ShortCircuit

After ep 1... I don't know how I feel about it yet. The Chinese/returning SK demons were scary, but the original Counter team got too funny-ha-ha for my taste. Oh well. I hope they don't continue on being spoofs. Onward to the second ep.

Edit: after ep 2, the demons are cool, the original Counters are pretty... not cool. It feels like there's no flow of plot yet, though the fights are definitely pretty good. If big-daddy demon gets to be the master villain, I won't complain, LOL, at least he has that spark of malice like the original villain in the first season did (and he's kind of sleek, like the original Death in Supernatural, same ossature type, too).

So far, so meh, kind of. I hope it picks up in the next eps, given the previews. And I really really hope there won't be too many cow dung jokes.

PS "Close your eyes" is still one of the best OST songs in kdrama. I don't have a great impression so far of the OST for this season. Too bad.

It asked/wanted his first-born daughter too and that was too much for him.

If they exist, they're already around you even when you can see - but not see THEM. So there wouldn't be much of a problem. Particularly as many of them don't even interact with the (drama)world.

FL's dad made a deal with the ghost when he found the hair accessory, because he was in process of losing his sight and she could help him keep his vision.

I wouldn't really care much about him either, if I were his ex-wife - he sacrificed his second-born (not that the child got to be actually born in the end), to get to the ghost and hang on to it.

1. He did. But then he got better.

2. He had his reasons to try it. But he has good excuse for it, too.

Watch TU, it's all worth it. Present timeline: 1-2, 33-50 (the first two are a short introduction), past timeline: 3-33 (explains why the present timeline is as it is). Give it a bit of time, it's a slow-moving masterpiece.

How do they do it in SK, do they overdub it in Korean?

Ouch. Well, some have the voice for it, some don't... :(

It's my opinion only, based on my tastes. I like LJH a whole lot but YoonA just... doesn't click. I find her pretty bland. I don't think if someone's an idol or a very good singer it immediately follows they can act, too (LJH is an example that it can happen, but in her case... )

Oh well, it's water under the bridge. I liked the opening of KTL, but pretty fast the slow-mo catwalk attitude started grating on my nerves. And then the inane dialogue and the non-existing plot... I get it, it's a clicheed romcom and people like it BECAUSE it's a clicheed romcom, BUT I DON'T. I am not above gushing over my faves (and LJH would deserve it) but not really when there's no acting involved, just the regular cinderella trope and all its cohort of brothers that's been done to death, resurrected and killed all over again.

It's just too boring, even for a no-stakes romcom. So definitely not for me.

But it might be just the right thing for other people, which is their right, so enjoy it to the fullest!

TBoY=The Blood of Youth.

SSS=Sword Snow Stride.

His record is broken, UNLESS this drama is the one to take back the crown from TTJ :D

First ep's energy is a lot like TBoY coupled with fantasy swish-swoosh fighting from SSS. But I like it (the FX and humour are good, the OP doesn't impress but isn't awful either, not too sure about CY's styling - what, did they try to make him look his own age? LOL, and Xiao ShunYao is relegated again to a villain role. I guess he can't help being typecast now. I definitely don't like the dubbing though, they all sound pretty strange.) Not sure yet if I'll watch it as it airs or wait for it to be over. At least there's a release schedule and this is not Youku to fiddle with it every other day...

It's a long hot summer. Maybe this will the be the thing to watch then.

DoYoon's turnabout made no sense. It was cute seeing ChoWon typo-ing all her goodbye messages, but I didn't feel really invested in their love story. He was in the first life too, but just there, nothing more than that. So either they wanted to go the webtoon way and make him part of it, but changed their minds, or they decided from the beginning he'd be active only in the current life. Either way, there's a lot of lost potential there.

The hotel business came and went, no fireworks, not a lot of actual importance. Including the uncle's failed assassination attempt. Was that it? Meh. The dad's involvement in it, also meh.

Kang MinKi came across as a psycho in that first life, Still, he's a bit interesting as in they didn't tell what his original problem ever was and why did HE remember his past lives. Though it's probably the same as her - he cursed himself for some reason and now he has to find his inner zen and deal with it or something. Oh well.

In the end, this was a very good drama about 2/3 through it, and then flatlined (for me). STILL, it's better than KTL which I dropped due to the sheer nonsense in ep4 (I could feel paint peeling when watching that drama). I guess I'll have to rely on other stories to get me through the summer...

Something changed around ep8 for me. Maybe it was the heatwave that's sucking the joy of life out of me, maybe it's actually the drama... but I kind of checked out. So in the end, this was okay, but for me, it didn't hold up til the end. I'd be sad about it - but I've already said it, there's this heatwave practically killing me, so strong emotions are out of the question right now, LOL.

Anyway, I'm glad I watched it and SHS is the best. I'll watch her again in anything she does.

By the first three novels of MXTX do you mean the first three volumes of MDZS or did you splurge and buy all the volumes of MDZS, SVSSS and TGCF too? LOL. I got them spread throughout the year and they were pretty costly - but worth it :D (TGCF still has two volumes upcoming though :()

Now I've started on 2ha, Thousand Autumns and YuWu and hoping SevenSeas picks up some of my favourites - like You've Got Mail, Qiang Jin Jiu, Copper Coins, Rebirth of a Movie Star, and so on, and so forth LOL. It's like - SevenSeas, please take my money hahaha!

I sure hope the blue stone can be recharged, because he (LKS) will definitely need to go back. I loved the heartbreak of realising she's his lover (even with the denying part). If he can go back and change the past, it would explain why YDJ's existence as of right now is being put into jeopardy...

Kai and YDJ need to get to that meeting and exchange info, ASAP. I hope nothing intervenes. But now that LKS knows... things will get messy if nobody lets him in into the secret stuff. And they'll all be in danger.

Slowed down a lot these past two eps... Oh well. I guess we have the finale week to see what's what.

Well, that's a big ask. Let's settle for " just take his shirt off" :D

My current theory is that as Kang San continues to use his superpowers, either a) something gets passed on to DongJoo or b) there's something going back in time each time, so that maybe the original case might be solved THEN and not NOW, so the future gets impacted somehow. We'll have to wait and see.

Also YongDae: You can tell me EVERYthing, I'll trust you 'cause we're besties.
DongJoo: He has superpowers.
YongDae: Gotto go, bye.

And I absolutely LOVE the frenemy bromance. At this point, I don't even know if MyungSeok actually doesn't like DongJoo or is just continuously taken by surprise by him and has a grudging admiration thing on-going LOL. But for me, LMS and YDJ's relationship so far definitely tops all other relationships.

I'm not mad at all. He's a flawed human but he realizes what is right or wrong. He just hasn't found his courage yet. I think that he eventually will.

People who want flawless or easily redeemable characters have forgotten that no one is actually a superhero or so black/white in morals that they are never tempted. The only place those characters exist (the perfectly moral/ethical ones) is in fiction and they're supposed to serve as models. In real life everything is always a certain shade of gray.