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A MDL user called 'Empress' recommended this one among "Sexy Hot steamy Dramas": so I did go to watch it, as that is precisely what I look for in my drama, LOL. (Even if Empress called it 'Love is the Beast' incorrectly, but I think that is even a better title, LOL. )
It has many episodes to look forward for all the steaminess, which is not really there (and if it is, it's some kind of awkward/fake kiss attempt) but I liked the lead couple (both the male & female counterpart) tremendously, so I kept on.
Had I not shipped the two of them to be together so much I might have quit watching out of boredom, the story's progress is not satisfying for a long time. By the 2/3 of the drama's length, I repeatedly thought it was long due for the main guy to tell the girl clearly that he loved her. It would have helped things a lot and finally move a bit forward, but instead we watch stagnation at one same point, or her getting closer to another suitor who is his brother (why do we always have to have a brother as a love rival?), which is not necessary as I've mentioned, the main couple is good enough. There's the evil sister too, getting an awful lot of screentime, but it doesn't really matter whether she's there or not.
I don't know what 'Empress' saw in this but I felt like taking imaginary scissors and just cut out the leading guy and girl, then put them into some other story. Hopefully, a story more about the two of them and less about other people. Perhaps that's what the scriptwriters can no longer write and that's why they need the side-characters so much? Or is it a production thing. They always need to employ more cast. Be it whatever, I'm starting to get frustrated.
And the steamy hot bits? Somehow I even forgot to watch out for those. As the series progressed, it was clear we won't easily get to anything much for quite some time. There's lot of repetitive background music that is dated. There's lot of repetitive scenes, for that matter. 31 episodes is a bit much if nothing is happening (MDL lists 33 episodes, even... but I watched 31 and I'm pretty sure the 31st was final).
It's like the main couple is forbidden to simply talk things out and get some real story, instead we watch LONG string of misunderstandings and half-finished conversations that lead nowhere. Both sides of the main couple are never able to say the 1 sentence they really need to say. While the side-characters never fail to give lengthy speeches. Or something outside happens, so that the lead cannot speak. If that's the way to keep "drama" going, then my aunt could probably write better dramas.
When the lead heroine got kidnapped in episode 24, I tuned out completely... Is there going to be a rape and amnesia, too? So, I fastforwarded a bit, she was already free and talking to the brother ("great", the brother again). I skipped again. There simply is nothing watchable except the scenes featuring both the male & female lead. I am really watching this for THEM. Literally. Oh, the guy did what he was supposed to at least 10 episodes earlier. It's too late. But the two of them are really hot. I could watch more of the bed scene.
When I got to the phase where he tells her and SHOWS her that he loves her I was happy, I really loved them together. For a moment, it felt like the whole drama was good. It just needed to be decrapified and now we'll have lots of main couple scenes and their interactions, so it's practically perfect... Of course, that was what I just was telling myself:-)
Soon we are back to the cr*p of course, solving still through the last episodes. That INSTEAD of her telling him she loved him too, for once. Telling him about the things he did not know that caused him to misunderstand for so long. Which is what the viewers were waiting for almost 30 episodes! They have the conversation but it's unfinished. Very frustrating... And him attending a TALK SHOW (seriously), was not what I had in mind for the happy last episode, LOL.
Btw, I didn't see improvement in the character of the mean sister till literally the last minute, though I liked the way it happened. But I had to laugh when the final happy end came. Instead of them clearing things out, she just comes up in the wedding gown with the newborn twins, LOL. No need for further talking, heh.
It has many episodes to look forward for all the steaminess, which is not really there (and if it is, it's some kind of awkward/fake kiss attempt) but I liked the lead couple (both the male & female counterpart) tremendously, so I kept on.
Had I not shipped the two of them to be together so much I might have quit watching out of boredom, the story's progress is not satisfying for a long time. By the 2/3 of the drama's length, I repeatedly thought it was long due for the main guy to tell the girl clearly that he loved her. It would have helped things a lot and finally move a bit forward, but instead we watch stagnation at one same point, or her getting closer to another suitor who is his brother (why do we always have to have a brother as a love rival?), which is not necessary as I've mentioned, the main couple is good enough. There's the evil sister too, getting an awful lot of screentime, but it doesn't really matter whether she's there or not.
I don't know what 'Empress' saw in this but I felt like taking imaginary scissors and just cut out the leading guy and girl, then put them into some other story. Hopefully, a story more about the two of them and less about other people. Perhaps that's what the scriptwriters can no longer write and that's why they need the side-characters so much? Or is it a production thing. They always need to employ more cast. Be it whatever, I'm starting to get frustrated.
And the steamy hot bits? Somehow I even forgot to watch out for those. As the series progressed, it was clear we won't easily get to anything much for quite some time. There's lot of repetitive background music that is dated. There's lot of repetitive scenes, for that matter. 31 episodes is a bit much if nothing is happening (MDL lists 33 episodes, even... but I watched 31 and I'm pretty sure the 31st was final).
It's like the main couple is forbidden to simply talk things out and get some real story, instead we watch LONG string of misunderstandings and half-finished conversations that lead nowhere. Both sides of the main couple are never able to say the 1 sentence they really need to say. While the side-characters never fail to give lengthy speeches. Or something outside happens, so that the lead cannot speak. If that's the way to keep "drama" going, then my aunt could probably write better dramas.
When the lead heroine got kidnapped in episode 24, I tuned out completely... Is there going to be a rape and amnesia, too? So, I fastforwarded a bit, she was already free and talking to the brother ("great", the brother again). I skipped again. There simply is nothing watchable except the scenes featuring both the male & female lead. I am really watching this for THEM. Literally. Oh, the guy did what he was supposed to at least 10 episodes earlier. It's too late. But the two of them are really hot. I could watch more of the bed scene.
When I got to the phase where he tells her and SHOWS her that he loves her I was happy, I really loved them together. For a moment, it felt like the whole drama was good. It just needed to be decrapified and now we'll have lots of main couple scenes and their interactions, so it's practically perfect... Of course, that was what I just was telling myself:-)
Soon we are back to the cr*p of course, solving still through the last episodes. That INSTEAD of her telling him she loved him too, for once. Telling him about the things he did not know that caused him to misunderstand for so long. Which is what the viewers were waiting for almost 30 episodes! They have the conversation but it's unfinished. Very frustrating... And him attending a TALK SHOW (seriously), was not what I had in mind for the happy last episode, LOL.
Btw, I didn't see improvement in the character of the mean sister till literally the last minute, though I liked the way it happened. But I had to laugh when the final happy end came. Instead of them clearing things out, she just comes up in the wedding gown with the newborn twins, LOL. No need for further talking, heh.
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