Update my fellow watchers: i finally finished with a lot of skipping :"") i went from ep 19 to 25 to 35 to end…
sorry to digress a bit, im not a romance watcher, and ive always been curious about why people watch romances, particularly happy romances
So it's to escape stressful reality? but if your life is stressful, why would it make you happy watching some fictional people being happy? isn't it like rubbing salt in the wound?
meh, couldn't get into it. 2 episodes in, too many slice of life scenes, and the fl who I was told is great is a damsel in distress in ep 1 already.
The fight scenes aren't really impressive either, especially when they are flying, I can see these are just people on a rope or whatever it's used to make them hang down like that, the fact that the camera view ends at their head makes it super obvious and immersion breaking. But then, not the first time I've seen that in c drama, so it's more of an issue with the industry in general.
Just finished it, it was nice and had a cast of likable characters and I learned a bit about Korean legal system, but.... The murder mystery at the core of it was disappointing.
Im 28, I always knew I was a child deep in my heart because I'm really enjoying this one >.
Same happened to me with all of fiction. when I was a teen/early 20's I could get really hyped with fiction, and get really invested into it. In fact, the works I saw, read and played then still remain the most important and defining fictions of my life. But as I got older, I stopped experiencing the elusive "hype" and I just meh into most things.
A couple of years ago, I reconnected with my old friends who are still into anime and manga franchises we were into back then, and they fangasm over events and characters like we used to. But all I could thing about was "damn, you guys still into that?"
Tried even rewatching these titles, only to find out many of them are rather lackluster to me now.
This is all rather sad, and I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock to late 2000's or whenever and enjoy these games, anime, tv shows, books, visual novels and manga again. To freeze time and stay there forever. But then, even if I turn back the clock, it won't change anything. Because the issue is with my brain, this is what changed, not the times.
kdrama fans is such a broad variety of people those who ridiculed the type of drama may not even like alchemy…
of course, it also has a lot of faceslapping, junior you dareee, legacies of grandmaster, secret power pills, hitting pressure points to magically heal oneself and "dual cultivation" if you know what I mean, wink wink
as for accusations throw at this drama, they are right as this is obviously mimicking chinese fantasy fiction, but no show should be disliked or canceled because of that. I find it bizzare, because I come from noveling background, and most chinese authors are very happy to hear that westerners like their xianxia novels or even try to write their own. It's flattering that someone liked chinese culture so much to imitate it.
So it's to escape stressful reality? but if your life is stressful, why would it make you happy watching some fictional people being happy? isn't it like rubbing salt in the wound?
The fight scenes aren't really impressive either, especially when they are flying, I can see these are just people on a rope or whatever it's used to make them hang down like that, the fact that the camera view ends at their head makes it super obvious and immersion breaking. But then, not the first time I've seen that in c drama, so it's more of an issue with the industry in general.
cons: the actors will never play in any other drama since then tho
The murder mystery at the core of it was disappointing.
A couple of years ago, I reconnected with my old friends who are still into anime and manga franchises we were into back then, and they fangasm over events and characters like we used to. But all I could thing about was "damn, you guys still into that?"
Tried even rewatching these titles, only to find out many of them are rather lackluster to me now.
This is all rather sad, and I sometimes wish I could turn back the clock to late 2000's or whenever and enjoy these games, anime, tv shows, books, visual novels and manga again. To freeze time and stay there forever.
But then, even if I turn back the clock, it won't change anything. Because the issue is with my brain, this is what changed, not the times.
as for accusations throw at this drama, they are right as this is obviously mimicking chinese fantasy fiction, but no show should be disliked or canceled because of that.
I find it bizzare, because I come from noveling background, and most chinese authors are very happy to hear that westerners like their xianxia novels or even try to write their own. It's flattering that someone liked chinese culture so much to imitate it.