okay i liked this episode better at showing some budding chemistry between Lee Gon and Jung Tae Eul.
so Tae Eul checked for these things and they came negative for Lee Gon: 1. his DNA. 2. his registration records (ID). 3. the phone call she received back from Korea Racing Association about the white horse, Maximus where the person on the other end said that it is not stolen, and indeed a rare Spanish breed that's not found in Korea.
you can see that she's started to feel confused, doubting herself about doubting him and starting to get curious whether he's indeed telling the truth. i mean, these are all really solid points you can't just ignore coming from a person who has the investigative authority to verify things.
p/s the guy who's Louie's neighbour from Shopping King, HE'S HERE!!! HAHAHAHA he already made burst into laughter at his first scene LOL LOL LOL. was he really born in 1993 or i am blind?! hahahaha. also the appearance of the ahjumma who was Suzy's mother in WYWS (she's in many dramas, i think she plays a very important role here but we don't know that yet). was she the one who slid a note in a book inside a bookstore saying the king is not in his palace to Lee Lim? damn that ahjumma.
i think the story is slowly picking up itself, but i do note that the way the dialogues are written are always a bit on the edge of being corny/cheesy.
i read that the reason why it feels quite bland so far is because of the relatively slow pace and poorly written dialogues. i can definitely agree with that. not entirely the fault of any of the leading actors.
p/ss i loved when they incorporated time freeze (maybe it happens when Lee Lim crosses the other world). i loved when Lee Gon explained that the reason Busan is the cultural capital and location of the palace is so that the royal guards can protect the capital and defend their country first against attackers. i loved when Lee Gon's dialogues have these mathematical equations incorporated in, like when he explained about how he likes the number 0, and how he is trapped in the square root that Tae Eul is standing in front of, and also the close up of many mathematical equations he wrote on the windows of the hotel room.
p/sss now Lee Gon already figured that Lee Lim can also travel to the parallel world just like him because he has the other half of the Minpanseok. can't wait for the scenes when they finally confront each other as adults. i can already see that their fighting scenes would be really epic, and would have been the saving grace for this drama!
maybe we wanted/expected more, and deserved more, but so far i am pretty satisfied with this drama up to this episode and how it can lead to better things from here. xx
i feel like this drama can be like another Hotel del Luna, some people loved it to bits, others didn't really. perhaps that's okay :)
i had a thought before answering, and i think it's not just her. i think both the main leads here have some problems…
yeah because acting is about responding to the actions/behaviours of the characters you are relating to. in this case, it's a romance so both main leads must come across as people who can relate to each other, whether or not as people who hate each other at the beginning, and liked each other more as time passes, or two people who found instant chemistry.
in this case if you notice, their interactions come across as casual conversations by a stranger talking to another stranger. the writer hasn't successfully developed scenes or dialogues that can tease out their uniqueness/charms/chemistry more.
two episodes in, and their interactions are hardly heart fluttering, mostly dry and quite bland.
2. not sure what you mean by the villain time travelling, i didn't catch that. i only catch him travelling to alternate universe. he killed the King in 1994, then fled to republic Korea in 1994, killed his version of self in the republic Korea and also his half-brother, and then stayed there (young Lee Gon in the alternate universe saw he killed the man on wheelchair, so it must be 1994 too). when they opened ep. 1, he was questioned in the police station being handcuffed, and the male detective actually said he's 70 y/o in 2020. so there's that jump they have not explained yet.
3. when Lee Gon crossed to the alternate universe, it's 2019.
4. in ep. 1 the villain went to meet his bodyguard at the fish farm, and the bodyguard said that ten years have passed but his boss still looks the same. that's probably the year 2004.
I'm wondering what everyone thinks of Jung Tae Eul as a character? Something feels off in her interactions with…
i had a thought before answering, and i think it's not just her. i think both the main leads here have some problems at developing an instant chemistry that we'd be crazily rooting for, which hasn't really sparked.
i personally think more than her, it's also the way their scenes and dialogues are constructed because they really do come off as dry AF to me.
okay the second episode is nice, but it's actually quite flat/dry.
i wonder why is that. they could have used Jo Eun Sup's edgy character to give us really nice funny bromance moments but his scenes with Lee Gon were actually quite dull. i mean, they cut off his scenes right at the point he could have made more interesting contributions/banter to the drama. there are also more filler scenes here than the first episode, but i am not complaining because it's nice seeing that handsome face of LMH, lol.
everyone else is sticking to their character well, but i feel like the character of Jo Eun Sup is so under-utilized in this episode WTF. even the seventh grade official, Maximus has more interesting scenes in this episode LOL i am actually quite mad.
what do you think?
p/s the ending scene when Lee Gon told Tae Eul that he found out the reason he needs to stay longer in that universe is because he wants to take her as his wife (Queen), i think that's really sweet. it reminds me of Goblin where their start of their romance somehow felt so rushed, but not so much here because we know he has waited for her for 25 years, and that's a solid reason to me.
but i am already sensing from some people's comment that his fast confession will feel irritable to some viewers, and that's like giving us another trope already used in Goblin. at this episode this drama also feels like a relative downgrade to the interesting support characters that CLOY has managed to give us.
calling for Wang Yibo and other actors' fans to reply.
i don't know really, i checked on his profile and he seems to have acted in several projects. i'm calling for his other fans so we can verify what you said, since i don't know any Chinese actors to make that determination.
so Tae Eul checked for these things and they came negative for Lee Gon:
1. his DNA.
2. his registration records (ID).
3. the phone call she received back from Korea Racing Association about the white horse, Maximus where the person on the other end said that it is not stolen, and indeed a rare Spanish breed that's not found in Korea.
you can see that she's started to feel confused, doubting herself about doubting him and starting to get curious whether he's indeed telling the truth. i mean, these are all really solid points you can't just ignore coming from a person who has the investigative authority to verify things.
p/s the guy who's Louie's neighbour from Shopping King, HE'S HERE!!! HAHAHAHA he already made burst into laughter at his first scene LOL LOL LOL. was he really born in 1993 or i am blind?! hahahaha. also the appearance of the ahjumma who was Suzy's mother in WYWS (she's in many dramas, i think she plays a very important role here but we don't know that yet). was she the one who slid a note in a book inside a bookstore saying the king is not in his palace to Lee Lim? damn that ahjumma.
i think the story is slowly picking up itself, but i do note that the way the dialogues are written are always a bit on the edge of being corny/cheesy.
i read that the reason why it feels quite bland so far is because of the relatively slow pace and poorly written dialogues. i can definitely agree with that. not entirely the fault of any of the leading actors.
p/ss i loved when they incorporated time freeze (maybe it happens when Lee Lim crosses the other world). i loved when Lee Gon explained that the reason Busan is the cultural capital and location of the palace is so that the royal guards can protect the capital and defend their country first against attackers. i loved when Lee Gon's dialogues have these mathematical equations incorporated in, like when he explained about how he likes the number 0, and how he is trapped in the square root that Tae Eul is standing in front of, and also the close up of many mathematical equations he wrote on the windows of the hotel room.
p/sss now Lee Gon already figured that Lee Lim can also travel to the parallel world just like him because he has the other half of the Minpanseok. can't wait for the scenes when they finally confront each other as adults. i can already see that their fighting scenes would be really epic, and would have been the saving grace for this drama!
maybe we wanted/expected more, and deserved more, but so far i am pretty satisfied with this drama up to this episode and how it can lead to better things from here. xx
i feel like this drama can be like another Hotel del Luna, some people loved it to bits, others didn't really. perhaps that's okay :)
THANKS SO MUCH I CAN ALREADY VOUCH FOR IT, YASSSS!
in this case if you notice, their interactions come across as casual conversations by a stranger talking to another stranger. the writer hasn't successfully developed scenes or dialogues that can tease out their uniqueness/charms/chemistry more.
two episodes in, and their interactions are hardly heart fluttering, mostly dry and quite bland.
1. Lee Gon's father was killed in 1994.
2. not sure what you mean by the villain time travelling, i didn't catch that. i only catch him travelling to alternate universe. he killed the King in 1994, then fled to republic Korea in 1994, killed his version of self in the republic Korea and also his half-brother, and then stayed there (young Lee Gon in the alternate universe saw he killed the man on wheelchair, so it must be 1994 too). when they opened ep. 1, he was questioned in the police station being handcuffed, and the male detective actually said he's 70 y/o in 2020. so there's that jump they have not explained yet.
3. when Lee Gon crossed to the alternate universe, it's 2019.
4. in ep. 1 the villain went to meet his bodyguard at the fish farm, and the bodyguard said that ten years have passed but his boss still looks the same. that's probably the year 2004.
i personally think more than her, it's also the way their scenes and dialogues are constructed because they really do come off as dry AF to me.
i wonder why is that. they could have used Jo Eun Sup's edgy character to give us really nice funny bromance moments but his scenes with Lee Gon were actually quite dull. i mean, they cut off his scenes right at the point he could have made more interesting contributions/banter to the drama. there are also more filler scenes here than the first episode, but i am not complaining because it's nice seeing that handsome face of LMH, lol.
everyone else is sticking to their character well, but i feel like the character of Jo Eun Sup is so under-utilized in this episode WTF. even the seventh grade official, Maximus has more interesting scenes in this episode LOL i am actually quite mad.
what do you think?
p/s the ending scene when Lee Gon told Tae Eul that he found out the reason he needs to stay longer in that universe is because he wants to take her as his wife (Queen), i think that's really sweet. it reminds me of Goblin where their start of their romance somehow felt so rushed, but not so much here because we know he has waited for her for 25 years, and that's a solid reason to me.
but i am already sensing from some people's comment that his fast confession will feel irritable to some viewers, and that's like giving us another trope already used in Goblin. at this episode this drama also feels like a relative downgrade to the interesting support characters that CLOY has managed to give us.