Lee Evanie

Thank you, glad that you agree!

I personally like many female leads in other dramas like Hwang Jin Yi, Empress Ki, The Devil Judge (The villain female), Mr. Queen, Hotel Del Luna, Start-Up, Strong Woman Do Bong Soon, Weightlifiting Fairy Kim Bok Joo, Your Eyes Tell, 1 Litre of Tears, Gokusen, The Tale of Nokdu, F4 Thailand, True Beauty...etc
but yeah honestly most female leads in Asian dramas are awful. I can't stand the amount of cringe in this drama even if it's for parody's sake, so I will probably drop it, thanks for explaining anyway. Male leads are mostly much better written than female characters and yeah the actors are quite hot 99% of the time.

It's okay lol

As an obvious fan of Song Kang, I totally agree with what you said about his acting. I did talk about it on a comment I wrote about episode 9. It's true that his acting isn't perfect and among all the characters he played till this day, he only nailed the ones in Navillera and Sweet Home in my opinion. His other characters all feel the same, they have the same expressions, same vibe, same everything.
His character in Forecasting Love and Weather is quite weak written (Which isn't his fault) but his acting became bland and repetitive real quick and it doesn't help with the weak role. Both leads here feel as if they were forced to date, no chemistry. Nothing at all. I also hate the FL's mother, she gets on my nerves greatly. I highly dislike the FL's acting overall as well. For me Song Kang is better at least.
I kept criticizing this drama's obvious issues and yet got attacked personally all the time by others thanks to it. I don't mind others disagreeing, as long as they do it respectfully since they have the right to criticize as much as I do. Don't worry about sharing your honest opinion about shows and the actors skills. You have the right to do so as long as you're not attacking other watchers personally or insulting them for liking this drama, it's all cool.

I kept saying that since like 4 episodes ago but got attacked for it lmao

Ep 10 :
1- "She is past the marriage age" really?! Can the FL's mother be more rude?! She is viewing her daughter as some expired product that must be taken care of as fast as possible. I seriously hate her mother, I'm starting to hate her more than the seconds leads at this point. Glad her daughter told her to mind her own business. The mother is being creepy as hell! She is even encouraging her older daughter to help her do this shit. Yeah, her saying it's for her daughter's sake is quite the selfish behavior, let your daughter decide, she is the one getting married not you. You can't force such things. Glad her daughter confronted her and Shi Woo agreed with her. That made me satisfied. It might've hurt the mother feelings but she deserved it. Being a parent doesn't make your child your toy or slave who follow your orders blindly, nor that you truly know 100% about your kid and what makes them happy.

2- Well, finally the second male lead stopped acting like a lunatic around FL. He is behaving and talking like a decent grown up overall. They now feel like normal co-workers than ex lovers which is great.

3- The drama is getting even more boring and depressing lmao I know many people will not like this opinion (Remember it's my personal opinion, you can disagree or whatever, it's your right so don't attack me over it. Just ignore my comment and move on), but that's how I feel. I'm super sure if the cast weren't popular and attractive (Especially main leads) this drama would probably flop hard.
At the beginning the watcher would think it will be a mature type of rom coms as some change from the tons of teen rom coms that are filled with cheesy, crazy, and childish brats that like to create drama and fight over the stupidest things, but it turned out to be the same just with grown ups acting like brats which is worse...it's changing a bit in these last episodes, yet it got painfully boring. I think 12 episodes would be more than enough for this sort of plot. Only 10 episodes and it's already giving draggy vibe.
There is barely comedy or romance anymore, just a bunch of adults having issues and being miserable and stressed all the time. The main leads have no spark at all between them now, their chemistry is basically dead. Other characters are either uninteresting or get on your nerves.
I wonder though if the leads will get married or not after all this crap. Will Shi Woo change his mindset and decide to rely his "burdens" on the FL? I guess that's about the only question I would bother keep watching to know the answer to, apart from that I couldn't care less about anything else.

4- Again with the mistakes in work...this is also getting tiresome to watch. This will sound harsh but the whole accident thing that's gonna happen next episode seems like a last attempt to make the drama a bit interesting, dramatic, and help main leads to get closer. I won't lie and say it surprised me or that I would care even if the ML goes blind or something of the sort (Even though I love Song Kang, but his character here is weak. Even his awful characters in Nevertheless and Love Alarm were more interesting). I think I'm really not attached to any character in this drama due to them not being that well written.

Yeah, I hate controlling and super nosy parents and relatives. I will check it out later, thanks for the recommendation!

Same, at this point their scenes are just meaningless. They are wasting screen time on many useless and uninteresting characters.

Yeah I also don't like the ML and FL visuals. Since you seem to like ML so much, I will give this drama another chance later just like I said. I don't have issues with the ML acting, it's just that I dislike the character himself. Thanks for the video link by the way.

I agree! The way they are handling the plot, makes it so childish and unbearable to watch half of the time. Even teens rom coms can be more mature than this. I really got sick of the second leads immature crap already. They did show a bit of improvement by the end of episode 9, yet I still hate them and can't help but roll my eyes whenever they appear on screen.

For me as long as no one in the couple is a literal hag/geezer then I will be cool with it. Yeah she looks much older which might make their chemistry even worse in a way, but I like the overall concept of FL older than ML for a change. Asian dramas are filled with super childish and annoying FL characters that try so hard to act all cute and innocent and it makes me cringe to death. Yeah, I still didn't give up for Song Kang's sake and I can see some slow improvement in the drama, though I still highly doubt I will give this drama a high rating. Yet for me, it's still better than Nevertheless. That drama pissed me off greatly with the amount of toxicity! Lmao

Yeah, I like to be super honest even if it means being blunt. That's why I might come off as a jerk to others at times. But to me as long as I'm not personally insulting someone, I won't bother to sugar coat my opinions. If I happen to like something I will also mention it even if I hate 99% of others things. Glad that you realized that I wasn't trying to be a toxic hater and I don't mind others disagreeing with me, it's them calling me names and being hurtful to me over a show what irked me. Thanks for understanding and you're welcome!

You're welcome!

I agree! He nailed his role.

You're welcome! Glad I helped. Yeah Wang Yu's war scenes were a bit boring most of the time so I understand.
Also no she knows it's Wang Yu who rescued her and the other slaves back then. That's one of the biggest reasons she admired him so much. I liked that they didn't make her mistake the Yuan emperor as the one who did that. He was in Yuan back then and had no control over what happens in Goryeo so he couldn't do it anyway.

Oh, I see. Honestly I don't like the FL and ML at all. They never caught my interest. Only character I was a bit interested in is demon prince. I kinda was interested in the white haired dude too, but everything else made me extremely bored. I will skip 10 episodes like you said and see how it goes, but that won't happen anytime soon since I already have lots of dramas on my watch list right now and I rather finish them first.

Yeah, she is really good and fitting for the historical roles. She nails the strong FL acting pretty well. Many recent actresses aren't that good at such roles and they just try hard to be cool which makes watching unbearable.

I finished 30 episodes in four days and planning to finish rest of 21 episodes in the next three days. I'm also impressed that I didn't get sick of the drama yet lmao

Personally, I'm more into war stuff than the whole concubines and queens stabbing each other in the back to make the emperor fuck and impregnate them more. I couldn't care less about the women drama, but I gotta admit the palace part in this drama is better than war with the king. I still hate the palace stuff, but they are more bearable cause both the FL and the emperor are super interesting characters. The actor and actress are doing great job to portray them. They are the reason I kept watching.

Yeah, Honestly this is the longest Korean drama I have ever watched. I'm used to tons of episodes in Chinese dramas, I even watched ones with 60 or even more than 100 episodes so thanks to it, I managed to become way more patient when it comes to that. The issue is, they tend to be draggy as hell thanks to the amount of episodes. This happens even more with Kdramas. Even 16 only Kdramas can become a pain in the ass to watch at times so I got into skipping some scenes although I hate doing that. Surprisingly I never skipped any part in Empress Ki since I started watching.
You need to be patient so you reach the parts you want to watch.