Heather Branson

thank you! I don't understand anything they're saying, but it's still fun to watch!

Jin Mu needs to leave the turtle alone or I'm going to slap the shit out of him! 😂 The actor is doing an amazing job at being petty and making me hate his character even more than if he was just plain evil.

This show confuses me soooo much but I just want my pair to be happy, beat the bad guys and have a way to be happy ever after, is that too much to ask? Would it be realistic for the story to end with them happy...no! but do I freaking care? also no!!

Its a holiday weekend, the New Year, so I'm guessing that's why they didn't want to broadcast it. Lot of people aren't even home this weekend and the rest are watching the ball drop, having parties, and waaaay to drunk to watch a drama.

Does this mean they can finally air it?

awesome! I love it when they do that...makes it a lot easier to watch

I'm wondering the same thing. I think it has to be in production or well into by now since they've released the posters a few months back. One of these days we'll get a synopsis. I tried looking up the book its based on, but wasn't able to find any information in english

I enjoyed them and I think a lot of other people did too. Good cast, excellent production levels, and decent script. :) I recommend Love and Destiny more than this one, just because I like it slightly more...but I like them both overall.

Glad I'm not alone in that thought! Was starting to think I was just an idiot, but it looks like it was more that the story originally was building for that and then got scissored down so much it watered the overall story into a paler version of itself.

ouch! That's a LOT of content just thrown away. You have to wonder at that point can it be edited enough to make it coherent?

I think you explained it in a way that makes it make sense to me, guess I got used to a certain plot path on some Wuxia and Fantasy dramas so I started to just expect that everyone who is good should just keep leveling up throughout the series until they hit mega-awesome level and destroy the baddies. This went more the opposite route in a way.

I heard they cut it down and may finally be able to release it in two seasons, but I don't know if they want to make that promise only to get everyone's hopes up yet again and then make us wait another 500 years.

I feel like sadly we're out of the loop when it comes to explanations for why they've been shortening some of the upcoming dramas that were set to be saga length. :( We just have to accept that it happened. sigh!
Totally frustrating because there was a LOT of potential for a good epic length story and I was starting to get really invested and then *bam* its over...I was like wait, what? Oh well. Think I'll rewatch The Story of Ming Lan or maybe search for something historical and long, I'm kind of in the mood for that today.

I agree, I felt like they were building it up for a part 2 and then suddenly changed their mind and shortened everything. Super disappointed because it had all the elements to support a longer and better storyline.

I was super confused about that too! I thought she was supposed to get this superpower that would make her god-tier or something but she just seemed to be a little smarter or more clever and nothing really changed, physically and spiritually she was still very weak and able to be easily attacked by stronger opponents, idk why they made it seem like her seal made a difference at all?

I love how So Ra was so unapologetically open about how excited and happy she was when he came for coffee on his day off, basically admitting to her that it was a date. It was refreshing to see a character not playing push/pull...she was like, I LIKE you and I want to pursue you. Very nice, I hope to see more characters like that in other dramas too. Her pursuit wasn't cringe or forcing affection on someone interested in someone else like love triangle lead type, it was a different kind that's hard to describe but I enjoyed it.

I cried nonstop for the first 40 minutes of this finale, they did a great job with the music and the scenes to keep bringing that remembered grief back again and again. The second portion of the drama where they wrapped things up and tied everything together I felt lacked the emotional impact partly because they wrung every last drop out of me in the first half...but it did conclude things well and answer some things that I was till curious about.

I got suckered into The Red Sleeve too! I don't regret it cause it was amazing...but having a little bit of historical knowledge I knew it wasn't going to be a HEA unless they deviated from the truth. I was hoping they'd stop the show at the HE instead of dragging us into the bitter reality, sigh...but I still watched 17.
For me sometimes having a good cry can alleviate some of my depression symptoms before they go too far into the numbness, it's hard to be that down but its harder to feel disconnected from any/all emotions. It's a balancing act to allow yourself to cry occasionally and acknowledge the depression but also to not venture further down the spiral lest you hit the dead end of emotions...and of course everyone's experience of depression is a spectrum and what helps one person may harm another. :/

That campus queen was super questionable casting. idk if they did it on purpose or not, but she was not even close to as pretty as FL, in fact if I was pressed I would say GA was mediocre in the looks department.

tbf, I think she thought it was the same situation...ie now she was the friend who knew the other friend had a long time crush and she was going to pursue him just like her ex-best friend did? She knew how betrayal felt and she didn't want to do the same thing...even though the situation was completely different in reality. That campus queen character was such a viper and was deliberately trying to derail what she could clearly see was going to develop.