ShortCircuit

I'll wait it out. I have a feeling he'll do a Jeong JinMan in the end.

And the OP theme is beautiful, one of the best I've heard for the past year. This is on my TBW definitely.

They are both so freaking cute! Great plays an amazing, confident top, and Inn is way too funny, LOL, he's been awesome in the special too. If the plot helps them, they'll do some magic with this drama. I particularly love how fit Great/Yoyak is, wow, those are some honest abs!

I just hope Thai BL learns sometime soon NOT to use freaking sound effects all the time...

112 is the catch-all here, LOL, you talk to the operator and tell them what happened and they decide who and how many to send. I think we have 119 too but I'm not sure what for.

*runs to Google* Oh, TIL, in my country 119 is used as a special number for child abuse of any kind.

... Still don't know the uniforms. Though I guess the firefighters going to a case would at least have those fire hazard helmets on and the axes and hoses, right?

I don't know, we have 112 here. (I thought it was the same number in SK). I guess they'll send any/all they think are needed, LOL, in an emergency, but I definitely don't recognize the uniforms :D

I guess he managed to save her and THEN decided to become a firefighter (if he really was one, mom/grandma maybe played an innuendo there, LOL). They're not that far apart in age, he would've been a kid himself at the time. Unless he goes back all the way from NOW to THEN, after he (finally) meets her.

I think she's the only one he can actively rescue or the only one whose presence allows him to actually do anything physical in the past. We'll see.

Maybe mom/grandma is right and she's his fated soulmate, LOL.

She was in a fire in her childhood and someone (a boy/teen/man) saved her. She has PTSD and goes into shock when there's anything on fire around her.

Watch til the end of the episode. It's not that he CAN'T change the past... It seems he CAN, but only in very specific circumstances. Remember he couldn't even touch anything in the past so far? But he and DaHee touched hands in the mall.

This looks to become pretty good by now.

OMG, they have Moon WooJin in this. Yes this is a must-watch. I don't even care if the drama even makes sense. That kid is going to be the best actor of his generation and I want to be there with him when it happens. I just hope they give him a big enough role.

Also... I find the FL quite cute. I think I might have a girl crush on her already.

"Let's report them to the NIS. Or Marvel." That was a ROFLMAO moment :D

There's not much chemistry between the leads (or none apparent yet), but there's still a bit of time. I really want to see the swindlers totally swindle the superpowereds LOL. They (the swindlers) seem like a very interesting and hilarious family. What are the odds the uncle ends up with the ML's sister? I already ship them :D

So... the daughter DOES have a superpower herself. I hope it's not implied she's the cause of the accident, but maybe she can teleport and so wasn't hurt herself. It sure looked like the mom was troubled and aiming to make the accident happen... or at least so it looked to me.

I am not sold on the superpowers thing (looks like it won't be the focus of the story), but the swindler family keeps me glued to the screen. Them and the daughter. It's on :D

There are two timelines - present (eps 1-2 then 33-50) and the long flashback to the past (3-33). Don't skip, the flashback is the most dramatic part ever (the second half of it anyway) and it's so worth it :D

Also, lots of clues already in the first 2 eps about who, why, what they did in order to get WWX back... *wink*

In the novel, 2nd Joe is younger (and closer to Ming's age), while original Joe is quite a bit older (and more mature, emotionally, too). The interraction between the OG charas was kind of iffy for a bit because of that (IIRC Ming is under 18 originally, though he obviously acts just as arrogant as he always does, no matter the age). But in a story so red-flagged you could believe it's a Red Army display... what's one more red flag? :D

But obviously, you don't SEE them in a novel as you see them in a drama... I guess they'll just keep Poom as Joe even if they follow the novel - they did so far - and have his original body found later on.

He doesn't come back. His original body is dead. He's now in the second Joe's body and should remain there. (2nd Joe's soul is now gone, too).

Then again, the drama can do its own thing...

I needed more KSH after QoT and finally bit the bullet and started this drama. TBH, I like it while watching but it's EXTREMELY easy to get distracted from it.

The best thing about it (so far, 6 eps in) is OJS's acting, and the only relationship I want to see more of is the two brothers' relationship. They're a bit like the charas from Rain Man, LOL (though obviously MKT is a lot more involved and caring than Tom Cruise's character in that movie). I am getting REALLY tired of the SFL and even of the FL's constant chasing of the ML - what, are all men from Earth already taken? - and I hope it's not going to go on for the rest of the series, because it's going to make it a very long watch...

The sex scenes are kind of off, so to speak. I'm watching the uncut version (and BTW why the hell are there two versions on MDL?!) and it's not really sizzling anything between them. Knowing what Ming is doing, it's not a bad choice, TBH, to have them be in a more mechanical-like relationship so far, but it's not really selling why is Joe so fascinated with Ming, either.

(He's in love because Ming is pretty hot - model hot, which is his official profession, though in the novel he's not out from college yet in the beginning so not really looking for a job anyway. And even if he's usually a gong, he likes being a shou with Ming. And that's what the drama is missing so far.)

I'm all ready to move on to the betrayal and realisation that Ming never really saw "him" for himself, then to the second life. I want to see the mom and son relationship T_T

Still keeping close to the novel, I like that. But I just want to have a long discussion with the music director because what the heck. That cheesy music keeps ruining the atmosphere.

The guy playing Sol is hot. I can totally see him as a wannabe Korean idol, LOL. And the MC and him have more chemistry so far than the main 'ship, LOL, the director must be smoking something.

Anyway, it looks like they're going to move on with the story now, after we've all seen and been convinced Ming is an a**hole (which he definitely is) and that Joe can be a fool (which he was.)

PS The actress playing Ming's sister looks a bit like Bai Lu, I like her a lot :D Tong doesn't deserve her character's love.

I give up. I found myself trying hard to motivate myself to start the 4th ep, but this isn't doing it for me.

He didn't do it for the greater good. He did it because he loved his big brother (seriously, TU is a story about three pairs of brothers AND a trio of blood-bound brothers). Each pair has their own dynamics and deep bonding, and the blood-bounded ~should~ (in theory) be just as good to each other as real brothers.

So when Meng Yao betrayed and killed Nie MingJue, he also betrayed a bond of brotherhood.

... And there's the extra that NMJ dying makes NHS clan leader and basically forces him to either become a laughingstock (the "Head Shaker") or take up the broadsword (which WILL definitely make him mad and have him also die a violent death). NHS chose to become the fool clan leader nobody really respects - but again, he IS clever, very much so, and does not want to kill anyone, directly, himself, or die.

Meng Yao is clever too, and a very good actor to boot (he fooled everyone), but not as good as NHS. If he had realised earlier on what NHS was about, he'd have gotten rid of him. That's why NHS needed the biggest "villain" the cultivation world feared, WWX, to come dispose of Meng Yao, LOL. And it worked.

*** The three pairs of brothers are, obviously, LWJ and LXC (who love and respect each other and mutually understand one another), NHS and NMJ (who also love each other, but the age difference is too big, so that NMJ is treating NHS more like a father than an older brother, and NHS worships him while fearing him, too), and WWX and Jiang Cheng (not birth brothers, but more brotherly than anyone else around. Their relationship is fascinating - because you have to admit it, while WWX basically sacrificed his whole future in the cultivation world for JC, he's also the source of almost all tragedies that befell the Jiang Clan, even if he never intended them to happen.)

And then there's the blood brotherhood, with Meng Yao, NMJ and LXC, of which LXC trusted and treated MY as his own soulmate (not in a romantic sense, but still a soulmate). His own heart is broken by MY's acts, because he's seeing him in a mirror and that makes him wonder who he, LXC, really is.

LOL, I get wordy when it comes to MDZS/TU. I love good books, and the novel is amazing. The drama does it justice. If you want to and are interested, you can find it somewhere - it's been officially TLed and published in English, but the fan TL is still around somewhere, because the internet never forgets. (The title is The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation - Mo Dao Zu Shi, by author Mo Xiang Tong Xiu).

Well... this is a censored adaptation of a danmei novel, after all. What people mean when they say you could read about it is that all spicier moments are to be found in the novel and its extras :D

Otherwise, the drama tried to tone it down to get it past censorship... but if you're into BL, it's not easily ignored. If you're not, you could pretend it's just the most amazing bromance (where people make love to each other with their eyes :D)

NHS instrumented, planned and executed everything. Meng Yao was made brothers with Nie MingJue and Lan XiChen, but because he thought NMJ had slighted him (when he threw him out of the sect when he found out about his past and his present behaviour), he specifically learned and twisted the Lan music technique that was supposed to calm the madness of the Nie Clan cultivation, and used it to make NMJ get a qi deviation and die.

(The movie The Fatal Journey has the moment when NHS realises what Meng Yao is really like, and the part where he decides he'll take vengeance.)

NHS is not strong in sword techniques, though, nor respected, but he's among the brightest there are (along with WWX - no wonder they were fast friends in the Lan Clan school, LOL). So he decided to turn Mo XuanYu toward the path of self-sacrifice and call WWX back from the dead, then he placed certain amulet-tainted items in his and LWJ's path, and let them go from there, because he knew that LWJ will NOT let it go, and he trusted WWX to find out all the clues and solve them.

And in the mean time, he put everything he had gathered in the right places at the right times - he sent the letter to Meng Yao to make him attack the juniors and run away, then made sure all the seniors were made aware of Meng Yao's network of villains and their deeds, got the witnesses to the death of the previous Jin Clan leader that Meng Yao orchestrated, distracted everyone when it needed done (like when he came ~drunk~ at the banquet just as Meng Yao was about to probably expel Mo XuanYu/WWX from it, etc). He knew LXC had told Meng Yao not to try ANYTHING or he'd strike first, so he pretended Meng Yao WAS going to attack him from behind, and basically tricked LXC into killing him.

He is SNEAKY and crazy smart. Also, quite devious and pretty ambitious himself, too, which is why WWX is cautioning him to not over-reach, LOL.

NHS is the unsung (and rather gray/dark) hero of The Untamed, LOL. If you think about it, he played everyone (WWX and LWJ included) as puppets.

Then again... the end result is a reborn WWX and him and LWJ being soulmates for their whole lives again, which is why we all forgive NHS's tricks :D

LWJ doesn't speak much in general. And he always intended to tell WWX the truth about A-Yuan, he just didn't find the right moment.