If this had been made by a bigger production studio with a better budget I would have absolutely loved it. The…
I kinda agree only because I love it so much regardless of the limited budget. The cinematography and chemistry and acting is exquisite, but I got this feeling that they wanted to do a lot more - like, I could sense that everyone involved from cast to crew wanted to deliver more scenes and more episodes. Like from the acting to music to cinematography - all these aspects delivered, but they were restrained by the budget and funding and limited to 9 eps atleast until they understood how these 9 eps would be recieved by the fans and then they could go ahead and get approved for funding for more episodes. Atleast that's the impression I got watching it.
Personally, I feel like adding even just 3 more episodes and making it a standard 12 episodes season would have made it even better. Why? Cuz Chusan and Liuyi could have even more scenes; and not just scenes with them, I mean more funny and cute scenes with them together with Liuyi's friends as their romance develops. The whole Liuyi coming to terms with his feelings for Chusan could have been elaborated a little bit more instead of just two episodes between eps 7 and 9. 9 eps would have been fine if it was just Chu San and Liuyi, but when you include the Qinglong and Xiaoman drama, the second couple and the cop's plot with his dad and Fatty Seven and his crew, 9 eps really is too short. Ik they are gonna do a second season, but I meant I wanted the lead up to our main couple's mutual kiss in ep 9 to be even longer. Because Liuyi only started discovering his feelings for Chusan in ep 7 and Chusan was gone for most part of ep 9 and then bam!!, we get that kiss in ep9. Needed an extra two/three eps before ep 9.
The cinematography is perfect honestly and didn't get me any low budgetary feels and like @any_anka said above, blows higher budget productions out of the water sometimes. The music/audio mixing is good except for the dubbing which I got used to over time and is now a favorite of mine. My gripe is more about the quantity of the episodes leading to the final kiss and how that was affected by the budget. Everything else is minor.
https://youtube.com/shorts/0c-yOAzGK2c?si=2BwAXv5esPlL8oGAXia Liuyi works hard but Xia Luiyi's fans work harder.…
Me and my friend were legit spell bound whenever he appeared on screen covered in blood. I swear blood just makes him look prettier instead of unkempt. I mean how?!
Who wants to move on from them? I personally want more of them 💛💛💛
Yeah, you are right, might be promo for s2 or fan engagement content, can't tell from the posts alone until we get an official confirmation. Hope the show continues to generate interest and gains more fans in the meantime
Who wants to move on from them? I personally want more of them 💛💛💛
I'd like your opinion on this- I see the actors are pretty active on social media, like posting pics and being booked for magazine shoots and concerts ...does this point to them raising funding/maintain interest for the second season? Like there was one edit that He Changxi posted with He Yanzhao which felt very season 2 reminiscent (like dominant Chu San energy, he's holding He YanZhao's face and all).
How has it been five years? I remember that rooftop kiss like it was just yesterday...story has a simple straightforward plot, but everyone involved in this show delivered everything and more in spades and so beautifully. The slow burn yearning and the transition to lovers was incredibly well done. Five years in and although we keep getting so many BLs year after year, but I have yet to find a BL with this level of easy chemistry and natural acting. I even have the Bad Buddy merch and boxset. Till date, the only purchases that I have made for a drama like ever lol
Good acting and synergy between the love interests in BL is SO important to me. I hate it when the cinematography, music, the set design is all top notch but the acting it so stiff. I can forgive low budget anything as long as the acting and the chemistry is on point and the story supports that. Can't believe how SO many BLs with actors suffer from stiffness, it's crazy. The best contender to me for Bad Buddy has got to be Sammy's Children's Day when it comes to chemistry and the slow burn romance (god I miss SCD and it's only been over a month since that aired). Maybbbe the main couple in Kiseki Dear To Me (altho the plot does get crazy for that towards the end, I like to close my eyes and ignore that part. Also the On1y One (still heartbroken over that one not getting a second season ever).
Imagine if we had 5 more eps at this point in addition to the 9 we got...yes I am being delulu
LOL yep that's what prolly happened I was heartbroken when I first saw that there were only 9 eps (i started the series thinking it was gonna have the typical 12 ep length)
Imagine if we had 5 more eps at this point in addition to the 9 we got...yes I am being delulu
Yess, wasn't there like a rumor floating around that there would be 12 eps if season 2 drops (maybe that's is the mandela effect, don't take my word for it)
I got the same impression too. It never really felt like he had those kinds of feelings for Qing Long in the drama.…
I found this show after watching TMS as well and was prepared to drop it because I was still in the TMS withdrawal phase and had resigned myself to not finding anything else interesting. But then the show took my by the throat and I decided to read the novel after ep 7 or so because I really couldn't hold my curiosity back anymore haha. I discovered the Wattpad link, and then the futilescans link afterwards.
I remember seeing your comments in futilescans chaps after I would finish some haha, the translators def would appreciate your comments because they were so nice. Them uploading 7 or 8 chaps per day is crazy fast, guess they saw the series brought in lots of new curious readers and they really wanted to help out the fans.
Really appreciate them for the work they put in. Also, I've noticed that they have reedited some chapters, so excited to reread them once they are done. Also, they said they are translating the author's other work, so I am definitely waiting for that to get translated as well. I believe that one has like 40 chaps and they have translated 19 so far. It's called Ant's Cry, so do check that out if you wanna read another She Xie Dian Dian novel.
Oh nice, yeah def give WOH a go if you have the time. It's a little slow in the first ep, but things pick up quick towards the end of it (that's when the two leads meet). Make sure you watch AvenueX's videos on the lip reading and hidden details in WOH on youtube when you are done w the show. She breaks it all down in her videos. Also the Word of Honor subreddit for deleted scenes and other stuff.
So basically, you know how most CDramas are dubbed by dubbing artists separately? So Chinese fans noticed the actor's mouth movements didn't match with what was being said. So what the actors said were 10x gayer and they just changed the dialogue in the dubbing to get the script past the censorship. But the crew made it so that the camera shows the mouth movements so fans can lip read the gay stuff that was actually said. It's wild.
I got the same impression too. It never really felt like he had those kinds of feelings for Qing Long in the drama.…
Ohh, now I am curious. Did you watch the drama first and read the book after for SCD or the other way around? How did you come across SCD and what prompted you to start it? I remember taking a Gagaoolala subscription to watch another BL. SCD was trending on the front page at the time and I really liked the coloring of the banner. Then I saw that it had high ratings on mydramalist and was like, we definitely need to watch this. At the time, only 6 episodes had been out, so when I reached the end of the sixth ep, I was kicking myself for not waiting until all the eps had aired lmao. Agree w you on the second CP, I wanna see how their story goes in the second season.
I may have flamed WOH too hard above, but honestly, it had been my hyperfixation for the entirety of Feb-March. I was straight up obsessed with it, watching reaction channels on youtube and joining discussion threads like for SCD lmao. For a censored BL from China, I think the actors and the rest of the crew did an amazing job in bringing the romance through life. Since they couldn't be overt about it, they tried introducing romance elements whereever they could. The two leads keep flirting every chance they get. Especially one of the leads, like no censorship could hide how gay his gaze was for the other male lead.
Sometimes I couldn't believe what I was watching onscreen for a cdrama. Fans were all like 'is this even allowed?'. I am talking ancient Chinese love poems every 10 mins or so, sucking poison from wounds, calling each other soulmates every now and then casually, sparring (more like courtship/mating dances) through pink cherry blossom backgrounds to highlight the romantic nature of the two leads...like they even get a happy ending at the end though all the fans were sure they were gonna get a sad ending because the two main leads were just so flamingly gay. People kept joking for months that the censors had fallen asleep for WOH. The creativity and the willingness of everyone in the cast and crew to respect the original source material's gay romance (also a Priest novel named Farway Wanderers) was what made me really like this show. Like, you can just add a female love interest and call it a day. But they didn't and I really like that. Ofc, BL is pretty lucrative so they definitely knew what they were doing, but I liked that they were pretty risky about it.
The two male leads have more skinship/romantic framing compared to the second couple (hetero couple) in the drama, which I really appreciated.
WOH was my first wuxia ever, and will also prolly be the last. I am not really a fan of costume dramas in general
I think it covered some 1/3 of the novel (according to the people who read it). Yes, s2 is supposed to happen…
I completely forgot about the crime scene confession, thanks for bringing that up! You are right, that really didn't feel like Liuyi talking to a person he has feelings for, more like introducing a friend to his parents and then mourning their deaths.
The semi-romantic scene in the beginning when LiuYi looks up after Qinglong hands him the kerchief, I agree. That was the most romantic vibe I felt between the two of them too. I feel like even in that scene, we get a sense that it is Qinglong who has feelings for LiuYi (especially when he slumps against LiuYi and then straightens his tie after). LiuYi just enthusiastically waves bye to him and then is all excited about the nightclub (or needing to stay at the studio for a month, not sure about this part). Like, if he had the feels for Qinglong as well, wouldn't they show him act flustered/thoughtful a bit?
Like you, I did feel a vibe in the beginning but then it kinda disappeared
I think it covered some 1/3 of the novel (according to the people who read it). Yes, s2 is supposed to happen…
Omg sorry if I have spoiled anything from the novel accidentally in that case. Definitely don't read the thread, some novel spoilers are present. No worries, I'll just ask it here. I was wondering whether you got the vibe that Liu Yi liked Qinglong or if it was one-sided on Qinglong's part in the drama.
Personally, I feel like adding even just 3 more episodes and making it a standard 12 episodes season would have made it even better. Why? Cuz Chusan and Liuyi could have even more scenes; and not just scenes with them, I mean more funny and cute scenes with them together with Liuyi's friends as their romance develops. The whole Liuyi coming to terms with his feelings for Chusan could have been elaborated a little bit more instead of just two episodes between eps 7 and 9. 9 eps would have been fine if it was just Chu San and Liuyi, but when you include the Qinglong and Xiaoman drama, the second couple and the cop's plot with his dad and Fatty Seven and his crew, 9 eps really is too short. Ik they are gonna do a second season, but I meant I wanted the lead up to our main couple's mutual kiss in ep 9 to be even longer. Because Liuyi only started discovering his feelings for Chusan in ep 7 and Chusan was gone for most part of ep 9 and then bam!!, we get that kiss in ep9. Needed an extra two/three eps before ep 9.
The cinematography is perfect honestly and didn't get me any low budgetary feels and like @any_anka said above, blows higher budget productions out of the water sometimes. The music/audio mixing is good except for the dubbing which I got used to over time and is now a favorite of mine. My gripe is more about the quantity of the episodes leading to the final kiss and how that was affected by the budget. Everything else is minor.
https://bgm.tv/subject/431870
They look so hot and cute here even if it's a little yaoi-fied
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChineseBL/s/U4gyJTSAlS
Good acting and synergy between the love interests in BL is SO important to me. I hate it when the cinematography, music, the set design is all top notch but the acting it so stiff. I can forgive low budget anything as long as the acting and the chemistry is on point and the story supports that. Can't believe how SO many BLs with actors suffer from stiffness, it's crazy. The best contender to me for Bad Buddy has got to be Sammy's Children's Day when it comes to chemistry and the slow burn romance (god I miss SCD and it's only been over a month since that aired). Maybbbe the main couple in Kiseki Dear To Me (altho the plot does get crazy for that towards the end, I like to close my eyes and ignore that part. Also the On1y One (still heartbroken over that one not getting a second season ever).
I was heartbroken when I first saw that there were only 9 eps (i started the series thinking it was gonna have the typical 12 ep length)
I remember seeing your comments in futilescans chaps after I would finish some haha, the translators def would appreciate your comments because they were so nice. Them uploading 7 or 8 chaps per day is crazy fast, guess they saw the series brought in lots of new curious readers and they really wanted to help out the fans.
Really appreciate them for the work they put in. Also, I've noticed that they have reedited some chapters, so excited to reread them once they are done. Also, they said they are translating the author's other work, so I am definitely waiting for that to get translated as well. I believe that one has like 40 chaps and they have translated 19 so far. It's called Ant's Cry, so do check that out if you wanna read another She Xie Dian Dian novel.
Oh nice, yeah def give WOH a go if you have the time. It's a little slow in the first ep, but things pick up quick towards the end of it (that's when the two leads meet). Make sure you watch AvenueX's videos on the lip reading and hidden details in WOH on youtube when you are done w the show. She breaks it all down in her videos. Also the Word of Honor subreddit for deleted scenes and other stuff.
So basically, you know how most CDramas are dubbed by dubbing artists separately? So Chinese fans noticed the actor's mouth movements didn't match with what was being said. So what the actors said were 10x gayer and they just changed the dialogue in the dubbing to get the script past the censorship. But the crew made it so that the camera shows the mouth movements so fans can lip read the gay stuff that was actually said. It's wild.
I may have flamed WOH too hard above, but honestly, it had been my hyperfixation for the entirety of Feb-March. I was straight up obsessed with it, watching reaction channels on youtube and joining discussion threads like for SCD lmao. For a censored BL from China, I think the actors and the rest of the crew did an amazing job in bringing the romance through life. Since they couldn't be overt about it, they tried introducing romance elements whereever they could. The two leads keep flirting every chance they get. Especially one of the leads, like no censorship could hide how gay his gaze was for the other male lead.
Sometimes I couldn't believe what I was watching onscreen for a cdrama. Fans were all like 'is this even allowed?'. I am talking ancient Chinese love poems every 10 mins or so, sucking poison from wounds, calling each other soulmates every now and then casually, sparring (more like courtship/mating dances) through pink cherry blossom backgrounds to highlight the romantic nature of the two leads...like they even get a happy ending at the end though all the fans were sure they were gonna get a sad ending because the two main leads were just so flamingly gay. People kept joking for months that the censors had fallen asleep for WOH. The creativity and the willingness of everyone in the cast and crew to respect the original source material's gay romance (also a Priest novel named Farway Wanderers) was what made me really like this show. Like, you can just add a female love interest and call it a day. But they didn't and I really like that. Ofc, BL is pretty lucrative so they definitely knew what they were doing, but I liked that they were pretty risky about it.
The two male leads have more skinship/romantic framing compared to the second couple (hetero couple) in the drama, which I really appreciated.
WOH was my first wuxia ever, and will also prolly be the last. I am not really a fan of costume dramas in general
The semi-romantic scene in the beginning when LiuYi looks up after Qinglong hands him the kerchief, I agree. That was the most romantic vibe I felt between the two of them too. I feel like even in that scene, we get a sense that it is Qinglong who has feelings for LiuYi (especially when he slumps against LiuYi and then straightens his tie after). LiuYi just enthusiastically waves bye to him and then is all excited about the nightclub (or needing to stay at the studio for a month, not sure about this part). Like, if he had the feels for Qinglong as well, wouldn't they show him act flustered/thoughtful a bit?
Like you, I did feel a vibe in the beginning but then it kinda disappeared
No worries, I'll just ask it here. I was wondering whether you got the vibe that Liu Yi liked Qinglong or if it was one-sided on Qinglong's part in the drama.