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WORST HIGH RATED KD EVER

OMG this was beyond my imagination of how a drama can be this bad

Extremely boring
Too long with no need
Very detailed
Very slow pace
Dark light during directing which made you depressed
And IU made it much worse for me

I could bear only 2 episodes and I was dying
I couldn't bear anymore
It was same as just between lovers

If you didn't like (just between lovers) like me,
so you definitely won't like this one

The catastrophe I jumped to last episode and I get about 70% of what happened during the hole drama
Which means it's really an awful drama

And it stamped with this sad stupid end
Horrible from all aspects ??‍♀️

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What An Annoying Female Lead

I give up on this drama just because personally, I really hate the female lead character.
Just my opinion is that her character is more likely a female villain who loves to throw herself in front of the male lead..., she doesn't care how many times he has rejected her coz she somehow has no shame.

She's in love with Shen Yan (the male lead) at the first sight due to nothing but his handsomeness and suddenly develops an obsession with him. Not because of his kindness or his else, coz she's not even known him. She even has her bodyguard investigate him due to her cluelessness about him.

She then hides his token and obsessively stalks him around... ignoring her princess status. Scheming everything she can to be able to be with him. Again, just my opinion, how low people could fall so deep in love just because of their physical appearance. Nothing more, only THE FACE.

In ep 3, there's a scene where she's throwing money in a restaurant and paying 3 silver coins for every 1 type of food she purchased..., which is what I know after watching countless dramas, silver coins consider as a big sum of money in that era. And she purchased a long table full of food... I can't imagine how much money she has been throwing! She's a princess, she's not even working, so..., she wasted people's money for her personal pleasure.... why on earth people with that kind of behavior is a protagonist??

I can't even finish ep 3 and give up at minute 18:18... she makes my day turn worst.
I just hate the kind of girl who throws her pride over a man, too much. For those who do not, might find this one interesting. If the drama turns good after ep 3, idk coz I don't watch it, but I do hope it will.
I love Zheng Ye Cheng, but, not this one, the female lead is my worst nightmare in a drama.

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Why is it rated so high?

I wasn't able to continue after 7th ep...things just don't make any sense...I just wasn't able to see why would a girl would want to date a guy who invited her as his date to a party but then abandoned her and went to flirt with other women...I am not saying that the guy is bad but he could show the least respect to her by inviting her as his date...FL is just simply a 'cute girl doing cute things' type...other than eating and working as a source of gossip, she doesn't really showed much ability...there's a difference between 'naive' and 'stupid'...she can picture as the director of company confess to her but can never imagine in her dreams that the boss would confess to her...
I started it with great expectations just after completing a fabulous no bullshit drama-'Meeting You' but only to be disappointed...maybe I will cont. in future.

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This was not cute!

I expected a sweet drama with some real life understanding of what a relationship between a teacher and her student would be like. Based on the top reviews, it should have been a masterpiece... I was bamboozled! In the first episode the ML slaps the FL when she calls him handsome. Immediately I had red flags but
I tried to stick through it. By episode 2 he was confessing his feelings and when she told him she wasnt't interested, he did what he wanted to anyway! And not just once,multiple times! Because as he put it "romance should have been sweet, why did it turn out this way?" For him, his feelings were more important than hers. By the end of the episode when hes's hugging her after she tells him to stop and he says he doesn’t care if people see them, I knew I would have to drop this drama. I'm sure there is going to be some convoluted reasons the writers use to make us think these two are destined for eachother but I can't think of a single reason why she should leave her fiance for this immature child. Anyways if you've read my rant and want a reward, some actual good age-gap/ teacher romances are chinese dramas, Falling into you, and Nothing but you!

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if mystery is all there is, then there's no substance

There was so much hype for this and for Joy of Life, but unfortunately, both of these shows Zhang Ruo Yun gives the impression of basically acting the same character in the same story-- i.e., an invincible protagonist who pretends to be weak, conquering a world where everyone is stupid and no one knows what's going on except for him. And that includes the audience, because the plot straight up doesn't make sense.

Why should a young powerful prince leave home and pretend to be a beggar without fighting skills for 3 years just to evade an arranged marriage, then come back... without really having evaded it, or indeed any of his bloodthirsty political enemies?
Why does a top martial artist who enjoys roast chicken, coincidentally the man who rescued the Prince's life a decade ago, live underwater in the middle of a lake?
Why should the prince's father, coincidentally the most powerful man in the military, pretend to be stupid and spend all of his effort trying to outplot his own son by e.g. installing martial artists in his harem?
Why should a princess, coincidentally the last of an almost extinguished noble line, put aside learning real life skills in order to alternate trying to assassinate the MC and working as a maid for him?

After asking questions like this every single episode, and never getting any answers, we start to suspect... that the answer to all of our questions is simply, 'because this way it the protagonist gives off an air of mystery as he shows his superiority during epic feats of deus ex machina'.

It's fine to have a show that builds mysteries within mysteries, enigmas within enigmas. But if mystery is all there is, then there's no substance, no core. It's like the author tried to think of the most badass character settings possible, and had some inspirational scenes in their mind, but got tired before they could actually write the story. For one, we never find out what exactly what Xu Fengnian and Xu Xiao really did wrong to motivate all these assassinations that are the core driving force of the plot -- except for holding too much military power.

The icing on the cake is 'strong women leads' like Jiang Ni and Nangong Pu She who are meant to look beautiful and cool respectively, but basically have no brains and follow the protagonist around. It doesn't help that the acting for these female leads is basically the weakest in the show.

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I am dropping this show after 14 episodes. It started out great, Dilraba was stunning in her wedding dress and red lipstick when she met the hero in his all-black biker outfit.

I started getting disappointed because of the lacklustre acting and uncharismatic characters. I like Dilraba but her acting here seems off and I had a hard time believing her. The ML didn't charm me at all and I don't get the capable, confident man vibes from him. Their romance has been pretty boring with no swoon-worthy moments or humour to make up for it. Overall, not a fan of the leads or the interaction between them. The secondary couple is fairly cute but they didn't hold my attention for long.

The plot is pretty boring. It's just the same old annoying obsessed SFL trying to create problems for the couple and trying to keep the man to herself no matter how many times he tells her he isn't interested. It's outdated and annoying. The ML in his so-called "honest approach" keeps discouraging the FL. Yea apparently he is doing it to let her improve but I'm just done with his arrogant behaviour.

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Impressionable With Mystique & Intrigue

The latest entrant on JTBC’s mid-week block, Destined With You, has a lot to offer. With a stellar casting that includes big names like Jo Bo Ah, Rowoon, Ha Joon, Yura; the drama premiered to high ratings on Netflix. I have been closely keep a tab on JTBC’s official accounts, since the day this drama was announced. It has got nothing to do with my thirst for fantasy dramas, and everything to do with the fact that this show has both of my favorite stars. I’m a huge, huge fan of Jo Bo Ah and she is nothing short of adorable here. Following close on her heels is our handsome hunk, Rowoon, whose character has streaks of mystique and intrigue. The first two episodes do a decent job of setting the storyline, which is gripping and exciting. There is a lot happening in the pilot episodes; shamanism plays a pivotal role in this fantasy and the show is as riveting as the trailer that promises a love story that spans over 300 years.

Read the complete article here-

https://kcdramamusings.wordpress.com/2023/08/26/destined-with-you-first-impressions/#more-91

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good acting, horrible characters

I never write reviews but I hated this so much.

First of all, I started watching this drama because I thought it would be interesting to see how they represented North Korea in a drama, and let me just say, it was so dumb

I couldn't get past the second episode because everything is just so unrealistic, I understand it's a drama, most of them are like that but what got me the most was the female lead's behavior. I mean it's almost impossible to not know what's going on in North Korea especially if you're South Korean, but the way she gets there and asks people for their cellphones or demands to eat meat daily, and then the male lead GIVES her the only piece of meat they have and she just eats it like???? bro are you dense? I just couldn't get past that. she seems so bratty and entitled it was just impossible for me to keep watching. also, the male lead doesn't have much character so far he's just there, and idk I don't think it's the actors' fault because they're good it's just the writing/directing that's bad

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What does eternal mean for Koichi and Oumi?

Based on my experience, any drama with "eternal" related titles have a sad ending. Take a look at Eternal Summer (a Taiwanese Gay movie) or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (straight romance, 2004) for example. So, I am a bit nervous if Eternal Yesterday will be no different.

Koichi and Oumi have each other eyes at the first sight, sparked by their different personality. Their relationship set from as simple as having lunch together to visiting each other homes. Same as Once Again (Korean BL, 2022), one of the boy's fate has revealed in the very first episode. For the rest of the series, we might predict they would be together during the journey and we might start questioning whether they would be together at the end of the journey.

I am interested to know what eternal means for Koichi and Oumi but at the same time, I don't want this sweet BL series to end up like the previous BL series: Once Again. As an audience, I am hoping they will be eternal together physically and emotionally, not just spiritually. I guess I hope they will find a way if they freeze yesterday to eternal, they will have a way to move forward together to eternal today and tomorrow.

This series seems to be shot in the Japanese countryside during the spring, so the background and the landscape scenes look nice. Editing frame by frame seems okay for me with this type of low-budget series. The casts look like professional actors and still form their acting craft. Music is also nice, offering a spring vibe in the Japanese countryside.

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