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She's suspicious and for good reason.

Also, at least for about three quarters of the drama, the FL is whip-smart and catches on a lot of very subtle hints. She gets dumber in the final arc because of reasons.

On their profile page, open up the Add Friend menu, under it there'll be a Block User option.

Done.

Veil of Shadows starts tomorrow, Rebirth starts on the 8th if you want to go along with the pain of watch-as-it-airs.

For binging, Blossom, obviously.

Oh, Rebirth wasn't enough, now you're going to post this stupidity because Veil of Shadows starts?

Tabloid, indeed.

Even when just announcing the release date of a drama, you just HAVE to bring in the controversy that's been settled for a year now. You just can't help yourself, I guess.

Is the MDL article section just going to turn into a tabloid?!

Yan An and Tian JiaRui together again - here I am!! Let's go!!

I actually loved that character. He wasn't shown DOING a lot of bad things, there were a lot of rumours around him being unhinged, so there was some plausability of him changing (yeah right - well, it's a drama, we can only hope).

But then LOL, the one who made him change through the power of her love was the one I couldn't stand. I was sad he ended that way, then again, they'd have been truly crazy together LOL. Better he be left with that chance at redemption. Too bad she never learned any kind of a lesson :(

FH was so good in the beginning, and again, suffered from a weak final arc. Oh well...

Nirvana in Fire has the best pace and wraps up beautifully. It's one of the few that does it right. Also Fangs of Fortune, The Untamed, I Am Nobody, Oh No Here Comes Trouble (Taiwan), so there ARE some examples of doing it right.

But long novels' adaptations in the era of short runtimes... not so much, sadly.

Wonderland of Love. Wonderland of Love will give you kids - two - and they're aware of EVERY little cringy thing their dad ever did when pursuing their mom. (She told them. There's a picture book, too. They know everything.)

Yeah, kids should be mandatory in such dramas. When I read the end chapters of Blossom I got really mad - Song Mo is CRAZY about his kid LOL. He was SO CUTE as a dad in love with his child. They should have had that in the drama.

It was a plot designed to get Wei Yan away from the besieged city and the Crown Prince. The Emperor obviously was aware of the previous link between Wei Yan and his (the Emperor's) consort, so he used it to fake a pregnancy news and placing her in mortal peril (because of the adultery accusation).

She never was pregnant.

She also didn't die because of the Emperor. At least in the drama, it appears she got involved in the Eastern Palace fire and died because the Crown Princess put into action her own plan to save Qi Min by replacing him with another available child of his age, Sui YuanHai.

After the first one or two massacres, there go any chances of redemption arcs.

I don't bother with the promo materials, LOL. The actor did an amazing job with the character (I mean, he's a psycho, we're supposed to hate him, and the fact he's handsome doesn't change it one bit. Which reminds me - I HAVE watched Deng Kai in other dramas, and he IS handsome even when playing a goody-two-shoes character LOL).

I also don't mind other people's fantasies. If they want to see a touch of redemption possible, I don't care - let them fantasize. The story is done, the ending won't be changed, let them write fanfiction, IDC LOL.

Bloodhounds 2. I really want a kdrama that catches me, and I can't find it lately. This one is bingeable and there's WDH and LSY and Rain in it, they can't mess it up too much. I mean, it's an action drama, as long as nobody dies...

What romance LOL. He's just obsessed and she's either trying to escape or an escapee from his "love". At least they didn't make her actually be in love with him.

He didn't kill them though. (Not that he's not a psycho - he very much is, never stopped. He and the other crazy brother-not-his-brother).

Well-executed plots and solid endings in the timeframe they're approved for. That's what I miss. Also, original stories (lately I've been watching live adaptations one after the other).

What I definitely didn't expect to find in an int'l site were the water armies (at work right now). I get it, it's a cutthroat business... but it just makes me stop watching (or at least just binge quietly when all the fuss is done). IDC what others think - for me it capsizes a lot of the initial interest.

This kind of "article" really should have a downvote button.

ETA At this moment, there are 46 comments on this, I can only see some 22 (one of which is mine). I guess all the regular haters on anything that other people enjoy are here, commenting LOL. Blocking them was the right choice :D

If you're referring to how XZ almost died in the snow in the first ep, it wasn't Wei Yan's doing, but Prince Changxin's.

The rest of the attempts on XZ's life were mostly Wei Yan's fault - he thought XZ found out the secret about the rebellion 17 years back and wanted to strike first and ask questions later. When it wasn't directed at XZ but ChangYu, XZ just was in the way.

I don't know what they changed. The thing is, cdramas also used to have high ratings, and then one day they started not having them any more (while kdramas remained highly rated, no matter what they were - good or just really popular).

There's a bias that's pretty easy to recognise toward kdramas and against any other kind of dramas (it's not restricted to cdramas, j-doramas are never high-rated).

I'll do you one better, two words per character:

Yan Zheng: breaks stick
ChangYu: preps knives
Qi Min: pretty evil
Sui YuanQing: just evil
QianQian: pretty EMT
Wei Yan: aimless villain
Gongsun Yin: bad player
Xie Wu: busy thirdwheeler
Mr. Jin: jealous thirdwheeler
Mr Zhao: treating donkeys
Mrs Zhao: selling husband
Lord Li: idiot villain
Li Huai'an: always late
ChangNing: future CFO
Bao'er: future CEO
Wei Sheng: also appearing
ManDi: dearly departed
Lin'an Magistrate: what law?!
Song Yan: wasted studying
Emperor: not me
Princess Royal: winning games
PLOT: total mess
Cinematography: movie level
Snow: every scene
Fighting: girls only
Music: three songs
BGM: sometimes some
Editor: on vacation