Oh so we're getting at least a hint that there might be a third season :D Yes please!
(Though... Be still my fujoshi heart, they did serve, and heavily, at the end of the ep, LOL. Du Cheng is his anchor? "Wherever you're running to, I'll also be flying to"? "If we were a compass, I'd be the circle and you'd be center - the circle always runs around the center"? Oh WOW! I mean, what more could they have said? "Let's get married and have (nonGMO) kids"? LOL. )
The best eps - the opera ones. The support cast helped setting it up beautifully and I feel like the main cast also truly got invested in that part of the story.
And it turns out the whole Dr Fang plot was a fake out, because he's not the one doing the slashing at the end of the first season (or so it looks right now). I'll be waiting to see if they really make more (I hope so!) I'll always be ready to watch some Sherlock and Watson shenanings from Shen Yi and Du Cheng :D
I haven't seen any romance at all. Have you seen leaked episodes?
I have seen all the tropes, have you not? They already had a fated meeting (that ended hilariously, I'll give them that), then he fell for her out of the blue (other than wanting to use her to socially climb or something), they're the main pairing and doing "cutesy" things together - meanwhile there's no plot progression at all. It all just comes back round and round to the misunderstood identities (and their identical personality type).
It was funny for a little bit, but not for two eps.
I haven't seen the next eps, just the teasers for the next 4 eps, but I sure hope they move on from this.
All the adults in his life suck big time. I hope they didn't get any presents for Xmas. Also, that a capella song…
Treating him as merchandise... Planning to sell him to the highest bidder as soon as he's worth anything... Talking to him as if they cared, interim...
Could these people be any more worthless? Yeah I get it, we're pretending (or maybe copying) this is going on in real life all the time, bla-bla-bla - if I wanted real life, I'd watch a documentary.
What IS IT with the cheerpy music when she's talking about getting rid of him when she gets her money's worth out of him?! Or when her husband agrees to help her but just to make that happen faster?! That's so f@cking horrible. Am I supposed to feel good about it?! This guy's been through the wars already, what with his merchant mom, and now he's getting used for what he can do - and sing - and they're all going to pretend everything's just fine until he's not their problem anymore?!
The only one I kind of like is the in-your-face Chris/HanYoo. At least he's not pretending to be a good guy...
can someone explain the last part of ep3....where they talk abt jin woo
Basically he's so broken that he's cutting himself and has done it for a good while, years even. And maybe he even tried to kill himself at some point (you've seen those lines across his wrist.)
I know movies and dramas gloss over suicidal ideation (they're "easily" fixed in dramaland), but people so depressed they're considering and even trying to commit suicide aren't going to be 1. very energetic/aggressive enough to make it in their chosen field, usually and 2. well-motivated to do well (because depression is taking all their energy and whatever's left is just enough to struggle by). So that's their "problem" right now - their ticket to the success of the new agency will have to deal with the depression and cure it if they want to win the contest (and get the son's factory money that she's obsessing over).
Don't mind it though, I bet they'll "fix" him soon enough, most dramas don't even try to touch on actual treatment (not even psychiatric, not to mention a psychologist), because treatment with some actual results takes a whole lot of time... and some never work properly anyway.
Pure misery porn... And he'll never get any meaningful therapy (because where could it fit in 12 eps when he has…
The way she's letting off her guilt through something her son wanted when he was 10 - when I was a kid I wanted to be 7 different things throughout the week, only made a serious decision in highschool. But she's hanging it all on his half-formed idea of being ~like her~. That's so dysfunctional it's hurting me just to even try to look at it in a logical manner.
Then there's the instant friend clique - are you telling me her son NEVER ever made any friends of his own and needed the new JinWoo to come bring his (also-idol-in-making) female friend so that JinWoo the son can finally smile again?! And she's "so sweet", and oh, we are all seeing where in the love triangle all this is heading, right?
Then there's the way the new JinWoo is falling for creepy situations when he all but begged for a little chance of finally making it as a singer... Why would he risk it?! It makes no sense, if he's truly committed - and if he's not, why did he have to go through with the whole almost-begging part? (And it can't be just about the debt.)
This is seriously some deep, anger-triggering misery porn and that's all there's to it so far.
Pure misery porn... And he'll never get any meaningful therapy (because where could it fit in 12 eps when he has to go and win that audition contest?) but it will all be healed through the power of winning some obscure talent show that in no way, shape or form will mean he made it. And in the meantime he gets to be put in some career-cancelling situations before he even starts, because adults can't do adulting.
I must be crazy, coming back to this.
ETA Decided to try to make it through my second-ever hate-watch. After The Impossible Heir, what's one more?
Who the f cares about the doomers? This drama is fun and that's all there is to it. On the other hand... I've already grown accustomed to fabricated black water in c-ent, that's their vibe and everything.
Still - for all MDLers hesitating to start it - dive in. It's hilarious and fast-moving. Good entertainment for de-stressing. If you're in the mood for a more serious drama, this won't be it - but relax once in a while, the year's already been tensed as f anyway.
There's something a bit off with the editing/pacing (on ep3), but Hou MingHao is looking amazingly good (better than in FoF, I can't believe that), and I already liked the FL (because of WoH :D)
Every time he's quoting The Alchemy First Law of Equivalent Exchange, he's killing me LOL - I keep expecting them to slip and have him say "touka koukan". (Also that he tried to re-write Dragon Ball novels hahaha~) Ladies and gentlemen, we have an otaku here :D
...But then the 6th rank disciple tries to make a chimera and all I can think of is "Ed...ward....~" I was not expecting THAT...
That moment of meeting the princess is so ROFLMAO - fated meeting, a skip beat of the heart, a~ nah, let's just go on our merry way :D
I'm almost at the end and I can barely make it - the FL's voice and manner are SO atrocious I feel a visceral need to scratch her eyes out every time she opens her mouth or ~cutely~ pouts. HOW ON THE FREAKING WORLD could they not freaking give up the childish FL and the screechy voice and the FREAKING sugary acting already!!!
Otherwise, the "novel" plot is good enough I guess, but I hate the FL so much already I can't stay invested anymore. (And by FL I mean the role, not the actress, I have no beans with her... but the freaking role she's playing is exhausting to watch.)
I'll finish this because there's so little remaining but I wish I hadn't started (despite Ding YuXi and the rest of the cast doing a pretty good job).
ETA DONE! Last few eps felt like a chore, good thing Ding YuXi is so good-looking. Anyways, my conclusion is that they were both trippin' on shrooms and that's all I have to say about this.
Eh. Buckets of blood as per usual, some cool moments and that's about it. I don't think I'll be watching a 2nd season even if they make it. In short, it looks like a knock-off Moving or something...
LOL, I wanted to slap him straight through the screen, he almost gave me a heart attack, I thought he was having…
I guess it's because he was distracting the killer from finishing up the student. But the way he did it... Gah, maybe Du Cheng is getting so fed-up with the existential dread Shen Yi is causing him to feel, he can't even react too much anymore LOL.
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Though it works perfectly as a metaphor - former SY would've stabbed DC, current one takes a different path.
(Though... Be still my fujoshi heart, they did serve, and heavily, at the end of the ep, LOL. Du Cheng is his anchor? "Wherever you're running to, I'll also be flying to"? "If we were a compass, I'd be the circle and you'd be center - the circle always runs around the center"? Oh WOW! I mean, what more could they have said? "Let's get married and have (nonGMO) kids"? LOL. )
The best eps - the opera ones. The support cast helped setting it up beautifully and I feel like the main cast also truly got invested in that part of the story.
And it turns out the whole Dr Fang plot was a fake out, because he's not the one doing the slashing at the end of the first season (or so it looks right now). I'll be waiting to see if they really make more (I hope so!) I'll always be ready to watch some Sherlock and Watson shenanings from Shen Yi and Du Cheng :D
It was funny for a little bit, but not for two eps.
I haven't seen the next eps, just the teasers for the next 4 eps, but I sure hope they move on from this.
Could these people be any more worthless? Yeah I get it, we're pretending (or maybe copying) this is going on in real life all the time, bla-bla-bla - if I wanted real life, I'd watch a documentary.
What IS IT with the cheerpy music when she's talking about getting rid of him when she gets her money's worth out of him?! Or when her husband agrees to help her but just to make that happen faster?! That's so f@cking horrible. Am I supposed to feel good about it?! This guy's been through the wars already, what with his merchant mom, and now he's getting used for what he can do - and sing - and they're all going to pretend everything's just fine until he's not their problem anymore?!
The only one I kind of like is the in-your-face Chris/HanYoo. At least he's not pretending to be a good guy...
Also, that a capella song better be released soon.
I know movies and dramas gloss over suicidal ideation (they're "easily" fixed in dramaland), but people so depressed they're considering and even trying to commit suicide aren't going to be 1. very energetic/aggressive enough to make it in their chosen field, usually and 2. well-motivated to do well (because depression is taking all their energy and whatever's left is just enough to struggle by). So that's their "problem" right now - their ticket to the success of the new agency will have to deal with the depression and cure it if they want to win the contest (and get the son's factory money that she's obsessing over).
Don't mind it though, I bet they'll "fix" him soon enough, most dramas don't even try to touch on actual treatment (not even psychiatric, not to mention a psychologist), because treatment with some actual results takes a whole lot of time... and some never work properly anyway.
Then there's the instant friend clique - are you telling me her son NEVER ever made any friends of his own and needed the new JinWoo to come bring his (also-idol-in-making) female friend so that JinWoo the son can finally smile again?! And she's "so sweet", and oh, we are all seeing where in the love triangle all this is heading, right?
Then there's the way the new JinWoo is falling for creepy situations when he all but begged for a little chance of finally making it as a singer... Why would he risk it?! It makes no sense, if he's truly committed - and if he's not, why did he have to go through with the whole almost-begging part? (And it can't be just about the debt.)
This is seriously some deep, anger-triggering misery porn and that's all there's to it so far.
I must be crazy, coming back to this.
ETA Decided to try to make it through my second-ever hate-watch. After The Impossible Heir, what's one more?
Sooooo... becoming a Guardian basically means he gets to sort even MORE files. I bet he felt just... thrilled :D
Still - for all MDLers hesitating to start it - dive in. It's hilarious and fast-moving. Good entertainment for de-stressing. If you're in the mood for a more serious drama, this won't be it - but relax once in a while, the year's already been tensed as f anyway.
So I guess I will be watching it after all :D
...But then the 6th rank disciple tries to make a chimera and all I can think of is "Ed...ward....~" I was not expecting THAT...
That moment of meeting the princess is so ROFLMAO - fated meeting, a skip beat of the heart, a~ nah, let's just go on our merry way :D
I want him to join the Guardians ASAP :D
Otherwise, the "novel" plot is good enough I guess, but I hate the FL so much already I can't stay invested anymore. (And by FL I mean the role, not the actress, I have no beans with her... but the freaking role she's playing is exhausting to watch.)
I'll finish this because there's so little remaining but I wish I hadn't started (despite Ding YuXi and the rest of the cast doing a pretty good job).
ETA DONE! Last few eps felt like a chore, good thing Ding YuXi is so good-looking. Anyways, my conclusion is that they were both trippin' on shrooms and that's all I have to say about this.