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In last scenes of ep 10 (Miao Miao's suicide attempt/ Xu Yan being scammed) very sad dramatic music was playing, and OY and NJ were the only ones with a 'positive' date plotline, I thought that maybe he'll turn out to be a murderer or sth, by the way he looked at her with that dramatic music in the background xD it was a very well done scene, but I'd move their plot a bit ahead so the dramatic music plays only when they are fighting

I'm still waiting for Revenant...

Ou Yang best boy

I just want to watch it in good quality on streaming, not on an illegal site filled with ads. How long do I have to wait, Disney+? It's been 6 months!

From what I read there was also a picture/video (not sure?) of him sniffing a white powder. But he claimed that it was medication. Weird, but nonethess, they had done examination on him that proved that he hasn't taken drugs at least 8 months prior. So there is no real evidence.

I WANT ROMANCE TOO! WHY WHY WHY can't we get just a well-written romance (that's not a melodrama). The only one I found this year was Hidden Love (and first half of AJTL that romance in amazing amount). Kdramas have just been a disappointment in that regard. It's always either:
- the overbearing cliche humor
- the parents that don't allow them to be with each other
- murder mystery
and so on, and so on.

In the past, the leads had to be forgotten childhood friends, but nowadays they had to know each other even in their previous lives.

Screenwriters (or producers?) are scared to hell that the drama will not be engaging. So they try to put every possible twist / mystery / cliche / breakup in there. Also, even though our leads are 25-30 yo in most shows (or older), they behave like teenagers. Like I get that there's this oppa myth that has to be sustained among the audience or whatever, but these kdrama men are not even close to real-life man in romances. I'm over it, give me something with some resemblence of realism... I don't require it to go to the level of 'westernized erotic scenes' or whatever kdrama watchers are afraid of these days, but there needs to be some tension between the characters if they are not in high school anymore.

I prefer breaking my drama slump with dramas I don't expect too much from, hidden gems or things I usually don't gravitate towards. The dramas that I expect to be right up my alley and that have a universally good ratings (like Twinkling Watermelon) - I save them for DESPERATE times. But it's harder and harder to find those gems. This year it's been:
- AJTL - haven't watched last 6 eps as just reading the spoilers gave me a MASSIVE heartache. Still recovering atm.
- MLC - one of top bromances ever.
- Daily Dose of Sunshine - sooo good, finally a drama with problems I can relate to (rather than imaginatory problems like you killed my parents in your past life so I can't be with you or some other shit / real problems like problems with parents, that I just don't relate to).
- Hidden Love - I feel like kdramas can't do a romance right anymore. The romance takes the back seat in most of recent dramas and they are full of unnecessary additions like a murder mystery and so on. This was FULL romance, and I loved it.

This year's been kinda underwhalming overall... Lot of the noisier dramas have been just full of cliches. Lot of dramas started well and went downhill too (Moving for me - I was all for the teenagers' plot unfortunately). Also lot of anticipated dramas fell flat (SYIM19thL...). Also I feel tho kdramas are on average better, cdramas - when they are good THEY ARE GOOD.

CWS in that slick back haircut and those sunglasses... Damn.

I was always like 'I can handle poor CGI' but then I saw those boat scenes... damn, they spent like 5 dollars on it at most XD

They are kinda successfull about it too (erasing the history / pretending it never existed). As a Polish person, I am fully aware of what happened during WWII in Europe (as we were on the receiving end of things), but on other continents - not so much. So I began to feel truly horrified when I recently started to learn a bit more about Japan during WWII.

From my pov, most of the media that is popular in Western world portrays Japan either before WWI (so samurais / ninjas etc) or after WWII (anime), so they made a stellar job of changing their country's image. To know that they don't even really touch that subject in their own education is mindboggling. No wonder that it's a big subject in Korea / other Asian countries, even though so many years have passed. As Polish people, I feel that for the most part, we've worked through this, but it was also due to Germany and Austria not shying away from the subject (however, I'm speaking for myself and my family, so it's a perspective of people who haven't lived through WWII).

But then again, Polish government does the same thing with some of our historical faults, so I shouldn't be surprised. But nonetheless, the scale with Japan and WWII is a bit different.

Yes, going back had no point whatsoever. It could make sense in the middle of the story, when she was not sure whether she loves past or present TH. They invented a bullshit 'course' as a reason for her to go back, just to create drama, which makes zero sense anyway, how would changing the past story in this way change TH's destiny and TH's heart disease...

Exactly, if she came back to make him live longer and happier than fine, go back. But she didn't, she made him miserable. So she went back for the sake of some course? Which was never really explained, why the poison past TH took in his first timeline affects current TH's heart condition? Just feels like creating artificial drama to me. If she came back to make her parents suffer less, than ok. But she died anyway and they will have to cope! I hate the last episode, fast-forwarded most of it cause I just couldn't look at sad past TH.

Gotta love how the ML has a darker skin when he's working physically and when he comes back to the capital he's back to white all of a sudden XD

The one thing that was weird for me is thet ML's father didn't come back - like everyone survived multiple deaths and that one guy whose body we never saw didn't...

So yeah, I agree completely that the last 13ish episodes were unnecessary. Hard to rate this drama cause the first half was fantastic, and the second very skippable and unmemorable. Don't regret watching it, but wish I didn't try to push through the end. It's just very boring. If they felt that the main couple is getting boring, they could have builded a nice story arcs and tension for secondary couples, unfortunately they turned the story towards a different direction.

Wow, this series is looking so good from ep 1. The cinematography is fantastic. I just came from AJTL, and while everything else is great, the cinematography was lacking. Here it's a pleasure to my eyes.

It's a bad ending because it feels forced and the leads are acting out of character. It's rushed, and at the end there's a cop-out with the kid scene as if the creators didn't want the public to be too mad.

I'm not sure, they definitely had some kind of connection behind the scenes, but why did the grandpa send her away then?

I was thinking something along those lines too. But I would imagine he'd rather choose a suitable lady for Tae Ha himself if he wanted to show his power over him and control him even more? Would make a bit more sense I guess...

Did I miss sth, or are we still waiting for a reason why grandpa was insisting on Tae Ha's marriage? Considering that he was planning to ruin it from the start