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Yup, and the name of the drama is even "Queen: (...)". But we never saw her become one.

How do I describe this drama? Underwhelming? That is how it felt to watch it. I have watched a bunch of korean historical dramas (aka sageuks) in the past decade. This one did not have even 1 element that stood out from its predecessors. The romance was ok, but nothing special, the palace schemes and beating the bad guys was not exciting or smartly done, even the king’s dreams subplot was never used to its full potential. The ending was just like the rest of the drama, average.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not saying this is a bad drama. But it is far from being on the same level of most sageuks I have watched in the past.

After watching the latest episodes, I still feel confused about how I feel about this one. There are some good ideas and I can see the potential for this plot, yet it is being delivered in a way that makes me feel bored/angry most of the time.

I cannot stand the Doctor’s attitude. He doesn't want to do his job, ok. But don’t try to stop others from doing theirs.

The female cop is also annoying. Acts like a 5 year old playing police and wanting to be better than everyone else but having no clue what she is doing.

The male lead is ok, as long as he does not take the entire drama to realize what he is doing wrong and what he needs to do to correct it.

The female lead so far is acceptable. Lol

Probably not, at least not anytime soon. I am currently on a more light watch spree. Like romantic comedies and stuff. Maybe in the future and by then I wont remember the spoilers you gave me. Thank you. :)

You said "had" so does that mean she dies at some point? What happens to her?

I remember watching this some years ago before I even joined MDL. This is like the walking dead on a train - korean style.

I remember watching this some years ago before I even joined MDL. This is like the walking dead on a train - korean style.

I have not watched either of the seasons and I never will. I can tell where this is going, have seen this train wreck before.

Basically the first season is the building of their relationship and then this season another girl comes into the picture and the male lead is probably going to be shaken by this girl that does not have a clue and goes after someone who is already in a relationship and supposedly about to get married. Correct me if I am wrong, but this is the vibe I am getting after watching the trailer. There were more scenes of him with this girl than with his girlfriend. I AM OUT!

At first I was not really into the story. After a few episodes I started to warm up to it. But this was still your average lakorn.

It was very predictable, from the start. The affair, who the biological parents of the male lead were, everything. There wasn’t one single surprise. There were no kisses either, just so you know. They tried to make us believe there was one occasion when it happened, but it was so obvious their lips never even touched. A lot of camera work, male leads thumb in front, camera zooming in but showing only the eyes and nose while they are kissing. No idea if any of the actors have a no-kiss agreement or something but I think it was the first time I saw a fake kiss from this channel. I would not be surprised if it was a lakorn from CH3, but it was not the case.

Anyway, if you can deal with the predictable plot and romance with almost no skinship and no real kisses, then this might be your cup of tea.

It was not slow per say, but there was something about it that at some point felt very average. I also pretty much binge-watched it. I watched the first 2 eps the day it came out and then the next day I watched the other 10. But I still feel that there was something missing or that they should have changed the focus to something else at times. I am not sure what it was tho. I have also watched every drama out there that is about AI and face blindness so the story was nothing new to me and that might have made it a little less interesting to me.

But it is not a bad drama. I have just watched way too many dramas to be able to feel amazed by a drama with this plot.

About the blackout thing, it is not as hard as it seems. They just need footage of the city at night with all the lights on and then they use an editing software to "turn the lights off" one by one and add the sound effects so it actually looks like a real blackout. These days you can do A LOT with video editing. Last year I knew nothing about it and just recently I designed and animated a character that looks like me.

Actually these things have been around for a long time but were only used by the entertainment industry and professionals. But nowadays anyone can learn these things. Is it easy? Not really. Not that it is hard either, it is just very time consuming. A simple animation of a few seconds can take hours of work to accomplish. That is why some more complex animation movies out there took years to be made.

I kinda liked it but I felt even 12 episodes was too long for the plot they had. Idk, something was missing. The plot felt slow paced and the story did not seem to have enough elements or supporting characters. I am not sure what it was, but it was lacking something.

It is not a bad drama, but I have see a lot better.

Thank you for letting me know. I did not completely dislike the drama, it just did not meet my expectations. I liked the way it started but somewhere along the way the pace felt unnatural and so did the characters feelings. And I did not like the ending.

Ok, so basically he is kind of a flirt but never actually falls in love with anyone until Su Ying shows up. Got it. Thank you.

I did not watch the trailer and I have watched that drama so long ago that I did not even think about it. XD Plus, this one is about AI, the one you mentioned is about a normal human being that has 2 personalities. I guess the trailer has some sort of similarity then, but the synopsis has no hint of it being similar.

I actually thought about the kdrama Are You Human Too? and the cdrama My Robot Boyfriend (2019). I watched these 2 more recently and just from the synopsis it sounded like them. In the first you have the human version and the robot version and in the second the male lead also supposedly died and keeps living thanks to artificial intelligence.

No problem. ^^

Ok, so one question, I dont mind spoilers.

I have read that Su Ying only shows up in ep 32. Does that mean that Xiao Yu'er will have no love interest until then or does he like someone else at first, like a love triangle with his brother and the other female lead or something? (typical second lead story line, sigh)

I am asking because I have seen a few videos that kinda hinted at him liking someone else before Su Ying shows up.

I rarely use Netflix anyway. This has only been the second time I signed for the free trial. Most dramas I find somewhere else to watch. I signed again only because there was this chinese drama that was not being uploaded anywhere else and I did not want to wait. Anyway, even if they notice the person had several free trials, they would have to warn before the subscription is confirmed. The most they could do is cancel it and block the person from having access but that would bring them more harm than good. They are always hoping that one person will forget to cancel before the trial ends or stick with them and become a regular subscriber. As long as the subscription statement says the card is going to be charged only after day X, they cannot charge before that.

At least someone liked it. The ending was not bad, I just did not like it because after all the frustrations I wanted at least a better ending to ease down my anger. I knew this was a tragedy but I did not like the ending. Overall I just did not take as much enjoyment from the drama as I felt frustrated so it did not feel worth watching. I would love to see the same leads cast in another drama tho. One with a story that is not about a bunch of crazy villagers trying to kill the female lead. Lol

Yeah. I know. Of course they are doing it for the money. But since they like trolling people, I troll them too. I never paid a cent to them. When I really need to watch something that is only on Netflix and nowhere else, I go for the free trial and cancel before it ends. So I guess yeah, they are keeping me around, but they are getting no money from me. I was going to watch this but I am glad I always check the comments first or I would have been another person to feel frustrated having to wait a year for the rest of the episodes.