How Dare You!? may have handled it the best — the emperor threatened to kill ministers (and killed some of them…
He's certainly the smartest and most cunning emperor I've seen (a master strategist if ever there was one), but he's a bad egg. After season 2, that's what I finally decided. Not a character I could root for, but it took me 2 seasons to realize it cause the guy is so slippery and hard to peg! 😅 Ping Ping, too. So slippery and hard to figure out--both are manipulative, calculating, and ultimately selfish.
The white haired guy? Probably to explain why the gorgeous woman fell for him.
Haha, so true! People fall for the useless or destructive beauties since the beginning of time.(That's assuming she had any choice in the matter, of course).
It’s been very, very good through 11 episodes. Although, it hard to judge until everything is out. I’m still…
Yep, whether it holds up for the long haul is the real test of a classic in the making. Here's hoping!! But Our Universe was a good reminder of how risky airing dramas are to start...
Does anyone know, is the Xie Qi in the cast list related to Xie Zheng or is the same surname a coincidence? I'm still not able to match all the actors I've seen with their faces on the cast list here.
Anyone else scared the separation's gonna be really long since we're only 9/40 episodes in and there's already…
There will certainly be one. We can see it coming from a mile away. If they take their time to develop things it won't have to be long, though. Hopefully it won't be TOO agonizing. I guess we'll see!
I'd prefer that they can still interact somehow without being able to be "together," rather than an actual physical separation for many episodes.
when i was reading the novel, i kept thinking "why does he keep on being badly injured!"
He never gets time to recover, I guess! I felt the same reading Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. The kid in that book was always falling ill. It's the only thing I really remember from the book.
But a lot has happened between them, no? The affection has been noticeably growing. I personally love the gradual…
Ah, I see.
The kiss was kind of fast relative to other dramas, but it suited the moment and I think it fit with where it feels like they're at. They are tentative about things with each other because they know they will have to part, but also starting to get pretty attached and getting a little carried away at times (it'd probably help if they stopped staging fake lovemaking!). 😅
I personally just appreciate the lack of romantic mind games and playing hard to get and stuff like pretending they feel less than they do, etc. that dramas often use in slow burn romances that can drive me nuts as they feel like attempts to drag out a story.
The leads are also good at communicating so far (though obviouslyhe's keeping secrets, though he is being as honest as he can), and that helps keep things simple and straightforward between them.
I mean, I think it would be weirder for these two (based on what has happened between them so far) to not fall for each other at this point. But I understand that you enjoy the way the novel progressed things, and adaptations will often fall short if you've done both.
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Song Mo was stunning with the gray hair. I agree, extremely iconic!
I'd prefer that they can still interact somehow without being able to be "together," rather than an actual physical separation for many episodes.
The kiss was kind of fast relative to other dramas, but it suited the moment and I think it fit with where it feels like they're at. They are tentative about things with each other because they know they will have to part, but also starting to get pretty attached and getting a little carried away at times (it'd probably help if they stopped staging fake lovemaking!). 😅
I personally just appreciate the lack of romantic mind games and playing hard to get and stuff like pretending they feel less than they do, etc. that dramas often use in slow burn romances that can drive me nuts as they feel like attempts to drag out a story.
The leads are also good at communicating so far (though obviouslyhe's keeping secrets, though he is being as honest as he can), and that helps keep things simple and straightforward between them.
I mean, I think it would be weirder for these two (based on what has happened between them so far) to not fall for each other at this point. But I understand that you enjoy the way the novel progressed things, and adaptations will often fall short if you've done both.