I see Taiwan has been influenced by the USA in regards to casting 30 year old actresses who look 30+ years old…
It's not even the fact that she was 30 years old that bothered me. East Asian actresses also tend to look younger than they are (compared to Western actors at least). It's the fact that they did nothing to conceal the fact that she was older than the male lead (by several years). Her outfits made her look like a grandma, her hairstyle did not suit her at all. I think 'Go Ahead' did really good with the female lead they chose despite her also being 30 and playing a teenager (up until the character was in her 20s).
The FL does a a lot of martial arts, she is especially good at kicking people in the head/face, but I don't understand why she always wears a skirt. If she is going to go around kicking people all the time, how is wearing a skirt in any way practical considering her specialty in Kung Fu (the only thing she knows). Her outfits are off-putting in general, but they also make no sense.
I thought the one with Liu Shi Shi was the original, but I think this is. I hated Scarlet Heart 2 the first season was good but the female lead made no sense (ever in both seasons), she was indecisive and just outright stupid a lot of the time in Scarlet Heart (Chinese version btw). I usually love Yang Mi's roles, I've only seen her play strong (badass) characters and I hope I like her in this. I haven'twatched this drama yer but there doesn't seem to be a season 2 continuation of this story (of these characters). Are all the seasons connected?
On episode 12 and so far I love the father-son relationship between the male lead and his dad (Ning family). I was surprised at first how much Ning LOVED his children considering how he was about to kill the mother if his children until he found out she was pregnant. He's so good to both his children and has such a hilariously sweet relationship with his son. If it weren't for the first episode where we see how Ning was obsessed with the FL's mother and lead to her death, I would have found him to be a genuinely good guy. I care more for the relationship between the Ning family father and son than I do just about the entire plot of this drama.
This is starting tomorrow? No wonder it kept coming up on my YouTube reels. The actors seem to have good chemistry, their behind the scenes are adorable and funny.
This is a time travel drama! I was going to watch this drama anyway because of the main leads, customs and cast. But I had no idea it was a time travel drama. I love Chinese time travel dramas, usually the longer the better.
From the tags, it seems like this movie will be set in a parallel universe to the original timeline of events in the drama. But I kind of want this to be a continuation of the original timeline from the drama with the ML somehow being alive so that the main leads from the drama can have a happy ending.
This is one of the few dramas where I did not care whether the ending was meant to be happy or sad, it is an open ending and I am fine interpreting it as either. I think it was around episode 18 where I realised the ending was inevitably going to be sad and I was happy with that. My heart broke throughout those episodes (18 onwards) to the very end. Despite this drama being about time travel with the FL constantly going back in time to change her and the ML's fate, it's also very real in the sense that no matter what she does, she can never change her timeline and will always come back to her present life. She can never change her fate but she learns a lot by going to her past. This drama is heartbreaking and truly tragic (in my opinion) but it was worth the watch.
I liked this drama, I don't understand why it is so hyped, but it was definitely a good drama with a good cast. It was worth the 58 episode watch, I usually don't watch dramas with more than 40 episodes because the storyline tends to drag, which it did here but it still had me hooked. I literally couldn't stop watching this drama after starting it, it took me less than 3 days to finish this drama and I only started skipping words the end when the final story arc started, because at that point the story was dragging for the main leads and I only watched the second leads towards the very end. I think that for such a LONG drama, they should have had some sort of satisfying ending. Like just about every historical drama I have watched, the ending was rushed despite the dragged storyline towards the end. They couldn't even make Ye Hua the Heavenly Emperor at the end. The Celestial family didn't get the punishment or at least the retaliation they deserved from the male and female leads. The twins (Mo Yuan and Ye Hua) had very little screen time together, I really wanted to see them get along and be family to each other because Ye Hua's 'parents' and 'grandfather' were not it. The best thing about Ye Hua's parents and grandfather is the fact that he is technically not related to any of them, he shares no blood with them nor personality. He clearly inherited all his traits from his biological family.
I didn't realise that Mo Yuan and Ye Hua where played by the same actors. Heck, I didn't think they even looked alike until I saw them both in the same episode. Mark Chao played these two roles really well, I think it was because of how different their personalities were that I didn't realise they were played by the same person. You can really tell that Mo Yuan was OLD and Ye Hua seemed like a child next to him. Not to mention Mo Yuan's facial hair, that to me made him look completely different to Ye Hua.
Other than in the King's Woman, I didn't really like his main lead roles. The Flames Daughter was okay, but his charecter arc went down hill especially after all the twists, like the fact that his charecter had no reason to be the villain, he was the second lead just for the sake of it. Tried watching Storm Eye, got bored out of my mind in the first episode (tried watching a few more episodes and have it on hold). Thought Rattan would be good, watched 3 episodes and I found it really boring but I will continue watching it hoping it gets better. LOVED him on Love O2O, my favourite character and my favourite ship. I hope he has better roles in his upcoming dramas. The casts in his upcoming dramas look good, all actors I love who played good roles in other dramas. I need him to play another really good role like he did in The King's Woman and Love O2O, and hopefully get a satisfying ending.
The ending was rushed the the reapers brother should have been sent to the mental hospital a long time ago. I don't understand why she didn't help her brother, it was as if he was turned into a litteral killing machine, and she just watched? He had no thoughts of his own and only followed orders.
I liked the ending, but I wasn't really happy with Goo Ryun and Joong Gil ending. I really wanted them to be re-connected by the red string. Throughout the entire drama they went on about how breaking the red string means breaking all ties with the people in the life they lived, but I really wanted Goo Ryun and Joong Gil to have another chance in there next life. It didn't seem like an unlikely ending either since Ryun was the first (and I apparently only) person from hell to get another chance and work as a reaper.
Also, how is Ryung Goo also not from heel. I thought his death was from an intentional overdose.
I was trying to figure out who the actor was from the first episode of Who Rules the Word. I knew I saw him on something before, I even requested to edit this page to add him on Xiang Long.
LOVED his character on Who Rules the World, but it was quite obvious from the moment you see him that he would be killed off early on. But he had so much chemistry with Being Fengxi I wanted to see them interact more.
I haven'twatched this drama yer but there doesn't seem to be a season 2 continuation of this story (of these characters). Are all the seasons connected?
He's so good to both his children and has such a hilariously sweet relationship with his son. If it weren't for the first episode where we see how Ning was obsessed with the FL's mother and lead to her death, I would have found him to be a genuinely good guy.
I care more for the relationship between the Ning family father and son than I do just about the entire plot of this drama.
I think it was around episode 18 where I realised the ending was inevitably going to be sad and I was happy with that. My heart broke throughout those episodes (18 onwards) to the very end. Despite this drama being about time travel with the FL constantly going back in time to change her and the ML's fate, it's also very real in the sense that no matter what she does, she can never change her timeline and will always come back to her present life. She can never change her fate but she learns a lot by going to her past.
This drama is heartbreaking and truly tragic (in my opinion) but it was worth the watch.
I literally couldn't stop watching this drama after starting it, it took me less than 3 days to finish this drama and I only started skipping words the end when the final story arc started, because at that point the story was dragging for the main leads and I only watched the second leads towards the very end.
I think that for such a LONG drama, they should have had some sort of satisfying ending. Like just about every historical drama I have watched, the ending was rushed despite the dragged storyline towards the end. They couldn't even make Ye Hua the Heavenly Emperor at the end. The Celestial family didn't get the punishment or at least the retaliation they deserved from the male and female leads. The twins (Mo Yuan and Ye Hua) had very little screen time together, I really wanted to see them get along and be family to each other because Ye Hua's 'parents' and 'grandfather' were not it. The best thing about Ye Hua's parents and grandfather is the fact that he is technically not related to any of them, he shares no blood with them nor personality. He clearly inherited all his traits from his biological family.
Mark Chao played these two roles really well, I think it was because of how different their personalities were that I didn't realise they were played by the same person. You can really tell that Mo Yuan was OLD and Ye Hua seemed like a child next to him. Not to mention Mo Yuan's facial hair, that to me made him look completely different to Ye Hua.
Tried watching Storm Eye, got bored out of my mind in the first episode (tried watching a few more episodes and have it on hold).
Thought Rattan would be good, watched 3 episodes and I found it really boring but I will continue watching it hoping it gets better.
LOVED him on Love O2O, my favourite character and my favourite ship.
I hope he has better roles in his upcoming dramas. The casts in his upcoming dramas look good, all actors I love who played good roles in other dramas. I need him to play another really good role like he did in The King's Woman and Love O2O, and hopefully get a satisfying ending.
Also, how is Ryung Goo also not from heel. I thought his death was from an intentional overdose.
LOVED his character on Who Rules the World, but it was quite obvious from the moment you see him that he would be killed off early on. But he had so much chemistry with Being Fengxi I wanted to see them interact more.