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Exactly, instead of concentrating on the story I'm left trying to piece together exactly what they said and the thing is a show like this it entirely hinges on the dialogue.

Yeah, I think those are the only subs available. I'm not fluent but I understand enough and they're just paraphrashing and a lot of the times it gives things different meanings. I mean if you're airing a foreign show on your platform, the least you can do is translate it well so the dialogue and the story are carried through and people understand it and enjoy it fully.

Why are the subs for this so bad? It's like they're not even trying to translate what's being said. I've always had such respect and admiration for the fansubbers who have been subbing kdramas for years and the awful subs from netflix and hulu have increased that respect tenfold because the difference in quality is insane.

From the episodes I've seen so far and the comments about the events of the novel, it seems he loves her a lot more than she does him, perhaps I'm mistaken and that's not the case. I frankly like my fictional couples with equal devotion and love from both sides, I especially adore a badass commited FL who knows who she wants and never wavers. Thanks again for all the info.

Thank you for the answer. Poor guy I feel really bad for him, it seems he tried to get back together with her multiple times but she treated him cruelly per her friend's words. Hopefully we'll get a more in depth look into her reasoning and motivations so we can understand and sympathize with her thought process.

Can someone who read the novel please explain to me why she broke up with him 10 years ago ?

And that's your prerogative, as it is mine to express my opinion so I'm failing to understand what we're discussing here exactly.

I was talking quality/writing wise but okay...

I can't believe this drama absolutely wasted Kim Nam gil and Lee Da hee together in a drama. Also poor lee da hee, she hasn't had a good drama since search www and that was in 2019, I hope her next one is better.

I said what I read from sources that post news and rumors and posted those sources? I never claimed any of it as fact but they're the most likely things to happen rn. They said they aren't allowed any CP promotion , also ALON was never a BL and even then it's clear they cut SO much from it and from the abyss too, accidental hugs and a few looks are not even close to the level of WOH or the untamed, also they literally changed the names, the genre to scifi etc. All I wanted to do was talk about what's circling on the internet to help people so they can manage their expectations and not be too disappointed.

I think everyone needs to re-evaluate their expectations in terms of the upcoming danmei adaptations. From what I've read from different sources that talk about chinese entertainment rumors and news, here are the main points:
- The government is letting them air the dramas to try and recuperate their production costs.
-They are not allowed to do any promotion whatsoever, they can only airdrop the shows randomly.
-The only way any of these dramas are going to get their lincenses to air is if they cut every single couple/shippy moment so that means the subtle and not so sublte subtext and at times actual text we're used to from word of honor and the untamed will be non-existent.
TLDR; We're probably going to get all the danmei adaptations this year but prepare for them to be extremely cut, extremely sanitized versions of the books with absolutely zero romance subtle or otherwise.
A couple of sources that talk about this:
https://twitter.com/Cpop_Melon/status/1626879937495060481
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvnFDgBL5Fc (She talks about it from 10:49).

The starry love is officially airing the 17th so this is probably postponed again, I will never understand the chinese drama industry and the crazy ways they choose to release things. https://twitter.com/Allcbizmelons/status/1623276051525947393

We are in desperate need of a good korean romantic melo, there hasn't been one in such a long time.

The expanse is fantastic, as for time travel Dark is amazing and 12 monkeys is very underrated and starts slow but it did time travel very very well and had that rare combination of being extremely smart and well thought out as well as emotionally satisfying while also managing to land the ending perfectly. Fringe is another classic that didn't have time/space travel but had something similar and equally intruiging but I don't want to spoil you.

Yeah that was a mess and they also cut a looot from unchained love, double love most recently , it's not looking great...

There are rumors that what they cut is basically just a lot of romance scenes which makes sense because what else would they cut from a contemporary sports romance, which worries me because they usually don't cut things from these types of shows but lately they've been doing it a lot and this might be our new normal. Romance dramas without any romance. https://twitter.com/TeaServingCake/status/1618876335060819968

Yanxi palace was great, in the same vein the story of ming lan has an amazing heroine, she's the only who's as smart as Ying luo in all the dramas I've seen and it has a good love story even though it develops slowly. It's just generally very well written and very intelligent in a way very very few chinese dramas are.

Queen inhyun's man is great but it's not fully a historical, queen for seven days is also good but is much more tragic. I don't know if you watch chinese dramas but in terms of a costume show with a great love story, although it has fantasy elements, love between fairy and devil has one of the only couples that can be considered on the same level as Se ryung and Seung yoo.

What I don't get is why they wanted them to cut so much because from the bts floating around, nothing they showed was more explicit then what we usually get? Most of it is just normal kisses we've seen countless times in costume dramas.

If the insane amount of romantic scenes and kisses cut from this drama is a sign of what's to come in terms of censorship then it's gonna be so bad for us lmao. Can you imagine every single romance drama (which makes up more than 80% of chinese shows) butchered like this? We won't be able to enjoy anything in peace.