eldiomedes

The show is pretty good. The ratings tanked mostly because of the nonsensical reality warping, and the rushed head scratching ending.

acting skills

Well yea it is perspective, I don't disagree. It's moreso that your standards are different for it compared to the mainstream audience.

This is not esport drama bro. It's a romance with massive Honor of Kings advert and Chinese space program propaganda. I don't have any issues with the latter. The esport phase goes away after like 10 episodes. The VFX is regarding the space exploration.

It's sad when people think of chemistry as 'sexual tension'. Chemistry is how two people get along with each other, matching real life emotions as close as possible. It can be love, hate, admiration, friendship, brotherhood, sisterhood, respect and many other things. The relationship between the leads evolves (the drama is the female lead POV) from hatred/fear to extreme caution to curiosity to admiration to confusion to attraction and when they enter the romance phase, it's burning hot. Each step of the way, they matched each other toe to toe conveying all those states of mind.

Whether China needs it or not, my eyes need it. Also, other modern cdramas have great visual effects. This one sucked donkey balls.

Nothing wrong with propaganda but it has to be done in style, like Top Gun Maverick. The special effects in this drama is just..yikes. And cdramas have the best special effects in Asia.

fair enough. Well, they did have chemistry in wwwsk, but I didn't feel like it was love, more like, a positive partnership.

That's the thing. In Secretary Kim, Park Min Young had great chemistry with Seo Joon aUrA dude but, she had that from the start. So when her relationship evolved , I still felt like it was the secretary/confidante-boss relationship. Didn't feel the passion. At least not like the one she had in Healer. Also I did not feel the passion in Marry My Husband.

What a show. Everyone fucking died lol. It is a decent show but at some point you don't feel sad anymore as you know the person you just got to know will die at any moment. The epilogue made it a bit better.
As good looking as the ML is, I personally feel like the dude is a log when it comes to acting. The whole drama is more or less Bai Lu.

I agree. The Romance progressed normally. The healing that one of the protagonists needed, that was slow burn.

She becomes immortal as a reward for her love which span for a millennia. I guess she was given the power of granting wishes to fill the void of the main genie. That is what I think anyway.

FL beats the people knowing that they can take it. The FL is literally a person with anti social social disorder and sociopathic tendencies. What do you expect her to do, throw flower petals at people ?

It is basically a visit Dubai drama with a crazy plot but the performance from the actors elevated that ten folds. The idea was pretty cool but the execution was meh at best. But then again, deep diving into the genie/iblis lore would draw further backlash.

None whatsoever. There is a dude who finds the FL fascinating but that's very brief. It is about the ML, FL and FL's grandma throughout.

Very good show despite its age, and the only drama, I saw at least, where Park Min Young has a good chemistry with her male counterpart. She's a good actress, just not ideal for romance plots lol. But the ending kinda fell flat..super rushed.

It is weird, but also crucial to move the plot forward I guess.

Well, makes the premise more believable. In the original movie, Zac Efron and Leslie Mann had a 15 years gap. I haven't watched the drama yet, but in the original movie, the daughter had a momentary crush on the dad as well. It was weird af but, well, again, understandable. And the scene is hilarious (no kiss, just romantic aggression). A good looking mature smart super nice young dude being ultra caring to a vulnerable young girl, what would she think anyway, not knowing who he actually was. She was also annoyed that the guy having a thing for her mum instead of her which she found gross lol. I suppose that part was not adopted in the drama.

RIP Matthew Perry. He was the adult dad in the movie.

Let me ask you this. If you did watch it, how would it affect your beliefs ? After all, it does not deal with the lore of good and evil deities nor any faith for that matter. You certainly don't take religious lessons from dramas. Just the name bothering you ? Iblis ?

I am also not saying that you should not be offended. You can. When Lucifer came out, it made a lot of Christians mad.