[Discussion] The Rooftop Prince

dapinaymrs wrote: Just sad. And this is even Rooftop Prince's thread. I wonder if people who like this drama refrain from posting here because it's really discouraging. I try to keep off threads where I can't say something positive about a drama. Makes no sense irking people. I like MDL because it's a tight community but really I think bashing RP makes people who liked it feel so ashamed for liking something you can't. Respect you all. Not looking for a fight either. Thanks for hearing me out.

dapinaymrs wrote:
I just don't understand why keep following a thread for a drama that you don't like. If you don't like it, what's the need of keeping up with it? Hate the drama more if you read more positive comments? How am I supposed to like this drama in peace when I can't stand negative comment either? (Not angry here just frustrated...eottoke.)

ladyfaile wrote: meh it doesn't bother me if someone doesn't like a drama i liked, and posts their opinions. as long as they're valid opinions and not just junk meant to get a rise out of everyone like "it sucks" etc.. if you have valid reasons for not liking it and aren't just trying to pick fights, go ahead. this is a RP discussion not an "I love RP" party. discussions can have positive and/or negative viewpoints. like Lis said, if we all agreed with each other all the time and everyone loved all the same dramas all the time, it would be kinda dull :P

that said, I did love this drama, but I do agree that there were certain things that could have been done differently/better. no drama is 100% perfect, I think it's totally acceptable to nitpick over small details and what you would have done differently etc in a drama discussion forum, that's sorta what it's for isn't it @____@;

LisNoir wrote: Same here the past couple of days, I've pretty much only posted when I'm quoted or when I agree with someone. I've pretty much let every other post "untouched" because I can't agree with them. So I "ignored" those posts. Well, not really ignored, but I didn't mention anything in them because each person will have their own opinion. :p

akai-kitsune wrote: I love to bash dramas Rita likes and as you all said I like my dramas even if I´m the only one liking it.

amrita828 wrote: You are right and I truly apologize to you and everyone else.
Unlike Lis and Sora, I dropped this drama, so I guess my opinion isn't complete.
I promise it won't happen again. :)

This said, I believe negative opinions can be expressed in discussion threads? Otherwise, what discussion is it?

LisNoir wrote: Yeah, but by the time I realized I should have really dropped it at Ep. 4 (when by that episode I still didn't like it), I had already watched too much and I decided to just finish it to write a review. :D I haven't written it because right now, it only say really, really, really bad things in a very direct way and I will not filter my thoughts...lol

I only got half of that...lol

soracantabile wrote: agree.. :)
this is not a fans club nor a like page..but discussions..so there will be various kinds of comments..
and tbh, when i like something that hated by most people,,for some reason i like the drama more...

yes..and we already posted why we rated this drama below what most people rated..
we posted it, and don't feel like to repeat it again and again..

amrita828 wrote: Yes, I understand the point, and as I said I'm not really proud of this strange feeling myself. Mind you, it's not that I dislike something BECAUSE other praise it, I dislike it first and then find a sort of discomfort in hearing it praised. Probably I feel lonely, lol.

Since you don't mind negative comments, I may just explain why I disliked it and consequently dropped it at episode 7: perhaps it may add something to the discussion.
I was first disappointed in finding out that this drama relies heavily on dejà-vu tropes: the super evil step sister, the meddling relatives, the birth secrets, the female heroine with a sacrifice instinct, every character lying for one reason or another, the love triangle. I thought that lately dramas had finally distanced themselves a little from these cliches found in every other rom-com or melodrama, and it was disappointing for me to find them back in full force here.
The humour was also kind of put off. It was incredibly hilarious at the beginning, but I was hoping that instead of working as a mere comedic relief, it would also lead to a characters growth. Instead, the 4 "power rangers", who were chosen by the prince in Joseon with a precise aim (the intellectual, the brave fighter, the eunuch), spend a good third of the drama using none of their respective "powers" and are just a group a comic figures with a vague trace of their original personalities. I don't know how and if they evolved in the second half of the drama, and I hope they did, but I thought 7 episodes with them wondering at every new technology invention and still behaving as Joseon servants were a little too much. Even though they were out of their elements and amazement is understandable, after weeks at least the intellectual ranger should have figured out by himself that behaving like Joseon characters wouldn't be of much help.

Finally, too long a screen time is spent on the machinations of the villains. I know it will all be resolved in time, i.e. at the end, but one needs a huge dose of patience to watch so many characters being led by the nose by a villain or more than one, with lies added on lies. It's frustrating.

A final consideration: I wouldn't have bothered neither to watch the first episodes nor to come and read this thread (well, part of it) if I hadn't been attracted to this drama in the beginning. At the end of the day, this is the problem: if I had been completely indifferent I'd have dropped it at ep. 1 and all's well that ends well.

wrote: Mind you, it's not that I dislike something BECAUSE other praise it, I dislike it first and then find a sort of discomfort in hearing it praised.