Well I hope this wasn't a oneoff or an early look at Sunday-Tuesday (where that will only be 4 episodes released). An extra 2 episodes this week feels great.
The plane scene was absurd and badly executed but PSH has got me hooked. The story seems to be interesting but…
I think you need to take it for what it is... the A-Team is a show that didn't go for gritty realism and it was still a great show that involved no fantasy/sci-fi elements.
If those translations are accurate the comments by the authors involved are so benign. I don't understand the reactions at all.
- The female writer (Qiyingjun) accuses unnamed writers of 'verbal sexual harassment'. - The writer of the novel this show is based on says she should name names because not doing so casts aspersions on all male writers. - Qiyingjun says she doesn't want to because some of them are big time writers who could harm her career
And then Chinese Netizens show up and try to ruin her career anyways. Causing Qiyingjun to have to apologize and donate thousands of dollars to prove she wasn't just doing it for publicity.
The follow-up for the male writer of this web novel is that netizens also dug up comments he made when he originally wrote the novel where he said his novel target male readership and did not need female readership. Obviously not the smartest thing to say but come on... that in and of itself is hardly controversial. Products have target demographics. Baby Shark doesn't do well among adults, it does really well among kids. Korean boy bands certainly have a target demographic.
It seems more like weird emotional overreactions from anonymous online users (netizens) driving this controversy.
I wasn't a big fan of the modern day stuff but overall enjoyed the show. Anna Hollen is really a classic/timeless beauty given how good she looks in period costumes and modern clothes.
So this is sort of like Terminator and the male lead is MacGyver? I watched the first couple of minutes of the show and saw the sample trailer on Netflix and that was the vibe I got. I think I'll give it a go.
It's kind of a light-weight in terms of dramas. Does bad stuff happen? Sure. Is it particularly well written and directed? No. But I thought it was fun and light (for a period drama with a bunch of corrupt evil characters as the antagonists).
Ohhh the only problem I have is they should have casted someone else as the mother!It makes not sense they can't…
I think what makes it particularly bad is they cast a different actress to play the teen/child version of her character. So she only somewhat resembles the way she looked as a young teen compared to when she's a young adult but she's going to look identical as a 30 or 40 something mother to teenagers?
I'm a big fan of Kim So Hyun so I forgive a lot when it comes to plot holes and the like but the first episode was legitimately awful. Like King Eternal Monarch bad (and unsurprisingly it shares a similar element to that show regarding chronology).
I'm thinking maybe I'll take a break and start episode 2 next week and pretend that's episode 1. Episode 1 was awful. Just awful.
Having Kim So Hyun playing the main character, the main character's mother and then casting a different actress for the teenage version of the main character has to be the dumbest casting decision of 2020. I don't care if there's a reason as others suggest down below... there is nothing in the story or plot that could ever justify Episode 1 and make it 'good' in my eyes.
I've always wanted to watch this drama,but the ML seems weak and it's making me hesitate. But I'll try if iQiyi…
This is a tough one to answer without spoilers. I watched the first 8 episodes.
I don't really foresee him being much of a fighter in the physical sense but he is more than capable at other things. He's not an incompetent fool as the trailers might suggest.
His character is obviously funny and out of touch at times but he has real value to the female lead and others in the show within the first 8 episodes. It's not a guy screwing up for laughs. The drama was way more serious than I had anticipated.
How good are the subs these days in general? I watched Episode 1 and I'm not a VIP but they were pretty good. Is IQ generally pretty good at getting actual non-machine translated subs for shows?
I understand there are vibrant colors and some of the choreography of the fights is interesting... but this thing is spinning its tires in the mud even at Episode 30. There has been almost no character growth for the female lead. There are so many tropes, the spitting of blood, the sick characters, the getting sick again characters, the always sick characters, the poison and poison and poison and more poison and oh by the way poison and yeah poison again for the plot and hey there poison, nice to see you again, what a surprise!
It's just not that good in my opinion. It's not horrible and if you like the leads you can easily work your way through this but the female lead was frustrating for me... and you can tell I think certain tropes of Chinese wuxia and TV were repeated one too many times for me to the point where I was rolling my eyes. I left out other tropes because my goal isn't to spoil things but yeah. There are many more tropes played over and over and over again throughout the series.
And that's why I'll be putting this on hold at episode 31 and trying something else.
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- The female writer (Qiyingjun) accuses unnamed writers of 'verbal sexual harassment'.
- The writer of the novel this show is based on says she should name names because not doing so casts aspersions on all male writers.
- Qiyingjun says she doesn't want to because some of them are big time writers who could harm her career
And then Chinese Netizens show up and try to ruin her career anyways. Causing Qiyingjun to have to apologize and donate thousands of dollars to prove she wasn't just doing it for publicity.
The follow-up for the male writer of this web novel is that netizens also dug up comments he made when he originally wrote the novel where he said his novel target male readership and did not need female readership. Obviously not the smartest thing to say but come on... that in and of itself is hardly controversial. Products have target demographics. Baby Shark doesn't do well among adults, it does really well among kids. Korean boy bands certainly have a target demographic.
It seems more like weird emotional overreactions from anonymous online users (netizens) driving this controversy.
I enjoyed it even with all the twists.
It's just silly. Incredibly silly.
I'm thinking maybe I'll take a break and start episode 2 next week and pretend that's episode 1. Episode 1 was awful. Just awful.
Having Kim So Hyun playing the main character, the main character's mother and then casting a different actress for the teenage version of the main character has to be the dumbest casting decision of 2020. I don't care if there's a reason as others suggest down below... there is nothing in the story or plot that could ever justify Episode 1 and make it 'good' in my eyes.
I don't really foresee him being much of a fighter in the physical sense but he is more than capable at other things. He's not an incompetent fool as the trailers might suggest.
His character is obviously funny and out of touch at times but he has real value to the female lead and others in the show within the first 8 episodes. It's not a guy screwing up for laughs. The drama was way more serious than I had anticipated.
It's just not that good in my opinion. It's not horrible and if you like the leads you can easily work your way through this but the female lead was frustrating for me... and you can tell I think certain tropes of Chinese wuxia and TV were repeated one too many times for me to the point where I was rolling my eyes. I left out other tropes because my goal isn't to spoil things but yeah. There are many more tropes played over and over and over again throughout the series.
And that's why I'll be putting this on hold at episode 31 and trying something else.