The honest answer is that no one knows what going on. Even if you see someone mention something from leaked scripts, it doesn’t mean anything because multiple versions of scripts had been leaked and we don’t know what the author/director ultimately decided to do 😳
I swear some people are watching this drama with their eyes closed because how on earth do you come to the conclusion…
to be more precise, if you watch this drama carefully, how can you come to ANY conclusion when the author keeps throwing twists & turns at every possible opportunity!
I don't really know how the ratings work here but seeing the ratings go above 9 for most episodes, I'm surprised…
Given how fickle ratings are on MDL, anything above 8.0 is still worth looking into. I don’t really pay attention to exact numbers because they can be manipulated, especially by haters/antis who show up for almost every drama and thrive on getting ratings very low. Reading comments and reviews from trustworthy people is much better.
If this drama had 40 episodes other than 29 episodes, this is what the author would have done to mess with us even further:
Episodes 30-35: heroes open a portal into an alternate universe and end up in our world, specifically Republic era. Two male leads are now rival private investigators, two female leads are femme fatales manipulating them (or is someone else manipulating them too? 🤔). Due to budget cuts, colorists are not employed so the whole arc is in black & white. CGI is too expensive, so no magical powers — just gunfights and boxing.
Episodes 36-40: heroes end up in the present day where two female leads are now top online sales ladies and two male leads have mysterious pasts and unknown goals. Due to further budget cuts, half of the footage is filmed as a vlog and half on VHS cameras 📼 . No budget for CGI or wire work, so the action is done like a Hong Kong style action movie. Film crew ran out of fake blood 🩸, so every day before filing starts, everyone has to donate some blood for heroes to spit out / be covered in
Why there are people voting the episodes that aren't out yet? What's the fun of downrating a series that you still…
It’s pretty common, unfortunately, for haters/antis to leave reviews and rate episodes claiming they’ve watched entire series even though a drama aired 5-6 episodes. That’s why it’s not unusual to have a drama have very low ratings early on — Pursuit of Jade was a recent notable exception (rankings stayed solid until closer to the end… until the episodes got leaked which invited a horde of haters/trolls who lowered score from 9.2 to 9.1).
Okay, it gets more interesting as we see them interact. The politics are still whatever but her blunt proposal…
It’s funny to read your running commentary :) I do hope 2ML stays a good friend to both of them and doesn’t try to interject (as a PM, he apparently has some control over royal marriages).
If you just imagine that this is set in the UK, this is a completely realistic story. You have a rich FL who needs…
I do hope they don’t sign an official marriage contract for the arranged marriage. As we’ve seen in a million dramas, those contracts always will be discovered and used by enemies to drive a couple apart for an episode or two before they reconcile 🙄😁
Once Upon a Small Town is great if you just want something chill and something that doesn’t have over-the-top drama/angst that K-dramas tend to have. It’s set in a very picturesque village, has adorable animals (ML is a vet) and is very bingeable. It’s only 12 episodes x 30 minutes, so around 6 hours of watch time.
It’s not the greatest drama ever or anything like that, but I’ve seen watched it twice and enjoyed it quite a lot.
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Episodes 30-35: heroes open a portal into an alternate universe and end up in our world, specifically Republic era. Two male leads are now rival private investigators, two female leads are femme fatales manipulating them (or is someone else manipulating them too? 🤔). Due to budget cuts, colorists are not employed so the whole arc is in black & white. CGI is too expensive, so no magical powers — just gunfights and boxing.
Episodes 36-40: heroes end up in the present day where two female leads are now top online sales ladies and two male leads have mysterious pasts and unknown goals. Due to further budget cuts, half of the footage is filmed as a vlog and half on VHS cameras 📼 . No budget for CGI or wire work, so the action is done like a Hong Kong style action movie. Film crew ran out of fake blood 🩸, so every day before filing starts, everyone has to donate some blood for heroes to spit out / be covered in
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I do hope 2ML stays a good friend to both of them and doesn’t try to interject (as a PM, he apparently has some control over royal marriages).
It’s not the greatest drama ever or anything like that, but I’ve seen watched it twice and enjoyed it quite a lot.