Lotusleafgreen
USA
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Too tragic for a drama. Made this into a docuseries instead?
Please forgive me, regional folks, this is not meant to disregard or disrespect your history and the tragic horrors behind it.This is more a reminder for me to never watch this again.
If I had read that this was so Tra gic, I would've never watched it.
If truly this particular romance was so tragic, I would've preferred to see the actual people, their real names, careers etc.
In short it could have been a true story or a true documentary which are made very aesthetically now.
To take history, put your own spin on it again is fine.
But to take history, put your own spin on it, heavily load it with beautiful romance and then kill the lead is like pulling the rug from under our feet and bring us crashing down, breaking our teeth, heart and everything else.
Not acceptable for me.
So yes, it was a tremendously beautiful drama - music, cinematography, costumes, hair make up etc of the '80s, and every actor was stupendous.......but sorry, the ending destroyed it.
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Brown, borrrringg, depressing
The FL has one expression throughout.She's in the fashion industry yet the directors gave her brown paper bags to wear throughout.
Everything hangs on her including the sad expression.
The ML is cute but I'm still trying to figure out what exactly was his role.
Were they trying to copy Search WWW with the 3 female friends relationship?
If so it was an insult of a plagiarism.
Nothing happens except one death which is prolonged long enough for you to want to kill yourself for watching this torturous drama.
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Last few episodes destroyed the drama
I loved this drama so much that I stopped at episode 9 and decided to wait for its completion and then binge watch.Alas!
The last few episodes went off tangent totally.
What started off as a comic, funny, classically ridiculous drama got burdened with the stale and repetitive theme of wanting to kill a crown prince.
For heaven's sake - is there no other turmoil in the Joseon period beside murdering the royal family?
Every historic drama I've watched only has this as the basis of all trauma. Seriously??
The positives:
Rowoon takes the cake. He is so perfect in this role - riding a donkey - it's hilarious.
Rowoons side kick : deserves 11 stars. He is just phenomenal. Fantastic comic timing and expressions.
Everyone else is pretty good too
The romantic sidelines are pretty fun.
Absolutely gorgeous cinematography
Great wardrobes with aesthetic colors.
The negatives:
The last few episodes move away from comic to dark revenge or whatever.
The chemistry weakens. The romance dies,
Rowoon is just dragging his feet. The female lead is left hanging.
I don't know anything about the accuracy of this period - but somehow it seems unbelievable. The writers have taken some liberties where needed and at other places they behave conservative and illogical.
What a pity that this drama went downhill.
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This is an infomercial
Of all the strange J dramas I've seen, this one takes the cake.I wanted to knock my head against the wall for sitting desperately through the episodes in anticipation........of nothing!
This is not a drama, so please don't get conned.
It can be one of three things :
1. An infomercial or sneaky advertisement for Japan Airlines, which soppily brandishes their holier-than-thou employees. Please make sure to fly JAL.
2. A career fair for Narita, Haneda and all other Japanese airports. Demonstrates the various departments, shift timing available, uniforms, pay scales (based on the apartments shown), food courts, etc all based out of these airports including snow ploughing at Aomori airport.
3. A docuseries for middle school kids showing them that's it's okay to dream of a certain career however if that fails then just get on with life. And to make it seem less depressing they throw in 3 couples who have love affairs that even saints will approve of - no intimacy, no chemistry, no expressions.
Seriously - my wall has a dent with all the head banging.......
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Cultural and ethical confusion
This drama had so much potential. It was very funny in parts, the relationship between the 4 friends is awesome. Each of their love lives is also distinct.The one stand out actor was the 24-year old sister who is in love with the older oppa, her brothers friend.
However the ethical dilemma seemed very hypocritical. It really killed the beauty of this drama.
As a global audience,not very familiar with the delicate nuances of Korean culture, I found it very hypocritical.
It's okay and acceptable if a young college girl in her twenties sleeps with a minimum of 4 men, best friends at that.
But it's not okay for a 40 year old single man, who has a son from a previous relationship, to date a 30 plus woman?
Because the society is going to label this 30 plus woman?? But is approving of young college women to indulge rampantly in sex?
This logic blew me. It killed the essence of the drama.
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Finally c- drama nailed the perfect romcom.
Phew - I've had such bad luck with c- dramas that I was very skeptical to watch this. However this drama nailed it. Just perfect. I didn't give it a ten because it was just right, not outrageously fantastic.The ML basically carried the show - he is so expressive that I can see a long award filled career ahead of him. He speaks with his eyes and his soul is in his eyes. Just marvelous. It doesn't hurt that he looks like a dish and happily shows us his abs.
The FL was excellent too. She stuck to her character of being older than him yet was not condescending or pompous. The chemistry was sizzling between them.
I just didn't like her anorexic looks. Hope that is not the standard for the regional young ladies to follow. It's too thin and emaciated - not attractive or appealing at all.
The music - wow!!! All the comments were asking where to get the sound track.
The cinematography - awesome. Beautiful visuals, beach, homes, gardens.....very soothing and appealing.
Every actor stuck to their role - kudos to the director for not letting anyone over act or behave cutie pie or sexy.
Wonderful feel good drama!!
Thank you again C-drama. I guess you read global complaints and really cleaned this one up.
One teeny suggestion - please stick to 12 or 16 episodes.
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C dramas are improving dramatically......
This is the 3rd cdramas that is blowing my mind.Maybe it's sponsored by the government maybe not, I wasn't interested in finding out.
First - What's fascinating is the production value!
Detailed, expensive, aesthetically done, just wonderful!
The whole earthquake scenarios........gosh, was that created just for this drama or was that a real life event which was superimposed?
Second - the minutely detailed environment, training, incidents in the life of a firefighter.
Again there may be many complainers who will comment that those scenarios are not accurately portrayed (for example when doctors comment that medical scenarios are not accurately portrayed).....-and that may very well be true. But to a complete outsider like me, it was very inspiring to watch.
What added to the admiration was the size, beauty and layout of the full fire station. Impeccable!
Watching the details of the fire truck was also enlightening.
Third - Yang Yang! His face should be etched and saved for posterity. What genes did he get to look like that? Plus his romantic expressions - especially where he was sipping his soda with a straw and intensely watching the FL moving her hair. Heart Fluttering!! I saw some comments regarding negative reviews by the C netizens.......but I don't think I will read those.
Fourth - as a romance junkie, the chemistry, slow burn and some intimacy work just fine to give this drama an 8!!
Kudos to the production team, and everyone else involved.
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Nothing happens here
It's amazing how creative one can be to produce 16 hours of drama that contributes to nothingness.Noooo chemistry in this romcom.
The problem is that k dramas have such excellent serials that even if one is mediocre, it leads to disappointment.
The office setting is boring, the interactions between colleagues is mundane, yawwnnn.
The FL character was different and interesting, but instead of playing on those strengths they focused on mediocre traits.
Just did not click.
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Lost potential in this drama
I watched the first 4 episodes, got so excited, then decided to wait for all episodes to release and started watching it again.Boy - what a disappointment!!
The fact is that this story had an interesting premise, a slightly different take on the rich greedy conglomerate family and very promising actors.
It could have even become a romcom cult classic like A Business Proposal......but Alas, Alas.
Not enough attention was paid to details.
The friendship between the FL and her high school pal dwindles, the sizzling chemistry between the FL and brother in law becomes tepid, luke warm, tasteless tea. The second couple romance is actually irritating.
The story line is regurgitated and poorly served.
You know, with all the hard work that goes into producing these dramas, there should be a tighter grip on the story and detailed screen writing.
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Overkill on the melo
There needs to be a limit on the Melo.........and unfortunately this script writer didn't get the formula right.Till episode 12 it w a s tolerable, after that the next 4 episodes just dragged out the brain tumor thing.
It's a k drama for God's sake. It's based on a few people's imagination - so to drag the torturous tragedy of a loved one at the throes of death in an attempt to just fill four hours was very poorly executed.
The FL was also beginning to look exhausted - not from the brain tumor - but this make believe trauma of pretending to be sick for 4 episodes.
By the end of it we wished she had actually died and moved on.
The poor ML struggled to keep the eternal flame of his undying love burning. Every support cast looked fatigued.
Gosh - just change tracks and give another character some misery since that was the underlying theme of this drama.
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The female lead......wow
Finally finally finally.......what a pleasure to see this smart, chirpy, fantastically emotive female lead. And whoever created her wardrobe and hair and makeup deserves an award!! So underplayed yet stand out.I've been struggling to rate female actors and this one absolutely tops the list right now.
I tried looking up her rating on MDL - however not many people have voted for her. So I hope this review piques everyone's interest.
Interesting story, the chemistry is sizzling and the intimate scenes are off the charts!
The intimate scenes are so classically done - heart fluttering.
Go Taiwanese dramas!!!
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Excellent
What a pleasure to see smart beautiful adult women who are so well dressed and successful in their careers. Tired of seeing cutie pie actresses wearing tiny skirts and behaving like 12-year olds. This is really a great story with great relationship between the 3 women.And the steamy kisses are really hot. Please - directors - read the reviews and make dramas like these intead of creating your own version of plastic stories.
Please stop making dramas more than 12-16 episodes and have a solid story. Not just playing video games and living in fantasy worlds.
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What was this all about?
Was there a message in this short drama?Something like you can dream about film stars but in reality you can fall in love with a regular man?
And did they mean to portray Lee Minho as the average man who is a travel writer and has a probable chance of kissing the FL?
Well - let's just stop right there - Lee Minho is not your average man - period.
So this rubbish story with a clueless FL takes us for a dizzying spin.
And not sure what the director had on the other 6 top male leads to make them perform in this ridiculous trope.
Why why why did you waste all this energy making this???
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So angry with this drama.....
This is the first time I'm so angry after watching an Asian drama.Firstly j-dramas have always been touch and go for me. Either they are brilliant or just too bizarre.
But this one is outrageous.
Wonder who created this idiotic FL script, who is senselessly meandering down a dissatisfied relationship, then finds her husband has an affair, divorces him and then goes back to a sex less marriage which was her first problem to begin with.
Get a life, lady,
You are not the epitome of anything and the spineless behavior which concludes to love in the final episode just feels like some man with a wet dream has concocted this ridiculous, depressing story line.
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The most unromantic romance
This story had a promising beginning, some interesting and different side streams and could have ended up with an 8 or even 9 star.But Alas......
I think the script writer was trying to convince us that love is really blind.......that despite not being able to recognize faces, it's the inner soul that eventually wins the long lost love race.
And in thus trying to make the FL s soul shine, the script writer forgot to clean up the exterior - and viola we now have a scruffy looking FL who looks like she kept awake all night in her college dorm, trying to cram for an exam, then woke up the next morning, didn't brush her teeth, shower or comb her hair, wore mismatched socks under ill fitting pants and ran to the exam hall.
And on the flip side we have a ML who just steps out of a GQmagazine, looks dreamy enough to have a million weeping females, dresses impeccably - almost like he's going to step on the fashion runway.........
And now we have to watch 16 hours of how these two totally miscast characters find everlasting love!
God help us🧑🎤
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