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English is not my native language, and even I'm pretty bad at English. So everything goes through the machine translator.
"To miss" is a verb that means "to have not noticed something". Like "I missed the train".
But I forget that sometimes you say that too when you remember something you liked... What an idea to use the same verb to say two opposite things !

I'll take an interest in CodeGeass then.

Instead of justifying yourself so pathetically, you should just admit the obvious:
You love to create buzz!!!!
:-D

In another article, you compare Empress Ki's mind-game to Death Note's, and you haven't even seen Death Note?!
You're killing me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, look at the anime Death-Note, it's a must see. If you like stories with mindgames, Liar Game (Japanese version of course) is even better. And the anime Kaiji, a little less cerebral, but more psychological.

Normally, when you like this kind of story, you should like W. But there's still a difference. In DN and LG, there are explanations that allow us to understand everything. In W, the characters are in ignorance and have to guess. The spectators are placed in the point of view of the characters. The spectators have less information, and also have to make their brain work. Which they are rarely given time to do. If everything was explained directly, there would not be an atmosphere of mystery; the characters would be surprised by the plot-twists, but not the spectators. Which is still less cool. In fact this drama is incomprehensible the first time you watch it. I love this kind of delirium, but it's a bit suicidal to offer it in a kdrama.

In the same genre, there's the movie "Primer". The last part of the film is really too complicated, I saw it 10 times, but I gave up. On youtube, there are nerds who make graphic diagrams to explain it. Even then, you don't understand anything. The movie was made by a former engineer. ^^

Speaking of Code Geass, I have no idea what it is.

When love strikes, it's not always the person you imagined. ^^

I did enjoy the Hotel Del Luna drama, though, to a certain extent. The actress was pretty funny at first and the writers are talented. The episodes became boring towards the end. And when I tried to finish it, everything seemed very artificial to me.
I gave that example but maybe it's not the right one. I've seen worse, in other dramas, but I can't remember which ones, and I certainly dropped the drama, for additional reasons.

The male lead may look like a child, but he has a lot of maturity. The principle is very reminiscent of the Goblin drama. An immature 1,000 year old girl, and a serious 20 year old guy.
The male lead is someone who has found inner peace, obviously, and he often makes ironic remarks to the female lead. He never gets angry when she's angry. He may be the only guy who could tolerate her! The couple is a good match for that. I don't know what level of inner peace I would need to achieve to put myself in his shoes. He's superhuman!

The attitude of the female lead: at the beginning of her life, she was already someone with a bad temper. I am trying to analyze this logically now, I should have done it before.
If she lives 1000 years, is the head of the hotel and has power, no one will be there to confront her. So effectively, her bad temper could continue and get worse.
On the other hand... If she lives to be 1000 years old, she should still have some time to do some soul-searching... Acquire wisdom on her own.
It's hard to tell if the character is badly written or not. Sometimes the finality prevails over coherence. It will be more fun to show a funny character with childish behaviour. There's a famous law about scriptwriting "If it's funny, do it".

Afterwards, and this is also a personal feeling: actress UI is one of the actresses who have a very low impact on me. That's what I call "a cute girl", and there are plenty of them. She opens her eyes wide and that makes her pretty. But I don't feel any real femininity or charm for that kind of actress. She's a former IDOL. And in this genre I prefer Suzy Bay, who has more charm, and often makes adorable faces. Although Suzy Bay is often criticized, she managed to convince me on two dramas. In "Moon Lovers", UI also lacked stature, and with Lee Song Gi as the lead actor, that doesn't help.

However, Hwang Jung Eum is crazy funny in "incarnation of money".
https://youtu.be/SsXHp0JpUoY?list=PLRHvZ-qMquk0vRQi2x-5-ySeepR10tUVk&t=41
There are no subtitles, so I'll summarize the context:
The two main characters can't stand each other, but they have to team up. They spy on two other characters, but they have to keep a low profile. To do this, they act as if they were an ordinary couple, with a few loving gestures...

Human behaviour has its roots in hundreds of thousands of years. At the level of the reptilian brain itself, as well as the totality of psychic representations (archetypes), and of course the physical condition. It is not a fashionable, fleeting way of thinking that will change this, except to cause more disasters because it is ignorant of human nature. The only way to move towards more respect is individual, "Know yourself", as Socrates used to say, and this is valid for both sexes.
Korean society uses the philosophy of Confucius, which was conceived in difficult times with the pragmatic aim of establishing peace. In what name would a Westerner have a say in this? To destroy that? And replace it with what? Something with no historical validity?

Writers are responsible for their work. The producer is not going to write their screenplays. His main concern is the ratings. So the only thing the producer will ask (and provided it's not a pre-production) is that the writer changes the script to make it more exciting and get better ratings (typical makjang) for the next episodes. And when the screenwriter will do it, it will be to please the female audience more...

The reason why actresses are more criticized than men has already been said. The Oppa syndrome. Personally I think actresses are better than actors. And I'm probably wrong as a man too. It's just that when I see a cute actress like Park Min-Young, I'm basically satisfied. Plus, she doesn't overact. But she's not really expressive, apart from her eyes. She's certainly an actress who's not as good as I think she is, just because I fell under her spell.

Well said. As a man, my subjective opinion is that, on the whole, Korean actresses are better than actors.
It's hard to find actresses who are 100% completely lame. Even the actresses I don't like always get a chance to surprise me someday and get a good part.
But actors... Lee MinHo, the most popular guy, because he's just handsome... While he always makes the same face most of the time! Or worse, Ro Woon, totally unable to act, and girls dare to rate Acting 10!

Hwang Jung Eum is a living nightmare that can drive you crazy. A permanent alarm siren, a worker using a jackhammer under your window, a neighbour using a drill on Sundays.

One of the best scenarios I know, but one that is highly destabilizing for people used to kdramas. I understand that this kind of science fiction can be off-putting. Maybe it would have been more successful if it had been done in anime in Japan, before being made into a drama. People want to see a sentimental story, and we give them something more complicated than Death Note, without the two pages of instructions in the notebook! :-D

I don't thank you, because I'm trying very hard not to say such foolish things.
Because of you and your bad example, I also start saying unpopular comments.
If fans of the drama CLOY read this forum, I will be shot on a firing squad!
They're here, they're watching us, they've placed spy microphones everywhere.

If you want crash landing on your bed, it's perfect ! :-D

CLOY: A woman is trapped in North Korea, but it's okay, she's got lots of friends, she can kiss on a fishing boat, and turn an entire military regiment into a fashion victim. ^^

I really like "damsel in distress" characters. Even when the character is stupid. To put herself in such a risky situation, the character necessarily has a problem, either of intelligence or psychological weakness.

Unfortunately, a lot of scripts don't live up to this kind of character, and use clichés. So in this case, I agree, it's really not interesting as a character type. It even annoys me a lot!

One of my favourite "damsel in distress" characters is the female lead in the drama "Love in sadness". She was a sweet and sensitive woman who was psychologically destroyed after years of abuse. Her situation is heartbreaking. This character is weak, and tries hard to get a little more strength, but every step is difficult, and the results are inevitably modest. If no one helps her, she will die.

I see you wrote a review yourself, so I'll leave my comment.
You're a good match for your passion and enthusiasm!
Everybody is like that in front of a perfect work. I have a tendency to regain my composure before writing, but the feeling is the same.

However, you really get involved with the characters in the first degree, which I never do. I love the way a character as humanly imperfect as Ta Hwan is portrayed. In fact, at the beginning of the story, I would say "I love to hate him". The only time I lost that point of view was on the drama "Love in sadness" for the second male lead. I really hated the character, and I wanted to punch him in the face! It wouldn't surprise me if the actor was assaulted in the street.

Concerning the love story, the solution is given by the flashback at the end, which takes up the scene where they are on the beach, and where the heroine has to choose who she rides a horse with. This scene is very moving, once it's repeated at the end.
On the drama "Giant", the writers had used the same process. "Giant" is also a very good drama that looks like Empress Ki. But there are a few flaws, and Empress Ki corrects all those flaws. The writers got better between the two dramas.

You said two things about this drama in an article, but unfortunately, you didn't write about it in your review. Two really important points.
- The law of the worst. When a situation can evolve into more darkness, often no last-minute twist can save that. And besides, one wonders how the script will be able to continue after that. This is the original definition of the term "makjang", but later on, the term was diverted from its original meaning.
- The importance of the mind-game. The characters' strategies are often devious and clever. It may not be as crazy as in Death Note as you say, but it's an important point. When I wrote my own review, I had forgotten that!

Empress Ki is my 3st favorite drama of all time. And 1st one about historical ^^
I don't write many review, but I did on this one :
https://mydramalist.com/profile/7647047/reviews
It's a bit short for such a drama, but it's difficult to speak about everything.

I suppose my opinions are as unpopular as yours.
;-)
Your reaction made me laugh.
I'm not a hater. It's more the accumulation, which at some point makes me sharp sometimes.
But I guess you were ready for that, with your heavy shooting.

Thanks for SFD, I really like historical drama.

Ha Ji Won often plays characters with good strength of mind, as well as strong physical abilities. But what I like about her characters is that she doesn't stay in a brutal state all the time. On the contrary, she also plays a sensitive and kind woman.

In some recent dramas, female characters who are supposed to be strong, or badass, are actually weak. They are immature girls, their use of violence is unrealistic, and rather testifies to their emotional hysteria. These characters are incapable of playing real women with strength of spirit and gentleness at the same time. They are stereotypical characters!

Such characters are correct in comedy, but unfit for the sentimental story. I cannot speak for other men, but it is clear that I could not love this kind of girl.
A character like the one in Hotel Del Luna: what man would want a life as a couple with a girl who is always in a bad mood and who spends her time rallying? She's a shrew, all she needs is a rolling pin to hit with!

The use of shallow stereotypes is above all a big flaw in the script.

King2Heart, I don't know if you liked that drama. But it put me through something that never happened to me before, or a long, long time ago.
On the last episode, I was breathless. Physically, I couldn't breathe.

If you want to see an outstanding performance by actress Ha Ji Won :
Watch Empress Ki and Hwang Jin Yi.
She's also very good in King2Heart, but it's hard to recommend because her acting is incomprehensible to Westerners. She plays a North Korean soldier, so she has worked on her role to have the attitudes of a North Korean.

I can't comment on your whole list because there's a lot of drama I haven't seen in it.
But from the little I can analyze, I'm going to assume that most of your opinions are wrong.

So, some objective facts...
- I'm particularly interested in the acting of actresses. Naturally, since I'm a man, they're the ones who grab my attention first. I'm receptive to all the details of their faces. What I'm looking for is a great quality of interpretation.
- For other projects, I have to make screenshots of entire dramas. About 3 frames per second. So I have all the facial expressions of different actresses in different dramas.
- Han Hyo Joo is a movie actress. That means she has more time to work on a role, improve her acting, and make it richer, rather than relying on her natural reflexes alone.

Exceptionally, she agreed to do a drama because she was enthusiastic about the script of "W". Being so motivated by the drama, she worked a lot on her role. Having seen other of her dramas, such as Dong Yi (6 years earlier), her acting is different and adapted to the character. A large majority of actresses don't do that, but rather play their own character. And an even greater number of actresses are unable to display complex expressions, based on a set of anatomical details of the face, ranging from eyebrows to the twitching of the chin.

The richness of the actress's acting in W is just staggering. And this is reflected in all the screenshots of the drama. A diversity of facial expressions that I rarely see. She brought her character to life. The character evolves in the story, and goes through all sorts of different phases, so many different ways of interpreting it.
Do I have to go through it scene by scene? That would be a bit long, and any intelligent person would prefer to watch the drama, and concentrate on its genius script.
And fortunately, she regularly opens her eyes wide! Given her situation in the story, no ordinary character would remain static.

Your article is not unique in the genre, and from time to time I see it on the internet for other actresses, in other dramas.
I've seen the very poor analytical work in these kinds of articles.
It's more about caricatured allergic reactions, where a blogger has taken a dislike to an actor or actress. Maybe because one day one of its characters disappointed them, or the actress was not as good in her debut. Or any other irrational reason.

So for Shin Se Kyung and Six Flying Dragon: thank God I want to see this drama! And I'm not going to use my own prejudices about the actress.
Indeed, Shin Se Kyung is an irregular actress, who unfortunately often chooses bad dramas.
She is sometimes not very expressive, or sometimes overacting very badly (Blade Man). However, she has also had some good performances (her role as a princess in Queen Seon Deok). Or she has been able to completely carry a whole drama with a fresh and funny character (The Girl who see scent).