ShortCircuit

"You're my only one... my brother."
"You're my only "one" of "two" brothers".

Emo-tio-nal daaamaaaage!

"I can't film this anymore, go find your only "one" brother".

LOL, the jealousy is real :D

He still has the markings in the final ep and in the extra, too. He's still a dragon.

Wen Xiao isn't tasked with punishing anyone, she's tasked with keeping both the Wilderness AND the human world at peace. If that means sometimes she has to judge and punish demons, it's not her main attribute. She's still an avatar to a goddess, not just someone off the street.

The message here is that everyone gets to be themselves and unaccountable to others as long as they don't go on a destructive rampage just because they can.

I guess everything is in the eye of the beholder after all.

Considering the ending (that he told us from the beginning what it would be...), a melancholic theme is still better, IMHO :D They weren't even trying all that much for mysteries, I guess....

I know, I've watched it. I'm lamenting that this is it, there is no more...

It's just HMH being the equivalent of a chemical free radical, LOL, he bonds with EVERYTHING and ANYTHING (even himself :D)

Is LGIEF also open-ended? LOL. I wanted that to be my rebound cdrama hahaha~

The instrumental OP is fantastic, I much prefer a good instrumental to some pop song that doesn't ever fit the mood of a wuxia/xianxia/xuanhuan...

ZYC's isn't human any more and he survives. Wen Xiao is a goddess. Only PSJ is actually a full, normal human.

There are no new eps this week (or ever), I'm kind of lost...

I fell in love with ONHCT at the first scene, here, it took me 5 eps (though I liked the first eps too, well enough to go on.) The vibe changes from the 6th ep onwards and makes this one of the best Thai drama I've ever watched.

Hang on through the first few simple cases, when it gets to the personal hurt/healing parts everything will become much, much better overall.

SNTL also ends in a BE?! I wanted to see some Zeng ShungXi drama because he was such a ray of sunshine in MLC, you're telling me that story also ends in tears?! *sigh* dammit.

Also, reputations are easily changed in stories.

Just take YingLong - he sacrificed his immortal life to save both humans and demons and everybody remembered him as a great and dangerous demon that his best friend had to kill - and BingYi as a hero of mankind, when he actually didn't even do it and then lived the rest of his life in seclusion because of it.

Retelling a story always changes it.

There were bad deeds Zhu Yan actually did... but there's always more than meets the eyes.

Wen ZongYu left the fruits there after he had already poisoned them with demon blood or whatever, knowing it was one way to treat the plague he had already spread, and that Bai Jiu was smart enough to find the treatment. So he just let Bai Jiu give everybody the "cure" while at the same time demonising every person who took it, which is obviously cruel... but we're talking Wen ZongYu here.

She lived for 300 years in that pocket of time, growing the Pagoda Ghost Tree to fix the Baize Token, she'll be there when he comes back.

The extra ep leaves place for a possible return, so maybe we'd get a second season :D (I know it's far-fetched and won't happen, but it's still a hopeful ending.)

...The very first thing this drama teaches you about demons is that they lie.

1. Wen ZongYu is a doctor so he knows how to experiment. (Bai Jiu does too, though I doubt he was involved). All the demons he replicated were at one time linked to him through Li Lun. He could have taken their blood and/or replicated their powers and appeareance - he also had Ao Yin in his dungeons for a long time. AND he had the Phoenix Pearl that also helped him regenerate from his own ashes, he could've used that to replicate/regenerate all the demonic powers he stole.

2. He would have LIVED had he cultivated for 100 years and then be able to take human form again with no repercussions. Like this, he used up all his remaining life force / demon energy to save ZY and ZYC and there's nothing more left of him to come back ever again.

3. I don't think his soul WAS in the blood for all that time. She went to his "home" and waited for him, at the place where he made the oath to protect the Wilderness. It makes sense the blood would react to that place. IMHO it takes off and goes to ZYC because the soul came back and there's something around or about ZYC that would gather what's left of it (if there's more) allowing ZY to come back.

That's a particularly nice editorial, thank you for it! Haven't even watched all the dramas mentioned (and you kind of messed up the genres here and there, but who cares, LOL).

More recs?

Comedy: Oh No! Here Comes Trouble! (I'd say it fits the Fantasy and Friendship themes too, but then all good dramas do :D)

Friendship: I Don't Want To Be Brothers With You (no it's not BL). Recc'ed for found family trope done well.

Historical: nothing defeats Nirvana in Fire on this category.

Wuxia/Xianxia/Xuanhuan: (other than TU), well, you can't go wrong with Till The End of the Moon and Fangs of Fortune.

Action: A Shop for Killers. Go watch it!!! And for movies, Officer Black Belt.

Romance: I've got nothing (not my usual type of drama). Wonderland of Love, maybe?

Thriller: definitely agree on Flower of Evil. Also, Nobody Knows is pretty good.

Sports: Pride (Japan). You need some KimuTaku in your life.

Fantasy: Love for Love's Sake. Actually fantasy :D

Sci-Fi: I am watching Three-Body right now and it's a pleasure if you're into physics. Or science in general.

Crime: I'm going to mix it up with some mystery here (because mystery doesn't always go with thriller) and rec' Black Out. That's one amazing mystery drama.

Drama: The Devil Judge (no, not The Judge from Hell). Because Ji Sung and Jinyoung and an amazing (and melo) dystopia.

Life: You're going to be surprised (not, LOL) - but it's another Meguro Ren drama I'd rec - Umi no Hajimari just ended and you're going to love it if you give it a chance.

Youth: this is another genre I don't usually watch... Maybe The Blood of Youth? All of it is about growing up (in a wuxia 'verse, but still). Bonus, you get to watch wuxia at the same time :D

Horror: I don't watch horror by choice, usually. But this is where Sweet Home belongs (the first season anyway - one of the best and most thrilling horror stories I've seen). BUT a good horror comedy (yes, LOL) is Peaceful Property. You might not get scared by all the ghosts and whatnot going on (there are horror parts don't worry) but watch it for the great acting and good plot!

Going to revisit your rec list for some inspiration :D

That was kind of tongue-in-cheek taken directly from TU - that's how Xue Yang goes out, LOL.

I'm going to use theoretical physics and watch Three-Body. Just because. *sad mood*