They hide his physique well and only once did I notice the extreme lithe figure of his; there was a scene where he sat and the camera focused on his extremely thin legs.
I found it getting blander as it progressed towards the end. Romance was not the focus and had few high points concentrated in select episodes. I just stuck around because of Bai Lu, I would have dropped it a while ago if not for her.
How is this compared to FIS. Absolutely loved that one
I think FIS is better than this. FIS is more polished. This one gets a bit derailed towards the end with some plot lines starting and then concluding in a rushed manner.
Finally finished, it turned extremely cheesy in some parts but overall it was a good ride. The dad's sister story was rushed and lacked polish and served as one of the two low points of the story, the other being Ga Hee's plot with the stone faced love interest.
I likeed na hee and da hee stories the most. The divorces are depicted very realistically for current generation. Where the older generation would have refrained and thought things through, the young often call their quits without understanding each other. The most apparent reason being lack of communication, even though it is iterated everywhere, still people fall prey to it.
I have experienced my parents rebounding before divorce finalization, more times than I can count throughout my life. Their problems were also lack of clear and honest communication.
But I can see how most westernized cultures can go towards divorce in a hitch. At least in our culture there are steps to a divorce, which can help couples reconcile and how it takes not a month but a course of many months to actually finalize it.
They surely did, it was so awkward. One of the scenes was way off as it was kind of a dreamy flashback with blurred background, clear character and then this focused half eaten censored fruit (apple?) being eaten...
Actually the eaten part is censored not the whole fruit, such intricacies...
I couldn't get into it from E2, the whole fiasco of the naive girl doing reckless heroic deed to incur ire of the whole world didn't sit well with me. Her interactions with the "demon" were also odd and how she could do what she did with impunity, live life without any problems too was also unbelievable. I was baffled how her grandfather didn't educate her at all about worldly affairs and how to navigate them.
It took E10 to get me back into it and then went great till E28-29 where weak plots again made a mess of things but wow, the romance is just too good. Still many parts of it are not worth watching.
After this they delay important events so much that I am forced to skip even more of it.
She is unique for lack of a better word. I first saw her in IOTNBO and have been hunting for her acts since. Not just looks, she has a unique way to her posture, body language and superb acting.
This one is an okay fair and requires vast amounts of suspension of belief to make it enjoyable. I am not such a capable person but I still went with it using massive skips .
This is cliche galore in its most purest form.
On top the producers don't even try to make the cross dressing FL like a guy, she wears red lipstick for Christ sake! Behaves completely like a girl and wears clothes which completely show off her feminine figure.
Its not like I don't like cross dressing fantasies but this one just ticks me off.
Disclaimer: My reviews are largely bent towards romance.
It is a good show. Not something very good, it has its highs and its boring bland lows. It is understandable that the actual rating of this drama gets influenced by the superb second half. The first half had me yawning many times, though it had its highs as well.
The drama glows when any of the five are on screen. The familial bonds and how they go with their lives. Only in the second half did parent generation also becomes fascinating. That is exactly why the first half is disappointing.
The romance between the main three, overall seems shoe horned and it is not the focal plot of this show and gets relegated to background many times even though many focal plots do depend on it. The fish kiss reactions of the FL don't help either. Even the ML does his part well in the first few times but the petrified FL ruins it for the poor guy. I guess that's why he later stops his futile efforts for the rest of the drama, still his touch is delicate and full of feeling. Suffice to say, skip the kiss scenes, the romance is so much better without them.
The romance in the elder generation and the other characters is much more fascinating and interesting.
Well as it progressed, it increasingly became cliche and then the plot needed some suspension of belief to progress.…
Finally finished, last two episodes were a skip fest. The climax was anticlimactic and boring. The last episode was so rushed that the producers even cut the last kiss just before it happened! The audacity!
It is such a breadth of fresh air with such an open minded, direct and assertive FL. Am still in the middle of…
Well as it progressed, it increasingly became cliche and then the plot needed some suspension of belief to progress. I have not finished it yet but I am not really comfortable with what it became.
It is such a breadth of fresh air with such an open minded, direct and assertive FL. Am still in the middle of it but really every scene with her in it is a delight to watch, you never know which out of the world thing she is going to say or do next.
I binged it with many skips, especially wherever the coach appeared. Even without those I could perfectly predict what had happened. And really the drama was about the other characters rather than her, she was a stimulant of sorts. And well that actress has done so many similar roles recently with similar lines of thought, it only made her more repulsive.
The last turning point in the main plotline was mishandled and I couldn't make sense of why did they decide to deliver it like that.
Overall the drama delivered few and far between scenes of note. So it is a definite watchable affair, not deserving of its current hype, in my subjective opinion.
I use to think the exact same thing as you during the first few episodes. I was having headaches trying to understand…
I work on and off as an English editor for Chinese/Japanese translations so I understand the reality of translations. It takes significant effort and expertise to translate the correct meaning or substitute it with culturally correct meanings.
Unfortunately the Chinese TV Drama scene does not enjoy the level of quality, the novel scene presents. It has more or less to do with the extreme compensation disparity due to continuous funding through external sources (I ran a TL group once and we grew a grove of money trees every month).
I use to think the exact same thing as you during the first few episodes. I was having headaches trying to understand…
Well I finished it just now. And well I guess it is a cultural thing but I only found the comedic aspect after the FL goes to ML's city. Still I liked the show even when I term it as serious, the politics and plots were well done. The most intelligent character remained the queen. The romance was good and it even made me like the super short odd ending.
I use to think the exact same thing as you during the first few episodes. I was having headaches trying to understand…
I concur to some extent. The romance is cute and has me sticking around.
But I am now on E14 and I still haven't grasped the comedy, yep, no luaghs till now. I would go even further and say that it is a serious drama. This is really something new to me, I have never ever found a drama so contradictory to the popular opinion.
The FL is still the same as ever. In fact, hypocrisy has been added to her fame as evidenced in the bandits arc where she felt no remorse for her soldiers dying while she orchestrates her grand scheme to acquire one man, unwanted by everyone!
Such problems make me wish she tastes bitter defeat which finally makes her sensible, ah, wishful thinking... I don't know which part of the drama oozes intelligence when the only truly intelligent character is not a lead but the mother of the FL with extremely limited screen time.
Don't know what the praise is about but its not comedic at all. I suppose this comedy should have started in the first 6 episodes but I have not laughed once...
I find the FL utterly foolish and a complete airhead. I can't fathom how the creator of a story can't excel in her own story, don't know the thought process of her own crafted characters and devise such utterly foolish schemes. She can't even fit in nor pretend to, in the environment of her own making.
I guess perhaps it could be comedic to a much younger audience than myself who can overlook the many fallacies of this serial.
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I likeed na hee and da hee stories the most. The divorces are depicted very realistically for current generation. Where the older generation would have refrained and thought things through, the young often call their quits without understanding each other. The most apparent reason being lack of communication, even though it is iterated everywhere, still people fall prey to it.
I have experienced my parents rebounding before divorce finalization, more times than I can count throughout my life. Their problems were also lack of clear and honest communication.
But I can see how most westernized cultures can go towards divorce in a hitch. At least in our culture there are steps to a divorce, which can help couples reconcile and how it takes not a month but a course of many months to actually finalize it.
Actually the eaten part is censored not the whole fruit, such intricacies...
I wonder who they are trying to protect and from what!
It took E10 to get me back into it and then went great till E28-29 where weak plots again made a mess of things but wow, the romance is just too good. Still many parts of it are not worth watching.
After this they delay important events so much that I am forced to skip even more of it.
This is cliche galore in its most purest form.
On top the producers don't even try to make the cross dressing FL like a guy, she wears red lipstick for Christ sake! Behaves completely like a girl and wears clothes which completely show off her feminine figure.
Its not like I don't like cross dressing fantasies but this one just ticks me off.
It is a good show. Not something very good, it has its highs and its boring bland lows. It is understandable that the actual rating of this drama gets influenced by the superb second half. The first half had me yawning many times, though it had its highs as well.
The drama glows when any of the five are on screen. The familial bonds and how they go with their lives. Only in the second half did parent generation also becomes fascinating. That is exactly why the first half is disappointing.
The romance between the main three, overall seems shoe horned and it is not the focal plot of this show and gets relegated to background many times even though many focal plots do depend on it. The fish kiss reactions of the FL don't help either. Even the ML does his part well in the first few times but the petrified FL ruins it for the poor guy. I guess that's why he later stops his futile efforts for the rest of the drama, still his touch is delicate and full of feeling. Suffice to say, skip the kiss scenes, the romance is so much better without them.
The romance in the elder generation and the other characters is much more fascinating and interesting.
Rating: 8.5/10
The last turning point in the main plotline was mishandled and I couldn't make sense of why did they decide to deliver it like that.
Overall the drama delivered few and far between scenes of note. So it is a definite watchable affair, not deserving of its current hype, in my subjective opinion.
7/10.
Unfortunately the Chinese TV Drama scene does not enjoy the level of quality, the novel scene presents. It has more or less to do with the extreme compensation disparity due to continuous funding through external sources (I ran a TL group once and we grew a grove of money trees every month).
But I am now on E14 and I still haven't grasped the comedy, yep, no luaghs till now. I would go even further and say that it is a serious drama. This is really something new to me, I have never ever found a drama so contradictory to the popular opinion.
The FL is still the same as ever. In fact, hypocrisy has been added to her fame as evidenced in the bandits arc where she felt no remorse for her soldiers dying while she orchestrates her grand scheme to acquire one man, unwanted by everyone!
Such problems make me wish she tastes bitter defeat which finally makes her sensible, ah, wishful thinking... I don't know which part of the drama oozes intelligence when the only truly intelligent character is not a lead but the mother of the FL with extremely limited screen time.
I find the FL utterly foolish and a complete airhead. I can't fathom how the creator of a story can't excel in her own story, don't know the thought process of her own crafted characters and devise such utterly foolish schemes. She can't even fit in nor pretend to, in the environment of her own making.
I guess perhaps it could be comedic to a much younger audience than myself who can overlook the many fallacies of this serial.