PeachBlossomGoddess

I just finished Detective L and I am trying very hard to get into Advisors Alliance but struggling. In a terrible slump sad to say. I watched too many super excellent c-dramas this year everything I have tried lately feels so meh. I picked up Western again am watching the Musketeers which rocks but is not quite the same.... :(

OMG I hope not.She perpetually wears a smug, self satisfied expression that is not consistent with her very mediocre acting skills. She is living proof that some people just owe it all to luck or karma. Instead of being grateful, she evaded taxes and made a disgrace of herself. If she can come back then there is truly no justice in this world.

Why not? The ratings are high enough...

He chickened out and doesn't want to face what happens next. Anyway it gets better from 50. I really liked the show but I was also seriously bored to tears from 30-40 as well as around where you are.

She remembers and you raise some very important and most interesting questions about this drama. Someone else had much better insights than I do on these topics so rather than steal their thoughts, I will just paste the link below. I suggest you don't read it until you finished episode 50 in order to avoid spoilers.

https://cfen.si/2019/09/05/review-love-and-destiny-questions-the-trope-of-reincarnated-love/comment-page-1/

Btw, I also don't completely agree with the article's analysis but I still think its very good and worth thinking about.

Don't worry, JC is there. Btw, the purpose of the trials are to break the demon seal so I can't directly answer one question without answering the other as well.

I wouldn't go as far as to call it a love triangle in the sense that LX doesn't ever really fall for JX. She is just (too) nice to him which really irritated me. His relentless pursuit of LX does get JC to abandon Si Ming''s advice not to get involved with Ah Mo (LX) as he cannot risk interrupting her trials. As it turns out he has to jump in in order to prevent that dastardly JX from messing it up. Of course he was also jealous but more importantly, he had to make sure things go as planned . Getting involved made it extremely painful for him because of course he also falls in love with Ah Mo along the way, who is but yet is not exactly LX... If there is a love triangle it is actually Ah Mo vs LX and JC, which had me LMAO.

Yes and no. IMO trying to freeze her was the worst thing he did to her because that would have been the end for LX. The next two times he does it to ulitmately save her so while still heartbreaking, I was more or less ok with it. In general, the lead characters in TMOPB are more complicated and much darker with many flaws. That is why L&D has been called light or fluffy but the upside to that is JC is a really good guy.

Oh boy then you are really not going to like what he has to do next...

Ok good to know, tyvm. I will probably keep this on ice.

Watch Love and Destiny. It is in the same universe as TMOPB and produced by the same team. Its much better than PWY. You can also try The Legends but that one has a lot of fillers,

Only the first one is translated. There are four in total. My guess is that the drama will be out before they get around to the rest.

Sigh! You win some and you lose some... I guess I will just have to pass. A real shame but I guess I already read it, no need risk something I liked be ruined an actress I detest. Just took it off my plan to watch list.

OMG this is a must watch... But uhm... don't Yang Mi and Tang Yan hate each other??? Hope the wrong kind of sparks don't fly in this one!

Excellent article! I am a huge fan of Hu Ge. I just wish I had seen more of his shows before watching my all time favorite Nirvana in Fire. He just hasn't topped that role in anything else so I am almost always a bit wistful afterwards. I hope he gets some comparably awesome roles soon. He is such a phenomenal actor! I am definitely going to track down that movie of his that caught Tarantino's eye next.
PS : the fun fact about the 5 cats cracked me up. Its so eccentric.

Yes agree completely. But this is just a romance drama - many cliches and plotholes but in this genre that is what works. Some will complain about them but if you try to do something non-cliche - all hell will break loose and the drama will fail miserably!!! Ultimately its about the OTP, if they have good chemistry it is all good.... Because of that I really like this drama. But if you want to pick on it, there are a lot of flaws and plotholes. As you rightly pointed out both YT and JX are mega plotholes... but the show still "works".

Because of JC. She always had a childhood crush on him but he never noticed her. After he came back, he praised her achievements and she was obviously trying to attract his attention. But he only had eyes for LX. She blamed LX for the exposure of her family's shame, her mother's suicide and her own downfall mostly out of jealousy and unrequited love for JC. It is not completely unfair - LX was the catalyst to the truth coming out but she did try to kill LX. Yeah totally deranged. This is not a well written character and it is quite unbelievable how much sh*t the celestials let her get away while they were totally merciless towards LX for doing nothing wrong.

They are textbook cliche costume drama villains that throw a bunch of obstacles in the path of the OTP. I particularly disliked JX but without them, this drama would definitely cross the line between uneventful and boring. This is not from a book but a screenwriter written story - although they got many things right, they just didn't bother to take the time to make the villains that complex or layered.

Yes, its a good ending.

I really enjoyed it but if you need subtitles you may want to hold off. The last 4 episodes are hard to find and not subbed. Until Amazon and Viki get all of it, you may not be able to watch or understand the ending. If you do understand Chinese then go for it.