yes. There's nothing all *that* wrong with it, it's just boring and uninspired, and seems unable to pick a genre…
Yes this. I don't mind some wokeness in shows or moral preaching, especially when it comes to women's rights and treating women and minorities with a more progressive mindset, because RL SKorea can still be a somewhat misogynist place from what i've seen/heard. But it's when it's added to the show in a way that makes it feel like it doesn't really belong there, that it becomes cringe and feels "corporate" to me like it's pandering to US dollars and production teams.
Maybe SK shows are becoming more violent, but I wouldn't know because if it isn't a romance, I don't watch it normally. The only time I venture outside of romances is for the occasional comedy.
Which again is totally American to preach all these values at people and then turn around and produce a bunch of empty violent content. Aigoo.
I remember when you could watch crazy k-dramas like fashion king, boys over flowers, what happened in bali, que sera sera, that winter the wind blows, my heart twinkle twinkle, secret, kill me heal me....
Never thought I'd see a day on this platform when C dramas are more watched than K dramas... What exactly is happening…
yes. There's nothing all *that* wrong with it, it's just boring and uninspired, and seems unable to pick a genre which makes it alllllmost feel slice-of-life.
I'll watch anything good, which is why i've only seen about 5 k-dramas in the past year, but i've seen probably 50-100 c-dramas. It used to be flipped, i used to watch mostly k-dramas but the've tanked. I suspect the invasion of american money into the k-entertainment environment caused this (such as disney and netflix etc), and now such large sums are involved in some productions, that korean producers and creative artists are afraid to take any risks, and "play it safe"... or try to cater expressly to american money interests, so they sanitize everything risky or questionable, tone everything down, and inject wokeness in random places where it doesn't belong.
A Stalker should be hated, no matter what but not loved neither liked!! Disgusting, people like Tea Hoon's stalking…
I have had 2 instances in RL of stalkers who I got legal restraining orders against, and despite this, I sometimes really love the stalker-romances. BUT NOT THIS ONE. He is from the absolute outset of everything, a classic narcissist, he screams 'future wife-beater', this is legit not attractive, even to someone as messed up as me. You would have to be a self-hating female on a level I can barely comprehend to think his behavior is attractive in any way.
Where is the growth for the FL character? The end of episode 10 points to her having no growth in this drama
I almost didn't watch this because of the FL. I have been supremely dissappointed in her acting several times. But she's very good in this role, like it was tailor made for her because the emotional range matches her actual acting range.... she can play quiet, afraid, timid, overwhelmed, nice but not all that quick witted, innocent and oblivious, and afraid of intimacy.
If there is any significant character growth in her arc, she won't be able to act it with any degree of realism at all. She can't do anything out of her own emotional range.
For me the good of all this is she isn't ruining this drama for me like she has in other dramas i've watched with her cast as the FL. The script does that all by itself.
Just because you don't have any loved ones who have suffered damages, doesn't mean you can be dismissive about those of us who do. People her age do not generally get strokes. and her symptoms line up completely. So it's worth mentioning. Girl.
All her symptoms line up with people who have gotten vaxx damage. Even the mental issues. People have gotten aphasia/stroke/bell's palsey from it. Some people have gotten POTS-like and anxiety symptoms from racing heart rate even while sitting doing nothing. People have broken out with rashes and hives and other skin problems (sometimes just at the site of the injection, but other times all over their bodies). Aching joints, also yes.
This is the elephant in the room no one wants to address. Not the govt, not the medical community, and not the general population who were coerced into taking it. But the fact of the matter is mrna "vaccines" (they aren't true vaccines in the classical sense) are new, and experimental, and no one knows the consequences of them yet. They stay in you forever, you cannot undo an mrna vaccine. No one wants to think there's something they took that could wreck them someday, that they can't reverse. So you get this silence on the issue, on everyones part. And god forbid you start experiencing vaxx-related symptoms, no one wants to see or hear about it.
They give her antihistamines for her anxiety, tell her she must be having allergies because she's broken out into hives, say the aphasia was a stroke, but don't address why someone her age would suddenly have a stroke.... she's being gaslit by everyone. And the only alternative is to say "sorry youre one of the unlucky ones who is having adverse reactions to the mrna vaccine, and there's nothing we can do for you because we have no experience dealing with anything like this. Oops, sorry. Here, have a benadryl."
Well either there's terms in the contract that directly address what happens if the actor gets sick, or there's not. And if there's not, my move as the sick actor/actress would be to seek whatever medical attention was needed for my mental/physical health, carefully document everything, and then get my lawyer(s) lined up and expect to have to take it to court to have it sorted out.
The idea of a party A and a party B having a contract dispute is nothing new... because a contract is an agreement for the future. Yet the future by it's very nature is uncertain. What if I hire a roofer to re-do my roof, and pay him half up front, and then before he can do the roof there's a tornado that rips the whole top of my house off? Naturally that would trigger a dispute over who keeps the up-front cost.
So if her agency has pre-booked other projects, and any money has been exchanged or spent in preparation for those projects, and then she can't fulfill her end of those projects, who pays for that? Actors and actresses come up against this all the time, you'd think there should *always* be clauses in their contracts for such an occurrence. Just because of how tricky it is when sometimes a deal falls through due to something unforseen.
oh look, another 'fl is drugged and begs ml for sex' scenario 🙄. seems to be this director's specialty. he…
In many cultures it's seen as unbecoming of a female to be "begging for it"... it makes her kind of like a 'lady of the night', to put it delicately. The plot vehicle of the aphrodisiac makes the scenario possible where A) The man wasnt' pushing her into it B) The woman isn't seen as cheap for 'wanting it'... it was the drug's fault! No one can be blamed for this moral transgression! ML and FL are both pure, they were under extreme duress!
Anyway, that's why it's leaned on so heavily as a cliche. Not a lot of other plot devices can bring a morally upright FL and ML together before marriage quite like a well-placed aphrodisiac drug.
On the other hand, FL's hairstyle doesn't really suit her, it's kind of distracting and must be super heavy to…
I loved the hair. idk about the show, but I loved her hair. To me, more aesthetically pleasing than lots of other c-drama hairstyles. It does look heavy, but my hair is classic-length as well, very thick, and I put it up every day for work in a somewhat elaborate twist pattern and pin it to the back of my head, with a long lock over the front of one shoulder. So... maybe I just like her hair because it somewhat resembles mine, idk.
Is it heavy, yes it's effin heavy. But over time you get used to it. It's a sacrifice for fashion, like high heels or elaborate boots.
So I don't know if her hairstyle didn't suit her, but yknow what really didn't suit her well was the script.
Love and Bid Farewell was so beautiful. Each episode was like a tableau on a series of painted silk screens, and I was struck by the artistry of the direction. I started watching Spring Rewritten, and the direction stood out immediately to me as really skillful and powerful. I thought 'This reminds me of Love and Bid Farewell', and I looked it up and sure enough, it's the same person behind both dramas.
I don't know if people in the industry ever read these, but if Xi Zi ever reads this someday:
You are so amazing, I want to follow your career and see how you grow as an artist, you have an incredible talent! 加油! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm off to go watch everything Xi Zi ever did, in chronological order.
WHOA... okay so the story is what I'd call "good-average". The script aspects of this, namely the plot mechanics and dialogue are not very inspired. The actors, it's hard to gague their skills here because of the limitations of their roles and dialogue, but they *are* actually acting. They are giving to their roles at least at an 80% level.
But the DIRECTING is HOT!!! I have maybe never said this before on MDL, but I am srsly just watching for the directing alone. The way this director conveys feelings is so freakin awesome, I think he needs more stuff to do besides just a dime-a-dozen mini drama.
It's so good, that I said to myself "this reminds me of Love and Bid Farewell", and then went and looked him up, and sure enough this is the same guy, directing them both.
This guy i'm coming to realize is so incredibly talented, he is in the *wrong* weight class, directing these short-length shows. His name is Xi Zi, and from now on, I"m going to remember it. I look forward to his career development, because his eye is so artistic, his understanding of how to convey emotions, what textures and colors belong in what scenes, how to bring out the best in the actors... so much wow.
Screw the plot, watch it just for the vibes. Just like Love and Bid Farewell, it's gorgeous and full of feeling.
Just on ep.10, this drama has the same exact plot as Mysterious Love. It's like watching a version of it. Honestly,…
I read synopsis and watched 1.25 episodes and thought "ah, this is a ripoff of Embrace In The Dark Night only with bad jeans, a worse soundtrack, and a much more annoying FL."
And then he tied her to the bedpost with like 4 feet of slack, and she looked at the sash holding her wrists all confused like she didn't know how she was going to escape... I just can't with this one.
im going to be 100% its nowhere near as good as everyone makes it out to be, i still enjoyed it and gave it a…
As to the part where they never explain what would happen if he didn't go back to the past to save her, I believe that the most likely thing is that the moment he *decides* not to save her, she would dissappear or at that moment the butterfly effect would trigger a later fatal moment for her. But that never happens because never at any point from when he met her, did he decide that.
The logic problem comes in with the fact that she has been "bumping" other people and events in their timeline. So he wouldn't just wake up and forget she was ever there. Everyone who ever knew her would forget she ever existed, and therefore would have made different choices about things themselves, and that would alter the timeline so much that that timeline would literally implode on itself if he ever decided not to save her, and then maybe you get the ML having Donnie Darko syndrome, where shit gets creepier and reality starts breaking down until he decides to complete the timeline loop. idk.
I gave it a 7.5, and it was the music that honestly was the killer to me. I kind of can't get over it. The only reason I don't give it a 7 myself, is because Jang Ki Yong in a better role than is usual for him, imo. I hate seeing him in fake smiles, bad haircuts, doing bad kiss scenes with badly matched FL's. He has so much power as an actor, like in Come And Hug Me, or Born Again, sometimes he can convey these extremely powerful emotions, and he keeps getting these parts in dramas that just don't do his acting skills any justice.
🔥Jang Ki Yong = HOT. Finally someone gave him a not-stupid haircut. Praise the lord.
🔥Kiss scenes = HOT. Good job, you two. The hint of spice was tasteful, yet so excellent.
👻Plot = Kind of cool, kind of confused?
🤨Screenplay and dialogue = Not great. Plot had so much potential, characters had so much potential, and yet the screenplay struggles to take advantage of that. Dialogue between characters was sometimes very colorful, but other times very hollow or forced.
🌺Settings = Pretty and lowkey. Good lighting everywhere.
🌺Styling = Could have been better, but on the whole was quite nice.
🧻Music = Beyond bad. Super ultra bad. Completely ruined GREAT scenes that the actors had filmed. Emotionally tonedeaf. It is literally like if Mummenshanz was music. Completely elephant-stomped on some absolutely electrifying scenes, badly harshing the vibe and ruining all the hard work on set to create these incredible moments to begin with. They weren't taking their job seriously, they weren't taking the feelings, the characters, the actors or the story seriously. Imagine if Flower of Evil was set to Manhattan Transfer. Because that is what this experience was like for me.
🔥Ending = Perfect, like a good punchline to an extremely long joke. It WAS a last-1-minute-of-screentime HE, and we all hate that crap. But it is entirely artistically justified. I mean this was such an excellent ending to a story... very clever, very cute, very profound.
👨⚕️Is this a story about a neglectful scumbag father and a lying scammer finding redemption in eachother, while simultaneously trivializing all the wrong ML did to his daughter for 10 years, and pasting everything over with a few silly headbands and smiling gratefully at a nice family meal with an approachable looking sweater on? Yes. Why is this OK? Because JANG KI YONG, that's why.
😶🌫️ It's not the kind of story you want to ask too many questions about.
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Maybe SK shows are becoming more violent, but I wouldn't know because if it isn't a romance, I don't watch it normally. The only time I venture outside of romances is for the occasional comedy.
Which again is totally American to preach all these values at people and then turn around and produce a bunch of empty violent content. Aigoo.
what happened.
I'll watch anything good, which is why i've only seen about 5 k-dramas in the past year, but i've seen probably 50-100 c-dramas. It used to be flipped, i used to watch mostly k-dramas but the've tanked. I suspect the invasion of american money into the k-entertainment environment caused this (such as disney and netflix etc), and now such large sums are involved in some productions, that korean producers and creative artists are afraid to take any risks, and "play it safe"... or try to cater expressly to american money interests, so they sanitize everything risky or questionable, tone everything down, and inject wokeness in random places where it doesn't belong.
If there is any significant character growth in her arc, she won't be able to act it with any degree of realism at all. She can't do anything out of her own emotional range.
For me the good of all this is she isn't ruining this drama for me like she has in other dramas i've watched with her cast as the FL. The script does that all by itself.
This is the elephant in the room no one wants to address. Not the govt, not the medical community, and not the general population who were coerced into taking it. But the fact of the matter is mrna "vaccines" (they aren't true vaccines in the classical sense) are new, and experimental, and no one knows the consequences of them yet. They stay in you forever, you cannot undo an mrna vaccine. No one wants to think there's something they took that could wreck them someday, that they can't reverse. So you get this silence on the issue, on everyones part. And god forbid you start experiencing vaxx-related symptoms, no one wants to see or hear about it.
They give her antihistamines for her anxiety, tell her she must be having allergies because she's broken out into hives, say the aphasia was a stroke, but don't address why someone her age would suddenly have a stroke.... she's being gaslit by everyone. And the only alternative is to say "sorry youre one of the unlucky ones who is having adverse reactions to the mrna vaccine, and there's nothing we can do for you because we have no experience dealing with anything like this. Oops, sorry. Here, have a benadryl."
The idea of a party A and a party B having a contract dispute is nothing new... because a contract is an agreement for the future. Yet the future by it's very nature is uncertain. What if I hire a roofer to re-do my roof, and pay him half up front, and then before he can do the roof there's a tornado that rips the whole top of my house off? Naturally that would trigger a dispute over who keeps the up-front cost.
So if her agency has pre-booked other projects, and any money has been exchanged or spent in preparation for those projects, and then she can't fulfill her end of those projects, who pays for that? Actors and actresses come up against this all the time, you'd think there should *always* be clauses in their contracts for such an occurrence. Just because of how tricky it is when sometimes a deal falls through due to something unforseen.
Anyway, that's why it's leaned on so heavily as a cliche. Not a lot of other plot devices can bring a morally upright FL and ML together before marriage quite like a well-placed aphrodisiac drug.
Is it heavy, yes it's effin heavy. But over time you get used to it. It's a sacrifice for fashion, like high heels or elaborate boots.
So I don't know if her hairstyle didn't suit her, but yknow what really didn't suit her well was the script.
I don't know if people in the industry ever read these, but if Xi Zi ever reads this someday:
You are so amazing, I want to follow your career and see how you grow as an artist, you have an incredible talent! 加油! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I'm off to go watch everything Xi Zi ever did, in chronological order.
okay so the story is what I'd call "good-average". The script aspects of this, namely the plot mechanics and dialogue are not very inspired.
The actors, it's hard to gague their skills here because of the limitations of their roles and dialogue, but they *are* actually acting. They are giving to their roles at least at an 80% level.
But the DIRECTING is HOT!!! I have maybe never said this before on MDL, but I am srsly just watching for the directing alone. The way this director conveys feelings is so freakin awesome, I think he needs more stuff to do besides just a dime-a-dozen mini drama.
It's so good, that I said to myself "this reminds me of Love and Bid Farewell", and then went and looked him up, and sure enough this is the same guy, directing them both.
This guy i'm coming to realize is so incredibly talented, he is in the *wrong* weight class, directing these short-length shows. His name is Xi Zi, and from now on, I"m going to remember it. I look forward to his career development, because his eye is so artistic, his understanding of how to convey emotions, what textures and colors belong in what scenes, how to bring out the best in the actors... so much wow.
Screw the plot, watch it just for the vibes. Just like Love and Bid Farewell, it's gorgeous and full of feeling.
And then he tied her to the bedpost with like 4 feet of slack, and she looked at the sash holding her wrists all confused like she didn't know how she was going to escape... I just can't with this one.
The logic problem comes in with the fact that she has been "bumping" other people and events in their timeline. So he wouldn't just wake up and forget she was ever there. Everyone who ever knew her would forget she ever existed, and therefore would have made different choices about things themselves, and that would alter the timeline so much that that timeline would literally implode on itself if he ever decided not to save her, and then maybe you get the ML having Donnie Darko syndrome, where shit gets creepier and reality starts breaking down until he decides to complete the timeline loop. idk.
I gave it a 7.5, and it was the music that honestly was the killer to me. I kind of can't get over it. The only reason I don't give it a 7 myself, is because Jang Ki Yong in a better role than is usual for him, imo. I hate seeing him in fake smiles, bad haircuts, doing bad kiss scenes with badly matched FL's. He has so much power as an actor, like in Come And Hug Me, or Born Again, sometimes he can convey these extremely powerful emotions, and he keeps getting these parts in dramas that just don't do his acting skills any justice.
🔥Jang Ki Yong = HOT. Finally someone gave him a not-stupid haircut. Praise the lord.
🔥Kiss scenes = HOT. Good job, you two. The hint of spice was tasteful, yet so excellent.
👻Plot = Kind of cool, kind of confused?
🤨Screenplay and dialogue = Not great. Plot had so much potential, characters had so much potential, and yet the screenplay struggles to take advantage of that. Dialogue between characters was sometimes very colorful, but other times very hollow or forced.
🌺Settings = Pretty and lowkey. Good lighting everywhere.
🌺Styling = Could have been better, but on the whole was quite nice.
🧻Music = Beyond bad. Super ultra bad. Completely ruined GREAT scenes that the actors had filmed. Emotionally tonedeaf. It is literally like if Mummenshanz was music. Completely elephant-stomped on some absolutely electrifying scenes, badly harshing the vibe and ruining all the hard work on set to create these incredible moments to begin with. They weren't taking their job seriously, they weren't taking the feelings, the characters, the actors or the story seriously. Imagine if Flower of Evil was set to Manhattan Transfer. Because that is what this experience was like for me.
🔥Ending = Perfect, like a good punchline to an extremely long joke. It WAS a last-1-minute-of-screentime HE, and we all hate that crap. But it is entirely artistically justified. I mean this was such an excellent ending to a story... very clever, very cute, very profound.
👨⚕️Is this a story about a neglectful scumbag father and a lying scammer finding redemption in eachother, while simultaneously trivializing all the wrong ML did to his daughter for 10 years, and pasting everything over with a few silly headbands and smiling gratefully at a nice family meal with an approachable looking sweater on? Yes. Why is this OK? Because JANG KI YONG, that's why.
😶🌫️ It's not the kind of story you want to ask too many questions about.