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Haha, it’s quite cute and realistic actually. Even the 2nd brother also cares for him, but more of spoiling him which I don’t think is healthy… I like everything so far on the MDL relativity of about 8.5… will have to see how it develops. 38 episodes are kinda long,

I love horror!! 🤣🤣🤣 fantasy… paranormal etc. my favourite. Hahahah. I love legal, medical, forensic etc as well. 😝hence why I said I also have a very wide genre.

Lol, yea, I can like an actor or actress but a bad drama and/or a bad plot is just downright difficult to accept… lol. I will attempt but probably also need to drop when it’s required. And to be really fair…. A lot of C-dramas develop oddly because it’s so lengthy.

Yea, even on MDL… I noticed some of the comments regarding age etc is so…. Uh…. Explicit, extreme and biased, it really surprises me. But I didn’t notice any of them in The Long Ballad, so the production team succeeded in avoiding skinship… but for some C-dramas it’s seriously superbly crazy.

😏😏😏 looking forward to your comments after you watch it.

Of course! Popularity is everything. Esp their fan base. Have you met Mainland fans….. not even kidding… scary would be how I’d describe it.

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 lol then you can witness the Street Fighter scene… haha, and post here then. I still think it’s worth a watch.

Lol, my standards are too low when it comes to this but I get wot you mean… I personally don’t have any baby voiced female friends for example… yes. I would think that I’m usually not exposed to them… I watch a wide variety and weird genres as well, but there are a few genres I avoid, namely, youth, war, comedy…..
Haha, hi-5 🙌🏻 we dropped and did not watch the same thing.

I personally think it’s a combination of those 2 factors we talked about and also it’s a specific Mainland thing. For example I don’t think they would have avoided skinship to that extent if it was a 30 yr old dude and a 38 yr old lady. It’s never an issue discussed in Korean dramas…. But it becomes sucha big deal in C-dramas. Yea, like you rightly mentioned, it’s also a generational thing on top of a culture thing.

Ah I see… lol, ok my rating still stands. It’s about 8.5-9… and you can gauge that against my relativity on my Watchlist.

It wasn’t a small gap although they were very compatible physically. She was like 8 yrs older than him, even I was surprised because honestly I didn’t notice it and I don’t think it’s a big deal. But because the absence of the skinship was too obvious so I went to check it out. The bird scene just totally confirmed it. 🤣🤣🤣

Ah, you didn’t watch this series? I thought you did, my bad. Oh… it was bad coz you can literally tell the production quality dropped towards the end esp the last Ep. So they just did everything so casually and it look like they didn’t care anymore. The most obvious was from the last fight scene… it was literally like a computer game, like Street Fighters… not even kidding… when at the start it was praised for having solid fight scenes.

Second point which most people hated was coz they did a whole melodrama thing towards the end, so it was more of a bittersweet ending…. And death of characters… when initially it started being quite comedic and filled with banters between the leads. I didn’t mind this actually as much as it was pretty dramatic.

No, I think it was the combination of both factors. Think when they were just shooting it Leo Wu just turned 21, or he hasn’t turned 21… something like that. Probably would have been totally glossed over if they BOTH weren’t such popular celebs with massive Weibo following…

Oh totally don’t mind the slow burn, it’s not that.
Do you remember the ONLY kiss scene in the drama was when they overlaid it with a pair of birds….? 🤣🤣🤣 I thought that was veryyyy funny…. Kinda cute… lol, but it was mostly because of Leo Wu apparently and his age gap with Dilraba.

I didn’t count… lol, but I remembered there were….. 🤔 good point… I actually don’t recall if there were many or it was considered little… just remembered it was quite natural…. Or at least I didn’t notice they were missing… only one I remembered that was oddly lacking was The Long Ballad. 🤣

Ah same, I started watching around that time too, maybe 2020, though I’m unsure if Untamed was the first one. But I tried watching some from 2015, 2017 recently and I nearly died. I kinda forgot how bad they were until I was reminded. 🤣 so in relative terms no dubbing has irked me since 2019… I just know how bad it used to be…. I deemed it unwatchable then.

Yeap, already watched Miss S… was very good. Totally a normal drama with normal editing, no weirdness, well developed. Oh gosh and the wardrobe for Miss S was so good. So classy, posh and elegant. So very Great Gatsby. His chemistry with Ma Yili was off the charts! I didn’t watch/complete all of Vengo’s dramas though, I dropped the military one and I didn’t watch the doctor one… I’m interested in the doctor one actually because of how it was based on a true story but could never commit to watching it…. Probably because I feel it’s more suitable as a movie and not a drama.

I’m pretty sure…. The ans is no… 🤣 I’m not 100% sure though.

Yea, I noticed dubbing has improved tremendously, think they still keep it to pass multiple regulatory reviews… I used to reallllyyy hate it because I think it sounds so unnatural. So I never watched C-dramas.

I’m going to stop watching now and wait until it ends to binge. 38 episodes….. hurmmmm… lol, too much potential for it to go so wrong but I’m hopeful because someone on MDL read the novel and said it was really good. 🤓

Oh yea for sure, otherwise they wouldn’t have such stringent censorships… don’t think they’ve ever truly approved of the industry to begin with.

lol, dubbing… am glad at least this aspect has improved over the years…. I was watching some older dramas and noticed the lips and dubbing can be completely different for a few sentences at a time. 🤣 has to stop it, was just too bad.

Yea, was pleasantly surprised when it was released! 👏🏻

LOL.

So true. I just wish he had longer hair. This hairstyle is very military-ish… he had longer hair in his earlier modern dramas, or even his profile pic…. Think that would go well with a suit. 🤣

I think maybe there are trying to control ‘oligopoly’ between celebs… so that the chances are more evened out to everyone. Instead of having big dramas/productions just given to a few people in a year. Just my deduction coz most of Mainland policy is having no one dominate or monopolise any industry…. And narrowing gaps between extremes.