Bahaha, as someone who majored in CS, I totally loved your article! Hacking depiction is so bad in dramas that I stopped trying to make sense of things otherwise I won't be able to watch the drama. Hacking into things is gonna get worse as IoT gets bigger. The only realistic virus situation I've seen was in Kkondae Intern. As for the solo hackers, I've seen one ahjumma hacker (Healer). She was pretty awesome. xD
Just curious if you're seen Go Go Squid. That's based off an actual hacking/cyber security competition. I know hacking isn't really as glamorous as it sounds, but apparently they actually do hype up the competition like any other e-sports competition (but there's less screaming fans).
Yup. The lady who hires her is secretly in love with ML. And FL has a "gege" from her past who she has been looking for. I didn't really find the love triangle annoying between ML, FL, and SL, but I didn't like the second female lead. She became annoying in the second half.
Haha, the gif under Spoilers is spot on accurate. You've pretty much summed up the whole experience. :D My biggest fear is jinxing the drama by praising it early or hyping it up. I'm afraid it will then end up going down hill toward the end and have a crappy ending.
I usually avoid fan theories, but I find it interesting you mention it ruins the drama if you read too many. They're addicting, but I can see how they ruin the element of surprise. It sucks when a scenario is written way better than what actually happens.
Well, well, well. Guess who finally matured? It only took 14 episodes, the death of his parents, a divorce, and a miscarriage for him to do so. I did not pity him one bit, but maybe I will like him in the last 2 episodes.
I'm just really annoyed that no one really got punished. Ryu Jin's petty ex manager blasted that news at the end and totally got away with it. And what about Producer Wang? He ran off with the bank book and they never concluded that story??? Did I miss something? Didn't the ex manager have something to do with deceiving him? Also, after all that effort, they just decided to scrap the project and turn into another movie. WTH. How does that make FL an amazing sought after producer?
Out of the ones I've seen from your list, I really liked Maturot Lohgan, The Crown Princess, and My Husband in Law (though Maturot Lohgan was more of a forced marriage kind of situation, but she did runaway from an arranged marriage). I added Jao Sao Chang Yon to my list. Thanks. ^^
It's not a remake, but I was wondering if it was because the synopsis was slightly different than the actual drama. Turns out, this director directed many popular Taiwanese dramas like Prince Turns to Frog, which is why I was getting very similar vibes. Some of it was even filmed in Taiwan.
It's technically a well made drama, but I found it to be too slow paced and depressing af. It's not something I'd recommend unless you're into that kind of stuff.
It's pretty good for an older drama. It sort of gave me a Taiwanese drama vibe (and not just for the cast). Also, is this drama a remake of something else? The synopsis is a bit off. Yi Fan is not a taekwondo instructor, although he did practice in the past, nor did he meet Dong Dong as as his student.
I avoid sad endings like a plague. Some of these I've seen and were not as tragic as I thought they were going to be or at least, they did a good job of mentally preparing myself for the ending. I don't consider open endings as sad endings. I also don't consider Hotel Del Luna that sad of an ending because it's what she wanted all along. Scarlet Heart (original) broke my heart ;(, but at least I was mentally prepared for Scarlet Heart Ryeo.
Thank you ^^ Out of this list, I think you'll like Guardian and Neko Zamurai the most.
I watched the drama first because it came out first. I'm watching in order of release date/year. I haven't seen the movie yet. ^^;; But it seems like a condensed version of season 1.
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Just curious if you're seen Go Go Squid. That's based off an actual hacking/cyber security competition. I know hacking isn't really as glamorous as it sounds, but apparently they actually do hype up the competition like any other e-sports competition (but there's less screaming fans).
I usually avoid fan theories, but I find it interesting you mention it ruins the drama if you read too many. They're addicting, but I can see how they ruin the element of surprise. It sucks when a scenario is written way better than what actually happens.
FYI - It's 32 episodes on Viki.