absurd

Don't take this the wrong way, please. I am actually curious. Are you watching it or did you drop it after the first episode because it was to different from the anime/novel, like you said earlier?

To me this is a really good drama. This is of course an opinion and everyone is different. But I think that this drama so far (I've seen 7 episodes) is very interesting, has a nice pacing and feels like a lot of work went into production. It's also very funny :) give it a try

That's a good way of looking at it :) that way you get multiple versions of your favorite characters ^_^

I guess, to me it didn't feel like fillers because I don't know anything about this universe and I actually like that they went for this type of organic world building, instead of just dumping a bunch of information onto me, which my selective memory would just erase right afterwards. But I can understand the frustration if you already know all of this and just want them to get on with the main storyline :)
Sorry, I don't get what you mean by parallel worlds. Like this being
an Alternative Universe for the anime or something?

I have to disagree about TS being a coward here. Sure he wasn't all calm and collected, like he supposedly is in the anime (I haven't seen the anime, going from the comments), but his reaction is perfectly normal for someone who've never seen a giant spider and never fought with anyone or anything in his life. To me it looked like he was shocked, but still tried to fight it, which is far from cowardly. And in the next episodes he gets more confident and cheeky (I still can't get over his "maybe he thought I'm cute" reply to how he got his recommendation, it was really funny).
To each their own of course, but I actually prefer flawed heroes, to the flawless ones, they seem more relatable. Which, I feel, is important when you're watching something as unrelatable as fantasy.

The opening song is boring compared to anything, really :) But for me the OP song is probably the least important part of the drama, so I don't care much.

I don't think, I'm even going to try. I am an avid anime watcher (mostly Japanese though), but 3d animation is really not my cup of tea.

I kind of don't understand why people are surprised that the plot is different from the anime. Dramas are more expensive to make and have a lot less episodes, more strict censoring and some things just don't translate well from animation to real life (even fantasy cinematographic one). Animation has more than 100 episodes and it's still ongoing, the drama even with the second season won't have as much. It's called an adaptation for a reason and sometimes religiously following the source material instead of actually adapting it makes for a very boring watch (*cough*LOF*cogh*). And also, won't you get bored watching the same thing only with actors instead of animated characters? Isn't it more interesting to see something new, where you can be surprised by the plot and actually interested in what's going to happen next?
That being said, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Just wanted to share mine.

End of 2018 - beginning of 2019.

Wow, how is it so good? I really wasn't expecting much. I hoped it would not be as bad as LOF, but this is beyond any expectations. So engaging, funny and all characters are interesting. I'm up to episode 5 and can't wait for the next one. Even young master Xiao (I don't think we ever actually got a name, but maybe I just missed it) is not a typical dumb bully. And even though I typically don't like childish FL, I loved Xiao Wu. So far the only thing I didn't like is the opening song - so boring and forgettable. The rest though... love it, really. I know 5 episodes are not enough to judge, but those 5 episodes really impressed me.

Haha, I don't fast-forward, but don't really remember anything anyway

Agree with every word. I also really like that all the explanation and world building is very organic, introduced bit by bit, instead of a long lecture-like explanation that some marital art/fantasy dramas sometimes go for.

Joy of life also presents it like a story within a story and Chinese censorship is kind of vague and inconsistent. But like I said, I don't know.
For me personally the whole "infant remembering past adult life" plot device is kind of creepy, so I'm glad we didn't get it here. I feel like having an innocent character in the beginning allows for more interesting character development. Immediately confident characters with no flaws seem boring.
But to each their own. I haven't seen the source material and probably not going to.

I've read somewhere that rebirth is one of the things Chinese drama censoring doesn't allow. I don't really know if that's true and it's really early to judge, because they might have just changed it to him remembering gradually.

According to schedule, they will change to 2 eps per day for the holidays (spring festival in China), but then go back to 1 ep.

You really need to see the difference between a joke and a serous comment. And I'm also kind of tired of every discussion turning into Xiao Zhan pity party. I like him as an actor and I am glad that his career got back on track after everything that had happened last year, he seems like an amazing person that works really hard for what he has. But he's also a grown up man and a very successful one at that, he doesn't need people on the internet, who have no inside knowledge of what's actually going on, fighting on his behalf. How about, maybe, moving on and learning to take a joke.

CCTV posted that it's one ep per day, every day at noon (China time). I think online episodes will go a little later, to allow CCTV to get their ratings.

Sorry, but I just want to rant a little. They prepared this In Absolute Secrecy. There's a press conference (not in full, just some snippets from it, but it happened), CCTV is airing this, there are promo videos with all main actors. But just how exactly did they manage a Secret Press conference???!!

OMG, the first episode is really good. It's early to judge of course, but if they keep up the way they started... fingers crossed. The pace so far is just right, not to fast, not too slow, but still packed with information.
I haven't seen the anime or read the novel so for me there's also a mystery element.

Just yesterday I was like: ok, I should stop waiting for this and just relax and watch something else. Maybe I should always do that when I'm waiting for something...