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Yup Qmin was my guy in this too .. and people were baying for blood when I expressed this same opinion
ROFL

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ROFL : Search me .. I was in coma I think for sure the last 6-7 eps

LOL
You'll be killed for saying that .. I had raised a topic around Qmin

ROFL

I almost expected it to turn into a zombie drama when 'dead' people kept returning to life LOL

At the risk of being gutted and hung in the street square lemme share my “ride” with this drama.
I am sure there will be plenty of viewers who agree - and thus the current drop (?) in rating after it was completed.


It’s not a “slice of life” Period / historical Drama. Those who came to the drama with that expectation would not be able to suspend 'critical' analysis and end up being annoyed by the 'plot holes, character discrepancies' etc.

This Drama smoothly glides between dramatic treatment - you are gripped by the story - to rom com comedic treatment - to serious and tragic sequences which catch you by surprise and gasp with its intensity of emotions.

So it’s a highly stylized format, that has been beautifully shot, the camerawork and production is very high quality, and only if you go with those lenses on will you have fun.

At least for the first 25 eps or so … and then be prepared to switch off your brain completely for several eps since frustration will have taken root, and after that fight off the urge to cuss and drop it because drama will begin to strangle you and attempt to put you into coma.
Zzzz kind of coma.

I started with a 10/10 rating .. fell to a 9 then to a 8 and last half a dozen eps it was rolling on the floor with a 2/10.
Just for the memory of the delight Drama Team gave me in Ep 1-22 I averaged it to 6.5 / 10

When the eps were dropping slowly I had started rewatching with a friend to laugh together and be curious together - felt like a page turner in the beginning - but since I was much ahead .. and friend was behind .. there was total surprise that I withdrew from the rewatch.
Friend will find out soon - I didn’t want the current delight to be bombed.

Of course I'LL be killed and DROPPED by friend - LOL - for the time investment I have pulled my friend into

🤣🤣

At the risk of being gutted and hung in the street square lemme share my “ride” with this drama. (I am sure there will be plenty who agree - and thus the drop in rating after it was completed).


It’s not a “slice of life” Period Drama. 🤭

It smoothly glides between dramatic treatment - you are gripped by the story - to rom com comedic treatment - to serious and tragic sequences which catch you by surprise with its intensity.

So it’s a highly stylized format beautifully shot camerawork and only if you go with those lenses on you will have fun (at least for the first 25 eps or so … and then switch off your brain completely for several eps and after that fight off the urge to cuss and drop it. )

I started with a 10/10 rating .. fell to a 9 then 8 and last half a dozen eps it was rolling on he floor with a 2/10.
Just for the memory of the delight I got in the Ep 1-22 I averaged it to 6.5 / 10

When the eps were dropping slowly I had started rewatching with a friend to laugh together and be curious together - felt like a page turner in the beginning - but I was much ahead .. and friend was behind .. after a while she was surprised that I withdrew from the rewatch. Friend will find out soon - I didn’t want the current delight to be bombed.
😑🙈

Of course I’ll be killed for the time investment I have pulled my friend into 😝😝

Wow!!
So terrible for us non-speakers .. it’s unbelievable what we miss with poor translation!!!

After so many CDramas I too catch poor translation of some more common expressions which could otherwise convey a better nuance 😖

I love SCI-FI too

In fact one of the best ever just released :

Project Hail Mary

And later in the year it will be DUNE 3

Have you watched the Chinese make of the Three Body Problem.
So deep and riveting!!!
I couldn’t believe what C Drama production house pulled off - it’s on Viki

Oh so sorry to hear that.
My condolences to you and your family.
And thank you for sharing.

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Original?
Are there two versions?

It started with an interesting premise, and one was waiting for some kind of off the beaten track development of the story and the characters, but it just went into some sappy love story that in the end made absolutely no sense, nor stirred any emotion, the audience was left maddeningly on the lurch.

Recently had watched August Never Ends!
Now that is ONE INTENSE DEEP experience- watched twice.
Can go 3rd time.

Search me!!

Totally lost on me!!!

Goodness I want to watch this on a normal popular channel 😞
Viki be good

He ends up with Ming Ming. They get married

❤️

Curious to know what you think

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WOW lucky you .. I watched on YouKu and the translation is almost as bad as Machine Translation :-(

I was dying to know the subtext and all the nuances especially the poetry

Absolutely watch it and see how it goes for you

I double up on your recco for this