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I didn’t count… lol, but I remembered there were….. 🤔 good point… I actually don’t recall if there were many or it was considered little… just remembered it was quite natural…. Or at least I didn’t notice they were missing… only one I remembered that was oddly lacking was The Long Ballad. 🤣

Ah same, I started watching around that time too, maybe 2020, though I’m unsure if Untamed was the first one. But I tried watching some from 2015, 2017 recently and I nearly died. I kinda forgot how bad they were until I was reminded. 🤣 so in relative terms no dubbing has irked me since 2019… I just know how bad it used to be…. I deemed it unwatchable then.

Yeap, already watched Miss S… was very good. Totally a normal drama with normal editing, no weirdness, well developed. Oh gosh and the wardrobe for Miss S was so good. So classy, posh and elegant. So very Great Gatsby. His chemistry with Ma Yili was off the charts! I didn’t watch/complete all of Vengo’s dramas though, I dropped the military one and I didn’t watch the doctor one… I’m interested in the doctor one actually because of how it was based on a true story but could never commit to watching it…. Probably because I feel it’s more suitable as a movie and not a drama.

I’m pretty sure…. The ans is no… 🤣 I’m not 100% sure though.

Yea, I noticed dubbing has improved tremendously, think they still keep it to pass multiple regulatory reviews… I used to reallllyyy hate it because I think it sounds so unnatural. So I never watched C-dramas.

I’m going to stop watching now and wait until it ends to binge. 38 episodes….. hurmmmm… lol, too much potential for it to go so wrong but I’m hopeful because someone on MDL read the novel and said it was really good. 🤓

Oh yea for sure, otherwise they wouldn’t have such stringent censorships… don’t think they’ve ever truly approved of the industry to begin with.

lol, dubbing… am glad at least this aspect has improved over the years…. I was watching some older dramas and noticed the lips and dubbing can be completely different for a few sentences at a time. 🤣 has to stop it, was just too bad.

Yea, was pleasantly surprised when it was released! 👏🏻

LOL.

So true. I just wish he had longer hair. This hairstyle is very military-ish… he had longer hair in his earlier modern dramas, or even his profile pic…. Think that would go well with a suit. 🤣

I think maybe there are trying to control ‘oligopoly’ between celebs… so that the chances are more evened out to everyone. Instead of having big dramas/productions just given to a few people in a year. Just my deduction coz most of Mainland policy is having no one dominate or monopolise any industry…. And narrowing gaps between extremes.

No idea. But I asked someone who read the novel in a different post and he/she said the novel was really good. So it gives me some hope that they have enough material for 38 episodes. Otherwise it will just be another editing and plot development gone wrong C-drama……

Loving the bromance. The banter between the youngest brother and ML is amusing… 🤣

The first 6 episodes are good. The focus isn’t on romance yet. I watched the trailer and I felt it was sooooo romance focused that it was a bit much given the 38 episodes. No idea if it would develop oddly, but some other MDL members read the novel and apparently the novel is really good.

Haha, yea, I read some of the comments yesterday… to look at the pic with him in the mask. I think it’s better coz the ending in the novel was beyond sad honestly…. After I read it I felt so empty. Was like wth…. Sad ending is fine, but the words the author used and the way it was written was so…. Despondent…..?

Was kinda happy when I saw the picture, and I also thought the elaboration on what seems to be a revenge/comeback final 2 episodes to be VERY good. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 The novel ending was so ironic… it ended at around episode 35….

It was the same in the novel, slightly worse actually. And I was actually really surprised after reading it because he died so suddenly…. I totally wasn’t expecting it. And the way he died was just so….. sad. The entire thing was so sadly written in the novel. It’s almost like she had nothing… everything was like a ‘dream’…. Coz in the novel she never even told him she loved him….. like she’s always loving the wrong person at the wrong time and had never…. Really had a real relationship. Everything came and went with the wind.., and in the end she ended up with nothing….. 😔 I think them not ending up together is fine, but the never having a real moment with CWD was just…… gosh. Beyond sad.

I don’t think he loved her at any point, not romantically…. I felt he was touched and didn’t mind reciprocating because there was no one else in the picture and she was aggressively pursuing him but it never was the romantic kinda love…. I mean he fancied her but like defo not a ‘heart skips a beat and I can’t live without you’ kind…Which I felt they kinda emulated in the drama as well…. Except the ending I spse. In the earlier bits of the drama he did say that he views her more as a family… like a sister….

I actually preferred the novel’s direction better…

Yes, so in the novel the child came from a drunken night…. Kinda was a mistake… hence why I think the guy just really feels responsible towards her and has all along viewed her as more of family…. I do think he fancied her at one point but I never thought it was love.

Nope. Was made explicitly clear towards the end…. He definitely took a liking to her and reciprocated because she was so straightforward with her feelings and openly chased after him…. So all along his ‘ideal’ type of partner has always been BFY kind.
I personally felt the novel made more sense because I think it kinda applies to both men and women generally…. Like a guy chasing after a girl and the girl falls for a guy who’s not her type…… not everyone will fall in love with the guy, think for girls the outcome is probably divided…. Even if they choose to get together with the guy… doesn’t necessarily mean it’s romantic kinda love. So I think it even more so applies to a guy given their nature.

I’m surprised they stuck so closely to the novel…. With the exception of a few things… (i.e WJG doesn’t love MoXi and never did actually, he only took a liking to her, there isn’t a kid in the drama etc etc) but there are 2 more episodes left, meaning they elaborated the ending and probably changed things… coz the novel ended about like now… i.e episode 35.

Super underrated though the MDL score is more reflective vs. the Douban score. Sad that this drama was plagued by a scandal…. The main themes here are totally worth exploring and is intriguing…. Seldom explored by dramas…. I spse the thing that bugged most viewers was how the romance started…. So the love between the leads not only took many episodes to set up but it was written in kinda cringe-ey and unrealistic way (cringeworthy dialogue included)…. The weirdest thing is their relationship was so inspirational AFTER they got together. So this C-drama is in the minority whereby the best bit of the plot was in the last 10 episodes….. 🤔

Was actually quite surprised because the female lead characters were very strong, independent and admirable…. And the tech + A.I plot was actually really well-written… also the career of the other leads was refreshing…. it was pretty realistic….. esp because they all came from different walks of life….

It still has other flaws etc but I defo didn’t sense any misogyny nor bullying of women etc in the plot. It did very well in portraying just how men are…. They are certainly very different from women…

In short, it had a lot of potential, very watchable…. but the script should have been further refined to ‘perfect’ it…. Defo a good attempt given so many dramas nowadays are all about female perspective with feminism as the main theme (and some of them are totally sending the wrong msgs 🤦🏻‍♀️)…. I’m actually more curious of the male perspective….

I was dumb… again…. I have been holding back, and waiting for it to complete airing before binging… but I noticed the episodes were quite quick to update so I thought it should just be another week or 10 days….. and then got sucked in before I read your comment and went to look at the schedule….. I’m like wth….. they actually daily release for 20 episodes…… before breaking it, I’ve never seen that before (at least I don’t recall it prior)…. Usually they only do it for first 10 episodes. OR they will daily release until the end.

SIGHS…. Totally got conned….. again….. epic fail. 🤦🏻‍♀️

That’s the world’s most painful schedule…. Lol, and superb evil marketing although very effective. 🤣

Really?? I truly don’t have much faith in a 40 episode modern C- drama esp an office one, it’s way too long. Ok, looking forward to the adaptation then… the trailer doesn’t do it much justice coz it purely focuses on romance… that’s super difficult to carry for 40 episodes. I’m hoping it has a few main themes…