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Yes, I suspected that she was more or less firmly guided into these young adult roles. She must be so sick of doing parts where she's supposed to be a teenager or young adult.

Thanks for your response!

Ireine Song is in yet another youth drama. Unless she, herself, is choosing these roles--in
which case, I wish she'd stop, or her agency is forcing her into them, gosh. I can't take her in
one more college age, clumsy, single-since-birth Cdrama. She's a talented actor who can do so much more than these idiot roles. Oy, she's 32 years old. It's enough already.

This is my life, exactly.

Gosh. China has, since the post-Republican era, had a strong equality ethic between the sexes, but is at war with itself in that regard because of its Confucian underpinnings.

There is no such thing as a "ridiculous feminism message". If you can't or won't support the idea that women are human beings who have the right to the same things their brothers do, then all I can say is that your sense of justice is bent.

Both seasons of this drama present a grand love: a wonderful representation of respect, trust, loyalty and admiration between partners. The story telling is decent, too. This is one of those shows that makes you wish you could smell and touch the elements. It's a visual feast.

So true! I expected bodies and plenty of murder, but not so much pathology.

This show has the most beautiful costumes I've ever seen. I think every shade of blue in the Galaxy has been represented. Genuinely extraordinary, This is not a reason, usually, to recommend a show, but this drama is in a class by itself. Also, the hairpins and crowns in this show are really magnificent, without being gaudy somehow or over the top. Everything else in the series is a delight, as well.

I think you're completely right.

Wait at least 6 months between versions, starting with whichever one you think you'll like LEAST. Watch each version as a standalone drama; avoid comparing them. They're different--each has its own strengths.

The Jdrama version is surprisingly good, but I loved the Kdrama version (if you ignore episodes 11-15. which were unnecessary and over the top.)

Gosh, these vertical dramas. There are only a dozen plots. The characters and dialogue changes only. And what's strangest of all is that I'll start watching one, immediately identify the plot, and keep watching it anyway. We should all start a side job where we write scripts that meet the formula and then just sell them over and over again.

This is a show I want to watch a lot, and I can't because I just can't manage shows with a terminally ill main character. I know many shows like this are really beautiful. This is my loss, I'm sure.

Best description of 95% of the microdramas I've already watched.

I started watching this and realized I was watching some characters in a "universe" I've never heard of--found out it's a whole thing, and not just made up for this drama. That's very exciting. I love discovering worlds like this, with their own characters and rules, and reading or watching stuff that conforms to the created world "omegaverse".

Is it just me, or does the drama have an extremely screwy release schedule?

Show probably makes a lot more sense as you watch it than it does from the synopsis. Because synopsis sounds pretty weird.

The mother's misery is like it's own character in the drama. The first episodes, she's all controlling and strictness, seeming like she's borderline abusive. But her character is the one in this show I came to love. I've never seen an actor so beautifully manifest what mental agony looks like. She's the most multi-dimensional character I've ever seen. What a performance.

Unusual Cdrama--outstanding performances, well-written script, excellent elements like lighting, sets, costuming etc. Professional production all the way. A rare instance where nearly everything is perfect and I wind up not liking the show anyway.

We'll see. Nothing's aired yet. If he's as famously awful as Korean history notes, it will be interesting to see if they try to rehabilitate him, and if they do, how that's received by Korean audience,

Even if it's the funniest writer, director and producer on Earth, there is nothing they can write that produces a romantic comedy with Stalin or Hitler, not in a thousand years.

Correct me, please, if I'm wrong, but don't Chinese censors have a cow over BL content? Is this show a first for China?

By the time this show ended I was nearly desperate for it to finish. Even skipping with gusto, this was such a chore to get through. I hated every character. I hated the hairstyling. I hated the makeup. I hated the tiresome, repetitive plot.

Awful.