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1. I like the chemistry between two main leads
2. The story is just so enjoyable and entertaining
3. The love scene of those two main leads was pretty intense and cute to watch
4. It's happy ending :)
There are some unfortune and sad scenes that I don't really like..
And the webtoon charactee lives in real world and vice versa seems impossible, but this is the fantasy deama after all rihpght? We shouldn't use logic watching it :)
I recommend this drama to those who like fantasy story, if fantasy is not your thing maybe you won't enjoy it as much as I do
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Drags on forever
My biggest complaint about this drama is that it feels like it drags on forever. How many times are they going to try to execute a plan and then it fail? The time that was spent laying out and explaining the plan to the viewer was a waste of time because I, as the viewer, knew that the plan was going to fail. I also felt like the romantic montages were a waste of time. Finally, how many times is Kang Cheol supposed to almost die???That being said, I watched until the end because the premise itself is extremely intriguing. I love TV shows/dramas that include a storyline with multiple dimensions. I also like Lee Jong Suk as an actor. I feel like this drama had so much potential with this original storyline, but again, it felt so dragged out that by the end of the drama I was just ready for it to be over. I'm giving it 6.5 stars because I did think that the acting was very good, the storyline was intriguing, and I did care about what happened to the characters. I don't think I could sit through this drama again though because it was just so dang long.
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The separation and combination of both comic world and reality is refreshing compared to the normal time travel kdrama. The spark and romance between Lee jong suk and the female lead is exciting and so excellent. Every element seems to incorporate in the drama. It will definitely catches ur attention from the first episode itself.
The comic writer seems to be the perpetrator at last which is quite heartbreaking to see. However prepare to sit in a ride to see the challenges and adversities both the male and female lead face to meet a really sweet happy ending.
This drama is very refreshing and sets kdrama a level above. Really hope will be a season 2.
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Amazing
I felt like I really needed to write the review.I've watched sooo many dramas that I actually forgot how a drama feels like. I was too much focused on the story plot and only this drama brought back how I used to like the romance between the male and female lead. Luckily no triangle love story. Though it is an Suspense thriller story the little sweet romance was more than alluring. I blushed and laughed as if I was there in that drama. It's a must watch. No wonder everyone loves Lee Jong Suk.
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Worth Watching
I watched the Thai version of this show first ("Switch On") without realizing it was a remake of this one. I liked it and reviewed it on this site, but of course wanted to see this original version as soon as I learned of its existence so it was my very next watch. And this one was great! The Thai one, though I liked it, was nonsensical, but this one MADE TOTAL SENSE THE WHOLE WAY THROUGH!! Everything is explained! Such sweet, sweet logic! I missed that so much in the Thai version, lol.I've always loved the "comic comes to life" or "video game becomes real" trope and this one did not disappoint! Great storyline, believeable plots, good acting, no horrible misunderstanding, happy ending. They did leave a couple things hanging, though, a little bit. And I thought the romance was a bit more intense and compelling in the Thai version, but that doesn't mean this one wasn't good. Overall it was really good and worth watching. I'll probably watch it again in the future.
I'm rating the music a 5.5 simply because I barely noticed it...so it was neither compelling nor irritating. But the soundtrack has never been terribly important to me when watching a show anyway.
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I love it drama and also love Lee jong suk Acting Die heart fan
I love it drama and also love Lee jong suk Acting Die heart fan and I love has all Drama's Die heart fan from Pakistan Country Love You Lee Jong SukThey say friends are the family you choose, the wine to life, the yin to yang, but what does friendship mean to you?
It may embody all of the things mentioned above, or it might make you think of the ones closest to your heart. Whatever the case may be, it’s always nice to be reminded of the VIPs in your own life. By the same token, it’s nice to remind your besties just how important they are to you too.
Famous authors, poets and everyone in between have been trying to put friendship into words for ages. Whether you’re celebrating something special or just want to remind your BFF of how great they are, our collection of friendship quotes will help you get started. There are true friendship quotes to help you acknowledge those there for you through thick and thin and funny friendship quotes to make your best friend smile.
Quotes About Friendship
We could all use a reminder every once in a while of how important friendship is. Whether you’re trying to cheer someone up or add a sweet sentiment to a gift, the words below will help you craft your message.
quotes about friendship
Sometimes, being with your best friend, is all the therapy you need. -Unknown
Keep the ones that heard you when you never said a word. -Unknown
I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light.
A true friend accepts who you are, but also helps you become who you should be. -Unknown
A friend knows the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails. -
Sometimes you meet a person and you just click—you’re comfortable with them, like you’ve known them your whole life, and you don’t have to pretend to be anyone or anything. -Unknown
Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more. -Unknown
Just Because
quotes about friendship
That’s when I realized what a true friend was. Someone who would always love you—the imperfect you, the confused you, the wrong you—because that is what people are supposed to do. -Unknown
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
True friends are like diamonds—bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
A good friend knows all your stories. A best friend helped you create them. -Unknown
A friend is someone who makes it easy to believe in yourself. -
There’s nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate. -Unknown
Rare as is true love, true friendship is
Some people arrive and make such a beautiful impact on your life, you can barely remember what life was like without them.
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That one thing, which after more than 50 kdramas led to finally make an account here
Spoilers ahead. Major spoilers. Don't read ahead if you haven't seen it already..
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I've been watching kdramas for a while now. And the one thing, that, as a filmmaker, led me to finally make an account here, is to mention the one, probably the main, gaping plot-hole, that is, Oh Seung-moo being such a bad writer (mind me here, his art is spectacular, obviously), that he released so many episodes of his manhua without even having the slightest idea, or preparation of who the actual killer is? I mean, if I was a faceless killer, I would've been the same level of pissed as Kang-Chul when he discovered the reality.
And I absolutely love how well they have stitched the manhua world and real world together. And I genuinely enjoy watching it. But the only fact that no writer on earth would set one main objective for their protagonist, and set them as their main goal, would not give any thoughts to it. Idk, but that probably explains why he hasn't been famous all these years before this manhua. Given the situation though, the characters are behaving very naturally for people who have discovered that they are not real.
(I have also not completed watching it yet, so I will post edits and updates to my previous comment. I am also quite drunk, binging on this series, so I will get back to this when I'm sober to see if I've said any bs that I don't agree with while I'm sober. Although ranting this long about kdramas is not something I usually do, so I might also be drunk the next time I visit this post. Or not, because I'm going to seek treatment)
Also, I apologise for unrelated oversharing.
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Convoluted Creativity
The initial episodes was very exciting. Original story with webtoon characters coming back to life. But as each episode kept getting fresh twists and turns, it became too convoluted and complicated to relate to. Even the writer must have found it difficult to get out of this maze of their own creation. They should have stopped with 10-12 episodes.Even the doll-like cuteness of the ML and FL and their acting could not make this story or their romance relatable. There were scenes where the ML / FL was crying and I was just bored and waiting for the story to move on. It took a couple of months for me to force myself to finish watching this series, just to have that sense of completion and to get it over with. The last few episodes were watched at 1.5 speed. I am celebrating my successful completion of this watch by writing a small review as a reminder to myself mostly. Will definitely not choose to rewatch it ever again.
Watch this if you want some fantasy brain twister story where you can never guess what will happen next and stop with episode 10 or 12. I'm sure many people would get sick of the series by then like I did.
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I loved it because of the many twists and turns!
This drama was on my list for a while after I heard it was similar to Extraordinary You which I really enjoyed.It has a fresh concept and a very intriguing plot. It has a number of twists and turns (some people even said too many, but tbh this is what kept me at the edge of my seat) and nearly all episodes ended with a cliffhanger (which makes it very hard to stop watching). It's quite adrenaline-filled as well and its second half kept me at the edge of my seat either screaming at my laptop or chewing at my nails.
What I also really enjoyed was the merge of a variety of genres from a cheesy rom-com (first half of the drama) to an action-packed adventure and thriller in its second half.
The first few episodes are filled with comedy and I genuinely was able to have a good laugh and destress after a tiresome week at work. I especially enjoyed the character of Park Bu-Song, he was an extra and purely there for the comical relief, but he executed his role so well!
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I also really enjoyed the FL. I thought she was hilarious and relatable. I didn't see her as a damsel in distress either. Her facial expressions whenever she was dragged into the webtoon were hilarious, especially when she was trying to make sense of the whole situation at the very beginning.
I especially loved her desperation to leave the comic-book world at the very start of the show.
My favourite scene was when Yeon Joo was desperately looking for a way out of the webtoon in episode 2 and resorted to at first slapping and then kissing Chul, poor man was so confused but sorta liked it and we all knew it 😂. I was also expecting this (it was a little obvious in the lead up to the slap and when that didn't work my thoughts went "omg she's gonna kiss him now ... there she goes!")
I think what would have made Yeon Joo's character a little better was if she had a little bit of Chul's sassiness.
Okay, now let's talk about Chul.
This man is unbelievably attractive (and not just physically, but as a character). He has so much charisma. The way he carries himself just exudes this sort of influence and power like you know he is badass, successful, rich but also a sweetheart.
Every time this man winked my heart was ready to just burst. He was so sassy and flirty that most times I couldn't even tell whether he was being serious or just messing with the FL, but what I can tell for sure is that he was messing with my heart ... and I was ready to give it all up ... even though he's a fictional character.
The romance, I'll be honest, felt a bit unnatural to me. Not because the ML and FL literally kissed in the second episode (I honestly liked that ngl) but because I couldn't tell whether Chul really liked Yeon Joo or not. I think this became even more confusing to me in the episodes that followed the whole amnesia memory erase scene.
I also think this barrier between faking the kisses and I love you's that Yeon Joo sort of initiated as an attempt to get out of the cartoon world and actually liking Chul (and him developing feelings for Yeon Joo) overlapped a little bit.
The episodes following the amnesia scene where the couple is reunited once again are a little bumpy in terms of their romance. I know it will take Chul some time to get used to Yeon Joo and get to know her once again but again I couldn't tell whether his actions (dates and kisses and stuff) were justified by his feeling towards her or because he wanted to remember what he felt when they were together.
Also, I really wish they didn't wait for 15 episodes for Chul to say "I love you" to Yeon Joo and I really wanted that to come out way sooner in the drama. When he finally said it, it felt really unnatural. Like he just said it, because Yeon Joo was sad he never said it to her before and he just wanted to make her happy and didn't really mean it.
The drama has quite a few plotholes too, especially in the last episodes. I quite liked that Yeon Joo's father was a sacrifice that meant his daughter would lead a happy life. It was also the most logical part of ending the series. I mean, he started this mess and he was going to finish it.
Her father was unhappy, despite the success he gained from the webtoon and a drunk who seemed to not have much going for him. His life was sad which is what personally I think made his sacrifice even sadder.
But I can't help and be curious about what happened to the other characters of the webtoon. Do Yoon and So Hee specifically. We knew Chul was no longer the webtoon's main character and my only guess on how he was able to come to the real world was because the author intended on that's how his story would end - after all the author was the God. But what happens to the webtoon's universe? Do they continue living as if nothing happened or do they cease to exist since there's no longer a story to tell?
Also, I really wanted the drama to explore the whole how did this happen scenario. And why was it all controlled through one drawing tablet? Was it a magical tablet or was it just magic because it was the og tablet used to create the characters?
Apart from the plotholes, it left me a little confused with the very tacky time jumps and some unnecessary scenes that didn't really fit in well with the whole plot of the episodes. Sometimes I caught myself reminding myself that Yeon Joo was either dreaming or reminiscing or imagining things just so that I was not left even more confused.
Several parts in the drama are easy to catch on to (like you know what the characters will say or do before they say or do it). For example, I could tell pretty early on that Yeon Joo's father never really knew who the killer was in his comic book because he never got to develop that character.
Overall though, this was a great show. I watched it in two nights just because I could not let go and was so obsessed and eager to see how the plot will evolve. The many twists, in my opinion, really reflected the whole theme that this comic book suddenly had a mind of its own and its plot would move in unpredicatable directions.
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could have been better
w failed to deliver many things and the main thing for me were the characters. none of the characters seem fleshed out, and their relationships felt surface-deep. cheol and yeonjoo didn't seem like they had any real connection, like i didn't feel any chemistry at all. their relationship did not seem developed at all.another thing was the nonsense of it all. bad things were constantly happening and our main leads never got to take a break. i wish there was at least a moment where they could have enjoyed being together and got to know each other more, but it's villain after villain. some of it didn't make sense to me and things could have been better explained. the ending was kind of mid, i didn't even realize it was the last episode until there was no more.
performance wise the acting was cringe to me sometimes. it was so "kdramalike" the way their eyes move and the way they'd smile at nothing, or thinking out loud.
all in all i think the first episode set the tone for the rest of the show. didn't expect much and i was right
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So convoluted
When I began W, I found it extremely exciting and fast paced and I loved that. After completing it, I feel like the writer/director decided to keep adding twists and turns and the sheer number of complicated storylines is what brought my rating of this show from a 9 down to a 7. W is certainly impressive but I also have to agree with those that say that episode 12 could have easily been the finale. I do see the effort behind the writing but I just got a little tired of it by the end to the point that I didn't care if the ending was a happy or sad one. I just felt exhausted for the poor protagonist. Any normal human being would need lifelong therapy after just half of that.For those that enjoy romance, you will get plenty pretty early on. The action scenes were at times just average. However, I loved the animations and the blending of reality and the webtoon visually beautiful. The cast did a good job portraying their respected characters. However, the actors playing the male lead, Kang Chul's friends got a raw end of the deal. Their characters are not particularly deep or impressive. At times I wondered if Kang Chul really did consider them friends or not.
There also seems to be a missing element to this plot. Neither the creators nor the characters were truly in control. Then what made this webtoon special that brought life to these characters and what made Kang Chul resist the edits. Why was a window between the two worlds created in the first place? I would have loved to understand that and how the window was closed by Kang Chul.
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