ShortCircuit

It's either the father or his friend then. Will the doll case ever be complete?...

The last one seems to be with a vengeful ghost. And is that lady the one who actually makes all the ink connections? Is that what she means by having lived for too long and wanting to die?

And is PYY's grandpa keeping her there, and passing her to PYY to solve more cases?...

Edit: the thing baker-boy said, about not calling people you've lost by their name, even when talking about them, hit me deeply. It happens to me and to most everyone I know and we all need conscious effort to name them.

That man will be the fourth sidekick - the psychologist. He might bake too sweet, but so far he's the most human among the whole bunch.

Dammit, they're all tearjerkers!!

Is this the last case? No!! I want more trouble to come... Is there any hope of a second (or more) season(s)?

They should set up a fashion show with the TTEOTM costumes. I'd definitely go.

PS My wedding dress instead of MY wedding dresss LOL.

But if the original set up was that TTJ had to die in order for the bone to be activated and ADG resurrected, he was a mortal then and wouldn't his soul be in the Nether River? He - TTJ - doesn't have an ounce of divine essence in him at the time of death. He'd be gone.

Something is sneaky here. I think there's a twist coming up and if it's this one... if it's well-planned, it'll be awesome.

So little time left, so much to wait until then LOL.

Argh, point 2. seemed to be the solution but then I remembered that DG1 (if he's separate) would have been the merged ADG and TTJ who didn't meet LSS and never fell in love with her. He'd only know YXW and it wouldn't be a nice memory.

UNLESS. TTJ has always been a good guy, even when not getting love threads because of reasons, so he really would try to make it hard to the DG1 to be totally in control and destroy the world. I could excuse the rest as part of ADG's inner conflict with the TTJ side of his existence. I might even consider they've been merged so badly so far that he's in fact trying to wipe out anything that is helping to keep remnants of TTJ's soul active.

If they don't go the route of complete loop and make DG2 be DG1 and find another solution, I'll be telling myself this, LOL. So thanks for finding a route around the problem :D

Then again. If TTJ died 500 years in the past, how come the DG1 remained quiet until suddenly attacking the sects? It's a long time not to subdue one hopeless soul with no love threads... But I'm willing to overlook it and decide for myself if it's actually the way I'm thinking (sounds way better as an origin story for DG1 LOL) depending on how they end it after all :D

That's just it, they didn't know he existed before he started attacking the sects. GYJW1 is talking to LSS and telling her - 10k years ago, the ancient Devil God was felled and now this new Devil God abruptly appeared and we don't know his origins or name, how can we kill him? It definitely sounds like it was totally by surprise.

And when he has Master Qu and Master Zhaoyou, he's taunting them into activating the Mirror of the Past (which in turn will show LSS his past identity and make certain she can find him when she goes back). He's even promising to let them go if they do it.

BTW they're using the Devil-Subduing Pillar set to have DG1 chain up and mess with Master Zhaoyou :D and this time no links broke LOL

There's a moment DG1 is using the Bone Refining Seal's black fire showers to confine the masters, and Si Ying comes to him to warn him to stop (and he does). That's pretty strange.

Then Jing Mie just "accidentally" allows them to steal back the Mirror of the Past and pass it to LSS...

The fact DG1 says "it's you" isn't that strange - 1. she just nicked him with her harp-sword whatever it is, and then is coming back for another try so he's just recognizing it's her again, or 2. he recognized the wife from 500 years back who killed him before ADG revived LOL. But if he WAS DG2 come to be DG1... he would definitely recognize her. Maybe if she kills him it does something to TTJ's soul so that most of the control goes to the DG revived and if he's indeed gone to the past, he can't even feel all that much any more...

.... Maybe it's wishful thinking. But it would make a great twist if it happened. Not sure how it would be solved though.

I definitely hope there's no hypnotists' war going on or that they're not trying to make it somehow into a no-mask Death Note LOL. ZYC is playing LFP like he's L :D

First impression - Luo Fei either messed up in that case from 10 years back (drama timeline) and feels the guilt so deeply he's insomniac, or he was involved or someone dealt with his memories somehow (more hypnotism).

I can't take hypnotism seriously though, so I hope they won't make it such a huge deal.

I postponed it until Viki picked it up (thank you Viki team!!) but after two eps I am still not feeling it. It sends a vibe like it would be a good, pretty tight, noir(ish) movie, but two eps in they're setting up a lot of things and being obscure for no special reason.

LFP feels kind of squishy and that hair is messing with me, and Luo Fei looks like he never caught a nap while filming this whole series (I know there are reasons and an extensive watch list of thrillers is giving me an educated guess about some of those vibes, but still...)

I hope it picks up the pace a bit. I'll still finish it (because Xin Yun Lai!) but it might take me some time.

It's not justified (keep in mind this is in drama. Real-world decisions would be much more morally gray. We're allowed absolutes in fiction).

First off - he didn't do anything wrong and actually helped the sects fight off devils (he rescued the Bone Refining Seal from the minions before the sects even realized the minions had come stealing.)

Second off - he's trying to keep it contained by making sure he never dies so his body never embodies the ADG (as hot as ADG is, he's not actually around but more of a spirit til now).

Third off - he's making moral choices which proves he's a moral person (nobody's forcing him to those choices and he's not making them for the sake of his public image, but even destroys that in order to still make the moral choice. Case in point - calling out the God-Slaying Crossbow in public to shoot down the demons, even if that shows the people who he is).

Fourth off - so far, only two of the decision-makers in the sects have shown moral attitudes of their own, and not a little naivete (won't call it stupidity; maybe a lack of that tiny bit of cynicism that would prevent a villain from taking advantage.) One of those two is already dead. (Not to mention the one Sect Leader who actively tries to get demonic weapons and wants revenge - definitely "morals" at play). So what gives the Immortal Sects dominion over the lives of other people?

I stand with Master Qu and Master Zhaoyou - well the one remaining. They can consider more than one POV and decide accordingly.

So it's kind of obvious after 36 that TTJ is planning to either make LSS kill him and prevent ADG's revival, or just winging it by hoping he'll SOMEHOW find a way to restrain the old devil.

BUT.

The first ep's DG (or DG1) has the same forehead demonic sign that TTJ just got in 36. And DG1 seems to be kind of lost at times, covering up some emotion while destroying the sects and making sure (on n-th watch it looks like he's DEFINITELY ensuring) LSS gets back in time, giving her all the opportunities to see him do evil stuff but allowing her to go through the Array._ And when she's gone, he's back to being kind of lost...

The ADG has a completely different forehead sign - DG1 and TTJ's in the second timeline are dual-sided (VERY similar to LSS's phoenix feather) and ADG's is like an arrow with a twisted head.

https://mydramalist.com/photos/E5kxbO_3

If ADG doesn't get to merge with TTJ, why would DG2 and TTJ get the exact same sign? And why would DG1 seem to recognize the phoenix sign on her forehead that shines out at him at one point?

So I'm kind of thinking that - what if LSS DOES kill TTJ and instead of being destroyed or lost in the Nether River or whatever - like she was... he just goes back in time 500 years and makes sure LSS DOES go back (and eventually ends up saving him?) I'm saying, WHAT IF DG2 is actually going back to he past and he's DG1 that we started with?

The Immortal Sects never knew who DG1 was before they got the Mirror of the Past, and they also directly comment on how he "appeared out of the sudden", as if there was basically no DG1 almost right before that time he attacked the sects.

If they make such a time loop back to the beginning, it would tickle my time-jumping scifi lover's heart LOL. But maybe I'm overthinking it. Or even if there was such a possible plot, it might not happen (they won't connect the beginning to the end).

I don't know what to feel about this. I kind of want it to happen. Also kind of not (because if it happens, where does DG1 go, and does it mean they're now stuck in a loop?)

Why is there so much time til Sunday?!

I'm passing over so many comments that might be spoilery in nature (PLEASE USE SPOILER TAGS GUYS!) - like who said what about the ending - and not reading them and now I've come to post an unsettling thought...

I've just re-watched the first ep (because why not?) and there's this thing...

It's OP's link.

He's all chatty about their performance and smiling when it's BL's turn, then gets a bit shy at the kiss LOL. Meanwhile she's barely paying attention to him because she's focusing so hard on the screen, and at the kiss she's basically almost leaning on him :D

If these two aren't good friends, I've wasted all my skills in decyphering body language LOL.

OMG I just realized they're watching the wedding night s*x scene in Bo're Life when he's losing his voice LOL no wonder he's being chatty, he had A LOT to say at that moment and couldn't hahaha

Myself, I couldn't stand the second pairing but I did watch it through for the leads, the doggy, the comedy and the sizzling chemistry. And I might've had a girl crush on the lady VIP LOL (which BTW is playing a support character in here, one of the goddesses).

If you start TTEOTM, give it a chance even with the miscommunication (they can't help, that's what pushes the plot and drama on for 99% of xianxia LOL).

(Reference points for me - character's progress > plot > soundtrack > cinematography > everything else. So you would see how I'm comparing it to the dramas in my completed list. TTEOTM stands between 9 and 9.5 for me at this time - 4 eps to go.)

One of the chain links broke in that scene. It happens. It also escaped checkers LOL, I guess they'll get to fix it before re-runs.

You haven't watched even a wuxia drama (I like the humour in YB, standard wuxia it is not), xianxia will kill you outright (and this one of the best xianxia LOL).

There is a plot. You'll very probably enjoy it since you watched and liked (enough) Reset (yes there will be time travel and time paradoxes).

What this (or any other xianxia) won't do for you (unless you let it/them): there will be lots of drama (of the heartache pain and misscomunication / misunderstanding kind.) There will be amazing cinematography and epic battles (this one has the best battle scenes I've ever seen in xianxia) and they will be of great importance to the story, but there will be no physics allowed while they're fighting. There will be some characters that would make you throw your watching device away in frustration or rage. There will be lots of hidden meanings and tropes that may seem obscure but are pretty clear to someone more familiar with the genre. There will be record-breaking blood spitting (it's a trope LOL).

What this will definitely deliver on: amazing acting skills, great chemistry, beautiful sets, the best costumes I've ever seen, Maybe some PTSD (depending on the ending).

If you're of a mind to try on at least one xianxia drama, then yes, this one. But it'll set a very high standard.

PS Edited to add: I watched the leads in other dramas (including in their other one together). I like both of them as actors, together and separately. This is LYX's best drama yet and he had the chance to outshine everybody else. I might like Bai Lu's Love is Sweet better, but it's very probably because her more bubbly personality has a chance to come out better in that modern drama. So I'd like to think I'm not all that biased :)

First time: TTJ the hostage prince raising his eyes to look at YXW (in episode 1). STILL the best scene in the drama for me. I think I convinced my sibling to watch it based on it (they never watch Asian dramas LOL).

The rest: there's no time to mention basically every interaction in the drama LOL. I mean, even TTJ looking at NBY with a raised eyebrow when YXW - as maid - decides she's going to seduce him by throwing a tantrum. LOL. I can't.

Edit: EVERY battle scene is better than the last one, and none of them are lacking. This drama is the most epic xianxia EVER. Rewatched all of them plenty of times LOL.

Any of you rewatched the whole episode immediately it was over?....

Glad I'm not the only one :D

You must've watched Theory of Love LOL.

*checking* Oh, you haven't! Well, now you have to :)

He's also cute!!!! But yeah, I won't usually recommend it. It was the final arc that killed the mood for me, LOL. Those who watched it will remember the God of War part :D