Reasonably boring show with an underwhelming story for maybe 6-8 hours that moves at an often-glacial pace. This whole thing could have easily been cut by 10 hours. The backstory that keeps getting onion-peeled and flashback-dissected over and over again is simply boring and uneventful, and the way the flashbacks always add a few more seconds onto a scene the viewer is not even invested in gets really annoying really fast.
Every actor plays their role in the same way they always do. The romantic chemistry between the leads is about as sizzling as a glacier as well.
Lee Ha Nee is vaguely entertaining I guess. If you can't derive some joy from watching her face muscles, just stay far away from this show. Lee Sang Yoon just doesn't have a lot of relevance for much of the plot (while being on screen a lot). His performance feels a bit phoned in too, like he is on the verge of being too old to stand in front of a camera. Kim Chang Wan isn't in danger of doing anything original, but at least he's always pleasant to watch.
Jeon Gook Hwan must have played that role a dozen times. Na Young Hee isn't as annoying as in other shows where she's the evil chaebol mother/step-mother, but that's really the only good thing to say. The entire chaebol family bully Mi-na in a way that's merely tiring and repetitive for the viewer.
Bonus mention to the music that's either out of place (what's with the cyber-gaming theme of the intro and some OSTs?) or really boring.
For once, jumpy scenes are justified by the comic book world setting. The weird comic look they went for predominantly looks like uncomfortably AI upscaled video, unfortunately. I like the opening song sung by the ML.
While at it, the OSTs are better than in most 15-30h dramas.
sigh, My happy ending would had the female lead's family rotting in jail. They have always been problematic in…
Can't agree at all. In TW, the ML essentially has to Rambo into the island warehouse to liberate the blackmail recording. In KR, to fill some screentime the FL's mother does a whole "I won't let them marry again because he might die" party and needs to be buttered up for half an eternity. The TH FL family members are harmless and almost nonexistent in my book.
The first half is essentially copy & paste of the Taiwan version, with some scenes of the Korean version sprinkled in that make no sense (the ML even copies the laugh of the Korean role, but only in those scenes). The second half is mostly copy & paste of the Korean version, with some fat trimmed away, but also some plot getting lost.
Thailand removes the dumbest parts of TW and KR, but the only really good addition of its own is close to the end.
Unfortunately this adaptation has virtually no humour in it. The OST can get really repetitive and overuses free Youtube songs like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YbGZMVStY ...
I found it on telegram app (is a messaging app, but some people created channels with the translation) on the…
The one you named has better video but far! worse audio than https://www.dailymotion.com/playlist/x6p1ns (which is missing one episode and has audio issues in the second half of ep15).
Dramacool has some songs translated but the overall translation quality can border on horrible, and it's really low quality video. With the "Vu Lan" upload on Dailymotion I've had endless buffering issues.
on epi 10 and after watching the Japanese version, I just have to know 1 thing - is the baby born. Now on to this…
This is a bit of an older comment, but I see nobody replied yet and you didn't watch it in the meantime.
The baby is lost in a similar way as in the TW original, but it's a bit forced in. The step mother and her son are not as evil as in TW, and she gets a sort of redemption arc and forgiveness/acceptance.
The 'separation period' happens more offscreen here than in TW, and is more bothersome in TW. However, how the leads get back together is a bit implausible in KR.
The first six episodes are pretty much great, and the other nine feel like they were crafted by a different writer and director. In the second half of the show, you can make a drinking game out of every time a character turns away in slow motion and a "woosh" sound plays.
The leads' chemistry is at least as good as in Office Girls, and there's a few quite funny scenes much like in that show, but they're virtually all in the first episodes.
(I imagine it's quite possible for viewers to get frustrated by the FL to the point of ragequitting.)
Whoever wrote and directed the comedy scenes deserves a gold medal. They're definitely in the top 5% of dramaland. The way Korean and Japanese were regularly incorporated was great. The leads chemistry is very good as well.
However, the overall story is full of poopy clichés and needless over-the-top drama. Besides sudden amnesia and a birth secret plot there's just about everything you already got tired of from other shows. The very last episodes in particular are some of the trashiest full-on garbage I had the displeasure of watching. The screenplay for them appears to have been written on a napkin in roundabout five minutes.
Netflix cut it into more and shorter episodes. You can see where half of the eps begin with no recap of the last…
This is much better than usual Netflix dramas. All the music seems intact, and besides that English lines are as usual not subtitled, and characters singing (or songs in general) are not subtitled, and that subtitles don't clarify which language is being spoken when they really should (which is also Netflix policy), everything else seems to be there as good as it could be (comparing with one of the popular piracy streaming pages).
The translation is among the better ones on NF. The fan translation on streaming pages is only 'good', not great.
Is stuff like https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-legends/41039-ending-re-edited-to-make-sense-ep-50-55 an attempt to fix the TV or an attempt to fix the DVD cut?
Every actor plays their role in the same way they always do. The romantic chemistry between the leads is about as sizzling as a glacier as well.
Lee Ha Nee is vaguely entertaining I guess. If you can't derive some joy from watching her face muscles, just stay far away from this show.
Lee Sang Yoon just doesn't have a lot of relevance for much of the plot (while being on screen a lot). His performance feels a bit phoned in too, like he is on the verge of being too old to stand in front of a camera.
Kim Chang Wan isn't in danger of doing anything original, but at least he's always pleasant to watch.
Jeon Gook Hwan must have played that role a dozen times.
Na Young Hee isn't as annoying as in other shows where she's the evil chaebol mother/step-mother, but that's really the only good thing to say.
The entire chaebol family bully Mi-na in a way that's merely tiring and repetitive for the viewer.
Bonus mention to the music that's either out of place (what's with the cyber-gaming theme of the intro and some OSTs?) or really boring.
The weird comic look they went for predominantly looks like uncomfortably AI upscaled video, unfortunately.
I like the opening song sung by the ML.
While at it, the OSTs are better than in most 15-30h dramas.
In TW, the ML essentially has to Rambo into the island warehouse to liberate the blackmail recording.
In KR, to fill some screentime the FL's mother does a whole "I won't let them marry again because he might die" party and needs to be buttered up for half an eternity.
The TH FL family members are harmless and almost nonexistent in my book.
TW and KR try to throw jokes around with varying success.
The second half is mostly copy & paste of the Korean version, with some fat trimmed away, but also some plot getting lost.
Thailand removes the dumbest parts of TW and KR, but the only really good addition of its own is close to the end.
Unfortunately this adaptation has virtually no humour in it. The OST can get really repetitive and overuses free Youtube songs like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4YbGZMVStY ...
Dramacool has some songs translated but the overall translation quality can border on horrible, and it's really low quality video.
With the "Vu Lan" upload on Dailymotion I've had endless buffering issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z08r69tPb4o&list=PLXopbKxiivxrNzfDWqPM82NABvlIjaOzR&index=1 has very good video quality (perhaps AI upscaled though), however no subtitles at all, and the episodes are cut differently and thus third party subtitles won't really fit.
I suppose the TW original gives more exposition to their motives.
The baby is lost in a similar way as in the TW original, but it's a bit forced in.
The step mother and her son are not as evil as in TW, and she gets a sort of redemption arc and forgiveness/acceptance.
The 'separation period' happens more offscreen here than in TW, and is more bothersome in TW. However, how the leads get back together is a bit implausible in KR.
- I didn't watch TH & JP yet (and won't watch CN). -
The leads' chemistry is at least as good as in Office Girls, and there's a few quite funny scenes much like in that show, but they're virtually all in the first episodes.
(I imagine it's quite possible for viewers to get frustrated by the FL to the point of ragequitting.)
The way Korean and Japanese were regularly incorporated was great.
The leads chemistry is very good as well.
However, the overall story is full of poopy clichés and needless over-the-top drama. Besides sudden amnesia and a birth secret plot there's just about everything you already got tired of from other shows.
The very last episodes in particular are some of the trashiest full-on garbage I had the displeasure of watching. The screenplay for them appears to have been written on a napkin in roundabout five minutes.
All the music seems intact, and besides that English lines are as usual not subtitled, and characters singing (or songs in general) are not subtitled, and that subtitles don't clarify which language is being spoken when they really should (which is also Netflix policy), everything else seems to be there as good as it could be (comparing with one of the popular piracy streaming pages).
The translation is among the better ones on NF. The fan translation on streaming pages is only 'good', not great.
The show is being removed from NF in about a day.