Drama lover

please don't tell me this has a happy ending for hua yong, please tell me no.
Ok shao you is an emotionally unavailable arrogant quick tempered jerk, but you know exactly what your getting your self into when you start something with him and he did not deserve what emotional torture hua yong has done to him. like Noo, I mean no.
No matter what Hua yong has done for shao you and his father, hua yong that manipulative narcissistic selfish emotionally torturing psycho deserves nothing. Props and congrats to the actor who played him I hated the character.
'I Love him and want him no matter what even if it means hurting and potentially traumatising him' what sort of logic is that?
I'd never thought Id say this, but after his yong I'm all for characters pestering their crush until they give in and date them.'

can I just say that this is a visual fest. like damn. and the costumes, absolutely exquisite.

fingers crossed, please let it be good please let it be good. please let it be good.🙏

I watched this while it was airing, can't believe it's been 4 years. but recently got a translation of the book, and I can say I was surprised. usually they remove scenes from books for the drama, but here I can see they added, a lot. like damn non of those intimate scenes where in the book.

my only complain would be the coworkers gossiping scene. And the asking the top and bottom, I know it happens in real life but in the drama I would have wished for a little more of a reprimand and they really shouldn't have given and answer. even if implied. it's really invasive and originally that question stems from the homophobic so who's the man and who's the woman. it's really non of anyones business, it's like asking a get couple so what's your position during sex. Absolutely inappropriate.
That was added in the drama not in the book.

This is a solid watch. when I started watching it I hadn't read the book it was based on, but I dove right in, I mean it's priest. even if the butcher it to high heaven they would have a good foundation in a priest story. And I wasn't disappointed. like oh my it was too short. I wanted more of them.
Now after finishing reading the novel there is so much left out and changed from the book, but it doesn't detract from the drama. If they wanted to include everything 12 episodes is less than enough and it would have been a lot lot darker.
So I loved this so much my only complain will be listed out in a spoiler comment

this should be renamed as Hua house for mistreated royals and nobles. And of all the sisters the daughter of the concubine Win is so badass. talk about cunning. That house would have been hell if she had decided to unleash it against the Hua family.

kyoichi is the perfect lover in that he is attentive, seemingly kind, and seems to care about hurting his lovers except he is the one hurting his lover because of his infidelity. He must be doing something right because all these lover just can't seam to let go of him, wanting him no matter what while he corners himself in relationships takes them for granted and keeps dreaming of something/someone else. He can't seam to be satisfied with what he has. I'm wondering if he is a compulsive cheater.
Wataru is the ultimate loyal lover who has been in love with the same person for more than 8 years but his love is bordering on obsession. Doing everything he can, coercion, trying to break up his relationship in uni just to have the love of his life who on multiple occasions has rejected him.
Oh they were toxic on soo many levels, with their own screwed versions of love that seemed right to them.
I don't think I was meant to like any of the characters in this, none of them made me want to root for them, well maybe tamaki she was innocent in all of this, may she learns a lesson on life and men.
But I loved how it ended

There was something missing, I wouldn't go as to call it boring, but I wouy call it luckluster? or is it too little plot to be stretched over 6 episodes?
As always the actors gave their all, and the cinematography was superb. But I can't help thinking if this would have been better as a 2 HR movie?

oh there is that phenomenon going on? I can be called a veteran kdrama fan as it's entering almost 15 years since I started watching k dramas and I have seen that shift into more darker themes. And the thing is Korea has made media like that for a while but you would mostly see it in movies or in the rare OCN productions. Maybe because I am more a fan of darker themes so I think it's great. And it's not like they are not making the sweet, fluffy light hearted "pure" what ever that means dramas they are those in spades.
What I'm wondering is if they had always wanted to made darker themes dramas but they were harder to get green lit in k broadcasting companies but now with Netflix and other streaming platforms they can get green lit more easier?
All in all personally a wonderful change and me wanting more.

If you want to watch this movie and not want want spoilers what I would advise is not to read the comments. That is what I thankfully did. This needs to be experienced. All I can say is that it is a Queer movie in all its glory.

the first 3 episodes almost made me want to drop this, and no it's not because of the death of bulldozer, but everything leading up to it seamed so nonsensical I wanted to scream. and the reveal of how he died was just........ but I kept on watching and I clocked the mastermind the moment his face was shown on screen. All in all I watched till the end and I'm glad. it was entertaining, but personally not as good as season one, still worth I watch.

even though you know they are not going to end up together you still have this hope that it will work out. And as he goes more into her past her fate is set in stone, and the irony of him being the reason her fate is sealed. It's a really good drama, even I who hate sad endings and try to avoid them as much as I can, found myself drawn into their love, their struggle of being from two different time doomed to separated.
This somehow reminded me of the book 'the time travelers wife', I even forgot the ending of that book since I read it so long ago and I guess the scene that reminded me of it was them meeting him middle aged and her a girl.

4 episodes in and wow. wat he'd this via yt rec, why doesn't it have a higher rating? the characters, the gripping portrayals. I really hate it when good stories like this get almost buried, but so happy that I found it.

ah yes, I remember I watched this, had forgotten until it came up in my recommend. well it made me look for the webtoon, and I am not a webtoon fan. I am not gonna put on any of my list and I do not recommend. watch it at your own peril. wishing the actors and everyone involved better in their careers

this was a fun watch. I actually had to put on hold the first season and took me while to actually watch this but ended up watching this on a binge. I really want more of the Lee brothers and even more of the three mountain gods. season 2 was actually better than 1 and that is so rare, hope the magic continues for the next season.

Now that we are seeing more monsters as good guys fighting even worse monsters (humans) in the SK drama scene can we please have a vampire drama with all the gory and darkness associated with a vampire protag.

mnh, a glorious mess? all I can say is damn. My thoughts when watching this was that Ray, Top and Ton need therapy. These characters are a lot more than just flawed. The problem they are having, and their mathods of coping with them are all symptoms of underlying mental health issues, and although family and friend support are crucial sometimes a little more may be needed and I hope for more mental health advocacy and awareness.I guess the only thing that comes close is the one that's provided by the rehab?
But on the other hand I understand why it's not a prominent feature.
But oh my that friend group, leave out cheum and yo with their partners, had any supporting character not kiss or made out with the main characters? and I guess Boeing is up there, with a whopping 5 out of the six?

I had seen a comment saying that the romance is slow to develop but when it does it's explosive. And although I was fore warned, I was still 🤯. I have watched a lot of historical/Xian xia/wuxia dramas and I have gotten used to it's not lackluster then minimal or subdued on the romance aspect.
And I think the kiss shows another aspect of Xie's character, he has these intense wants and needs but for a long time he has had to restrain and repress himself. So after getting what he wanted he was like a thirsty man in the desert and someone just presented him with a gallon of cold water. My man drank, and wanted more.

oh, it's been soo long since I've seen In sung in a drama.
All in all its a solid watch. For those who like linear story telling, this might not be your cup of tea.
I want a season 2, really do. I hope those end credits scenes are alluding to one cuz there is just so many questions left unanswered.
And the ones running the black ops department are total and utter idiots. No one thought to do a bit of research as to what makes them different? at all? like not even to try and find something to control them? their physical weaknesses? No one thought of going in that direction with what almost 40 years of the department being active?
But damn the education system in SK is so commanding, yes we want to train the next generation of superhumans but they MUST sit for their CSATs.