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today's unpopular opinion is that perfect marriage revenge is a hell of a lot more of an enjoyable watch than either marry my husband or queen of tears i said what i said
100% accurate
Well, that was one hell of an unsatisfying makjang mess, brilliantly acted, with incredible chemistry between the leads and nice OST, but a mess nevertheless. The opposite of tightly plotted, with all tropes imaginable and million side plots thrown in, without the main story and characters being properly developed, and lacking even a semblance of basic logic. Utterly disappointing, even more so because it had such a huge potential, which ended up being totally wasted.
The focus should have been on fixing the main OTP's relationship; there were so many ways to develop it and make it grow, especially with KJW and KSH, such acting powerhouses, as the leads. Even that ending feels unearned and fell flat because everything in that relationship was written in a very superficial level.
Assassin girl is smart, strong and capable and uses acupoints to fake pregnancy pulse. HA! Right into the Asian drama doctors ability to detect pregnancy just from feeling the pulse. If they can do that, why someone couldn't change their pulse with acupressure.
Poor Du Bin, so many new information about his master's non-existent sex life at once.
In other news, (as you might have already guessed) the Crown Prince has been faking his death just to learn his fake bride is faking her pregnancy, or at least his paternity.
The assassin mastermind clearly knows the best lies are those which turn out to be true and send the heroine on a new mission - get knocked up. They clearly never heard the phrase "her body, her choice". This is going to be so good.
Flash forward and she is riding a bridal palanquin while sharpening her knife to do some old-fashioned stabbing with it as the people comment how virtuous she is and they are a great match! LOL!
She impersonates his bride! It's My Journey to You all over again, just slightly less darker and intricate.
But then...
She learns she has been one-upped by his untimely death. Peak comedy! And it gets better...
It turns out it's her deceased husband-to-be who one-upped her and ordered her to follow him in death. You know the man is a catch when even a heartless assassin rates him as "cruel" when giving him a review.
Also, the man prepared for all eventualities, clearly hellbent on not spending the eternity in afterlife alone.
However, fret not, he is a gentleman and gives her a vast range of options to off herself - strangling, stabbing or poison. She really didn't need to bring her own dagger, he provided her with one himself. Such a thoughtful groom, don't you think?
And the cliffhanger of the first episode - she decides to save her live by pretending to be pregnant with the crown prince's child, but his servant, who I already love, can't be so easily fooled.
Well, well, well... What now, assassin girl?
Really, it's as if My Journey to You was a comedy.
Mini cdramas are truly where the fun stories are nowadays.
Meet the male lead of Palace Shadows: Between Two Princes, the crown prince Yu Fei Chen, cold-blooded general hellbent on eviscerating anything and anyone threatening his country, currently having his hands full with killing off all the assassins a secret organisation has sent to murder him.
Excuse me while I drool over Lin Ze Hui, the man looks insanely gorgeous, perfectly walking the line between manly and androgynously beautiful.
Now, meet our heroine Yue Jian, one of the leading assassins of the Shattered Star Valley group as she finishes off the two killers that managed to escape for failing to slay the prince
They are a match made in heaven (and my fantasies).
Yes, please do!!!
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Saw MDL comments on My Stand In page (adaptation of Professional Body Double) that they hope there are a lot of changes to the story to remove all the toxic stuff.
Like FUCK!!!
You’ve already blandified and wholesomed 95% of my potential entertainment choices in relentless and bizarre march to correct morality of fictional people. Go watch happy engineering students engineer and leave us sickos SOMETHING!!!
Also, who the hell chooses to adapt a SQC novel if they want to make a wholesome drama? What next, re-adapting FWSC’s stuff like Goodbye My Princess or Siege in Fog as treatises on MLs seeking total honesty and pacifism? Maybe 2ha can be adapted as a cooking show in which Chu Wanning makes dumplings and nothing else ever happens. Come on!
Oh and while we are on it - the only time the term “green flag” should be used is if one is discussing the former flag of Libya.
Rant over.
Amen!
#I want all my toxic novel leads and OTP be as toxic on screen as they were in the novel#Or at least as close to that level of toxicity as possible#the MDL comment section is basically a cesspool of idiocy#They are fictional for Christ's sake!#If people can't differentiate between fiction and reality#it's them who should go to therapy
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Am I supposed to ship the scammer girl with the himbo?
Because no thanks, she is AWFUL.
I mean, glad she got away from her abusive ex but ugh, she and the rest of scam psycho crew need to stay away from the rest of the characters. Also, anyone who can pretend this thoroughly on every possible level every day for YEARS to someone she lives with and sleeps with and all as part of a multi-year running scam she is keeping going is a total sociopath who shouldn't be with anyone.
(Also, lying to someone the child is theirs when he isn't, alone, is such a breach of basic trust that like NO EFFING WAY UGH but then everything else! Like - I am sorry. He's a weakling and an idiot but nobody deserves that woman as a wife.)
But then this is the show that redeemed the unredeemable mom in two minutes and expected us to roll with it.
EXACTLY! Finally someone said it. I mean I know he is dumb af and that he loves the baby boy irregardless of the fact he isn't biologically his (because she faked the DNA paternity test!), but together with all the terrible things she did to him and his family, she had been cheating on him while they were together and he (and basically almost no one else) doesn’t give a fuck.
Just imagine their genders were swapped and it would be the man cheating and impregnating some other woman during the marriage. No one would be shipping it (and there is no way in hell he would be so easily forgiven, if at all), while now it seems the vast majority of the fandom is utterly obsessed with it.
Honestly, I stopped writing about Queen of Tears, because the only way I can enjoy it now is by watching it with most of my brain cells shut down, since otherwise they would explode.
It's the chemistry, tropes and acting that really keep me watching it, because the quality of the script has been going down the drain for quite some time now. A little bit like Crash Landing on You.
I'm probably going to rewatch My Love from Another Star and The Legend of the Blue Sea, the real quality works of this writer and still two of my all-time favourite dramas.
Has there been another male lead who's suffered as many human rights abuses as Hyunwoo?! They accuse him of adultery, embezzlement, search his room, hack his phone, have him tailed for 3 years, and Haein has known all along and done nothing.
Most people find the scene hilarious but it's in fact sickening to a core. He shouldn't be running laps but running for the hills. Even after 3 years of absolute loyalty and his continuously proving he is worthy of them, Hyunwoo's in-laws have almost zero trust in him.
I ship Haein with Hyunwoo like there is no tomorrow, and yes, she's always loved him, is in pain and dying, and they both have made mistakes in their marriage, but this goes beyond that, her family has been committing actual crimes against him, and she's been silently tolerating it. Forget about divorce suits, he could have them criminally prosecuted if he wanted. Because all that abuse from her and her family won't go magically away, and if, by some miracle, she survives this terrible ordeal and they should get another chance at love together, this needs to be addressed, communicated and resolved between them if they are to have a functional marriage in the future.
You know this family is fucked up when Soocheol is the brightest bulb in the room. Kudos to the writer for addressing and not trying to gloss over Hyunwoo's mistreatment at the hands of the Hong family, including Haein silently tolerating it. Episode 7 has brought those issues back like a boomerang.
The fact that Hyunwoo's biggest and most frequent expense each month during their marriage has been his car wash fees because there was no other place he could cry out loud speaks volumes how utterly miserable he's been in this hellish marriage.
It's a shock Baek Hyunwoo's back isn’t broken yet, he's been carrying the whole Hong family on it for years.
The man took his first holiday in 3 years and they've managed to ruin the whole business he's spent years protecting in 3 days.
'The Dangerous Lover' stills
'The Dangerous Lover' posters
The timeline of their marriage confirms what was the dealbreaker for Hyunwoo; it wasn't Haein's family, it was her and her careless treatment of him after the loss of their child. They got married on May 2 and the baby wasn't due until October 31 next year.
When speaking to the therapist, he mentions that Haein's family has been treating him like trash since the very beginning, meaning that one year after their wedding, when he learned about Haein expecting their child, he was still happy DESPITE her family bullying him.
He could really endure all the abuse as long as she treated him lovingly, Haein's love that she gave him OPENLY kept him going, but the moment she put up emotional walls between them after the miscarriage, it went all spiralling down for him, and he put up actual walls as a result.
What gets often lost in the conversation is that he lost Haein TOGETHER WITH THEIR CHILD, the woman he loved pushed him away, and with it the only reason to stay in this marriage.
He never wanted her money, he wanted her, so he married her in spite of her money; so when she stopped showing her love to him, there was no longer any reason left for him to put up with hers and his in-laws abuse (it's actually probable the bullying from his in-laws worsened the moment they noticed the terrible way she started treating him, if someone as dense as her brother could notice, the other vipers could as well and took it as an invitation that they're free to treat him like trash) other than the fear from their retribution.
The Dangerous Lover premieres tomorrow and it already owns me, I MEAN:
Insane, scorching chemistry, blindfold foreplay...
Sexual asphyxiation...
But fret not, she wants to stab his carotid artery with her embroidery scissors, but it's him who lands the killing blow, ON THEIR WEDDING BED. That wasn't the bleeding they told her would happen.
So apparently, female lead foresaw the end of her family, with the whole family being slaughtered in the chess game for power. In order to prevent their demise, she wins over Su Yan Li, a fallen prince who has also experienced "rebirth" and strives to guide the villain to do good. However, he just might be the culprit behind the demise of her family!!!
I've been counting down hours until the premiere for the past week, because whoever is writing the script knows all my secret fantasies.
The misunderstanding about Haein's secret will and Hyunwoo trying to make her change it is non-sensical in a lot of ways because he is a statutory heir with an elective share = he can't be left out of her will and has a legal right to the statutory portion of it, so he would inherit a huge part of her assets anyway through the inheritance law which protects the rights of statutory heirs (spouses, children, grandchildren and parents).
Even if she left him out of her will or disinherited him, the only reason a court would deny him his statutory share of inheritance would be if he committed a crime against her (killed her, injured her, tried to destroy the will, or didn't help her when she needed it,..).
It's even more ridiculous because the writer keeps constantly reminding and showing the audience how amazing lawyer Hyunwoo is, so he would definitely know something which is almost common knowledge.
One of the huge discrepancies (and inequalities) of their marriage is the fact that while Hyunwoo has been spending 24/7 with his in-laws for the past 3 years, Haein hasn't spent basically any time with hers since her nephew can't even recognise her.
Mikael: Excuse me, what's your superpower again?
Baek Hyunwoo: I sue people.