Eleison

Preach! 👏👏👏

And they show that he's not into her in any way when she's young/growing up; it's not until he truly gets to know her and learns to enjoy and respect her company that he starts to fall for her. In fact, he blows her off repeatedly before starting to soften as they grow closer. I think that also made it feel not creepy to me. She was the one pursuing him and wanting to be around him and, as you say, he never uses his power/age to manipulate or control her.

Her dying at the end was just completely unnecessary. I have no idea what purpose it served! Ticked me off to no end! But the music is fabulous. ☺️

Yeah, we think of ghouls that live in mountains and who hate the sun when we hear "goblin" (for English speakers). 😅

If I were to watch this, which episodes could I safely skip so as to enjoy what's worth watching of this? If I just stop it halfway and just skip to the end will that be satisfying enough? 😅

Viki is very good compared to Netflix and Prime and all the others. I haven't used Disney for dramas but with Viki I feel like I get the biggest bang for my buck. Don't have iQIYI--have to draw the line at subscriptions somewhere! 😅

What were the other dramas that won?

Some people still seem to not get the idea behind Kdrama rom-coms. That doesn't mean they can't be bad, but some elements that people gripe about are literally here to stay, and as far as the genre is concerned, are going NOWHERE. 😅

I'm a sucker for them, too; biding my time with this one until it's completely released so I can binge it with a free Hulu trial (if it doesn't take a nosedive in the 2nd half, which Kdramas tend to do, especially recently), but I love several of the other dramas like this (The King 2 Hearts and Goong)!

Oh good! 🥰 I absolutely love it even though some parts are heartbreaking to watch!!

I can agree with that. :) I just finished Cdrama My Unicorn Girl and it was the same thing. It knew it was cringey and embraced the cringe fully and ran with it. 😅

It's a monarchy set in modern day Korea. There's no getting around the cheese on this one. 😉

I see your comments here and there on MDL, and while I sometimes see what you're saying I usually don't resonate with the intensity of critique you assign to things, so I usually don't respond, but for some reason this time I did. 😅

That said, I like SWDBS, too, and also think the leads carried it. :) They were SO cute. It's got the weirdest tonal shifts from serial kidnapper moments to goofy, adorable cringe. So much whiplash. 😅

Yeah, he's pretty awful.

Kind of a bummer; I'm afraid his lack of vulnerability with the Captain will frustrate me.

I think they only put xianxia in the list of secondary tags.

Is this a drama with torment and suffering with an open/sad ending?

It has a xianxia tag so that's why I'm asking. 😅

Hope it's good! Loved him in NIF.

I agree, many say the ratings are wrong/unhelpful, but I find them very helpful, especially paired with comments, reviews and the number of people who've rated it. I just have to take really high ratings from recent dramas into account as they tend to be over-inflated for while. I usually can see why people liked it, even if it's not to my taste. A rating I don't always agree with usually has a reason for being well-liked or disliked even if I felt differently. I don't think rating systems are really as fickle and inaccurate as people like to think. 😉

I got turned off by the heaviness that just started weighing down the plot and characters. I'm not used to detective/mystery plots being quite so somber. I suppose it's a kind of mystery/detective storytelling, but not one I think I'm into.