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Also, if you re into chinese dramas, there's Scarlet Heart
and the popular korean Scarlet Heart Moon lovers (different stories). Both with deep stories and very very good performances by the whole cast.
I have 1-2 more recommendations of chinese similar dramas, but i dont wont to give you headache with many titles. If you are interested though, just tell me so and i ll give you more

Though i wasnt fascinated by the story, the ML is pure hotness in that, and i just love the FL actress in all her works-even the crappy ones. Can we please take a minute to reminisce the scene where he's got that long hair, half tied up, half naked and puring water on him? Epic drooling-worthy scene!

Queen in Hyun's man, it has one of the best (and real life at that time) couples, great performances and interesting storyline with someone who's trying to change history. Its kind of epic drama like Goblin, on its genre.

That's exactly my reason for believing he is not dead in the present timeline.
Nobody would care about his whereabouts if he was reported dead. They could easily delete everything about him in historical reports and case closed. Plus the fact, that they wouldnt give the ending at the first few minutes of ep1-at least not this director who clearly loves twists.

Go on watching only if you wanna experience how bad or not existed acting skills can be and how useless a director can be on that aspect

The story was one of the most pointless-if not the most-of every crappy drama i ve ever watched.
Thankfully i skipped whole episodes.
Who casted that actress btw? Her actins skills and body language are worse than a vegetable

Basically everyone-including tha production team lol
But in a superficial way because she is the witty seductress of the village

I doubt this is the final scene. Its either the ML's ending and the story will have some more scenes of what happened to the FL or the rest,
or its not a bad ending and there's a twist at the moment he s walking towards them (to be killed eventually).
Considering the narration and the director's style up to now, he wouldnt give the ending in the first scene. He's even twisting the plot surprisingly in almost every episode (if not 2 and more times in each ep), so my gut is telling me that the ML is not dead at the end.
+The guy in the cell is supposed to "wait for him to save him" and even if this is only his illusion, in the later years they are still searching for that man (the ML) so its not clarified that according to history he was found dead.
+He is too witty to die that easily and so young lol

I thought the same about these 2 stories and thank god the characters in MD are written in a more complicated and multilayered way. Plus, in GWTW both Scarlett and Rett were a bit sh@tty as characters and the writing was pretentious

You are right about the comment section in many forums (not only here, but on reddit and others too).
As a very strict viewer, i have experienced a lot of hate comments, some people think that you can only comment on a drama if you find everything perfect in it.
Im not like that, even with the dramas i really love, i always have elements i love and some i dont like at all in a drama.
My dearest, to me, is a mediocre watch in many aspects but i really love the dynamics between the main couple, between the girls friendship and between the ML and Ryang Eum. I also love the male character as he is not the typical girl savior and hero who goes for it, but a controversial type of man who just caught off guard and have to sacrifice his own benefit for the girl's safety.
Dislikes? Yeap, as i said before, i have a few. The ML as an actor is not that good. The direction is great-as a good director can even turn a stone into a good performer-but he only has 2 face expressions up to now.
Also the costumes are a bit unrealistic-there were not such colors in 17th century-not even in the west. It hurts my eyes sometimes.
The music is very beautiful, the folklore songs by Ryang Eum are special. i enjoy the fast paicng and the narrative up to now.

The Rise of Phoenixes. You wont get actual loving scenes, but very strong and obsessed love between the leads and overall better production quality, beautiful music, stunnins props and sets but too much politics (you can skip scenes). As for the dubbing, there is some but the best quality dubbing you ll find in a c drama. The acting is also a bit better

Actually Scarlet Heart had a kind of open ending (they had the nerve, years later, to release some pics of "special" supposed episode, where they meet in our timeline in a museum. As for Smile has left your eyes, (its my top favourite but the jap version), bad ending was one way ticket as it was a pure tragedy (considering the actual relation between the main couple).
I kind of believe that My Dearest will have a happy ending, cause up to now, the director likes to twist the plot giving you a first impression and then boom!
So as he chose to tell us from the first few minutes of the drama that the ML walks to his death, i bet he ll turn the story upside down and give a happy ending or at least an open one. I also think that Ryang Eum will play a critical part on the story's outcome, so to speak, his actions will lead to the certain ending. Despite all the above, i really prefer to be ready for a sad ending than to have a shocking, rushed, horrible ending that is ony made for the sake of the drama's hype-as from the marketing's perspective, tragic endings, keep dramas trending for much longer.

oh you re right! so its his voice not his body! ok im such a moron hahahahh didnt even think about it!

Maybe it not his voice, but definetely is his presence. I guess it s just a part of the deal-contracts for his cameo and has nothing to do with the story

cameos everywhere? hahahhahahahaha
maybe he 's part of the sets and decoration!

Why did they have to cast Lee Jun Ho for the role of the man in her dream? (it says so in cast details)
They could use Namk Min.
Any thoughts?

A big part for the drama's success is the absence of filler scenes.
Its so enjoyable to watch a show without endless pointless empty filler scenes that have nothing to contribute to the story.
Very fast paced storytelling, also adds to the success

Im fine when big sharks buy products and make it available to more countries as long as they stay out of the production process. Im a big fan of jdramas and anime and though i recognize japanese cinema/dramaland is done in an amateur way in many aspects, i treasure the uniqueness of topics they choose to depict, taboo topics, difficult, hard, deep and very human-ly kind things, For the above reasons i also treasure spanish movieland as the most unique among the europeans.
I too love this series though im not a fan of korean historical ones. I like the multilayered characters so far, the fast paced story, the little to no politics (ok i also love Ryang Eum-he is my little candy boy lol)

I like that too, but tends to be a norm so much to the point that often the story structure is the same, eg usually in romcoms, in ep 9-10 the couple gets together, 11-13 everything falls apart, 14-15 a separation, 16 an ending-oftern rushed. Not to mention what happens when netflix is involved-it can even ruin a jdrama based on anime. Mass production destroys everything. Thanks for the info about 16 ep. I hate spreading false information and i really thought it had something to do with restrictions!

Really? Then why most dramas tend to have 16 ep? I thought they had a strict limit like the new chinese restriction in cdramas