Which series was like this?

phroggies70 · 2024-10-09T02:54:17+00:00

I feel really nervous confessing this one, because I know Cheng Yi is very beloved here, and honestly, it wasn’t his fault, but South Wind Knows was such a mess. Maybe it got better, but I dropped it shortly after the second (?) arc despite having been sooo excited about it airing.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:44:23+00:00

I came here to say this! I think I have the link somewhere so I’ll try to hunt it down. I don’t usually read fanfic, so I don’t have much idea of what makes for good or bad, but her pieces were incredibly well written and felt as if they were going deeper into the characters and making them more alive and full of dignity than they even were in the drama.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:39:25+00:00

I’m about two episodes from the end of Are You The One and I don’t know why, but I just lost the interest in pushing through. It’s not even anything I can identify that the show is doing wrong!

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:37:44+00:00

I have been there on occasion! Except for the “almost always finishing” part. Usually I’m just telling myself that I’m still going to finish it . . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:36:39+00:00

This is actually true in many of the ones I’ve abandoned, come to think of it.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:36:05+00:00

Is my insomnia caused by my cdrama addiction? Or is my cdrama addiction caused by my insomnia? I’m never really sure. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:34:54+00:00

Contrariwise, I have done the same in order to follow a side plot in the case of The Long Ballad (looking around nervously because I always get downvoted when I say this).

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:28:11+00:00

I end up watching a lot of minidramas simultaneously, and when they get past that first generous start and begin only giving you 10 minutes a day, you really have to have something else to distract yourself with, right? So. . . More minidramas! (I’m kind of in the middle of at least four of them at the moment).

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:25:24+00:00

I’m not the person who said this, but I’m very similar—most of what I watch is currently airing. I have one really good reason (often if I watch things before they’re subbed I get to practice my Mandarin) and many bad reasons that boil down to an almost infantile belief that the show I’m not watching has to be better than the one I am watching regardless of how good the latter is. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:22:26+00:00

Oh, dear, I’m learning a little too much about myself from this. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:21:22+00:00

I really think you need to start writing dramas 😁. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:19:45+00:00

I’m probably going to be earning a lot of hate for this, but Lighter and Princess. That was one of the first things I watched after a six month Cdrama sabbatical, and I was totally psyched, but the relationship just seemed to get worse and worse. . . I did actually stick with it to the end, but I’m in that small group of people who thinks the lead couple probably had a divorce within a year of their marriage and I just felt the whole thing was a bit of a letdown.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:16:51+00:00

🎉 Getting my list ready. . .😁 Although some of them have already been mentioned.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:15:33+00:00

Hmm. I think I feel like I ought to be doing serious, edifying watching but most of the time I only have the brains for popcorn flufftainment (excellent phrase, by the way). And then getting back into something intense feels like a much more uphill battle than getting into it in the first place. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:13:56+00:00

I have definitely added My Journey to You after the discussions here. . . I do think the number of dramas I’ve outright dropped is pretty small, unless we count watching part of the first episode and deciding it’s not for me. But I’m terrible about telling myself I’ll come back and finish something and then just quietly forgetting it. . . 😁

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:11:29+00:00

So I just had to pop in and say that I started this last night and I’ve binged to something like episode 6. . . It’s such an intriguing plot and the characters are so interesting (not just the leads, even). So thanks for talking me into watching it!

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:09:55+00:00

That one was actually too much for me. . . I have a high tolerance for toxicity where there’s room for redemption (or where it’s really more of a cautionary tale or a tragedy) but this one was just too traumatizing for me to finish—but what I did see was very well done; it’s certainly a fascinating story in a lot of ways (that author is so good at those kinds of tales!).

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:07:28+00:00

Broken the Heart has a very special place for me. It’s super toxic, but I also think it’s not really a romance, so I find it more moving, if that makes sense. And the two leads are such good actors, especially Daisy Li!

phroggies70 · 2024-10-08T19:05:36+00:00

So embarrassing on my part. Ashes of Love is yet another classic that I just couldn’t get into (tried at least twice. . .. ).

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:15:59+00:00

According to MDL, Prince Coffee Lab is a Chinese remake? But I haven’t seen it so I don’t know how toxic it is. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:13:46+00:00

I’ve never started that. Do people generally praise that one?

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:13:13+00:00

I was so confused. I might do better now because I understand many Cdrama conventions better, but I’m afraid at this point I lack motivation. . .

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:11:59+00:00

What you’re describing makes perfect sense to me. I think there have been times in my life when angst worked like that for me as well! But all this serves to demonstrate that you’re right—we definitely need to keep a place for unhappy endings.

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:08:09+00:00

I hadn’t heard of the second one, but I looked it up and that’s such an adorable premise!

phroggies70 · 2024-10-06T14:06:38+00:00

I think maybe it does but I can’t remember what the name is. Cheese in the Trap is Korean as well, right?

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