Kate

I'm bestie with Satan himself 🔥🙂🔥

Please, I've been through wars on mdl and came on top 😅

daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, guess I'll chill in hell then ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

What if I only have 2 out of 3 required qualities? 🤔

I don't know... define righteous first 🙂

I gave up on perfect presentation on anything mental health related in asian cinema. This was far better than majority of productions, so I'm honestly happy with what I've got.

Ben dying was one thing, but they way they baited with happy moments and hope was just trash move and so unnecessary.

is this for real or is this some roleplaying fanfic writing? 🤡😅

I did not really read the novel so I cannot comment on how it was executed there, BUT even if this story was extremely well written and presented in the novel, it does not mean it can then be presented 1:1 on a completely different media like drama. There are things that work in writing, but do not work on screen, and work on screen, but not on writing.

I 100% agree on her performances of the main cast. For sure one of the best aspects of the show 🔥

Sorry for the late reply but it was rather late yesterday and today i finished worked like an hour ago 🤡

I totally agree the number of eps could have been longer. There was so much shit not addressed at all. One of my biggest issues was A Reum and her abusive home. They randomly close to the end dropped the news, her mother slapped her, she left home to be in the Motel California, but then Motel California is turning into Nursing Home... so what now? How is her situation? Her mom's? What's up with dad? How anyone reacts to it? Like... they dropped such a massive shit and fucked off without any info 🙂

As for this whole bullies things, based on past kdrama experiences, I'm sure it was the real apology. Did YS facilitate it? Sure. But that's usually the case when someone who never apologized wants to do it now - they don't know how and they need kick in the ass to push them forward to do it. Koreans LOVE their quick happy fixes in dramas without any realism.

One example: Summer Strike with children being abused and neglected by alcoholic father, blamed for his accident, forced to apologize and then one day everything was happy and all good again 😂 Koreans love that fake shit that has no place in reality 🤡

The author needs to find the right balance. How much I needed to convey the horrors of the war? How much is needed to show the seriousness of mental health? I do think they missed the mark here...

I know my Ben obsession is going to last for a bit 🤡

lol especially the delulu Ben and Sa Xin ones, right? 🤣🤣

Your take on bullies is the realistic take, but I honestly do not think this was how they presented it in the show. I do think they try to make it seem sincere and that's what pissed me off.

By everyone being heal I had more in mind the mental/psychological traumas, not physical illnesses. Since the psychological bits are usually the ones being "cured" with power of love, not the cancer 😅

"She apologized for the trauma the mother, better-educated about carbon monoxide, felt thinking someone ELSE was trying to kill her. " this would not be the issue IF it was mutual apology. I do not care how traumatized this bish was, abusing and bullying a child for years is NOT right.

Here I was convinced the new suitor was a total con artist. I still feel it. Too smooth and meticulous feeling to me. His stop, flowers don't cry line was a good sort of sudden absurdist moment. it felt ad-libbed. By a con artist:)! < THIS OMG! Even his business card looks fake as fuck 🤣

IF they actually presented it in a cynical way you put it, I would have no issues. But with how it was shot and acted, the editing, background music - it was all "real, honest, we truly are all good and happy here" bullshit.

So.. she is alone. The person did not ask about a whole analysis of what happens to her throughout the show, they just wanted the general idea if she is fine.

I get it. I gonna think about this show for quite some time myself... 🙂

The term I used was trauma not torture (being a horror movie fan, there is a huge difference 😅) but the meaning in here kind of the same...

Nothing much. She is still a doctor in Eastern Country. Last scene we see her in the bar alone after the war ended

My feed posts about the drama:

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/NqwykSZ
Initial thoughts and my instant love for Ben.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/8X7wVf6
4 eps in, loving Ben more.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/8X7zBu6
How my love for Ben and Sa Xin started.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/leA33Te
Going full Delulu.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/VxdR7f5
Going full Delulu pt. 2

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/8X7WBt6
Emotional reaction to episode 12

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/8XLAZU6
Episode 13-14 and how I appreciated the psychological aspects.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/bjzVAue
Full on rant about episode 15-16.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/oz5dXS0
More Delulu thoughts.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/J4V1KHR
Just me loving Ben.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/J4VdDsR
Trauma porn post - it started to get exhausting.

https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/feeds/A8qQrSA
Eps 25-26 - a lot of emotional delulu reactions about Ben and Sa Xin.

I did not even think about the chemistry lol But you are right, it was not really there. I was so focused on the trauma, I did not pay attention to their romance tbh 🤣

As for PTSD... not everyone gets better. People who suffer from it have 30-40% higher mortality rate. Obviously not all of this is connected to suicide, but the life quality overall with PTSD gets worse and not everyone is able to heal for various reasons. So with that I was not even mad. They should have just made the drama shorter, so the repetitiveness would not be this exhausting for the viewers. We would still get the message with how hard it is to heal.

Final rating 8/10. Don't ask me why, I don't know. Anything below feels wrong. But I also don't think 8 makes sense. It's all feels and vibes, no thought behind that number. For the thoughts you can read the review 🤣

Going by good and bad points with no context:
🔥 Ben and Sa Xin forever. Love them. Bless them. How did this pass censorship?
🔥 Ben's existence changed my life. I'm a whole new woman now.
🔥 This was the best performance Chen Zhe Yuan ever gave, probably best performance I have seen in any chinese drama ever. Saw fucking raw and so perfect. I am speechless.
🔥 Solid representation on how serious mental health issues are and how there is no quick fix for them. Sometimes, there is no fix at all.
🔥 Amazing soundtrack! Remove that do re mi fa sol la song, and it's 10/10 easy.
🔥 Surprisingly good practical and special effects.
🔥 Ending that makes sense.

👎🏻 Kind of a trauma porn if you ask me.
👎🏻 Because Chen Zhe Yuan did such a perfect job, even though everyone did amazing job too, they still felt flat next to him.
👎🏻 Some issues were dealt with questionable resolutions.
👎🏻 Should have been shorter - 30 episodes would be enough to present the same story with the same depth, with less repetitiveness.

Review: https://kisskh.at/profile/theKate/reviews/429898
There are spoilers in the review, it's rather long-ish analysis of the show.