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I'm about to pick this up, after I confirm the ending is not awful.

Breakups? Love Triangle? Misunderstandings?

I agree with you on this.

Though I think if you are into the makjang genre you'll find this one better, if not so much, then MMH is way better.

>I can’t believe he could fall for her.

She is pretty, sometimes that alone is plenty to become deeply obsessed with someone. The falling for part is the least unrealistic part of this drama I think.

I think this probably going to be quite awful, like `My Strange Hero`. I don't consider this plot viable for a kdrama. I'd be happy to be proven wrong..

Yes, but it shouldn't be!

In China they tend to crack down on every little thing they deem wrong, unhealthy for whatever random reasons. Just this week the state decided to shut down athlete fanclubs, to stop unhealthy obsessions.

Absurd beauty standards are genuinely a problem in Chinese society. All it would take is for the state to ensure that actresses need to take monthly medical examinations & enforce not being malnourished.

Zhuang Shuang is a good example of a person that got ruined due to this. Lushi's situation is much better so far, but at 36kg? she was just as malnourished.

Not saying it's completely impossible your argument is correct, but I think it's unlikely she is eating anywhere near as much as whats medically allowed in her current circumstances. Gawd I really hope her agency/agent is not being awful about this, like letting her be only 3kg heavier than before, or some small inadequate amount like that.

I don't know, she is still way too skinny, look at those legs.

Stranger things have happened..

There are many kdramas that would've been better off having just 12-14 epis. However if I think back how many of 10-14 epi shows were actually really good over the past two years? I can barely think of a few. Mostly it's just rushed endings/unendings galore.

I formed my opinion based on watching the drama & nothing else.

> but the guy is a good actor, when he was to be

I'd love to see that, but I get the feeling that he is only authentic when he just basically playing himself.

I think it's worse than that. He is bad even at the stuff he is typecast for. Gong Hyo Jin is amazing, but I doubt she could lift him up, many have failed before.

The King Eternal Monarch is an interesting case, because comparing the script to Goblin, Descendants or Secret Garden if you look at the dialog & various other plot elements it's not inherently worse, in fact it's arguably better than Descendants'. In my opinion LMH just killed that show with his bad acting.

I'm yet to start watching this drama, but it's possible to make a plot where you all would accept this. Scifi elements & space allows for a lot of situations in which this wouldn't really be cheating. (time dilation, being lost in space together for years and several other space opera tropes could come into play)

Counter-opinion:

I think the chemistry is average, despite the actors being good outside of that. The story is ok for a Korean mystery/thriller story, but it gets really boring between eps 8-10, though I'm yet to catch up to 11-12.
For context Korean thrillers tend to be much worse than good American ones from over 10 years ago, because they always over-explain every little thing & there is just too much insanity in the plots in general.

If things continue like this my final score is likely to be 7~.
As for ppl uprating their beautiful OPPA, I feel some of that may be influencing you all as well here in this comments section.

The ratings were meaningless for at least 2 years or more.
Just read the reviews, positive & negative instead of relying on ratings.

I remember talking about that here on MDL & some butthurt person responded to me that I wouldn't feel the same way if my religion or culture were to be the one insulted. (and then I told him that it is insulted all the time these days & I'm quite alright with it)

It goes both ways. The studio is also spamming 10 star ratings to increase international viewership, since it costs next to nothing to them.

Even though King the Land is a pretty weak drama, the whole drinking arab prince thing 1 star rating fiasco was a bit insane, then again the resulting rating is still too high.

>At one point Lusi was doing nothing but filming for YEARS.

I don't really see that as a problem by itself, she had a job, she went to work 5-6 days a week & hopefully got very well paid. Though the fact that she was 36kg while having such an active lifestyle is insane & quite possibly a crime in one way or another. Bullying and abuse are of course a huge problem & completely separate from the workload. Unfortunately China is not doing so hot with worker's rights & the rule of law does not apply to everyone equally, so it's incredibly hard to do anything in Lusi's position & she could very well be chased out from the industry for stepping out of line.

I'm still shocked that the censors are a ok with excessively malnourished women appearing on screen. You would think that an autocratic society could solve this easily.

surely 😅

So how does this compare to Once Again & My Father is Strange?