monstersnroses

K-romaces have been in a slump for a few years now, and the chinese right now are kicking their asses in brutal fashion. They need to stop focusing on production so much, and start focusing on creative storylines and better scriptwriting. Without a good story and a good script, all the rest is just a waste of effort. And the chinese have proven beyond any doubt that if you have a good story and a good script, even if the production is sort of a cheap hot mess people will still love it.

Also, k-romances have stopped risk-taking lately. Whereas the chinese are still making dramas that take a gamble with batshit crazy ideas. And it's been paying off for them. SoKP was one of the best dramas I've ever seen so far, and their budget wasn't really huge. TTETOM with it's plot, would never have been made in korea because it's "too crazy" of a concept. Hidden Love was crazy because it was a crazily simple idea with NO gimmicks.

Korean producers need to stop and rethink the direction they've been going in where they are sacrificing substance for $$$. If they're going to make crap, at least it could be good cheap crap that's entertaining and crazy like BoF or What Happened in Bali or My Heart Twinkle Twinkle or Que Sera Sera. And if they're going to make a sexy drama, then just go for it and go all-out and stop worrying about 'playing it safe'.

If he's going to be the devil, then make him THE DEVIL, not some mediocre bratty version wearing jeans with a simp for a butler.... what even is this?!? Aigoo.

Fed up switching to wuxia shit now.

I'm on episode 2 right now... and as a lover of the vampire/monster romance genre, I can tell you that in a monster romance, the "Reveal" of the monster to the FL is EVERYTHING. It SHOULD be one of the most emotionally powerful scenes in the story.

In this drama, he blocks an acid attack on her and shields her with his back. He holds her wrist to heal, and she gets totally amazed.

No. nononono.... for starters, if someone shielded you from an acid attack for real, you'd be flipping out like "omg are you ok, I'll call an ambulance!" And secondly.... the acid hits his BACK, how is she supposed to see his body heal??? But apparently she does. Then she becomes amazed and asks "what are you" and he says "I'm a demon. You humans call me the devil."

Not only is this a completely underwhelming "Reveal" moment, but it's actually broken up into the end of ep2 and the beginning of ep3. They can't even make it all one continuous moment for the viewer.

I wish there was a way to adequately express what a HUGE cop-out this is on the part of the writers. When you're writing monster/vamp romances, a LOT of creativity goes into how you will write the Reveal moment in your story. Here, it is bungled so badly I'm kind of in awe over it.

And the dialogue there.... "I'm a demon.... y'all call me the devil." Like how can you have the sheer BALLS to write that crap in current year. At this point since TTEOTM happened, your ML better not literally be the devil for the next several years unless you have a damn good story to back it up.

The more I think about it the more I just cant eve

Maybe
FL is a sliiiightly feral gumiho. She happens upon the hottest man she's ever seen in her life.... the guy is a {part time family convenience store worker and part time tae kwon do instructor for little kids} or {real estate developer} or {cookbook author} or {chiropractor}.... she stalks him and waits till he's packing up his tent, and sneaks onto the back of his truck, unknowingly taking her home with him. Hijinks ensue.'
or maybe
FL is a vampire who lives peacefully among humans in Joseon era... until ML comes along and figures out what she is. Her cover is blown, and she has to convince him to not tell anyone about her. ML could be like a royal family member. Or he could be a guy who runs a hotel or an illegal gambling operation or he could be a blacksmith.
or maybe
As a child, FL was disastrously struck by lightning, and she survived but her whole house and family burnt down, and she was raised by foxes/gumiho/bears/cats/ghosts/fairies, but as a side effect of the lightning strike she gets these weird spells that come over her and she acts different and turns into some crazy wild creature and you never know what she's going to do next. ML is the only doctor in a remote village, and runs across her in the woods one night. Since he's a doctor, he wouldn't be able to sit there and let it go if he saw her run into the woods alone at night.
or maybe
FL is the child of the queen's hanbok tailor. When she is very young, her grandfather dies in front of her. As he is taking his last breath, he clutches at her, and passes on a demonic curse he had been living with... that every full moon he turns into a crazed creature. FL has been living with the curse all through adolescence. ML and FL had their marriage arranged by their parents since childhood, and neither the ML or the FL wanted the marriage at all. (ML could be the son of the King's swordsmith or like the son of an army general or son of the head of the King's private guards or something). One day, ML accidentally finds out about the curse. He starts becoming emotionally invested in her and really care about her. Eventually they work together to lift the curse and end up falling for eachother in the process.

?

(If there's screenwriters out there, steal any of these ideas please)

that is so shocking, i had no idea they're even sleep depped on top of everything else.... they just run those poor kids right into the ground. Reminds me of how ballet dancers train. They're run really hard, eat barely anything... and by the time they're 55, they look 70 and their hips and feet are all messed up and their health is shot and their bodies are frail. Horrible.

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Slowly, slowly fall asleep
Slowly slowly I can with you
If only only there was a plot
Show so boring, aigoo aigoo

:P

Just finished this... imo it was terrible. The implausibility of the story's setup (cardiac surgeon has enough time in his life to moonlight as an extremely famous dubber, and coincidentally randomly ends up in the chat of a girl who turns out to be his anonymous crush of 2 years) might be justifiable if there was a compelling plot to go with it. Since there is not, it just feels like a 12-year-old's fanfic. There is in fact next to NO plot whatsoever.

The OST/BGM/sound effects are cringe. There is a song that repeats over and over throughout the drama that makes me want to bash my head against a wall it's so overused.... they lean rather heavily on "cat meyowing" sound effect for the first 2/3rds of the drama.... they stomp on a lot of the potentially romantic moments with the classic chinese "whimsical" BGM that's out of step with the characters and situations, and they live in a universe where the only form of music is ballad songs. If you don't enjoy ballads, this is not the drama for you.

Then there's "drinking a glass of water". It's not the first time I've seen a c-drama that is weirdly fixated about drinking water, but this one is the worst one. There are SO many glasses of water in this show.

The FL is not too bad at the beginning but by the end, she wears on my nerves due to her lack of personality, and the fact that her personal iteration of the "chinese infantile female" is kind of annoying -- she doesn't talk much and when she does it tends to be in this teensy little voice that for her is clearly an affectation (it's not her real voice, it's somewhat fake sounding). She starts off doing an okay acting job, but by the end of the drama she's just phoning in her performance, and it starts to look really rushed and unnatural. Wardrobes and styling are typical tacky modern c-drama as well.

There is so little in the way of substance to this drama that it feels basically like an extremely long travelog created by the chinese ministry of tourism or something.

I gave it a 5/10, and the 5 points I gave it are for one reason, and one reason only: The "romantic" sequences (there aren't too many, but there are some) DO have an element of kilig in them, and the lead characters DO have really sexy chemistry together. This is literally the drama's only redeeming quality.

It's a sharp contrast to Hidden Love which I gave a 9.5... both are very pared down and simple stories, but Hidden Love is actually good, whereas this one is only good for if you have incurable insomnia and need something to help you fall asleep.

I think what's worse is the diets some of those k-pop idols have to be on, i saw a VIXX behind-the-scenes thing, and Leo was eating a bowl of mostly vegetables that couldn't have been more than a 1000 calorie meal. He said it's all he gets to eat every day.

Now that is a young man in the peak of his health and growth, who is doing intense exercise every day, trying to live and thrive on 1000cals and no more than about 30 grams of protein every day. That's basically slow torture, and it will definitely impact his health. Sure his bodyfat is at like 3% or something ridiculous, but at what cost.

When you take like this guy who's doing it for a role, and he can just stop when that show is finished filming, those k-pop idols never get a break from their diets, and their diets are like designed by some Dr. Evil nutritionist that stepped out of a time machine from 1952 hollywood. It's like they have the same nutritionist who told Judy Garland to live on chicken soup, black coffee and cigarettes.

If you're fully fasted for days, your body undergoes certain changes that give you a lot of energy and mental clarity, once the body changes over from burning glucose to burning ketones -- and this is provided that during fasting, you are keeping up an electrolyte balance of sodium, potassium, and magnesium with your fluid intake. The energy boost happens at about the 24-36 hour mark once your body has run out of glucose stores. So when you're fasted, the first few days can be low energy, but then you get your energy back once you've made it past that phase.

But a severe low-calorie diet is literal starvation, and long term it can mess you up way way bad, they've done several studies on this with military groups. You eat just enough that the body never fully goes into a true fasting state, but you don't eat enough to maintain your daily needs for protein, calories, and nutrients. So the worst of both worlds. So if you take 2 people who both eat 6000 calorie-per-week diets... one eats nothing for 4 days and then eats 2000 calories a day for 3 days straight... the other eats about 800 calories a day... the person eating the daily 800 calorie diet has far more serious health problems by the time several months have elapsed.

Fighting!

There's a lot of new evidence that periods of fasting can be very beneficial. Some guy just won a nobel prize not too long ago for his scientific work on fasting, and he says it can boost your Hgh (human growth hormone) levels through the roof, among other benefits, and probably could contribute to longevity. On youtube, you can look up Jason Fung who talks a lot about the science behind fasting and why it's probably very good to practice it periodically.

The kind of fasting he's talking about here where he goes no more than one week fasting, and on other days does OMAD (one meal a day) theoretically as long as it wasn't long term, could actually be good for his health .

He was HOT in Love Me Love My Voice, I would love to see him as a romance ML <3

Im on ep 23 and srsly i cant stop falling asleep. Excruciatingly draggy. And i was just thinking about how HL is everything this is not. I think ill finish this but i cant wait til its over tbh.

Bummed because ML and FL are both good looking, decent actors, and have scorchy chemistry together. How did the drama end up so dull? I have to spend three full minutes watching her eat instant ramen... one and a half minutes of someone walking down a hallway... five minutes of someone waiting in a room for someone else.... gah! Aigoo!

I tried as hard as i could to forget, put about a dozen other dramas down, am now ready for rewatch im so exited! Nothing else is this good its crazy.

Etoks21: screech, namecall, block, repeat. What a bully omg🤣

Youre just a sad larper keyboard bully and your pantys are in a bunch cuz someone called you out.

Yakuza? Organization? Nice strawman.

>presented with new idea
>new idea threatens current beliefs
>ego too fragile to research topic that might disprove beliefs
>"youre stupid"

Classic liberal behavior.

Your idea of winning in a conv is just like every other rabid liberal - being so insane and hostile that people finally drop you like cancer.

Youve been to ny 55 times, thanks for the oddly specific detail lol yea idts.

When the star whackers do a hit in america, they call it an "overdose", but when they do it in korea, they call it a "suicide". Its the same extortionists either way though.

>Gosh, you seem a bit hostile, monster. Defensive, even. I wonder why that might be?

I take it youve never been to nyc. Its just normal talking, no need to get weird about it.

Well thanks for the repetitive psychostyle hyperliberal ranting, that was refreshing as always.

Tysm❤️

Im american, and ive been asked to be someones GF straight away a few times. If you dont like the guy it can be weird. If you do like the guy it can be magical and hot. Just depends on the vibe you are picking up from them.