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I'm enjoying this a lot. What a great cast! And the story is so good! Low key funny, not in-your-face-forced-funny. You get all the best veteran actors and the extremely immersed and charismatic Yang Se Jong! The return of Bubblegum Uncle as a bonus!

Too much metanarration dropped the foundation for enjoyment away. Why have great historical costumes, settings and spend money just to constantly underline it's all in a cartoon? The first episodes were real fun. But when the other prince arrived, everything went downhill and became draggy and stressful. From then on this was trope after trope after trope. Ok Taecyeon and Seo Hyun were great in their roles, and I hope both get better scripts in the future. Taecyeon was dreamy handsome and totally sweet and swoonworthy, and the main reason I watched until the end. 7/10.

It's possible that with so much blocking to do, I could have blocked also people who don't deserve it. Send me a msg pls.

Pls do not respond, my opinion is solely mine and your opinion must be placed in your own line.

In my view this would have required much more time for the FL & ML relationship development. Too many subplots, too many unpleasant characters makes for a less enjoyable viewing experience. The media and gossip machinery plot is of course very realistic. But I'd like to have just lingered more on the filming sites and the bookstore. Also, we'd need to know more about the original film's plot. I can't say I've enjoyed watching this drama after the first 3 episodes. NKM is still concrete at ep 10. He built a role well but I'm not finding his withdrawn character at all sympathetic. A man in love should be a little more messy or foolish. But this is what the director wanted, a very stronghanded director I must say. Things that irritate me: FL's initial childishness - just came across as somewhat manic and hysterical. The way EVERYONE talks in the same halting manner. Drop....their...lines....with...long...breaks....between....every word...and....sentence. I've landed from 9.0 to 6.0. Will finish just bc I've come too far to drop.

Too many subplots, too many unpleasant characters.

Thanks for the response. I didn't know about Bai Jing Ting's popularity. That explains the higher viewer amount. Very true that the ratings of Light On dramas deserve to be much higher in general and that this drama's rating is well deserved from that perspective. Personally I tend to look forward to veteran actors performances the most (as they're frequently simply stunning).

I agree it's also a matter of taste. The Long Season ending was very touching, imo. Great drama. I also enjoyed Thirteen Years of Dust and Let Wind Goes By immensely. I did enjoy even The Pavilion, and Crimson River quite a lot actually (I don't mind the low ratings), actually even more than Justifiable Defense.

It's a mystery to me why this drama is so highly rated and popular compared to the earlier Light On series dramas that are way more ambitious (and mostly rated 7.5 max with under 500 viewers). This is just an okay drama which is kind of lost in repetition. Circling around the question of how to define and measure what counts as justified defense. This is 7.0 max to me. I'm currently watching Tender Light, which is arthouse level and a masterpiece. If anyone is curious of what the heck I'm talking about, I made a list: https://kisskh.at/list/Lp6QvXR4

Anyone make clips of Go Jun yet? The sightings are too few.

I don't think it's sane to argue and even insult users whose opinion differ from your own. Anyone with one brain cell will know that people's opinions and interpretations will differ. Read the text above: Keep things kind and civil.

Pls avoid user warfare, it's ugly. You have a new account. Pls read the text above the comment section.

6.5

agree on all points. I did enjoy the drama though, it had its good moments so I kept watching despite those cringey storylines and characters: the split personality storyline, FL acting like a 15 year old, (adult man romancing a teenager just felt weird), Mr. Kun who has supposed to be a comical relief sidekick but wasn't, Leopard being in the cringiest villainess Top 3, ML backstory in Heisha, and a lot more. I gave it a generous 7.5. nevertheless.

I liked his acting the most in this drama.

That one is and always has been the queen of user warfare. That she admits here ("I seem always to end up in fights"). I saw this very clearly in the Love Next Door page. It was awful. Only thing to do is to block, block, block. All the evelyns, faiths and sallys are alt accounts of the same user or users. Unfortunately lots of profiles to block, but that's MDL for you. Don't loose the motivation to discuss. Here pettiness can't be avoided. So it's best just not to engage with users who you don't like or agree with.

yes, it was. Also ep 7 was boring. I was disappointed at the return of the other prince (villain), he makes the drama stressful. I was enjoying this a lot during the first 6 eps

agreed.

Ratings don't matter. Best dramas that I've seen (Chinese) are always below 8.0. It's okay for a drama to appeal to a mature or a niche audience. Most people here are under 20.

Jae In and the ex guy are so unnecessary and formulaic. Time to start the filming.

She is a main character in Be Melodramatic and I think that was her best role