so does that mean the game never existed at all? or was it just reset after they reached the 12th door? i’m…
It seems the original novel is about the netherworld. So it would seem that all things happened to people in coma. Ruan Lan Zhu is then a creature of the netherworld. It actually makes sense that after Ling Jiu Shi wakes up he has to wait 50 years to get back to the netherworld after he dies from old age. Creating a game for 50 years is a bit too much!
After learning that the original novel is about the netherworld, many things now make more sense, especially the time gap. They did a pretty good job of transferring the story to a game world but some things seem not quite right for the game context.
totally agreed! my review for the first season talks about the same points ( you can read it in comments). is…
I’d say it’s quite worth watching for the characters other than the main couple. For some bits of the main couple relationship, too, but be ready to see the two go back and forth, forth and back, so basically with little progress in any direction.
Watching this drama I feel a psychopath. It’s basically a comedy show for me. Unnecessarily convoluted, unevenly either too rushed or too drawn out with the characters making all sorts of weird decisions, so it fails to make any real emotional impact save for bemused amusement, if I may say so.
I tried to complete it but just couldn’t. Not even as backgroun noise for my crafting. The cast is passable but the script is extremely bad, which very likely did not help the cast to perform.
This drama in a nutshell: a marriage, some scheming, a dance, some scheming, some music, some scheming, another dance, again some scheming and on and on it goes. It gives me a headache, honest.
I do not expect much realism from manga adaptations. Even so, by Episode 2 of this season I was ready to give up. But then I persevered and it was a bit better after that, closer to season one in tone and mood. Character growth? Little to none, though. And the relationship of the main couple would be doomed to fail in real life. Inevitably. As would Nao's relationship with anyone, too. They say she cares about others more than about herself but all I saw was a clumsy egocentric child who has a lot of growing up to do, trapped as she was in her little delusional world.
And the relationship of the main couple was mostly driven by the people around them, with often very very bad pieces of advice.
OMG! what a great list! I wish it was possible to save it someplace and just go over it watching each and every…
You are welcome, fellow vertical-drama watcher.
I too wish there was a feature to save lists created by others to a tab on your own profile for future reference to have everything MDL-related on MDL, instead of having to bookmark it somewhere else.
This list is my attempt at some order and structure to track who and what in the chaotic world of vertical drama. It's a bit better today than it was back in early 2024, when I first came across this format, though!
As for the order, I prefer to keep it sorted this way. It's more or less a timeline of the first encounter for me, especially the first two pages. And it also means I can choose who will be featured on the list cover. Though a possible solution would be to add the current order as notes and then sort the list alphabetically. I don't promise to do it right away but I will think of it.
As the creator of the list I can click on Edit and then search the entire list at once but others don't have this ability, so it's indeed a limitation.
Episode 1 includes a trope that I pretty much hate. It’s called jump-to-conclusion: when people see somebody standing somewhere and immediately assume that the person did the thing they are standing next to. An appaling trope of misunderstandings.
And when you see supposedly briliant people doing this, it’s even more appaling. Because the teacher certainly is not portrayed as somebody focused only on math and math alone with no ability to navigate the world (that would be a plausible exuse).
Its just missing some details like why his mother went to seoul and how he managed to get back to busan when they…
It is told in the story. Sometimes with hints, other times almost straightforward. Like before they were still in school and then the female lead is a student of marine sports and they are all of the right age to drink beer. Before they used pagers and later already mobile flip-phones. These are all hints that several years have passed.
As for the father, this abusive monster hinted to his power and control over them. And then it was basically said in the mother’s conversation with her son.
The title of this drama should be not Temptation but Stupidity. Hong Joo does all the wrong things for little to no reason. Who wrote her like that? The best thing for such a destructive and self-destructing character would be therapy.
Other characters have their own cucarachas in their heads but their motivations are at least somewhat plausible. To keep watching or not to keep watching, now the question is.
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Well, yes. Something of the kind.
And the relationship of the main couple was mostly driven by the people around them, with often very very bad pieces of advice.
Unfortunately, watched it already. A rewatch is in my plans but not at the moment. :)
I too wish there was a feature to save lists created by others to a tab on your own profile for future reference to have everything MDL-related on MDL, instead of having to bookmark it somewhere else.
This list is my attempt at some order and structure to track who and what in the chaotic world of vertical drama. It's a bit better today than it was back in early 2024, when I first came across this format, though!
As for the order, I prefer to keep it sorted this way. It's more or less a timeline of the first encounter for me, especially the first two pages. And it also means I can choose who will be featured on the list cover. Though a possible solution would be to add the current order as notes and then sort the list alphabetically. I don't promise to do it right away but I will think of it.
As the creator of the list I can click on Edit and then search the entire list at once but others don't have this ability, so it's indeed a limitation.
And when you see supposedly briliant people doing this, it’s even more appaling. Because the teacher certainly is not portrayed as somebody focused only on math and math alone with no ability to navigate the world (that would be a plausible exuse).
As for the father, this abusive monster hinted to his power and control over them. And then it was basically said in the mother’s conversation with her son.
Other characters have their own cucarachas in their heads but their motivations are at least somewhat plausible. To keep watching or not to keep watching, now the question is.