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also i love og dub dramas! adds another level of realness to the emotions, voice actors do well but it's kinda refreshing like this

the piano interlude that plays during weining scenes isn't part of the official ost but i need it jddkashjlaskdjka

ty! there's sm high rated dramas to watch i need to pace myself lol

ive never had a sole favorite drama but i feel like this tops my list
reasons this drama is just on another level compared to others (my opinion only)
- second and third male lead have redeemable qualities and aren't total scumbags
- every single cast member, heroes and villains, all performed well, sometimes one side character that overacts can make the show a bit of a hard watch
- visuals! all the outfits have been nice, although most dramas meet this standard
- FEMALE LEAD HAS A BRAIN AND IS INTELLIGENT, even when there's a smart female lead tag there's no guarantee her head isn't empty, in some dramas FL is intelligent and cunning but then after the ML enters she does mindless out of character things
- POWER DYNAMICS IN COUPLES, many dramas have great cps but they always make the ML flawless and stoic and only add faults to the FL, SOKP pairings feel fair
- MUSIC omg idk what to say except love <3
- obviously plot is amazing, most historical dramas have a political plot relating to betrayal (what else makes the plot crazier lol), but the heroes are usually written so in depth while the villains are just made to be filler characters. i like how xue shu is the hateable characterr but there is satisfaction from duke xue's sufferring, taste of his own medicine lol
- dramas tend to make the harem full of jealous and crazy women, which isn't that bad unless there's not a single well-written female character, SOKP rises above that
- there's so much to praise about this drama, not all the eps are out and i wanna review it already :((

i checked his page and he's like #26 even above bailu but ive never heard of any of his main role dramas, not to be rude but im wondering which drama made him famous?

there are like a few short piano samples that play every time there’s a romantic scene, sounds heavenly but it’s not part of official pst 😔

if you check the dropped rating it’s 3 stars, and at one point it was 1.7 stars. many people speculated it was some type of hate raid cause the rating dropped from 8.5 to 8.2 in less than an hour (not at episode release time). the dropped ratings for 6 or 7 star show are even higher

*sorry couldn’t find the link* but in the 1119 livestream ending as all the cast members were giving farewell messages he said that xiewei’s character is basically the first he truly could read heart and soul since he’s such a complex character to portray, just like every other character in sokp

yea i had high expectations for OFL bc of the cast and was let down pretty badly, comments said yiyang wasn’t in the original novel so zsy x sy plot had to be tweaked to fit in the love rival

I’ve watched both and the scripts are sooo different in terms of quality. i heard OFL had a popular original novel but they threw in random characters and plots that weren’t part of original plot. SOKP is brilliant imo, unlike many dramas it’s interesting to follow each characters development without the use of excessive plot armor or angst. romance plot and political plot are just so unique, as in you won’t be bored watching through it :)

i pray the drama reaches at least 8.8, we’ve all been well fed after ep32 😭 love how every supporting cast member; including villains, executes their role perfectly without excessiveness. shout out to dingfei and xueshu actors cause wow they’ve been really good

https://m.iqiyi.com/v_27ro2tysf6g.html subs occasionally gets released later, most likely on app

i feel so betrayed, iqiyi lowkey clickbating haha

ok im sorry to say i was tricked, they labeled eps 35-38 trailers but just put random interview clips 😔

ALL THE TRAILERS UP TILL EP38 DROPPING AT ONCE SHDJDHG HEART CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE
https://m.iqiyi.com/v_1c00si2euqw.html

https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:4964749679722546?from=old_pc_videoshow
video posted by bailu weibo has over 11million views, she asks the director of her new drama "chasing the moon" who also directed SOKP to not use bright lights and he agrees

stalking for reuters wont help me at all cause ill just wait in agony for 1-2 years for this to release haha, might as well bury it deep in my mind and come back in a year or so

xiewei is kinda the center of suspicion for many cause he's elusive and stoic in his ways, in this case since it is claimed in court that dingfei saved him and they became friends, it's normal for them to be in contact with the deadbeat father out of the equation lol

i could never analyze with such depth but this is such a cool observation!

you mean the domineering teacher and rebellious student thing? i lowkey find it funny cause no matter how much xw cares for jxn he's unaware that she holds memories of him massacring the xue family in the palace with that crazy red eyeliner look so he continues to go like "don't ruin my plan or ill KILL you. she can only respond like "wtf ok geez" unless it's a nice moment where he doesn't act feral