monstersnroses

The ML and FL are great, although I really disliked the dubbing, it gave the drama a cheap crappy feel. The story itself is so creative, it could have been made into a full-length drama. Not great, not bad. 7/10

good questions. Hmm... I got the impression she led YanLin on most cruelly for her own ends, which was why she never blamed him for what he did in the first lifetime. I think she's more scared of Xie Wei because when he caused her demise in the first lifetime, she never saw it coming, he blindsided her... and on top of that, he hated her in a way that was really cold and impersonal. She offered herself to him, and he didn't want her, he rejected her. So in her second lifetime, she was convinced that he hated her, and that made him more of a fear than Yan Lin, who she knew very very well, and understood his motivations. She knew with Yan Lin that if she wasn't evil to him, he wouldn't be evil to her. But she has no idea who Xie Wei is, where he's coming from, or why he stares at her so hard its like he's trying to bore a hole straight through her. When he falls in love with her, she cannot believe it for what it is, because in the first lifetime, he never loved her, or showed any interest in her as a woman even when she threw herself at him, and in fact hated her pretty hard. Why would he suddenly act like he cared about her? That probably really bothers her, and as she devlops feelings for him, her OWN feelings scare her. She has an idea of how the second lifetime is supposed to go, and Xie Wei's new behavior towards her doesn't fall into that vision. She has no idea what to make of him, but she expects history to repeat itself and for him to end up causing her death again.

I feel like shipping her back to acting school.

Watched for the smokin hot ML, after first seeing him in My Lethal Man. Yep, he's still hot. The drama itself was average. Hard to pinpoint what exactly makes this drama "average", because all the elements were there for it to be an above average production. It's just lacking in je ne sais quoi. Feels a bit flat and chemistry between ML and FL is mild and not fiery at all.

Not bad, not great. The 2FL is very charismatic, I hope she gets more roles in the future. And the ML of course is HAWT, and I'd love to see him take on bigger roles in the future also. This one was QUITE the noona romance, my goodness that's an age gap. I didn't mind. Some might be turned on or turned off by it though.

I heard in this thread a while back, that in the book this is based off of, her parents were sort of horrible to her basically. In the drama they're not, although the mom is not really that kew.

ya the wang an yu one is the one I saw with the ACP competition and the pain in the ass FL.

2 forever loves - I saw them both. I gave them both a 7.5 too! The 2023 one is a short-length drama, the 2020 one is the An Yu one.

I was also not a fan of the FL in forever love, it was part of the reason I knocked down my rating for that drama.

Hm, interesting. I like some of them, but I have to admit finding good ones sometimes feels like panning for gold in a bathtub.

I just looked over your watchlist... we don't exactly have the same taste in shows, however it is clearly apparent that at least you have TASTE . You'd dislike My Demon probably. It has a distinct lack of originality, and there's not a lot of synthesis or cohesion of the ideas and themes it tosses around -- considering you tend to like dramas that have a clear vision and plot progression that moves smartly along it's themes and doesn't get lost in itself or drift.
My Demon is a PROFOUNDLY "average" drama. It has a few scenes that transcend it's mediocrity, but those scenes are all bunched up at the beginning of the drama and then it slowly peters out, and flatlines by the midway point.
There are also a few moments where they let ML glare at someone very scarily with red demon eyes and it looks really cool. Each of these moments lasts about three seconds.
It's honestly only worth the watch if you just want to at least be able to say you watched it. But there's no gold in them hills... just a bunch of pyrite.

How come you never bust out and watch a c-drama?

Nice watchlist. Welcome to MDL, I see you just made your account 5 days ago.

Are you out of your mind?! When they went back from peroxide blonde to brown, the brown turned GREEN because their hair colorist doesn't know what the hell they're doing! They even fucked up the pH of his hair and it turned all rough and dull... It looked like hay someone scraped up from a clogged farm drainage grate. Dear god.

omg this review cracked me up... a k-drama for kids.

>another copy of another copy

It's like in that old Michael Keaton movie 'Mulitplicity', where he makes a copy of himself, and his copy makes a copy of himself, and then that copy makes a copy of himself, but each copy is dumber and more corrupted than the last so the 4th copy-of-a-copy of himself is a total imbecile. 'My Demon' is like a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy until the final manifestation is so retarded that it barely functions as a drama.

Again, you think he looked goofy, I thought he looked badass. Youre like aloof, arrogant, cocky. I see that in Victor. I wonder if this isn't cultural, because you're not american, and he was raised as a New Yorker and then a west coaster. I'm a west coaster (surprisingly, we have a lot in common with NY'ers, although that's not really obvious to anyone but us). There's only like 6 universal facial expressions, and most of the other ones are culturally influenced. Maybe we would all have some aspect of our attitudes you'd find goofy, if you came to visit cali or NY... who knows.

I think it's just a difference of opinion that has nothing to do with the novel, but has everything to do with one's perception of victor's performance. Which is subjective, and not qualitative. You're not a fan. I was a huge fan. It's all good. Nobody has to be righter, it doesn't matter.

I didn't think Victor played it goofy, I thought he played it organic and really natural, and I saw a more "badass" character.

At least the "boring" sequences in SoKP are so beautiful and full of gorgeous people and great fight scenes, so that does help. The aesthetics are rich and lavish considering the budget they had to work with, which I've heard was a moderate budget. It looks kind of high-end.... pretty nature and interiors and costumes. So it's not the worst torture ever. But it is admittedly an investment of time and patience. It's just the payoff is really amazingly good.

TTEOTM comments section has a bunch of really nice diehards in it who can answer your skip-questions for that show for sure. I swear there's some people who've rewatched that at least ten times. I have never done a rewatch but I know I will at some point it's one of the best things I've ever seen. Soooo angsty and fiery omg. Not a lot of actual spice, but that's just wuxia for ya. Whatchagonnado. Theres plenty of other stuff that makes up for it in that one.

strong woman do bong soon = Dude, the best part about that show to me was the stuff with Kim Won Hae and Im Won Hee, I loved the humor in that one, and it was FULL of cameos and inside jokes references from other dramas that just cracked me up. I never thought I'd see Won Hae and Won Hee in the same drama, and I totally loved it. Probably a siginficant reason I rated it higher, I liked the silly business in it. When he gives her the desk that's like a little dollhouse inside his office, omg that was hilarious to me.

My Fated Boy, Falling Into You, and Lesson In Love are full of prooooobably skippable parts without ruining your viewing experience. With TTEOTM, that's a harder question to answer because there were some parts that I was so frustrated with the drag like "come onnnnn lets go", but it was hard to predict what essential plot bits you might miss by doing a bunch of skipping.
For SoKP, hooo boy.... it's a tricky one. I think you can skip whatever you want to skip from ep 1 and 2. But after that I would NOT skip anything. However. However. Mkay. The story is like pretty fucking boring on the romance angle for the first thirty episodes. Yes, I said THRITY episodes. But the last 8 or maybe 10 episodes are straight FIRE. So then, why can't you skip a whole bunch of shit from the first 2/3rds of the show?? Because it will RUIN the last 8 episodes. You'd be totally in the wrong frame of mind, probably plot-lost, and it wouldn't have the impact that it's supposed to have.
So you have to save SoKP for when you are totally cool with having a fully immersive experience, and feeling very patient and receptive to wherever the show is going to take you. It's all about delayed gratification on that one. I'd cry if you skipped only to the ML/FL parts and chopped up the show. The first watch through is MAGICAL. If you kill that magic by skipping and being impatient, you can never get that first-watch magic back again. It's like lighting all your presents on fire the day before christmas and ruining the surprise. Once you've done the first-watch.... on your rewatches you can skip whatever you want.
SoKP just goes boring, boring boring boring, BAM! Raging wildfire, the end. But if you don't go through the boring, boring, boring boring, then the "BAM!" loses all it's effect.

I would ask the fans on the TTEOTM page how much of that is aaactually skippable, they would know best. Like, I THINK there's skippable parts, but I don't know where and how to skip so as to maximize your experience and minimize your time commitment. They would know, though.

YES it gets better. You have about 10 more episodes left to go before it starts getting REALLY really good. So.... the exact opposite of most asian dramas.

But just fair warning, this show is for Dark ML lovers. If you require a green-flag ML in your romance stories, then this drama is NOT worth your time investment. If, however, you don't mind red flag or gray flag ML's.... then definitely keep going. The last 8 episodes make the first 30 episodes completely worth every minute of your time.

Me for the first 30 episodes: "What am I even doing here, why do ppl like this drama so much"
Me for the last 8 episodes: "AAAAAAAAAAAGH OMGGGGGG!"