Knavery

This one is particularly bad.

The actor playing the male lead just seems a little stiff and lifeless. I guess that's the character.

I like the female lead. I like the second female lead too.

Given the premise not really being my thing, I surprisingly enjoyed it. The leads are pretty good together, the show kind of moves along without many boring moments that I wanted to skip.

Personally Mingming was my favorite character.

The entire plot and premise is razor thin and defies belief.

I sort of like the leads, they're okay. The bandit and the princess couple are boring. Overall it's a fluff show.

The male lead is a bad character and the guy playing him isn't a convincing actor either. It just sucked.

I don't know. While it might be one sided I definitely think he has more than a passing interest in the female lead. Remember the female lead is a white cat. I'm pretty sure in one of the episodes (8-12) there was a flashback memory from Lin Mo where he saves a white cat at a personal cost to himself. Coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe he saved the female lead?

This is hard for me though. I'm not a cat person. I just recall the female lead was a white cat. Lin Mo's flashback was also a white cat.

I think in some ways Tet and Ginny aren't opposites though. Like in how they view love. It's the #1 priority for both of them. Ginny won't try to 'steal' Tet away because she does not want to destroy the love she believes is between Tet and Kul. This is a girl who has no problem doing almost anything but stealing someone else's love is something she won't do.

Compare that to Kul in the first episode when asked "is love not enough?" by Tet, Kul replied with "no, it's not".

There's nothing wrong with Kul's answer but it's pretty clear that Tet would have answered "yes it is" if he was asked. I think Ginny would have had the same answer as Tet.

Wat is clearly the most dislikeable character so he's a more extreme version of Kul. He walked away from Ginny, the most loyal person ever in his life. He does nothing to help her or come back for her. For him, love, loyalty... none of that is enough. Now he is selfish and ugly in a way that Kul is not so I don't respect the views of that character like I do with Kul. But I think the show will set it up as "Wat changes for Kul because she's the right type of woman for him". We'll see. They didn't set up the sob-story background for Wat and showcase it for nothing. Thai dramas are all about forgiveness (for better and for worse).

I think it's getting a little over the top and muddied. Episode 10 felt like a filler episode.

The plane stunt was over the top like Fonzie jumping the shark which is where that great expression comes from. It wasn't quite that bad but it felt like writers trying to ham things up when they had a good character drama without the need for flying planes or other stuff.

The second issue I had is I thought Wat (in Tet's body) had figured out they were linked. He seemed very calm for someone who is tied up and just learned his body has been taking by gunmen who have been trying to kill him since the beginning of the show. For someone as selfish as Wat I would have thought instinct #1 would be convince them not to kill his body because of the probability killing his body kills him.

There were other moments as well. Definitely still enjoying it but episode 10 felt over the top.

I think he's already realizing it from what I've seen. I agree with you. We've already seen indications over the show that he's basically trying to do the honorable thing but he definitely has more than friend feelings for Ginny.

For him the relationship with Kul hasn't progressed since he was rejected in the original episode. I think the next few episodes will be like you said - he spends time with Kul and then misses Ginny and realizes maybe he's not compatible with Kul. He'll start losing some of that love he might have had at the very beginning of episode 1 when he was proposing(?)

I also think finding out his dad is a major drug kingpin might cause him to spiral out of control for the first time in his life. And Ginny will be the one to bring him out of it.

Nice. This isn't directed at you in particular but I see people referencing WeTV - any idea what country? I used a link below on a Thai server and it seemed to work. I tried an American server, that failed.

I've only gone through 1 episode but I like Ginny already. She's my favorite character so far.

I liked PD Han and Writer Noh dynamic. As for the leads... I liked the start and middle but the ending was a bit of a disappointment.

It's a decent show if you're looking for something to watch and don't come in with high expectations.

Liked the acting by the cast but not the story so I dropped it.

I'm not sure exactly what 'tsundere' means beyond the definition I googled but I don't think it matches what I watched. It says for 'tsundere' that things should improve but they really don't. She's cold and domineering to the male lead for almost the entire show except a handful of scenes at the end. And those scenes are mixed in with her typical actions/reactions where she berates the male lead, rips up his papers.

I feel like the show should have given us something like maybe a few dates where we see her warming up somewhat outside of the work setting.

Ultimately it's a comedy so it's not a deal-breaker for me and the show was pretty good. Still felt like Ichigo was the best character with by far the most growth.

Also the theme song is amazing. Kudos to the artists behind that.

I didn't really feel like it got that much better personally. It just got much faster and the plot of the male lead fighting back against the corruption in the empire provides some breaks between the same old stuff we saw for the first half of the show - where the leads hide their feelings, hide their motives and hurt each other (though the last 5-6 episodes it's a bit more one-sided).

It certainly makes those last ~6 episodes more bearable than say the first 14 episodes but I don't think it got way, way better. It just sped everything up.

The Chinese government approves what goes on TV and can punish something that is not authorized or acceptable to them.

Over the past few years the Chinese government has put forward guidelines and rules for the industry:
You shouldn't employee actors with tattoos, you shouldn't employ actors with scandals, you definitely should not employ anyone who has ever spoken out against the Chinese Communist Party.

And it has gone further. They are worried about the 'feminization of men'. The ideal man should be a soldier or a firefighter or a soccer player. Strong, rugged, athletic, clean-cut and respectable. And they should not be a boy-band member.

The Chinese government is very concerned with masculinity.

The idea of a man being inside a woman's body and experiencing being a woman is controversial.

I do not know this for a fact but it would not surprise me if the writers chose this ending to play it safe with the government censors and government censorship.

You see a similar thing very often with time travel dramas where a character travels to the past. The Chinese government is worried about these dramas because it might be used as satire. Think about Animal Farm. Is it a book about farm animals? No. It's a book about the Soviet Union, communism and the corrupt Soviet regime.

Now when the time travelling lead of the drama criticizes the Emperor and corrupt local government of the past... is it really that simple? Or is it like Animal Farm? And the writers are using Ancient China to criticize the modern day Chinese Communist Party.

So almost all Chinese time travel dramas today are "oh it's just a dream" or something like that. And then the people making the TV show will try to explain to the government censors why their show is acceptable and should not be changed or banned completely.

Show should be re-titled to: Time Drags, Why am I Here?

In terms of the ending I guess they had to go that route to appease the government censors. All in all I think this is a modern and better version of Secret Garden which feels very dated (despite somehow being a show that aired in 2011).

There isn't that much unnecessary soap opera drama. The characters are overall relatively nice with flaws.

Agree. I think because it's Mulan it deserves an 'honorable mention' even if it doesn't make the list. There are a couple good series/movies out there based on Mulan and the show was as good as any of the others I have seen.

The diverse cast is good but other than that there's not much going for this drama. It's not horrific or bad or anything but it's underwhelming.

The drama doesn't know what it wants to be. Is this an ensemble cast working together or is this all about Yoon Shi Woo?

The way Yoon Shi Woo is written I have to believe this is your typical "he's the hero" show. The problem is he's the least deserving hero you will ever meet. He was a popular boy-band singer with a bad personality. And what's the character journey for Yoon Shi Woo? Oh he magically does this, magically does that, he's just better than everyone else. Yay Yoon Shi Woo.

This isn't the fault of the actor. I said previously I enjoyed the second male lead and second female lead and would have liked them to be leads but there are alternatives:

Make Yoon Shi Woo less of a 'godlike' character and give him some actual character growth.

Make Yoon Shi Woo just another student and make the female lead the heroine or have them be heroes as a group (which is kind of how the show ends but yeah Yoon Shi Woo is just better than everyone).

It feels like the writers didn't know what to do or where to go and as a result it's a mess. The show feels like missed opportunities with the female lead, second male lead and second female lead. They were all more interesting characters with more dimensions than the male lead.