Loving you through endless loops ..... destined to find you

It is the 2nd xianxia I completed, easy to watch not much agnst , aesthetic
Actually I loved the first episode, proud Chu Kong as pig Kong was fun....
Playful character of fl portrayed well ...
The first story and 2nd life actually build their bonding , the shifu arc was not bad either....I didn't expect much from this drama
But the middle made my expectations high to fall in the typical bad endings of xianxia ...ahh
.. from Cang Hai arc 30000 years ago, past will reveal that everything is connected even the animal arc where Chu Kong wanted to remove her memory, I actually re watched the previous episodes again ....it really build high hopes for this drama but the ending is not satisfactory.........don't worry it's a last minute bittersweet ending to see the stalker guy became emperor, death of a main character and dissatisfaction.
I initially thought they will give a grand wedding to Cang Hai and Chu Kong as well as break the typical endings....and it was disturbed by the villain ....only to watch every tribulation including their real life end up in disaster!

2) Though it will not give you strong emotional attachments or a deep bonding ,angst but the story is pretty good and light. ( Good for me as I hate angst though)

3) as for acting nothing to say about Ding Yuxi I actually watched this for him , first time watching the FL she is good but a little lack in the emotion of pain and sadness ....it could have been much more better if she could showed the pain mc goes through.....still the eye candies , comedy and aesthetics tells us not to take it seriously and enjoy the journey.

4) still I'll recommend it cause it's far better than those melodramatic xianxias with a tons of misunderstanding,love triangle, redemptions and tribulations..... it's really a refreshing drama from my viewpoint.

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Pyramid structure of bullying

First of all this drama was awesome. Ost , acting, director all was good.
1) this story involves a pyramid structure of bullying.Though our antagonist says this is everyone's game but Those who are from powerful family, are popular will end up getting grade A . And from grade A to grade D is allowed to bully grade F . 3 grade A , 3 grade B , 6 grade C , 12 grade D and 1 grade F .

2) I liked the fact Sung Sooji isn't a pushover , like everyone she tries to avoid problems or bullies. But end up getting grade F and tries everything to get rid of this game . And she ends this game .

3 ) the thriller is great, like--- mind games , violence, betrayal everything is top notch.

But..........
1: Getting everything on her side was a little weird like Woori's brother as helper and hacker( it's okay cause psychopath like Harin is uncommon too ). Though the video was published, they never revealed the rules or published something extreme. the violence except kim Dayeon beat her classmates wasn't shown in the video/ live stream, It was easier to get rid of the accusations of Baek Harin through Baek group's power and influence.There are always some violence in school but without knowing that pyramid shaped ranked bullying why would the reporters will report ? ( Baek Harin never bullied or did something extreme in front of camera so people should have been called Kim Dayeon psychopath instead! ) It's okay though, the drama was outstanding .

2: what about Kim Dayeon's domestic abuser dad ? I know it's satisfying to see her get beaten up but she became violent bully cause of constant abuse .

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Maybe I'm not mastermind of chess of destiny but I will save as many pawns I can this time...

Story of kunning palace is one of the best time travel cdramas.....
1) ✅the fl is not meek character. she's a character that can do anything to achieve her goal. Though she made bad choices in her first life and manipulated people....but she got redemption by loving people who are important to her life .
2) ✅ the male lead is ruthless manipulative character and Zhang Linghe did terrific job portraying his character .
overall theme , action scenes, all are top quality.
4) ❌ the drama couldn't fill up the intensity of the plot from the first episode, I expected more intense plot.
5) ❌Xie Wei didn't reborn so , why didn't he made the same choices in the first timeline, so he could avoid death of first emperor and stop falling the power under Xue family .
6) ❌if the protagonists change then why would the antagonists stick to their original plan ? Even Xues are weak but Lord pingnan shouldn't have fallen under Xie Wei's trap so easily. The villains are not interesting.
7) ❌rather filling up the drama with non scene annoying romance with the second male lead ( who ain't better than wooden log ) they could have shown more schemes and romance between the main leads .
8) ❌Character of Xue ning sometimes burden the main plan of Xie Wei. I would rather prefer the fl being power of ml not weakness. There was no reason for her to follow the war when she can't fight or scheme . Rather than being kidnapped and hero saves beauty plot she could have rested at home .
9) ❌the production and director didn't did great job on pointing the weightage of scenes.
10)✅✅✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ although I pointed out many flaws, nothing is flawless and this show is worth watching and entertaining at the end of the day so I highly recommend this drama...

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1930s saved the rating

To say the truth the story of 1930s is really touching and beautiful...
But the execution of the drama isn't good.
probably that's the reason why it is not famous,
They used repetitive scenes again and again to kill the time and the present day story is purely bland which was majority of this drama.if someone just watch the 1st , 15th and 16th episode the story will be clear to them
The characters
The charcter of Jeon seol and Ryu soo Hyun was pretty much alike and have the same traits
But Han se ju and seo Hwi young seems completely different person. I loved Hwi young, he was calm , scheming, rebel but sympathetic he knew how to love and was ready to sacrifice himself for the country the chooses his responsibility over his emotions while Han se ju is arrogant, dumb and self centred ..... specially I hate the hair cut of seju it's completely changed his appearance from Hwi young.....it's really very hard to believe that seju is Hwi young's reincarnation
I loved Yoo Jin oh / shin yool character
If they just made the series for 1930s it would had been a great series ,the story of freedom fighters
It's a avarage series with a touching past story........

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Refreshing Twinkle of Youth

Unlike the name this drama is not light hearted but yet very beautiful in it's own way,
The story stars with Ha Eun Gyeol, a musical genius lives in a deaf family. he lived upto his parents expectations and put his family over everything,, Eun Gyeol find himself free only in music. he had to sacrifice his youth spirit and become mature despite of his age . But after a conflict with his dad he tried to gave up everything and even tried to broke his guitar, a mysterious master shows up and send back him to past when his father was also 18 years old just like him .........
Now Eun Gyeol will experience the Twinkling youth and also unfold the past of his parents . His dad was not born deaf but became deaf after a certain accident , he will learn his parents also go through hard times in their youth ....... I don't want to spoil so watch it yourself
This is one of the best drama of 2023 .

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Neither the privilege and luxury of being rich nor the self made thrill

Reborn rich is one of the best webtoon I've ever read. Even after casting Actor like SJ the screenwriting or the execution of the story was really bad.
Actually I watched the drama first and then I read the webtoon. The webtoon is really good if they could adapt well it could have been one of the best drama . Seriously the rating goes higher cause of production, ost , SJ and budget. Either way this not spectacular to get 8.5 rating, 7.5 is enough.......
1) making HW and JDJ look alike, it makes no sense why would they look alike and nobody noticed that.
2) Relationship between grandpa and Dojun . The drama made grandpa a angry+ greedy old man. while in webtoon he is Dojun's mentor , scheming and lovable +villainous.....who will grab every opportunity. He loved Dojun and supported Miracle investments to become top unlike the drama where he felt threat over Dojun .
In webtoon he loved Dojun from starting,before he revealed his talent. In drama grandpa wanted his dim wit eldest grandson to become heir of SY while in webtoon he wanted Dojun to become his heir ....he even helped him to stay in sheep's clothing in front of his uncle and aunties.
3) the business talk in drama is too messy to understand. I remember I skipped cause of boredom while in webtoon it is thrill and real fun .
4) romance is not present in both drama and webtoon but still FL character is better in webtoon. In webtoon the FL is from a influential judges family and one of the candidate his grandpa chooses as Dojun's partner.
5) the ending is the worst. Yeah I get the point people might say this is cliche, some thrill out of the plot . I would have understood if Dojun was a born heir of chaebol family lived happily without working and suddenly get back in his body like common Isekai truck Kun but
**The story is totally about Dojun making his own company, own investments and right before success his fruits of hard labour devoured by the villains who used him in his first life**
Does it make sense ???
Imagine a person worked hard and right before success he get back where he was . What's the meaning of the drama then ??
Who do you think of survival is best ?
1) a person headshot and was thrown into ocean or
2) a person for into a car accident?
If course he got some knowledge but would knowledge is enough for someone who worked his butt of to build a company??
Aish , I don't recommend this drama, ..............

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Why this umbrella has pores ??

Under the Queen's umbrella. I got recommendations as a woman empowerment series and great motherhood but
1)why the great mother is unaware that her 1st born is ill over a year and constantly losing consciousness?? 2nd ones preferences, intelligence or capability?? 3rd one is transgender?? 4th one's having affair?? 5th one is good for nothing??
And she started discovering her son's when the crown prince got in death bed . So , she doesn't care about her children as long as one of them is securing throne and security??
2) the death of crown prince is absolutely Queen's fault. You're leaving him in the hand of one physician without knowing his origin ?? If she informed the king the prince could have got more physicians so physician known wouldn't dare to experiment poison on him.
3) what's fvcking wrong with crown prince selection?? Is it child's play to do better in college and doing a reality show" who's gonna bring the escaped minister " and why would the ministers choose the crown prince?? It's not like king died so they need to fill the throne immediately and have heir !
A) don't a prince needs to build political power and support of powerful families??
B) getting war achievements and public favour??
C) having strong hold of parts of the empire??
why the a*shole ministers have more saying rather than the king and the achievements of princes ?? it's not a crown scholar selection!
And I do support taekhyon or choosing the more capable one rather than choosing queen's sons even if they are soiled brats .
4) the queen doesn't even have support system after being a queen over 20 years. Concubines have support system better than her .Neither the king ! Sage king my ass more like a puppet king. Ministers are the real king here . The king asking them to stop investigation, harming his children or be partial. They're like " chill dude you're illegitimate, so we won't listen haha " they even has audicity to say queen cheated king and have a son out of affair! They don't care about treason too .
5) umm what about queen Yoon ? I don't blame physician known ( previous grand prince) a little. It would have been one of the best revenge drama from their perspective( like rise of phoenix or nirvana in fire). Okay big baddie ganny died , jealous concubine gone mad . But what's about corrupted ministers ?? Who's gonna give graruntee that another concubine won't poison a crown prince openly with the help of fvcking ministers?? Who's gonna graruntee about crown prince's safety??
6) after doing soo much bas things the dowger queen died without receiving proper punishment or suffering !
7) I don't quite understand why drag the plot soo much . Like what's about the prince being transgender?? The royalty can keep this a secret and let him be , he's a prince after all.... it's not like he's the king or having homosexual relationships! What's about having a child born out of wedlock? It's not uncommon on Those days . And even after crown prince died how can they remain so casual , when they can die at any moment. Other concubines can come and go on their chambers, investigate on queen and her sons soo easily!
8) queen has one crown prince and 4 spoiled brats. Thank God the crown prince thaught his bro otherwise the queen's umbrella has soo many pores that could have been easily drenched her total family in blood........
I personally didn't like it at all . It's soo disappointing. They made politics a joke in order to show the queen's greatness.

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A Missed Opportunity.....

Moonlight mystique as the name suggests the drama is asthetic and elegant themed ...only if they could direct it properly and a proper production team with good camara-editing skills had done it, it could have been one of the best and enjoyable Xianxia !
Also, characters have good backgrounds to make them complex but somehow they ended up being one dimensional !
A clever yet arrogant female lead
A self made demon lord who suddenly became fool in love...
A immortal 2nd male lead who is annoying as hell
A demon 2nd fl who is evil but somehow survives everytime someone tries to kill her(I call this kind of character as cockroach character in donghua lol )...
Problems ---
1)**Male lead**: The problem with male lead is that he is supposed to be a complex character. But the bad script writing made him a confusing character.
When fl's city destroyed, her father was dying he gave her ghost grass that can cause slaughter in the city . He wanted to see if fl becomes evil and consume ghost flower in exchange for human lives . He didn't seemed a kind character he wanted to kill her , didn't help her other than bring her to her father to gather the emotion . Then he suddenly fall in love with her? Why ? As a bossy demon lord who lives his life for revenge and power suddenly fall in love with a human girl ...like "you are the first girl treat me this way " trop ...then suddenly it reveals he was always a kind demon who tries to save others !
If you compare his character background is closer to Xie Wei(SOKP) or Yan Zi Jing (TSOPG) . But sadly his character disappointed me . I don't dislike the fact that he is kind and approachable ( a different approach to show a male lead) . But something is still missing in his character......
ARP is really good actor. I loved him as Lei wujie in the blood of youth . And he is looking pretty here . But here it feels like he's more focused in looking pretty rather than bringing the character alive . The makeup and costumes are gorgeous but it's distracting to focus on the character Fan Yue . If you ask , who's Fan Yue ? The first answer will be " A pretty demon lord ?" ....... I'm quite disappointed with the male lead .
2) **the female lead** :who doesn't love a bold and smart female lead? I like Bai Lu and her acting is spectacular. I don't know what to feel about Bai Shuo. Leave her in Squid game or Alice in borderland kind of worlds she will be the first one to die . She is bold but she doesn't think before she acts . If Fan Yue was not kind imagine how her situation may have become! She orders and shows her feelings directly. Yes I love character growth but Bai Shuo's character doesn't give justice to her complex background.... I initially liked when she was determined to become an immortal to pay off the kindness. But she ended up becoming a brat .if she wasn't Xingyue reincarnation and without contemplation stone would she be able to pay off the kindness? Writer at least let her put efforts in cultivation than just focusing on blame games , stone and making her a arrogant character. And I really hope Bailu does a different kind of character. SOKP , TTEOM and Now MM all fls are overlapping with each other......
3) **camara works ** -- camara works is worst here . I don't know the budget but it feels too flashy like short cdramas that only focused in looks ....the set looking cheap too ....the demon lords only have 1 or 2 employees and immortal realm looking like begger sect !
4) **story** -- story wise it's not bad . But the direction already spoiled us on what gonna happen next ! They could have add good amount of suspense and cliff hangers ...but sadly it doesn't makes you eager to know what will happen next ! ( It has elements like hidden identities and past stories but they wasted the potential to create a tense atmosphere and mystery)
It's neither gives the seriousness of Till the end of moon nor gives the comedic relief like love you seven times or love between fairy and devil ....
They tried to mix both and caused confusion..
I don't understand why they have to explain us what the characters are like ... telling us directly Fan Yue is a kind demon, 2nd lead is immortal yet has demonic obsession ...they can just show us the complexity and depth of the characters rather than making it flashy and dramatic like short cdramas..... We wouldn't have know if Fan Yue is good or evil if Tian Hou didn't told how he saved lower demons . My problem is why others have to describe... (Tantai Jin was more complex character in TTOTM, but other characters didn't had to describe his true nature!)
5)The chemistry: the most important thing is that there is no foundation of relationship between ml and fl. And it's quite hard for me to watch a relationship without foundation and proper conversation... it's just too sudden, they were trying to kill each other and then suddenly they wish to die for each other... dynamic between 2nd ml and 2nd fl was interesting at first but 2nd fl is way too evil to feel empathy for her character and 2nd ml is way too annoying..... same goes for them too why Fu ling suddenly fall for him and is it possible to love her when she made him kill innocent peoples ? The answer is yes! Second ml went for an undercover mission and saved her two times. He's even willing to die for his obsessive abuser stalker! It is stockholm syndrome XD not love ! Red flag toxic relationship vibes .....
There are a lot of tragic stories. But the problem is they have no emotional connection with the audience. There is blood bath and they tried not to make it gore so it is kind of like childhood fairytale sad stories. And characters move on from the tragedy very fast too . The good characters are dying easily while annoying characters surviving . And the same sad ost everytime making it annoying.
Of course Bailu acting and visuals of ARP is really good (not to mention the beautiful makeup and costumes ...still I wish the costumes were a little modarate at first and upgraded step by step rather giving godess like outfits from starting. Specially Bai Shuo's Outfits . sometimes it feels she's the master of moon palace for her majestic costumes ...)and the angsty ost is good as well..but that's it ! Turn off your brain if you wish to enjoy . There are many plot holes the first starts with ---
why Bai Shuo didn't used contemplation stone to break the barrier when her father was dying..... ( Like she broke CZ's barrier)
For me , I hate a stories where I can't connect with the leads , and I had a lot of expectations from this one so I'm really disappointed.
If you enjoy fairytale kind of xianxias or you're fan of the leading actors you can give it a try ....
... It's not for me ....

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A true Masterpiece

Just wow , someday or oneday is a thriller , time travel and has a lot of secrets. I'm not gonna give spoilers so....
1) you'll get a strong and independent FL
2) the love and angst is top notch
3) yep ! There's a creepy psychopath
4) you'll get to see dark theme like depression- suicide, murder, sexual assault and homosexuality
5) staring is a bit slow but,keep patience, from middle arc the real thrill stars and keep the quality till the end
Now the negetive things:
1) the concept is not simple, so It can be confusing but they kept the concept flawless
2) it's obviously not a fluffy romance time travel but based on dark concept so your mood can be negatively affected
3) it's not a happy ending but a angsty parting with open ending.

But still it's a well written and really good drama, 100% recommended for thriller suckers .....

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One of the loveliest drama ....

Writing review after ep 10
it has a strong staring ,but the first two episodes can seems like a typical time traveling plot or mixture of several time traveling school dramas. But this is not the case .....this is one of the best time traveling drama I've ever watched .....
1) the romance is top notch. It will give you butterflies. I don't actually have patience to watch lame romance dramas. But this is different. I giggled and smiled whenever ml and fl being together.
2) the male lead!!!! Ryu SeonJae is the best greenest, simp and softie male lead I've ever seen. Nope he's not your typical cold , stone faced male lead. He got crush on our girl , he smiles, giggles, through his feet in air and stuff his face in pillow thinking about his crush. Of course he tries to stay cool and not being obvious.....haha .... I loved the fact he didn't misunderstood Im Sol and believed in her even after her past self cut relations with him . He still loved her and waited for 15 years.
3) the female lead ---- yes the female lead is adorable. She's also a simp for him . She's balanced . She got a positive character .
4) the humour!!!!! LoL it got me fall out of chair . The comedy is soo good . Like her thinking the bridge as bridge of hell , the adult DVD, him being jealous, Im Sol passing through his dad by shouting future events, Sunjae pulling out chili plant instead of weed by overthinking...........there are countless moments that will crack you up.. LMFAO..
5) Anxiety:::::::: you're gonna have good anxiety attack..... There's not a single dull moment so far . The sad moments are soo heart breaking.like Sol can't change her past self and she has to come back to future and her regrets for misbehaving . And Sunjae got rejected (forgotten) by Sol, while she had feelings for him!!! Then their reunion in ep 10!!!
6) the plot: the plot is deep and intense... And the name makes sense as our fl has to run from past to future to save the ml . This is not very light hearted drama .... But a mysterious plot that unfolds in every single episode .the best part is there is youth school romance, mature/ modern day drama romance as well as collage romance and each part is soo sweet that can give you diabetes.....+ Each era 's kissing scenes hits differently.
7) the acting:::;;;; the acting is soo good . The comedy or embarassing moments could have ended up giving cringe if it wasn't done well . BWS ' s portrayal of Sunjae is out of the world...the emotions, smile , pain in smile , mentally being disturbed or comedy everything is too good( first time watching Byeon Woo Seok and I became a fan). ....the ost , cinematography everything is done so well !!!
8) disclaimer :you're gonna ride on a pile of emotions while watching this.

**Things I didn't like:**
1) Im Sol being unnecessarily childish . Yes mental retardation can happen after a accident but as a 34 years old behaving like this is not appropriate.
2) As the mc of this drama, I don't understand why her character got no life goal or bigger ambition after getting back her legs . This drama is too focused on saving the ml . Yes having idol of life is good thing but we should focus on our own life too ......
3) the total plot is based on the serial killer. I think if we got a backstory or proper explanation of his motive it would have been better. I know psychopaths can attack anyone. But to drag a plot based on bad luck or attracting a psychopath is not my cup of tea .
4) first 10 episodes are absolutely gold . but after that things started to become draggy and repetitive , I don't understand why Im Sol didn't make a proper plan and was just taking action passively..... And to say the truth I lost interest to continue this drama more after 12 episodes... Even romance and comedy seemed forced on last few episodes.
**Finally**
I absolutely recommend this drama( atleast the first 10-12 episodes, and my rating would be much lower if I give review on 16/16 episodes). I expected much more. This is good and is very sweet. Not a single drama is flawless. And lovely runner worth your time...

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Don't know what to say....

I started watching this not for the contestants but for the Judges. Most of the judges are from YG.I love YG Judges cause they're cool and I loved Treasure box and Babymonster evaluation.
Pros ---
1) of course the judges .
2) we get the singing and rapping evaluation too which was absent in I-land .
3) the judges chose the top 12/16 so , trainees didn't get to choose the popular ones over the skilled ones .
4) the voting was about whom you wants as teammates which was who you wants to eliminate in I-land .
5) high production and eye candies.....

Now I will talk about the cons ----
1)when you get skilled judges you expect to see highly skilled trainees too . But was there highly skilled trainees?
Remember they're here in survival show not auditioning so , of course I I will expect some cut-throat compitition.
2) lack of attachment.... don't get me wrong but the unfair judgement in I-land made me attached to the ground. Specially when there were equal number of skilled trainees in Ground and they were desperate...... remember the fire performance? Even the judges were shocked and nearly 6 trainees got eliminated in first round....
But in I land 2 the I-land team is better and the ground trainees looks meh in front of them....
3) Determination ?
If you watched treasure box ,baemon evaluation and even in I land you'll notice the burning Passion in their eyes ....but here more than half trainees are passive....
Final say ...
I won't say this is the worst survival show....cause the production, growth of the trainees and judges are really good and of course good luck to the new group ....

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