Still watching only for Rain. Does his chara not have any other life outside his revenge plot though?
The FL is kind of static, still, nothing really happens through her involvement, things happen TO her and that's it. For almost half of the drama done, that's a bit too little, IMHO. Here's hoping things move along faster, if they want an action drama. As for romance, there's very little hint so far, and by now I really hope they keep it that way.
Ep 3's parking on the beach really pushed some of my buttons though - don't freaking drive/park on the beach, please!
PS I actually started liking the cheating husband a lot more than her - he at least looks alive.
What sticks with me after two eps, though, is "Don't hit Jin Bao on his head, he's stupid enough as it is" LOL.
The leads are seriously pretty, particularly the ML. The MC isn't so far behind either, LOL. I haven't read this novel so I don't have any expectations (though she did write Professional Body Double, that I DID read, so I kind of have some hints about some parts of it). You can see it's not too high a production budget (I mean, they're mad daring already, doing this with actual mainland actors and crews, as it seems, we shouldn't expect them to sacrifice their whole future for the drama) but they're doing the best they can with it.
My favourite so far is the other one of XiaoBao's guards, ZhaoCai, LOL, the tattle-teller. He's cute and has the best expressions.
So I'll just go along for the ride - an actually uncensored danmei brought to drama, I'll take what I can get! :D
Just to clarify, regardless of outside pressure, the choice was his. My heart aches for his family and friends,…
We're all individuals. Also, things have definitely changed since almost 80 years ago. For those you mentioned, there WAS a certain sense of communality among them, they were in it together, there are stories of people who tried to shield others as much as possible, they had a purpose - to survive. That was a total crisis situation. The things that occured in WW2 concentration camps and what happened to LSK are not comparable, first on the scale of things, then on the reasons behind them.
What happened to him was on a very personal level, and he was alone and probably feeling he was taking down his own family, too. I cannot go into the mind of someone who gets that depressed and desperate, but I can try being compassionate. The fact that others have it worse (though it depends on their own situations and intentions) does not mean LSK's choice is to be blamed on him. He WAS driven, hounded into this, and to blame him for wanting to escape it is cruel.
Then again, we each live inside our own minds, so we each make our own decisions each and every time. I wish nobody has to go through the same thing again, for whatever reason, and that it hadn't happened to him, either. He was a great actor and did not deserve all the sudden hate and harassment and the fact he's being missed every time his name is mentioned should tell you that, already.
it literally my first BL drama, and made me hooked at to this point 🫶
Yeah, TGCF is kind of too long for me too, LOL. But I do like Hua Cheng :D
Then again, SQQ's inner monologue and his interactions with the System in SVSSS are hilarious :D
If I were to pick my favourite danmei of all time, though, I think I couldn't... I like so many of them for so many different reasons, I can't just settle on one :D
it literally my first BL drama, and made me hooked at to this point 🫶
TGCF (HOB) is longer and even more intricate, and it does cover a lot more xianxia lore, so that's why it might be people seem to like it better. (And there's Hua Cheng, who is... well, Crimson Rain Sought Flower :D) And SVSSS is so damn funny!! So I can see why people would like it (I myself LOVE Shen Qingqiu!!)
But yes, MDZS is the best of the three of them - and there are so many more great danmei out there, it's not even funny.
Main takeaway is that Euro24 is really messing up my drama watching schedule LOL. (We got eliminated a long time ago, I don't even have any stakes in this. LPT: don't live with soccer fans).
"Thankfully, there weren't any casualties save for a few security personnel who were injured." Am I stupid or…
That was the cover-your-ass official statement. They would probably deal with any actual victims on the hush-hush side, giving their families money and whatnot to keep it quiet.
And yeah, that's cold asf. That girl was an innocent victim she doesn't really know - but the bodyguard who was also shot is supposedly someone she knows way better, since he's been with her for quite some time. She never asked about victims once she returned, and never seemed interested in making SDY tell her anything about collateral victims, either. She doesn't care or is (for the benefit of the doubt) still in shock.
He can see supernatural creatures and help other see them too, by drawing them in ink. He's a calligrapher (runs in the family) and through his art he can break the bonds tying the creatures to unwanted existence/continuous pain.
And he sports a devastating mullet - that's a whole superpower all onto itself, LOL.
Yeah, I'll just watch this for Rain, because I could find 4 dramas that this one reminded me of, right off the top of my head. I guess I could find more if I really tried, LOL.
Anyway - some cool scenes (did they blow half their budget with the first explodey scene, LOL?), I like the cold type of ML, I guess they're hinting someone killed someone else what with all the intro snapshots into the present, I'm glad they're not stretching it out with the FL's past career, and so on.
I really wish they'd have changed the MIL over-the-top-extra character to someone cold and calculated, I cannot take seriously someone who's supposedly a great businesswoman but who throws things and keeps yelling just because. And the husband's hair is giving me the ick, LOL.
This is from an official TL of the novel (illustrating an actual event in the story), so sorry to destroy your pure hetero world. Also, the drama is a Censored Adaptation of a Same-Sex Original Work, so yeah, it's censored, but it's BL and no doubt about it.
Homosexual persons exist and have existed since mankind appeared. Love between same-sex persons is possible, and is just as wholesome as love between different-sex partners. Stop judging others for what they choose to watch and for what they like - just enjoy what you like too without dissing others.
Then again, the beauty of it is that the censoring allows people who don't usually watch danmei to make up their own opinion on the strength of the plot and characters without being pestered by any explicit romance (as, for example, in the straight xianxia costume dramas).
P. S. If your first and only contact with BL is Boku no Pico... girl, seek help. That manga and/or anime is/are rather hard to just happen onto out of the blue, given its subject - unless you explicitly are looking for shotacon, which is sending eeck vibes already. Also, times are changing - that kind of manga aren't welcome in Japan either, any more.
I'm on volume 3 (near end) and Lan Zhan there is such a flirty one (when drunk, but less when sober) with Wei…
Yeah, well, he can do it sober too, LOL, just wait til you get to the extras hahaha~
Also... just in case you didn't notice yet, but it's really true that still waters run deep. Out of the two of them, which would you choose to be the one with the kink? *wink*
What's Taem's problem, though?! She VERY MUCH gave the guy the wrong signals, if she's not interested in him at…
She looks uncomfortable about it, though - like she wants Yak now, but she "just realised" it. She's unhappy he's going to the ball with Dee, she's itching to say something to him all the time, she gives him longing looks - it's a 180 degree change of attitude towards him. There was never anything remotely not-platonic between them (from her part), and now there is.
I guess there has to be some more story to fill 12 eps, but I'd rather they don't split again because of a woman (or anyone else).
Dr. Ter is such an a**hole. If I were her, I'd slap him too. I guess she's more of a lady, LOL. I almost thought…
What's Taem's problem, though?! She VERY MUCH gave the guy the wrong signals, if she's not interested in him at all. I mean, as a watcher, and a woman too, she DID look like she liked him. Obviously, for drama purposes, he turned out to be scum... but I feel like the writer changed the dynamics for the past few eps just to add more story to them (because other than Taem being Yak's tutor and initial love interest, the role didn't have anything more in it.)
Also, WTF, does Taem now chase Yak instead? When before, when he was mooning over her, she couldn't give him the time in the day if he asked?!
Which reminds me - LOL that wall clock in the ballroom STOPPED FOREVER AGO, it's been 22.15 for the whole ball hahaha~
At least Yak did get there in time to fend off scum Dr. Ter and bring Cinderella to his ball :D
And now he's declared his love, they're officially lovers, not fake BFs, yay!
I love how they chose Cher and Oye to bring in some real-world important issues - namely the passing of the same-sex marriage law in Thailand - I'm happy for all people who get their rights, and I hope we'll be seeing at least a wedding by the end of the series :D
Okay, that first half of the episode was the best part of the series so far. First though - that's right, Ming,…
TBH I am fuzy about the details of the ending part of the novel and I don't want to re-read it right now in order to enjoy the drama fully. But I think they've started changing some major threads in order to give Ming his redemption arc.
Which - did I mention this before, Ming, please f*ck off and die (novel Ming anyway).
Up was AMAZING this ep - I could feel his pain even when I don't like Ming. Poom, as always, sparked off him too and they made it great between the two of them!
Nice touch there at the end, what with the two of them caught in the crossroads... Umm, interesting.
I need to find that BGM...
ETA My favourite parts this ep - first, Joe taking Ming to task for crying like a little b*tch, too little, too late. And second... Ming coming up to them pretending he'd get rid of all Joe's stuff, then walking away with that desperate hope in his eyes. I LOVE eye-acting!!! He did BEAUTIFULLY in that scene!
Okay, that first half of the episode was the best part of the series so far.
First though - that's right, Ming, why the hell are you crying NOW? F*ck off and die.
Also, P'Wut, LOL - "no one should attend their own funeral" - err... isn't that the exact idea behind a funeral?! Everybody can skip it but the person being buried, LOL. P'Wut with the casual black humour drops hahaha~
Shoutout to the composer!!! The BGM in this ep ROCKED!! Particularly the theme in front of the morgue, when Secretary Jim confronts Joe. I loved that theme.
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The FL is kind of static, still, nothing really happens through her involvement, things happen TO her and that's it. For almost half of the drama done, that's a bit too little, IMHO. Here's hoping things move along faster, if they want an action drama. As for romance, there's very little hint so far, and by now I really hope they keep it that way.
Ep 3's parking on the beach really pushed some of my buttons though - don't freaking drive/park on the beach, please!
PS I actually started liking the cheating husband a lot more than her - he at least looks alive.
The leads are seriously pretty, particularly the ML. The MC isn't so far behind either, LOL. I haven't read this novel so I don't have any expectations (though she did write Professional Body Double, that I DID read, so I kind of have some hints about some parts of it). You can see it's not too high a production budget (I mean, they're mad daring already, doing this with actual mainland actors and crews, as it seems, we shouldn't expect them to sacrifice their whole future for the drama) but they're doing the best they can with it.
My favourite so far is the other one of XiaoBao's guards, ZhaoCai, LOL, the tattle-teller. He's cute and has the best expressions.
So I'll just go along for the ride - an actually uncensored danmei brought to drama, I'll take what I can get! :D
What happened to him was on a very personal level, and he was alone and probably feeling he was taking down his own family, too. I cannot go into the mind of someone who gets that depressed and desperate, but I can try being compassionate. The fact that others have it worse (though it depends on their own situations and intentions) does not mean LSK's choice is to be blamed on him. He WAS driven, hounded into this, and to blame him for wanting to escape it is cruel.
Then again, we each live inside our own minds, so we each make our own decisions each and every time. I wish nobody has to go through the same thing again, for whatever reason, and that it hadn't happened to him, either. He was a great actor and did not deserve all the sudden hate and harassment and the fact he's being missed every time his name is mentioned should tell you that, already.
Then again, SQQ's inner monologue and his interactions with the System in SVSSS are hilarious :D
If I were to pick my favourite danmei of all time, though, I think I couldn't... I like so many of them for so many different reasons, I can't just settle on one :D
But yes, MDZS is the best of the three of them - and there are so many more great danmei out there, it's not even funny.
And yeah, that's cold asf. That girl was an innocent victim she doesn't really know - but the bodyguard who was also shot is supposedly someone she knows way better, since he's been with her for quite some time. She never asked about victims once she returned, and never seemed interested in making SDY tell her anything about collateral victims, either. She doesn't care or is (for the benefit of the doubt) still in shock.
I think she's way too cold...
And he sports a devastating mullet - that's a whole superpower all onto itself, LOL.
Anyway - some cool scenes (did they blow half their budget with the first explodey scene, LOL?), I like the cold type of ML, I guess they're hinting someone killed someone else what with all the intro snapshots into the present, I'm glad they're not stretching it out with the FL's past career, and so on.
I really wish they'd have changed the MIL over-the-top-extra character to someone cold and calculated, I cannot take seriously someone who's supposedly a great businesswoman but who throws things and keeps yelling just because. And the husband's hair is giving me the ick, LOL.
Also, Sasaki, after getting TKO-d: BESTO EXPERIENSO!! LOL, he's so over the top. I like him, too :D
This ep also felt a lot like filler, but I don't mind - I still like Great's smile :D
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This is from an official TL of the novel (illustrating an actual event in the story), so sorry to destroy your pure hetero world. Also, the drama is a Censored Adaptation of a Same-Sex Original Work, so yeah, it's censored, but it's BL and no doubt about it.
Homosexual persons exist and have existed since mankind appeared. Love between same-sex persons is possible, and is just as wholesome as love between different-sex partners. Stop judging others for what they choose to watch and for what they like - just enjoy what you like too without dissing others.
Then again, the beauty of it is that the censoring allows people who don't usually watch danmei to make up their own opinion on the strength of the plot and characters without being pestered by any explicit romance (as, for example, in the straight xianxia costume dramas).
P. S. If your first and only contact with BL is Boku no Pico... girl, seek help. That manga and/or anime is/are rather hard to just happen onto out of the blue, given its subject - unless you explicitly are looking for shotacon, which is sending eeck vibes already. Also, times are changing - that kind of manga aren't welcome in Japan either, any more.
Also... just in case you didn't notice yet, but it's really true that still waters run deep. Out of the two of them, which would you choose to be the one with the kink? *wink*
I guess there has to be some more story to fill 12 eps, but I'd rather they don't split again because of a woman (or anyone else).
Also, WTF, does Taem now chase Yak instead? When before, when he was mooning over her, she couldn't give him the time in the day if he asked?!
Which reminds me - LOL that wall clock in the ballroom STOPPED FOREVER AGO, it's been 22.15 for the whole ball hahaha~
At least Yak did get there in time to fend off scum Dr. Ter and bring Cinderella to his ball :D
And now he's declared his love, they're officially lovers, not fake BFs, yay!
I love how they chose Cher and Oye to bring in some real-world important issues - namely the passing of the same-sex marriage law in Thailand - I'm happy for all people who get their rights, and I hope we'll be seeing at least a wedding by the end of the series :D
I almost thought they'd make this ep a mirrored situation of last ep (though at least Taem had a valid reason) but we're safe, LOL.
And oh, Wandee might've said it's not ironical but it TOTALLY felt sarcastic when he called Ter vanilla, LOL.
LYX has the best expressions, LOL.
This looks like it will be a lot of fun :D
Which - did I mention this before, Ming, please f*ck off and die (novel Ming anyway).
Up was AMAZING this ep - I could feel his pain even when I don't like Ming. Poom, as always, sparked off him too and they made it great between the two of them!
Nice touch there at the end, what with the two of them caught in the crossroads... Umm, interesting.
I need to find that BGM...
ETA My favourite parts this ep - first, Joe taking Ming to task for crying like a little b*tch, too little, too late. And second... Ming coming up to them pretending he'd get rid of all Joe's stuff, then walking away with that desperate hope in his eyes. I LOVE eye-acting!!! He did BEAUTIFULLY in that scene!
First though - that's right, Ming, why the hell are you crying NOW? F*ck off and die.
Also, P'Wut, LOL - "no one should attend their own funeral" - err... isn't that the exact idea behind a funeral?! Everybody can skip it but the person being buried, LOL. P'Wut with the casual black humour drops hahaha~
Shoutout to the composer!!! The BGM in this ep ROCKED!! Particularly the theme in front of the morgue, when Secretary Jim confronts Joe. I loved that theme.