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For sure.

This makes me think of American tv. With American tv shows, the whodunit is usually any actor who's been highly visible in other shows. Even if they weren't a villain before, I am always like...he's the bad guy, yup, I just saw him in the episode of a current/recent airing show.

Okay, y'all. I've been trying to find the source novel and coming up short. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Seriously, I can't even finish Ep.2. From the space looking suits that remind me of star trek to the seemingly useless bionic abilities to American-esque sci-fi vibes, this show feels stale. Nothing in this drama resonates with me. I think this is a drop.

what was that?

hehe. i know.

Why do I find Sui Zhou super hot every time he shows up on my screen?

As much as I loved the romance and laughs in this drama and watched it because of Pope and it’s amazing OST, I pretty much didn’t care for it. Particularly, anything having to do with Karakade. I hated thedrama’s treatment of KK’s character as evil along with its sympathy with and tolerance of the “truly evil” social norms of the time - its attitudes toward women and its brand of classism. I find the drama seriously problematic because the discrimination is religious and tied in with ideas of good and evil. One thing that stood out to me during my watch, was that Karakade was written so extreme in her response to other people hurting her that you can’t help but dislike her behaviour and even want her persecuted in the afterlife. But, honestly, I found the bullying behaviour of the mother-in-law, Por Det, as well as his beloved quite repulsive and felt for KK even though places the responsibility of the wrongs on KK and leaves Kade to atone for them. Sigh, no amount of fluff in a drama and tooting only the positives can shut my eyes to its glaring problems and the injustices it tolerates in the name of history and entertainment.

I spent my late preteen/mid-teen years in love with this guy. I stayed up late Friday nights waiting to see if the multicultural channel would show his movies and when it did, I swore I would marry a Chinese man. I haven't thought about him in years but feeling nostalgic today.

this show captures my attention but i still find it all over the place. there is no real intrigue just continuous new information. it's like weaving a web that, at the moment, seems tangled to me. i hope the resolution is satisfying.

spoiler tag?

Damn. I be flipping out at the end of Ep.1!

No worries. I may give it another episode or two since I've read a couple of different reviews from bloggers that I like. Still, I have a feeling I will drop it or wait until all the episodes are out to see it and may keep my initial thoughts.

I absolutely agree with you on all three points. I felt that the conflict in their idividual lives and life as a couple was lackluster. I kept waiting for ML's jealousy to go beyond cute and kind- if that's the word for it - to show us that he truly loved her after all these years but then just gave up as that arc tapered off. The show told us that he loved her but I actually didn't really feel it. I felt the FL did a better job with her introspection after her realization that he loved her but then this doesn't include any anxiety about her accepting the relationship. In my book (no pun intended), the romance was feel-good but was neither gripping nor practical enough to come from mature adults. Actually all the cp's romances were a bit too airy-fairy and surface to leave an impact.

I perhaps misunderstood your « give it a break ». Of course, that’s totally cool.

JJH has gotten so good after all these years. I'm seriously impressed with his work here.

hey, you are entitled to your enjoyment and perspective. i'm not here to convince you to believe or feel the same as i do. just sharing and backing up my ideas.

I couldn't agree with you more on Joe Chen's character. Mind you she has a history of playing brainless females. There is the one with Wang Kai and her post-it girl in Fated to love You to name a couple.

I have no issues with the premise but the execution.

There was a similar feeling I had with the beginning of Goblin though not to the same extent. I struggled even more with Rookie Historian thstvI dropped it at ep.4. Also I don’t mean non fantasy when I say legit. Take, for example, the spiked coffee setup. I was like, huh? what? Everything led them to be stuck in their situation even though, to me, it doesn’t make logical sense.