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Counter-opinion:

I think the chemistry is average, despite the actors being good outside of that. The story is ok for a Korean mystery/thriller story, but it gets really boring between eps 8-10, though I'm yet to catch up to 11-12.
For context Korean thrillers tend to be much worse than good American ones from over 10 years ago, because they always over-explain every little thing & there is just too much insanity in the plots in general.

If things continue like this my final score is likely to be 7~.
As for ppl uprating their beautiful OPPA, I feel some of that may be influencing you all as well here in this comments section.

The ratings were meaningless for at least 2 years or more.
Just read the reviews, positive & negative instead of relying on ratings.

I remember talking about that here on MDL & some butthurt person responded to me that I wouldn't feel the same way if my religion or culture were to be the one insulted. (and then I told him that it is insulted all the time these days & I'm quite alright with it)

It goes both ways. The studio is also spamming 10 star ratings to increase international viewership, since it costs next to nothing to them.

Even though King the Land is a pretty weak drama, the whole drinking arab prince thing 1 star rating fiasco was a bit insane, then again the resulting rating is still too high.

>At one point Lusi was doing nothing but filming for YEARS.

I don't really see that as a problem by itself, she had a job, she went to work 5-6 days a week & hopefully got very well paid. Though the fact that she was 36kg while having such an active lifestyle is insane & quite possibly a crime in one way or another. Bullying and abuse are of course a huge problem & completely separate from the workload. Unfortunately China is not doing so hot with worker's rights & the rule of law does not apply to everyone equally, so it's incredibly hard to do anything in Lusi's position & she could very well be chased out from the industry for stepping out of line.

I'm still shocked that the censors are a ok with excessively malnourished women appearing on screen. You would think that an autocratic society could solve this easily.

surely 😅

So how does this compare to Once Again & My Father is Strange?

You sound just a weeee bit like a Soompi article. Yes they are both pretty good, but I don't feel that they really have that much comfort and chemistry with each other. Just look at Soo Bin in Robot for a comparison..

I'm not that far ahead of you, but I think he is just angry and maybe indignant about something.

I started watching this yesterday and I I found the first two episodes awesome. It's been such a long time since I felt this way while watching a kdrama. Gosh I really hope they have not messed it up since then..

You would think that if anyone the Chinese government could ban malnourishment from the screen.

For real?
I'm yet to start this, but suddenly I have doubts if I should. Can you please elaborate? Do they just break up in e11 & are broken up as of e19?

From my perspective:

-The standup comedy is awful & there is a lot of it. (Shen Yue herself is not doing that well in these scenes, probably because the dialog is just too awkward. Understanding some of the Chinese does not make it better))
-FL backtracks a lot & some of her decisions or the lack thereof are just really arbitrary.
-ML's condition is not explained well & there is a lot of contradicting stuff about that not making any sense, even if we considered this a fantasy drama.
-I'm only at ep 20 right now, but I feel I've seen quite a bit of repetition already.

Not saying this is bad, but compared to `It's Okay, That's Love`, which is the same exact genre btw, this is rather weak, at most a 7, probably a bit less. (on a scale of 1 to 10, not MDL scale where 6 is trash & 9 is out of this world good)

I'm not too worried about the webtoon being bad, it's bad in a specific way that's relatively easy & plausible to fix.

>A typical grown man should typically be able to carry that much weight.

I think that's not right. A typical grown man today definitely cannot do that. Someone who does physical work and/or works out definitely can though.
The point I'm trying to make is that you will not have an effortless gait with that much extra weight, but typically even rather well built men will have heavy feet so to say. What you see in dramas/reality shows is not realistic & if you are the women being carried I doubt will notice for that 20 seconds :-D

Thank you!

Please spoil it for me, did the FL get a work promotion?

Most men are not able to walk steadily with a 50-60kg woman in their arms.

I have not started watching this yet, but I've heard some things about the plot & based on that the low-ish rating -China haters notwithstanding- is not that surprising. Sometimes the comment section on MDL becomes really circle jerkish, which is not that strange, because most people that drop a show would not waste their time with the comment section thereafter^
As for Viki ratings, everything has a ridiculously high rating there, even more so than on MDL..

Despite what I said I hope to be pleasantly surprised, this one is next on the agenda.