Episode 5 was great, but the last 10 minutes were a bit crazy. Still don't get how Mild doesn't know what happened…
If you’ve never dissociated completely your lack of understanding is totally normal. Please don’t assume it’s a failure of logic though. Some people experience dissociative amnesia, and untreated PTSD can mean peritraumatic amnesia lasts for years, if not life. I’m someone who has first-hand knowledge, and this is what it looks like in my case. I’m stopping watching this show until my own treatment is complete. That episode seriously needs a trigger warning 🚨
I feel like the Thai locations were far more beautiful and the way the scenes were shot was better, the Japanese…
The differences in beauty come down to latitude, to some degree. Thailand and Japan have completely different climates for a range of reasons, but the one that most effects island life and biomes is the fact that Thailand is in a tropical latitude, while Japan’s is distinctly temperate. The tropics have very different land and marine conditions to those further from the equator. Japan’s most southern point is five degrees north of Thailand’s northern border. It’s also a Pacific Island, which Thailand isn’t. Thailand is much more substantial in terms of land mass, but it’s also sheltered from Pacific patterns by surrounding countries, and is attached to a continent. Japan gets a beating from low pressure systems in winter, freezing, while Thailand is wet for half the year, getting tropical storms during a month-plus over summer. They look very different, and not all of the saturation difference is done in post 🙃
so everyone's focused on the bright side, and that's good but there's a part l just can't forget: (spoilers) so…
Yes, I’ve elected to go by Haebom’s attitude to this. He’s a savvy kid, who knows Taesung inside out. He always seems to nose out what’s going on with him since their last year at high school. He was more focused on his own feelings about Taesung, than on Taesung’s crossing that line. He placed little importance on it, and he’s the more emotionally intelligent of the two.
So I just started watching this drama (just started EP2), and I really enjoy the story however everything seems…
It’s one of the Korean romance tropes. What’s Wrong With Secretary Kim and Semantic Error were the same. It’s actually something I seek out sometimes, especially after I’ve watched something really gritty that’s set off my trauma response. There’s something very fairy tale-like about dramas made in this style. It’s escapist mind-candy.
Oooh yeah, those fx. If they’d marked him up properly for mapping the fx onto San they at least would have tracked with his movement properly, but they apparently just free-handed it. I concur on pretty much all points, and would add that the acting improved and became more grounded as the series went on, with a couple of exceptions. I suspect that was the director finding their feet.
is it just me who feels this drama is way too slow? I mean I'm currently on my 6th episode and so far I do not…
I am skipping long lingering shots when they’re OTT. This could easily have been a six episode series, I think. I do like it though. It’s escapist, and the characters tend to conduct themselves like rational adults, in that they don’t leap to the worst conclusions, etc.
I love this woman in Century of Love. I’m really looking forward to checking out her other work. She physically resembles Esther Yu, but her voice is much nicer.