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This is a fun drama, but it's so slowwwwwwwww, by God. We're 70% done and Naksu hasn't regained her power yet, Jang Uk doesn't know about his birth secret, his father is nowhere to be found, people around Jang Uk are only now beginning to ask themselves why Mudeok seems to be at the bottom of every suspicious situation (and no one seems to have noticed that Jang Uk and Mudeok like each other apart from Mudeok's other two suitors), the fake Jin Buyeon hasn't even entered Jinyowon yet, let alone been exposed so that Mudeok's identity could be revealed, we have no idea what's up with Mudeok's soul and how it's affecting Naksu or their shared body, we don't even know what Naksu is thinking about doing after she regains her power, Seo Yeol has known that Mudeok is Naksu for like 10 episodes and his knowledge hasn't affected the plot in any way, etc. etc. etc.

In the absence of any important information being revealed and prompting characters to take action, we've been going around in circles with multiple self-absorbed women deciding they are going to marry Jang Uk against his will and talking to Maidservant Kim about it (was this subplot so good it had to be repeated immediately with a different female character?), multiple guys deciding they like Mudeok and will use the power differential between them to take up her time, the childish middle-aged love triangle, Mudeok and Jang Uk constantly getting separated for silly reasons, etc. The Jin matriarch has been looking for her daughter for ages and we only just learnt her husband is part of the conspiracy to scam her.

Anyway. As I said, it's a fun watch, but it's blatantly obvious they're saving a bunch of stuff for season 2. This season will probably end with Naksu regaining her power and being separated from Jang Uk, and season 2 will be dedicated to his parentage and possibly some sort of civil war in Daeho.

They could have easily fit all that in 20 75-minute episodes, or perhaps 24 if they were feeling really ambitious about the plot, if they'd cut out all the stupid love triangles, harems, reverse harems, unfunny comedy, etc. It feels like there are two dramas going on at the same time with all the fantasy politics on the one hand and the idol romance drama nonsense on the other.

OK, I'm on episode 11 and so far the drama has been going around in circles and, which is worse, making the characters behave illogically so it can stall the plot progression. We've been talking about opening the Small Kunlun Mountain tomb for several episodes now, *just so* DYQ can get the dragon bone he lost in episode 1 back, and we have already been told it's not even the opening to the real Kunlun Mountains. We're 1/3rd into the drama! When are things going to start happening?

The Long Night, The Bad Kids, A Murderous Affair in Horizon Tower are all good dark cdramas, but they're crime dramas, not sci-fi ones. I can't think of another cdrama exactly like Reset.

365: Repeat the Year and Kairos are kdramas you might like.

Have you seen Soratobu Kouhoushitsu? That's another good one.

Yeah, a good old romantic jdrama about careful, kind people who really love their jobs. I love this genre.

OMG, you saved my life with this spoiler, thank you!

Uh, the guy announced to all and sundry that he was looking for his father, who was hiding from the police successfully, thus becoming his father's weak point and putting both himself and his father in danger. Then he did a bunch of stupid shit like going back to the house of the person who tried to murder him because he was invited for dinner, eating food he's allergic to without saying anything, etc. etc. etc., BUT... it's Wu Shuang who's "clueless, careless and brainless"? Why?

What has she done so far that is more clueless and brainless than the ML's actions? She makes logical decisions given the information she has.

Occasionally she trusts people too easily, but as I said, Ding Yunqi does stupid things as well, as do the villains. This is a stupid drama in general; there's constantly implausible stuff happening.

Saying Wu Shuang is "brainless" in this context just smacks of misogyny and a fixation on an actress you dislike, sorry.

I watched the same episodes as you and I think you're wrong, so you can stop responding as if you're explaining something complicated to me.

I think that part is amusing and I look forward to her wearing Yunqi down. It's clear he cares for her, but it will take some time before they realise they have feelings for each other.

The first episode didn't impress me that much--it dragged a bit because of the usual time jump device that is all too common in kdramas and the protagonists were not particularly likeable while the antagonists were not particularly scary--but I'll give it another episode or three to see if it picks up.

The first two episodes were really fun for me. The Haesung Group and the chairman's creepy compound are a good villain and a well-crafted setting, respectively, Ha Woo-shin is very smart (though he needs to be less obvious about snooping around) and I like the large cast of characters with their own motivations. Ms Kwon is the most detestable character so far, somehow.

That old Evil SFL Becomes Obsessed with the ML and Pretends to be the FL classic. I hope this misunderstanding will be resolved or rendered irrelevant quickly, but I’m afraid I’m not that lucky.

OK, I really liked everything about the first episode EXCEPT:

It’s been obvious from the start that this drama would not be an adaptation of the novel Little Women but at most loosely inspired by it, so I don’t know why people are trying to play compare and contrast.

Her character in this drama is not clueless.

No, I don’t.

She was raised in a secret martial arts sect deep in the countryside and then recently came to Shanghai, which was the most westernised city in China. She keeps asking questions about telephones, schoolgirls, cameras, etc. because she never encountered these hallmarks of western modernity before.

There were millions of Chinese people who lived in deep poverty in very rustic conditions until the second half of the 20th century. It's entirely realistic that a woman who just arrived in Shanghai in the 1930s has never seen a camera before.

What I'm getting from this comment is that you want the drama to serve the fantasy that Xu Kai's character is single so you can insert yourself into the story and you're mad that Zhong Chuxi has worked with several actors you find hot before. And lots of other lonely fangirls are agreeing with you.

I guess users on this website love hating on female characters in male-centric dramas, especially if they get in the way of ‘bromance’ or make the ML unavailable.

If you look at the comments below, people seem jealous that the actress has been paired with several attractive actors before… Extremely childish thought process.

Stupid? She's competent and resourceful IMO. I don't understand why someone would dislike her.

I'm on episode 4 and this is pure stupid fun so far; I like it. I like Ding Yunqi and Wu Shuang as the leads and Wu Shuang's marriage ideas are an amusing basis for their romance. The police chief and his brother are very aggravating villains so far too... though I hope there will be more powerful enemies for Ding Yunqi in the future.

I know we're supposed to sympathise with the police chief's sister for receiving a Western education and developing modern ideas about a woman's purpose in life but then having to deal with her domineering brother, and I do feel for her on that front, but she's a really annoying character so far. She’s an adult, so why are her mannerisms those of a 7-year-old girl?