How was the original? Is it slap kiss? Was it good?
I’ve only seen about half of the original - it’s floating around on YouTube - but Bie is appropriately slimy yet sad. Lots of revenge. The quality of the recording is poor but the story is pretty good.
After reading about the upcoming subbing, I had to go back and rewatch a bit. I just can't believe ever that Satra really loves her - he just looks psychotic or possessed or something. Even at the end, Mind looks unconvinced. This show needed a more believable second male lead to give it some real oomph. Ah, well.
I don't know in what measure the Minglan screenwriter(s) changed the original storyline for the drama, but if…
From what I've read of the novel, it's a slow building, big family kind of set up with Ming Lan being the mouse in the corner. She isn't living for revenge, per se, just her place in the world. And she learns a lot from watching the mistakes her half-sisters make by assuming parental love/concern will get them anything they want. I'm looking forward to it!
I just watched ep. 50 and I see way too much mileage in the story for two episodes.
i dont know - I don’t like his “second” personality that much so I don’t care if he’s faking. That’s a big trope in Chinese novels and I never like it. I want some of her old gang together!
Or another version - when one partner says something very flip like "Oh, I'll never marry/stay married with/love you" and then their partner makes them live up to it. A lovely period piece like this is La Ong Dao (the subs are on File Factory) - the lead refuses to marry the main female because his father put it in his will. By the time she comes of age (25, I think, to get an inheritance) he finally loves her but then finds out some thing that he thinks will separate them forever.
Well, something that makes a show horribly addicting is when one partner is lying (for revenge or whatever) and their partner is coming closer and closer to the truth and the lead is like, "Shit! I finally like them and they're going to find me out!" Backpedaling all the way - and then they're over the cliff. Nothing but abject apologies will solve this problem now! So, maybe something with Push/Kasetsin Puttichai like Roy Leh Sanae Rai?
I watched this drama several years ago when I first started watching lakorns...back then, I didn´t like…
I thought I had reviewed this but - age gap much? It seemed to me that they implied Purim and Rose had slept together years ago. And then he slept with her daughter. One of the ickier parts.
Hmm, slow motion train wrecks? How about a lakorn like Barb RakTa Lay Fun? Not subbed yet but, believe me, you'll get the point. https://kisskh.at/22483-barb-rak-ta-lay-fun
I just finished this lakorn this week (enjoyed it very much, thanks for asking!) and the Cluedo analogy is pretty much on the nose. The plot rolls from crime to crime in the house - enough that I just want Sina to hire a bodyguard!
I would also add in a dash of "Mission Impossible" to your scenario. As Sina and lawyer Krit investigate the crimes, they have to do a fair amount of tricky place switching and disguise wearing. After these (usually cliff hanging) events, the director allows the viewer to see how these tricks are accomplished - I think in homage to the lead's profession as a stunt actress. This is a very witty section of the drama - I don't think I've ever seen plot twists explained like this before.
A final small plus to this mostly mystery-driven show is that, since the heroine is technically in a wheelchair most of the time, none of the would-be male leads sexually harass her. Her "husband" teases her in both funny and cruel ways but he draws the line there - mostly because he feels guilty that someone in his family has crippled her and because he appreciates her loving relationship with his nephew. These quieter scenes are nice breathers between action moments of "Cluedo" solving.
Of course, the main questions potential viewers will ask is - do they blur out the Candlestick, Dagger, Lead Pipe, Revolver, Rope or Wrench in action? Readers will just have to watch to find out!
A villain with a back story or better yet, a beloved villain, really makes a drama. In Empress Ki, Ji Chang Wook's Yuan Emperor Hui Zhong is both beloved and hated by Ha Ji Won's Ki Seung Nyang. I'm watching Untouchable Lovers right now and Liu Chuyu knows her brother is a monster but she also sees what made him that way.
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I would also add in a dash of "Mission Impossible" to your scenario. As Sina and lawyer Krit investigate the crimes, they have to do a fair amount of tricky place switching and disguise wearing. After these (usually cliff hanging) events, the director allows the viewer to see how these tricks are accomplished - I think in homage to the lead's profession as a stunt actress. This is a very witty section of the drama - I don't think I've ever seen plot twists explained like this before.
A final small plus to this mostly mystery-driven show is that, since the heroine is technically in a wheelchair most of the time, none of the would-be male leads sexually harass her. Her "husband" teases her in both funny and cruel ways but he draws the line there - mostly because he feels guilty that someone in his family has crippled her and because he appreciates her loving relationship with his nephew. These quieter scenes are nice breathers between action moments of "Cluedo" solving.
Of course, the main questions potential viewers will ask is - do they blur out the Candlestick,
Dagger, Lead Pipe, Revolver, Rope or Wrench in action? Readers will just have to watch to find out!
Ji Chang Wook's Yuan Emperor Hui Zhong is both beloved and hated by Ha Ji Won's Ki Seung Nyang. I'm watching Untouchable Lovers right now and Liu Chuyu knows her brother is a monster but she also sees what made him that way.