here we go again.....typical childhood connection BS, kdramas surely loves making a story based on fantasy of…
I think that fated love thing is more a "cultural thing" than a "drama thing" if you see what I mean. Chinese also love that idea of the red thread connexion or whatnot, the idea that you're fated to be with your fated person even after being reborn or whatever. I'm also very tired of that trope... But I've made peace with the fact that South Korea will never get rid of it. That's just an overall theme in Eastern Asia.
i think what i like about this drama is that the pace of the romance storyline feels subtle. i think i saw some…
I'm tired of the childhood trope honestly... BUT I give this show a pass because I love it too much... Also timewise it works better. If it wasn't for the childhood trope I don't think it would be believable for us viewers to understand how they're attracted to each other that fast but since it's there and they're both reminded of their childhood crush, obviously they can't help but fall for each other. Also there's that:
"i might be biased though because i really like seeing these too (visual wise) and they're cute together. :P"
My God yes... Best look on Seo Kang Joon on any of the dramas I've seen him in... My God does he look gorgeous ( YEAH I'm fangirling I DON'T CARE). Jin Ki Joo is her usual cute self but honestly if I was a guy, I would be completely gone after that ridiculous dance. It just never gets old 😆😆😆
Isn't it the new pricing they've talked about? I don't have any "plus wall". It's available like any other show for me... albeit a day later which is why I only pop up here once I've seen the Friday episode on Saturday BEFORE Saturday's episode has aired to avoid spoilers...
Anyway I pay a standard yearly subscription in Europe... That was around 50€ last year for access to full HD. Where are you from?
Explanation on why the 1ML's father laughed about his name.What the kid ML wrote was 해성 (Haeseong), but he…
Oh thank you for the explanation ^^ Didn't have to bother looking it up.
Side Note: I once asked a Korean teacher about the 애 and 에 pronunciation. As a native French speaker, getting both these sounds down is one the trickiest thing I had to learn. Reason is, in French 애 is pronounce "è" and 에 is pronounced "é" ( there are other ways to write these sounds but that's not really important here) BUT in all honestly most of the time French people switch between both of these sounds pretty naturally without paying much attention to it. Depending on the region you live in some words are pronounced more a certain way than others. For instance "Lait" - "Milk" can be pronounced both "Lé" or "Lè". In essence, most of the time in French, the difference between both sounds doesn't matter EXCEPT on some key words for which if you mispronounce, you're bound to sound very weird.
So where am I getting at with this long explanation? Well the Korean teacher I talked to told me that it DIDN'T MATTER how I pronounced these words. We didn't get into a long discussion over it but the bottom line ( and a couple of years of practice after) is... regarding that pronunciation "issue", Koreans are probably like the French. It matters on only certain words, hence the fact that Hae Song is confused.
Not his fault... Poor boy was just writing what he heard... BUT There's still a major difference with French... and that's Chinese characters which sort of cement the way Korean is written in their alphabet but maybe they don't start to learn them at that age ^^
The 예 / 에 pronunciation thing is the same. Theoretically these two sounds are different. Yet in pratice, most Koreans don't bother to properly pronounced the first sound... That's how you end up with 계속 - "continuation" being pronounced 게속 and so on.
Hmm... I mean I understand the outrage and I completely agree, if the allegations are true ( honestly I don't follow entertainment gossip so I've just seen a couple of comments here and there on MDL but I don't know the full story and if the long comment below - which I haven't read entirely 'cuz I'm too lazy - is true... it wasn't illegal [if he didn't groom her when she was a minor.... which I have serious doubts about]... Morally wrong... But not illegal) that he shouldn't be able to make more money out of new projects...
But there's a whole crew and cast that has worked on this so I think it's fair to release it at least for all the other people involved. People will be free to decide to watch it or not after.
THIS BEING SAID... When I think of poor Yoo Ah In whose only crime was to become addicted to some drugs as he was trying to get over his depression... Poor dude literally only hurt himself and got cancelled on top of prison time for it... I'm a bit puzzled...
Bul we'll see how things go from now.
K-entertainment just... 2025 off to a "great start" already.
This person is a troll obviously. They just want people to react. Profile's completely empty. Photo's probably stolen as well... And he's probably a racist islamophobe as well hence the post. Also it's Ramadan month, most practicing Muslims stay away from entertainment, movies and the likes during that period. They wouldn't waste their time on MDL or any other such websites.
Typical racist troll there. I'm just surprised they're trying to cave a niche on MDL.
This being only at 7.9 is criminal 😂 but if it was GMMTV or Domandi yall would eat this up. Y’all either…
Most people don't rate shows as they are airing but rate once they've completed it, hence the fact that the overall ratings is going down.
"don’t like plots where you have to more than 10% of your brain power or you’re just hateful. Opinions are allowed but 98% of yall never took an acting class, wrote a script or even directed anything in your life. "
Well. I've noticed there's quite a lot of BL viewers who only watch BLs... Hence the bar is set pretty low. But there's also a fair number of us who don't stick to the genre and mostly watch other non-BL shows with WAY better scripts where "more than 10% of brain power is used" and it's very easy to see how full of holes and lazily written this story was.
Also it's not like there's no BL that hasn't attempted something different: "Triage", "4 minutes" even "Be my Favorite" by GMMTV were science-fiction ( though 4 minutes is a special case) with way better scripts. If you felt differently, good for you.
Finally, I'm an artist myself, and I'm sorry to say, saying "yall never took an acting class, wrote a script or even directed anything in your life. " is no argument.
As an artist you perform for an audience, whichever field you're working it. Viewers or readers are not supposed to "praise" you for your effort whether it's in writing, acting or otherwise. They're supposed to judge the "end result". If the end-result sucks, it sucks. As an artist, you listen to the critics, see what you agree with and needs to improve, suck it up and work on it. People don't owe you anything, they're not here to spare your feelings, they're judging what you produce. Artists who care more about their "hurt feelings" or "lack of visibility" are those who never improve. You suck it up and you work and more importantly you listen to the critics because most of the time when you've spent lots of time on something, it's very easy to overlook the many elephants that have come into your room as you were working on your projects.
At the end of the day, keep on doing the same thing, you're bound to make people tired and lose most of your audience. People are forgiving to a certain point, but when it's the same c*** over and over again, well you can be sure you're gonna get "haters" calling you out on it.
The UNCUT ver is the only version available on iQiyi. It's just not mentionned. I don't think they upload UNCUT…
Well I don't follow the actors or anything on youtube but I'm sure the specials you watched on iQiyi were also available on Youtube hence the blurring.
Be careful, there's a crazy fan around here who will insult you if he sees that you said something negative about…
Hmm... I don't know who that person is... but given the fact that I didn't receive any insulting comment, I'm guessing I already blocked that person. I'm personally a bit tired of members who are always ganging up on other members for being "toxic", "spreading hate" or whatever when you're just expressing an opinion on something that honestly has no consequence whatsoever in real life.
Don't get on the internet if you want people to agree with you. Sure you might not enjoy people saying they don't like this or that about your favorite drama or actor but err GROW UP, and leave the comment section if you have problems with it. I don't see where is the problem as long as people explain why they don't like the show in question and are being polite about it. If you feel the person is just a hater... Well, there's something called the "block" button, put it to good use. I've personally blocked around 40 people, makes the comment section very peaceful.
There was this "Candy" member that got on my back recently because of another commenter who sort of "launched the attack". That member politely expressed that they thought I was a hater... which I honestly don't care. Think what you want. Then that "Candy" member felt it was now okay to answer to my comments by being insulting and wrote two paragraphs about it.... Good for her I guess. Read the first line of both posts. Blocked her. All that wasted effort.
I don't mind people expressing diverging opinions or contradicting me, but I have absolutely no tolerance for insulting comments, or people who are going to harass you posts after posts to tell you how wrong you are and that THEIR opinion is the valid one.
Hence... It's been a while that I've taken the very simple habit of... Blocking the member in question at the first insulting comment or overly argumentative attitude.
Thanks for the tip though ^^ I already blocked most of the most active toxic members on MDL so most comment sections are pretty peaceful ^^
Can't agree more with your review... though I would have phrased it more "nicely" but I understand the bitterness behind. There's only one part where I slightly disagree and it's regarding the "acting" part.
Lots of comments full of fangirls always praising how terrific BossNoeul is acting and the whole cast and blabla. And I thought I was the only one who thought it was often... not that good. LITA was flawed but I truly enjoyed the show and I think the main reason was because they shortened each story to only 6 episodes so most of stupidity that is MAME's trademark had been removed... But as soon as you make it 10+ that's were things go awry. In LITA, the lines were better... for Boss and Noeul's part, so of course it was easier for them to get into their roles and act their parts accordingly.
BUT here? I don't think you can blame the poor performance displayed entirely on the actors. As far as I'm concerned, it's mostly the fault of this terrible script. NOBODY speaks like that in real life with all these cringy declarations - the singing which happened in ep 10 and another episode... JUST NOOOOOOOOPE STOP THAT. It's HORRIBLE. STOP IT.
Anyway, that was my 2 cents.
I still personally "enjoyed" it mostly up to the 9th episodes... I was about to rate it 6.5... Than episode 10 happened and it went down to 4... Because I gave 3 to Love Sea and I just could give it the same ratings. Still better in my opinion.
Final episode was the worse of the lot, but that was expected. I enjoyed it in spite of its many flaws up to episode 9 ( with a slight drop of "like" each episode) but the last episode just killed me. The last threads of love vanished in a go. Worst script I've seen since Love Sea which surprise, same author, the acting was particularly bad in the final episode apart from the NC scenes... BossNoeul aren't the most skilled acting-wise (and I mean no hate, there, they're just not, at least for now, they can still improve) but even an oscar-winner couldn't have delivered these lines well. That's how badly they were written. The script was what it was... Lots of good ideas, NO effort made to polish the overall story. Yes, we're here for the romance mostly but the show was so cringe it also failed in the romance department. As usual, seems they think that as long as the actors are good looking and you give a couple of NC scenes, that's enough to satisfy viewers. I'm probably too old for this. Anyway I wish BossNoeul a non-MAME drama next time.
The cliff hanger ending has nothing to do with this season. Like the first season's cliff hanger, it probably…
I'll probably wait for people's comments regarding season 3 then. Based on that, I'll see if I engage with the second season in order to watch the following season. Thank you again for your answer ^^
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I'm also very tired of that trope... But I've made peace with the fact that South Korea will never get rid of it. That's just an overall theme in Eastern Asia.
"i might be biased though because i really like seeing these too (visual wise) and they're cute together. :P"
My God yes... Best look on Seo Kang Joon on any of the dramas I've seen him in... My God does he look gorgeous ( YEAH I'm fangirling I DON'T CARE). Jin Ki Joo is her usual cute self but honestly if I was a guy, I would be completely gone after that ridiculous dance. It just never gets old 😆😆😆
Anyway I pay a standard yearly subscription in Europe... That was around 50€ last year for access to full HD.
Where are you from?
Side Note: I once asked a Korean teacher about the 애 and 에 pronunciation. As a native French speaker, getting both these sounds down is one the trickiest thing I had to learn. Reason is, in French 애 is pronounce "è" and 에 is pronounced "é" ( there are other ways to write these sounds but that's not really important here) BUT in all honestly most of the time French people switch between both of these sounds pretty naturally without paying much attention to it. Depending on the region you live in some words are pronounced more a certain way than others. For instance "Lait" - "Milk" can be pronounced both "Lé" or "Lè".
In essence, most of the time in French, the difference between both sounds doesn't matter EXCEPT on some key words for which if you mispronounce, you're bound to sound very weird.
So where am I getting at with this long explanation?
Well the Korean teacher I talked to told me that it DIDN'T MATTER how I pronounced these words. We didn't get into a long discussion over it but the bottom line ( and a couple of years of practice after) is... regarding that pronunciation "issue", Koreans are probably like the French. It matters on only certain words, hence the fact that Hae Song is confused.
Not his fault... Poor boy was just writing what he heard... BUT There's still a major difference with French... and that's Chinese characters which sort of cement the way Korean is written in their alphabet but maybe they don't start to learn them at that age ^^
The 예 / 에 pronunciation thing is the same. Theoretically these two sounds are different. Yet in pratice, most Koreans don't bother to properly pronounced the first sound... That's how you end up with 계속 - "continuation" being pronounced 게속 and so on.
Arf.
But there's a whole crew and cast that has worked on this so I think it's fair to release it at least for all the other people involved.
People will be free to decide to watch it or not after.
THIS BEING SAID... When I think of poor Yoo Ah In whose only crime was to become addicted to some drugs as he was trying to get over his depression... Poor dude literally only hurt himself and got cancelled on top of prison time for it... I'm a bit puzzled...
Bul we'll see how things go from now.
K-entertainment just... 2025 off to a "great start" already.
Typical racist troll there. I'm just surprised they're trying to cave a niche on MDL.
BEST SIDE CHARACTER EVER.
"don’t like plots where you have to more than 10% of your brain power or you’re just hateful. Opinions are allowed but 98% of yall never took an acting class, wrote a script or even directed anything in your life. "
Well. I've noticed there's quite a lot of BL viewers who only watch BLs... Hence the bar is set pretty low. But there's also a fair number of us who don't stick to the genre and mostly watch other non-BL shows with WAY better scripts where "more than 10% of brain power is used" and it's very easy to see how full of holes and lazily written this story was.
Also it's not like there's no BL that hasn't attempted something different: "Triage", "4 minutes" even "Be my Favorite" by GMMTV were science-fiction ( though 4 minutes is a special case) with way better scripts. If you felt differently, good for you.
Finally, I'm an artist myself, and I'm sorry to say, saying "yall never took an acting class, wrote a script or even directed anything in your life. " is no argument.
As an artist you perform for an audience, whichever field you're working it. Viewers or readers are not supposed to "praise" you for your effort whether it's in writing, acting or otherwise. They're supposed to judge the "end result". If the end-result sucks, it sucks. As an artist, you listen to the critics, see what you agree with and needs to improve, suck it up and work on it. People don't owe you anything, they're not here to spare your feelings, they're judging what you produce. Artists who care more about their "hurt feelings" or "lack of visibility" are those who never improve. You suck it up and you work and more importantly you listen to the critics because most of the time when you've spent lots of time on something, it's very easy to overlook the many elephants that have come into your room as you were working on your projects.
At the end of the day, keep on doing the same thing, you're bound to make people tired and lose most of your audience. People are forgiving to a certain point, but when it's the same c*** over and over again, well you can be sure you're gonna get "haters" calling you out on it.
Don't get on the internet if you want people to agree with you. Sure you might not enjoy people saying they don't like this or that about your favorite drama or actor but err GROW UP, and leave the comment section if you have problems with it. I don't see where is the problem as long as people explain why they don't like the show in question and are being polite about it. If you feel the person is just a hater... Well, there's something called the "block" button, put it to good use. I've personally blocked around 40 people, makes the comment section very peaceful.
There was this "Candy" member that got on my back recently because of another commenter who sort of "launched the attack". That member politely expressed that they thought I was a hater... which I honestly don't care. Think what you want. Then that "Candy" member felt it was now okay to answer to my comments by being insulting and wrote two paragraphs about it.... Good for her I guess. Read the first line of both posts. Blocked her.
All that wasted effort.
I don't mind people expressing diverging opinions or contradicting me, but I have absolutely no tolerance for insulting comments, or people who are going to harass you posts after posts to tell you how wrong you are and that THEIR opinion is the valid one.
Hence... It's been a while that I've taken the very simple habit of... Blocking the member in question at the first insulting comment or overly argumentative attitude.
Thanks for the tip though ^^ I already blocked most of the most active toxic members on MDL so most comment sections are pretty peaceful ^^
Lots of comments full of fangirls always praising how terrific BossNoeul is acting and the whole cast and blabla. And I thought I was the only one who thought it was often... not that good. LITA was flawed but I truly enjoyed the show and I think the main reason was because they shortened each story to only 6 episodes so most of stupidity that is MAME's trademark had been removed... But as soon as you make it 10+ that's were things go awry. In LITA, the lines were better... for Boss and Noeul's part, so of course it was easier for them to get into their roles and act their parts accordingly.
BUT here? I don't think you can blame the poor performance displayed entirely on the actors. As far as I'm concerned, it's mostly the fault of this terrible script. NOBODY speaks like that in real life with all these cringy declarations - the singing which happened in ep 10 and another episode... JUST NOOOOOOOOPE STOP THAT. It's HORRIBLE. STOP IT.
Anyway, that was my 2 cents.
I still personally "enjoyed" it mostly up to the 9th episodes... I was about to rate it 6.5... Than episode 10 happened and it went down to 4... Because I gave 3 to Love Sea and I just could give it the same ratings. Still better in my opinion.
I enjoyed it in spite of its many flaws up to episode 9 ( with a slight drop of "like" each episode) but the last episode just killed me. The last threads of love vanished in a go.
Worst script I've seen since Love Sea which surprise, same author, the acting was particularly bad in the final episode apart from the NC scenes... BossNoeul aren't the most skilled acting-wise (and I mean no hate, there, they're just not, at least for now, they can still improve) but even an oscar-winner couldn't have delivered these lines well. That's how badly they were written. The script was what it was... Lots of good ideas, NO effort made to polish the overall story.
Yes, we're here for the romance mostly but the show was so cringe it also failed in the romance department. As usual, seems they think that as long as the actors are good looking and you give a couple of NC scenes, that's enough to satisfy viewers. I'm probably too old for this.
Anyway I wish BossNoeul a non-MAME drama next time.
Still better than Love Sea. So that's a 4.
Thank you again for your answer ^^