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I saw him listed here as a guest and spent most of the episode waiting for him to be killed. He'll get cought and his head will end on a pike. If the king's people won't catch him, he'll get killed later. Any moment from now. It's just a matter of time. What a nerve-wrecker.

Ok, but this tall and skinny? They seem rather, idk, compact in general.
I agree on your last point tho. They're putting her height and how she stands out amongst other members of her team to good use and with awkward moves and all it really works.
/but hey, if that show will make at least one tall girl closer to follow her dreams of weighlifting regardless her figure and social standards, that's all cool anyway.

it wasn't just body fat, if it was mentioned at all, then only as one of other un-feminine traits: working muscles, veins popping out, red face, unattractive expression etc.
I think we all agree she was miscasted for a weighlifter, but she deals quite well with every other aspect of her role. She did gained some weight, her face became plumpier, she got really unflattering haircut, and when you look at her in the contest scene, you'll see she wears fatsuit on her forearms. Not to mention stuffed tights clearly seen when she walks down the corridor before that.

so we're back to longer format, but with a 10 minutes recap and filler-y retrospections.

they released some kind of special episode if you want 1 hour of spoilers: http://dramacool.io/hwarang-the-beginning-episode-1.html

@So Wa, you have your opinion, some can have other. I disagree with most of your interpretations and find your insisting that everyone else doesn't get it disturbing. I think you're biased towards Emperor/(actor?). In my eyes it wasn't until last third or even quarter of the show Nyang started to care about him. She didn't see him as a man and either resented, despised or didn't treat him as an adult. I don't know how can you watch the show and state that she would choose him. She and the king strategically regrouped for the good of their country. If they didn't loved each other (all three of them), the first scene wouldn't have so much impact.
She loved the king till the end, in her way. She grew attached to the Emperor.

o.O... Nirvana has a serious editing/sequencing/? problem, it's like 800 pages novel without chapters, just one huge flow, but trash? How is interweaving several plots in a way they're mutually illuminating each other a trash?
It's one of the few stories that shows aftermaths, not just impressive actions and confrontations. So it cannot have story arches cut into easily digestible pieces, with each opponent elegantly put off one after one (and staying put).

is there anything even remotely similar?

it was suprising to see so much of them, wasn't it? They were those types of characters you would expect to disappear after ep 1 when they served their purpose doing you-know-what. I commend the writter for constantly keeping me surprised and trying to make something out of non-characters.

She's younger than she was in that drama. /wait, are we talking about a girl who got so paranoid over a guy that she almost took a year off from her studies...? as a base of comparison of childishness?/
But come on! Since when high-schoolers can't be childish (for the sake of argument, because I disagree she's childish at all). She had no occassion to be childish since she turned 9.

I've been thinking about what makes it different from other kdramas (apart from movie-worthy cinematography). For me it's that the characters (all four of them) have a chance to miss each other so early in a story. It seems so natural.
Or it's just the power of that hat. And well cut coats combined with exposed ankles.

she makes a cameo in ep 8 of Legend of the Blue Sea, doesn't she?

dramalove is always one of the fastest.

can we a have a moment of appreciation how fast the subbers are with this one?
Also, I think we're staying with longer episodes. Ep 3 is again 1hr 20 minutes long.

you mean that one on kissasian? still aren't better.

Lots of voices complaining on how boring it becomes or how tedious scenes in the past are (like, OK? they're so short, usually placed at the beginning for your scrolling convience and from ep 4 or so starting to click with modern-days plot), but LOTBS is growing on me more and more. Despite all the antics coming from the mermaid being a wildling and her attitude, it was never just a fluffy rom-com to begin with. If you're an anime watcher and know Mushishi or Natsume Yuujinchou, you may recognize similar air of calmness, tenderness and fear of abandonment, here combined with a narrative inevitability of attractive main characters falling into each other (again and again).
Maybe not a most memorable kdrama of a year, but enough to lull oneself to sleep.

[Confession: I've been fast-forwarding all the chaebol family drama from the day 1 though. Sorry not sorry.]

I'm not so sure about lack of love triangles yet. What was the bratty nephew doing in a lending library?

W and Scarlet Heart: Ryeo were pretty lively when those two aired, at least at the beginning.

This drama suffers from an uneven writting and character building. It can only handle one part of the pair at once, but does it sometimes unexpectedly. The most boring second male lead ever (and I'm extremely prone to 2nd lead syndrome, so it's quite a feat to make me uninterested here) is counterbalanced by a likable (strong, bitchy in a classy way, self-respecting yet able to suspend her pride and be on a weaker, more vulnerable position when it comes to relationship) 2nd female lead. There are ambiguous, multi-layered antagonists and a fascinatingly messed up, laced-up male lead. Lee Dong Wook looks so fine in this, thin and sharp. Female lead is just typical airhead, tender, poor rich girl and her personality seems the most disjointed of them all - some qualities just emerge when needed for the plot never to be seen again.
It drags terribly. I wish it had half the episode number and more substance - just throw the comedic relief fillers out. And yet I feel like everyone falls in love too quick, so it's hard for me to relate or treat them seriously. I wouldn't mind dragging the angst from around ep 7-8 longer.
After 1/3 it seems to go downhill.

how is it? I'm thinking of picking it up again and and ffwd to his scenes some time.
/arghh, as little screentime he has, now he's sharing it with Yeo Joo from all people.