I normally prefer shows where there are clearcut protagonists, but I'm about half way through this drama and quite…
Taecyeon is quite unsettling with the way he melded both the goofy teddy bear persona with the unhinged psychopath. Maybe he is playing to stereotype and tropes somewhat, and is exagerated, but I still found his portrayal effectively disturbing. I really was not expecting him to play the villain, but the cast details above made me suspicious from Ep. 1. Even then, however, I did not expect him to be that scary.
I normally prefer shows where there are clearcut protagonists, but I'm about half way through this drama and quite enjoying it. Still, it's hard to say I "love" it because the main characters are varying degrees of anti-heros...but as the father said, you need monsters to win against monsters.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone comment about OK Taecyeon's performance, which I found fascinating, given I've only seen him play the ML in Save Me and Bring It On, Ghost. (More thoughts below under the spoiler tag.) I'm also impressed by Yang Kyungwon, who has played radically different supporting characters in every drama I've seen him in (Crash Landing, Big Mouth). (Edit: Adding Kwak Dongyeon, who started off at a bland character and really started to stand out in the back half.)
It's also interesting reading people's reviews/reaction/feelings about the comedic elements and comments about how it doesn't "mix" with the drama and themes. One of the things I love about K-dramas is actually how you often can't pigeon-hole them into one or two genres as they are frequently a wonderful blend of everything -- kind of like real life, there can be laughter and humour even amid tragedy (even if Vincenzo is pretty over the top).
Pretty sure it's another actress with the same name, as I didn't see her in the drama, and the Baidu entry for this drama does not link the actress "Zhao Wei" to Baidu's profile for Vicki. I've submitted an edit to MDL to remove her name from this cast list.
Anyone knows if Dylan Wang was dubbed in this drama?
No, it's his voice. This drama is not dubbed. There may be some scenes with some dubbing, but those would be dubbed by the actors themselves. My understanding is that Dylan's accent has also soften over time. (Baidu will usually list the name of the voice actor alongside the cast names, for dramas that are dubbed by someone else.)
This summed up my feelings exactly! This drama was so ridiculous, filled with dog's blood clichés, some corny dialogue -- and how in the world am I supposed to look past all those really terrible consent issues??!! AND YET.
This was the most ridiculous over-the-top thing ever from start to finish! (They could do a drinking game with the number of times someone threaten to kill someone, lol.) And YET. The OTP had pretty serious chemistry and I could not stop watching. 🫣 It's a really easy binge.
At the same time, there were soooo many consent issues, so I think those tags need to be upvoted so potential viewers are aware. This is also the first C-drama I can think of where they went that far with the main FL in ep. 25/26, which seemed very unnecessary. It feels too serious of an issue to be handled like another plot "device" just to make the storytelling melodramatic...
Either 1/ the "other" (glasses) one was the surviving personality and he was faking it, only pretending to be the serious one in order to be with the FL, and those were his real memories flashing as the serious one tried to break out, or 2/ the reverse was happening, where the glasses personality was trying to break through. Definitely one of the better modern short dramas I've seen, despite the ambiguous ending.
It needed to be *at least* 5 minutes longer! 😭Xianxias and their abrupt endings! Also, if I hadn't seen the love of my immortal life for 500 years, I'd probably want to hug them to death first before kissing, or is it just me, lol? I get it, they haven't seen each other in a while, so a hug-kiss would probably be "too much" ... but still, I just wanted...more. The 10-12 episodes leading up to that final minute was almost perfection though!
OMG, 31/32 were beautiful and the best episodes yet. I honestly was just okay with this drama at first and kept watching since it was entertaining enough to keep going, and my friends were all watching it. But I really did not find it especially emotionally engaging, The FL casting really did not work for me, I didn't like this particular style of whiny-cutesiness, the voice dubbing didn't help, I found the dialogue -- in particular the mix of formal/old style language and modern expressions distracting, and it didn't feel as epic and sweeping as other Xianxias like Ancient Love Poetry, etc. So for me to do a total 180 ...! The last 8 episodes have been just ridiculously good, so emotionally engaging and so heartfelt, with each episode better than the last. When does that ever happen in a C-drama?! It's not often that the pacing and storytelling don't start stumbling half way through (at best), or completely fall apart (at worse). But it's been the opposite here. Can't wait to see how the final four episodes unfold.
I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone comment about OK Taecyeon's performance, which I found fascinating, given I've only seen him play the ML in Save Me and Bring It On, Ghost. (More thoughts below under the spoiler tag.) I'm also impressed by Yang Kyungwon, who has played radically different supporting characters in every drama I've seen him in (Crash Landing, Big Mouth). (Edit: Adding Kwak Dongyeon, who started off at a bland character and really started to stand out in the back half.)
It's also interesting reading people's reviews/reaction/feelings about the comedic elements and comments about how it doesn't "mix" with the drama and themes. One of the things I love about K-dramas is actually how you often can't pigeon-hole them into one or two genres as they are frequently a wonderful blend of everything -- kind of like real life, there can be laughter and humour even amid tragedy (even if Vincenzo is pretty over the top).
At the same time, there were soooo many consent issues, so I think those tags need to be upvoted so potential viewers are aware. This is also the first C-drama I can think of where they went that far with the main FL in ep. 25/26, which seemed very unnecessary. It feels too serious of an issue to be handled like another plot "device" just to make the storytelling melodramatic...
I struggle with how to rate this one...
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