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This drama has been licensed by Viki. It's the first Thai drama I've seen Viki license in two or three years, so I'm hoping that Viki adds many more dramas from Thailand.

that title, tho

FFS. Liz's hair color AND length changes back and forth every scene, sometimes within the same episode. It's ridiculous. Does the film maker think their viewers are so stupid they won't notice? Was the film editor or continuity director completely stoned, or what? So annoying.

I like how this drama has started out: beautiful, sexual people who may or may not be trying to do good. I mean, aren't there enough romance dramas that are sugary-candy-perfect?

I wouldn't mind a remake. This is one of my favorite dramas, and I really like all of the actors (less so Ady An.) especially if a Chinese remake eliminated the very minor flaws of the first.

Which it wouldn't. We'd just get another version, with cheap CGI, a horrible sound track, dubbed actors voices and a terrible ending.

There are age gaps and then there's a 40 year age chasm, like this. Yikes.

I finished this yesterday, and I liked it. I didn't love it, but it had several charming moments. Still, it's a Chinese drama, so the usual things that make Chinese dramas frequently an annoying watch, this show had them.

The FL had the usual very. bad. hairstyling. And the footsteps of the characters were stupidly loud, the way they usually are in Chinese dramas. [The hell's the deal with that? Is it a cultural thing? Why are the sound effects for walking so horrendously bad in Chinese dramas? Just askin'.]

are you watching it raw? Do you mind saying where?

I only know what you know. I wish I knew, too.

For those who've asked or are concerned, NekoMeowMeow's Wordpress website is gone. She says this isn't due to CR problems, but something having to do with storage or bandwidth or some such (she can explain more fully.) She's looking for a new home and I'm sure that as soon as she finds it, she'll be resuming her current projects. You can find the site she's using to park her old stuff by Googling her.

I'm not qualified to speak for her, and I'm not doing that. I'm just saying what I know from my own research and concern.

Meanwhile, let's wish her the very best luck and feel grateful for all the subs she's given us already.

Aw, so much fun, this lakorn. I'm always happy when I see that Neko has subbed a new episode of this. Neko is a subbing goddess.

I wish the ML's lip gloss wasn't so prominent, but I think that pretty often when I'm watching kdramas, too.

I only have one friend I talk about my drama watching with. I don't even bother to mention it other people--not because I feel I have to defend it or explain, but because I just don't care what their opinions about it are.
One of the reasons I love watching Asian dramas is exactly because they're subtitled. I have a hard time watching English dramas now because I've got so used to reading as I watch that simple listening is not enough.
Also, as an English major in college, I love it that Asian languages are so syntactically different from English. I super appreciate it, that I need to bring a non-Western mindset to Asian dramas, and struggling to understand the difference makes my brain better.

Thanks for the hilarious article!

There seems to be a sort of rule that once a subber starts a drama, that's it: it's theirs, whether they ever finish it or not, so then a different subber never comes along and finishes a drama someone else started. No matter how much people wish it would be finished.
I'm always extremely grateful for the work subbers do, and would never take their work for granted, but a different side of my head--the one that's a jerk--just is extremely disappointed and annoyed when a subber quits half way.

That's the way it is with Jdramas. Someone subs one or two episodes of a drama you really wanted to watch, and then the subber goes away, living their life or something, while you wait and wait, losing hope that the subber will ever finish. Until you are dead.

I have to wait until people write about the ending. It's really provoking to watch a drama for 50 or 70 episodes, to like it or worse, really like it, only to have the drama's writers ruin the whole thing with a sad, illogical, rushed or vague ending.

Which has nothing to do with your article, which was lovely.

Always excited when there's a new place to watch dramas. The collapse of Dramafever made me never take it for granted, that I'll be able to watch these shows. I'm glad they're here. (I'd be even gladder if they were streaming content that wasn't widely available on Youtube.) The site is useful as an aggregator but I hope the site eventually adds new content.

I liked "Another Oh Young" quite a lot, and I've watched it several times.
I loved the 2nd couple. She was deliciously quirky yet strong, and Kim Ji Suk was her perfect counterpoint.

Thanks for this article. Love the title of it ;-)

I love articles about strong women in Asian drama. There are so few.
You did a nice job.

The way a show begins and ends is everything. If a show ends badly, the audience will stay pissed about the way the show ended FOREVER. In that regard, if a show ends badly, the show is ruined. Whether or not the rest of the show is cheap, silly or lazy matters, too--but often, if the rest of the show is truly cheap, silly or lazy, people didn't stick around to find out how the show ends.

Why? Why, why, why show? Why didn't you continue to deliver the fun, funny, romantic episodes that characterized 80% of this drama?

I really haven't been so disappointed in a show's ending like this since "Princess Agents".

Do Chinese audiences really prefer shows like this, where the last few episodes of a long drama completely change the tone of the whole thing? Do Chinese audiences really want their dramas to end like this? Am I just spoiled by the Western idea that "romance" means a HE? I've watched enough Cdramas to never be surprised when a Cdrama has a stupid/bad/sad/vague ending, but I still manage to be disappointed, over and over again.

(Comically, as I was nearing the end of the drama while I was watching it on Viki, the overall rating of the show started to slide, until the rating nearly fell off the cliff. I knew before I ever watched the end of the show that viewers were pretty pissed about the ending, and that's without reading a single word about how the show ends.)