Chinese Empress

The OG is very worth watching even for people not watching dramas usually, at least because of its meaningful plot. Someone too much sensitive can stick to it, and I can understand if some people prefers some things downtoned. But personally I'm loving this remake more exactly because it's not downtoned at all. I don't watch kdramas anymore because they are too lighthearted for me, even this kind of plots they can't convey in the right way for me. I was glad to watch it for IU, But this remake brings everything to higher levels, each detail is meaningful and carries a deep meaning, and that's what I was looking for in a drama of this kind.
Chinese are the ones never disappointing in this drama, they are closely sticking to the original while adding their own way

Episode 7 and probably Chen has a double attitude towards You'An. He is caring for her in an obsessive way, both out of some obsessive "good feelings" and because of her debt.
Zifeng was majestic in that scene, because her eyes can act and she showed her resolution and her emotion with the tears. Kudos to her.
Episode 8... what a mess. But i think it's what the drama should convey. Crying, but after you will never give up. Fall but then you need to stand up again. Zhao Youting was majestic here, with Zifeng and her tears again. I love how their characters show a lot about themselves in micro expressions and subtle gestures.

it's mostly 98% faithful to the plot, luckily

I appreciate OG in the whole plot, but not in the execution of it nor in the actors' way of acting. I watched it because I was expecting the most cruelest, heavy, depressing, sorrow, grief drama in the whole world. But i was disappointed a lot. OG gives more credit to the anticlimatic comedy schemes which made me totally disgusted... i felt like Ji-An because i could not feel the pressure of sorrow at all, those scene deleting the whole plot for me. And i'm not the only one in this page expressing this thing.
This drama is looking for depression, looking for depression with a few rays of sunshine. And as much as I liked the plot, the remake's execution is way far superior than the whole OG comparing acting, development, introspection and message. And this is not denying the OG value, it's acting in a comparative perspective as it should be with every kind of remake.
Comparing is normal and unavoidable, and I wholeheartedly support it. But here is only a fight even expressing condolences to someone not related here...

remakes are done to be compared and it's not bad at all, but people should anaylise the strength in comparing, not only fangirling, because the actors work to convey something as a tool. I can notice when the plot has potential but it's executed like a 2yo scared todler and while the same plot is executed flawlessly.

in the original he is a 10000% bad guy, here Chen Ren is more like obsessed in both good and bad way

i'm not a child to fangirl over an actor and I understand why antis are bitter over this remake, being better than the original and diving deeper into depression and sorrow as it should be. This plot, both original and remake, is done to give a teaching and people here only minds about romance... which is not even the main point of the drama. And in the original OSts are way better than the whole plot execution with nonsense comic relief.
This plot is for adults, and it's made to be make audience emotionally destroyed completely. What's the point in the comedy? This remake is diving way deeper than OG in the characters, it gives them the strength of mankind that can resonate in the whole world. A thing Og never had. It's a plot that makes you think " i can do the same as them". If you want to be a d**ad fish like OG FL go ahead. And as i said, i need content and teachings from a drama and my mister never provided them at all. Korea has the vicious behaviour to lightheart things, that's the reason why i gave my mister 3 and this remake 10. This is not a plot for people looking for romance or lighthearted elements.

where did you see it, about viki?

antis doing their work

Zhao Youting has the deep voice too...

I find the ost on point...

I didn't like any of IU characters despite she being very talented, but I agree with you. I've always thought that it started as platonic but slowly changing while both still being rational.

That's why I felt it was not depressing at all, because I can't see them struggling for their lives in a contrast between the situation, their body but their attitude. I feel more depressing struggling endessly without almost no solution and ending in a circle.
But I understand your point of view

In the Korean one, I think it's more like mutual admiration and platonic feelings, because they are both rational to know she's too young, and I agree with you about the ending. If this remake will follow it, it will be opening ending with this premise, because the ending can be, or not, a romantic love. Because the main point of the series, in both, was never romantic feelings but similar souls.

The drama is made to teach. If disrespect is not liking the characters' portrayal, it's still ok for me. I like the original plot too but I don't like when a heavy depressed and grief plot becomes like a mess or too much comedy. That's why I said the execution. This remake is leaving aside the useless comedy because some topic doesn't need to be downtoned with something lighthearted, and I find it a more serious and way better execution than the original

THIS. I'm not the only one noticing this, when only people are fangirling over Korean actors lol. In this remake every frame, each action has its deep meaning, it's not only for the remake purpose. The CEO here is a quiet menace, it appears as the good perfect boy with a dark side he wants to hidden, not being ridiculous. And this is one of the anticlimatic things I didn't like in the original drama, becasue it takes a lot of the depressing tone the drama needs to have

Can I ask why do you perceive it as less depressive? I'm genuinely curious since I'm preferring it exactly because my perception is the opposite. This drama needs to be depressive to convey in the right way and the original never seemed depressed to me, so I'm curious

FL here is raw but human, IU seemed like a deprived zombie without any will to fight. I like IU but i disliked her character, while in the remake I like both actress and character

I quite like both FL but here FL is a bit better, she is more human and you can emphatise more

This is perception and understandable. I agree to disagree though, I feel this remake conveys the right points and FL being more like she should be, aloof but not weak