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That's because MJTY is 24 eps so no matter how long the episodes are they won't surpass 40 x 45 min so that's not an issue. Hopefully WOL gets longer episodes but I'm not holding my breath as it's about to air we'll see how it goes.

I think it's because MDL changed its rules a while ago where popularity plays a role in a drama's rating, seeing as this show is rated by less than 200 people, that brought it down if you click on the little blue icon after "192 users" and go down you can see the ratings by age group and on average that puts it at an 8.4 at least.

This writer loves her time loops, she did feel good to die which was really fun, hopefully we get the same level of writing here.

I have such respect for this writer because that mystery was so tightly plotted, everything made sense while also being suspenseful and exciting. Way too often lately we get mystery dramas (chinese/korean) with a lot of bells and whistles to distract us from the fact that the writing is a mess, with characters everyone keeps telling you are smart but are actually deeply stupid and enough plot holes for a Swiss cheese wheel. In a genre where the story lives and dies by how well written the plot is but also needs its characters to have believable motivations and act accordingly, it's a very hard thing to do.

I loved this drama but I have the same complaints regarding some of the details, I don't understand why the writers chose to have sangeng never find out about his father as well as having him side with the monster that is lu zhi knowing what he did and knowing his master had it coming for his role in the events 20 yrs ago, not that negates him from wanting revenge or justice but him choosing to use the same methods wei was using and perhaps even worse because he ended up causing so many innocent deaths. I also see some people condemning wei for the path he took and I ask what else was he supposed to do? I know you said he had zhong's writings but what would those prove coming from the son of a dead prostitute? Did they even have something they could compare it to, while lu zhi had evidence and witnesses that framed lujixin. Even if he pretended he was lu yubuo what proof did he have that he was? All he would've done was gotten himself killed.

Not San Geng joining hands with the people who caused his father's death against the only person trying to get a measure of justice or revenge against them and all to avenge the man who murdered his father... He doesn't know but oh the irony and utter hypocrisy of him saying " can you get justice for my master when the killer is a high official" coming from his mouth as if he isn't doing the exact same thing as magistrate wei, taking matters into his own hands and siding with someone he knows is a mass murderer for his own revenge and in doing so caused the death of nine people. It's been years since i've disliked a lead character so much.

I wouldn't say Lu buyou was led astray because what exactly was he supposed to do? He was declared dead with no evidence against the people who murdered his entire family including his little sister and dozens of other innocent servants and they had become rich and powerful, they were all evil and deserved so much worse...

This drama was supposed to be 54 eps and it shows, we're getting the speedrun version of character arcs that should've taken dozens of episodes. We get so few non fantasy historical dramas as it is. Do the ones who make it through censorship hell have to be butchered so utterly in terms of content AND number of episodes, I really miss the days of yanxi palace and ming lan.

Let's hope that we get the bts for that scene because it is never passing censorship, especially since this is airing on tv and not just an online platform...

I need this to happen even though it seems unlikely after no news for such a long time. This writer and this director? Absolute gold, they adapted ming lan to absolute perfection and I need them to do 10 other dramas together.

This drama rewired my brain and I haven't been the same ever since. The level of devotion the FL displayed here was so incredible, so powerful, while also being kind, smart and never compromising her beliefs, other female leads wish they had half her dedication, we get so many devoted MLs but rarely do their counterparts return it in the same levels and it is so gratifying to see, this; Queen in hyun's man and LBFAD are the only 3 dramas where I wholeheartedly believed two people loved each other so equally and utterly they would move heaven and earth for each other. I just wish we got to see more female leads like this, I think they believe since they cater to a female audience we want to see men doing everything for the women but that's not how you tell a love story, it should be both, it should always be both.

I'm only on ep 7 and my blood is boiling. I need every single of one of these f*ckers who had a hand in assaulting and re-victimizing this poor poor girl to have their life ruined. The monstrosity of not only raping her but having her get abused and belittled time and time again after doing it is just too much.

How about everyone else who was complicit? I'm gonna need everyone of them to burn, especially those guards who assaulted her while asking her to tell the story of what happened for their "investigation", those pigs

I was so excited for this and demon hunter's romance, being a cdrama fan is such an exercise in disappointment, if it's not the ccp banning all subjects known to man or butchering dramas beyond recognition it's actors acting like they were just born yesterday and don't know what country they live in or enforced episode numbers that make no sense...

Absolutely, I've noticed this lately and it's not just kdramas, it's cdramas and western shows too. It's like well written well developed female character has in often cases become synonymous with "woman who treats her love interest like trash".

Exactly, there's nothing I love more than interesting complex female characters but if your goal is to tell a love story you need to balance good character writing with a believable romance.

The best sageuk romance of all time, it was incredibly angsty but you believed BOTH these people would move heaven and earth for each other and if you're telling a love story, isn't that how it should be? It feels like a lot of these writers now think we want to self insert as the FL and I'm just like nah just show me an epic love story.

I truly miss the ride or die OTPs , kdramaland used to be FILLED with them, princess man, healer, it's okay that's love, queen inhyun's man and that's what I loved so much about these romances , two people who will do anything for each other, I adored female leads who knew what they wanted and fought for it no matter what. I feel like nowadays there's this trend of very dedicated male leads and the female leads are just like the "go girl give us nothing" meme and I don't get it at all.

If you're trying to sell me on a epic romance this is not the way to do it, that needs to have both sides be as equally devoted. This is not even remotely close to that, the FL is just always saying the most vile horrifying stuff to this man, if you want to watch a ride or die queen who gives back as much as she gets go watch Princess' man.

Is the drama following the novel closely? I'm thinking with censorship they cut a lot of stuff and made it flufflier.