Just finished this - took me longer than normal as I had stop and start - mostly out of boredom. Every story arc is just dragged out too long. 10-11 episodes of back story that could have taken half that time. and while I usually like a solid last episode of life after the big show down - this one was kinda of boring. And then places where more info would have been nice - like, what exactly happened to him in County Jin - were given very little time. So, weird pacing with this story. I dont mind slice-of-life storytelling - but it has to at least move the story forward. So much of this didnt do this - story arcs just stalled out and took forever before they moved forward. I did think this was one SWL best performances in a drama - first time I really saw emotion on his face - just so well done. FL was hit and miss for me - mostly I just felt she really, really did not get what level trauma he had (even though she witnessed the torture as a child). While she had her own emotional trauma - she did have physical trauma like he did - and it's a different kind of trauma. There also didnt seem to be much acknowledgment on her end of everything he had done for her. He had sacrificed his whole life (literally) so she could have a better life - this is how he showed love - but because it wasn't how she wanted it expressed, she would get mad at him - and everyone she did this, it just turned me off. They get there in bits and pieces in the second half and at the end - but it was a trudge. Leads had good chemistry - but its just done oddly until the last 1/4 of the series.
Couldn't get past ep 3 - just no patience for dumb FL characters anymore. Plus, with the setup, I could pretty tell you what was gonna happen with the story before I even read any of the comments And, on a completely superficial note - the down-the middle-art with the bangs on the ML just looked awful - so I couldn't even hang on to watch SWL 😂
Just finished this. Overall - a really good watch and I highly recommend. One of the better dramas of the year - so far. But, I was left with a bunch of unanswered questions. This wasn't a true rebirth/reborn/soul-swap story - more of a soul merging story for the FL, which was a nice twist on the usual arc for these stories. But, what I didnt get was why she was so cold, distant and kind of mean. Seems she was this way in her first life as Princess Gu and it was clear it wasn't about the 2ML. The whole intro she talks about the feud between the two families and she knew it would end in bloodshed - she is not surprised but the outcome at all and she kills herself to get back at the Fan family. She also clearly was never in love with the 2ML. The daughter of Duke Wei is not cold and distant - so why the complete personality shift instead of something that should have been in-between the two?? That would have made more sense to me given the setup. They just dont explain this very well. Now, I love me a fierce, badass FL who takes no prisoners - so, I enjoyed this - but she just had a meanness to her, especially to the ML, that I found unnecessary - this ties back to not enough backstory for her to understand really, why she was this way and if you have merged her with someone who is not this way - it just did not add to me. As is usual for dramas - gets a bit draggy in the middle - takes too long for FL to thaw out, a few unnecessary palace intrigue plots and why the hell was every prince falling in-love with her?? That she has this incomprehensible sense of smell and solved crimes just off a smell alone - was kind of silly and then there were a few times when she conveniently didnt smell something she should have - only a few, but it was noticeable. Gets a bit messy with the last 5-6 episodes and the whole palace coup thing - mostly to redeem the 2ML. And, then there was the ending - biggest questions of all - how exactly did he leave, how exactly did he get cured, where has he been and what happened to the doctor that was with him (he aged like 30yrs and looked on deaths bed). Some great cameos by Peter Ho and Vingo - well played! Some really beautiful scenes that will make you cry - him preparing for the birth of his child and the scene at the end with his young servant getting the handkerchief and running off (to name a few) - just so well done! Overall - totally worth the watch!
Only on ep 4 - so I may update this later - but the FL is soooo annoying me - and its not even about any of the relationships part - yet. She is soooo bad at her job - impulsive, has to be the one to solve everything, been injured 3 times already and there is absolutely NO WAY she should even be on this case given her connection to the 2ML.. I know, I know - it's a drama - but come on! it at least has to be plausible. They think sticking her in combat boots makes her "tough" - just not buying it in the slightest. I gonna wait a bit more before making too many judgments on the romantic entanglements- beyond - girl - you broke up 5 yrs ago - why is this even an issue (beyond drama land stupidness). Could have bought it more had it been more recent - but 5 yrs!
Update: I finished it - but most of my original opinions stand. Its just the setup and premise are so wrong - there is no way a rookie cop, who has a deep personal connection to these cases would be allowed ANYWHERE near them and it just gets worse as the drama progresses. She was fine when in the precinct or talking strategy - but as soon as she got out in the field - she lost ALL perspective and rationality. The first time - ok, fine - but every. single. time and when se does it she puts herself and her team in danger and someone gets hurt. No captain or police force would keep letting her go out there. It was just soooo irritating that it made it hard to just keep going "I know, I know - it's a drama" It was just lazy scripting. Now - lets add int he police crew that apparently couldn't follow anyone properly to save their lives - like how many times did they lose the person and they end up dead or captured or something? I just lost count.
The ML and 2ML were the most interesting stories - this is really what made it worth watching - both heartbreaking stories for different reasons.
Last - kinda petty note - whoever did the absolutely horrible short wig on the FL for her 'teenage' years - you need to find other work or just dont do wigs anymore - its was so distracting.
Just finished this - while mostly enjoyable, good chemistry with leads after they stop being pissy with each other, one of the better kissing scenes - BUUUUT, so many plot holes! How is it that the 2ml can find Dr X in such a short mite when the ML has ben looking forever! What researcher doesn't have multiple backups of their data? You wouldn't just store in singularly on a laptop computer. NO WAY a lab researcher would be doing experiments in a dusty old apartment building - even the lab at the school was so wrong. She is basically doing pharmecutical/bio research, which is basically a wet lab - she had none of the proper equipment and she would most certainly be in some sort of 'clean' room - no safety gear, no ventilation systems, no special surfaces - it was all soooo wrong. The dragging out of her not telling who she was to ML made absolutely NO sense. The whole reasoning for her taking on the pharmaceutical company was VERY shallow. The naive intern with rose-colored glasses discovers this problem and decides she is gonna take on the world! Add in, she recognizes she doesnt have power (part of why she created Dr. X) - but then marries a powerful person and then REFUSES to ask for the help. So, in reality - it then becomes just about YOU wanting to solve the problem, more than solving the problem. I HATE this narrative. She finally moves off this - but, only because she was discovered and outed - otherwise, she wouldn't have done it on her own. And, can we PLEASE stop with these stories that talk about curing Alzheimers/dementia - like it's the flu or that it can even be cured. UGH! the whole story scenario bugged me - but the leads were good (mostly)
Just finished this and just - ooof 🤦♀️ It made my brain hurt. One of THE stupidest FL's - like dumb and doesnt learn. How many times can you run off in your revenge fury and fail - EVERY time apparently. Not sure why the ML liked her besides her looks - she lied to him at every turn - couldn't be trusted to stick to the plan and hold up her end - she ALWAYS screwed it up, ran off and did what she wanted - usually got caught and had to be rescued. And I was annoyed that there was NO accountability for it. I haven't wanted to hit a character so bad in a while. The set up for the character bothered me - here is a woman who has been living in a cage in a cave her whole life - yet, she is perfectly manicured, coifed and in pristine clothes (white no less) when we first meet her. She has had real no interaction with other people (besides her sister), yet, seems to know how to seduce men. Make it make sense! This was just a hot mess all around so many, too many things that just made me want to throw things (mostly at the FL)- and dont even get me started on the ending - absolutely ridiculous plot twist that made no sense - some poor writer really had to work hard to 1. even come up with that and 2. make it even work.
just finished this and another drama where I left just shaking my head at the stupidness of it all. It started out kind of interesting - I did love the whole catapults scene at the beginning - but it quickly went off the rails. No romance really to speak of A FL who you basically want to slap upside head for most of the dram - she has NO character growth whatsoever, never takes responsibility for her bad choices and she is kinda mean. Not sure why the writers thought this is what a FL we should like looks like - cause it didnt work.. She is supposed to be this genius business woman - but she views it in a vacuum. Most good business people understans the politics surrounding their business - she basically just wanted to ignore it. She even acknowledges at one point that doing business with the 2ML will put a target on her back, but she chooses to do it anyway, cause only money matters, and then complains incessantly that she has a target on her back. I was like, girl - so much of this mess is your own doing. Her miopic obsession about money got old quick and she just kept repeating the same mistakes. With the rest of you - so over the forced kissing - just needs to stop and is not romantic in the slightest. The only schtick that kinda worked was the husband constantly getting beat up - he so deserved it!
Just finished this and just shakin' my head We got a seductress/assassin - who cant really assassin (seriously, only 1 fight scene in the entire drama and she just stands there helpless) - really only good at the seductress part. And even that, the ML has to instruct on how to actually seduce a man. We got a ML who falls in love with said assassin/seductress who happens to be spittin' image of his mom (eeew, gross!) Got a 2ml who is in-love with the ML's mother (ok, gross and not really sure how THAT works!) The usual cray-cray/horrible dad emperor The usual raging/blind revenge story where the main character doesnt have all the facts (mostly based on assumptions) - but I remember a smell! - so, as soon as I find the person who smells like that - they HAVE to be the one - only to get it wrong, TWICE (seriously, one of the more ridiculously stupid scenarios I have watched). And, even though I have been trained as an assassin, I am gonna run around and make impulsive decisions all over the place that dont work out and I have to bailed out in some manner. 🤦♀️
I would say I liked this more than I disliked it an, overall, I enjoyed watching it. But a few things just didnt work for me. 1. The 1st body-swap went on way, way too long and didnt really move the story forward too much for how much time they spent on it. It becomes more interesting once they figure out how to use. Wish they had spent more time with it this way, instead of the dragging out of the first swap. 2. The U Hui character was just weird - she starts off pretty evil (the whole killing rampage thing just makes her kind if unredeemable) - they they go and try and redeem her - but it just doesnt work. I had a hard time watching her - no facial expression, not sure if it was a filtering issue or something else - but just a weird plastic face that showed no emotions anywhere. It's like they had this character and they weren't sure what to do with her. Either make her go all bad and go after her dad and be ambitious or dont - but they tried to thread the needle and it just doesnt work and she just becomes a pretty unlikeable character that we wish the Grand Prince would run far, far away from. 3. What was the point of the gun? They make a big deal out of it the beginning and then do nothing with it - another waisted post line. 4. Same goes for the whole shoot arrows in the rain - cool scene, but they do nothing with this. 5. Starts of pretty interesting and I liked the lead actors. but it drags down through the middle and the body-swap, picks back up after they swap back - but then the story just gets messy, cause now they are rushing through back stories and other things because they spent too much time on the body-swap part. 6. Have to say - a bit disappointed in the villains ending - kind of anti-climatic. All that being said - its totally worth a watch and the OST from Song SoHee is AMAZING!
Currently watching another drama with politics. It reminds me of the time when I dropped this drama because it…
I was just thinking that as I was was watching and conetmplating dropping! It also bugged me from the get-go of her reborn era - she wasn't that smart in her previous life and somehow she becomes this master strategist once reborn - just didnt fit. And then she keeps making bad moves. ugh!
If you enjoy super-slow (like molasses), slice-of-life dramas - you might enjoy this. If not, I wouldn't recommend you watch this - you will be incredibly frustrated. For a drama that was promoted as a coming-of-age romance - there is practically no romance until the VERY end. This is basically watching a bunch of friends in a small town go through their senior year in high-school, throw in some family melo-drama, rush an adult get-together in the last two episodes and there you have it. Now, sometimes a slice-of-life can be interesting - but this just got so repetitive after a while and loses steam. FL was overly wise of her age (like, too much), ML is pretty typical green light guy, but tsundere and it's the FL who pull shim out of his shell - nothing new here. They do a somewhat good job of some emotional growth for the FL - she gets introduced as a raging, city-girl, rich girl brat and she does grow - but she never really loses that princess attitude. First reunion after separation was just weird and awkward - not sure what writers were going for there. And, ultimately the payout of waiting patiently for 28+ episodes for them to actually get together was kind of disappointing. it was rushed and just a slight sizzle (mostly because the FL needs to work on her kissing/intimate scenes skills - I have seen worse , but this wasn't that great).
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Thanks, I already tried the patreon link, missing subs for text convo’s and document info that’s kind of important to the story. It’s why I want know the original source/platform.
And then places where more info would have been nice - like, what exactly happened to him in County Jin - were given very little time. So, weird pacing with this story.
I dont mind slice-of-life storytelling - but it has to at least move the story forward. So much of this didnt do this - story arcs just stalled out and took forever before they moved forward.
I did think this was one SWL best performances in a drama - first time I really saw emotion on his face - just so well done.
FL was hit and miss for me - mostly I just felt she really, really did not get what level trauma he had (even though she witnessed the torture as a child). While she had her own emotional trauma - she did have physical trauma like he did - and it's a different kind of trauma. There also didnt seem to be much acknowledgment on her end of everything he had done for her. He had sacrificed his whole life (literally) so she could have a better life - this is how he showed love - but because it wasn't how she wanted it expressed, she would get mad at him - and everyone she did this, it just turned me off.
They get there in bits and pieces in the second half and at the end - but it was a trudge.
Leads had good chemistry - but its just done oddly until the last 1/4 of the series.
And, on a completely superficial note - the down-the middle-art with the bangs on the ML just looked awful - so I couldn't even hang on to watch SWL 😂
But, I was left with a bunch of unanswered questions.
This wasn't a true rebirth/reborn/soul-swap story - more of a soul merging story for the FL, which was a nice twist on the usual arc for these stories. But, what I didnt get was why she was so cold, distant and kind of mean. Seems she was this way in her first life as Princess Gu and it was clear it wasn't about the 2ML. The whole intro she talks about the feud between the two families and she knew it would end in bloodshed - she is not surprised but the outcome at all and she kills herself to get back at the Fan family. She also clearly was never in love with the 2ML.
The daughter of Duke Wei is not cold and distant - so why the complete personality shift instead of something that should have been in-between the two?? That would have made more sense to me given the setup. They just dont explain this very well.
Now, I love me a fierce, badass FL who takes no prisoners - so, I enjoyed this - but she just had a meanness to her, especially to the ML, that I found unnecessary - this ties back to not enough backstory for her to understand really, why she was this way and if you have merged her with someone who is not this way - it just did not add to me.
As is usual for dramas - gets a bit draggy in the middle - takes too long for FL to thaw out, a few unnecessary palace intrigue plots and why the hell was every prince falling in-love with her??
That she has this incomprehensible sense of smell and solved crimes just off a smell alone - was kind of silly and then there were a few times when she conveniently didnt smell something she should have - only a few, but it was noticeable.
Gets a bit messy with the last 5-6 episodes and the whole palace coup thing - mostly to redeem the 2ML.
And, then there was the ending - biggest questions of all - how exactly did he leave, how exactly did he get cured, where has he been and what happened to the doctor that was with him (he aged like 30yrs and looked on deaths bed).
Some great cameos by Peter Ho and Vingo - well played!
Some really beautiful scenes that will make you cry - him preparing for the birth of his child and the scene at the end with his young servant getting the handkerchief and running off (to name a few) - just so well done!
Overall - totally worth the watch!
She is soooo bad at her job - impulsive, has to be the one to solve everything, been injured 3 times already and there is absolutely NO WAY she should even be on this case given her connection to the 2ML.. I know, I know - it's a drama - but come on! it at least has to be plausible. They think sticking her in combat boots makes her "tough" - just not buying it in the slightest.
I gonna wait a bit more before making too many judgments on the romantic entanglements- beyond - girl - you broke up 5 yrs ago - why is this even an issue (beyond drama land stupidness). Could have bought it more had it been more recent - but 5 yrs!
Update: I finished it - but most of my original opinions stand. Its just the setup and premise are so wrong - there is no way a rookie cop, who has a deep personal connection to these cases would be allowed ANYWHERE near them and it just gets worse as the drama progresses. She was fine when in the precinct or talking strategy - but as soon as she got out in the field - she lost ALL perspective and rationality. The first time - ok, fine - but every. single. time and when se does it she puts herself and her team in danger and someone gets hurt. No captain or police force would keep letting her go out there. It was just soooo irritating that it made it hard to just keep going "I know, I know - it's a drama" It was just lazy scripting.
Now - lets add int he police crew that apparently couldn't follow anyone properly to save their lives - like how many times did they lose the person and they end up dead or captured or something? I just lost count.
The ML and 2ML were the most interesting stories - this is really what made it worth watching - both heartbreaking stories for different reasons.
Last - kinda petty note - whoever did the absolutely horrible short wig on the FL for her 'teenage' years - you need to find other work or just dont do wigs anymore - its was so distracting.
How is it that the 2ml can find Dr X in such a short mite when the ML has ben looking forever!
What researcher doesn't have multiple backups of their data? You wouldn't just store in singularly on a laptop computer.
NO WAY a lab researcher would be doing experiments in a dusty old apartment building - even the lab at the school was so wrong. She is basically doing pharmecutical/bio research, which is basically a wet lab - she had none of the proper equipment and she would most certainly be in some sort of 'clean' room - no safety gear, no ventilation systems, no special surfaces - it was all soooo wrong.
The dragging out of her not telling who she was to ML made absolutely NO sense.
The whole reasoning for her taking on the pharmaceutical company was VERY shallow. The naive intern with rose-colored glasses discovers this problem and decides she is gonna take on the world! Add in, she recognizes she doesnt have power (part of why she created Dr. X) - but then marries a powerful person and then REFUSES to ask for the help. So, in reality - it then becomes just about YOU wanting to solve the problem, more than solving the problem. I HATE this narrative. She finally moves off this - but, only because she was discovered and outed - otherwise, she wouldn't have done it on her own.
And, can we PLEASE stop with these stories that talk about curing Alzheimers/dementia - like it's the flu or that it can even be cured.
UGH! the whole story scenario bugged me - but the leads were good (mostly)
One of THE stupidest FL's - like dumb and doesnt learn. How many times can you run off in your revenge fury and fail - EVERY time apparently.
Not sure why the ML liked her besides her looks - she lied to him at every turn - couldn't be trusted to stick to the plan and hold up her end - she ALWAYS screwed it up, ran off and did what she wanted - usually got caught and had to be rescued. And I was annoyed that there was NO accountability for it. I haven't wanted to hit a character so bad in a while.
The set up for the character bothered me - here is a woman who has been living in a cage in a cave her whole life - yet, she is perfectly manicured, coifed and in pristine clothes (white no less) when we first meet her. She has had real no interaction with other people (besides her sister), yet, seems to know how to seduce men. Make it make sense!
This was just a hot mess all around so many, too many things that just made me want to throw things (mostly at the FL)- and dont even get me started on the ending - absolutely ridiculous plot twist that made no sense - some poor writer really had to work hard to 1. even come up with that and 2. make it even work.
No romance really to speak of
A FL who you basically want to slap upside head for most of the dram - she has NO character growth whatsoever, never takes responsibility for her bad choices and she is kinda mean. Not sure why the writers thought this is what a FL we should like looks like - cause it didnt work..
She is supposed to be this genius business woman - but she views it in a vacuum. Most good business people understans the politics surrounding their business - she basically just wanted to ignore it. She even acknowledges at one point that doing business with the 2ML will put a target on her back, but she chooses to do it anyway, cause only money matters, and then complains incessantly that she has a target on her back. I was like, girl - so much of this mess is your own doing.
Her miopic obsession about money got old quick and she just kept repeating the same mistakes.
With the rest of you - so over the forced kissing - just needs to stop and is not romantic in the slightest.
The only schtick that kinda worked was the husband constantly getting beat up - he so deserved it!
We got a seductress/assassin - who cant really assassin (seriously, only 1 fight scene in the entire drama and she just stands there helpless) - really only good at the seductress part. And even that, the ML has to instruct on how to actually seduce a man.
We got a ML who falls in love with said assassin/seductress who happens to be spittin' image of his mom (eeew, gross!)
Got a 2ml who is in-love with the ML's mother (ok, gross and not really sure how THAT works!)
The usual cray-cray/horrible dad emperor
The usual raging/blind revenge story where the main character doesnt have all the facts (mostly based on assumptions) - but I remember a smell! - so, as soon as I find the person who smells like that - they HAVE to be the one - only to get it wrong, TWICE (seriously, one of the more ridiculously stupid scenarios I have watched). And, even though I have been trained as an assassin, I am gonna run around and make impulsive decisions all over the place that dont work out and I have to bailed out in some manner. 🤦♀️
1. The 1st body-swap went on way, way too long and didnt really move the story forward too much for how much time they spent on it. It becomes more interesting once they figure out how to use. Wish they had spent more time with it this way, instead of the dragging out of the first swap.
2. The U Hui character was just weird - she starts off pretty evil (the whole killing rampage thing just makes her kind if unredeemable) - they they go and try and redeem her - but it just doesnt work. I had a hard time watching her - no facial expression, not sure if it was a filtering issue or something else - but just a weird plastic face that showed no emotions anywhere. It's like they had this character and they weren't sure what to do with her. Either make her go all bad and go after her dad and be ambitious or dont - but they tried to thread the needle and it just doesnt work and she just becomes a pretty unlikeable character that we wish the Grand Prince would run far, far away from.
3. What was the point of the gun? They make a big deal out of it the beginning and then do nothing with it - another waisted post line.
4. Same goes for the whole shoot arrows in the rain - cool scene, but they do nothing with this.
5. Starts of pretty interesting and I liked the lead actors. but it drags down through the middle and the body-swap, picks back up after they swap back - but then the story just gets messy, cause now they are rushing through back stories and other things because they spent too much time on the body-swap part.
6. Have to say - a bit disappointed in the villains ending - kind of anti-climatic.
All that being said - its totally worth a watch and the OST from Song SoHee is AMAZING!
For a drama that was promoted as a coming-of-age romance - there is practically no romance until the VERY end. This is basically watching a bunch of friends in a small town go through their senior year in high-school, throw in some family melo-drama, rush an adult get-together in the last two episodes and there you have it.
Now, sometimes a slice-of-life can be interesting - but this just got so repetitive after a while and loses steam.
FL was overly wise of her age (like, too much), ML is pretty typical green light guy, but tsundere and it's the FL who pull shim out of his shell - nothing new here.
They do a somewhat good job of some emotional growth for the FL - she gets introduced as a raging, city-girl, rich girl brat and she does grow - but she never really loses that princess attitude.
First reunion after separation was just weird and awkward - not sure what writers were going for there.
And, ultimately the payout of waiting patiently for 28+ episodes for them to actually get together was kind of disappointing. it was rushed and just a slight sizzle (mostly because the FL needs to work on her kissing/intimate scenes skills - I have seen worse , but this wasn't that great).