Drama lover

and Can I just say gmmtv is doing quality work after quality work.

I had put it on hold until it finished airing and just took it up.and finished it now. HE to all I guess but personally it would.have been happier if dean and jack would have just stayed friends. But on the other hand thats how adult relationships are, they are messy, yes even toxic sometimes and even when you are sure that some people shouldn't be together they endup together and doing what works for them becouse they are adults making their own decisions and you as a friend, family, bystander has to respect their decision.
That being said... I loved mix's performance here. I have veen with mix since a tale of a thousand stars and the growth throughout the years is just phenomenal.
And Earth' character jack just had this multi layerd level of assholiness that was very well portrayed considering jack was this quiet controled and controlling with a bit of manipulative tendency. So yes those punches were deserved. I belive it's hard portraying a quiet layered character but Earth was flawless.
I like both s1 and s2 they did give us different things and I guess I like them both for what they gave us.

Remeo and Julius in an underworld setting. I liked it, it was an enjoyable watch even with the normal things that irk me but I will give it a pass becouse as much as I hate tragedies I can't stay away from the whole blood debt of parents but children in love trope hoping for a different ending.

I went into this drama without any expectations just something to watch in the background, but it surprised me, I ended up watching with all my concentration becouse of the subject matter.
The question of what makes a human? good and evil, power and what lengths one would go to to attain it and what they are willing to sacrifice to attain it.
Questioning long held institutional beliefs. And if push comes to shove and everything you know belived and trusted is against you will you be able to stand with those weaker than you the oppressed. And what one would be willing to sacrifice to stand on that side.
This show brings into focus the other side of the search for immortality( where it can be an allegory for power, wealth) , the cost it incurs on the normal hard working people the greed associated with it even though they have lived long lives they still want more. And the arrogance associated with the class, looking at normal people as lesser being there for their whims, that their lives hold no value.
This is more than just a xian xia. Its an introspection on humanity and a social critique. And I loved it so much and it shows just what this genre can be used to convey.

i decided not tobrant about things that didn't meet my expectations and just look at the positive side. All I can say is I really hope all who were involved got their bags. I can see they put effort into their job.
and Also thank you for the epic Ost of embers by Jing Long. took me a while but I found it. gonna look for more of his work.

There are few dramas that have my heart. and make me love almost all of the characters, this is one of them. It made me laugh, cry and a whole lot in between. This is going to be one of the very few on my rewatch list.

I couldn't finish this pas that bathroom scene. I went in knowing what the strory was about. And Im not strong enough to watch this watered down retelling. I just can imagine what those children lived and continue to live through.

Do you want your heart broken from begging to end? I mean its roght there in the title. as thorns found any where they are going to hurt. but should you watch it? absolutely.
The perfomances, stellar. cinematography a feast. plot, can I just say that my heart is not ok. I really do want to watch it a second time but I am going to have to brace my self.
but still you should watch it.

A drama were every minute counts. There is no wasted scene. And it might seam like like this is just a it was all in my head cop out but it not.
At its core its a wonderfully written story of regret that keeps you on your toes asking your self what is going on?
I also dont like those oh, it was only a dream like scenario. but with this it was written in a way that 1. there was a foreshadowing, 2 tgat foreshadowing became a mystery, so you as the viewer is trying to unravel, is it alternate time lines? time travel? clairvoyance? so your invested in the characters and the plot.
Even the reveal at the end was artfully done. It wS set up more of a question. If your life was flashing through your eyes, how would you live it if you had 4 minutes?
But at the very end we do get back to reality and face the consequences of our actions.

I am putting this on hold, I am at a.pont in time where heavy romance dramas dont cut it for me. I need something else to keep my attention and this is not delivering for me. may be ill want to come to it later

I can say that the actors tried. they delivered solid chemistry especially in the intimate scenes, but out of that had a lot to be desired. The story oh I hate saying this had potential. It really did. but damn........ why? It just fell flat. And some of the performances were just lacking in emotional depth. I couldn't feel it.

I have seen it in dtamas but in the wrok settings. company events and stuff like that, but I hadn't seen it at this level on a university setting. And a question came up, like where do they get that much money? drinking doesn't come cheap.

7 episode in and yes, they dont disappoint on the messy messy friendship circle. Even though we dint get the everyone kissing everybody that I guess will have to lie on the iconic lands of onlyfriends S1. there is is no shortage of the amount of chaos, heart break, bad decisions and even worse actions of some of our characters.
The performances are chefs kiss with earth mix leasing the charge.

oh, we are never seeing this are we?
when was it made?

I just want to ask one question, do korean uni students really drink that much? and do all of them have part time jobs or rich family to be able to afford that or is it coming out of the student loans?

This is a gem And I guess it came out when I was on a break from bl dramas. I loved the subtlety of the story of how it was protrayed and oh my the tension like it qas stronger than garavity pulling you in. I ended up binge watching this in one sitting which is very rare for me these days.

first of I liked the strory especially the life times. the 16th c arc? is there a well produced drama set in that period I would love to watch it. Or a well peoduced one about thai mythology ?
Now, on to what made this series a chore to go through, the pacing. It was soo slooooow. It was playing at 1.5x and I still had to.fast.it.foward. It did not need to be as long as it was.
the acting. I am sure they tried their best but it did not deliver. especially the main leads, I just couldn't feel it, I couldn't feel them. And it's such a bummer cuz its a story of love and fate and perseverance and longing and it felt like there was a layer of insulation preventing those feeling from reaching me. I know what I was supposed to get but every time I tried to catch them I couldn't.
Hoping that their next project, if they decide to act as apair will be able to show case their talents.

this was hilarious, and Pond was the icing on this cake. his delivery was chefs kiss.
my only gripe would be the madia angle, it really didn't need to be there. they could have just made them a rich conglomerate family with alot of enemies. business is cut throat and they didn't even need to remove the kidnapping angle, the body guards nor the guns.
so the mafia angle was not necessary, or is there no way to become filthy rich without being in the mafia?

the criticism I have is with the time jump. no way 25 years not a wrinkle, not a gray hair, it wold have been more belivable if they would have used older actors but I do belive that would have elianted a lot.of their target audience. so if they wanted to use the same actors then they should have jumped 10 years, 15 by stretching it with really good makeup.
That beind said. I couldn't help but notice Armin everytime TD goes in for a kiss, my man had those lips open as a baby bird wanting to be fed. like go get your meal my man Im rooting for you.
All in all not a bad watch.

just finished this yesterday and what can I say? This was superb.
Chang yu and xie zheng were phenomenal.
The entire cast, their stories were just so engaging, Qian Qian, and Qi Mins relationship like whatchig a train crash and you so fixated that you cant look way. The princess royal who wanting freedom and her brother a tragically cowardly and incompetent invidual who really wanted to be a ruler.
And Oh how I loved the cinematography, each scene was a feast for the eyes. the costumes, they put a lot of effort in to that and I loved and appreciated it.
What intrigued me from the story line was how there was no "good" faction in the court. in most similar dramas I had seen there was always a good faction to root for. each and every one was acting on selfish desire thinking they knew what was best for the country, but ultimately it was for their own survival. But the final episodes ask and somehow tries to redeem them "what is a minister to do when faced with a tyrant or puppet for a ruler?"

The message with neon lights so the people in the back can see is that the price of war is human lives, we got to know, and like the people of Linan a small town like many throughout the land and how their lives were nothing more than a strategy to rile up a general. Or how the civilian lives of Baxia and the dam workers was another strategy for the war.