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My favorite drama airing right now, BL or not. Delivers the goods every Friday! So impressed.

He’s a real catch. I live for his friendship scenes with Lou Zhi.

JC is a darker, more troubled character for sure. I think whichever preference someone has for him vs. Heon probably has to do with how much patience a viewer has for watching such a character struggle to become a better person.

Heon is a nice guy from the start. It's one reason why that moment when he calls Sol Yi a loser is so jarring -- it doesn't fit the character at all. (I blame the writers for that.) It also makes his moving away after his fight with Sol Yi more inexplicable. That's something we'd expect from JC, but you have to wonder why the nice guy Heon would take such a drastic measure and then never contact her for years afterward.

If the writers wanted to make him such a teddy bear then they should have committed to it more. I think one reason this version of the story is so unsatisfying to me is that it's really tough to get a sense of who Heon really is, or why he loves Sol Yi so much. He doesn't have any dark corners to his personality, so why would he be so emotionally dependent on someone loving him to the point of compromising her own self-esteem.

In other words, why can't Heon live without her? In the Cdrama version I understand the reason. In this version I don't.

Preferring the JC version of the ML doesn't mean I think he's boyfriend material -- it just means I think it's a more interesting character to watch over the course of several episodes. Heon is pretty bland.

I think Jiang Chen was a character with deepset problems connecting with other people and expressing affection. He had abandonment issues, so toward the end when he told Bo Song that Xiao Xi was the only person who had ever truly been there for him, it was a turning point because he was finally learning how to deal with those emotions.

Heon isn't as troubled, so the character is milder and more relatable. It's not surprising that some people prefer him. He's unthreatening.

Personally I prefer watching a character go through a transformation over the course of a drama, so the Cdrama version is the one for me.

It felt like the last episode, especially since the montage during the closing credits was looking back on the entire series and there was no preview of the next episode.

One thing the Cdrama version was criticized for was that they didn't show the main leads getting married. I wonder if the next episode will center around Heon and Sol Yi's wedding.

It's a toned-down and softened version, as though aimed at the tween market.

I'll have to rewatch, but assuming you're correct it would mean he was able to determine from a distance that Jane was already dead. If he wasn't there when the murder happened then he wouldn't know how long she'd been unconscious. For all he knew, she could have been revived.

Also, if the video didn't catch the act as it happened then it would be circumstantial evidence at best.

I shouldn't nitpick though. We don't watch this expecting airtight writing. First and foremost it's a star vehicle for Max and Tul, and this isn't the only scene in the series that doesn't quite add up.

His acting is so versatile! He plays both good and evil characters equally well. I like him most as a protagonist of course.

The FL in this eventually made me drop it. She's both dumb and weak, and for me that adds up to 'annoying'.

'I Am Not a Robot' is one of my favorites too. I just wish the final episode had a grand reunion between all of the good characters. Otherwise 10/10.

In the 2019 version we have an almost perfect drama, and so many events are depicted differently here that it's often hard to tell that they come from the same source material.

It's funny, but before watching this one I was most concerned about how they would cast Ming Rui, and I can now honestly say that I can't choose between the 2019 version and the one we get here.

Watching Luo Zhi and Ming Rui spend time together in Episode 30 makes me yearn for the series that will never be.

If you hate Zhan Yan (and honestly, who doesn't) then keep watching until Episode 30. It's so deliciously satisfying!

He's a better person than anybody else in the whole series, although Fourth Bro and Huainan's other roommate are nice guys too.

We always remember our first love!

What a great read! I agree with everything you said. Especially about Sorawit and Tat. They should have gotten a lot more screen time.

And yes, why stop a murder from happening when you can record it on video instead? -__-

By the end of this series Nam had better have a bf who loves her or I'm gonna be pissed.

Agreed. I'm not on the edge of my seat, I'm mostly rolling my eyes at how the murder mystery takes the simplistic approach of making everyone super evil, therefore making it easy to say that anyone could be part of the diabolical cabal.

There's no nuance to the story, just a random gang of brutal people, their identities revealed one at a time in order to keep us in 'suspense'.

With this approach the author could just as easily make Sorawit an evil character, giving us a final big 'twist' at the end. It would make no sense, of course, but this is how this series has been written. It's lame but I give them credit for trying something different.

You need a degree in geometry to figure out all the love triangles but this is so cheerful and cute, and Prab's relentless affection for his stepbrother warms my heart.

I was betting on them not including the scene where Dae Sung confronts Heon about Sol Yi, but I was wrong and I'm happy to lose that bet.

The scene is in a toned-down version that we might expect from this 'softer' version of the series.

Dae Sung doesn't ask Heon to let go of Sol Yi, and Heon never says that she has always been his. Dae Sung also doesn't finally agree to give up on her for Heon's sake.

So, it doesn't pack the punch of the Cdrama version, but it was an important scene and I'm glad they managed to fit it in.