I honestly had become so jaded with all the new shows for quite a few years now. Some passable shows have come along, but this has totally entranced me from start to finish. I usually never feel regret for the show ending, but as quickly as episode 10 I started to feel like the end was coming and did not want to finish the show! The ending itself let me with wanting so much more!
Hats off to the costume designer, I was in love with sooooo many of the casts clothes and hairstyles. The scenery was also amazing and of course, the plot was spellbinding from start to finish. I haven't given a 10/10 in a while but this show totally deserves it!
ahahaaaa, this one is definitely going into the cray cray pile for being the most dumbest plot line ever in lakorns. From start to finish, it's a wreck. The show has enough stupid people to fill the grand canyon. Don't waste any hours watching this, if you watched one episode, the rest are basically the exact same, the whole show is like a loop, every episode repeats itself. Maybe watch the first and last episode and you won't have missed anything.
I don’t even know where to start. Honestly, I could write a ten-page essay about everything wrong with this…
I have been writing essays while watching on each episode. I don't think I have written this extensively on any show before in the comments of each episode. I think the biggest downside in this show was that the writers/director were disengenious with the audience. We were promised a romance between Jay and Ohm, instead, we got the Meena show. Ohm till the end seemed like her was in love with Meena. Jay deserved better!
There was a blatant shift of the storyline and who the real lead was once Meena appeared on the scene and started…
Oh, would be interested to know what he was tweeting aha! I used to always think that James is very perceptive as all his scripts are really steller, this one however proved me wrong!
What a train wreck! The father suddenly wants to count turtles, Meena is only going to jail for embezzlement (despite killing one person, letting another person go to prison for her, faking her own death, identify fraud, poisoning her husband and attempted murder on her step-daughter, she only goes to jail for embezzlement???????) and Ohm/Daddy are ready to forgive Meena- yet again.
Ohm was out there hugging Meena while Jay is knocked unconscious by the psycho!! WTH?? HOW? How do you leave a knocked person on the ground in order to catch the psycho and then placate her while simultaneously reinforcing that you are her friend and will be there for her, all this after she just attempted to murder the women you supposedly love now? I honestly don't even know why I am writing this at this point. I guess the writers got what they wanted, a hugely dissatisfied audience who can't look away from this nightmare from beginning till the end. I think this was an anti-hero show, Meena was the actual main character and the rest were side-characters. She got redemption in the end by literally getting 100's of millions waiting for her when she comes out of jail, in what, a few months? Years? Who knows, the writers don't think it's important to tell us, obviously.
PS., nice to know the writers conveniently forgot Mark in this episode.
As much as I like uniqueness of novel, I feel DFQC character wouldnt really work as a character in romance drama.…
I personally don't think so. The way DFQC is written in the novel is offset by Orchid really well. You can definitely convey that in a drama as the source material is well written. I know they needed to make adjustments to pass censorship, however, they could have still kept some essence of his novel personality. I just feel like it was completely rewritten for the show, even Orchid was changed to better suit this new DFQC, which left my wanting to reread the novel again (which I'm about to do for the rest of my weekend lol). I think the show on it's own is very good, if I hadn't read the novel, I would have loved it even more, but having read the novel, I'm left with wanting more, but I guess I can now reread the novel to scratch that itch. It's still one of my fav dramas of this year despite all it's deviations from the novel though.
I understand what you feel but they won't pass the censorship if they won't somehow show DFQC have a good heart.…
Yes, as I said, I can understand some of the changes, but I think they changed DFQC way too much. He's one of my fav anti-hero's and in here, they didn't even make him an anti-hero. He was just some misunderstood good guy. Overall, I think this is probably the best live-action I have seen aside from TMOPB and TPB.
So, finally finished watching it and it was better than what I expected, but less than what I wanted.
They changed quite a few things between the novel and drama, and I can understand some changes as things need to be changed sometimes for live-action, but I didn't like the changes they made to DFQC. He was pretty evil in the novel, very conniving, and I honestly LOVED that about him. Every other story I read is either about a really good guy, or a black-lotus who only treats the FL well, this is one of the few novels where we actually get a black-lotus as a ML and they completely watered him down in the show. In the novel, Orchid is so charming and persevering, and totally lives up to being a weed in her tenacity in trying to outwit DFQC and second guessing him all the time while trying to stay alive. I loved that dynamic between them in the novel. The body-switching /feelings plot was also completely abandoned by the middle of the show, where in the novel, Orchid uses it quite a few times to get back at DFQC and later actually gets better at playing DFQC LOL! Anywho, I wish I could have watched the show without comparing it to the novel as I think it was pretty good and leaps and bounds better than the garbage being pumped out these days. I just wish they had stuck to the source material a bit more to make this show even better.
I honestly should have dropped this but somehow persevered and watched till the end. Suffice it to say, I coughed up blood multiple times. This show is not only an affront to peoples sanity, but the writers really enjoy torture. The stupid 'lifetimes' were so stupidly executed and the reasoning behind the whole charade was so ridiculous! I usually don't throw so much shade on fantasy dramas, you need a lot of imagination to enjoy them and let some qualms go, but this show had so many glaring holes that kept trying to insult logic and spit in the face of common sense. I should have realized when the FL put the snake inside a freak** cage with bars in the first episode!!!!
How does it ends? I dropped it in the first episodes but I still want to now what happened in the end
She overuses her power to save ML and reverses time, however, she disappears after he is saved. ML finds her again, but she has no memories of her past and is no longer a witch (lost her power). ML and Fl get married and have kids who also have no power. The end.
What is going on, every one of my fav novels is getting a live action. Most fo them have been pretty bad retellings in terms of source material, we shall see about this one I guess when it airs.
Well all i can say is Good Luck with your expectations 😅So far its no where close to that ..
AHA, honestly, it makes me really question these scriptwriters who make these dramas. I would think that people trying to adopt dramas to live action would at least try and stay true to the source material. Him being a mermaid and giving up his legs was a major decision and took a long time and thought process from the ML. To just give him legs in ep 2 is kinda odd (probably has to do with budget and CGI, but honestly, if you don't have the budget stop making grand projects and butchering them?) I read this novel back to back with Heart Protection, so the demon core thing really doubled down and even if you know nothing, you would think it's kind of obvious that taking the core, which is the very soul of demons out of them will kill them, but I guess drama logic works differently?
Well all i can say is Good Luck with your expectations 😅So far its no where close to that ..
Haha, it's funny that you mentioned The Blue Whisper, I haven't watched it in protest cause my my own shallowness. I read the novel and one of the biggest premises of the novel is that the ML is the most handsome man on earth, however, no hate to the actor playing ML, I don't find his good looking at all! So, for me to watch a show based on the most 'handsome' man, when I don't find the guy even remotely good looking kind of felt too forced so I never ended up watching it, as of yet. Maybe in a year or so when I forget the plot of the novel I'll give the drama a chance, but judging by the way you mentioned the drama in a negative connotation, that isn't giving me any relief lol.
Well all i can say is Good Luck with your expectations 😅So far its no where close to that ..
I will try and put my bias for the novel aside, though I feel slightly let down, I was hoping for an adaptation that was faithful (why fix it if it ain't broke, you know?) to the novel as I don't usually come across ML's that are this evil and are so much more interesting because of their niche background of anti-hero (it's one of the reasons I really loved Love Better Than Immortality).
Well all i can say is Good Luck with your expectations 😅So far its no where close to that ..
The ML in the novel was evil and knew from the get to and over time suedo fell in love/stockholm with her, yet still wanted to carry out his plans, but if you are saying drama ML doesn't know, then them being forced together isn't that convincing (aside from the body swap, which I'm sure the ML could figure something around seeing as he's very manipulative). The novel made sense for him to lead her on so many quests and twists as he wanted her death and she kept worming her way out of every situation by being too stubborn to kill.
URG, I'm getting so ahead of myself with trying to piece this together without even watching it lol. I just find that the ML finding out later and still deciding on killing her after knowing her sounds way more 'evil' then the ML being evil from the get-go, you know? Like, he makes friends with her and then still wants to kill her? At least in the novel he was acting as a frenemy and eventually got trapped in his own manipulation.
Well all i can say is Good Luck with your expectations 😅So far its no where close to that ..
I was so excited to see this being made and now kind of want to watch it still but have lower expectation (which is good I guess,I won't be too cringed out watching this). Now I just have to wait till the end of the month.
Hats off to the costume designer, I was in love with sooooo many of the casts clothes and hairstyles. The scenery was also amazing and of course, the plot was spellbinding from start to finish. I haven't given a 10/10 in a while but this show totally deserves it!
Don't waste any hours watching this, if you watched one episode, the rest are basically the exact same, the whole show is like a loop, every episode repeats itself. Maybe watch the first and last episode and you won't have missed anything.
Ohm was out there hugging Meena while Jay is knocked unconscious by the psycho!! WTH?? HOW? How do you leave a knocked person on the ground in order to catch the psycho and then placate her while simultaneously reinforcing that you are her friend and will be there for her, all this after she just attempted to murder the women you supposedly love now? I honestly don't even know why I am writing this at this point. I guess the writers got what they wanted, a hugely dissatisfied audience who can't look away from this nightmare from beginning till the end. I think this was an anti-hero show, Meena was the actual main character and the rest were side-characters. She got redemption in the end by literally getting 100's of millions waiting for her when she comes out of jail, in what, a few months? Years? Who knows, the writers don't think it's important to tell us, obviously.
PS., nice to know the writers conveniently forgot Mark in this episode.
I think the show on it's own is very good, if I hadn't read the novel, I would have loved it even more, but having read the novel, I'm left with wanting more, but I guess I can now reread the novel to scratch that itch. It's still one of my fav dramas of this year despite all it's deviations from the novel though.
Overall, I think this is probably the best live-action I have seen aside from TMOPB and TPB.
They changed quite a few things between the novel and drama, and I can understand some changes as things need to be changed sometimes for live-action, but I didn't like the changes they made to DFQC. He was pretty evil in the novel, very conniving, and I honestly LOVED that about him. Every other story I read is either about a really good guy, or a black-lotus who only treats the FL well, this is one of the few novels where we actually get a black-lotus as a ML and they completely watered him down in the show. In the novel, Orchid is so charming and persevering, and totally lives up to being a weed in her tenacity in trying to outwit DFQC and second guessing him all the time while trying to stay alive. I loved that dynamic between them in the novel.
The body-switching /feelings plot was also completely abandoned by the middle of the show, where in the novel, Orchid uses it quite a few times to get back at DFQC and later actually gets better at playing DFQC LOL!
Anywho, I wish I could have watched the show without comparing it to the novel as I think it was pretty good and leaps and bounds better than the garbage being pumped out these days. I just wish they had stuck to the source material a bit more to make this show even better.
I usually don't throw so much shade on fantasy dramas, you need a lot of imagination to enjoy them and let some qualms go, but this show had so many glaring holes that kept trying to insult logic and spit in the face of common sense. I should have realized when the FL put the snake inside a freak** cage with bars in the first episode!!!!
I read this novel back to back with Heart Protection, so the demon core thing really doubled down and even if you know nothing, you would think it's kind of obvious that taking the core, which is the very soul of demons out of them will kill them, but I guess drama logic works differently?
URG, I'm getting so ahead of myself with trying to piece this together without even watching it lol. I just find that the ML finding out later and still deciding on killing her after knowing her sounds way more 'evil' then the ML being evil from the get-go, you know? Like, he makes friends with her and then still wants to kill her? At least in the novel he was acting as a frenemy and eventually got trapped in his own manipulation.