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Then don't watch it, is someone making you? But your reasoning is one of a teenager. You also all over the thread with the same overboard message, looks a little suspicious , like someone who has an agenda.

It just so bizzare this obsession with the age. She is 33 adult woman. Where is the problem?

Usually 42 is ancient only to the eyes of 4rth graders. But then for them so is 33. Sounds like sour grapes.

The cinematography is gorgeous, and the story is intriguing, but I am struggling to get through the first four of eps. While ML is absolutely great, FL is so obnoxious it is a major turn off. Don't care that she is some sort of magical alien, to even think that he will fall in love with this arrogant b8tch is cringeworthy.

Another drama where I want to throttle the parents. Starting with the baby lisping , passive aggressive, guilt tripping, egocentric, neurotic nightmare of a mother, and finishing up with the bully of the grandfather. But I just loved the second couple, they are so normal!

Judging by your comment you appreciate intrusive and obnoxious people. Each to their own. BTW Netflix and HBO are full of korean dramas.

What love got to do with it? I am talking bad writing and bad casting, where ML is a rude wooden doll, and FL is an artless idiot with bulging eyes. Secondary characters are either despicable or predictable. It simply is a badly written story with a lame dialogue and wasted potential. Maybe it picks up later, as some mentioned, but now at ep 6 it is pure tedium .

Her behaviour is written as ridiculous bordering on bizarre - which is often the case in kdramas. When it is mitigated by charm and wit it is palatable, but this common unattractive girl with a slue of nervous ticks getting a gorgeous smart rich guy is too much of a Mary Sue for me, spell or no spell. Bad writing and bad casting .

sure, but regular and annoying + boring is not the same thing I think.

Wow, she is annoying! Why cast someone so charmless in a leading role?

Ni Ni is playing what is written for the role. Also this is fantasy, not history. Comparing this to MrSunshine is apples to oranges. I have no idea what you are on about "waterworks". But who misled you into a belief that strong people walk around with wooden faces and never show emotions?

I can’t help it, I hate parents in Chinese dramas. They are tyrants. Most mothers are meddling, controlling, or manipulative , fathers as a rule are aggressive bullies, and they denigrate their children. If this depiction is anything like real life, l feel very sorry for the younger generation. There must be millions of people with deep childhood traumas.

It kind of sucks. Not awful, but not living to its potential even at 50%. The young ML character is written as some sort of natural genius cum superman who doesn’t need life experience, work experience , education, connections or anything else to beat everybody at their own game, while delivering pronouncements on honor and throwing out challenges . His acting is smug, but he has very pleasing dimples. The main bad guy is a one demential parody of a godfather, There is a ton of hysteria and bad behavior by clients. FMs are cutesy, with standard issue long hair and pouting mouths, lacking any personality. The one person who is carrying the drama is the second ML. Every other conversation gets eavesdropped on , but these supposedly brilliant people fighting a killer baddie never take any precautions . CJH is great, but the story and the dialog are weak. It is still watchable, but it should have been much better.

Thank you!

I think they blocked me after my comment, so things don't make sense and look like I am responding to someone else.

It is so strange how they show them hunting killer tigers with arrows, and making books by copying them by hand in the second half of the 18 century. Guns were in wide use since 13 century... and the oldest extant book printed with movable metal type, Jikji, was printed in Korea in 1377 during the Goryeo dynasty.

So many love this drama, but I found it lacking. I think it never found it stride, it feels like a cosplay, some characters are traditional, some are modern. They made FML into some sort of 21 century shrew who is saving everybody, but withholds love, and is so fixated on her 'choices' she hurts and hurts him and even on her deathbed. She leaves him completely alone in his grief with her parting words . How cruel can you get? Nor does her fixation on he own choices make sense in the context of the culture. Maybe had they cast an actress who could act in a drama not romcom, it would work, but FML is a wooden doll, there is no genuine, let alone complex emotion anywhere. I know, she is popular and is considered to be good, but to me she was badly miscast. ML is superb, what a fantastic actor! I kept watching just because of him.

I think this drama is saved by the acting , especially of MK and FM . The plot itself is poorly developed and bordering on ridiculous, dialog is so so, and it is so full of in your face product placement, it is like a 16 hour commercial. It is stress free and LJH is such a strong actor he manages to make it real. If not for him and how well they interact with IYA the drama would be a complete flop.

Korean dramas have absolutely nauseating bosses. And what was that about not being promoted because of a divorce?!

Though. Go cry us a river. WE like it that way and want more. And if you don't like the Western influence that much move to North Korea.