Kn0cturnal

There is no law that restricts age or need of guardian to be present to take a taxi. Atleast not in any country I know.

You do have to be 18+ to use uber app for example but no one really checks your age. You are breaking Uber TOS then.

So in worst case you break app tos but not actual law if app was used and has age restrictions. Otherwise without app or restrictions it's fine.

Well maybe I come off more cold and critical when it comes to execution and production because I work as dop and sometimes as producer and director in video industry based in europe. I am fairly new to cdramas and I try to explore them to see what I like and learn from them and maybe integrate some aspects in our work. I started watching these dramas to learn but grew to like them. Only reason I had them on my radar is because lot of kdramas started focusing on western market because it's way better considering their local market smaller population. I enjoy many aspects of film making and I am open minded to watch stuff for new experiences and to grow. Coming out of this I started to like kdramas and enjoy them outside of it being as a work/research, etc. So I decided to try cdramas.

The most time effective way for me to check out stuff is based on some trusted user recommendations and scores. When I wrote this initially I was frustrated because I set my expectations high because of the score and was excited to see what many of these top rated cdramas have to offer. I found it fairly effective with kdramas but was very shocked with production value, budget to mal score ratio with cdramas. Scores are way more volatile and biased. Looking at my sheet data made with help of python from MDL api data you can easily see it has way higher score entries which is expected because of population but it's still way higher as ratio to expected audience. On top of that scores are way more volatile and extreme with 1s and 10s with way lower distribution in mean which usually evens out with more data but it's opposite here. It also implies there is some bot behavior / same fans made ton of accounts to manipulate ratings. Many times purely based on cast regardless of a show. So when I asked why so many mid show seems overrated I wasn't doing it as insult to someone who likes this show but more in general sense based on what I observed. You just really like story aspects and fell into 10 category because for you experience was so good and story resonated so hard you chose to ignore it's flaws. Which is fine but useless and has low value to me from critical stand point. You overall still contributed to this being over rated which achieved in more people watching this and ultimately many also being disappointed by the expectations like me.

Anyway I adjust my expectations based on budget and considering market and target audience I was disappointed but later found out why it's so offputing, mainly because it's purely made and milked for local audience. I researched more into their production and way of doing stuff and understood why I will in most cases not like cdramas. Considering this show had premise that I liked and is based around game that I played like 10 years ago, esports that I sometimes watched I simply couldn't enjoy it because execution was wrong or subpar. I would probably enjoy it fine if I had very surface level knowledge about the subject but I don't so it was very distracting and I had to drop it. I didn't even rate this show.

I understand how idols, new faces and all that work after I researched it a little but if you are gonna try out new face on a show director has to really believe in their acting to give them one of the key leading roles. I would expect to give new actor who can barely act few side roles or maybe low budget show to test them out. It only ever makes sense to put them in such big productions if they are idols and it's only done because of colab and money making and ignores possible negatives. I don't know celebrities or idols from china apart from the few ones who breached to western space so if they put in some idol who can't act I don't care about them, all I see is them ruining scenes.

I find cdrama production overall lacking and hope they improve in future. They are milking local audience for huge profit margins and could easly invest considering how big China is. I just find it overall disappointing considering chinese movie cinematography is great and there is and was a lot of talent and amazing people but sadly cdramas are just lacking and could do better if they weren't greedy and restricted. Wish they evolved like recent kdramas did but they don't because they can survive and thrive with established domestic market while doing bare minimum.

Well if you are gonna listen to every person who say you can't act as person you are not then you are gonna end up with randoms who fit the part but can't act. The point of the actor is to act ffs not just play themselfs. I am fine with actor acting anyone if they are good for the job with the exception of race thing.

You gave examples like rain main, sheldon and Shaun from good doctor as bad stereotypes but how would hiring autistic actor change that show ? It was written and works only because they are shown to have such savant abilities. If they hired actor on a spectrum it would be the same show if that actor foloowed the script and direction.

Reading your last paragraph and ending statements you seem to have an issue how story and neurotypicals in shows are written and not who acts them, and I agreee with you on that but producers in main stream go for the safe route which is mostly savant main character or side autistic character you can pity because writting anything else would be too complex and risky and producers prob wouldn't approve it. So it needs to be first shown to work in short film or documentary and be trend that people care about for them to risk doing it.

People don't need to respect everyone random stranger opinion especially if its baseless and has no objective statements or in your case no statements at all. There is not much to go on when you have so little information about person giving out opinion but ironically someone giving this high rating is making me respect their opinion less and I am not saying you can't like this show but you didn't give any reason as to why this show is great. You just said it's you fav drama and that people should respect you for that. Why ? You gave us no reason and you gave no justifications to change our minds. I mainly criticised this drama for wooden bad acting, incorrect representation of gaming / esports, bad production and sound design. I didn't even touch on subjective stuff but for those objective reasons I listed alone it's not a perfect 10. Just because you like something doesn't mean you can't criticise it and see where it can be improved and see that it's not a perfect show. I enjoyed many shows I gave a 6 despite their flaws but your inability to be critical to content you like is the reason people don't respect your opinion.

You trying to go for the race card tells me you have no arguments to debate on why it shouldn't be like this. I was willing to see what you have to say and you disapoint me with this response.

Give me some actual arguments not black face bs..

They hire actor who has following to get viewership in combination of their budget and acting performance. Considering kdramas also just hire idols they sometimes just care about their fame to push their product. I don't know that much about korea but I doubt there is any autistic actress who they would hire as main role because production wouldn't green light it unless she had massive following.

If you would ask any random person to name one autistic actress in general, not Korean, they wouldn't know to name anyone. So I wouldn't have any expectation Korean small pool of actresses and their kdrama format, production, marketing and idol obsession limitations that come with it to find and put autistic actress to play main role in series.

Only production I know that had autistic main actress was everything's gonna be okay 2020 series and it didn't make it any better or worse as a show as whole for doing so.

What I am trying to say is it doesn't matter because if they used autistic actress in attorney woo it would still be same writting and you would still dislike same stuff you pointed out in review. So it would ultimately result in same product and they would make less money and you still wouldn't like it.

This show is what happens when you give a ton of money to someone who doesn't know how to utilise it and make something worth watching. What an absolute waste..

The only good thing about this show were side couple and they actually fit the theme they were trying to do with ordinary people.

There is triangle in side couple story with intern who tries to be with sml, triangle with ex gf of ml and triangle with fl and guy who is simp af and offputing. Out of those the one with fl and simp is the only one that bothered me.

Most of cdrama is dubbed even when its the same actor speaking because they don't sound proof locations and get awful audio. So lip sync can be bad many times and people talking can sound sterile. Most of the time they do it by putting in voice actors who speak dialect they need so its not even person who acts. Its actually one of the main reasons I can't watch many of them because it really bothers me.

Well I only tried watching few popular recommended stuff and got very disappointed but those two you mentioned seem more promising then anything I tried watching in the past.

Would love to hear some of the cdramas you recommend because I find it hard to get into them or like finding the good ones.

Ep 14 from 46 minute on. Its small side role.

I didn't miss those tags I went into this show expecting this and got disappointed by what they made. I only pointed this out because you said this is a romcom which its not. I am very confused by you and I am kinda starting to think that you are misunderstanding me.

Anyway I am not insulted by this show I just disliked execution, characterisation and writting.

I'll check it out when I will have the time and mood for it, thanks

Idk this is tagged as mature drama and sexual education and not romcom. They also try to portray sexual physical relationship but it was all about soul mate bs. So they can't even stick to the core theme they set. Learning sex ed from this is definitely not what I would recommend.

I am sad to see people can't see this fake female empowerment, double standard show that wanna make sex mature show and can't take casual sex and not mix it with love and soul mates. They can't stick to their subject and are all over the place. These unrealistically written characters so they can move the plot and fit the story are insult to viewers intelligence.

They put in softcore porn of stand-in actors and people turn off brain and eat this up I guess. You can like this and enjoy it for some aspects but don't tell me to praise writters for this mediocre mess.

Yeah he had to ask her and basically try to make it work that is why I said she got thrown mr perfect guy which just enabled her flaws and she had no growth and didn't learn to deal with such issues in realistic relationships. The main issue her first relationship didn't work is because of communication and if ML wasn't written basically to serve all her needs and deal with her flaws she would be in another miserable relationship.

This show just does damage to young girls who watch this and set expectations based on this garbage of a show where they can't even write a few episodes.

Well they just wrote her bf as complete dickhead so it would be hard to salvage that but its totally fine if she broke up with her bf because she couldn't salvage relationship it's just that execution and him as character was done unrealistically and could be written better.

Let's say that they wrote it better and still decided for them to break up it's still awful because FL was also big part why that relationship was bad and didn't work and she didn't grew or solve any of her issues, and in normal realistic relationship she would eventually end up with same issues she had with bf she broke up with.

Sure I still din't like many kdramas that are highly rated but I could still see they were well produced and good for targeted audience. Also at this scale and high rating you expect even non targeted audience to have some appreciation.

But when lead can't even act and many other production aspects are awful it's baffling seeing it sit so high. From my observation this is more common for cdramas and it's expected considering longer stretched out format and constrains.

Game basically works just like League of Legends and tournaments are emulation of esport scene. In this show its downscaled and they use generic chinese mobile game clone which is emulated to pc or has some cross platform client. I asume this is done due to licencing cost and the fact that riot games would prob sue them if they represented game in show.

I would like to point out that actual game footage is when camera is from isometric top down perspective. Any other 3d footage are inserts for drama and do not happen in game. If you wanna understand the game you can google "moba rules" or watch league of legends beginner guide. Moba is genre of these type of games and originates from warcraft 3 mod dota.

I am european and cinematographer by profession so I am prob more critical and cynical person when it comes to this. I am used to western media and there is also lot of mediocre stuff produced here but it's jarring and unexpected from high ranked shows. Now I watch ton of different stuff because I am interested in all sorts of film making and I sometimes study some to better myself. I started watching kdramas as guilty pleasure and have set lower expectations but I must say that many kdramas in recent years improved a lot in all aspects but I can't say the same for cdramas. I am trying to get into cdramas but have hard time with many aspects of it. From what I observed I find many cdramas similar to turkish dramas or telenovelas which I personally find just mindless noise and of little value. Now ofc some are elevated but most just seem like generic stretched out script where they changed character names and they just produce generally the same thing and just shoot stuff like mindless drones. Many cdramas are also dubbed because most actors can't act and learn dialect used by voice actors so basically many cdramas just feel disconected to me when that happens. Every prob starts to sound the same because they reuse same voice actors all the time and then there are some who also dub themselfs because in cdramas they don't sound proof sets. Overall sound design is the most lacking aspect in many cdramas so it all just feels off and amateurish.

I liked what they did with kdramas. They reduced episodes so quality can be higher and some are even pre produced or semi pre produced so it doesn't fall apart in last 1/3 when they adapt script on the go and are rushed by time. Now this won't happen for cdramas because china is big market and doesn't care about outside traffic. They can stretch out ton of episodes for cheap and make ton of profit domestically while kdramas are going more for western market.

Anyway to answer your game questions. Why do they circle on spot when hidding ? Well that's called juking and you do it to reduce the odds of getting hit by skill shots. It's also nice way to keep apm (action per minute) high so your fingers are ready. How do they spin ? I don't know what exactly you mean but if you mean moving around then the answer is right click on spot you wanna go to ingame. If you mean actually standing still and character rotating around then they just click fast around the character to spin, this is pointless to do but fun I guess. Running towards base and is speed limited ? In game you have roster of characters and each one has set speed. Once you click to spot on the map you will move to it at consistant same speed unless that character has some sort of passive ability or item that increases speed like boots. Some characters also have dashes and teleports you can do in-between to reduce the time to get where you want. And no being better gamer and staring in screen intensly and clicking like crazy won't make it go any faster. Also do keep in mind that going solo in base to finish the game won't really happen in pro game. It happens vs low ranked players because they are not organized or they feed you and you got way over lvled and got ton of items. Playing in tournaments where players know what they are doing and are kinda even matched stuff like this won't happen, well games shown in this drama in general are nowhere close to pro esports lvl.

The funny thing even as flawed as it is the games they play and tournament stuff is the best part of the show. Other stuff is just wooden acting and over dramatic bs.

I am surprised at your generous score considering you pointed out all these big issues