monstersnroses

You've seen a lot more j-dramas than I have, you've seen 225+ and I've only seen like 60+... but the kind of ending I find cliche for j-dramas (at least from what I've seen) is "open ending". And I get so sick of it. There are quite a few j-dramas that I would have rated higher if they hadn't done that.

I'm doing my rewatch, and I don't think this was the best book adaptation I've ever seen... The reasons why this story was good, was A) The novel itself was good B) The actors are good.

But the styling and settings were just ok... the music was just ok because it was out of sync with the mood of the characters here and there.... they gave the villains WAY WAY too much screentime.... the snake was miscast and very badly styled like he was nothing more than an afterthought. I'm not sure the actor who played him had a good handle on who his character should be... and they made changes to the novel's storyline -- all of the changes take away from the enjoyment of the story, none of them actually add to it. The ending was cliche and disappointing.

I also agree to watch it till you feel like it's not fun anymore and then drop or put on hold etc.

And a decent script

do u mean not her real voice like dubbed, or not her real voice like an accent or affectation?

**finally** a k-producer did something that made some sense: just give JKY a perfect vehicle for being a damn good actor and being viciously devastatingly mind-breakingly hot. That's all anyone ever had to do, is it really that hard.

bets on amnesia for one or more of the characters

They beat the shit out of the "just missed them by a second" trope till I was crackin up, you think by the time he misses her as food delivery girl, the joke's totally played out... but no.... and when he misses her from the resume with headshot, that just put me on the floor laughing.

ep 2, so freakin funny:

Omggggggggg!!!!! Right?!?! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Some horror plots and action plots and family drama plots are very good too, but they're not my genre, and so I'm not that interested. My genre is romance. So I don't like it when a story is sanitized in that department.

It's not just Allen Ren... anyone who takes major roles in dramas that are billed as romances, should be willing to act out being "in love" and that includes kissing scenes. If you refuse to immerse yourself in your role enough to even kiss your romantic interest convincingly, then don't take on those projects. Just imo, of course....

A romance without good kiss scenes is like a samurai movie without good swordfight scenes.

If it's a comedy, a family-oriented show, or not actually in the "Romance" genre, then I'm not that picky and don't really care.

But again! I'm perfectly willing to change my mind, if in this drama he actually kisses his FL in a semi-convincing manner.

I've been burned too many times on Allan Ren romances, he only does G-rated kisses in his kiss scenes and I just can't anymore.

But! If this is an exception to that, and there's actually spicy or even semi-spicy kisses, somebody let me know and I'll check this out.

I did like him in atypical, but the personality of the role he played was a little bit self absorbed for me. Still, he's playing the character faithfully and he was awesome as always. The shaggy hair and the hoodie was so sexaayyy! Anyways, i'll also watch anything he's in just because he's in it.

k-dramas have been going through this slump where the production is good, the actors are solid, but the script is just uninspired and crappy. I hope they pull out of their funk, because i used to watch k-dramas all the time and loved them. Now, not so much. C-dramas have been kicking the crap out of k-dramas lately, when that didn't used to be the case. Flower of Evil, That Winter the Wind Blows, Another Miss Oh and Que Sera Sera, Cheese in the Trap, Shopping King Louie, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes.... there used to be so much cool stuff to watch.

I think he's good at angst, so I liked him best in come and hug me and born again. But I don't think any role he's taken so far has been able to fully tap into his potential. He's really versatile and he's good at comedy, but I want to see someone go dark-romance with him. My roomate is a gumiho could have been good, but they paired him up with this chick who wasn't well matched to him and couldn't keep up acting-wise, and then put her in mom-jeans with a dumb haircut and a sweater, and it just put off all the wrong vibe.

I don't know why it's so hard for korean dramas to go full on dark romance, they always take a serious subject and then lighten it up until you can't take it seriously, like my roomate is a gumiho, my demon, scholar who walks the night, kill me heal me, doom at your service, master's sun, etc.

I like full on batshit crazy, and dark psychology, so I tend to gravitate towards c-dramas, and I can think of so many dark c-drama roles that JKY would have just slayed in.

I don't hold out a lot of hope that this is going to be some epic role for him, but honestly he's good in anything he's cast in, even if the show itself is garbage, and I'm excited regardless.

Happy.... but lots of people find it rushed. I didnt, but thats not the popular opinion i dont think.

His acting in that scene where he cuts his mom off was just so raw and vulnerable... he is next level to me. Huge natural talent.

I think the algorithm is hinkey. I just watched this j-drama that was decidedly not sucky, and while it was still airing, i went through and did the math on the "stats" they show you, like the pie chart and the graphs and all that, and after all measured statistics were accounted for, there were a few hundered "phantom" votes that appeared to not come from actual users, that had pulled the rating down hella, and it was weird. And when I pointed that out to the other people who were also watching it, and broke down the math I'd done so they could see, one user was like 'thats what algorithmic scoring is like'. I don't know enough to know if that explanation was plausible, but it seemed plausible to me, because i couldn't think of any other way it was being downvoted by phantom votes unless there had been some kind of bot thing. But there is no way that it could have been just RL rando haters, because if it was, their votes would have shown up also in the stats.

It's just funny to me how no matter what country or genre the show, there's always people who suspect brigading to manipulate ratings, either by haters or superfans.

I think there's manipulation but idk if it's by actual organic users. Too bad MDL isn't more transparent about how they come up with ratings so we don't have to constantly have these debates.

I mean to me, there is no way in hell that My Demon was organically rated an 8.3, it's one of the crappiest shows i've ever seen. That's one of the shows I still cannot get over the rating, it has to be manipulated.

So if j-dramas and short length c-dramas start off as a 7, there's nothing wrong with that system, because you think j-dramas and short length c-dramas suck. But if a k-drama starts off as a 7, it's because of massive waves of mysterious downvoters. Because you like k-dramas so therefore they should start out higher rated than everything else. Got it.

all j-dramas and short length c-dramas start off as a 7 also.

Is it just me or is Eddie Cheung (Prime Minsiter Zhuang Shen) using Huang Hai Bing
( Duke Xue Yuan from SOKP) for his voiceover?