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I started this K-drama to unwind/relax after watching the C-drama The Bond. The story isn’t one of the best; some situations could have been better developed. The initial football scenes are pathetic - for a Brazilian, that’s a capital crime lol. But the worst part is the protagonist. Look, I’m not asking for a character on the level of L, Kira, Lelouch, Aizen, Urahara, or any other kind of super-intelligent character. However, the protagonist here seems to lack a frontal lobe in many moments of the K-drama, and that’s extremely irritating. Even an average person understands logic - they might not be able to explain it, but it’s intuitive. The protagonist simply doesn’t have that. It could have been one of those light, “feel-good” dramas like Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok Joo or 20th Century Boy and Girl, just doing the basics well, but...

It’s remarkable how both K-dramas and C-dramas, more often than not, start off very promising, gradually developing the characters’ relationships in an engaging and compelling way, and You Are My Hero is no exception. However, the problem with most of them tends to arise once they reach the middle of the story. I don’t have an issue with clichés, especially when they’re well executed, as they can bring charm, lightness, or conflicts that genuinely contribute to the growth of the characters and their relationships. The real problem is the overuse of them, with prolonged repetition that ends up serving merely as filler or lacking any real depth, and that’s exactly the case here. Many scenes could have been cut, particularly those involving the second couple. Shu Wen Bo’s initial reason for rejecting Ruan Qing Xia felt genuinely authentic, but after their collaboration during the earthquake, everything that follows turns into pure padding, frustrating, tedious, and unnecessary. Another extremely irritating and absurd aspect is how the main couple continues, for so long, to follow romantic advice from friends who have had multiple short-lived relationships. Once or twice would be acceptable, but it becomes clear that this advice doesn’t work and only complicates a relationship that had been developed gradually and sincerely throughout the story. In the end, there are so many narrative issues and unnecessary filler elements, like those two sisters near the end, that it’s better to stop here.

Seria muito melhor como uma série. E a sinopse tá incompleta, pode-se dizer que é até enganosa. Fui achando que seria ouro e não passava de estrume.

The first episode was boring in every way. And what can I say about this MC? He seems like he came straight out of a dark romance - brooding, with that ‘look how mysterious I am’ vibe - it’s a joke. I hope I’m wrong - if I don’t drop it first - but everything points to there being infidelity.

I would even give it a negative score, but the discussions about life and death, along with the soundtrack and cinematography, are excellent. The male lead, when he isn’t acting submissively, also stands out quite a bit. The romance, however, is one of the weakest aspects: the female lead is extremely unpleasant for most of the story, showing only slight improvement near the end. Among the C-dramas I’ve watched recently, she easily stands out as one of the worst female characters I’ve ever seen. Additionally, the propagandistic elements involving modern themes that attempt to break away from tradition come across as ridiculous - nothing more than a complete joke.

Overall, Meet Yourself is a sensitive work about grief, new beginnings, and reconnecting with life. It values the simplicity of human relationships and the beauty of small moments. The serene atmosphere, the delicate direction, and the way ordinary situations are transformed into narrative material help build the story’s contemplative tone. The cinematography highlights the natural landscapes and contributes to a constant feeling of tranquility and warmth. The interactions between many of the characters feel natural and full of human warmth, especially once the viewer has developed some emotional connection with what is being shown. Each character carries their own frustrations, dreams, and life choices - even if some inspire more empathy than others - creating a diverse human mosaic that feels relatively close to reality. Throughout the narrative, these interactions reveal different ways of dealing with loss, expectations, and new beginnings, while the protagonist goes through a quiet process of emotional reconstruction and gradual rediscovery of her own identity. Instead of relying on major plot twists, the drama prefers to show subtle changes that emerge from the daily coexistence among the villagers. In doing so, it builds a reflective approach in which time seems to slow down, shifting the focus toward simple conversations and the small internal transformations that arise from living alongside other people. Even with some irregularities at the beginning - particularly in the attempt to introduce conflicts involving characters who had barely been presented - and certain inconsistencies in the development of some story arcs, the work ultimately conveys a genuine sense of comfort and humanity. By the end, it leaves the impression that personal growth sometimes happens precisely when we learn to slow down and observe life more calmly.


PS: I loved Nana - she is the kind of female character who genuinely inspires me to want to become a better person in order to be worthy of someone like her. I also liked her development and the attempt to start something deeper with Xie Xiao Xia, although it’s a shame that it didn’t move forward. I didn’t enjoy the musician Hu You Yu as much, and I think the series spent too much time on him, especially in the relationship with the older woman who appears near the end. Another character I found rather uninteresting was Ma Qiu Shan. At some point I started skipping his scenes whenever he appeared, because he didn’t seem to add much to the narrative and felt more like a way to fill screen time.

The problem with this type of narrative, which develops several storylines alongside the main plot, is that some of them end up being quite uninteresting. When the writers choose to place these arcs right at the beginning, before the audience has had any chance to build sympathy for the characters, it becomes difficult to stay engaged and keep watching. Something similar happened in Our Blues, and I got the same impression with Meet Yourself. I hope the upcoming storylines are more interesting than the ones currently focused on these characters.

It's a list based on popularity, not quality, but it will serve to sift out some gold.

Parece ser um romance bem água com açúcar para se ver em um fim de semana de chuva. Vou add no plan to watch.

Entendo perfeitamente seu ponto, faz bastante sentido. Children of Nobody realmente não é um drama que “fisga” de imediato, porque ele constrói tudo de forma muito contida e quase clínica, especialmente no início. Essa frieza pode acabar criando uma barreira emocional, principalmente quando a expectativa é de uma conexão mais rápida com os personagens. Sobre a protagonista, acho válida sua leitura, a forma como ela reage a criança realmente pode parecer estranha ou pouco natural num primeiro momento. A proposta é justamente mostrar alguém cuja relação com o sofrimento infantil não é saudável nem equilibrada, mas isso só vai ficando mais claro conforme a narrativa avança. Se isso não se estabelece logo no começo, é compreensível que cause estranhamento. E tem também a questão da expectativa, que pesa bastante. Quando a gente chega já influenciado por notas altas e comentários positivos, qualquer falta de impacto inicial acaba sendo sentida com mais força. E seendo um drama mais frio e sem grandes picos emocionais, se ele não te envolveu no começo, dropar acaba sendo uma decisão totalmente compreensível. Nem toda obra mais densa consegue criar esse “gancho” imediato, assim como nem toda obra se sustenta apenas pelo emocional, tem que ter uma sinergia entre ambas as coisas, por isso eu não dei uma nota mais alta, mesmo sendo narrativamente um dorama muito bom.

Ah sim, obrigado. Sem maquiagem ela é mais linda ainda.

I thought the male lead would be the perfect rich archetype, as is standard in modern romantic C-dramas, but I was surprised to see that he isn’t like that. He’s just a regular person with real problems, trying to deal with everything in his own way, which creates genuine identification. I’m curious to see how everything will unfold, even though I have a certain idea, since it’s still a romantic C-drama, meaning it has its genre clichés and will hardly tackle more complex issues, but anyway.

P.S.: Zeng Li is incredibly beautiful. Every time she appears on screen, I’m completely mesmerized lol.

Parece que ela fez preenchimento labial, ela está tão bonita em Hidden Love.

O que me afasta dos romances chineses modernos é que o principal não é uma pessoa normal, parece um isekai, o personagem masculino sempre tem que ser roubado, só que diferente das habilidades que ele recebe no isekai, aqui no c-drama, ele é super rico, mega inteligente e se destaca em outros áreas, nunca é um cara normal com problemas reais.

Bem pontuado. Aqui, realmente não nos preocupamos tanto com a diferença de classes sociais, principalmente quando essa diferença não é tão grande. Acredito que apenas o pessoal do topo - e não os novos ascendentes - costumam se relacionar entre si. Já na Ásia, isso é algo cultural, pessoas da mesma classe tendem a se relacionar com indivíduos da mesma classe e se tiver diferenças a família pode se tornar um empecilho, como a menina comentou abaixo.

Hahaha, I liked the comparison to Zaraki, my favorite character from Bleach.

Não é esse suprassumo que pintam, principalmente por ser mais um protótipo do que uma versão final, mas estamos na modernidade, obras com temas envolvendo as doenças psicológicas da nossa era e um pouco de atenção serão aclamadas ou no mínimo vão receber certa atenção, todavia faltou mais profundidade nas doenças e tratamentos, a parte romântica foi completamente desnecessária.

Definitivamente não é meu estilo de história - personagens que já foram um casal, ficam orbitando a vida um do outro sem seguir em frente e para piorar tudo, ainda apresentam parceiros(as) um para o outro, como se isso fosse sinônimo de maduridade - mesmo apreciando a atmosfera introspectiva e melancólica, as sutilezas das ações, os gêneros narrativos (drama/romance) e o significado dos personagens. O personagem masculino é um banana no sentido comunicativo, ele é a representação de que leitura não tem relação direita com comunicação. Aliás, são poucos os momentos de uma comunicação verdadeira no dorama e o mais marcante foi no episódio 11, uma conversa entre a Eun Ho e a Yoo Kyung, de resto são tentativas nunca conclusivas, silenciosas e com muito ácido envolvido. Mas no geral é uma boa história, mesmo com suas limitações.

Surprisingly, it is interesting, even with one of the worst first episodes I have ever seen in dramas and a completely impulsive and hot-headed MC. It is intriguing to imagine how he and the main female character will overcome this battle, in which they are at a surreal disadvantage.

I agree