Keep watching till the very end

Review: Black Knight (2023)
11 July 2023
When I watch Kdramas I do it with the idea that I’m here to be entertained and I’m not here to criticise the making of the series. If I feel happy and the story flows my way. I like it. If the story is fragmented or boring I just leave and go watch another. Often you have to use your imagination to fill in the gaps. It is after all a work of fiction. This is only a 6 episode series so it is filled with gaps but I find it still understandable and interesting. You know it is my fave genre, Science fiction fantasy, here this is a future polluted world. So far I like it. It leaves enough clues for me to fill in the gaps.

5-8 is like a deliveryman warrior who is suddenly thrust into a mystery of these disappearing youth. They have been kidnapped. He becomes involved because one of the victims is known to him. He also becomes subtlely accused of the crime of a kidnapping gone wrong and the victim is killed. He is the first one on the scene and saves the refugee who was in the house almost fatally wounded.

He begins his own investigation. For myself it is intriguing because it is easy to see that these events could happen. The refugee(Kang Yoo Seok Sa Wol) he rescues want to become a deliveryman like him. 5-8 sponsored and trains him for the job. The tests ( Kang Yoo Seok
Sa Wol)goes through are brutal and life threatening but he manages to get into the finals.

He has to fight a much stronger and bigger man. It is a no holds barred fight. I leave to you to find out the result. The whole world is watching and waiting. Meanwhile 5-8 is trying to track down what has happened to the kidnapped youth.

The fight reminds me of Lee Joon Gi fighting the bigger man on “Again my Life”

All of the delivery men are too late.

I really like this Kdrama, exciting and holds my interest. The fighting is brutal and the story line adequate. Watch it if you want to see and dynamic, fast moving and gripping short adventure….only 6 episodes.

As it nears the end I get really anxious for the deliverymen as they are on the wrong side of the law. Will they be eliminated? The last episode is a tough one to watch. It’s a scary and tense watch.

This is kdrama not America .....where the main actor always wins. Keep your cool and keep watching to the end.

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A documentary like thriller.

This drama is kinda like a documentary because it shows a large part of the wilderness and history of the area but then it’s also like a thriller as it takes us right into the minds of the people and actors in this drama. It just hooks you in. It is so outstanding. I have loved it from the very beginning . It’s a mystery, thriller. There are so many well known actors who are awesome in this.

What is happening in this area is that many people go missing. It is popular for a variety of reasons. Hikers, Trampers, sight seer, plant collectors, snake collectors, suiciders and even murderers who cover their murders by making it look some kind of accident. This is whom the lead actors are looking but it is very difficult for them,

We are only in episode 5 and my goodness what a shake up there has been in this short time.

This is so very stressful but so incredibly superb. Cinematoloy is stunning. Scenery takes your breath away.

So many tragedies one after another, Reminds me of our cultural saying"I am the river and the river is me. I am the mountain and the mountain is me”. She tried to leave but the mountain keeps calling her back.. Come home!! Come Home!! I feel like that.

Every time an episode end I can’t help but think. So good.

This drama is not for the faint hearted. Lucky none of of my fave actors are in it or I’d be distraught. I can watch like an ordinary viewer thinking that this is a documentary and I’m seeing it as if it has already happened and this is a reenactment. That is my way of thinking about it. I love it so much. One of the more written scripts. Congratulations writers I don’t often say it so treasure my words.

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Don't give up on your true love

like these time travel movies so I’m Looking forward to this one. This is so funny and not overly serious like “Moon Lovers”
Gong Seung Yeon/Song Soo Jung And Lee Jong Hyun/On Dal are so funny and now the Kim Yeon Seo/Princess Pyung Gang has turned up. Her assistant managers Lee Jae Jin/Byeon Sam Yong was in the Combi and accidentally travel back in time with her. The combo has got a mind of its own. Is she the only one that can drive it?

Ahn Bo Hyun/Moo Myung the Princess bodyguard is with her. They just dug the way out of her bedroom where she had been imprisoned by her father for 18 years. ( Kim Yeon Seo/Princess Pyung Gang) She thinks the combo and the people are there to take her away.

This is an awesome magical mystery tour. Seems like that combi has control of everyone who get in it.

Those were terribly cruel old days. Nothing about the good old days. It was a very harsh life. How many times has he got to save his mother.

I haven’t written that much about this drama but I love it. The first part was humorous and fun. The last 7 or 8 episodes the tempo starts to heat up and the two pairs of lovers are stressed to the max as what they are doing is changing history. As a viewer you want the lovers to be together but you also see the impossibility of their situation. The magic combi is back fully repaired after its trip back to the future. So anything can happen now because as a viewer you already believe that the combi can do anything after all it going from the past to the future then back again. So you live on that hope that it can do miracles. Writers kudos to you writer Kim Soo Jin the plot is so cleverly written.
23/06/21

Now I have watched”River Where the Moon Rises “ I understand this kdrama so much better and I want to watch it again and add to this review. This is the drama to watch when you are going through a depressive state and need cheering up. It is so funny, amusing and entertaining. It’s also very clever, inventive and many-sided. I love it.

The actors in here are playing two roles one in the past and one in the present time. Its a bit repetitive in parts but still very excellent. Its so funny and crazy and awesome. That crazy vain man got his comeuppance.

After a history of almost kisses the main actors finally kiss on that beautiful hill after flying a kite. It was was a gorgeous moment of the drama. Then there was a rash of passionate kisses later in the drama but as history began to change Oh Dal began to disappear.

This drama is so worth rewatching.

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He is devilishly handsome and has a quirky wry smile.

Review:-Tunnel (2017)
The music is so scary and their police methods so suspect. They go too far with their police interviews. Hitting people is just plain bullying. He is so bad tempered but good to his wife. He loves her so much. In the future time he was looking for her and didn’t know he had a child. She was distraught when he disappeared and returned to the tunnel to look for him while he was trying to get back to his own time. She heard him screaming out her name. This story is just fascinating.

Choi Jin Hyuk/Park Kwang Ho is so good at the scary science fiction fantasy stuff. So he is going to go into the future, wooo. Mind-blowing brain teaser, you can lose your space trying to figure it out. He was chasing a murderer in the tunnel who knocks him out when he wakes up he keeps going through the tunnel after the culprit and he went through a time warp 30 years into the future. So the perpetrator must be there.

When he heard that his wife remarried after 20 years. It brought tears to his eyes and he wept slow sad bitter tears but his love for her kept searching. He discovered what happened to her. He is going through an emotional mill.

Choi Jin Hyuk is as solid actor as these tough guy hard man and hard hearted characters. What a heart throb!! He is devilishly handsome and has a quirky wry smile.

This Lee Yoo Young/Shin Jae Yi as a psychology professor and profiler she is so great thorough persistent. A true nerd.

So he has come through the time tunnel to catch the serial murderer is my theory. Surely the forensic professor is not the killer? Getting so creepy now.

I have to keep rewinding so that I keep this story of mystery and intrigue straight in my own brain. It becomes stressful and more complex and thought-provoking as the story progresses. It one that you just can’t stop watching. It’s becoming a thriller. It was all full of facts and data in the beginning but now you are becoming emotionally involved. Half-way through on episode 8.

This is unfathomable and crazy. When he runs into the tunnel after the culprits strange time change happens.

I loved this drama so much.

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Can be confusing with it back and forth on the timeline

Review:-Alice (2020)

I had never heard of Alexithymia until I watched The Flower of Evil and now its in this drama. It is a good one too.

This is so good. I love these time travel. Fantasy Science Fictions they hold my interest completely. I love these one when I just can’t stop watching and I can’t let myself got to sleep. Just totally complicated perplexing thriller

I find it unbearably fascinating and can’t stop watching in spite of the back and forth of time and the different dimensions that they go into and the differences it makes to the main actor. It get really creepy as it start to wind up to the end.

How many times did he come back to find his mum dying?(?5) So scary and terrifying. Wow but awesome acting. It is so good

Then what happens in the last episode it all turns to custard and doesn’t make sense and drives me totally crazy. I have to think about this ending. Yes he did everything I wanted him to do but I have so many questions.
I loved it so much until the end.
You viewers out there you have to make up your own mind but let me tell you I wasn’t happy about the ending after all the time I had invested in watching. Later I might come back and write some more comments but for now. I’m over it.

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* Review:-My Amazing Boyfriend (2016) This is quite good but its getting a bit long winded at the moment and dragging. The relationship with the monster and the girl Iike. She already had seven bf and has never kissed any of them. That is wack. Her rules for dating are archaic. But I love the way she and the corpse were revived. This girl is so annoying. First off she has broken up with 7 boyfriends and never kissed any one of them. Now She has been saved by this dormant corpse Kim Tae Hwan/Xue Ling Qiao because her blood has revived him but now she wants his to revive one of her exboyfriends because he is dying and doesn’t want to take no for an answer. She is so petty. Try looking from his point of view for once. At least he didn’t kill the guy who is trying to kill him. He had been shot but he had the blood of another mutant that healed his injuries. So their blood can heal anyone. Wow that would be awesome. I wonder if her blood can heal because he gave her his blood. So she’s drugged him with his favourite milk. So she is going to kiss him and bite his tongue. It didn’t work but he decided would do it for her anyway and then he will leave her. He’s so pathetic when he just lets three guys beat him up in the rain. He’s just heart broken but he doesn’t really understand his own feelings of both love and jealousy. I suspected Rise Li/Hong Shi Guang from the beginning . He kind of overacted some of his characters nasty behaviours and he was manipulative of people that he had close relationships with both the male and female. I liked the story. I did, but the ending went against my own predictions. I like the ending I had made up so much better. Aishhh!

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Review:-My Dear Warrior (2019)

So it’s a Manga(comic) come to life. She(Baifern Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul/Sky) has gone into the comic with Oab Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang/Hoshi. No he’s come into her real world. Two hearts are beating as one.
Varot Makaduangkeo/Kairo play a great fighting part as the antagonist and rival for the love of Chatra Baude/Luna. I like these two together. She is trying to humanise him and I think that she likes him because he is so cool az. When he’s not angry he’s really awesome and handsome. They are an exquisite couple together. They have have a unique and impressive chemistry as a couple.

Because of my history of being a victim I have no sympathy for abusers. It is so hard to free yourself from them. So I have no sympathy for Putt Leo/Jett. Looking from the outside I believe that they can’t change. I hate this bully so much! People who love you don’t hurt you!!! Emotionally, physically or mentally. This guy put her through hell and then he wants her to forgive him and take him back. It’s a bad example for the kids that saw them reconciled. Pure love is truly beautiful but pure love doesn’t hurt your lover in the first place. I like the attitude of the two characters from the “ My Dear Warrior “ story best. That horrible man hurt the wife and child so bad.

This woman Claudia Chakrabandhu/Vanda played a great role as Sky’s Aunty who has amnesia lost her memory because of abuse. She brings a humorous part to the drama and keeps renaming her cat a new name every day and makes the weirdest concoctions and calls them food but the warrior Hoshi eats it down with enjoyment. She is the author of these comics that Hoshi is part of. She has brought up Sky since her mum and dad died in a car accident. She has stopped writing because of the abuse she suffered. They use Williams Shakespeares Sonnet 116 as a comparison for their love. That love never changes and it is always there, even when conditions change. I have found this to be true in my own life but you just can’t let people(the one you love) keep hurting you. You totally have to leave this situation and never go back.

Baifern Pimchanok Luevisadpaibul/Sky)the character is so stupid sometimes when she is pranking Oab Oabnithi Wiwattanawarang/Hoshi with Pangyu. When his reality knows that that character can really kill them. She thinks it’s a huge joke. While he’s trying to guard them against death. Oh I don’t want to say it but she is starting to piss me off. She is so annoying. Yeah/Nah! Then she gets kidnapped. Too much crying wolf. I want to say serve her right. I like her funky overdecorated clothes. She is spoilt, demanding and possessive. She wants him to do what she tells him without question. She can be a bit of a nag. As a character she doesn’t really win me over. She is too selfish even though she really loves the main actor and they do have chemistry.

Some bad overacting in this drama but still a drama that holds my science fantasy interests. So I’ll overlook that.

Do something you dumb girls turn on some lights. Eventually they defeated Pangyu but not without cost though.

So this phenomena happened because of the sun, moon, stars and sky. Sad the sun and the moon can not share the same sky in our world but maybe in other worlds. Its really only their names so they should be able to overcome that problem.

This is like a modern fairy tale with a twist because you don’t know what is going happen next. You can’t predict the consequences. Its not following the known format. I really enjoyed this its one of the sweetest love stories I have watched.

The cinematology, visuals and filming was superior. Mostly shot with cool, crisp pictures and wonderful backgrounds and settings.

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Something totally elegant, beautiful and mesmerising about the Martial Arts with the umbrella. It’s like a perfectly. choreographied set of dance moves, enthralling the mind and senses. I just love it and worth watching the movie for these delicate and classical parts. Simply the best. It is taught as a feminine movement. All of these gestures and positions seem to be taught in secret to only the very talented students. Their trainer seems to be a crippled old man but what outstanding skills that he has honed his body to such a high level of competencies. His student have such a high respect and admiration for this man. He has trained one of his student to be his shadow and fight in his replacement. He is in the background guide those he has trained. Love is the motivator of many of these warriors.
Such an interesting maneuver as even the Princess goes to take part diving into the water to go into the enemy territory. She’s a wilful girl betrothed to the enemy Prince. While the “shadow” fights on the platform above the troops swimming to secure their positions against their enemy. Its quite an eerie battle as the hero fight one on one with the champion on the wet and slick Zin Yan platform. It’s pouring down with rain and their warriors find their places. There is only about one hundred of them with their tiny arm held cross bows sneaking about in the rain in their dark coloured clothes. There is a mixture of men and women. They move with silent swiftness. Each cross bow has only 12 arrows so they make them count but they have their deadly umbrellas. They are like slingshots in the rain and go spinning towards their target. Impressive. It’s like a dance down the wet streets, primitive and cool.
Such a sad ending for the Prince and the Princess. The General and his wife played a sad but stirring duet together on their zithers as the shadow fighter for his life. They take the city and cut down the flag. The wounded hero returns to his home to find his mother killed and assassins await. The kings man saves him. The King finds his sister dead.
The black and white filming adds another level of mystic to an already magical scene. An electrifying, emotional , gripping and provoking movie. Watch it folks there is nothing like it to keep you galvanize for the whole two hours. Well acted by some well known Chinese actors.

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My Review:
This story is a palace love and intrigue set in China. It is the fictional account about the History of the first Emperor. Who was an arrogant, bad tempered, insidious, vicious, ruthless, cunning and obsessive tyrant and more negatives. He did everything to get his own way after he had been bullied during his own childhood. He abducted the woman he desired and held her captive cage like in his palace enticing her to fall in love with him. He trusted no one and continuously put the family under stress because of his distrust. His main love interest is intelligent, warm, compassionate, caring and and all round wonderful woman and yet he treats her terribly. She tries so hard to to be the woman he needs but in the ends he betrays her again and again and then finally she tricks him into killing her and hopes as she dies that this would teach him the lesson that he needs to be a great King. Parts of this movie is so totally sad but often you don’t cry but feel furious about the circumstances of what is happening. The lead actors do a wonderful job acting. Zhang Binbin being the main reason I started watching this his portrayal of this unlikable man is epic and keeps you watching despite the cruelty and violence and the contrast of Dilraba Dilmurat is supreme. She is everything he is not. Loved her martial arts skills. The fighting is much like a well coordinates dance routine and keeps you mesmerised. There is an unexpected twist at the end but you feel it coming and think yeah I thought as much. I love the costumes and much of the scenery and settings. I recommend that you watch this and stay to the end it will still your heart and stir your mind and senses and make you feel grateful that you live in this day and age especially if you are a woman. The end just justifies everything according to myself.

I’m watching this again and it even better. I may have sped through some unsavoury parts coz I couldn’t handle it but now I know whats going to happen I can relish the end and accept the middle.

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Review:Kill Me, Heal Me (2015)

I have found this drama so fascinating that I haven’t stopped to take notes but just bulldozed my way through trying to interpret this puzzle about how this man got to have these different personalities and how he is trying to cope with them. This is a totally different drama than all of the other ones I have watched.

Hwang Jung Eum/Oh Ri Jin is falling in love with all of his different personalities for after all they are all him.

Now that I have completed watching this drama I’m analysing how I feel because its a story like know other that I have watched. It was mesmerising. It had strange deja vu as the different characters were revealed. They were him but some one completely different. Its hard to understand that that these things can really happen. It was portrayed so well in this drama. The two main actors were outstanding in the roles that they played as these two really lost people who fate and destiny had brought back together after so many years to reveal their stories of hurt and pain. It was very well done.

Ji Sung/Cha Do Hyeon - This is the first time I’ve watched this actor and what an exceptional, unique and noteworthy role he played as these various characters. He was outstanding at characterizing each ones personalities.

Here are the personalities

 Shin Se-Gi: Looks like a rock star, fights like a MMA champion. He doesn’t allow Do-Hyun to be bullied. Also, in an unusual twist, he is the man stuck in the second lead syndrome. - He was awesome I loved this character. I never wanted him to leave. As I have said before I love bad boys

 Perry Park: A happy-go-lucky ajussi who loves fishing and has a knack for building bombs. -The guy was fun and full of life the oldest.

 Yo-Sub: An artistic and sensitive high school boy who is suicidal. The series title comes from an incident where he writes, “Kill Me,” prior to his plan to commit suicide. Upon finding this, Ri-Jin changes his graffiti to, “Heal Me.” - This boy was too serious,

 Yo-Na: Yo-Sub’s twin sister. The 17-year-old loves K-Pop and handsome men, like Ri-Jin’s twin brother, Ri-On. - This girl was the funniest. She was a handful for everyone to handle.

 Na-Na: A 7-year-old who embodies the traumas Do-Hyun remembers from his childhood. - Lovely Nana was the remembrance of their childhood together.

 Mr. X: Looks like a magician. Behaves like a father. - This guy came to magic them all back together.

Hwang Jung Eum/Oh Ri Jin and Park Seo Joon/Oh Ri On [Ri Jin's Brother] I watched in “She Was Pretty”

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My Review: The King 2 Hearts

My favourite Korean actress Ha Ji Won/Kim Hang Ah is the lead actor. She is so awesome. Must watch this. Its on Netflix so quality of the pictures will be clear can’t wait. That Lee Seung-gi as Prince Lee Jae-ha (later King Jae-ha) is so annoying how dare he make a tear fall from her eye. No wonder he’s not married. I hope she trains him to the ground at the next training. This girl she knows how to fight back dirty. Just like he undermine her self esteem. She is doing the same back to him. Now she is going to deal to him physically for after all she is just a girl. He’s from South Korea and she’s from North Korea. She has trained for 10 years and he’s only trained for two years in the regular army. She trained in the special forces. I love her in these strong and stressful roles she suits it so much and especially when she is beating up men.

Such a mean and untrustworthy person who keeps changing his mind, no integrity. So full of guile. Now he’s King what he wrote on the window when he was a child turned out to be true. He wrote I am KING but he actually never ever wanted to be King. He’ll have to change his ways now. I just had clarification that it wasn’t him that wrote that but his nemesis Yoon Je-moon as Kim Bong-gu (John Mayer). Who had desires of grandeur from a young age.

Still he has the cutest sassiest fiancee. She makes me laugh. She’s got integrity. She doesn’t play the game its all fair in love and war. She trusted in her lover when he said to blow up the supply room. She remembered him saying we have got teamwork. So she did even though she thought she was blowing him up.

Yoon Je-moon as Kim Bong-gu (John Mayer) is a sly one. He was the one who stabbed him with a pen when they were children. His plan is to kill both brothers and become King but now I think his short term plan is to pin the murder of the previous King on to Ha Ji Won/Kim Hang Ah. I hope she and the king are too clever for him. His (the Kings) sister needs to get her memory back about what happen to her on that day. She didn’t just fall down the cliff.
Yoon Je-moon as Kim Bong-gu (John Mayer) thinks the King is stupid but he doesn’t know that he is very clever.

The Lee Yoon-ji as Princess Lee Jae-shin is falling in love with her faithful strong but silent type bodyguard who is frustrating, but kind and loyal but he is not ready to be involved with her even though I think he is.
I watched this movie because of the lead actress. She is so remarkable as and actress and she keeps you spellbound. Her martial arts fighting skills are incredible and spectacular. I never expected this drama to be so emotionally draining and intense but episode by episode I’ve been so tearful and pitiful with tears just running down my cheeks but I can’t stop watching and I have to carry on to the end.
Quote from a DramaLove: This drama should almost come with a warning: "Danger! You will lose all track of time and reality while watching this show!" There are moments of intrigue, tragedy, romance, fantasy, humour, even mysticism in this unique Korean drama.

Never have I ever wanted someone to shoot a woman villain so much. I was saying yeah! Shoot that girl. What she did was unforgivable. Shoot her - She hurt the mother, made the sister kill her brother, and made her jump over the cliff and paralyzed herself, hurt the bodyguard by torture, hurt the lead actress. They underestimated the King and his fiancee and the bodyguard. She got her. She shot her three times.

The bodyguard Jo Jung-suk as Eun Shi-kyung paid for the sins of his father with his death. That was sad.

I find it really sad when they are preparing for war. It reminds me of the reality of when Kim Jong-un was talking about bombing Palau an American Based Island. We (New Zealand) is thousands of miles away from both Korea and the United States but there was still a sense of fear that a world war could break out again. Wasn’t this in 2012??? This in Korea it is really a Civil War. Korea is one race and culture. Its quite upsetting to think about these things actually happening. So these two people, just two individuals trying to stop a war. Sometimes I think that men think war is just a game played online.

Have to stop the movie again tears are coming out of my eyes………….. Such a brave move by the King. So good the brothers dream for them to stop a war worked. That crazy man Yoon Je-moon as Kim Bong-gu (John Mayer) was trying to start a war. So peace has endured for nearly eight years so long may it reign. This is true in real life too.

This could be the best drama I ever watched just debating with myself but maybe “Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo”still takes it. After all Lee Joon Gi is the best actor.

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My Review: Ja Myung Go
People should watch this, its outstanding. What a story.  It going to make your heart stop.  A love story with difference.  I highly recommend it for your viewing.  Me in Kaikohe, New Zealand watching this.  Characters do what you never expect to happen. It going to make you cry. It a sad story of the two sisters separated at birth. The one sent out on the death boat stabbed in the heart with a hair pin, should have surely died but didn’t. Many of her experiences should have killed her but she managed to survive to the very end. How did both sisters end up loving the same man. In his heart was only the one and this love ended killing both of them. So the end is heartbreakingly painful but so appropriate for the two of them. Be great for them to write a sequel so that they can get their happy ever after like the Legend of the Blue Sea. Ja-myung probably could have saved her people but being waylaid by her lovers ambitions and feelings. In the end they are the beach and see the Goguryeo soldiers approaching them. Prince Hodong who has been seriously wounded by his lover Ja-myung takes her tightly in his arms and slides his sword through both of them knowing they can not be together in this life. So romantic but so totally tragic, unable to be together in life so together in death.
Even thought the end is heart wrenching and I cried a bucket I just loved it so much. Is this why Asian love these tragic movies? I keep going back and watching that agonising, distressing and excruciating last episode. It is pitiful and sorrowful. I think I’m going to rewatch it and get some more pictures for my online review.

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I liked what they said about the new coach he Ji Chang Wook/Chang An has the traits greed and patience. Reminds me of his actions on “Healer.” New An Yue Xi/Qi Bai Cao lacks the feistiness, arrogance, gall and determination of Hu Bing Qing/Qi Bai Cao. I miss her. She fought every step of the way to claim her place in the Martial Arts world. This new actress has an aura of vulnerability and deficiency. Anyway just up to third episode. Lets see how she goes. The rich guy though he hasn’t been able to move her heart one iota. He does a lot of nice things for, but he’s too much. Don’t tell me she going to fall for the coach. She doesn’t fall for the coach. The coach falls for her but he waits very patiently he knows she’s not ready and doesn’t push himself forward.

Seven Tan/Fan Xiao Ying is such a gossipmonger. The is An Yue Xi/Qi Bai Cao Best friend.

Sean Chen./Fang Ting Hao doesn’t know that Ji Chang Wook/Chang An is training her at night and that is why her speed has increased so much. Why does she have coaches that have infirmities? That hair clip again is causing more trouble than worth. Now the coach is looking for a hairclip and she is already fighting. Finally he gets one off a girl in the street. She is so distraught when she loses it and she has lost it twice already. Now she has taken a kick to the head and her hairclip has flown out of her hair how is she going to cope with that. She won’t accept that her coach is dead. Maybe he isn’t. So she lost. Sometimes they need a loss to bring them back to reality. Like the All Blacks in 2007 way to over confident and broke the hearts of every New Zealander. She can’t get over her grief and believe that he’s still alive. He was buried at sea, Probably one of those floating coffin like things.

Guo Fiction/Lu Fei Yu a new guy has come into the drama. What’s his role? He’s looking for his long lost childhood sweetheart. Seems like its Hu Bing Qing/Qi Bai Cao, But he’s got a beef with the Karate Club she is in. Found out what the problem is. His and his family want to take over Song Bai (Karate Club). He’s character is really annoying in this drama but he is a bit of eye candy. I loved him in: “Accidently in Love.”

Ji Chang Wook is a really great actor his facials and his pain expressions are so clear. That hardnosed, tormented, arrogant, derisory coach has fallen in love with his student. Thats what happens when you live together solely for one whole month even when you don’t sleep in the same bedroom. It slowly works on your psyche to move your heart in some way, especially when you are performing stressful training routines. So many hugs after tense fighting bouts. The affection just builds up.

She has fought in Japan and now Singapore. I wonder where next in the first series they only fought in their own country China and Korea. Germany! France! Italy! Champion! has world titled right to participate in the Yuan Yu Dao CityYouth Championship. She have a achieved her first goal. She is going to Mexico next. No way in Rome she was attacked by hoodlums and they whacked her knee so now she got a knee injury. Get some crutches girl and stop putting pressure on it. Just revising, she was kicked out of Quan Sheng Club inn the previous drama series.

The coach Ji Chang Wook /Chang An is telling Hu Bing Qing/Qi Bai Cao how his leg got injured and how it got into the state it is now. That means it gets hurt easily. Reminds me of my grand daughter who injured her leg playing netball and every time she plays she hurts it again but does she stop playing no. Every time someone asks her to play in a social team she does and the same thing happens. She won’t stop because she loves the game too much. That is what this girls doing and now she’s giving back to him the same reasons he kept fighting with his injured leg.

This girl Zhao Yuan Yuan/Fang Ting Yi because of her lust for revenge, caused her own self to get into a vegetative state in a Karate Competition. The the girl our heroine Hu Bing Qing/Qi Bai Cao is getting the blame for it and her coach getting the worst of it but it was Zhao Yuan Yuan/Fang Ting Yi own fault. She Hu Bing Qing/Qi Bai Cao was taught never to give up and she didn’t. She was so shocked and disheartened by this she went into hiatus and stopped practising her sport for a whole year. That should heal up her knee.

I’ve finished this one at last. I enjoyed it but it had some pretty sad parts and I was shipping for the coach and his prodigy to get together but they didn’t. She was a sensation as Karate fighter but it was because of the way he taught her and she was phenomenon at learning each movement so quickly.

Her lost love was still in her heart and didn’t come back but that was blocking her feelings for any other person. I felt sympathy for Sean Chen/Fang Ting Hao. He was getting nowhere despite his besotted and almost obsessive love for her. He should have gone with her sister (Yu Ting Er/Qu Guang Ya)she had a thing for him. She was a nice girl and had no jealousy for sister who was getting everyones love and affections.

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What great actors. So much crying and beautiful poetic language. I'm reading the subtitles. I tell myself that I'm going to stop watching these Kdramas but I can't help myself. Once I have a little peek I have to go all the way. Day and night and day and night I'm glued to my computer no breaks and hardly any food.. Laughing and crying. I tell myself over and over this time I'm not going to cry I'm going to harden up. Next thing tears rolling down my cheeks and I tell you this one was one of the best or worst. Which ever way you look at it. At least the ending was pretty happy apart from one of the best characters dying the kings brother who loved the king wife. The story is a fantasy historical so the authors were able to make the end a bit happy not like those historicals based on fact. You know that they are going to die in the end because that's a fact of life we all going to die in the end. I flick quickly pass the torture scenes but I love the sword fights and the kungfu fighting. Romantic scenes more up to your imagination. Least the kissing is better in this drama but most of these dramas kissing is just lip pressing bit amusing really.
* Really outstanding drama. You’ll love it even more when you rewatch it. So good to see the two brother Princes supporting each other instead of the norm of killing each other. Love the costumes the Royal Family wear. They are so well made and brilliantly decorated with intricate embroidery and gold threat highlights.
* The photography and cinematology were exceptional with very clear pictures that dominated your visual senses. The ending made you feel it was all worthwhile. The bodyguard character was my favourite he was really memorable as an actor.

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Love and Marriage is a shared responsibility

When just started this and I was thinking is this really the new culture of Korea, unfilial and disloyal. Women now work and don't have time pamper and take care of their husband needs physically and emotionally. That daughter is going to get her karma talking to her mother like that.

I've watched it for awhile now and I see why other viewers are frustrated with the men on this drama. Those women work so hard and are just too tired to fully take care of their husbands physical and emotional needs but the women need support too. As a woman in New Zealand there is only so much we can put up with and we are not going to allow ourselves to be treated as a slave and a maid for long periods of time. It made me think no wonder all of these Asian girls seek husbands and partners from foreign lands. Where they serve with humility, piety and graciousness. These men in Korea do they really just seek solace else where without trying to find a solution at home? It's pitiful. This drama is showing Korean men in a bad light. I keep watching hoping for a change of heart or for karma to hit them.

It is so different to our lives in NZ where we are taught that women can do anything and men and women have often got shared roles.....like our PM for example. Men tend to help share the homemaking chores when both of them are working or even men are househusbands and we think nothing of it.

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