The Legend of the Blue Sea (2016)

I hated the ending SO MUCH

The last episode was completely nonsense. Why did she have to make everyone forget about her like that? She destroyed friendships and made people feel alone.
I just can't buy that excuse that it was her only and last option. For me, it was really awful. Just vanishing like that for years, like sea bubbles???
Ok, in the end she came back to him, married him and had child. But it was..so nonsense? A happy ending built over a nonsense disaster.
Aside from that, I really loved the plot and all the story about their past lives. I enjoyed so much the OST also. But some stuff REALLY ANNOYED ME, such as the lack of characther development around the "villains" , they were ridiculous. Ughhhhh I wish his father had not died...

Well, I liked it, recommended it to my friends and also will probably watch it again someday. Every k-drama has it's mistakes and flaws. This one has way less than others out there.

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simple series

it's cute✨and simpler than other series, le min hoo handsome ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨

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Way Better Than Expected

I pulled some names of some k-dramas I had been wanting to watch and gave them to my coworker to pick at random one day because I was struggling to choose a new drama. This was on the list ONLY because it had Lee Min Ho, as I really wasn't sure how I felt about a mermaid drama, as fantasy isn't really my jam.

Anyways, I'm so glad I watched this drama. This was my first drama with Jun Ji Hyun and I absolutely LOVED her in this. Her character was just great and she did such a good job selling it. I recently wrote a review for Personal Taste (another Lee Min Ho drama) and complained about the female lead's "quirky" sort of "I'm not like other girls" thing and how mostly it was just her being kind of gross and unkempt for no reason.

Shim Cheong (Jun Ji Hyun) also has this sort of thing about her, but it makes sense more for the character as she's not from our world, and as she spends more time on land, she does learn to be less... unsophisticated maybe is the word? And yet she still stays true to herself in some aspects which actually is cute and endearing, unlike the character in Personal Taste.

I honestly loved the whole cast but especially Na Young Hee (who plays lead male's mom) because I adored her relationship with Shim Cheong. I also really loved Moon So Ri (who plays this gossipy but super fun character) and ESPECIALLY Shin Won Ho who plays Tae Oh because he was adorable and hilarious despite doing very little speaking.

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strong immortal feelings , true love

Amazing series! ☺️❤️ I'll write right away that the review will be long, but read to the end, I think u'll like it and u'll even agree with something) at the end, my little note about the series and the real world).
It gives off a bit of a vibe like the OST "My Demon", the same tragic love, seemingly with an impossible happy ending -, ending happily)
I like series where they mix historical events with reality mixed with magic)! It's so cute😌! Gives some kind of ray of light in this everyday life..
A very beautiful love story of the main characters) I liked the plot, although in general it was a little cruel and illogical in relation to Sim Cheung
In the scenes where Heo Joon, for example, treated Sim Cheong badly, took off her bracelet and left her in a shopping center, kicked her out of the house, laughed at her and at the same time worried about where she could go or disappear..well, it was necessary to immediately treat her normally, not kick her out and teach her how and what to do, life in general, so that she would not get into troubles because of him..and so some kind of sadism glorified by the director lol 😂
There were many hilarious moments with her, of course, at the beginning, when she did not know how to behave on earth and got into comical situations, and already returning to earth for the 2nd time she behaved "like an experienced woman"😂
Also this vile friend of Heo Joona, Jo Nama Doo, who wanted to make money on the mermaid after finding out who Sim Cheung really was, but she didn't lose her head and erased his memory! 🤣😂 Bravo! I thought the director would screw up this situation and make it tragic again lol but everything turned out really cool lmao in general, there was a clear moment when Nam Doo caught her off guard, I thought that Heo Joon would be the first to see her as a mermaid..
Heo Joon is great! ☺️ the romantic love line was built very beautifully when he realized that Sim Cheung is a mermaid and protected her later (his actions were not always adequate*) such touching beautiful care) I enjoyed watching, I really enjoyed the script!😍😌 I can't call it cloyingly sweet (although of course it turned out sweet and romantic) but extraordinary care and experiences were shown ..! The actors conveyed these feelings perfectly and looked good together☺️😌 very harmoniously selected for this role! Jun Ji Hyun & Lee Min Ho did a 100% great job! It was really nice to see them together!))
And Teo, such a modest guy, quietly took pictures of Sim Cheung hahaha
As for Cha Shi Ah and Teo, asians like this kind of plot line, in which the rejected heroine in love suddenly switches to his nondescript friend! It's a bit illogical since in life this is rare, for some reason women are shown in this role as not being able to choose but falling in love with the first person they meet out of desperation just to not be alone... in real life, most adequate people still prefer to choose guys based on their taste and not on the principle of "the dream of my heart refused me, well, ok, I'll be with his friend"😆, this is somehow very disgusting 🤷🏾‍♀️
I was very worried that in the end the Heo Joon & mermaid couple would not be harmed by his friend Nam Doo, since it was not entirely clear who ultimately killed them in their past life and who betrayed them, I was very afraid that this person would turn out to be Nam Doo in the end when he decided to play along with Heo Chi Hyun and kill Heo Joon .. but he did not do so, but revealed the plan of Heo Joon's non-native brother
Although Heo Chi eventually shot and hit the mermaid.I did not expect that she would protect Heo Joon with herself, and in general this scene could have been avoided if Heo Joon had dodged in time and Sim Cheung had not arrived initially, it is not clear why Heo Joon did not devote her to his plans in advance in order to avoid problems, but this was conceived in the script ..
It was frankly disgusting to watch how Heo Chi Hyun, non-native son, does not even try to save his father He Il Cheung, who provided him with a wonderful life, watching how his mother slowly kills He Il Cheung every day.. but if he really wanted to do the right thing or at least pay tribute to his care and love, he could have told Heo Joon the whole truth and saved his father! These are really such vile people and how they are ready to pass on for the sake of money.. Heo Chi Hyun would have left something from the inheritance anyway.. his actions surprised me of course.The only situations that were not revealed were how Heo Joon received the inheritance and what happened to Ma Dae Yeon..
The result: is a beautiful, very touching love story between a man and a mermaid with such tender, heartbreaking care😌 (Lee Min Ho just burned with tender love in Jun Ji Hyun’s gaze!) that you involuntarily become imbued with their feelings! ☺️ There is no naked passion here that makes u bored in TV series where the line is something like "met... fell in love... well, we can f*ck now" 🤦🏾‍♂️, but strong feelings of love of a person who is ready to wait as long as it takes just to be with his beloved and who really suffers from separation but is ready to give everything just so that his beloved is comfortable... A wonderful film, after it there are no cloying sediments from untruth and all this pink snot, it seems so real... So tender... So deep ❤️
And now about real life 😂 if in reality all guys treated women with the same care and love, experiences as Heo Joon to Sim Cheung, then couples would be the happiest on earth lol but of course this does not happen often ..( or in most cases lol ) ... very rarely, remember ur friends... where a person cares about another not because he needs something from him in the future, not because of money or one night, but because he really loves and he enjoys caring and making another happy) ..yes this series is very far from reality and at the same time real, well probably because the actors perfectly conveyed this atmosphere of true love😂 I can say this series should be recommended to men, as a guide to action lol then there will be more happiness in life and koreans will stop being offended by idols😂

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The female lead was acting retarded. Like seriously autistic. I don't know what she was going for there, dazed and confused, goofy, stupid, silly, but whatever it was she didn't pull it off. I'm not even trying to be rude here, she literally acted as if she had maybe lower high functioning autism or something. I know this actress likes to play her characters kind of goofy (go watch You Who Came From the Stars that show was great and she stared in it) but this one was just oo goofy, As the show progressed she got a little less autistic but I dropped the drama a little less than half-way through because I just couldn't get past the annoyingness of her character.
Even though she's kind of annoying I know some people would probably not mind, so I say try it out! Except for her fuckery, the rest of the drama is amazing! I don't really like Lee Min Ho but this was his best drama in my opinion, and the plot, music, editing, action, romance was great. If the lead female (sorry I forgot her name) acted more dignified then I would give this drama a solid 9.5/10.

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Fantasy rom-com

LIKE

How Dam Ryung left something from the past for Joon Jae

When Joon Jae tricked Vice President of Hospital - that scene iconic

Relationship between Tae Oh and Shi Ah

When Shi Ah found out about Yoo Ran and probably wanted to dig a hole and hide

When Shim Chung met Jong Hoon and all their activities together

When Joon Jae found out he could "connect" with Shim Chung and went crazy all the time

When Shim Chung realised Joon Jae's connection and used it to surprise him - that scene was when they were opposite each other crossing the road (it was touching)

DISLIKE

All good

MUSIC - personal fav

Love Story - LYn
You Are My World - Yoon Mi Rae
Shy Boy - Ha Hyun Woo
Somewhere Someday - Sung Si Kyung

REWATCH VALUE

Absolutely for me

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THIS is how it's supposed to be. Watch and learn...

This is how a romantic drama is supposed to be written. They pretty much wraped it up with a bow and served it to us. I love it.
If you wanted something light-hearted, but not too light with a little bit of a complicated plot. This is definitely going to be your thing. The female lead was really dumb. But it was because she just came into this world. I just didn't like how she owes with listened to people who did not matter, or two people who did not have her best interest at heart, but it all turned out well enough.
I loved how the main male lead was amazing. He was if super strong and did not break up for no reason like the other ones do. And he protected her lucky promised I really like him.
I feel like everything had time to be answered and come to fruition, whereas otherwise fill abrupt and like an afterthought this one felt well-thought-out and while presented. And I would love to recommend it to everybody. It's so good. It's definitely worth the watch.

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A história e a atuação são os pontos altos!

Esss dorama é incrível em todos os sentidos! Eu caí de paraquedas nele e se tornou um dos meus favorito. A trama do principal ir relembrando os personagens da sua vida passada, e mostrando que eles são consequências ou pessoas tentando mudar (ser perdoadas) pelo que fizeram na voda passada é muito intrigante e emocionante. Além disso a sereia vivenciou todas as épocas dele e ficou esperando por ele até que ele lembrasse dela, isso foi muito lindo mesmo soando triste. E era muito poético quando ela chorava e as lágrimas dela se transformavam em pérolas. O casal principal tinha muita química e era muito fofoo. A sereia conversando com ele por olhar até que ele entende e responde aí MARAVILHOSO ;( quero rever

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Ainda apaixonada pelo drama

Esse foi um dos dramas que estrearam bem na época em q entrei no mundo dos dramas asiáticos,e eu sempre assistia ao trailer,mas continuava deixando na minha lista.

Uma pena eu ter esperado tanto tempo para assistir,pois a história é super legal e diria que até única,os personagens não ficam se separando por qualquer coisa o tempo todo,e principalmente n tem aquela coisa de se separarem por serem "diferentes" (no caso por ela ser sereia e ele humano).
Achei super interessante o passado e o futuro se conectarem,acho q foi uma das coisas q tornou a história mais interessante.Os personagens são muito engraçados,e em certos momentos faziam vc dúvidar deles,mas sempre dava certo no final.

Sobre o final,achei um pouco previsivel,mas gostei do q ele fez kkk Ah antes de me esquecer,amei a amiga dela q morava na rua,que também era amiga da personagem dela em My love from the star kk

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