Emily

I am SHOOK by the sheer amount of badassery shown off by the female characters in this! They're all so awesome!

That's... definitely a concept.

This seems intriguing, but I don't know how I feel about the casting :( I'm not a huge fan of Lee Byung Hun anymore, and with the age gap? Egh.

I hate how the episode endings are just so RANDOM. Someone is barely finished their sentence and bam, episode end!? THE DISRESPECT IS REAL.

Maybe I'm just salty because (who I assume is) the 2nd lead was introduced and I already ship it so bad it hurts

I haven't yet! It's been on the back-burner as something to watch if/when I get a little desperate, but that hasn't happened yet, so I haven't started it.

Nah, it's like, not objectively good at all. Plot-wise it's a mess. The writing was non-existent. But damn, I love it anyway.
(For context, the only reason I'm replying to this comment 5 months late is because I was thinking about how random and chaotic the plot of this drama was, and how much I wanted to rewatch it anyway. It's a bit of an odd takeaway for a drama that I first watched over 7 years ago, so I was going to write a comment about it's uniqueness... but then saw that I already had!)

I gotta say, I'm getting a little tired of these "Surprise, he saw through the whole thing and had a scheme ready to go!" bait and switches.

My number-one city I'd like to visit is... well... an entire island. Okinawa. I would *love love love* to go to Okinawa. The scenery is *gorgeous*, it has a lush history behind it, and the culture and population there seem so serene and and elegant. It was the final vacation spot for the female lead in one of my favourite dramas, Scent of A Woman, and I've been obsessed with it ever since. In a similar vein, Jeju! Unfortunately I just don't know the cities on these islands well enough, but really I'd just like to visit ~the entire island!~

Time travel? Vampires? Romance?

*sigh*

... *adds to To-Watch list*

It's a sad ending. It's heavily implied the male lead dies.

Can you tag this as a spoiler? That option is there for a reason.

You know when you read a plot summary and you just *know* it's been directly translated?
Yeah. This is that.
Anywho, is Im Joo Eun a villain in this and/or does she get the guy? I love her as an actress, but she never gets a happy ending :(

I'm trying *so hard* to watch this, but even the cinematography is just... bleh. Everything is grey! I think I need a summary up until when it starts to get interesting, just so I can jump in at that point.

Replying to my own comment so I don't flood this thing, but hot damn is it messed up that I want them to have a kid before he kicks the bucket? Don't answer that. I know it is. And yet, here we are.

I really like Suzy's character.
"What's that? You wanna give me a million dollars to break up with this dude I don't even like? Hell yeah!"

Also, there are so many dream sequences that I 100% buy before they're revealed to be fake. It's getting depressing.

For real though! She's supposed to be an intelligent, or at least well-learned person, but she's useless and idiotic throughout this entire drama. Add in the screaming, crying, and extremely questionable choices, and she single-handedly turned this drama from "yikes, that's a questionable portrayal of mental illness" to "golly that's a sh*tshow".

As much as I love Joo Sang Wook, I really really really hope Yoon Shi Yoon wins the love triangle x_x
But anywho, based on the rather unoriginal plot description there's gonna need to be some magic in the writing, cast and direction for this drama to be anything special.

I did NOT properly calibrate the rate at which I watched this drama with the amount of episodes it has. By episode 20 I still thought it had 48 episodes. I was confusing it with another drama. So I just rushed through them all, and then before I knew it I had nothing left;;;

Anyway, this drama isn't good. Like, I'mma be real- it isn't. BUT I ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY. And maybe that's what's truly important. The ending made me want to throw something at somebody. BUT I ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY. The genre of this drama goes from 'supernatural' to 'historical palace drama' to 'wuxia' to '???' so fast I got whiplash. BUT I ENJOYED IT IMMENSELY.
I don't know. Turn off your brain when you watch this drama and you'll enjoy it. Think about it too much and you run the risk of talking yourself out of it completely.

Does this have any romance? I'm kind of interested in the concept, but something about the atmosphere and setting of the drama is kind of putting me off- it definitely isn't what I'm used to. I need the romance crutch! (Maybe answer in a spoiler, just in case!)

Ahh, I remember this feel. Alas, I think I've conquered it.
I've made peace with my rating method. I figure, my gut instinct is correct- my general impression of a drama, even months and months after watching it, is generally reliable. The ONLY time I ever change a score is if I'm looking through my list and I see a drama that I have ZERO recollection of ever watching, and yet I gave it a high score. If I don't remember a drama, if it's THAT unmemorable, then it doesn't deserve the score I gave it.
Those relative 'low standards' soooort of make me lenient with my ratings- I'm kind of easy to please, so if I give a drama a low rating... you can rest pretty assured it's bad.