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It's a first full on fantasy kdrama, not surprised so many people loved it. The audience finally got something fresh, so it's a shining new toy

I'm not even joking. You know jow cdrama overexplain everything with opening animation? This shit did reverse - they did not explain anything 😂

살고 싶은 잡아 aka I am so happy I might cry.
I knew the chemistry between Je Gal and Tae Man is too good and he is too gray of a character for them to just keep him a villain till the end 😭😭 Like, I was planning to write a whole essay complaining about the romance, but damn I don't give a fuck about anything now 🤣

Goo Tae Man was awful, but it was impossible to hate him. I just knew deep down he will switch teams eventually. I think the best indicator were his interaction with Je Gal - it always seemed like he respected him on some level. Even tho he acted all dirty trying to remove him, we all knew he could have done worse. I feel like, no matter how much of an asshole he was, he always picked the way that would remove Je Gal with as little negative consequences as possible compared to other options. And honestly speaking, he himself was really naive about the whole situation, otherwise he would see Seung Ha's father betraying them from far away.

About this whole switch from sport slice of life to action politics tho - I don't mind it plot wise, it bothers me pacing wise. I don't think the transition was smooth enough. I feel like the training with the archery team was too much of a clean cut break from one aspect to the other. Instead of slowly expanding the issues to the political level, they kind of, but barely hinted it and it all went down right after they came back from the training. It makes sense it's a bigger conspiracy. Otherwise bad guys being so bold and desperate makes no sense. So plot wise I'm fine with it, I just hoped they would make the transition smoother.

Also, the way the show developed explains Seung Ha's character and her involvement much more. I also really like her scenes with Goo Tae Man. I actually like her interactions with him more than Je Gal. She always hits the right spots with him to make him reflect and rethink some of his choices.

Okay... let's talk about the romance. I am legit unsure how I feel about it and where it leads. Je Gal legit acts like a shy teenage boy when Ga Eul is open about her love for him. It does not give me "flustered because my client has feelings for me", but rather "I'm denying I like her, but I do and it all affects me as fuck". It would be just hard for me to support it. From the way they met, what kind of relationship they had, Je Gal's trauma, Ga Eul's past situation, it all makes it hard for me to be on board with it. I also wished for one clean, good and healthy portrayal of anything related to mental health profession...

Anywaym again... ending of episode 14 was everything I wanted. I needed these 3 assholes working together. I was slowly losing faith it will happen, but the writers proved me wrong and I'm thankful for that.

I love how easily I can tell which one is the dog and which one is the cat just by seeing them stand up 🤣 The way their personalities match the animals I cannot hahahhaahhha

"I should say I chose you as my butler" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I live for it. This is exactly the crack plot I needed right now. Milk is amazing. Love the dude... cat?

yo I feel like the "uncle" is the love interest. HOW WILD IS THIS SHOW
I AM LOSING MY MIND WATCHING SDJHGSDBSDJKBGAJKFGHDSJ 🤣🤣🤣
the pants scene... I barely survived.
I LOVE IT SO MUCH.

I do 😂😂😂 both dramas and movies. Started doing it in 2020

One could say so... it's not a romance show, but the main people are married couple.

I did not. It changes nothing. Still, with the way you phrased it, you personally think cdramas are shoddily made, as a whole. You might mean something else, but with this phrasing, that's the result. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Well, you made quite a big statement saying cdramas are too shoddily made. There is a difference between saying "the few shows I tried watching were too shoddily made" and saying overall cdramas are.

When you click edit next to the title on your watch list, you have the "delete" button left bottom corner of the window

And how many did you try watching?
Seeing how you only have around 70 dramas overall on your completed list, I think it's fair to assume, you did not try to watch that many cdramas. Definitely not many enough to put all cdramas under a "shoddily made" umbrella.

assuming your stats on mdl are correct, you have quite a strong opinion about cdramas after watching exactly 0 of them 🙂

It is an adaptation of a BL novel. Tho, as always from China, the adaptation is censored in that aspect.

Totally agreed on the ending. Them just truly dying would be such a powerful ending. I am sure the viewers are smart enough they don't need everything explained by the end with these few scenes of them meeting with Seiren etc.

i know right! After seeing all the people he got top know commits suicide, him going there to find a way to maybe stop it or break it from the inside...

Or the writers should have make him more hesitant to make any judgement about it from the start...

It's a 3 hours long series, it can easily be viewed as a long movie.
Watching it all in one sitting helps the story to sink in.

They did so well with pacing for a short drama like that! This was one of the aspects I was more amazed and surprised by.

I agree on ML's quick change of heart. I think they made his conviction it's all fake way too strong for it to happen. If,. from the start they showed him being conflicted, I'd buy it. But dude kept telling everyone - shit is fake! and then he joined the cult 🤣

One complaint I have in terms of pacing - I don't quite believed when the ML decided to go to Yonder. I don't think they did well with convincing me of his change of heart. For me, it came a bit out of nowhere, especially with his strong stand against it before.

As for that conclusion part - I kind of wanted the show to keep it vague if the world created is truly fake and the people are not true people, but just avatars. I feel like they hinted/showed ML remembers his stay in Yonder, which would mean his consciousness was truly there... and It was not just AI made out of his memories. So then, while the place is fake, people in there are real to some extend.

But then maybe it's just a two way stream... While you can upload your memories to Yonder, you can also get the memories you created in Yonder after waking up. I need to think about it more 🤣

some parts were a tad draggy < and then there is me who wanted even longer episode, maybe even twice the length the show was 🤣

Also, same rating 😉

have i said it's depressing in a negative way?
have i said it's not entertaining?

When I said many viewers watches "for entertainment and relaxation" I meant nothing big, nothing serious, just some silly fun. Which this show is not.

About Yi Hoo not sounding like herself... to be fair, her cheerful side was far before she was diagnosed. That one scene we have seen of her after the diagnosis, she was far more calm and detached and not as "animated" in real life too. I do agree that she seems extremely fake and robotic, but it's the speech pattern, not necessarily her being not bright. Sickness can do it to you. And she said she remembers being sick.

I'm honestly so curious how the show is going to end. there is so many potential ways...