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it’s a beautiful adaptation of the novel, an historical point of view and current perspective of Koreans in Japan. like oil and water. looking forward to the rest of the seasons.

I can tolerate 2-hours of sad story but 10 episodes, I am weighed down, my heart can’t take it anymore. Can’t even see the rainbow where I’m standing. I feel our actors are stereotyped into acting only the same role throughout the series, holding hands, hugging, hurting, crying and more crying. Where’s the love?

You should have written this sob story and given it a happy ending it deserves.

This is actually a photography technique to create depth, a 90 degree angle from the camera whether facing face front or sideways creates a flat 2-dimensional effect whereas an angle creates a third dimension. This is also why professional photographers instructs their subject to eight turn their body at an angle or their face at an angle. The art of cinematography

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Now this sounds cheesy but damn what a great pick up line “the work spins at 1,675 kilometers, and if it stops for a second I would die” like words coming from the movie “Revenge of the Nerds”. Let’s go Cheewa!!!!

This truly helps. Maybe we’ll get a Director’s cut someday. Thank you.

I remember this scene and so many other scenes clearly. And maybe the writers just wanted to get the audience to feel squeamish. And for that it worked beautifully. Growing up in Asia where dominance over another is so rampant, it’s one of the ways we show our strength and that’s how I related to this series. And yes this was the 90’s and reflective of the times. Now living in the US, I see so much less of this behavior. It less accepted. And maybe why I decided to watch it further. I just don’t like how it ended, our hero did not truly redeemed himself. Like Deep In, I’m not a big fan of these type of scriptwriting.

I admire your observation skills, and I watch these shows and look at them from my Psychology education background. Himan Nature is truly fascinating and our cultural differences even make life more interesting.

Gemini and Fourth and their first series will forever be my favorite of all they’ve done because the showed their youthful dreams
and aspirations, shown in forms of the beautiful OST that I listen even after all these years.

I’m a sucker for HKBL, there is this characteristic style that suits my taste…maybe it’s the purity of intention by the writers and a production typical of HK movies…a little more grit and then sanding to smooth it out.

So true. This is classic K-drama lazy writing.

I thought after the awful previous two episodes, episode 11 would redeem them. But lazy writing hits K-drama again. It’s obvious how this ends but the absence of ghosts, the writers were trying to close all the loops in one episode. And it’s obvious how this series ends, nothing left for imagination. Not even a BOO! 👻

oh those old vibes are absolutely cool. I miss my morning coffee walk in HK, and dinner with the street vendors. I’m actually planning a return visit soon.

If I was 15 again with my boyfriend watching PitBabe I don’t think I would be able to control myself. This was just the cutest scene while controlling their hormones from going haywire.

So I struggled with Double Helix but in that story it is a deeper psychological problem that was properly recognized and rightfully treated in the end. Whereas Bittersweet Love is pure dominance human nature, the rich over the poor, the haves vs have nots. And it wasn’t even addressed in the show n properly. Yes they lost money in investment but they were so wealthy in the end LQ still dominated poor Fan Fan who was independently working and hiding in Lisbon. I truly felt for Fan Fan and rooted for him to find the courage and strength to leave LQ and their toxic relationship. But in the end he still succumbed. Telling us money wins in the end. Maybe true but I wanted something different. As you said we are different in how we look at things and I absolutely respect that.

Cantonese is Chinese dialect of Hong Kong. Mandarin is the national language of all of China and also of the country of Taiwan.

Actually one of the readers commented and suggested I continue and I did. TBH fan fan only redeemed himself on episode 11. and that was it. he went back to LQ in the end. I was hoping he learned to stand on his own. But thank you for your kind words. Fan Fan is an example of so many men in relationships shops where they are dominated and difficult to fight back. In his case he was trying to fight behind but he shouldn’t have to. Maybe that’s why it’s called Bitter Love, but should have been dominant love.

yes. Mandarin is the national language whilst Cantonese is regional dialect . Typical of Asians we speak a national language and a regional or provincial dialect.

it is dark and full of deception. beautifully written

I’m watching closely and they don’t look dubbed. Besides if they’re all from HK they would be speaking Cantonese No regional accent.