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Zhang Zhe: "She's an independent person, you cant control her."
Xie Wei: "Really?"
Me: (fans self)

Woo god I love the red-flag ML's!!!!!!! I just melted like a stick of butter in a microwave.

Do you literally think the director told her "close your eyes and your mouth and don't move in this scene"?

What does it mean to address someone with 'er on the end of their name?

No because it is a complete assault on your sensibilities and it sucks a lot. Yes because everybody else saw it, it's like a classic, and Lee Min Ho is pretty fine... and though it was a shitshow, it was fairly entertaining considering it was a shitshow.

If you want just to see the story itself, you'd be better off spending your time watching Taiwanese Meteor Garden or Japanese Hana Yori Dango, both of which are far better versions of this story.

yes, i went into it thinking i'd binge it and use FFW a lot. But I ended up actually slowing down and not wanting it to end, and taking my time to watch every episode.

Depends on what you mean by "better" and "exciting". This plot is a straightforward one, so don't expect any crazy twists and turns ahead for the story. The excitement comes not from action, adventure, intrigue, melo, or plot twists... but rather from the butterflies it starts to give you and the undercurrent of sexiness that starts to creep into the story over time.

IMO, this drama ramps up little bit by little bit, and before you know it there's a momentum built up. The first episodes require a mindset going in of patience and trying to relax and just get immersed. But there's a big payoff for your patience if you let the story unfold at it's own pace.

ok tysm!

HELP

I am on episode 8, and I'm doing my best to keep up with this plot but it is running away without me, aigoo.

So my question is... why is she so uneasy with herself all the time, and criticizing herself like "I'm not that nice" and "you should be loyal to someone else who deserves it" etc.

Why would she say she's not that nice of a person when the whole point was to go back and do the do-over only this time as a nice person? I would think someone in her situation would feel relief at being able to get to start again with a clean slate.

Does she think deep down that she's a bad person or something? I don't get it.

...and that's what I think of this drama. I gave it a 6.5 for being wholly uninspiring and unoriginal, and for false advertising itself as a "romance". Y'know how much romance this has in it? They get married twice, and coincidentally that's also the number of times they've kissed between ep 1 and ep 39. These two just can't keep their hands off eachother! Feel the power of the incredible epic romance! Two whole kisses! What earth-shaking attraction levels, I've been blinded by the force of their love! Get the fire extinguisher, my monitor has been scorched into a smoldering pile of flaming plastic and steel from all the heat these two are generating.

Don't worry, spatina is insane. You can verify this for yourself by checking out the comments section of Hidden Love.

As for Back from the brink.... most people seem to like it, I did not. I like my romance dramas with an actual element of "romance" in them, and this is not that. This is one of those dramas that calls itself a romance, but just hooks you into the show by teasing you with a little romance to get you to keep watching, and then takes it away, leaving just an emotionally overloaded and depressing "ultimate sacrifice" storyline where saving mankind is all that really matters and sucks up all the screentime, and then rewards your patience with one final deer-in-the-headlights kiss where the actors just make a halfhearted attempt to strategically touch mouths.

I've seen a lot of dramas now, and I'm so sick of this little trick some drama makers pull of roping you into a "romance" and then totally abandoning the romance part of the "romance story" by the halfway mark. It's like dipping wood chips in chocolate and calling it "candy".

As far as FL's go, she's fairly strong.

I think he looks like a chinese cross between Johnny Depp and Peter Lorre

Awful. Starts out promising, but by 2/3rds of the way through the story, whatever chemistry the ML and FL had are stomped out completely by a suffocating plot that sucks the romance out of the story. When they change FL's lipstick to this thick bright shade of "don't effing touch me red", that's how you know they're not even trying to give the story any romance anymore.

Ending is a complete and total cop out. Let's see it's a standard boilerplate wuxia, so I wonder if the bad guy is on a maniacal killing spree. I wonder if he goes unstopped to the point that he's an existential threat to existence. I wonder if it gets so bad that only the ML and FL teaming up can stop him. I wonder if in the course of stopping the bad guy to save the whole universe, one of the main couple has to make the ultimate sacrifice. I wonder if they make it so it's okay that they died though, because "a part of them still lives on". There is ZERO originality to this plot. The ending is tired, cliche, and unsatisfying. A lot of wuxia is "if you've seen one, you've seen em all", and this is one of those.

The PRECIOUS FEW kisses you get in these 40 episodes are feeble and sterilized. The CGI is laughably bad. Oh and that scene they cut to at the beginning of the episode-concluding montage, where he has the white hair? And so every episode you're wondering "when does he get white hair and turn outrageously hot?".... yeah that doesn't happen til the last 20 minutes of episode 40.

What a waste of time.

Happy birthday!

It depends. If you can handle that genre of fluffy modern c-drama with the chinese FL "little girl" vibe.... then this is like "All-time best in class" for that genre. The "little girl" act is pretty non-annoying here. Although it's a modern c-drama and the fashion sense is lacking compared to other countries, it doesn't have BAD fashion. Although it's fluffy, it's compelling and sexy, and not totally vapid. The casting and acting is incredibly good.

I watched the first 5 episodes once, and put it on hold and just haven't picked it back up yet, but I intend to at some point.

All of them (except for Devil Beside You which rocked) are like classic in the sense that "if we all had to suffer through it then you have to suffer through it too", lol.

HanaYoriDango - The taiwanese version (Meteor Garden) is the best one. Usually people who liked Mars also liked Meteor Garden also liked Devil Beside You. Like if you loved any one of those, chances are you'd love the other 2. But the J-version is the classic, and it's really not bad either. The K-version SUCKKKKSSSS but still I feel like everyone "should" watch it at least once, to suffer what we all have suffered.

Kakafukaka - ending was like a classic j-drama ending: "let's just trainwreck this and leave it with no ending"... it was just totally kinky and trashy, and yet we've ALL seen it, lol

What Happened in Bali - A shitfest, but probably one of the most spectacular shitfests ever. The ending is what made it a classic. The spoiler is a DOOZY don't spoil yourself unless you really mean it.

Dude, considering your watchlist, and comments I've seen you make about different dramas on MDL, I think you need to go watch Devil Beside You like right myow.

Your watchlist is crazy, you've seen over 300 dramas and are missing some of the most basic classics. Autumn Tale. Hana Yori Dango. What happened in Bali. Kakafukaka.

But you've also seen a bunch of interesting looking stuff that I've never heard of before.... If you have the time, it would be cool if you could look at my watchlist and recc me something I haven't seen yet that you think is like a must-watch.

Some of those same haters have 5+ year age gap noona romances top ranked on their watchlists. Hypocritical bitter hags with nothing better to do than sermonize in the comments section of a drama they hated.

SOLD! I will keep watching. You are a kind and thoughtful individual. A thousand blessings upon you. I think you got a pretty good handle on my tastes in dramas <3 <3 <3

I loved TTEOTM because of that scene where he tried to light himself on fire in her bed yahhhhhhhhh so wicked-hot, I love angsty sexy antihero ML's!!!!!!!!!!! Reminded me of some of the hot scenes in 2013 Dracula with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. I was LOVING that series, but it got suddenly cancelled and broke my heart.