I'm sorry. But I'm dropping this series. It's wayyyy too disfunctional, even for a Thai BL. To redeem Ming after…
The novel is worse. Ming is the definition, the poster child and the gold standard for SCUM VILLAIN of the irredeemable kind. And he doesn't change even through the HEA.
On the bright side, it's easy to love to hate him.
Joe is his his own enemy, he would rather be fucked by Ming than borrow Sol's money. He is a idiot
Sol doesn't have 5 million baht to just lend him, and neither does Wut. Even if Joe came to them, it'll be too outlandish a request and he'd also never be able to pay it back. And Joe knows their respective problems, so he doesn't even dare be so troublesome for them, knowing they cannot actually give him what he needs.
Ming, on the other side, is loaded - or his family is. It's a big lump of money, but not too great to spend on one of Ming's fancies. Joe is betting he can't slip and reveal the truth because it's too strange to believe anyway, so he's only selling his body for a year in exchange for his mom's health.
It is my unprofessional opinion that from now on, all danmei novels should be licensed outside the mainland so…
I seriously don't remember a chara like Secretary Jim but they're probably there. I won't go back to the novel since SCUM Ming remains SCUM, dammit, but I'll trust the team they're following the story close, as they did so far.
Can't wait for the moment Joe's former friends find out he's come back :D
And finally - just as I had hoped, Joe and mom and also Joe and Wut are GREAT together. Those were the best parts of the novel, too, IMHO.
It is my unprofessional opinion that from now on, all danmei novels should be licensed outside the mainland so that people who know what they're doing and are not forced to censor the story down can do this kind of magic with them.
I loved Poom's acting this ep - he's really pouring his soul into this. Ming, as usual, is Ming (and that's also kudos to Up.)
But Secretary Jim, you have thoroughly disappointed me. You're just as much a scum as Ming. No wonder, birds of a feather...
This is the second time I have tried watching a drama while it is airing ..... And I think I agree with people…
I am one of those who doesn't even start a drama too-high rated until LONG after the hype went down... if ever.
Don't mind the ratings too much - MDL and any other sites that help you commune with drama watchers are supposed to give you a community, not an echo chamber. Or at least that's how I view them, LOL. Let people just enjoy what they enjoy, so what if the general ratings don't reflect that? It's all immaterial after all.
First episode is actually quite good. It doesn't even look like a low budget production, as some comments imply. The ongoing rating hovers around 8, what the heck is it with the 4.7 currently shown rating?!
Did this just get flamed over some perceived slight?!
Gddmnit, I guess I'll just have to watch and enjoy it for myself with no more coming here to find some companionship among the viewers.
Mo Xuanyu's revenge was evolved only in his family. We Wuxian wounds (revenge wounds) healed after Ziyuan, A-tong…
It wasn't against the family, it was against ALL his enemies (or people he perceived as enemies/tormentors), among them the Mo Clan, some of the servants, and then the arch-enemy (JGY/MY).
You'll notice that, though it was NHS teaching him how to get the self-sacrifice spell, he doesn't consider NHS an enemy at all...
It took me a month to watch this. The first quarter was better as a story but also a lot slower (strangely) and…
When GangTae finally lets go and pouts all over the place wanting to go on his road trip - that sequence of scenes was the BEST :D The drunk scene too. LOL, he was so frustrated :D I loved that part :)
... And also each and every part where he's shown suffering - this man can do deep heartache like nobody's business, and those EYES, a bit teary... ooof, my heart!
It took me a month to watch this. The first quarter was better as a story but also a lot slower (strangely) and I could leave it for long periods of time. Then the second half was mostly romance (and heartache) and not as good, actually, as the first part (IMHO) and yet I kept going back to it like a bee to pollen, LOL. So I don't know - I think it's mostly KSH's face that made me come back again and again...
And also, very much so, Oh JungSe's acting. I am in awe. If I'm left with anything from this drama, is a deep appreciation of OJS's acting skills. I don't think SangTae - as a character - falls into the actual lines of ASD, as maybe that would have made the character almost impossible to use, but he's there for a long time (particularly in the beginning). And he's endearing.
The psycho plot was meh, TBH, and it would've made a better final if the killer/psycho remained gone.
Overall, this does NOT fill my KSH thirst, LOL, he needs to do another drama where he's all looking handsome and (not so quietly) suffering, and I'll be there in an instant :D
We don't do logic here, but who cares. Let's just watch these two cuties fall in love all over again.
GAH now that I know, I can't help it but recognize JongHo singing A Day over the ending scenes, such a lovely song.
PS That freaking killer is seriously the lowest point of the whole story. I like even the b!tchy film studio manager over him, and she's only been in the story for 5 minutes tops.
I promised only mild spoilers for WOH, LOL, but seriously, they broke the censorship bureau. After them, no other danmei was (officially) allowed to air. And it's been a while now...
Poor grandpa, only going dancing, maybe doing some psychological cheating or something. I bet those two are also…
RIGHT??? You wouldn't forget someone like HIM. Leave aside he's towering half a meter above her, LOL, he is the only one coming to pay respects AND giving her some comfort. You wouldn't forget someone like that, ever...
Or maybe she kind of remembers him, but doesn't link the GwiJu in the past with this one. Maybe she'll retcon her memories later on and remember him being there for her...
If he doesn't go, she doesn't get saved. Now he CAN change the past and change the future in turn, he can't miss…
Actually, LOL, it's not a new concept in time-travel scifi. There's a 50s short story by Bradbury about changing a very small thing in the very distant past (basically they kill a butterfly by mistake some millions of years ago while time-travel-seeing) and that leads to a major change in the present that nobody much remembers, because for them it never was any different. Because the story needs a plot, there is a person remembering, but he (also probably) gets killed before having a chance to undo the major historical shift... so that the world remain AS IT EVER WAS, LOL.
And there are many of the same kind. I almost remember one that had a team sent back in time to kill Attila (or Hitler, or some other important historical figure) before they became who they became, and actually succeed, but when they come back, they discover that the EVENTS still happened, it's just that the person in the focus' name changed... but they themselves cannot tell the difference, LOL, for them it was always that same (different from the original) person! I don't remember the author, maybe some short by Heinlein, but I'm not certain.
Time travel scifi and time travel paradox are awesome :D I highly recommend Steins:Gate the anime, it's one of the best stories about time paradoxes.
In THIS present timeline where he's saving her and she's being saved by him, things appear not to change, because they did go as they did go in their past. But there's still a possibility that there are other timelines, now discarded (or where their other versions are) where things didn't go as they are going now...
I don't think I'm getting one thing here. Why does the ML wants to save the FL from the fire? It was in the past…
If he doesn't go, she doesn't get saved. Now he CAN change the past and change the future in turn, he can't miss saving her or everything goes away.
And now that you've asked... I wonder how many times / universes he had to go through before finding the ONE person he actually CAN save in order to regain his own preferable future... Imagine him going through his life with not saving DaHae - empty, maybe some drink-related illness, his daughter estranged, his parents (eventually) gone, what would he have to live for?
So now I guess he DID sift through all possible futures until he stumbled upon the one where he can do something useful for once, and save himself too, in the process...
Poor grandpa, only going dancing, maybe doing some psychological cheating or something. I bet those two are also…
Maybe with trying to make her commit adultery or something, I don't know SK laws... (I mean, it would be the husband - IF he is the husband, I think they're in this together - doing the suing.)
And grandpa probably told her a few of his marital woes... She knows he can't afford a public shaming because of his wife. He's a sitting duck for them.
ETA Google says SK did have a law punishing adultery that was only abolished in 2015. I guess either grandpa doesn't know about the law, or that it wouldn't apply anyway, since he didn't do anything at all, but maybe there's still some public cultural thing against adulterers, even if not punishable by law. In any case, he can't afford to go public because of his wife, so...
Poor grandpa, only going dancing, maybe doing some psychological cheating or something. I bet those two are also…
She was a loner, no family left, nobody went to greet her dad on his funeral - and this mysterious stranger comes, bows three times, and then comforts her for how long...
I would definitely remember something like that.
But well, it's dramaland, anything and everything is possible.
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On the bright side, it's easy to love to hate him.
Ming, on the other side, is loaded - or his family is. It's a big lump of money, but not too great to spend on one of Ming's fancies. Joe is betting he can't slip and reveal the truth because it's too strange to believe anyway, so he's only selling his body for a year in exchange for his mom's health.
Little does he know... :D
Can't wait for the moment Joe's former friends find out he's come back :D
And finally - just as I had hoped, Joe and mom and also Joe and Wut are GREAT together. Those were the best parts of the novel, too, IMHO.
I loved Poom's acting this ep - he's really pouring his soul into this. Ming, as usual, is Ming (and that's also kudos to Up.)
But Secretary Jim, you have thoroughly disappointed me. You're just as much a scum as Ming. No wonder, birds of a feather...
Also, this was sweet sometimes but completely pointless.
Don't mind the ratings too much - MDL and any other sites that help you commune with drama watchers are supposed to give you a community, not an echo chamber. Or at least that's how I view them, LOL. Let people just enjoy what they enjoy, so what if the general ratings don't reflect that? It's all immaterial after all.
Did this just get flamed over some perceived slight?!
Gddmnit, I guess I'll just have to watch and enjoy it for myself with no more coming here to find some companionship among the viewers.
You'll notice that, though it was NHS teaching him how to get the self-sacrifice spell, he doesn't consider NHS an enemy at all...
... And also each and every part where he's shown suffering - this man can do deep heartache like nobody's business, and those EYES, a bit teary... ooof, my heart!
And also, very much so, Oh JungSe's acting. I am in awe. If I'm left with anything from this drama, is a deep appreciation of OJS's acting skills. I don't think SangTae - as a character - falls into the actual lines of ASD, as maybe that would have made the character almost impossible to use, but he's there for a long time (particularly in the beginning). And he's endearing.
The psycho plot was meh, TBH, and it would've made a better final if the killer/psycho remained gone.
Overall, this does NOT fill my KSH thirst, LOL, he needs to do another drama where he's all looking handsome and (not so quietly) suffering, and I'll be there in an instant :D
GAH now that I know, I can't help it but recognize JongHo singing A Day over the ending scenes, such a lovely song.
PS That freaking killer is seriously the lowest point of the whole story. I like even the b!tchy film studio manager over him, and she's only been in the story for 5 minutes tops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icGyEwDdsYA
I promised only mild spoilers for WOH, LOL, but seriously, they broke the censorship bureau. After them, no other danmei was (officially) allowed to air. And it's been a while now...
Or maybe she kind of remembers him, but doesn't link the GwiJu in the past with this one. Maybe she'll retcon her memories later on and remember him being there for her...
... I mean. It's fate, He said so, too, LOL.
And there are many of the same kind. I almost remember one that had a team sent back in time to kill Attila (or Hitler, or some other important historical figure) before they became who they became, and actually succeed, but when they come back, they discover that the EVENTS still happened, it's just that the person in the focus' name changed... but they themselves cannot tell the difference, LOL, for them it was always that same (different from the original) person! I don't remember the author, maybe some short by Heinlein, but I'm not certain.
Time travel scifi and time travel paradox are awesome :D I highly recommend Steins:Gate the anime, it's one of the best stories about time paradoxes.
In THIS present timeline where he's saving her and she's being saved by him, things appear not to change, because they did go as they did go in their past. But there's still a possibility that there are other timelines, now discarded (or where their other versions are) where things didn't go as they are going now...
And now that you've asked... I wonder how many times / universes he had to go through before finding the ONE person he actually CAN save in order to regain his own preferable future... Imagine him going through his life with not saving DaHae - empty, maybe some drink-related illness, his daughter estranged, his parents (eventually) gone, what would he have to live for?
So now I guess he DID sift through all possible futures until he stumbled upon the one where he can do something useful for once, and save himself too, in the process...
And grandpa probably told her a few of his marital woes... She knows he can't afford a public shaming because of his wife. He's a sitting duck for them.
ETA Google says SK did have a law punishing adultery that was only abolished in 2015. I guess either grandpa doesn't know about the law, or that it wouldn't apply anyway, since he didn't do anything at all, but maybe there's still some public cultural thing against adulterers, even if not punishable by law. In any case, he can't afford to go public because of his wife, so...
I would definitely remember something like that.
But well, it's dramaland, anything and everything is possible.