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• Yep feel exactly the same about the cou

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• Glad to hear that you still lokking at this
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• Lee Yoo Bi really surprised me since she seemed scared of her own shadow at times, but she's doing really well. Seung Gi/Yoo Bi's doomed romance and Seung gi/Sung Joon childish bickering are both pretty amazing chemistry wise and very enjoyable to watch. I just can't get into Gon/YW. She's just way too indifferent to him.

• Looking at the stills, I actually checked out the preview for next week eps, and I wonder why they can't be the otp instead. well I don't watch the drama anymore so i can't say how Yoo Bi character turns out to be, but damn, i saw a still with her giving him a peck on the cheek last week, now him kissing her forehead while she's in a cage? To me they look more interesting than LSG/Suzy pairing. It's weird because both Yoo Bi and Suzy are so young compared to LSG, but i guess chemistry is a wonder thing you can't foresee. LSG/Suzy pairing gives me that modern vibe, it'd work if they were in a modern rom-com, with their typical interaction/bickering. While LSG/Yoo Bi is more like those romances in sageuk.

  • Lee Yoo Bi is only 3 years younger... why would it be weird for them to have chemistry?

    • I mean by age AND look. If i didn't know better, Yoobi & Suzy can come off same age to me.

• I just watch ep 3 yesterday, I have to bare with Suzy's modern acting and stiff performance to know the plot and the story. I can't help but wish Lee Yoo Bi playing Suzy's character instead and someone else other actress playing her character as Chung Jo. There is plenty who can play a yangban daughter.

  Looking at her acting it is very great and convincing I believe she can pull any role at any times.!

  Make me wonder, why such an important role in a fusion saeguk was given to a green actress like Suzy. A role and character that can be pull out into a massive and coherant great performance and turn a drama into a new level..*sigh*

• For me, it is not enough that she is pretty. She’s got a big, potentially juicy part, and while the script isn’t doing her any favors, there are other actors in this show doing way more with less. In someone else’s hands, this could really be good. I wonder how many shows we will have to suffer through until she either grows up and gets a little better or is replaced by other cute and talentless idols.

  by skelly

  • LOL, thanks mrssal! And I still feel that way.
    I think that part of the reason that viewers feel the chemistry between LSG and YooBi and not LSG and Suzy is that Yoo Bi is doing a much better job acting. Suzy is unfortunately surrounded by some really good actors, which is highlighting her lack of talent and experience. As for the "chemistry" between her and Don, I would say that is all because of Sung Joon, who is earning even more of my respect by getting a LOT of mileage out of a very small part.

    • I have to agree too - it's unfortunate, but I think Suzy is being out-acted by the rest of the cast, that's why some are moving towards YB and KC pairing. I just don't think Suzy has the ability to connect emotionally with the other cast members and audience. In addition, I think the romantic progress between KC and YW is just too slow to develop for my taste. Whereas in JOJ, we got romantic scenes from episode 1. So I think the storyline is another issue why the pairings seem off right now.

• maybe it's just me, but i think they haven't interacted enough to even show chemistry. plus right now Kang Chi thinks YW is a guy, and they haven't had enough scenes yet.. I like Gon and YW together, and with KC in the pic they would make an interesting love triangle! Gon and KC's bickering reminds me of Inuyasha and Kouga lol! I found Chung Jo's acting a bit dull, the only reason they seem to have chemistry is b/c of the way KC looks at her with his puppy eyes. I think she shines b/c of LSG honestly. Plus I haven't even considered how both women would react to KC's true form as half-human. I think YW might be more ok with it, but Chungjo might react that way Seo Hwa did to Wol Ryung.

  • In my k-drama watching experience, for some reason, i've come to believe chemistry was either there from the get-go or it wasn't. I always waited patiently for those that didn't have the passionate chemistry other OTPs had, but ultimately it always resided in a sort of friendship/mutual love/respect but lacking the passion. The relationship would develop but it would lack the same yearning some other OTPs possess.
    King of Drama's OTP was really lovable but lacked the passion, although their slow and mutual attraction towards each other was cute, it was nothing to fall in love with (the story made up for it because it was pretty interesting).
    I think Seung Gi and Suzy will continue to be cute and adorable but that's where it stops for me.

    • I was worried about the chemistry thing, and kept thinking it was going to be one of those OTPs which you describe. However, I saw it in episode 6, the chemistry that is. SPOILER ALERT! there is this moment in the scene were Kang-chi is laying on top of Yeo-wol, after the evil ninja guard pass them, and they both relax a little and KC gets this _ close to YW and goes "Wow you are really pretty, so pretty you could pass for a girl" and YW is having the WFT do I do, nervous look. That moment you could feel it, and I hope it wasn't a fluke cause taht was some great chemistry. I actually paused the video there for a moment and went WFT you still think she is a boy don't throw those vibes!!! and asked no one if this was supposed to be a gender/bender too...

  • Good point. LSG looks at her like he adores her. When he looks at Suzy like that I think we'll magically see chemistry that Suzy can't pull off alone.

  • Yw can be Kagome and CJ can be Kikio. I like when the couple equal footing and not on a pendastal. I agree CJ might react like how his mother did. I was hoping this drama would be lighter feel to it. It is dark and it is only on 6. But if there are 24 episodes we have plenty of time with good writers

• The clothes suzy n lee sung gi wearing are the same from epi 3 till now

  • Suzy is still wearing the same, seung gi changed.

• Lol it sure is hard having chemistry with a blank wall. Hopefully Suzy will improve massively soon, at least on the bright side it's not crappy enough that I completely blank out like i did with Yawang and yunho. Seunggi's actually doing great now and I'm feeling the emotions Jaeha had.

  • funny, taecyein, iu, kim soo hyun, lee je hoon, gong yoo, lee min jung and baek sung hyun had great chemistry with the 'blank wall'. you may dislike her acting but dont be stupid that acting and chemistry are deeply connected.

    • It's not stupid, acting and chemistry ARE connected. You can't have chemistry unless you have actors who are capable of portraying deep physical and emotional attraction.
      Unless, of course, your definition of "chemistry" is two people staring at one another eye-to-eye (and I'm not sure, because your list of examples for actors who have "chemistry" with Suzy includes both guys and girls, so I am really not sure of a) what your definition is or b) what kind of shows you have been watching...?). Some people have such a shallow definition of chemistry that all two people have to do is smile at one another and they proclaim the couple of the century.

  • I think triamp was just trying to say that it's hard to read the emotions from someone who is inexperienced with acting; we're often times left in the blank as to how the characters feel if their reaction is lacking(or not what we hoped/imagined).
    I don't think acting experience and chemistry is deeply connected, since suzy had plenty of chemistry with kim soo hyun in dream high, but not seung gi in GFB. Whereas seung gi had plently of chemistry with min ah in MGIG, but not really with suzy.
    I think it has to do with the story and their depictions of their characters as well, not just acting chops. Chemistry is quite complex to explain.

• Chung Jo and Kang Chi's storyline is pretty much the same as his parents. I'm a bit sad they won't end up together, but knowing how the parents ended, I don't think I want it to go that way. I think the writers are going to write Chung Jo off just like Kang Chi's mother if she ever finds out about Kang Chi being a gumiho and that's when Kang Chi will move on to Yeo Wool. However, considering the cliffhanger of episode 6, I wonder how Yeo Wool will deal with it.