee Min-ho) and Eve Kim (Gong Hyo-jin) unfolded. Dinosaur earnestly requested the ground control center and went up to the space station to assist with the childbirth, and Eve Kim gave birth to a healthy daughter. However, it was discovered that her pelvic bone was broken right after the childbirth, and since surgery was impossible in space, she hid it and ended up dying in just one day.
After losing his wife, Dinosaur remained in space raising his daughter and became an obstetrician. Due to the long space life, he lost his eyesight and ended up in a wheelchair. In the last episode, Dinosaur said to his daughter Star, “The universe became both a grave and a womb. Goodbye, Eve, see you again,” marking the ending. The unexpected tragic ending left viewers disappointed.
- Episode 22 Oksoon expressed “♥Kyungsu, I want to have a child” but was harshly rejected for a reason
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- SibalseynㅋㅋㅋEven when squeezing toothpaste bought three months ago it comes out better than your egg from your ovaryㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋDid you trash your conscience along with your egg?ㅋㅋㅋYou should be thankful to God for just giving birth to a healthy baby, why boast about raising a genius?
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- What magic will you use to have a baby, old hag?
Wake up
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- If she were 20, it could be okay; but at that age, talking about having kids can only sound like she wants a disabled child, leading to divorce and extracting more child support payments (since children born to older mothers are at a much higher risk of having disabilities). The odds of a normal-intelligence, normal-physique child are exceedingly slim at over 25. So from the man’s perspective, his genes won’t be preserved anyway but only his money will be at a greater risk. So why welcome one-sided losses? He’s smart or pretending to be one.
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- ??? Wants to capture a hostage and butcher
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- The current situation in South Korea heavily disadvantages men when it comes to having children. It would be wiser to wait after Yoon Suk-yeol is reinstated as president and the country is normalized for several years.
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- Why raise someone else’s offspring when she’s offering to make one of their own..?
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- Soranet incest porn deviant sexual deviant Moon Jae-in execution! Bestiality and incestuous procreation are evils that must be eradicated!
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- Real trash talk like those in movies or dramas fill these comments.. Guys, you are at least human.
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- Whining~ Sibal ahh
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- Woo Young-woo is also a genius
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- Lee Jae-myeong questions, “Why reduce inheritance tax for billionaires by 10 billion?” to the ruling party
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- Hey, company collapses because of inheritance tax, can’t expect anything but this from a red bastard.
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- What about North Korea remittance?
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- Don’t want to see him eating sushi and sandwich with inheritance tax money
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- You have 480 billion
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- Minsahyup — Made by the 2030 generation’s jobs — Minshyup — Injae Lee is behind the Minshyup
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- Communist bastard ChijYem. He speaks so easily about others money but keeps his own hidden.
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- China is catching up with Korean semiconductors; while claiming a special semiconductor act exclusion from 52 hours, suddenly enforcing 40 hours work week. If workers don’t work, where does the salary come from? No businesses means no taxes and will you just start printing money like North Korea?
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- Sweden has no inheritance tax. Without inheritance tax, entrepreneurs will see the future and invest more. Under the current situation, it’ll only be a race to keep driving stock prices down.
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- On the contrary, why does a billionaire need to pay over 100 billion to the state?
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- Surely, all rich people must die. That’s the way of communization.
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- Oh Jung-yeon, 14 years after divorce… shares news that left everyone surprised
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- It’s personal but good luck! Execute incest-loving sexual deviant Moon Jae-in!
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- Moon Jae-in’s daughter also divorced. Is there no connection to Moon’s sexual deviance and his daughter’s divorce?
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- No matter how pretty, women age and just become pretty ahjummas. That photo must have heavy makeup, aging shows.
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- Honestly, Seo Jang Hoon got lucky being used well for variety shows, can’t imagine how draining he was in a marriage. Obsessive cleaning, quick irritability, how could anyone live with a person whose face says ‘irritation’ ㅇㅇ Oh Jung Yeon, a Seoul University graduate turned announcer, followed an elite path. Doesn’t match with such an irritable athlete.
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- Probably divorced because of messiness, Seo Jang Hoon can’t stand unclean rooms.
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- Living off private life like one of them entertainers
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- Showed joy upon being diagnosed with ovarian age as 39
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- Write the article, you reporters… What’s so newsworthy about Seo’s cleanliness and Oh’s messiness
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- Why do I need to know her ovarian age?
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- Is it still being talked about after 14 years?
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- ‘Worst in cryptocurrency history’ 2 trillion won hacking… “North Korea responsible”
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- North Korea gathers coins through hacking~~ Deviant sexual deviant Moon Jae-in collects incest porn~~~
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- Cryptocurrency is just worthless, just delete its value altogether. It’s a chunk of data for financial games without a physical entity and it’s ridiculous it is valued at hundreds of millions. If a transaction platform gets hacked or runs away, you don’t even get a dime, looking at both domestic and international cases, deleting its value entirely is better. It’s already peaked, within ten years its currency value will plummet, so sell quickly and get out.
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- It wasn’t the cryptocurrency hacked, it was the exchange that was robbed. Ignorant people, when a bank heist occurs, do you argue there’s an issue with cash?
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- Buying Bitcoin in the AI era is an intelligence issue
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- Not even a code or currency, yet calling it cryptocurrency… 2 trillion it is, stupidㅋㅋ
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- saw the class of future central currency well ~ ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
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- If what you say that communist forces like North Korea are indeed robbing and selling, the fact the U.S. government isn’t shutting down the entire weak cryptocurrency system used for funding these forces, except for the fact you Yankees are embezzling and don’t want to be taxed further, then of course you’re silent.
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- Cryptocurrency praised for hacking-impossible structure but using trading platforms leads to hacking potential lulz
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- How did you hack an offline wallet? Doesn’t make sense.
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- If North Korea can hack trading platforms, anything is possible.
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- A 60-year-old woman found dead in a restaurant in Goyang… “Suspect is husband’s mistress”
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- All this because of the genes of those who stamped 2. They should be grinded and thrown into the sewer.
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- This is really all because of the 2 stampers, if they’re alive things like this happen.
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From the outset, ‘Ask the Stars’ was marketed as an SF romantic comedy, yet it received criticism for its convoluted plot and unnecessary elements. Protagonists dealing with infertility treatments and childbirth in space frequently used terms like ‘sex’, ‘pregnancy’, ‘uterus’ excessively, causing discomfort to viewers. Repeated bed scenes featuring Gong Hyo-jin-Kim Joo-heon and Lee Min-ho-Han Ji-eun added to the disharmony with the drama’s theme.
Especially, lines such as Dinosaur’s “I’m a professional at having sex and getting someone pregnant,” or Eve Kim’s “Now that I’ve been treated, I think I can have sex and get pregnant,” generated aversion from viewers. These dialogues and setups persisted until the last episode, resulting in a poorly executed production that failed to live up to the title of ‘a 50-billion-dollar blockbuster’.
‘Ask the Stars’ is a pre-produced drama with an investment of 50 billion KRW, written by Seo Sook-hyang, known for ‘Pasta’ and ‘Jealousy Incarnate,’ and directed by Park Shin-woo, who worked on ‘Encounter’ and ‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay.’ Expectations were high; however, from the beginning, it was difficult for viewers to relate due to the incoherent storyline, forced settings, and erratic emotional tones.
The synergy of ‘Hallyu star’ Lee Min-ho and ‘box office guarantor’ Gong Hyo-jin was also unseen, resulting in ‘Ask the Stars’ ending with a lowest viewership rating of 1.8%, ultimately finishing at 2.5% and being labeled as a ‘50-billion-dollar flop’.
