Eleison

The sound editing in Cdramas sometimes is extremely distracting and almost maddening (my only gripe with the Nirvana in Fire seasons--they make even slight breathing loud and it's SO distracting!). You'd think they'd have lots of practice perfecting this aspect of filming considering ALL of the sound is added later in Cdramas, but even these recent dramas struggle to get the sound right. It's not something I'm used to, after primarily watching Kdramas and western cinema/media. I wonder if Cdramas are extremely rushed and have crazy deadlines to meet? It seems to be the only explanation for the sloppy sound editing?

And yes, gripes aside, it is still fun! 😉

That's a good point. But his fear when the lights turned off seemed genuine enough.😅 I guess that's what made me confused.

He sure grew up a lot in a year! I think they had a younger actor playing his character when his mom got stabbed.

Sun Cheol also looks very much like an adult!

And wasn't it one of the other policeman who tazed him at the end right before he went to help the teacher? I got the impression many of the policemen were paid off, like the principal at Yuseong.

I did think it made zero sense, too, that the principal would confess AT THE SCHOOL. Of all the places to pick to confess, why there? 😅

Great fun! Loved it.

I've never seen anything like what happened to this drama on this site before. I don't know why, but I felt ashamed just watching it all. 😳 It was mostly embarrassing, but also horrifying to watch the sheer power of internet gossip and group think. Yikes!

So true!

It's a much slower pace than more recent costume dramas and has lots of conversing scenes, but if you can push through the pace (everything is important in NiF), the last half or so is SWEET. I prefer dramas that end stronger than they start. I think they're rare, and Nirvana in Fire is one of them.

It doesn't start badly nor is it poorly written (nothing about NiF is poorly written), but the rich, rich pay-off at the end does take some patience and determination to reach, I think. I think it doesn't use cheap spectacle, cliffhangers and scandal to keep you hooked. It's doing something more robust; harder to appreciate at first, but more satisfying in the end.

I just mean he's very petite (even if tall). 😅

This creator has a solid track record--might check this one out once it's closer to being done airing!

Cause he has such a young/baby face face and his frame is so thin, he easily passes for a high schooler.

Yes, it doesn't seem to fit his body! 😅

I guess it's a case of picking your poison: slow and drawn out with filler (the plague of older dramas), or rushed and fast-paced (the plague of newer dramas)? I find only the best Kdramas escape falling into either category, regardless of the format.

That said, I didn't feel like this one was very rushed (just my opinion, though).

Have you seen Nirvana In Fire?

Nope, I do, but it's possible I didn't properly interpret the tone of your response. Not to put down teenagers, but on MDL, people tend to reference them as a way to insult someone's taste or opinion (e.g. "only teenagers could like that; if you liked it, you must be a teenager" (implied definition of a teenager when used in this way: "shallow, someone without a valid opinion, flighty, only care about good looks and not about substance, can't tell the good from the bad, immature," etc. many meanings, I know, but it's used as a "catch-all" for "you don't know what your're talking about)).

That's the way it came across in your response. If you didn't intend it in that way, then just so you know, that's the way it sounded. 😉

So true! 😅

I think that's a fair criticism; the characters do save each other at different points (or try to), and I always interpreted their affection as stemming from deep gratitude. Sol was grateful Sun Jae encouraged her to live and not give up when she was at her darkest point, and the same was true several times for Sun Jae being encouraged by Sol when life got hard for him (I think gratitude is a great atarting point for affection!). It might not demonstrate the reason for such an intense devotion as we see in this, but dramas are rarely realistic anyway. It's not what they're going for. That said, I do think I see what you mean. This one has romance shown in fantasy (in more ways than one), while some romance dramas lean a bit more into the realistic.

That said, I don't think this is teenage love (it looks quite different from this, and wouldn't span time loops or this much adversity, just saying), but it is certainly largely fantastical and not a thing in the real world. Maybe it's more the sort of love a teenager might actually imagine would be possible, not so much a love they would be able to display. (While adults won't buy it because they probably know better, and will enjoy it strictly as fantasy). 😉

The way I look at it, all dramas are somewhere on the spectrum of utterly illogical/unrealistic to somewhat so. So, pick your poison! 😅 And there's a huge variety of things within the spectrum. In my (admittedly) limited experience, most Cdramas do not lean towards the somewhat illogical/unrealistic but down towards the utterly illogical/unrealistic. But they CAN be entertaining!

"You must be very young, teenager?"

What a demeaning way to start a post. 🙄