ShortCircuit

If they give me 2ha, with LYX and CFY as MCs... I don't know what I'll do with myself. Probably go in a shopping spree LOL just to defuse the nuclear explosion about to happen :D

...I'm buying all SSE edition volumes of SPL just because they're SO pretty, but I haven't even read it yet, LOL, seriously, Priest is almost my danmei nemesis. Happily SSE is doing lots of other authors I love, I'm finally a happy fujoshi among too many books I have no more shelf space for hahaha~

I haven't. TBH I don't really fall easily for anything written by Priest, so I haven't watched the eps they released before taking it down. I'm so-so about MoDu.

"The romantic emotional line of the dinosaur falling for Eve was not relatable"

...To think that this was a love story 65 million years in the making, LOL.

I am not the one who said her husband is an enabler, I think he's just a lame, weak, resigned person who doesn't even dare leave his wife. And I haven't forgotten his first intention as soon as they found out about the self-harm was to try and find the fastest way to get rid of him. He's the same as her, just not always in the focus.

And "ignoring everything just for (his/her) son" is exactly how she justifies her actions. Nobody asked the kid - who is now almost an adult - what he thinks about all those "sacrifices" made in his name.

Okay, so are YOU an insider, then? What are you basing your opinion on how things are actually, real life experience, or gossip/other dramas?

If this was made by an industry insider it would be called a documentary, there would be something to follow up on and maybe it would lead to something changing. Since it's not, this is a fictional story that they used to mock all watchers (for even watching it). And there's no purpose to it other than using (at least) 10 episodes to deal abuse and outright cruelty on people who do not deserve it in the least, and I don't know how they'll try to end it (no time to watch right now). I am neither a sadist or a masochist and I don't need so much of other's (fictional) pain at once, so it'll keep, I guess.

I liked the drama. Not to the heavens, but I liked it.

As for ratings (on MDL or elsewhere), over time I've grown disenchanted with it and the "spirit of fair play and community" or whatever - I've seen people hating some drama or actor on sight, or raving about it before the first episode ever dropped. So I don't look at the ratings before starting - actually, I tend to wait til the heat goes down for some dramas, no matter their ratings.

I still wish it aired weekly or on some paced schedule instead of releasing at once. It would have given me, at least, time to forget (or even cause me to not notice) the things that bothered me.

But to each their own, so enjoy whatever drama you enjoy and don't mind anyone else. I know I will. :)

As for the South Sudan arc, why the hell didn't he go there ASAP if he knew the resources were there? It doesn't make sense to wait til they resect half the man's small intestine, dammit.

Then the whole all-specialities-into-one because he's a trauma surgeon served well in the beginning, but it became pretty repetitive (I know that's not the point of the drama, but it really doesn't actually work that way, even with war-scene surgeons. Eventually it broke through the suspension-of-disbelief roof.)

And the petty characters are way too petty - like, seriously, that anesthesiologist should be fired, nobody working in a hospital refuses to go on OR when called and on duty anyway, what the heck.

The fighting over the budget really got annoying - we all got it, right? Helis cost money. Trauma medicine costs money. There are no real money for the doctors in trauma centers and no fame and no glory (most patients do not really make it unscathed). And not a peep in all this talk about money regarding the costs to the patient - like they're just lifted from wherever, operated on with the costliest apparati and meds... and who pays for all that? Because we've seen the dramas where they can't do this or that because they have to pay for hospitals. Ain't nobody going to go "how the fuck am I paying for this?" Or did they all just happened to have extremely good insurance and/or were they all billionaires?

This would've worked better as a weekly rather than a binge for me at least, it would've given me time to sort through and forget the nonsensical parts.

Started off with a big bang, got bogged in hospital politics in the middle, ended up tropey as hell.

And the main character is basically Yang JaeWon, LOL.

Somehow I wanted something different, but oh well, one can't have them all. The newbies were all okay, so there's that, at least.

I... have cats. You wouldn't believe how easily they're herded when they hear the treats bag being shaken LOL.

Now, what kind of treats would move XQA remains to be seen :D

Yeah, well, according to some people commenting on this drama, it's all "realistic" and she's trying her best, and we all should be giving her the benefit of the doubt 'cause she'll turn things around.

Too little to late, if it even happens. And that goes for all the rest of the characters, except the kids.

That's because XQA is busy fighting. You know, he has to defeat hundreds of enemies at once. Or maybe thousands. I could even say millions of enemies.

Watch ep16, what's that you call sleep, work or study or even worse... chores!? What struggle? Procrastination of everything that's not delay-delay-delay is the way of life. (Or we'll take your procrastionator medal from you, see if we don't, LOL).

Give it at least til 14-15 though, that's when it turns. The first part of the flashback is kind of relaxed, again... all things considered :D

1. Presumably yes. (Why would Wei Yuan care otherwise, if the Emperor couldn't put her in danger?)
2. She's Mu NanZhi, the most beautiful woman in Dafeng. She might be an avatar of a Flower Goddess. (And the Emperor is fascinated with her.)
3. Yes, he's just sleeping.

Daddy dearest wants to take back the Empire (they're royal too, it appears). What he wants to do with XQA (maybe he has some spell to alter his memories/personality or something) I don't know. XQA knows who this guy is, I mean, he's really NOT Yang Ling's dad, and he has no actual personal relationship to him. If nothing happens to his mind, he won't ever voluntarily help him. After all, the Sorcerer mystified the slaughter in Chuzhou that finally broke XQA, why would he want to genuinely help him become an Emperor?

I know he's not with the sword in the mirror, LOL, I was joking.

Yang Ling doesn't have a family in the real world, and he's too old now for being impressed with father figures. Wei Yuan might've been that for him, BUT he did stay quiet during Mr. Zheng's tribulations, so XQA didn't come to him for help after all. I think maybe the Supervisor could require some respect from our cheeky hero, but only because XQA is afraid of him, LOL. Even so, there is practically nobody he'd kneel for, according to the Soul Mirror they tested him with in the beginning :D

The Imperial Sword is in XQA's "mirror", LOL, he put it away and there it stayed. Maybe it's making friends with Shen Shu :D

Giving the Royal Luck to the Sorcerer means XQA dies because of it, and they already talked about it. He can't just give it to him... unless he chooses to die. I don't see him choosing that, not for that man, LOL.

I don't think they allow them to use VAs anymore, as long as they're not swamped with work and can't make it to the re-recording studios.

I am pretty happy with the new rule, though I am sorry for the VAs (there are still lots of donghua and audio dramas, so they might not be too troubled, here's hoping). I got to hear LYX's own voice in his new dramas (and loved it, he has a very good voice), and WHD's also is a good voice (can't say much about his Mandarin, LOL). Hou Ming Hao also sounds amazing, and so many others!!

And then there are the not-so-great surprises, LOL, with some of the actresses' voices that I do not really like, but one can't have everything.

It was surprising just to see the filming - it seriously sounds like they used this take, and not re-dubbed it. Usually cdramas don't do sound stages at all. Maybe they got lucky and filmed somewhere really quiet.

Chinese people address each other according to age, even when they're strangers. Any kid will call an older kid or teen or young adult "da ge" (big brother) or "Jie Jie" (sister), and so on. Someone who is an adult but not visibly extremely old might be called "uncle". If they're old indeed, they're "grandpa" or "grandma".

That is to say, she doesn't recognise him, she's just being polite.

XQA's dad is not a good person, no matter what he says. He did the spell to cause everyone to forget the slaughter, Zhou Li (the lecherous son of that minister) is his right-hand man, he did steal the Royal Luck (for dynastic reasons, LOL), and he put the Kui tribe up to attacking and destabilising the border cities for his own purpose. His Witcher Sect isn't up to any good.

... The Supervisor might have some secret long-term plans of his own. XQA is pretty much on his own for now.

1. Yes.
2. He spent a lot of energy and is now dormant.
3. Don't know yet.
4. They were in love and wanted to get married but her family rejected him for being a commoner. He obviously is still in love with her so the Emperor can use her to threaten him into not acting.
5. The Loong belongs to the Royal House. Novel readers say XQA is part of a secondary Imperial line that was replaced by the Emperor's line and that makes him royalty.
6. The Supervisor (Princess HuaiQing's Master.)