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Ambiguous Ending

Okay. So I get that he really liked her. That is okay. What isnt okay is that he hid his brother's murder of her entire family. He could have allied himself with her to take down his brother but instead he chose to hide the truth and work opposite her. Perhaps that could have changed their ending. However, prior to all of this he took away her family, job, and personal freedom. Yes, he offered his life for her but it was all a situation that he started.
It was nice to see a FL who didnt cave and wasnt weak. She chose revenge and helped another woman find closure and get revenge as well. I love seeing women support other women.
Everyone acted very well. I see people complaining about the lack of chemistry. There wasnt supposed to be. It was a one-sided obsession disguised as love. She didnt like him. She only stayed for revenge. The acting was done very well.
My main issue was with the ending it was ambiguous at best and left hanging for a potential second season at worst. Honestly, i dont think this story needs another season. She got her revenge and moved on.

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Giving them a taste of their own medicine ...

this wasn't just another school drama about bullying , this had some depth in victims' stories and the main storyline , yet it was rushed and made no sense sometimes .
what was different and great about this that they didn't just punish the bullies , they made them go through what they put their victims through which was very satisfying to watch.
this had a great potential yet it was rushed in some stories and what didn't make sense for me is how they got all that authority like ML got away with beating a lot of guys even students although they deserved it but it didn't make sense and the only time he went to jail was when he stood against that teacher who sold exams to students , it didn't make sense .
the final episodes where his fiancee's killer stabbed him like he stabbed him 4 times and he walked after that like nothing had happened this drama lacked logic sometimes .

this wasn't perfect yet it was very entertaining to watch.

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Ai and may are both black flags. I was getting angry every second. Their dynamic is just confusing at least for me. And Ai assaulted may and it’s just like wtf. Ai and may broke up and got together a total of like 3 times. They are supposed to be rivals because their company is against each other but I don’t know it didn’t give rivals. From the start they already kissing each other. When may put the little recording under AI’s table to get “information” but didn’t end up getting anything I feel like she was lying when she said she just wanted to hear her voice so it wouldn’t cause suspicion.

Overall:
The plot and storyline is great and probs would rewatch

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why r yall constantly defending lu feng when he’s a textbook narcissist

If I read one more comment about how the little brother is annoying and how he’s destroyed his brothers relationship I’m gonna lose it. I’d like to gently remind everyone that lu feng as opposed to yu chen is older and *should* be emotionally and mentally more mature but instead chooses to act like a 4 year old whenever a conflict occurs. Not only is he lacking any empathy or critical thinking skills but also he likes do mistreat and deliberately hurt the person he claims to love. It’s come to a point where his behaviour is so utterly pathetic that I dislike his character even more then all of the homophobic parents together. And let me tell you I’ve watched a few dramas and I have never felt that way before. I’ve never even written a review before but my hate for this fictional man has reached a point where I’m gonna implode if I don’t write it down. That being said I don’t condemn people that enjoy the drama, like or defend lu feng (or only just a little bit). I understand that red and black flag characters can be fun to watch. BUT I need the people to lose the „I can fix him“ or the „He’s just misunderstood“ mentality regarding really problematic, toxic men. Not only because of the whole misogyny and patriarchy thingy but also just because I find it really annoying. Thank you and good night.

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This show sucked, it was nothing like what I seen in the trailer. The trailer made it seem like something it was not going to be. Everything was all over the place. The editing is horrible. I watched every Monday though. Goryabambi should have kissed and shashakris should have kissed as well as krisgorya but that didn’t happen. This show is not 18 plus like they said it was. There were only implications of it. Praewmin whole relationship was just a mess. I wouldn’t say min is even gay, praew was pushing so hard I feel. Min obviously wasn’t interested in her but she just got along with it due to pressure. They don’t seem like a couple, their chemistry in the show is not giving couple. Praew is a yellow flag I would say because she keeps trying to push a relationship onto min even though she clearly don’t want that, but at the end min gave in because she felt bad.

Overall:
Pretty shitty show but I probably would rewatch it again only for shashagorya though because their storyline and characters are the only interesting thing about this show.

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Como disse agora a pouco na resenha de Love Day and Night, aquela versão é melhor no quesito casal e ML.
Não gostei da maneira que o ML se comportava aqui, parecia que era extremamente forçado todas as interações românticas com a FL, e a Lan Lan, não sei se por uma questão de roteiro e orientação, fez com que a FL parecesse ter mais medo DELE do que dos sentimentos que ela tinha por ele.
E foram estes motivos que me fizeram ter muita preguiça de fazer a resenha quando assisti inicialmente este drama, mas graças a publicação da resenha da emberzmars no feed sobre Love Day and Night, me me lembrei de fazê-la e tirar da minha lista de pendências hahah

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I NOW BELIEVE IN SECOND CHANCES

The first time i watched Goblin, i didn't really enjoy or understand the hype

i thought people were exaggerating, i thought it was boring, infact i remember dropping at E8 amd then later grudgingly completing it

i saw an edit of Goblin recently and the OST sent chills down my spine

then i wondered why i didn't really enjoy it, so I decided to rewatch

from the moment I started the first episode i couldn't look away

i felt like this magnetic force kept me glued to the screen

all the other dramas i was watching felt like bland cardboard

i literally couldn't look away till the last episode

i believe this is one of the greatest dramas ever made, believe me there's nothing like it

I've adjusted my rating to 10 and i don't even think it's enough

it's like Crack, you want to inject it in your veins, you'll look for this magical feeling in so many other dramas but you'll never find it

I'm convinced that i have to rewatch so many dramas that i hated or was indifferent to in the past

because this was such a gem, such a masterpiece

p. s. the final minutes of episode 2 is one of the greatest scenes ever made. OSTs, aura, everything 10/10

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Graças a resenha da EmberZMars que apareceu no meu feed, eu me lembrei de ter assistido a essa adaptação após ver a Hide Day and Night com o Wang Yi Ran e a Lan Lan. Lá eu dei 4 de nota, mas também fiquei com preguiça de fazer a resenha, mas me lembro claramente de tudo.
Confesso que não gosto do casal Yu Long e Mie Mie, e não, não é por causa da diferença de idade de 10 anos entre eles, mas sim porque acabam sempre nos dramas onde o roteiro insiste em colocar a Mie Mie como a infantil/jovem/criança/ninfeta e ele o homem mais velho que nutre sentimentos que não deveria ter e bla bla bla. Esse esteriótipo é muito ruim, principalmente por eles serem um casal real, então raramente assisto seus dramas. Mas este assisti porque como eram apenas duas adaptações deste web novel eu queria ter certeza sobre a história.

A maneira que o ML foi escrito aqui é completamente superior a outra versão, lá eu achei o ML extremamente dominador, forçando constantemente a FL, que a Lan Lan interpretou como se fosse a vítima sempre, que tivesse medo do homem. Aqui já não, talvez por realmente serem um casal, o carinhos transparece no olhar, a FL não tem medo dele e sim dos sentimentos que existem dentro dela.
Masssss, não gostei da caracterização da FL, seu figurino e seu penteado. Não sei se foi o excesso de maquiagem que deixou ela parecendo ainda mais jovem e menos convincente em um papel de médica.

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Complete 180 from the first two episodes

I went into this drama genuinely excited because I love the body‑swap trope, but the first two episodes were honestly rough. It was marketed as a comedy, yet the tone felt completely off. The characters, especially the twins were so cartoonishly evil that it stopped being funny and just became irritating. Even the chairman, who we’re clearly supposed to root for later, is introduced as deeply unlikeable with no redeeming qualities in sight.

The result is that the opening two hours feel like watching bad people get away with everything, with no emotional balance or relief. I understand that the setup is necessary for the story that follows, but it was still a slow, frustrating, and painful watch.

But then episodes three and four completely turned things around. Once the plan starts moving, the tone settles, and the show finally becomes what it promised to be. The leads have fantastic chemistry, they play off each other beautifully, and the story suddenly becomes engaging and fun.

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The whole show is shallow, childish, and annoying

The alien coming to earth is likeable enough, I mean who doesn’t like an outsider who transcends time and has superpowers and unlimited wealth but is beyond the world? The alien guy has loads of interesting things about him and they could have explored this angle- I mean he’s lived for 400 years starting from the Edo period, but the director of the show never once explores where he came from or what he knows through all his life on earth even, but instead he chose to focus on…

The female lead who is a vacuous has-been airheaded actress and obsessed with her looks and self image, not unlike a regular instagram model. What?! Wow! So original! The show chose to focus on the most mundane character and her narcissism above the cool alien who has super powers? Apparently she and her shallow life is more interesting than what Alien guy has been doing on earth for 400 years or where he came from? Ok let’s talk about the fantastic female lead this show chooses to waste all its time on. She is extremely annoying- because she’s been an actress since the age of 12, perhaps the idea is that she is mentally and emotional stunted or damaged. She surrounds herself with posters and billboards of her own image. Her facial expressions are terribly self conscious and her face contorts itself into new shapes every second with every word, as if she’s trying really hard to be cute or adorable or “an actress,” but just ends up looking like a weirdo. It’s the “socialite” kind of self-absorbed, unbearably bad actor. I mean a grown adult making the expressions of a toddler 24/7 with the emotional intelligence and maturity of a peanut and the narcissism, self importance, and intelligence of an toddler stuck to a mirror all day, I can’t fathom how the alien guy likes her except for the fact that they live close to each other and so the sparks must fly out of sheer proximity? But out of 400 years of being on the earth is this the best the alien guy could do? She is not a catch but keeps telling herself and everyone else that she is in order to keep her fragile ego running. As for the alien says he never felt lonely for 400 years being alone on his own but now all of a sudden he feels lonely because he’s fallen into an instagram romance with this actress? The director squeezes the infinitely more interesting alien and his powers into a cheap party trick for human perception. How come nobody is curious about his powers or where he came from? This self centered actress never once asked about his place or researched how he got to this planet. Only her brother who’s a space enthusiast bothers to look up the comet that came and dropped Alien dude off during the Edo period. All the actress could say is “He’s not leaving anymore! He’s staying here for ME! Must be the power of love! Yay!” Her curiosity about his ends there. What kind of love is that except her own narcissism about her “desirability and charm” to seduce men? Is this actress’s hollow socialite charm, seduction born of desperation, and “sex appeal” forced from childhood trauma and loneliness from lacking a father figure equal to “love?” This show’s director seems to think so.

There is a scene in the 5th episode where the female is drugged and put in a moving car- when she wakes up she’s at the driver’s seat of this speeding car headed for a cliff and the brakes don’t work. Instead of opening the door and getting the hell out, she screams “Help me Professor Toyama!” Like hello do you see that he’s not in the car? How stupid is this woman to call upon someone who’s not even in the scene? Lucky for her Toyama happens to be a teleporting alien who has great skills and can save her ridiculous self. One has to wonder how this actress has managed to stay alive all these years with nothing but a self important ego and narcissism in her toolbox. She is only good for two things: making ridiculous baby expressions and passing out/getting drunk/sleeping.

Another even more ridiculous scene is where this woman says she can make any man fall for her in 15 seconds and she sets a timer and starts doing the top 10 most ridiculous “charming” “Look at me I’m a baby” expressions- and somehow at the end of it even she runs of out ideas but Mr alien dude falls for it and kisses her because her toddler charm worked on him. And then cue the melodramatic K drama music at full volume! What a caricature. There’s nothing romantic about this show. So this incredible alien guy who has lived and watched humanity for 400 years falls in love with a toddler woman who justifies him throwing away his wisdom of impermanence over centuries and extraterrestrial powers for a cheap K drama relationship?? Then the actress lady brags about the earth “The whole earth is a delicacy!” As if to poo-poo alien guy’s planet because she doesn’t care to know where he came from, but they’re in a love relationship right? All centered around her and her petty shallow human whims like taking selfies with the stereotypical “Hai cheezu!” Is that a relationship? Oh God what am I going to do with these characters who have the depth of a sheet of paper?

The show seems to tip toe around her large baby ego and it’s annoying to watch. I came her for the cool alien powers not the usual K drama style romance, yawn! Watching this show is hardly bearable due to the female lead but I was still interested in what the murder mystery story was about.

It reminds me of the maturity level of a K-drama which tends to be at a middle school or high school level of pettiness and performance. It reeks of that same kind of “Means Girls” K drama pettiness and fluff, with exaggerated facial expressions and bad acting.

Also, I have to give the music a 1 star as well because it reminds me of those hollow K dramas that have to fill every second with mind numbing noise, aka melodramatic violin music, because the show is made for toddlers with no attention span, and no tolerance for silence and stillness that other J dramas have.

Also there are many scenes where it’s obvious that they’re using green screen and not a real background but it looks incredibly cheap.

Then Mr alien drops the biggest bomb of all- he wants a K drama happily ever after complete with 24/7 melodramatic violin BGM and “to grow old with her” because he envies the fleeting impermanent life of humans that grow old, decay, and die. This show needs a dose of Buddha’s teachings seriously. There is nothing glamorous or romantic about the life of a human that is characterized by suffering, sickness, and death. But if it’s wrapped in melodramatic romantic music and some nice filters then surely it’s enviable! Give me a break. Mr Alien is ready to those away a life of infinite power to be a finite creature chasing after a toddler minded narcissistic actress who obsesses and brags about her “charm” and “desirability” and making some magazine list for “Best girlfriend material.” There is no depth! No real love! Just a narcissist trying to prove to herself that she’s still desirable and can make a man desire her. How is this love? I just can’t with this show.

Then there is the “suspense” and murder mystery part of the show which is equally lame. Bad guy chasing a flash drive with evidence, and acting like it can’t be erased, another guy with recorded evidence on a pen who naively shows it to the bad guy without making any backups in this day and age… who is then beat up and his pen evidence crushed! But then it’s revealed that alien guy stopped time and retrieved the real pen! But does no one have an ounce of curiosity about alien guy, where he comes from, and how he can do all this? How come the level of higher level curiosity in a human being is so low only to the point of “how can he use his powers to help us with our dumb human problems?” The show presents a very self centered, myopic human perspective and doesn’t see past it to the alien guy’s vast expansive experience, and he’s reduced down to cheap party tricks of turning lights on and off and making things fly…

Finally in the very last episode, narcissistic actress lady asks him “Hey where’s the star you came from?” WOW! Some curiosity finally. Then she ends it with “You came from really far right? To this little island country..” Cue the proposal scene with the ring and the melodramatic k drama music! Oh darn the curiosity about the supernatural has already died and rotted into the usual romance. Then actress lady says “I was interested in dating an alien, but I get bored easily so I’ve had enough. Just like you were curious about dating a famous person like me. You’ll be young forever and I’ll be old soon and I can’t tolerate that. That other actress’s death wasn’t my fault and my career’s getting back on track so I’m going to marry Hiroya. If I marry him now, the people will love me. ” What!!? This has to be the most shallow dialog I’ve ever heard in my life. This socialite airhead got bored of an alien with infinitely more experience and depth than her and wants to marry the other dude because “the people will love me?” This shows how shallow this show, the director and all the characters are. I’m so done. The alien guy deserves so much more. Let the humans have their low level romances. Go home alien! You deserve better! The alien crying on his balcony after the shallow actress dumps him is the low point of the entire series (other than the dialog she just gave). As if they had something so deep to grieve about.

As they sit on a bench waiting for the comet to come that evening, alien guy and his only friend are siting on the bench and the friend says the most sensible dialog to him, “You’re finally leaving tonight. It must be tough for you but I’m actually relieved. A flower must return to its roots, the bird to its nest. Everything must return to where it must be. You will be where you must be. I wish for you to live a healthy life where you belong.” Then just when some sense was spoken into the script, this guy hiroya comes along and says “No it was all an act by the actress because she snooped through your diary and found out you’ll die if you stay past 400 years so she acted like she wanted to break up. But she still loves you! Now it’s up to you!” Cue the K drama violin. The Moor comet comes in an hour… then 15 minutes. Actress gets drunk in her usual style with her friend. Then Alien guy comes to her room. It’s time to say bye bye to alien guy and let him be free and be back home where he belongs. Will the shallow K drama sentimental romance prevail or will the truth of alien guy going to his true home prevail? Then this long drawn out dialog on the balcony which ends in “Tsubaki aishteru”… where the k drama music is just dying to burst through the scene and there it is! Then he disappears for a second and actress lady cries but she still looks like she’s so self conscious of her expressions and literally looks like she’s acting as if she’s crying. It’s so cringe to watch. My patience wears thin.. will he go home on not?

Then 3 years later it shows how this actress lady has grown in her career, running her own company, and wrote a book about her alien boyfriend. Again the director descends into the lower realms of being so enamored by the shallow human realms of fame, success, and money, that again he fails to go into where this alien comes from and what his existence is. So he go back to the focusing on the shallow actress’s life and how she has basically made money off the alien guy relationship and recovered her career. She and Hiroya focus on how big of a hit her book about the alien guy was and how it will be made into a movie, and entertainment is the future of investment! Typical selfish narcissistic human stuff. Yawn.

Actress goes back to talking like a baby and hugging a new dog, complete with baby talk. Then she wins some award and alien guy comes back. Now he’s magically accustomed to earth. So now they’re back to dating but now the alien guy is back to dating her and the usual human life. Alien guy is partnering with NASA and whatever else to make joint ventures and whatever. They do tv interviews together like a perfect celebrity couple. All is well in K drama land. Now and then he disappears. And then he shows up. At this point I’m sick of seeing close ups of both of their faces. They said they are living and enjoying every second they have together because they don’t know how long they have to live. Oh good now it’s over. That was long and exhausting. I’m glad it’s over. It was really bad guys. If the most shallow idol fame obsessed pop culture was put into a J drama, this would be it.

For some reason in the version I watched on Prime, there were “Behind the Scenes” after every single episode and everyone saying “Ganbari masu!” I don’t care! The show sucks. I don’t need a behind the scenes of a garbage pile.

This rating is for the weakest link of the show, and it can’t be higher than this.

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