Well, it can't be worse than Madame Antoine, can it? Or High Society? *scrolling down through Song Joon page in search for something decent... nothing till 2014...*
Anyone knows a drama or a movie that deals with a subject of restrictions towards book copying and distribution? It starts interesting here, but somehow this plot was abandoned halfway.
i think i'm going to watch this because of the female character, is there more romance?
In case you still want to know the answer is: it's complicated. Romance isn't the main theme here. There was some tension and mutual attraction, but the younger actress was replaced in the middle, there was a time skip and the whole sublot was pretty much subdued. Still a great drama though!
I just saw she doesn't get her memories back even in ep 36 and feel terribly demotivated to continue with…
so this all technically counts for the second lifetime? It hasn't yet reached that point mentioned in the synopsis when the heroine jumps off the tarrace and so on?
Now I think I'm at fault, because I didn't bother to care about Susu and Ye Hua after the wipe out, thinking they won't last long anyway. And now it's a chore to relate to their story. It was just painful to watch him lying all the time and strange to see her as an amnesiac who isn't concerned at all about not knowing a thing about herself.
I just saw she doesn't get her memories back even in ep 36 and feel terribly demotivated to continue with this show... Please tell me that ep 20-36 have more substance than Su Jin being a generic mean, clingy 2nd female lead plotting against the heroine.
it's terrible. full of plotholes. pretty predictable and a lot of plot armour and convenience in the name…
I don't think it's a show to watch for the plot (sadly). Reasons I still find it enjoyable:
- hair ornaments
- that chalice mounted on bird's foot in demon realm (and generally the way every realm is differentiated)
- Dong Hua Dijun's expressions.
Which all taken together makes it a good background noise for a pneumonia season, when I'm a little dizzy because of cough syrup and quite forgiving :D What bothers me, personally, is that there's little to none character development. People here are more likely to act out of character than have a believable change. They go against their setup.
@moondust : there seem to be a controversy regarding the book itself, it's allegedly a rip off from some other book, just changed from yaoi to straight.
why does the synopsis say that the time traveler saw himself lonely in the future so he decides to marry song…
you cant submit your own. Synopses are usually copied from other sites or based on rumours, press releases, sometimes source material if it exists, so something can get lost in translation.
I'm confused (I blame my substandard facial recognition skills): could someone explain what is the relation between Golden Lotus Spirit and God of War (dead from ep 6 onward)? Are they the same person? Is the former supposed to be his reincarnation/another form of this God? But they both existed at the same time even before the battle, so how can they be one person/soul/whatever? And what's the point of preventing the body from rotting, does she expect his soul to de-scatter and him somehow resurrect? But he already reincarnated(?) as young prince of heavenly court? Halp.
On the one hand I like how condensed it is, with little to no fillers up to episode 6, but on the other it may seem rushed. Everyone grasps secrets instantly and falls in love at first sight. They keep talking about thousands of years passing and I don't feel it. (Plus, immortals just die like flies, but that's normal.)
CGI is not bad at all, at least as long as they're not insisting on bringing mythical beasts on screen. The whole worldbuilding seems coherent and stylish. And so many pretty faces!
/a note to myself to propose pushing Baek Yoon Shik, Uhm Ki Joon and maybe Ji Chang Wook up the list instead of some child actor unless they somehow become irrelevant later/
serious question time: were widescreen flashbacks always so abundant? After Goblin I'm seeing it everywhere.
I probably wasn't clear enough. The point of using this device is obvious. I'm saying it's used a lot lately, as opposed to, let's say blurred edges or different lighting etc. I'm trying to remember whether it was so popular before Goblin or it was Goblin which made me more aware of this trick and now I'm paying more attention.
/2017-02-09: it probably was Missing 9, it's used again in ep 8, at 00:25... ./
Now I think I'm at fault, because I didn't bother to care about Susu and Ye Hua after the wipe out, thinking they won't last long anyway. And now it's a chore to relate to their story. It was just painful to watch him lying all the time and strange to see her as an amnesiac who isn't concerned at all about not knowing a thing about herself.
- hair ornaments
- that chalice mounted on bird's foot in demon realm (and generally the way every realm is differentiated)
- Dong Hua Dijun's expressions.
Which all taken together makes it a good background noise for a pneumonia season, when I'm a little dizzy because of cough syrup and quite forgiving :D What bothers me, personally, is that there's little to none character development. People here are more likely to act out of character than have a believable change. They go against their setup.
@moondust : there seem to be a controversy regarding the book itself, it's allegedly a rip off from some other book, just changed from yaoi to straight.
CGI is not bad at all, at least as long as they're not insisting on bringing mythical beasts on screen. The whole worldbuilding seems coherent and stylish. And so many pretty faces!
/2017-02-09: it probably was Missing 9, it's used again in ep 8, at 00:25... ./