monstersnroses

One of the things that just gets me is how in c-dramas they use the fake "footsteps" noises all the time, and they love adding fake sounds of boiling or dripping water to scenes, it's so distracting, aiyaa.

Right on <3 If you like "healthy mature" relationships, you might also like Fake It Till You Make It... the only truly maturely portrayed romance I've ever given a really high score to. I liked it a lot.

Cruel City, you ranked that one pretty high, I keep meaning to watch it but haven't been in the right mood for it yet.

very. I've seen like 250+ dramas and this is easily in my top ten ever.

I'm just not that kind of masochist.

I couldn't hang through it, had to drop it at about the halfway mark. "Mature supportive relationship" usually isn't my thing. I like dramas with relationships that are dark, obsessive, twisted, toxic, taboo, overbearing, etc. Not always, obviously... as long as there's good chemistry there between the ML and FL, I can put aside my preferences. But "onscreen chemistry" kinda means they look like they are actually attracted to eachother. Dilraba often to me looks like someone who doesn't want to offend a RL boyfriend by getting too into her roles. Something about her is slightly icy... just imo. Idk anything about her personal life at all, to me that's just the vibe she puts off in most of the things I've seen her in. Except ELOD.

I like crazy crap, like The Rose, I Love My President Though He Is a Psycho, That Winter the Wind Blows, Well Intended Love, Meteor Garden (taiwanese).

I liked Hidden Love even though it was "sweet" and "healthy" because the ML/FL chemistry was FIRE, and it was at least a LITTLE bit twisted. Same with My Fated Boy. It's sweet, but it's also fiery and a little bit twisted.

I mean I dropped Love You Forever at ep19 because I found out the toxic red flag demon won't get the girl in that one. Here's a love triangle with a perfectly healthy devoted ML, and a red-flag demonic bloodsucker ML.... and I'm over here like "girrrrrrrrl!!! go for the scary bloodsucker, what are you thinking !!!!!"

Eternal Love of Dream. The only thing I ever saw Dilraba in that I thought there was chemistry between her and the ML.

Has she tried Rise Of the Phoenixes yet? It's very good.

aaaaaaaaaghhhhhh JUST WHY omg I'm gonna go cry now.

ELOD
TTEOTM
Story of Kunning Palace
Hidden Love
My Fated Boy
Falling Into You
Devil Beside You
The Rose
The Smile Has Left Your Eyes
Extremely Perilous Love
Lesson In Love
Love to Hate You
Devilish Joy
Crazy Love
My Roommate is a Gumiho
Come and Hug Me
It's Okay Not to Be Okay

I went in knowing that he wouldn't get the girl, and yet by ep19 I was like "Y'know what...no. Just no." It started to just feel wrong to watch it all play out. First time I've ever had 2ML syndrome so bad I actually dropped a show over it. They'd be fools to go ahead and make season 2 without letting him be ML and not listening to our input. I havent seen anyone on the LYF MDL page that actually roots for face bandage guy. He's hot too, no doubt but demon guy is hotter by a mile and a half.

What's even the point of a drama where the hot white haired vampy demon guy doesn't get the girl. Maybe if they get enough feedback about it, they'll change the end for us.

I'll only watch it if the demon guy gets the girl.

Just kidding, never watch I Love My President Though He's a Psycho.

...and conversely, if you're looking for dark ML who's willing to destroy the woman he loves for the woman he loves, then watch I Love My President Though He's a Psycho. Spoiler below.

TTEOTM also, as it wasn't mentioned here yet.

I second The Smile Has Left Your Eyes. I watched the K first and then the J. For me that was def the right order to watch them in. They were both awesome with superamazing acting by the MLs. The k version is in my top ten all-time faves. Crazy how Seo In Guk was so silly and cute and adorable in Shopping King Louie, and then BAM he becomes this smokin hot dark ML for TSHLYE... who knew he could play dark ML so well, I was stunned watching that performance.

Did you really think that I thought they purposely said "hey lets make a domestc abuse ballad"? Of course it wasn't intended, and I never said it was. You don't need to white knight for a c-drama just because you liked it a lot.

Admittedly I am not only super picky, but also I have kind of weird tastes. One of my all-time faves is called The Rose, if you saw it you'd laugh at me. The ML is Jerry Huang and he is possibly the worst actor on the planet. About five people saw that one. Plot is messed up as can be. I LOVED IT. But if someone said they hated it, I could hardly argue.

I rated that one ughhhhhhhh out of ten. Opening scene he gets out of prison lookin all badass and I was like "YASSS this is gonna be awesome" but then no. Badass ex-con Lighter is yanked away. Then backwards time-skip (which I hate), and he's a badass with blonde hair and I'm like "YASSSS this should still be good", but blond hair lasts like 2 episodes, and after that it's just the same as any other "modern c-drama".

They KNOW he looks hot after prison. They KNOW he looks hot with blond hair. But despite this, they mainly give you a duller more toned down ML for most of the show. His fashion sense falls off a cliff too. JUST WHY. It's a bait and switch.

There's that part in it where they're like "and then they were together for 3 years", but they don't show you any of it, never refer back to that time at all. I don't understand that part either.

The 2ML HAS to be a repressed gay man in love with Lighter, nothing else explains his obsession with him. FL is kind of a biatch. The whole drama was just so meh and off kilter. It didn't help me take my mind off of SoKP at all.

But the ROTP I'm watching now is distracting me pretty well.

The swearing was the only part of it I understood.

sold! I'm currently 12 episodes into the RoTP. I'm glad I have something to line up to watch right after I get depressed by RoTP's bad ending.