Xerophytes

Reminded me of The Gifted because of the class system. Wish they made the school a coed. I guess there is no chance for BL lol.

Nah, it's still fun. The gay dude remains gay, and become a side story. The main guy of course remains hetero and end up with the main girl.

They never intended to end up together lol.

The question is... who was feeding the hermit crab? I guess it can be ANY of the characters.

LOVE THIS SHOW.

I've watched this from start to finish, and it's easily digestible since it's only 10 episodes. I usually watch other things in between but this one I've watch it from start to finish. Great and refreshing drama after back to back korean series I've watched (My Love from the star and Legend of blue sea - which have both similar tone/story structure/theme).

Acting is great. Believable cast and characters. I know a lot of people say in here how they don't like the FL, on the contrary, I enjoyed her - you may want to see beyond her actions and understand the motivation or driving factor of her action. I think though the character of Gwak could have done more, felt like his storyline is thin. A back story of MinHee would also help her but I think the whole dynamic of her and 'old man' was great enough.

This is much better than Love Alarm. It has a real story and not focused so much on romantic love. The theme is also wide - encompassing from teenage struggle, identity crisis, acceptance, dreams and aspiration and deals with social issues.

What surprises me is I like the OST too. I enjoyed this show... I think it's best to leave it as it is, with no season 2. I appreciated the open ended ending.

3 things.

You are missing where only Jisoo was caught. Gyuri left him.

(1) Camera pans to the shoe. No one is around
(2) Camera pans towards Jisoo in the corner with no sight of Gyuri.
(3) Camera pans back and Gyuri was there.

Hmm. You have a point. But I have the impression that she is just not trained or have an experience communicating with students. I think motivation and character wise - she is good. She mainly focused on the task of getting the job done and I feel that she genuinely wants to help victims of the situation rather than locking people up for the sake of locking them up.

Not necessarily. It was meant to show multiple endings.

The first scenario was the shoe, but when the camera pans back, you see NO SHOE but Jisoo is there, then camera moves to show Gyuri was there.

It was meant to be open ended.

3 possible endings:
1. Jisoo and Gyuri escaped - hence, the detective only saw a shoe in the stairs.
2. Jisoo was caught alone - the camera pans towards the corner where Jisoo is without Gyuri, he looks at the detective.
3. Jisoo and Gyuri was caught - camera pans back and Gyuri is also there.

Then the hermit crab - did not show any face of who gave that water to the hermit crab. It can be anyone. But I think it is more of a symbolic / creative / artistic touch of the writer.

Even the detective? Sure, some of her actions seem to be questionable (ie "old man"'s phone), but I think her core motive is genuine and she wants to help and resolve this case.

What a great show. I usually watch shows in chunks, but this one it gripped me from start to finish. It feels so refreshing after watching lengthy dragged Korean shows (which solely focused on romance). It has this manga-inspired feel and I really like a lot of elements in the show. The acting is great and believable, I think the casting was good. Heck even the OST I enjoyed it, which I can't really say in other series lol.

This I think is a must watch show. It's short and definitely a much better one than that of Love Alarm.

The whole series. 95% of the series is on land. There are even multiple episodes (if not MOST of them) don't have a underwater scene, let alone a full episode filmed underwater.

I am not sure if I wanna dip my feet on it... but please tell me if the writer of this series used a different formula and not a reused plot/theme as my love from the stars and legend of the blue sea?

I agree with you. I don't feel that his acting is all that amazing.

Finally done watching this.

This is basically what I watched after My Love From The Stars. It's pretty obvious that the formula used in My Love from the stars is also used in this series. IMO, it feels that this series is more polished. I like the development and tension built on the villains and as the series progressed they made a good connection between the Joseon era to the now. In terms of characters, I really like Do Min Joon and dislike how weak Song Yi - and in here, it feels kinda the same. I really like Sim Cheong while Joon Jae feels like a plot line and love interest. I have to admit though, Joon Jae started out strong as a con man but as the series progress, he evolved into a love puppy and while the whole family story is interesting - it does not feel strong enough for his character.

Overall, there is much less dead weight scenes, it does try to move the story along.

There's really not much under water scenes to make a big deal of how 'tough it is' for her to film under water. Like 95% of the scenes are actually done on land.

Anybody know where is the location of the first episode - where the lead guy caught the mermaid in his vacation house?

I love it! It helps that the characters are eye candy lol. I thought I will hate it when the plotline of villain was introduced, but I am glad that they used that to create tension and build up the story of the main characters - even right at the end, the story was about Song Yi and Ming Jun,

Dark and sad

Sorry but it is shit,

I was hoping for something scary and horrifying. Three episodes in and it was a murder mystery with comedy. Then it turns into semi-horror with 'demons', then ended up in a fantasy adventure series. The Ghost Bride is not even the central plot. If it comes back for S2, I don't even see how the 'ghost briding' thing will play out.

Got to admit though, I was excited for Ludi Lin, but the eyebrows were off-putting. I guess, he should stay on movies or series with him being more shirtless, coz that's not really showcased here. lol.