OMG! Who pushed her??? WHO??? Is it the assistant? He’s a bit shifty. Is he being paid by the mother?
Just watching clips from twitter. You have to love twitter. Someone was screaming at HeeJoo - just switch the SIM cards! When she phoned Sa-eon as 406, haha.
I’ve watched chae soo bin’s dramas for years. I noticed the eyebrows this time too. Stylistically Koreans like lighter brows anyway, but I think this time they’ve been lightened because it makes her look more wide eyed and innocent - less done up.
I’m just going to write a prediction but I feel sangwoo is her brother and I feel the story he’s telling his…
I feel like Sang woo likes her romantically. You can see when he first meets her he’s in awe. But I also think the story about the orphanage is maybe switched - as in he’s the kid in the mask maybe?
Definitely not complaining, I love an accidental kiss. But how inconvenient, not to mention very inappropriate, would it be if it was that easy to accidentally kiss someone in real life?! Haha.
Cannot wait for the next episode so I’m off to read the novel to torture myself further!
loved the story/idea. but the romance felt forced - there wasnt much interest from the FL for a long ass time…
Ikr! Every ML is a simp now. It’s revolting. I think it’s what young girls like, but it reduces a man to some sort of obsessive loser who will do whatever you ask. People complain about Mary Sue characters, but the simpering ML is worse. It allows the FL to get away with all sorts of whining, petulant selfish behaviours that nobody would put up with in rl.
Love Me Kill Me is a LOT darker. Also Liu Xueyi is a raging black flag in this series. It's a lot more gritty…
He was so good in the beginning of In Blossom. Also he is hot! The rest of In Blossom was awful and did him a disservice. He was also overshadowed by all the JJY criticism. I’m so glad he’s getting showcased in this drama!
also i realized at the end that the first person on her mind when she got her diagnosis wasn’t her ex but SH.…
I do feel like SR hasn’t given us enough to show SH is as important to her as she is to him. I love them, but not feeling that. They needed to show us more of her POV to build a better picture. Queen of Tears built the two leads up better, I think. They were distant, but you could tell they cared deeply.
The scene when she ate A deep dish of rice and solids then her stomach just ached a little that was nonsense because…
They do seem to gloss over the uglier parts of cancer. But then I appreciate that they are in a society where aesthetics matter. Illness and physical deformity are not conducive to kdramas, especially romcoms. Whenever they’re ill it’s always just looking weak, it’s never snotty and congested. In Queen of Tears I notice she had brain surgery with a full head of hair!
But yeah, it’s quite unrealistic. How you can hide something like the loss of 70% of your stomach from your family, who you live and eat with, is beyond me.
Couldnt manage more than two episodes, whichdoesnt seem enough for a review, but i do need to vent, so....Problems…
What is the constant complaining about a Mary Sue character? Isn’t ‘strong female lead’ also a boring one dimensional trope? The strong sassy woman who knows everything and doesn’t need any man to help thus relegating a man to a fawning sidekick or pervert/ villain?
Women are allowed to be vulnerable, feminine and need help. Women can also be, god forbid, morons. Or even want to be chased by a man.
I say this, as probably quite an intelligent woman (I do hold a masters in law), I don’t need to see women harp on about being intelligent all the time, and I like seeing men saving beautiful women. If I wanted to see career driven women yelling at men I could see it in a law office every day.
Romance dramas are fantasies, especially Chinese ones. If you want to watch a women reject all men and have a career, maybe, just maybe, don’t watch a romance drama set in ancient China?
I have quite liked JJY, ever since she was excellent in Legend of Yunxi. But her kissing scenes >~< *cries*.
Actually it applies to most c-actresses. I’m not even talking the big kissing scenes, but the ones where they give a peck on the cheek but move forward like a statue and don’t even purse their lips or touch the other person’s face. The scene is always meant to be flirtatious but ends up awkward/looks like FL is reluctant.
I’m only on episode 5, ML is amazing. A very masculine and grown up actor, exudes charisma. JJY is ok, storyline is better than her recent stuff but she does sort of always play the same character, plucky and smart heroine. And body swap dramas are really hard, so even if I’m not convinced her mannerisms are the same as the original Cai Wei, I’m inclined to go easy on her. I think she has gotten better!
Loved the original actress who played Cai Wei though! Pretty and convincingly tough.
Don’t watch it. Infuriating cliffhanger. In fact, maybe hold off until the ending has aired. It’s all downhill from here. They’ve just created a huge unnecessary mess.
- I don’t understand why she can’t forgive ji hyeok for breaking off an engagement? Her own mother left so she doesn’t think one party can end a relationship because it hurts others? Is that what she says?? That’s illogical! Didn’t she break up with min hwan even though he didn’t want to? According to Ji Won can nobody end relationships they are unhappy in unless there is mutual agreement? - - Why can’t Ji Hyuk just explain to Ji Won that Yu Ra is crazy and hurts people? (he finds out in 2017 she gets crazy jealous and arranges for a person to get beaten up). That is a very good reason for breaking up an engagement. Why hide it? - - Why build FL up as a strong woman, but then have her struggle to provide even basic support for Ji Hyuk who is clearly (his sister has said and he’s said it) trapped, lonely and loveless. - - preview for 13. Why have they turned it into ‘all villains return to being basic villains and kill ji won for money’? Su Min was complex and driven by her own motives, not money or being manipulated by ju ra, and Min Hwan isn’t a murderer (it seems inconsistent with his character in this version)! It’s so lame and a massive disappointment.
Ok, I just watched the extended preview and if the narrator is correct, Yu Ra is really just the catalyst for Min Hwan to go after Ji Hyuk. She has a short villain arc - then events will align with the webtoon again. Phew!
That would be fine. I feel Min Hwan’s character is slightly different in the drama, so he needs someone to manipulate him. In the webtoon he is a reckless and selfish character who tries to destroy ji Hyuk and kill Sumin without a second thought. In the drama he seems like a selfish person who makes bad choices and is overwhelmed by the mess he is in. It was probably because to create a drama, all the characters had to change a bit - there is less room for nuance in webtoons - you have limited squares and faces to tell stories. For example, Ji Hyuk was a very 2D character in the webtoon, killing himself for the FL. In real life, committing suicide over a person you barely knew and never had a relationship with is delusional and unhinged.
At the moment, I’m more ok with the changes. (I wwas very unhappy with the cliched fiancé, but maybe it makes her fight for Ji Hyuk (something missing in the webtoon) and I admit a manipulator for min hwan could have been anyone, but two birds with one stone?)
Just watching clips from twitter. You have to love twitter. Someone was screaming at HeeJoo - just switch the SIM cards! When she phoned Sa-eon as 406, haha.
Cannot wait for the next episode so I’m off to read the novel to torture myself further!
But yeah, it’s quite unrealistic. How you can hide something like the loss of 70% of your stomach from your family, who you live and eat with, is beyond me.
I was hoping it was ep 6 for inadvertent kiss… but you’re right. Misery for another week it is.
Women are allowed to be vulnerable, feminine and need help. Women can also be, god forbid, morons. Or even want to be chased by a man.
I say this, as probably quite an intelligent woman (I do hold a masters in law), I don’t need to see women harp on about being intelligent all the time, and I like seeing men saving beautiful women. If I wanted to see career driven women yelling at men I could see it in a law office every day.
Romance dramas are fantasies, especially Chinese ones. If you want to watch a women reject all men and have a career, maybe, just maybe, don’t watch a romance drama set in ancient China?
Actually it applies to most c-actresses. I’m not even talking the big kissing scenes, but the ones where they give a peck on the cheek but move forward like a statue and don’t even purse their lips or touch the other person’s face. The scene is always meant to be flirtatious but ends up awkward/looks like FL is reluctant.
I’m only on episode 5, ML is amazing. A very masculine and grown up actor, exudes charisma. JJY is ok, storyline is better than her recent stuff but she does sort of always play the same character, plucky and smart heroine. And body swap dramas are really hard, so even if I’m not convinced her mannerisms are the same as the original Cai Wei, I’m inclined to go easy on her. I think she has gotten better!
Loved the original actress who played Cai Wei though! Pretty and convincingly tough.
- I don’t understand why she can’t forgive ji hyeok for breaking off an engagement? Her own mother left so she doesn’t think one party can end a relationship because it hurts others? Is that what she says?? That’s illogical! Didn’t she break up with min hwan even though he didn’t want to? According to Ji Won can nobody end relationships they are unhappy in unless there is mutual agreement?
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- Why can’t Ji Hyuk just explain to Ji Won that Yu Ra is crazy and hurts people? (he finds out in 2017 she gets crazy jealous and arranges for a person to get beaten up). That is a very good reason for breaking up an engagement. Why hide it?
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- Why build FL up as a strong woman, but then have her struggle to provide even basic support for Ji Hyuk who is clearly (his sister has said and he’s said it) trapped, lonely and loveless.
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- preview for 13. Why have they turned it into ‘all villains return to being basic villains and kill ji won for money’? Su Min was complex and driven by her own motives, not money or being manipulated by ju ra, and Min Hwan isn’t a murderer (it seems inconsistent with his character in this version)! It’s so lame and a massive disappointment.
That would be fine. I feel Min Hwan’s character is slightly different in the drama, so he needs someone to manipulate him. In the webtoon he is a reckless and selfish character who tries to destroy ji Hyuk and kill Sumin without a second thought. In the drama he seems like a selfish person who makes bad choices and is overwhelmed by the mess he is in. It was probably because to create a drama, all the characters had to change a bit - there is less room for nuance in webtoons - you have limited squares and faces to tell stories. For example, Ji Hyuk was a very 2D character in the webtoon, killing himself for the FL. In real life, committing suicide over a person you barely knew and never had a relationship with is delusional and unhinged.
At the moment, I’m more ok with the changes. (I wwas very unhappy with the cliched fiancé, but maybe it makes her fight for Ji Hyuk (something missing in the webtoon) and I admit a manipulator for min hwan could have been anyone, but two birds with one stone?)