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What makes this drama so easy to like is the 20 minute episodes. I would have liked it even more if it was 10 episodes with each episode being 40 minutes long, just like japanese dramas.
The short episodes make this really easy to binge-watch. It is just perfect, not too short, not too long. It doesn’t drag at all. Cute and sweet with hints of comedy and drama here and there. I will probably re-watch it a few years from now. 8/10

Since I could not find the extended version fully subbed, I was only able to watch the first 12 episodes and then episode 68. I knew the ending for both the extended version and director’s cut, and although the second was fully subbed, I still chose to watch the few subbed episodes of the extended version because it had the ending that I wanted. Maybe it is a good thing that the extended version was not fully subbed as 68 episodes is a lot and I might have dropped it halfway. Anyway, I liked the ending of the extended version. It is the ending that a lot of us have wished to watch in other dramas but that never happened. Can’t say anything else or it will be a huge spoiler.

I know dramas are supposed to have drama, but this one overused it. Everytime you recover from one frustration, another one comes up. Instead of An Ning being the female lead, I felt it was more like everyone else was the main lead of their own story and An Ning was just there to be the punching bag and make things go smoother for them. I cant remember when was the last time I found a drama so painful to watch. I skipped a lot of the supporting characters scenes, it took me only 5 hours to finish the 41 episodes and although I must have missed a lot of drama, the amount I had to put with was still TOO MUCH. There are not enough happy moments in this drama to make you recover from all the frustrating plots.

Drama and melodrama should definitely be added as genres for this drama. After this I feel like I have to watch a drama with comedy to recover from this painful ride.

Hahah thank you for going to all that trouble. I will definitely check those out and give you my feedback later.

I never watched Tempature of Love because of the mixed reviews but maybe I should give it a try at least. I watched In Time With You not that long ago and really liked it. I also like to watch independent female leads, maybe because I am 23 years old. If I think of what I liked to watch when I was 16, if it was now I would not even bother to watch it - too many clichés, weak and crybaby female leads, ... I guess what a person likes to watch also changes as the person gets older. Might be cause we want to be able to relate to the characters.

Like you, I predicted the truth behind his birth just watching the first few episodes. It was quite obvious. But I was not able to predict who the father was until episode 13-14. Although I knew that the way she would get pregnant would be filled with angst since she never wanted to talk about the father. So yeah, it was quite obvious from the first few episodes that she would get pregnant from rape BUT I still kept guessing who the father was, and until episodes 13-14, I was pretty sure who the father would be...except I was wrong and it turned out to be someone else. And even if I had guessed the father right, I would have still kept watching. I liked the scenes between the main couple and the story had some pretty emotional parts. Of course the time traveling thing was not properly explained and didnt have much logic, but again, its time traveling, its hard for something not logic to have logic.

At the end of the day, I dont regret watching it. I sometimes drop dramas because they dont fit my mood that day or because Im in a drama slump. If that was the case, you might give this another chance later. I hope my comment can help you decide if this deserves another chance or not. Although if you read all the recaps and already know everything, including the ending, then you might not be interested in watching it anymore. Been there, done that. ^ ^

Exactly. I ignored this one so many times but was curious as to why everyone else seemed to like it. I gave it a try and dont regret it. The intro ost is amazing. Has to become part of my playlist which is mainly filled with kpop.

Several times I came across this drama and never gave it a chance. Why? Melodrama and plot centered around Revenge - 2 things that put me off. I have watched so many dramas that I got tired of melodrama and plots centered around revenge because of family situations. BUT, like I said, I kept seeing this drama everywhere, the rating is not bad and it has the Hot tag on kissasian. I was in the mood for a taiwanese drama so I thought, meh, why not give it a try? I can watch the first episode and if I can’t get into it, I can just drop it.

Well, I did NOT drop it. Starting with that amazing intro which I am going to be listening for a while and the pace of the first episode - not too slow, not too fast. I watched the second episode, then the third and I kept watching. Later on, ofc, there were episodes I liked less because with a revenge plot, I knew I was setting myself for angst at some point. But the angst wasnt excessive in my opinion and the last episode wrapped up things nicely.

So yeah, I HATE Melodrama and I HATE Revenge, but I CANNOT bring myself to HATE this one.

You’re welcome. There are so many good dramas out there and so little time to watch them all. I wish I was like you and did not keep watching until the end.

I liked the first episode, seeing the kids growing up into adults and their interactions. It looked promising. Then from episode 2 and foward it was painful to watch. And when it finally looked like it was going well, bam the ending left me feeling cheated. I read the comments and still decided to watch, now I regret it. Such a waste of time.

The drama, not the Special. I was not able to find it subbed.

No problem! ^ ^

I know what you mean. I feel the same. Maybe when I was 16 I would think this is cute, but now that I am only 3 months away from being 24 and have watched hundreds of dramas, it just doesn’t seem like something worth my time.

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Yes, I watched it with eng subs. If I remember right, since it has been 5 months, she ends up with the Emperor. Give it a try and you will know for sure.

It’s not that I didn’t know what was going on at all, but in terms of writing it felt very messy, especially the ending. But from what I read no wonder the ending was like that, the writer and director wanted different endings, the writer wanted a sad ending as it was supposed to be but the director wanted a happy ending, so they ended up doing a mix of both which resulted in a sloppy ending. But yeah, every person has different opinions and likes different things. That’s why we have the comment section so we can share our views and help people who didn’t watch it yet to decide if they want to give it a try or not.

Hate to break it to you if you haven’t finished it yet but it will get even messier. So many puzzle pieces thrown at us that at some point we forget what the puzzle was even supposed to look like. Some good ideas but the execution was a disaster.

Completely agree with you. Too many subplots made it very confusing and even boring at times. By the end of the last episode my first thought was: wow, I just spent all these hours so I could find out where the damn missing tape was. All those deaths and all those "tape eodiseo?" made me forget that this story was suposed to be about Black (444). And the ending was...well, I didn’t like it. Definitely does not deserve such a high rating if compared with other dramas.

Ikr. I wish Moo Gang stayed around. The way he died and how everyone thought he was still alive felt very unfair for him. That was one of the things that I was not happy about. I almost dropped it a few times too and the whole missing tape thing was getting tiring for me. With such a high rating I expected something better. But experience has showed me not to trust ratings. I have hated high rated dramas before and was pleasantly surprised by some low rated ones.

I also get what you mean and as I said in the other comment I understand it being fantasy not everything is logical, but I did expect logic in scenes where it was required like when Ha Ram and Man Soo were stabbed and were bleeding for such a long time. If it was Black I could let it pass since technically he was not human and ok, Ha Ram was half and half, but Man Soo was human and he was stabbed 3-4 times with a large knife.

The writer could have made it more believable either by killing him (although that was the least wanted option) or by making him only get stabbed 1 or 2 times like Ha Ram and maybe use a smaller knife too. The way he got stabbed, not only was I expecting him to die, but for it to take less than 30 minutes.