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Not that good IMO. She is overacting and doesn't really fit into the rest. I do think she is also a little bit unlucky because this show is absolutely bursting with fantastic acting performances and I am not exaggerating when I say so. It's impossible not to notice her issues in this environment. If she had started in a smaller production, it wouldn't have been so bad.

Actually I would say she is a good lesson here - don't bite off more than you can chew. Start small, then build as your skills grow.

Gucci suit was an incredibly smart fashion choice. Everyone else was in black so he really stood out, lots of talk on Chinese socials about the color. It's also the talk of fashion blogs now because that is Pantone's color of 2023, Viva Magenta so he was very current with that choice, very fashion conscious.

Pass. Absolutely pass.

Thing about the inflating the money wasn't random. He knew that the financial crisis was coming. Ordinarily, while not the most ideal, increasing the amount would be an inconvenience. But Do Joon knew that the financial crisis was about to hit and what would usually be an inconvenience, would be a genuine trouble for SY. So he bluffed from the start in order to make sure that come the crisis, SY wouldn't be free to acquire other companies going down as easily.

Yup.

The illogical part is hilarious. On one side they don't want romance but then they don't mind the SFL. So which is it?

As that isn't enough, then come the complaints that the romance between him and FL is cringy but there has to be space for that romance, even if not focus, to develop. Yet they don't want screen time for FL. Again, which is it. You can't have both.

In the end it's just hypocrisy.

No, just an internal joke of a sorts that the writer is making.

Everything points to winter vacation at the moment.

I agree. The start of this episode was even more heart wrenching 😭

All I see is a major manipulator and I certainly haven't forgotten how she was in the first life and how she treated him like a piece of trash. Something Do Joon remembers too. She didn't grow a new personality. To each their own I guess.

Same. I really cannot guess especially because they seem to have shifted focus on things I did not expect. I am more and more curious and I just hope it doesn't end up rushed.

Hyun Min is a literal walking red flag, a toxic manipulator and that is somehow hot and what Do Joon needs in his life?

I am also curious because we are already in the sixth episode yet very little is being established about the "big boss" if they want to do the same thing with the grandmother as in the novel. Ten episodes for the "accident" , the media development, the tumor story, then the grandmother? I think they will be changing things.

We all enjoy different things but as far as I am concerned if she (Hyun Min, the cousin future wife) had zero screen time till the end of the drama I would be happy. For me, way way too much time going to her character and I don't even understand why. Am so annoyed.

Today was a strange episode.

I loved the beginning. SJK was so good in the restaurant scene. They way they have been weaving his past and his present is so good. I don't have enough words to say how in love I am with the cinematography of this drama. I mentioned that about the previous episode and it held here. I adore the yellow/sepia filter on the whole show. It gives it a dose of surrealism almost at this point which goes so well with the whole notion of transmigration.

What I did not like at all was all the time being spent on the trash oldest grandson and then as if that wasn't enough, we had to add his alone time with his future wife. They give us this but not ML and FL? So not here for that, FFed for the first time in this drama. I am especially salty because while the rain scene was nice, where are those feelings of our ML to the FL coming from? He had no time to establish them. But we have time to show cousin and his "love" life? And then, as if that wasn't enough, solo screen time for the FL2 and again with the cousin? So not her for that bs. Especially as even the ML didn't have too much time in this episode. So while the ending was great (and brilliantly filmed) I was way too annoyed at that point. I hope this isn't a sign for things to come in the next episodes and screen-time distribution.

I am glad we finally got some moments with Do Joon and his new family because those dynamics were fantastic in the novel and I miss that.

When he said that about masters he basically said to current Do Joon exactly what they all thought about Hyun Woo in his first life. Such good writing.

It's a play on that old trope, that no matter what you do some things are simply fated to happen and cannot be changed.

I rather like that for all the things that he can change, the one he may want the most, he cannot. It's really good writing.

It really depends on what happens in the future.

Tencent was actually clear they meant this year for TLP but TLP wasn't the only show that was planned and then got postponed.

One of the reasons a lot of us on Chinese socials are interested in what is happening with TLP was precisely triggered by one such thing. Kunlun Tomb was another show that was delayed. At the time, the leaks from Tencent were saying that there was no licence so they had to focus on a certain other drama (that yes, took a very short time to finalise). Once KT actually aired, we got access to the licence and it turned out it was absolutely a lie. The show was good to go, it was Tencent that blocked it.

Ever since then, there have been a lot of discussions among fans on Chinese socials. Everyone wants to see the dates on TLP for one. Then of course, the fact their spokespersons are leaving (due to bad treatment, some of which is directly connected to how dramas are being aired and lack of promotion while again, certain other dramas got a ton) which hooks into the wider conversations of just what is Tencent video even doing, what their priorities are (many people think it is actually donghuas now because the money coming from that is huge) and the losses Tencent has accumulated this year when you look at the actual financial reports instead of the fan edited ones.

Quick digression but in China, you can't just air a show on television. Licences differ. When TLP got the initial one, it was registered as a web drama, this means it cannot be shown on TV but only on the web. So if Tencent wanted to do so, they would have to get this switched to a TV and web licence (not easy at all) and then resubmit TLP for a new broadcasting licence (different criteria for these). It's actually a very complicated process that is highly unlikely.

Anyway, TLP is in middle of a far bigger discussion about Tencent and the drama itself a subject to a lot of factors that have nothing to do with finishing the post-production and everything to do with network politics.

Cinematography is amazing. Both the fight in the office but especially the scene while Do Joon is eating in the old family restaurant were so well shot and framed. So well done.

I think the significance of the FL is slowly going to start emerging. She is the one "pure" character who doesn't actually want to use him or have an ulterior motive. A breath of fresh air in an otherwise continuous stress situation. I hope they focus on her more than FL 2 who is just another manipulative user. Do Joon's aware of that of course but I am worried about screen time as I am not that interested in watching major drama with her. She already had too much in this episode for my liking.

Ps. Ahjin is Daewoo here.

Me too. Actually I am not sure I understand some of the changes they are making in regards to old/new family. I prefer the original.

Lol you can "observe" whatever you like, it's still nonsense. You can be as patronising as you like, still nonsense.

This drama has been done since this summer and was ready to air, just like Tencent said it would. It's good it's your last comment on this because 🤦