Not the worst cdrama in this B-Class historical stereotype mass produced dramas that all seem alike. I finished it... and decided to comment about it... even if I forgot the name of it shortly after, and had to check to remember. I don't know why I finished it, had nothing better to watch actually and it was enough engaging... but it got rushed near 6 final episodes and final battles looked so silly and low budget. Starting to dislike these kind of dramas unless it has something special, which this one does not. But still all right... nothing awful, just not remarkable.
I really enjoy Shin Hye Sun's acting in this drama, she is a great actress. At this point only the acting quality keeps me interested. Wish the story was more engaging, a story about a split personality can be very good, like Kill Me Heal Me, but if it's just two personalities and all what the split personality does it sitting in a booth all day... then it's not very interesting. Other psychological dramas are very interesting as well. We'll see what happens with this story, only half way thru.
How is Boys Over Flowers authentic? How is Playful Kiss authentic??
I know they are remakes, but they didn't have this lackluster production behind many kdramas today, and, if the actor was 16 then the character was 16... it's different now... now you have 25 yearolds, 30 yearolds, doing roles as a high school student. But I named other examples.
Also one effect of this effect of kdramas going global is that historical kdramas, sageuks, are getting very rare, because perhaps they don't attract as many global audiences. So they focus more on what I feel like is "americanization", making violent kdramas, action packed. Sure I like some of it, but I also miss the older style too where it was about a story and not some violence, corruption and anything like that.
Goong, Coffee Prince, Queen Seon Deok, Empress Ki, Rooftop Prince, My Love from the Stars, It's Okay that's Love, Goblin, .. pretty much most of kdramas before 2020.
For me, there are a lot more kdramas I like pre-2020 than post-2020.
I really miss those older kind of kdramas what had certain charm because they were more authentic Boys over flowers, Sweet 18, Secret Garden, Playful Kiss, Shining Inheritance, Coffee Prince, Full House, etc. Now it's so overproduced that it hits you differently.
this is actually a good drama and has pulled me a lil in my kdrama slump, however I'm rating it only a 8.5 out…
Maybe it was originally planned as 16 episodes, but they didn't have a story worthwhile for those 16 episodes. Although it's well made, it's relatively simple story and not many characters or plots.
It's enjoyable enough, very unique drama, actually first time I watch a taiwanese drama, even if lowly rated I enjoy it and the story is interesting enough even though it's not very high quality.
i noticed this too! no one was using brick nokias in 2013 😭albeit, the show is vv unrealistic so it makes sense
I guess it probably just used to hint to younger people watching this that this that never used those kinda phones that they were in school a long time ago.
Funny how they use old pre-iPhone era phones with buttons and tiny screen, in the school flashback scenes when it was 2013 back then and iPhone had been out for 6 years and pretty much everybody already using touchscreen smartphones, all the popular phones sold that year were smartphones and the years before. lol
I'm watching the first episode on Viki, which is titled "trailer". It's a full length episode, but it's very fast paced and I am at a loss about what is going on. Stopped after 10 minutes because this wasn't making any sense to me.
How is it Long and unclear? she had to get Revenge 4 JL and the Xue family. Was able to put off getting her own…
I think the Ye family side-story was a little off-path, like a side-quest. I hope she's not trying to vanquish all injustices she finds in her way towards revenge.
Wish the story was more engaging, a story about a split personality can be very good, like Kill Me Heal Me, but if it's just two personalities and all what the split personality does it sitting in a booth all day... then it's not very interesting.
Other psychological dramas are very interesting as well. We'll see what happens with this story, only half way thru.
Also one effect of this effect of kdramas going global is that historical kdramas, sageuks, are getting very rare, because perhaps they don't attract as many global audiences. So they focus more on what I feel like is "americanization", making violent kdramas, action packed. Sure I like some of it, but I also miss the older style too where it was about a story and not some violence, corruption and anything like that.
Goong, Coffee Prince, Queen Seon Deok, Empress Ki, Rooftop Prince, My Love from the Stars, It's Okay that's Love, Goblin, .. pretty much most of kdramas before 2020.
For me, there are a lot more kdramas I like pre-2020 than post-2020.
Boys over flowers, Sweet 18, Secret Garden, Playful Kiss, Shining Inheritance, Coffee Prince, Full House, etc.
Now it's so overproduced that it hits you differently.