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Her stylist in this did such a good job. Remember how ugly they made her in Love is Sweet? With that stupid brown jacket that's elasticized at the waist with big sleeves, made her look like the michelin man. And then they put her hair back in a dumb ponytail.

SoKP made her look absolutely stunning. She normally plays her roles up a little bit , but in this one she is doing her best to match tones with the ML and keep her cuteness and bubbly-ness extremely subdued, and it works. She did a really great job.

I also despized it. Yu Ning was so friggin HOTTT in The Long Ballad. He comes right off of that to play in this cheesy drama as a comic foil for a feminist "strong FL" who just takes the piss out on him all the time and it's supposed to be funny. NOT KEW. Yu Ning should be in a role with intensity and gravity. Not some dumb feminist c-version of a spaghetti western. There was ZERO chemistry between ML and FL, despite the fact they were both gorgeous and giving good performances. FL chases ML is not a good look for Yu Ning. And then what do you get for your patience and time investment? Total massacre. Fantastic.

God, I hated it.

Somebody on the AJTL page joked that it should have been called "A Journey To Death"

everyone dies at the end.

The toy throwing is seriously one of the best scenes I've ever seen in an asian drama. I had the surreal experience of legit laughing and crying at the same time.

Bless you kind xir.

tysm for watching it so I don't have to. <3 <3 <3 Bless you kind sir.

Hey. I'll have you know she's 20. No longer a teenager by at least several weeks.

I love almost every kind of dark ML.... twisted, toxic, taboo, obsessive, overbearing, antihero, all that stuff. I thought this was OKAY.

It was great up through the middle. It kind of followed that distinctly Japanese pattern of 50% awesome, followed by 50% angst, misery, and pain, and then a "welp there ya go" ending. I suppose it could technically be called an HE, but we are talking total cop-out very last second HE.

If it had ended differently, I would have given it an 8.5 As it stands, I gave it a 7.5 which according to my rating standards, makes it just slightly better than an average crap drama. There was one kiss scene and it was INCREDIBLE. After that you get NOTHING. Nada. Zero.

They should have ended it with some kind of passionate scene, because those two had some serious chemistry that you just only get a glimpse of.

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"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

That's awesome.

I'd say every nationality has about an equal amount of toxicity, no one can claim moral superiority in that department.

I have no problem being made fun of for my stupid crap either. And I have plenty of stupid crap. The difference being, if someone said "I Love My President Although He Is A Psycho is a steaming pile of crap", I would have to agree with them, even though I gave it a 9.

I can explain WHY I gave it a 9, but I'm not about to pretend it isn't objectively a piece of crap. If someone asks if it was good, I can only say that I thought it was good despite being a "bad drama". I'd never recc it to anyone who I didn't think shared my tastes in crap dramas. And if someone wants to make fun of me over it, I'll laugh right along with them. I don't always have good taste. If someone's opinion is different than mine, I don't take it personally. It would be a very boring world if we all had the same tastes, it's not worth arguing over.

So what if you like the same crap that a gaggle of 15 year old song kang fans liked. So what if I liked the same crap that a bunch of mentally dented retards liked.

AJTL sucked, I will give you that. There are about ten thousand "lighthearted" k-dramas out there, and this one isn't at the top of the heap. I'm happy for you that you enjoyed it. To each his own. It just means that you're easy to please, and so you won't have as hard a time as some of us do finding a "good" drama.

If you liked this, you could try Fashion King Louie, Bride of the Century, Fated to Love You, or The Greatest Love. Theyre all lighthearted and miles better than this one was.

>you english speakers can't make fun of the rest of us who likes it when you guys dont have better taste

yes actually we can. it just means you can make fun of us right back, if you notice something worth making fun of. Not that I made fun of you.

The truth behind my joking isn't "all people who like this are 15 years old". The truth behind my joking is "there is a disproprtionately large contingency of adolescents who went fanatical about this show and rated it higher than it deserves."

You're the one who took it personal.


And if YOU thought it was visually appealing, then just say so, don't hide behind your nationality to do it. "SK is visually appealing according to Chinese and Korean beauty standards", that is an insanely gross generalization. Just say you think he's hot.

Oh I don't hate it because it's lighthearted. Did you even bother to look at my watchlist? I like lighthearted just fine. It's just a bad drama.

I'm not sure I'd call a demon who sends grieving parents to eternal hell in exchange for letting a child with cancer die at 15 instead of 5, really that lighthearted. But I guess since there was cake involved, it could be confusing.

.... ... .... hear it? It almost sounds like a screeching or something....

I hate flashbacks, and I have no patience for the first few episodes of anything I watch. So I skipped a lot of the first few episodes of this. Then i got so lost about episode 3. I just came here and asked questions and was easily filled in on everything. It did not ruin my viewing experience at all.

All you really need to know is there is a sickly crown prince. His main sources of military and political support are the Yan family and the Xue family. The Xue family is headed up by the crown prince's mother the empress dowager, and the Duke of Xue, the empress dowager's brother.

The crown prince is well aware that the Xue family has way too much power and is angling for the throne as his health keeps deteriorating. The only check he has against them is the Yan family, but he doesn't know if he can fully trust them either.

The story is about how the FL messes up her whole life just to get the throne and keep it, and ends up dying a horrible death because of all the people she f*cked over to get to where she is. After that death, she is given the chance to start over again and make different choices. She spends a good part of the beginning of the story comparing "first life" events with "second life" events to change certain outcomes she wants to avoid.

And the ML is like a wildcard, the mystery she has to solve. So i can't spoil who he is for you or how he fits in. Suffice it to say, he is the most trusted political advisor to the crown prince.

And that's your basic outline.

If you listen closely, you can hear the sound of a bunch of 15yo's seething, far off in the distance....

Based on your watchlist, I think you'd be better off watching any of the following rather than this crappy drama: Crazy Love, Devilish Joy, Doom At Your Service, Shopping King Louie, Love To Hate You, Oh My Venus, King of High School Savvy, It's Okay Not To Be Okay, or Lost Romance.