It kind of changed hands after the first 6 episodes oddly enough. To some people's dismay or to some people's…
Nah... Thank you for the heads up but I'm no longer in the mood for a thriller anyway... I may give it another try in a couple of months if the mood strikes.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
I didn't watch neither Our Unwritten Seoul and Spiritfingers. I've heard good words about them... but I also heard good words about Head Over Heels... and my skin still burns from disappointment with that one that I preferred to be cautious.
I've moved both dramas to my mental TWL in 2026. Hopefully they won't be touched by the 2025 K drama curse if I watch them next year.
Haunted Palace... had a strong start and then it settled into basically the 2025 K dramaland standard: Not great, not bad, just meh.
I dropped that one 4 years ago after something like 15 to 20 episodes when I first tried to watch it. It was my very first wuxia. Too many names, knew nothing about cultivation and whatnot.
Definitely a really bad drama to watch when you're not familiar with all the lore of the 3 realms, sects, names, courtesy names and all that jazz.
I tried to read the novels but I HATED the English translations which I found very heavy to read... This led me to start learning Chinese btw. If you hate how it's translated , better read the original version... Though I think I won't be able to read fluently for at least 4 additional years...
BUT it's the holidays, I'm leaving tomorrow so my VERY BIG SCREEN won't be available so I guess this is the perfect moment to give this one another go. At least the special effects, which were pretty ugly from what I remember, won't look as dreadful on a small screen.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
I really don't understand your comment then. We're at episode 12. The debt issue has been resolved months ago at this point. In fact it was just after Da Rim entered the company. So given the timeline around 5 months ago.
Of course I know people go MIA when people are chased by debt collectors (Seriously 🙄🙄🙄)
At this point the sister should know the situation is cleared and should come back.
Why would I make a comment about her going MIA when she was still being chased by loan sharks? That doesn't make any sense.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
I totally get your comment, I'm actually the same. I can overlook a LOT of things when I'm mostly enjoying myself but as soon as I start to get overly annoyed that's when my attention just unwillingly focus on the flaws...
I like thrillers on occasion and I absolutely adore Lee Je Hoon since Signal but this one is not doing it for me. The episodic nature doesn't help. I wish I could like it as much as everyone else but something is just not clicking for me.
Fortunately there's 3 seasons. Since I personally really HATE when seasons are added, that really did help making a decision. If I went through with it to the end, I'd feel obligated to watch the second season since everybody said it's better than the first one.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
Nah carrying a man that size is no problem especially since the ML is quite slim. Women have been known to literally lift cars if their kids were stuck under one in extreme circumstances, people running with broken legs and so on. When it comes to lifting weight it's more about how the weight is spread. If you had to 70 kg with your typical weight lifting 35 kg on both sides, you'd definitely struggle without training but not if it's spread in a whole body, especially since she carried him on his back, that's a no brainer.
The only arguable case would be if the weight was on a smaller body. People with very muscular bodies and a small size would definitely be harder to lift but that is not the case here.
It's been a while I haven't done it personally, but I used to have fun lifting my own father off the ground and see how long I lasted. And he's 172cm, used to weight around 80kg back then. I was 158cm, weighting 58kg and I wasn't even lifting weights (Now I'm heavier, same height, paradoxically appears smaller in size with 8 extra kilos).
People have this image of needing to be buff to lift heavy weights which is just not the case. Of course, I doubt the FL ever trains, muscles are only liked on men in Asia, women just have to starve or work on their butt but I disgress.
For the rest though, I was thinking the same thing. I have a small radiator that I keep at my feet and my God the number of time I got burns from the hot air is ridiculous. The worse is, it wasn't even painful, it's only after that I realized I got burn blisters.
I can't even imagine what it would be for someone running with no protection in a building literally burning.
Smoke inhalation is even worse. One day something got burnt in my house, I had shut off the heat of my cooker peoperly. A small fire started, my god the amount of smoke for that tiny thing was ridiculous. I got rid of the fire myself with a wet clothe that I threw on top of the pot, but I coughed like crazy for at least 10 minutes.
I mean the whole thing was unrealistic for sure yet you insisted on the ONE THING that wasn't. 🤣🤣🤣
That's a very good comment...BUT it doesn't change the fact that it's yet ANOTHER breakup close to the finale.…
The SML is a good guy... They just sold him very badly... Also the way they handled the second couple was terrible... Now they're setting up an open ending with Ha Yeong AND HER MOTHER pestering the poor dude to get together.
He's not in love, let it stay that way and let Ha Yeong find a man who loves her. I mean, how low can your self-esteem can be?
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
Personally I loved the show enough to overlook most of the things that didn't make sense even though people were complaining about them... It's more that the last 2 episodes have been a bit more frustrating to me and hence this type of things just add up.
I'm still mostly enjoying the show so I'm crossing my fingers I'll be less frustrated by the last 2 episodes.
It's still to me the best K rom com I've watched this year... But apart from Study Group, I've been literally disappointed by everything served by K dramaland this year... Arguably I haven't watched a lot of K dramas given how much they sucked in the first semester But... we're moving on to 2026 next week so hopefully, we'll start this new year with some bangers that don't fizzle out by the end.
It's not that the show wants to forget they ever existed. It's just a known fact that people go completely into…
Nah your explanation doesn't work.
In one of the first episode, Da Rim was still calling her sister and leaving messages through her answering machine AND texts. Messages that the sister clearly listened to. I clearly remember a scene when she got all emotional about it and her husband complained about how many times she had listened to it already.
Yes, they didn't show Da Rim sending a message to her sister about it... which is to me another oversight, but clearly if the scriptwriters were logical they would at least show a scene explaining WHY the sister doesn't come back ( which is very easy, shame is enough explanation but you still need to show it).
Even if Da Rim didn't send a message, if you have loan sharks trying to find you, they'd have noticed their phone is no longer being bombarded by hundreds of threatening messages.
That's just taking viewers for idiots. It doesn't ruin the show but this is one of these inconsistencies that pile up on top of others and ends up irritating the life out of me.
Same as "The Heirs", in that drama too, the leads came together because of FL's sister, but she disappeared…
Lol Never watched that one. There's only one single Lee Min Ho drama that I ever liked ( City Hunter) and Park Shin Hye back then... though really popular was not that good acting-wise imho so I didn't bother when it came out. I waited for opinions.
Most people said it was a dumpster fire and since I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about it in the first place... I never bothered.
By the way does anybody know where Da Rim's sister is?
By the time Ji Hyeok and Da Rim get married, she'll still be God knows where 😂
Seems to me the show wants us to forget she ever existed. She was only there for Ji Hyeok to flaunt his black card. Also Da Rim probably a least sent her a message about how the debt has been paid off so WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?
Interesting take on ep 13's preview:"I didn't see Darim's separation from Ji-hyeok as weakness or indecision.…
That's a very good comment...
BUT it doesn't change the fact that it's yet ANOTHER breakup close to the finale. I'm personally so fed up with those. I can understand the logic behind, but it's still doesn't rid me of my frustration.
These past 3 weeks, I've been mostly watching previews ahead of watching the episodes later in the week... Currently in the middle of watching ep 12... and I'm getting business talk fatigue.
This is why I no longer watch workplace romances that much, there's ALWAYS too much business talk when we're closing to the end with evil characters taking too much screen time... regardless of where the drama is coming from.
I understand they don't have as much screen time as I perceive they have in this one... It's more a me-problem than a drama-problem...
But I guess I'm getting increasingly frustrated with lots of things that have been piling up for weeks (which people have already talked about in this comment section)... and the last-ditch breakup is just the last straw.
My only hope is that the preview is misleading and Ji Hyeok doesn't allow her to get away with the noble idiocy BS. Fortunately I'll be on holidays by the time the two last episodes drop, hence I won't be tempted to break my screen. ... Only my parents'. They've got more money than I do 🤣🤣🤣
I still think Dynamite Kiss is a good rom com'...
Just not as good as it could have been though.
Reminds me of last year's "When the Phone Rings", terrific start, lost its footing along the way and never recovered... Still a good show in spite of it... but only thanks to its strong beginning.
... I'm sorry. I don't want to sound like I have a dirty mind but err... Just please change that title. I only clicked because I was intrigued only to be disappointed by the very err... dry synopsis.
So... I checked it out... 51 EPISODES of MORE THAN 2 HOURS EACH?And I thought Chinese dramas were long...
Ok ok ^^ You're all really selling it strong. Hopefully it remains on youtube for at least a year... Too many shows I want to watch right now and I'm giving priority to shows which languages I'm learning but OK. If it's THAT good. I'm trusting my (future) time with you. It better be worth it ^^^
Not being biased, honestly. I’m very aware that “dead fish” kisses are a common issue in Japanese dramas,…
Lol ^^ I invite you the last response I posted to sachapz below for the "first kiss" experience... But in short, my first kiss was one of the best I got... from a technical perspective ^^
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I've moved both dramas to my mental TWL in 2026. Hopefully they won't be touched by the 2025 K drama curse if I watch them next year.
Haunted Palace... had a strong start and then it settled into basically the 2025 K dramaland standard: Not great, not bad, just meh.
I dropped that one 4 years ago after something like 15 to 20 episodes when I first tried to watch it. It was my very first wuxia. Too many names, knew nothing about cultivation and whatnot.
Definitely a really bad drama to watch when you're not familiar with all the lore of the 3 realms, sects, names, courtesy names and all that jazz.
I tried to read the novels but I HATED the English translations which I found very heavy to read... This led me to start learning Chinese btw. If you hate how it's translated , better read the original version... Though I think I won't be able to read fluently for at least 4 additional years...
BUT it's the holidays, I'm leaving tomorrow so my VERY BIG SCREEN won't be available so I guess this is the perfect moment to give this one another go. At least the special effects, which were pretty ugly from what I remember, won't look as dreadful on a small screen.
Of course I know people go MIA when people are chased by debt collectors (Seriously 🙄🙄🙄)
At this point the sister should know the situation is cleared and should come back.
Why would I make a comment about her going MIA when she was still being chased by loan sharks? That doesn't make any sense.
It's ok but not mind-blowing.
I like thrillers on occasion and I absolutely adore Lee Je Hoon since Signal but this one is not doing it for me. The episodic nature doesn't help.
I wish I could like it as much as everyone else but something is just not clicking for me.
Fortunately there's 3 seasons. Since I personally really HATE when seasons are added, that really did help making a decision. If I went through with it to the end, I'd feel obligated to watch the second season since everybody said it's better than the first one.
https://kisskh.at/750961-taxi-driver-season-3
That's what you call " a War of Attrition".
She's gonna get him in the end... Just not onscreen.
The only arguable case would be if the weight was on a smaller body. People with very muscular bodies and a small size would definitely be harder to lift but that is not the case here.
It's been a while I haven't done it personally, but I used to have fun lifting my own father off the ground and see how long I lasted. And he's 172cm, used to weight around 80kg back then. I was 158cm, weighting 58kg and I wasn't even lifting weights (Now I'm heavier, same height, paradoxically appears smaller in size with 8 extra kilos).
People have this image of needing to be buff to lift heavy weights which is just not the case. Of course, I doubt the FL ever trains, muscles are only liked on men in Asia, women just have to starve or work on their butt but I disgress.
For the rest though, I was thinking the same thing. I have a small radiator that I keep at my feet and my God the number of time I got burns from the hot air is ridiculous. The worse is, it wasn't even painful, it's only after that I realized I got burn blisters.
I can't even imagine what it would be for someone running with no protection in a building literally burning.
Smoke inhalation is even worse. One day something got burnt in my house, I had shut off the heat of my cooker peoperly. A small fire started, my god the amount of smoke for that tiny thing was ridiculous. I got rid of the fire myself with a wet clothe that I threw on top of the pot, but I coughed like crazy for at least 10 minutes.
I mean the whole thing was unrealistic for sure yet you insisted on the ONE THING that wasn't. 🤣🤣🤣
He's not in love, let it stay that way and let Ha Yeong find a man who loves her. I mean, how low can your self-esteem can be?
I'm still mostly enjoying the show so I'm crossing my fingers I'll be less frustrated by the last 2 episodes.
It's still to me the best K rom com I've watched this year... But apart from Study Group, I've been literally disappointed by everything served by K dramaland this year... Arguably I haven't watched a lot of K dramas given how much they sucked in the first semester But... we're moving on to 2026 next week so hopefully, we'll start this new year with some bangers that don't fizzle out by the end.
In one of the first episode, Da Rim was still calling her sister and leaving messages through her answering machine AND texts. Messages that the sister clearly listened to. I clearly remember a scene when she got all emotional about it and her husband complained about how many times she had listened to it already.
Yes, they didn't show Da Rim sending a message to her sister about it... which is to me another oversight, but clearly if the scriptwriters were logical they would at least show a scene explaining WHY the sister doesn't come back ( which is very easy, shame is enough explanation but you still need to show it).
Even if Da Rim didn't send a message, if you have loan sharks trying to find you, they'd have noticed their phone is no longer being bombarded by hundreds of threatening messages.
That's just taking viewers for idiots. It doesn't ruin the show but this is one of these inconsistencies that pile up on top of others and ends up irritating the life out of me.
Most people said it was a dumpster fire and since I wasn't particularly enthusiastic about it in the first place... I never bothered.
By the time Ji Hyeok and Da Rim get married, she'll still be God knows where 😂
Seems to me the show wants us to forget she ever existed. She was only there for Ji Hyeok to flaunt his black card. Also Da Rim probably a least sent her a message about how the debt has been paid off so WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?
BUT it doesn't change the fact that it's yet ANOTHER breakup close to the finale. I'm personally so fed up with those. I can understand the logic behind, but it's still doesn't rid me of my frustration.
These past 3 weeks, I've been mostly watching previews ahead of watching the episodes later in the week... Currently in the middle of watching ep 12... and I'm getting business talk fatigue.
This is why I no longer watch workplace romances that much, there's ALWAYS too much business talk when we're closing to the end with evil characters taking too much screen time... regardless of where the drama is coming from.
I understand they don't have as much screen time as I perceive they have in this one... It's more a me-problem than a drama-problem...
But I guess I'm getting increasingly frustrated with lots of things that have been piling up for weeks (which people have already talked about in this comment section)... and the last-ditch breakup is just the last straw.
My only hope is that the preview is misleading and Ji Hyeok doesn't allow her to get away with the noble idiocy BS.
Fortunately I'll be on holidays by the time the two last episodes drop, hence I won't be tempted to break my screen.
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Only my parents'. They've got more money than I do 🤣🤣🤣
I still think Dynamite Kiss is a good rom com'...
Just not as good as it could have been though.
Reminds me of last year's "When the Phone Rings", terrific start, lost its footing along the way and never recovered... Still a good show in spite of it... but only thanks to its strong beginning.
I'm sorry. I don't want to sound like I have a dirty mind but err... Just please change that title. I only clicked because I was intrigued only to be disappointed by the very err... dry synopsis.