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No & unfortunately I don't think I will. Too much on my plate.

More like moderate hope for the remaining episodes as I tend to get betrayed by bad writing. But I am anticipating a lot. Like I wonder how Xin Mei as a Talent will alter the story, Lord Rust-Sword actually achieving his dream or if Lu's going to be an important piece to the War Demon's revival. Lots of ideas & topics to explore. So yeah.

I actually really like the whole world building of this series. It's quite unique compared to basically all other Xianxia. Things like Immortality Taxes & how the Sects affect the human world are interesting. It's also interesting to see humans actually strive to be as strong as Immortals. It's all really cool & unique ideas that usually don't get explored.

The series feels like an authentic world bcuz everything is working into one another with the human world & the Sects & it's not just all about the Immortal Sects like most Xianxia. Like I can barely name 5 Xianxia where the human world even matters to the story. Most just abandon it after the origin part LOL! Not to mention the show also touches upon how Immortals actually can be detrimental to human society due to cultivation stagnating human advancement in technology is an interesting idea. Bcuz it addresses as to why after thousands of years why humanity never advances anywhere, bcuz magic, literally.

Long story short this series is quite rich in substance. So I hope it stays like this & actually becomes a drama I really like, bcuz I do know that some dramas tend to ruin themselves half way through. So I really like this series right now & fingers crossed that it stays genuinely good throughout.

So were the Michael Bay Transformer movies. LOL!

I've said this before for someone, but it's lack of depth & nuance.
For example FL grew up as a boy in disguise, but we never see how this is bad for her psychologically. We don't see her struggle throughout in rediscovering her femininity to finally reclaiming it & being happy that she did. From day 1 when she joined the military she was acting more cutesy & feminine than the girl characters. When she put on that dancer disguise in the first few episodes she should've struggled as she never wore girl clothes before, but she puts it on easy. We barely see her interact with other female characters who should help her through this important ordeal. We only get small snippets of her wanting to be a girl, but never why it matters. So when she finally does reveal herself as a girl there's barely depth & nuance behind it. There are so many moments where the show can explore her what should be a very interesting character, but we get the bare minimum.

Oh most definitely. I said Tia Xi Wei carried the character, but only so far as not even she could save it.

I didn't realize until now, but the FL is a Mary Sue. She could do almost no wrong & was essentially perfect. Creating little to no tension, character arc or compelling characterization. Tian Xi Wei carried the character.

If you can tolerate the FL being super cutesy & lacking some depth then sure, but otherwise it's not a must watch. The plot isn't the most interesting nor the characters the most amazing. I don't even remember the supporting characters. All pretty serviceable & standard.

I'm sorry to say, but you defended them in vain. This person most definitely used AI or something to write this review. And I'm not just saying it carelessly. I read through the entire thing & I noticed so many problems with it. However the 2 major ones would be:

1. This part "Xie Zheng’s Oath to Fan Changyu at the Memorial in Pursuit of Jade." Now I want to mainly emphasize on the "in Pursuit of Jade" part, bcuz why mention this is in Pursuit of Jade in a Pursuit of Jade review? Of course it would be. It makes no sense unless the AI stole this part from something that used it as a title from that one scene.

2. The review doesn't even mention 2nd couple or at the least Qi Min. No mention of any other characters too. This clearly shows that the reviewer chose Changyu & Xie Zheng as the subject to gather info on & nothing else. If the reviewer had time to talk about quotes & the OST then they should at least have time to mention the 2 most important characters after the 2 Leads.

Yeah, I'm 99% convinced & I hope you and anybody else happens upon my comment are convinced too, bcuz this is a disappointing review

I'm guessing the director is implying Park SeoJoon was just going to "clean him up," but then while digging dirt on Rain he discovered Rain is attached to other big fish that is a threat to S.Korea as a whole & didn't want to waste a possible lead.

But really how I see, it's a set up for S3, in which I'm going on whim to guess that they are going to recruit essentially everybody to go bust this drug ring.

I'm surprised the villain from S1 kept his word & left them alive. Still I'm happy bcuz I like Ryu Soo Young.

I agree with everything except the trainee part. I think it made sense that she blurted everything out. She did "tase" him, reveal herself as mastermind while he was "unconscious" by ordering the producer around & just saw a "detective" arrest her accomplice. I think that's more than enough to make her realize she's hit a dead end & blurt everything out.

Now as for the denying everything in court I don't think that works too. Again she did "tase" him & I don't know the laws in South Korea, but I think a lawyer claiming you attempted to harm him holds some relevance in court. Then there's the major evidence that her prints are on the phone when she took it off of SuA. Not to mention the producer's own words if he is brought in as witness will work against her. And there are other things like her having motive, her prints on the taser, her lacking alibi, her instigating the other idols into kicking SuA out showing antagonistic behavior towards her & who knows maybe they would've pulled the classic cliche of CCTV that happened to have caught everything. All that being said, yeah we probably should've at least seen her getting sentenced or something. Even just a snippet.

My take: he was the only viable option that they had chemistry with. Some guys had a girl they interested already & 1 guy just didn't seem to care.

The more I think about this series the more I realize/understand why JunSeo & SiAn got so much screen time & that's probably bcuz the other contestants were incredibly boring and/or put no effort to getting to know each other. I feel like no one genuinely tried other than the guys who were interested in SiAn. Well, maybe that one dude who was interested in "Sana"(forgot her name), but he was a bore too. LOL! So yeah, I feel JunSeo & SiAn got unnecessary hate.

Y'know it'd be easier if Woo Ju just wised up & said "so let me get this straight, what you really need is $$$ & a place to live right? Well, I'll just use my connections to get you a place & pay you handsomely in addition to the $$$ from this deal. Okay? Okay~" & the show would be over. LOL! But sure, let the ridiculousness commence. Not sure if I will stick around though.

PS I swear. For every 1 drama that doesn't have "fated meeting" there are 10 that are "fated." This trope needs to be toned down already.

I unfortunately agree. For me it’s the change in tone though. It went from melodrama to 100% Romcom & doesn’t even feel like the same show anymore. The moment they dressed up as Barbie & Ken I was given a huge whiplash. It got silly out of nowhere & it just kept on getting sillier & sillier. Writing 101, don’t all of a sudden change your story’s genre.

LOL! So true. I'm on the opposite end & actually had a problem with the ML & some people just couldn't handle it.

I only really watched the first 2 eps. The rest were word of mouth, so a bit of light spoilers. So if you don't want to read then ignore me.

Anyways, this is mainly a supernatural action series, but the action scenes are honestly lacking. Some of the actors need more training. Then there are around 14 characters with 5 of them being more important than the rest, but it's only 8 ep. So the writing has to be quick & to the point to develop all of them. Long story short, it didn't. Even the 5 most important didn't get developed apparently. Lots of meandering in the first 4 ep I heard & eating/PPL. Then I also heard Seo In Guk & Park Hyung Sik are wasted. Barely any screen time. I think that's the major stuff that made it a bad drama. If you still want to try it, best of luck.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do believe Chairman's daughter died 15 years ago. But the child is still in kindergarten so unless I'm wrong I don't think so. That would've been a good one though.
Edit: Just double checked & yeah 15 years ago. Sorry, but nevertheless would've been a good one.

Who knows? It's when writers don't know how wills work. LOL!