No unexpected twists yet (they've all been foreshadowed long enough). But GSY is getting kind of psycho and definitely…
Kim Joon was actually looking genuinely pained when he met the bereaved family. Wow.
GSY is doing it all wrong. Because he imprinted on Kim Joon - kind of - he is taking it all out on ESH because he doesn't want to look beyond what was done to his father.
His freaking father KILLED a child and then, when he was bought off an actual punishment, MOCKED the grieving mother. I would still kill him too, if I were her. He doesn't get any pass, I don't care how much he might have loved or been loved by his own family. I don't really buy the "loving dad" image GSY has in his head either, no one who can be that cruel when they've killed a little child would be able to actually love anything or anyone.
The GOOD twist is that everybody's concerned about the other lost child and that he's out of debt and maybe going back to therapy.
The cheating husband and adopted-sister thing was obvious from the start. I still think ESH is having too big of a reaction, and if anyone was an adult around there, they'd sit down and talk it out. It's been 7 years, they've both been hurting because of the child's death, it wasn't JUST ESH feeling lost and alone in the world. Things happen. But I guess we'll instead see another heartbreak from her because in this one thing - where she had already released her husband to live for himself anyway - she won't take it. TBH, I don't care.
So, I guess GSY dies in the end - they're stretching the heart problem way too much. Or someone in ESH's circle dies and gives him a heart transplant, why not, it's a drama.
But it's good enough to keep me on watch, and CEW looks extremely handsome. I just wish his character's love-interest wasn't that crazy LOL.
Sorry that you got triggered, it wasn't my intention.I think Bite Me is a great cooking series, like really...only…
I didn't watch 3body yet, I want to - I listened to the OST already (because Chen XueRan! :D and it's GREAT!), but I always wanted to read the book first.
There are so many new dramas though, I'm way behind with my reading :D
Sorry that you got triggered, it wasn't my intention.I think Bite Me is a great cooking series, like really...only…
It was a joke, LOL, don't take it seriously! You've done a great job compiling this article, so thank you for the effort :)
But no, Bite Me really is that bad - not even the slo-mo cooking shots could save it. I think the reason I stuck around to the end (watched it while it was airing, too!) was for the misery everybody was expressing in the comments, LOL.
I liked the visuals of TSS... but the science behind basically everything happening is non-existant. For me, in a movie/drama that says it's scifi there HAS to be at least moderately-accurate science. And TSS didn't care for that... *sigh* SK is great at horror and supernatural, but hasn't found a stride yet in actual scifi. There's time though :D
UGh IkrThe first few minutes into the ep and I was wishing for the white truck to come plowing through the room.…
I'll bet both of them - SP and Qian - immediately thought about sex. That's what spooked both of them. OMG, the little brother grew up and now wants to have sex with Qian!!
UGh IkrThe first few minutes into the ep and I was wishing for the white truck to come plowing through the room.…
At the same time, Yuan was also part of the family for a long time, and SP knows how much Qian does care for him. He's taking Qian side totally and leaving Yuan outside the circle at the same time, as if they couldn't just give it a bit of time and discuss it like grownups (because Yuan is hurt but he's not a child any more). Instead, it's all basically "BATTLESTATIONS!! ENEMY SIGHTED!" kind of, and Yuan definitely sees himself pushed to the outside.
If SP cared for Yuan too, a little bit, he'd have had more empathy and tried to mediate between them two. That's what makes me not like him, after last ep, when I actually felt he's the best friend ever (to BOTH of them).
For a cooking drama, do not - I repeat, DO NOT - go to Bite Me with any sort of expectations. Of any kind. It's the worst cooking drama (and I tend to think of any genre of drama) I've ever managed to sit through in the vain hope SOMETHING will eventually happen. Nothing happens. It's a soul-killing slo-mo amazingly bad nonsense story. If you can call it a story. The ML get a schizophrenic change of personality in the middle of the plot and even THAT doesn't manage to make it better or at least more interesting. Don't do this to yourself. You'll just be hurt in the end.
If you really want a cooking drama (or about chefs, at least), better watch Wok of Love instead. It still has its silly out-of-this-world drama-localised coincidences and lucky strikes, but at least it's well acted and it goes somewhere.
Also, for a space drama (or astronaut profession) - also for your own good, don't go to The Silent Sea. While the cast is great and the SFX are amazing, the quantity of anti-scientific facts and incidents is amazing too. There are basically two astronauts in total involved, and even they forget how gravity works at times, not to mention the deep mysteries of how even safety pressure doors work. In a space station. During an emergency. Those are not astronauts I'd send anywhere... The production team spent so much time on whether they COULD show those great SFX when they should have considered a lot if they SHOULD have. I don't want to go into too much because spoilers... but for a drama I'd had highly anticipated and did manage great shots of the space station and all... Even the movie The Moon (which also forgets about actual physics) does it better (not great by any measure, just better than TSS).
Better watch Space Sweepers instead - it's not pretending to be a scifi or about actual astronauts and all, just a explodey space opera that wants to entertain you. It's entertaining, even if not really original. But at least they're more honest about it...
UGh IkrThe first few minutes into the ep and I was wishing for the white truck to come plowing through the room.…
I seemed like he suddenly felt the need to PROTECT Wei Qian from Yuan, as if he was going to attack him out of the blue or something. I could FEEL the walls going up between SP and XY and it definitely would have hurt anyone in XY's corner at that time.
I could - theoretically - believe he didn't know which side to take, but he shouldn't have taken anyone's side, anyway, they weren't out at war...
I wish someone had taken the trouble to TL the book properly, the MTL doesn't make much sense and Priest always nuances her characters... The drama doesn't show a lot of WHY is SP so protective of Qian's little family, maybe there's something that triggers him into over-protective mode over Qian...
We'll have to see what happens, now we're halfway through.
Anyone got the link to the eng translation of the novel?
There's only an (kind of) atrocious MTL. You can google it. But IMHO since it's not TLed by someone with a good grasp of the language, better just suffer and wait for the weekly drama fix.
For breaking the 10K heat index; Sparky did a little hand dance lol: https://x.com/dramapotatoe/status/1771043628980342812?s=46&t=zqI38SPvJuccjplZiNI69QBXS…
Is that a hand dance or is he trying to use sign language? It looks a bit like sign language to me. (She IS doing some dance choreo though, LOL).
(Also LOL, I jokingly called him a bright spark and you nicknamed him Sparky and ran with it - but it does fit him doesn't it? He IS a bright spark (when he's not being stupid by not noticing the SFL yet) and he's also sparkling all over the place (I DO love that dark gray outfit though, despite the sparkly bits hahaha~)
ETA And most important, he still looks awesome in modern clothing. I need to watch more of the dramas he was in, and see him lead one soon!
And now it's done. This was the most fantastical medical, wait chase thriller drama I've ever watched. And by that I mean it has more miracles than the gospels.
The only one who impressed me was Yang SeJong, he really saved (what he could of) the drama. Everybody else was... I don't even know what they thought they were doing.
But now it's done and it might've weaned me off the timetravel/supernatural/scifi theme for a bit. Or maybe not, we'll see.
1:20 mark in the intro, immediately after ZLJ's still (he's holding a perfume bag or a written tag - might be a reference to the lantern she wrote her wishes for the perfect lover on). She looks cute :)
There's a short moment in the OP where she has on a nice dress and her hair is done like SGZ's. I hope it won't be due to despair but SGZ helps her look cute for her man.
The drama rule is "if there's no body, there's no death". Sometimes there's no death even if there's a body LOL.…
Also, if you get hit by a car... 75% chances of getting amnesia. That is, if you don't end up dead or reincarnated or had switched bodies with your worst frenemy.
The young childhood sweethearts relied and trusted each other, build a pure bond that couldnt be broken, supported…
The RED thread, err, ribbon between their hands, LOL, a symbol of marriage (though I think it's the wrong dynasty/timeline for it) and yeah you bet they did hint at soulmates with that.
I think the original CaiWei is beautiful too (despite the scar). SGZ is just a different kind of beauty. And their souls... He finally recognised the similarities and his eyes opened to who she actually is. Obviously he's happy - he isn't actually cheating on the memory of CaiWei, he is WITH CaiWei after all :D
The thing is - he didn't court her the first time around either. He just informed her he was going to wed her. Now he has to actually DO it and it's a first. And then there's ZLJ being petty and getting in his way all the time, too.
... I watched the first ep and it was pretty bad. I hear/read lots of comments that it improves later on... But still not convinced.
GSY is doing it all wrong. Because he imprinted on Kim Joon - kind of - he is taking it all out on ESH because he doesn't want to look beyond what was done to his father.
His freaking father KILLED a child and then, when he was bought off an actual punishment, MOCKED the grieving mother. I would still kill him too, if I were her. He doesn't get any pass, I don't care how much he might have loved or been loved by his own family. I don't really buy the "loving dad" image GSY has in his head either, no one who can be that cruel when they've killed a little child would be able to actually love anything or anyone.
The GOOD twist is that everybody's concerned about the other lost child and that he's out of debt and maybe going back to therapy.
The cheating husband and adopted-sister thing was obvious from the start. I still think ESH is having too big of a reaction, and if anyone was an adult around there, they'd sit down and talk it out. It's been 7 years, they've both been hurting because of the child's death, it wasn't JUST ESH feeling lost and alone in the world. Things happen. But I guess we'll instead see another heartbreak from her because in this one thing - where she had already released her husband to live for himself anyway - she won't take it. TBH, I don't care.
So, I guess GSY dies in the end - they're stretching the heart problem way too much. Or someone in ESH's circle dies and gives him a heart transplant, why not, it's a drama.
But it's good enough to keep me on watch, and CEW looks extremely handsome. I just wish his character's love-interest wasn't that crazy LOL.
There are so many new dramas though, I'm way behind with my reading :D
But no, Bite Me really is that bad - not even the slo-mo cooking shots could save it. I think the reason I stuck around to the end (watched it while it was airing, too!) was for the misery everybody was expressing in the comments, LOL.
I liked the visuals of TSS... but the science behind basically everything happening is non-existant. For me, in a movie/drama that says it's scifi there HAS to be at least moderately-accurate science. And TSS didn't care for that... *sigh* SK is great at horror and supernatural, but hasn't found a stride yet in actual scifi. There's time though :D
Both of them are so immature about love, LOL.
If SP cared for Yuan too, a little bit, he'd have had more empathy and tried to mediate between them two. That's what makes me not like him, after last ep, when I actually felt he's the best friend ever (to BOTH of them).
For a cooking drama, do not - I repeat, DO NOT - go to Bite Me with any sort of expectations. Of any kind. It's the worst cooking drama (and I tend to think of any genre of drama) I've ever managed to sit through in the vain hope SOMETHING will eventually happen. Nothing happens. It's a soul-killing slo-mo amazingly bad nonsense story. If you can call it a story. The ML get a schizophrenic change of personality in the middle of the plot and even THAT doesn't manage to make it better or at least more interesting. Don't do this to yourself. You'll just be hurt in the end.
If you really want a cooking drama (or about chefs, at least), better watch Wok of Love instead. It still has its silly out-of-this-world drama-localised coincidences and lucky strikes, but at least it's well acted and it goes somewhere.
Also, for a space drama (or astronaut profession) - also for your own good, don't go to The Silent Sea. While the cast is great and the SFX are amazing, the quantity of anti-scientific facts and incidents is amazing too. There are basically two astronauts in total involved, and even they forget how gravity works at times, not to mention the deep mysteries of how even safety pressure doors work. In a space station. During an emergency. Those are not astronauts I'd send anywhere... The production team spent so much time on whether they COULD show those great SFX when they should have considered a lot if they SHOULD have. I don't want to go into too much because spoilers... but for a drama I'd had highly anticipated and did manage great shots of the space station and all... Even the movie The Moon (which also forgets about actual physics) does it better (not great by any measure, just better than TSS).
Better watch Space Sweepers instead - it's not pretending to be a scifi or about actual astronauts and all, just a explodey space opera that wants to entertain you. It's entertaining, even if not really original. But at least they're more honest about it...
I could - theoretically - believe he didn't know which side to take, but he shouldn't have taken anyone's side, anyway, they weren't out at war...
I wish someone had taken the trouble to TL the book properly, the MTL doesn't make much sense and Priest always nuances her characters... The drama doesn't show a lot of WHY is SP so protective of Qian's little family, maybe there's something that triggers him into over-protective mode over Qian...
We'll have to see what happens, now we're halfway through.
(Also LOL, I jokingly called him a bright spark and you nicknamed him Sparky and ran with it - but it does fit him doesn't it? He IS a bright spark (when he's not being stupid by not noticing the SFL yet) and he's also sparkling all over the place (I DO love that dark gray outfit though, despite the sparkly bits hahaha~)
ETA And most important, he still looks awesome in modern clothing. I need to watch more of the dramas he was in, and see him lead one soon!
The only one who impressed me was Yang SeJong, he really saved (what he could of) the drama. Everybody else was... I don't even know what they thought they were doing.
But now it's done and it might've weaned me off the timetravel/supernatural/scifi theme for a bit. Or maybe not, we'll see.
I think ZLJ's father is the one in the shadows manipulating everything.
I think the original CaiWei is beautiful too (despite the scar). SGZ is just a different kind of beauty. And their souls... He finally recognised the similarities and his eyes opened to who she actually is. Obviously he's happy - he isn't actually cheating on the memory of CaiWei, he is WITH CaiWei after all :D
The thing is - he didn't court her the first time around either. He just informed her he was going to wed her. Now he has to actually DO it and it's a first. And then there's ZLJ being petty and getting in his way all the time, too.