I began to watch this without watching Treasure Box first so I was so confused with their names. Now, I can recognize them and I am a fan. My favorites members are Mashiho and JunKyu. I am vey happy with their debut news after all this time... their fans from Treasure Box must be very happy after all the waiting.
Episode 2 was a little bit boring for me, I know they want to make this the most relatable possible but sometimes…
What 20 patients? The "focus" was only in 4 patients: Songhwa's friend, the kid hit by a car, chief min's patient that saved a pregnant woman from the train and the beggar with maggots. Between the four we passed more of the time with Songhwa's friend, in a personal level, we watched her diagnosis until the end when she burst in tears.
There were other patients in the background like the grannies in Songhwa's friend hospital room and the patient in cardio when Jungwan scolded his resident (Do Je Hak) but we never knew why there were at the hospital.
Being a huge hospital and considering that our main characters are in different specialties. I think is normal and realistic that this episode introduce us to some residents that will work along our leads, specially NS because the focus of this episode was Songhwa and ER.
Go ara will make a cameo. Is she going to play Na Jung (Reply 1994)? I hope to see her in a scene with Yoo Yeon Seok (Chilbong). I was #TeamTrash(I miss oppa-ya), but I want to see a Reply 1994 reference.
12 eps and 60 min for each eps? really? shorter than I thought but i am still excited.
I hope the episodes have the same length as Reply 1994, Reply 1988 and Prision Playbook. I hope TVN gives the writer the same episodes lengths as in previous dramas. I loved long episodes although not many people share the same opinion.
Where did you take the characters descriptions? Did you combine of others versions besides the original?
In the argentian version (a.ka. the original) Gastón was not Lalo's family, he was his best friend sorta, Lalo's right hand in the editorial (and later the villian when Lalo is Lalola) and Aguirre was not the grandfather of anyone of them. He was their boss, the owner of the magazine DON (a magazine for mens) and father of Natalia who arrives in the first episodes and falls in love with Facundo. So Natalia is Lalo's main love rival.
Grace is a radio announcer. So every episode begins and end with a narration from her. She lives in the same house with Lalo, her best friend and is in love with him. In the chilean version they end up together ( instead of Lalola and Facundo) so Lalo returned to his original body.
And Romina was not Lalo ex girlfriend, Lalo was a womanizer, he could not have any type of romantic relantionship, any less a 5 years relantionship with anyone. If I remberber correctly she was in love with him but she was only a one night stand. She left his boyfriend for Lalo because he said that she was the love of his life and that he saw his future in her eyes.
I think that the drama more similar to Lalola that I have seen is "Go Princess go". At least the protagonist, because she is also a man (womanizer) turned woman because of a revenge plot. But he not only became a woman, he also traveled in time to the body of the crown princess.
I think the best option to interprete Lalola is someone like Oh yeon seo. She had a similar role in Come Back Mister even Jun Ji Hyun if she was in her late twenties
is he the same general Hu Ge's character in the Myth?
It is the same general that appears in the drama Sound of the desert (2014), played by Eddie Peng, where Hu Ge's is the 9th Lord along with Ceciclia Liu as the female lead.
92 episodes? Bring it on XDDDI hope it will be happy ending..omg! I am tired with sad, cliffhanger or guessyourselftheending...
Huo Qu Bing died when he was just 23 years old. I remember this because of the drama Ballad of the Desert based in Tong Hua's novel where he is the male lead.
I have spotted a reference from this movie in the 2009's K-drama "You are beautiful" with the light sticks that Wing puts inside her pants and Go mi nam (Park Shin Hye) glow in the dark balls. And both of them are crossdressing like pop idols.
And the last line also with Coffe Prince's Han-Kyu (Gong Yoo) famous line: "I like you whether you’re a man or an alien. I don’t care anymore" and Sam (Leslie Cheung) "I don't care if you're are man or a woman, I just know that I love you"
After today's episode I don't think he deserves a happy ending he is evil now we can blame it on his upbringing…
He strangled a woman twice, punched her once (with his own hands), strangled his grandfather with kill intentions, and is using the woman who loves him unconditionally (Ye Na) . He is not a good person, even I like his granpa better (I can empathise with his ideas and greed). I am not a moral cop or want to correct people. After all, We don't live in a black and White world.
I just don't pity nor sympatize "human" Nam Shin anymore. Sure, Nam Shin has is "reasons" for abusing those around him - but murders and rapists also have their "reasons".
Why to fight for a company he not even wanted in the first place? Why feeling hurt/angry that his granpa prefers NS III if he does not want his granpa and does not want that family or live in the same house? Why stay there? He should just runaway when he realized they remplazed him with a robot, he should take the liberty he always wanted and exit of that toxic environmet
You don't liked this version because you need to read the book first. All the things that you disliked are present in the source material.
In my opinion, this version is very loyal to the book (I currently watching it). I haven't see other versions yet, only the beginning of 2003's version, that I dropped because they skip Li Mochou introduction, Yang Guo meeting with Ouyang Feng and Yang Guo time in Peach Blossom Island. Events that are important to understand a few characters later. Personally I liked that the 2014's version began with Li Mochou backstory.
Concerning your dislikes: 1. In the book there many characters, so if they are introduced is because they are in the book. 2. Zhao Zhi Jing and Fu'er characters are the same in the book. When I read the book my final thought of Fu'er is the she is the main villain even if she doesn't pretend to be one for all the misfortune that causes to Yang Guo and Long'er. 3. The same goes with the characters of Gong Sun Zhi and his wife. They are the same in the book. They are not characters that you are supposed to love o like. 4. If the characters never age is because they have a good fundation of internal energy/because they are good in martial arts. This is something that the book said.
PDTA: Sorry if you don't understand something I wrote. English is not my first language, I speak Spanish and I am not used to write in English although I know how to read it.
The plot kinda sounds like while you were sleeping I understand now why Suzy delcined to take the part now why…
How do they sound similar? When the sipnosis is:
"A man and a woman suffers from wounded hearts due to a murder case that took place in their past. The man is a detective and the woman is a popular actress.
When Do-Jin (Chang Ki-Yong) and Jae-Yi (Jin Ki-Joo) were high school students, they were each other's first love. Do-Jin's father Hee-Jae (Heo Jun-Ho) was a psychopath and killed Jae-Yi's parents. Do-Jin and Jae-Yi were separated afterwards.
Now, Do-Jin works as a detective. He treats the victim's family with care. This is his way of atoning for his father's horrific act. Meanwhile, Jae-Yi works as an actress. She followed in the footsteps of her late mother who was a famous actress. Since her parents' deaths, Jae-Yi has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
There were other patients in the background like the grannies in Songhwa's friend hospital room and the patient in cardio when Jungwan scolded his resident (Do Je Hak) but we never knew why there were at the hospital.
Being a huge hospital and considering that our main characters are in different specialties. I think is normal and realistic that this episode introduce us to some residents that will work along our leads, specially NS because the focus of this episode was Songhwa and ER.
In the argentian version (a.ka. the original) Gastón was not Lalo's family, he was his best friend sorta, Lalo's right hand in the editorial (and later the villian when Lalo is Lalola) and Aguirre was not the grandfather of anyone of them. He was their boss, the owner of the magazine DON (a magazine for mens) and father of Natalia who arrives in the first episodes and falls in love with Facundo. So Natalia is Lalo's main love rival.
Grace is a radio announcer. So every episode begins and end with a narration from her. She lives in the same house with Lalo, her best friend and is in love with him. In the chilean version they end up together ( instead of Lalola and Facundo) so Lalo returned to his original body.
And Romina was not Lalo ex girlfriend, Lalo was a womanizer, he could not have any type of romantic relantionship, any less a 5 years relantionship with anyone. If I remberber correctly she was in love with him but she was only a one night stand. She left his boyfriend for Lalo because he said that she was the love of his life and that he saw his future in her eyes.
I think that the drama more similar to Lalola that I have seen is "Go Princess go". At least the protagonist, because she is also a man (womanizer) turned woman because of a revenge plot. But he not only became a woman, he also traveled in time to the body of the crown princess.
I think the best option to interprete Lalola is someone like Oh yeon seo. She had a similar role in Come Back Mister even Jun Ji Hyun if she was in her late twenties
And the last line also with Coffe Prince's Han-Kyu (Gong Yoo) famous line: "I like you whether you’re a man or an alien. I don’t care anymore" and Sam (Leslie Cheung) "I don't care if you're are man or a woman, I just know that I love you"
I just don't pity nor sympatize "human" Nam Shin anymore. Sure, Nam Shin has is "reasons" for abusing those around him - but murders and rapists also have their "reasons".
Why to fight for a company he not even wanted in the first place? Why feeling hurt/angry that his granpa prefers NS III if he does not want his granpa and does not want that family or live in the same house? Why stay there? He should just runaway when he realized they remplazed him with a robot, he should take the liberty he always wanted and exit of that toxic environmet
In my opinion, this version is very loyal to the book (I currently watching it). I haven't see other versions yet, only the beginning of 2003's version, that I dropped because they skip Li Mochou introduction, Yang Guo meeting with Ouyang Feng and Yang Guo time in Peach Blossom Island. Events that are important to understand a few characters later. Personally I liked that the 2014's version began with Li Mochou backstory.
Concerning your dislikes:
1. In the book there many characters, so if they are introduced is because they are in the book.
2. Zhao Zhi Jing and Fu'er characters are the same in the book. When I read the book my final thought of Fu'er is the she is the main villain even if she doesn't pretend to be one for all the misfortune that causes to Yang Guo and Long'er.
3. The same goes with the characters of Gong Sun Zhi and his wife. They are the same in the book. They are not characters that you are supposed to love o like.
4. If the characters never age is because they have a good fundation of internal energy/because they are good in martial arts. This is something that the book said.
PDTA: Sorry if you don't understand something I wrote. English is not my first language, I speak Spanish and I am not used to write in English although I know how to read it.
"A man and a woman suffers from wounded hearts due to a murder case that took place in their past. The man is a detective and the woman is a popular actress.
When Do-Jin (Chang Ki-Yong) and Jae-Yi (Jin Ki-Joo) were high school students, they were each other's first love. Do-Jin's father Hee-Jae (Heo Jun-Ho) was a psychopath and killed Jae-Yi's parents. Do-Jin and Jae-Yi were separated afterwards.
Now, Do-Jin works as a detective. He treats the victim's family with care. This is his way of atoning for his father's horrific act. Meanwhile, Jae-Yi works as an actress. She followed in the footsteps of her late mother who was a famous actress. Since her parents' deaths, Jae-Yi has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Do-Jin and Jae-Yi meet again"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-GQDr1x9WM