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Yes The Legends was good. I am quite new to chinese dramas and I carefully choose them. There are so many episodes and some of them have infamous plotlines and endings. But I'll check the ones you suggested. Thank you.

I believe the public on MDL and the one on Douban are different so it also explain the difference of evaluation. It is rated 9.2 on MDL but only 7.9 on Douban. This drama Joy of life, for some reasons is very successful internationally.

I think Fan Xian will marry Waner in S2 but soon she will be killed. I don't know the novel but that's my assumption. She looks too weak and useless to survive. Then maybe his friendship with Duoduo will become something like love.

I guess we see things from different perspectives with different expectations and assessments. I have not seen Legend of the Condor Heroes or Heavenly Sword and Dragon Saber but I will try if I have time. Truth is my watching list is so long... Thanks for telling about them anyway.

Thank you for sharing your opinion with me. What is nice with dramas is that there is so many kind of them you can always find one you like and others don't really like but it is ok. So we will disagree on this one. So let's have a good discussion on the point we surely disagree on: Ye Zhen.

I have the feeling you believe she is a strong and potent woman and that almost is the reason for you this drama is good. But I shall say I beg to differ :-D. I do no doubt her strong personality, her intellectual abilities and her ruthlessness. You have to be good to be reigning in the place of the King while he is retired practicing Kung Fu to reach 8th realm. So surely she must be competent in governing affair and having people killed.

Anyway I doubt her emotions and her ability to make a right decision when she cannot deal with them anymore. Truth is from the very beginning, she failed to cope with them. When she knew her lover Liang Jinmeng was talking with Zhangsun Qianxue and this one convinced him the reform he was leading was unfair to the people and he gave up the reform and gave her the black sword...she just went mad and she did not take the time to ask for explanation from her lover. She just assumed he cheated on her and she decided to betray him and have him killed. Is that the doing of a strong woman?

After she learnt Liang Jinmeng was back and reincarnated into Ding Ning, she started to doubt herself again, doubt her feelings and fidelity to the king and after what she did, she went to look for him. She went to fight Zhangsun Qianxue out of jealousy because Zhangsun Qianxue and Ding Ning were lovers but what? Ding Ning is not Liang Jinmeng. He is the past of Liang Jinmeng and the Ding Ning of 10 years after the death of Liang Jinmeng. Zhangsun Qianxue was not the young girl admiring or fascinated by Liang Jingmeng anymore. They both lived 10 more years together and fell for each other. But she could not see that. Just her lost love or the betrayal she could not assume. She killed Zhangsun Qianxue out of jealousy and she threw herself on the sword of Ding Ning because after he sliced her cheek she knew her love was lost forever. Her last words were just a scream of desperation. She knew she could trade her death or her soul, she would never get back the love she betrayed and which died 10 years ago. That was pathetic and just laughable from her side.

So for me Ye Zhen is a weak character and the cause of all this mess. Even Ye Celeng who was a young apprentice of Liang Jinmeng and was exiled she is a stronger character for choosing her fight and her fate despite she met friends and a one sided love for her. In the end, I thought the turn of events which made Ye Zhen take the front stage and the King escape any punisjment for his crimes and cowardice this was very unfortunate and quite terrible... like they ran out of budget and needed a closure asap.

He is not a time traveler, he is not from the future and he does not have "knowledge from the 21the century". If you want to know you should just keep watching it.

Yes I think so too. I think his relationship with Duoduo is great. They really have good chemistry, complicity and cute fun moments together. They look like a couple.

If you saw the last ep you know there MUST be a season 2!.

I hope there won't be any polygamy for Fan Xian. It would be disappointing from him. But I am pretty sure he will have several girlfriends and partners.

Second Prince and his guard came to threaten him and expose their intentions and they let him the whole night to think. Surely he did not spent the night sleeping and snoring waiting to be in a dead end in the morning. I did not read the novel and I won't but surely he schemed a plan with Yan Binyun and the stabbing is part of it.

No cliffhanger. Go ahead it's a very good drama.

Very little romance and not very sparkling.

For me You Who Came From the Stars was bland I don't even remember what it was about. But I won't say it too loud as plenty of people like it. In both drama I feel like the writers are using narrative schemes to make it cute and magic but it is a bit too much. For example the piano song and the watch are overly used to bring emotional moments while the plot is lacking consistency and substance indeed. Hope this one will en better.

I read the synopsis about King's woman and it looked weird so I did not watched it. If I knew this one would be an infamous ending also... Wasted time. Hope 2020 will bring much better chinese dramas.

Here is the end of the story:

At the beginning, a Sect Master was killed by the King as his own girlfriend betrayed him and poisoned him to side with the King as Queen. Towards the end, it is revealed that ML is the reincarnation of that Sect Master who used his special Kung Fu skills to replicate his soul and souvenirs into the body of a young boy: the ML who was raised by the FL as her nephew. King learns the truth and gets mad. ML gets his hands on an ultimate sword to allow him carry his revenge. Queen remembers she only loved the Sect Master. She and the King have heated disputes in bed. He accuses her of still loving her ex. She tells him he is the one who can't let go. Queen wants ML to be brought to her by her maid warrior. The maid warrior brings FL back instead. Queen recognizes her as the girl Sect Master used to chit chat as acquaintances. She hates her and she is jealous. They argue. He is mine. No he is mine now. They fight. FL is badly injured. ML goes to find her in the tavern. Queen is here and opposes. Says she love him. He is deaf to her words. ML says to FL he wants to take her to their home: anywhere together. Queen is super pissed off now. She stabs him with a sword. ML lead doesn't care. Takes the FL away with him but she dies later in his arms. Queen is enraged. She goes to see the King. She immobilizes him with a needle. She opens the door of the palace and wait for ML who is coming with his sword chop the royal couple into pieces. ML arrives. He is very angry. She welcomes him . Hey let's get back together she says. This is our palace and this is our country. He doesn't give a sh!t. She is pissed again and desperate. She fights him. He cut her cheek. She knows now... It is over. She jumps on his sword and dies. The King is saved from the needle for some reason. He arrives and sees the Queen dead. He wants to fight ML but ML says I let you live and save the nation from the ragging war. He leaves the palace. The King survives and rules. ML becomes an hermit and remembers the time shared with FL. THE END.

Looks funny. I will try this one.

OMG! PMY can still portray a schoolgirl. lol. I really like her.

I want more developments about him. How he is going to plead his case with Seri's family. And another reason to keep me watching this is how they are going to make this bad apple and the second female lead end together... Or not. I doubted their couple was possible but I think they look good together.

I tastes a bit like fantasy because the North Korea depicted in the drama clearly does not exist. It's a pamphlet using exegerated elements of North Korea. Furthermore some elements of the story are quite unrealistic. How can they suddenly cross the DMZ just stepping over one barbwire? How can they send a bunch of soldiers to the South to find Captain Ri when they are not trained spies for undercover situations? The reasons why all these people are now in the south is very precipitated. The NK officer going to chase and kill Seri that does not really make sense for me.

I am referring to the guy in green sweatsuit. He is a North Korean agent infiltrated in South Korea in a movie called Secretly greatly. I think it means nothing it's just a wink.