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oh wow. that's a very interesting way of looking at the ending... I just finished it and so much to digest in the last several episodes following the second prince's reappearance from exile....

Eventually, but he redeems himself and becomes a worthy leader before he does.

I was so pleasantly surprised by this one! I don't think I would have necessarily checked it out if I hadn't just finished watching Attorney Woo, which I thought was wonderful. Park Eun Bin's voice is sublime. There were tiny hints of WYW in Mok Ha, but not in a bad or distracting way. As someone stranded on an island half her life, she is a survivor, yet she is also untouched by the cynicism and burdens of everyday adulthood; Park Eun Bin does a great capturing all of that, along with Mok Ha's purity of conviction, resolve, earnestness, optimism, and hopefulness. The rest of the cast is great too and 12 episodes was the perfect length for this.

Oh, I see, I understand now, haha!

? Sorry, not sure I understand. My comment is in reference to the latest (but ever changing) censorship rules in China that frowns on transmigration, rebirth, BL, time travel stories or dramas longer than 40 episodes, etc. that has been in effect for the last 2 or 3 years. Production will fudge or work around these "rules" in various ways, so most of them end up using "it was a book/video game/dream" as a common plot device. Meteor Garden came out before all this.

Yes. I'd love to get at least one episode where we get to see everything from his perspective. But probably not going to happen...

Will be very curious how they will converge the time travel/second chance element! Thankfully this is not a C-drama, or else in the final 2 minutes of the show, it would all turn out to be either a dream or a book or a drama one of the main characters had/read/watched😂😂

Yes, pretty sure he was in the other car that got hit and flipped over in the beginning. And I don't know if it's just me, but he seemed to like her already at the time based on his interactions with her in Ep 1.

I saw all the love for this drama and decided to hold off until the final week so I could binge, but I totally did not expect this to be so low budget and absurd! 😂 It's totally a dog's blood makjang drama ... but SO deliciously entertaining! 😂 I inhaled the first 10, and now waiting impatiently for the final two episodes.

Stray thoughts:
- Manager/Secretary Kim went from mysterious scary errand boy to one of the more intriguing characters in the series.
- The plot twist hint for ep 11 😱
- Lee Min-young is so good playing the cloyingly creepy and scheming monster of a mother.
- I'm rewatching some of the first 2-3 episodes for new clues and connections....

You're welcome! Yes, anything is possible there, lol.

It's probably okay after the article has been published, but sometimes it might also depend on how long after or news outlets might have their own specific policies (e.g. only six months after their last article or something). So if she wrote a really favourable piece that moved his company's stock prices higher, and then they started dating right after, I think there could be potentially serious issues if people suspected they were already in cahoots before. Once they start dating though, the reporter definitely can't cover that person anymore, which could be a problem if they are important to their reporting beat. It can get into tricky territory in terms of conflict of interest and ethics, or their ability to do their job properly, so the reporter might need to switch to a completely different subject area. (At least that's the viewpoint in North America, it might be different elsewhere.)

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I'm only on ep 6, but the journalism practices are so distracting! In Western media, the subject would never get final approval of an article, as that is a clear conflict of interest and considered very unethical. Critical analysis or articles on important issues would never get approved! Profile interviews would always be puff pieces that make the subject look their best or whatever "image" they want to maintain and project. We can and should clarify anything we aren't sure about to ensure accuracy and not take comments out of context, etc., and not to say reporters don't make mistakes, but even the ML says the article should be objective and not a PR piece, lol. Approval process aside though, she's a very good journalist. Her colleague is awful though! This is the second drama I've watched with a reporter FL that has a super unethical and competitive colleague (Date with the Future was other one)...

(Edit: omg, I would never be able to edit a single word if my article subject was hovering over me like that! 🤣 And I would be very concerned if they also changed into pj/loungewear! 🤣 My vicarious stress level watching this scene, haha...)

While I do find it's still noticeable (but a lot less than before), it really shouldn't matter at all either way. Unfortunately in my experience, in China, some people do care and can still be snobs about regional accents and pronunciation.

I've only seen vague speculation. I would not be surprised if there are political sensitivities around a low rating for a drama like that. I think Ace Troops was government approved, so if the rating is indeed lower than what would be politically "acceptable", I wouldn't be surprised if Douban is simply afraid to reveal it. Basically, they may be self-censoring to prevent getting into trouble or creating a sticky situation.

(Apparently there was no Douban rating for Yang Yang's military drama last year until a while after it finished airing.)

Yes, Dylan is adorkable on the variety shows! And he just had a stronger regional accent (nothing wrong with that imho), but he's been working hard on his mandarin pronunciation too.

Yes, it seems totally unreasonable!

Yes, I've definitely seen IMDb scores easily get skewed by people flooding to the site. King the Land was because it got flooded with people extremely upset at the portrayal of the rich Middle Eastern friend. Racket Boys, because people were upset at the portrayal of Indonesians during a tournament. I agree these elements are problematic, but both shows were pretty good otherwise. Should they be completely trashed wholesale, given their overall quality? (Both are higher now that that the initial firestorm has died down, but still extremely low compared to MDL.) It's a good lesson though for producers and writers to become more sensitive and mindful as TV programming around the world becomes more global. (On the other hand, Backstreet Rookie wasn't nearly as good overall, and also had some pretty racist depictions too, but the MDL and IMDb scores are similar and not extreme...)

Yes, I think it's silly to rate before the whole thing has been released and that an easy watch romcom doesn't deserve people expending so much negative energy!

Oh wow, I just checked the DB score for FOMH. I thought it'd be like a 5 or something, but this would definitely fall under crazy "exceptions"! :O When there's a massive discrepancy between two review sites that doesn't even make sense on a relative scale, I tend to lean towards MDL being closer to my personal tastes, and figure it probably deserves something reasonable somewhere in between the two extremes...