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Been waiting for next episode so long!!!

Yea, I kinda like things being wrapped up after one season, a whole story from beginning to end, I dislike having to watch multiple seasons the same drama, I like to move on to a new story, and the artists also want to move on to new projects. I dislike the multi season American approach which Netflix is transposing on kdrama.

I saw that a new season of Arthdale Chronicles is coming in 2024, but with new actors. That's one of the problem with multi-season series, they often lose their main lead actors, making 2nd or 3rd seasons very awkward.
American drama series don't have this issue since the culture is different, having multiple seasons means success for them, and you see actors only starring in a single series their entire career. While asian actors like to star in multiple drama series.

Makes me want to rewatch Eternal Love again to remind me xianxia's don't have to become so boring. I'm not being carried by the story, I'm carrying myself to watch it. But anyways, I guess the fish battle royal is gonna take at least 2-3 episodes.

Not maybe a good thing for the main leads, didn't teacher Lee warn that if she unsheathed her sword they would both die?

Can't believe only 4 episodes left, what a great kdrama. All the actors are just perfect, good story, thrilling and funny.

The leads seem more focused on solving other peoples problems, side character problems. Every episode has like a problem they must solve for others. It doesn't develop the overall story at all I feel like.

I do enjoy this drama, but there are also some dislikes. I feel like the story itself is a bit dull and doesn't tell a developing story that captures the viewer. It's missing some elements that make it more thrilling. Many of the great xianxia's have a crucial hidden identity element that comes as a surprise. Also the main villain seems too obscure now when almost 3/5 of the episodes have aired.

This is alright, but it's not great, and the MDL rating of 8.2 is too high, maybe 7.8 is more appropriate. It's clearly a low budget drama, and editing and flow is strange sometimes.

The first episode is strange too, because it starts with a scene where she is already "possessed" by the soul of Xiao Tan and trying to flee over the wall. But there is no build up towards that.

Take a similar soul-change as an example (Scarlet Heart, Mr. Queen), there is some build up in the modern time with the character having an accident that lands the character in another person in ancient times (usually that person having attempted suicide). But that is totally missing. There is some flashback scene that takes place in modern times, like a dream scene, but that happens like in 2nd or 3rd episode and totally out of context.

Then there is some strange side-story of some demon king and his two demon underlings in the mortal realm, that can't seem to defeat one mortal in combat. (whenever has that happened in xianxia?)

But it's a low budget drama, and it smells like it. Very few characters/actors, you notice this because no scene involves more than a handful of actors. Laminated parquet flooring is so visible, making the stage very artificial. And you notice some props having obvious modern era manufacturing.

And I mentioned the editing being strange. Like in one moment that FL is with her sister, she gets assassinated, and 3 seconds later the FL is back to her own home... there was apparently no aftermath of the assassination of her sister and everyone forgot about it.

But they still do an alright job. The actress for the FL does an amazing job keeping me interested enough to watch.

wow episode 8 .

Watched first episode. Hooked.

Viki says it has 28 episodes, but MDL says 27 episodes. Are there 28 or 27?

Good drama, funny too. I like it.

But sometimes I feel like there is only a thin background story/plot, and not a very interesting one. And I don't know who the antagonist is.

So far this drama is being carried by scenes involving snarky dialog between the young ladies. Princess Yuchang is a good character, the actress Cui En Ci does a good job portraying a spoiled brat princess. Strange that she's 28 and this is only her 2nd drama after Who Rules The World.

I am half way through and I am a bit unclear about the family relationship between the ML and the emperor, how are they related? And how is the ML's mother related to the emperor?

Thanks. It baffled me for a while, but I think I understand, but I will still rewatch the finale to clarify things. Actually this drama had many satisfying endings, so I'm not complaining :)

Pretty good cdrama. Funny as well, with some more serious undertone. I hope it doesn't get darker or something.
I do get some Story of Ming Lan vibes, some similarities in the story, but Love Like the Galaxy is much fluffier and easier to watch, not as serious, but still very well produced.

The closest is maybe this:
Queen Seon Duk

Yes, plenty.

I decided to watch this because it's so highly rated and stars Dilraba Dilmurat (a fav actress).

It's quite fluffy, cute, silly and light, but I think this high rating is undeserving. Maybe it's highly rated because of the actors being popular. I haven't finished, I'm on episode 23 of 32, but I think I have watched enough to form a opinion. It's maybe a 8.1-8.2 drama, not the high 8.8 which I think should be reserved for only the very best dramas.

Also what bothered me were these ad-placements of some sort of milk drink called "purjoy", I just kinda laughed it was so obvious it was an ad and it kinda broke the immersion. A drama with a rating of 8.8 shouldn't have these silly ad-placements.

Overall it's a fine romance drama, but the high rating is not accurate. This is not a masterpiece, just a very generic romance drama.

It's not often I say a drama has too high of a rating, I usually enjoy most of what I watch, usually agree with the MDL rating, and often also disagree with a low rating. But rarely have I seen a drama with such a undeserving high rating.

Yet another amazing xianxia drama. Dilraba Dilmurat is such a great actress, very very likeable. I was deciding between like 6 different dramas to watch, but decided to watch this because of her.

It was alright. The FL I felt was too "cold", too much of a warrior and never let her guard down really. The fight scenes were all about shaky camera.