Do you have any good recc's for dark ML's (besides the obvious TTEOTM)? I'm always looking for more dark, broody…
>Ah yeah, the ending. I honestly didn't experience it as something sad back then because they both died and left this world together & it was so fitting. I get sad only when one character gets left behind, but that's probably a me thing 😅
There's one that has a bad ending that I like, they both go at the same time, 'The Smile Has Left Your Eyes'.... I rated that like a 9 or 9.5 I freakin loved it. The end was fitting, and I knew going in how it would end so I was ready for it. So, I'm not totally against entertaining the idea of a bad-ending drama.
But like A Journey To Love, are you fekking kidding me, that was awful. I watched for Liu Yu Ning because he was HOTTT as Hao Du in The Long Ballad. I told myself after that I'd watch anything he was in. But I was so so disappointed in AJTL.
The one I'm really really curious about is Goodbye My Princess. The reactions people have to watching it are so either totally loved it or totally hated it. Makes me wonder how bad this ML truly is.
Basically my impression of this drama is the same as JMaia's review.
I have to say.... episode 6 has a kiss scene in it so electric I've come back to watch it several times since first seeing this drama. It's not even that long or that racy, it's just HOT. YZX is one of the best onscreen kissers I know of, and Lu Yan Qi is an awesome actress.
Chemistry between leads is flat, kisses are tame. Plot's premise is fine, but pacing is all wrong, leaving big gaps of boring between story developments. I gave it a 6.
Yes yes, there's some "racy" scenes, but nothing can save the fact that the actors are being very self-conscious and conservative about their kiss scenes, and they don't have that basic electric tension that a good onscreen couple has. For instance, compare this kiss-in-the-tub scene with the one from Taking Love As Contract, and there's just no comparison.
Do you have any good recc's for dark ML's (besides the obvious TTEOTM)? I'm always looking for more dark, broody…
Hard to tell from the last 15-20 mins of the drama, but it seems like basically she dies at the end of epic bloody battle, in his arms. He finally admits he was a total dick and he loves her and stuff. And then the narration SAYS he "chose to go with her" or something. But what they show is a flashback to their first time in the woods together on Wolf Mountain, they don't show him dying.
It looks like one of those dramas where it's first-half-romance, second-half painfest. But it wasn't THAT bad of an ending. It had awesome music, the ending song sounds like it was partially plagarized from NaShow's 'Auditory Hallucination' (which was the song from Kill Me Heal Me ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_pobOGOXDg ), but that was kind of a good thing because that song rocks. And the way the ending played out has a very old school k-drama feel to it (Autumn Tale, Tree of Heaven, Fashion King, What Happened In Bali).
I'm sure I'd hate it, because I had a very intense passionate 12-year long relationship with a hot sexy man who had Borderline Personality Disorder, and people like that don't trust love, so they test that love over and over until it breaks. So the idea of a dickish man treating a good loving relationship like shit, and not realizing just how much he loves his awesome woman until "its too late" just hits too close to home for me. It reminds me of my ex. People with borderline are always like this. The only way they understand how good the love they had was, is to lose it permanently. It's their idea of romance.
But I was struck by how good the cinematography, soundtrack, and acting was. I'd maybe watch it if I wasn't convinced it falls into that certain romance drama pattern of first-half-romance-second-half-torture.
Do you have any good recc's for dark ML's (besides the obvious TTEOTM)? I'm always looking for more dark, broody…
heeheee its getting to the point now where sometimes I'll just watch the ending of the last episode FIRST, before I decide whether to watch. When you like dark and toxic romances, it's hard to find good endings because the Laws of Asian Drama don't allow happy endings for certain kinds of characters.
As ya had known going in that ml is morally Grey wt did ya expect a vanilla romance..with fluff? I guess Ya clearly…
Well I can sympathize in one sense... I didn't get ANYthing out of Lighter & Princess at ALL, chemistry-wise.... and I got lit the f*ck up in the comments for saying so too. I'll never understand what some people see in that drama.
It's only 11 episodes so far, but this is the first drama since SOKP I am invested almost as I was in SOKP.
yall should update when the show is finished and let us know final impressions. I don't watch dramas till the last episode is aired, I'm a binge-watch only person.
I honestly expected ML to be darker (because of comments). He wasn't even that morally grey, just very smart,…
Do you have any good recc's for dark ML's (besides the obvious TTEOTM)? I'm always looking for more dark, broody intense ML dramas, I just can't get enough of them.
As ya had known going in that ml is morally Grey wt did ya expect a vanilla romance..with fluff? I guess Ya clearly…
I keep trying to warn people before they start by putting it in comments periodically, and in my review, that this drama has throat grabbing and forced kissing.... I'd rather someone know what they're in store for and skip it if it's not for them, instead of watching it, hating it, and rating it low.
I know some people have personal experiences that make it not-fun to watch such things. But I think you find it more in asian and particularly historical c-dramas, because back then.... as a female, even if you're hot for a guy, you can't be seen as a strumpet or a cheap ho. So you might like it that you're being kissed, but still "put up a fight" because you want to maintain the appearance of virtue.
The throat grabbing I could do without. It's in so many chinese dramas, but not japanese, thai, or korean. Do chinese guys actually do this to women? If some guy tried that on me, I'd promptly smash him upside the head with a frypan.
"please be careful of what you say".... you realize that the kind of person that comment is directed at, will…
In your PM's? I found that account, and that bastard has some extremely good dramas on his "dropped" list and rated them a 1. How can you rate a show you didn't even watch. Plus the account is only a month old. It looks like their only function is to try to wreck MDL, skew ratings, and troll other users. What a douche canoe.
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There's one that has a bad ending that I like, they both go at the same time, 'The Smile Has Left Your Eyes'.... I rated that like a 9 or 9.5 I freakin loved it. The end was fitting, and I knew going in how it would end so I was ready for it. So, I'm not totally against entertaining the idea of a bad-ending drama.
But like A Journey To Love, are you fekking kidding me, that was awful. I watched for Liu Yu Ning because he was HOTTT as Hao Du in The Long Ballad. I told myself after that I'd watch anything he was in. But I was so so disappointed in AJTL.
The one I'm really really curious about is Goodbye My Princess. The reactions people have to watching it are so either totally loved it or totally hated it. Makes me wonder how bad this ML truly is.
I have to say.... episode 6 has a kiss scene in it so electric I've come back to watch it several times since first seeing this drama. It's not even that long or that racy, it's just HOT. YZX is one of the best onscreen kissers I know of, and Lu Yan Qi is an awesome actress.
Yes yes, there's some "racy" scenes, but nothing can save the fact that the actors are being very self-conscious and conservative about their kiss scenes, and they don't have that basic electric tension that a good onscreen couple has. For instance, compare this kiss-in-the-tub scene with the one from Taking Love As Contract, and there's just no comparison.
It looks like one of those dramas where it's first-half-romance, second-half painfest. But it wasn't THAT bad of an ending. It had awesome music, the ending song sounds like it was partially plagarized from NaShow's 'Auditory Hallucination' (which was the song from Kill Me Heal Me ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_pobOGOXDg ), but that was kind of a good thing because that song rocks. And the way the ending played out has a very old school k-drama feel to it (Autumn Tale, Tree of Heaven, Fashion King, What Happened In Bali).
I'm sure I'd hate it, because I had a very intense passionate 12-year long relationship with a hot sexy man who had Borderline Personality Disorder, and people like that don't trust love, so they test that love over and over until it breaks. So the idea of a dickish man treating a good loving relationship like shit, and not realizing just how much he loves his awesome woman until "its too late" just hits too close to home for me. It reminds me of my ex. People with borderline are always like this. The only way they understand how good the love they had was, is to lose it permanently. It's their idea of romance.
But I was struck by how good the cinematography, soundtrack, and acting was. I'd maybe watch it if I wasn't convinced it falls into that certain romance drama pattern of first-half-romance-second-half-torture.
I know some people have personal experiences that make it not-fun to watch such things. But I think you find it more in asian and particularly historical c-dramas, because back then.... as a female, even if you're hot for a guy, you can't be seen as a strumpet or a cheap ho. So you might like it that you're being kissed, but still "put up a fight" because you want to maintain the appearance of virtue.
The throat grabbing I could do without. It's in so many chinese dramas, but not japanese, thai, or korean. Do chinese guys actually do this to women? If some guy tried that on me, I'd promptly smash him upside the head with a frypan.