So I went and took the test. No idea how accurate it is. Not an actor, either, LOL. It says Virtuoso (ISTP), basically an introvert (mostly true), mostly down to earth (also mostly true, LOL), a thinker (err...), prospecting individual (says I'm good at adapting and flexible, LOL, yeah right), turbulent (kind of...?).
Well, that was kind of fun. If anyone else wants a try...
Trust the Jinyowon (sp?) to dress up a beautiful girl until she looks like hell warmed over on her wedding day,…
So, Dark Uk is not as dark as I'd hoped, he just got emo/goth. Oh well. It would've been a stretch to get him to do a Darth Vader move in so little time. At least Seo Yul remained his steady heart-broken persona, LOL. He doesn't look so good, I guess the Gu Worm is doing his business, I wonder how come nobody noticed or did anything about it for three years.
The special effects were amazing - those ghouls around Uk were perfect. I missed his banter with the crown prince, too bad the bromance is probably gone - it seemed like Uk is basically punishing CP by rubbing his face in how bad his life is going ATM.
I am not really pleased former master got rebranded as pure comic relief and is now cooking impossible dishes. He was already dense, the joke isn't new any more. Less of it, please.
As far as I can say at this point, this would be the story of how Belle saves the Beast, probably - and Uk is definitely going to help along being killed. Not that it'll happen, presumably, LOL.
That final scene, with the boat arriving - that was straight dead soul meets Grim Reaper material, complete with traversing the river of souls. I liked that.
Basically... I'm keeping fingers crossed there'll be some actual plot and not just amazing scenery, lots of romance and heartbreak, and some soul-shifter killing gore. At least they kept the original OP theme, though I'm so sad Uk's side profile (and most of all the little ponytail!) is/are gone from it...
Can anyone remind me? in the first season, wasn't Naksu's body burned? or am I remembering wrong?
They didn't mean Naksu's body, they meant Bu-Yeon's body. The fact that BY's body ended up being Naksu's and got petrified is waltzed past at this time. And there aren't many eps to deal with the backstory anyway...
I guess at the time when the original Naksu died, her body either 1. ended up petrified and discarded, not actually burned or 2. they swapped it from the get-go, or took it from whoever swapped it later, just to have a look at it. Then preserved it until Naksu died in BY's body, and the twinned soul returned to the original... somehow. I mean, BY does officially have superpowers even compared to every other super mage there.
LJG's going to look epic as EunSeom, still, for some reason, I'd love to see him in another police story instead. I really didn't like how Netflix butchered the release of AC 1 (or 1-2-3 according to them) and it was my first unpleasant reaction to the ending of a drama I'd usually love (as in, there-is-no-ending *I'm Neo-vibing here, just so you know*) I am not certain they'll make this a good story and I don't want LJG linked to it if it comes out they are just half-assing it.
On the other hand, I'm glad Kim OkBin remained as TaelHa, nobody could rock those body-chains like her (yeah, still wishing for one of those - and for the figure to go with them, LOL).
And can we please have some more Neanthals appear, please?! Ragaz is gone, but what of it? Let's have another Neanthal bro or uncle join EunSeom, pretty please? Those guys were the best.
Is it me or did they ditch the whole storyboard we were presented with in the ending credits of the last season?... Because it sure looks like it, what with the time gap.
I spoiled myself to the novels's ending and it still hit me like a ton of bricks...Brain power is damn sexy, I…
I can't believe it took me two thirds of the drama to recognize Zhang ZheHan as Young Lin Shu. In my defense, his face was always partially hidden by the ashes and armour and whatnot, and when they showed them young, it didn't hit me at first - not until the sword-pointing incident did I recognize him, LOL.
I basically loved everything about the planning, counter-measures, desperate half-plans, winging out a rescue (or more) in no time at all, coming up with EVERYTHING and some extra on top BEFORE even coming to Jinling. I loved how once it all started, nothing could've stopped it, not even the main players deciding to abandon everything. Like a river, as the song goes. (Or a damned hurricane, LOL).
I loved each and every one of the main cast actors - not just Hu Ge, but Wang Kai, Ding YongDai, Huang WeiDe, Tan XiHe, but also everybody else and most of all, Liu MinTao. Her character of Consort Jing drew me in the deepest once the Inner Palace came into play - she immediately grasped all the intricacies, started subtly and unerringly support her son's impossible journey, recognized a dead person's real identity without ONCE coming into contact with him, even when his personality had already taken a 180 degrees turn, took such good care for him still having no direct contact, and then her tears when she did meet him and realised he's doomed already - yes, that's a master actress. And a beautiful one, to boot. I think Consort Jing is my favourite character this past half year and I don't imagine I'll forget her soon.
Little Wu Lei, LOL, he didn't have much to say, and his grumpy character fit his facial expressions a lot, :D I liked Jin Dong's character - Lin Chen - and initially thought he was the comical relief one, always playful and irreverent and chasing down girls and teasing Fei Liu... and then someone had to go say that Lin Chen is most playful when he's stressing about something. Poor Lin Chen, he had to be going out of his mind by the end...
The ending... ah the ending. Still processing. Despite the warning of the novel spoiler, I had still hoped they'd change something, but nope, full-dose of expected ending. Dammit.
The soundtrack is great - there were some tense moments when the BGM made the suspense go higher and higher and higher until things exploded and slowly drifted off. Some confrontations between characters were almost black-and-white-and-music. I loved that, this is my kind of storytelling.
Overall, a 9.5 for me (and I don't rate many as 9.5 already). There were a few tiny things that didn't set well with me, but I'll be reading the novel and try to find a deeper meaning to this all. I hope the drama did it justice, and that the novel is at least as good as the script.
I spoiled myself to the novels's ending and it still hit me like a ton of bricks...
Brain power is damn sexy, I have to say this first, The drama is best when it deals with the strategizing. The tiny drops of the personal hurt/healing process also make immense impact (I think I loved those episodes the best, but they were built on by the ruthlesness of the in-between political wars).
This one will be one on the rewatch list. So glad I finally got to start watching it (because after that first ep, nothing would have stopped me).
I wondered why the FL was sitting next to the ML on the bus when they didn't know each other and the bus was almost…
When they got on respectively, the bus was full. They were part of the few people who had to go farthest along the bus route, so they both got kind of sleepy and dozed off. When the loop started, there were only a few people left in the bus as it had mostly emptied out, but they were obviously in the same seats they had dozed off in, LOL.
(I don't remember if it's explained in the drama, as it's been a while for me - they might have hinted at it if not told outright. But it's in the book, so that's the reason they were sleeping next to each other in an almost empty bus.)
PS They also showed the route is actually quite busy, as when MengMeng went through the molestation incident, the bus was packed. But this time it's mostly empty when the loop starts.
I know, I got to 37 in 2 days (barely slept, who needs sleep anyway?!), it took over every free moment I have, and I just can't stop. Amazing drama, amazing story, amazing actors!
Edit (ep 40) If JingYan doesn't learn the truth by the end, I'm going to be so angry! T_T
Waiting for HYX is literally making me question my life choices.
Chu WanNing is worth waiting for. And Luo YunXi is perfect for the role. I just hope they leave a bit of the raw side of the story in, despite censorship.
Here's hoping it'll be released... sometime soon. During our lifetime LOL.
He's not afraid of love, I think, but he has a fear of not being first and foremost for the one he loves. At least, it came like that in the first eps, in the discussion he had with Dean. As if he's tried and been burned before, expecting to give and receive in return, but being seen as a second-best, or a fallback option. There might be something about his father's attitude about him in it, IMHO, though it's still not clear.
So... maybe a fear of committing to a relationship and being the only one who does? A trust issue, I guess.
I am getting so bored ahhh. Nothing happened again this episode and I am surprised they still haven't define their…
FWB (friends with benefits) is a thing, actually. They're both not really ready for deeper meanings and romantic conversations under the moonlight, but sex? Hell yea.
so yeah, completed the drama , i kept this drama in my watchlist for so long and now i regret for not watching…
LOL, yeah, it won't go away easily if at all. Welcome to the circle of withdrawing from TU watchers. It's been 3 years for me and counting, but hey. I regret nothing.
Just finished it and liked it too but one thing really bothered me... How did ShiQing get the lecher's photo in…
She has the password to the cloud account of the girl who took the picture. At that point, they're already used to what they have to do to get the loop to break.
JHG and Song Seol (she's interested, he's playing cool, but it looks like the writer is making them romantically involved). Also, Bong Do Jin seemed very interested in Seol too, but now I have this impression there's less of a probability of a love triangle, as they had Yoon Hong basically stake a claim on BDJ, LOL. Or at least an interest.
I'll take less love triangles for actual separate pairs anyway, I'm already having SML syndrome on this drama :D
Okay so FFD police time and stuff aside, what really really bugged me this (7th) episode...
WTH was JHG doing, hosing off the heli?! I mean, it's not the pilots' fault that the villain is scum, but they're basically being taken down by a madman with a hose on a rooftop, amid high winds?!
The HECK!
I know military movies make it look like every heli is basically army-grade and nothing brings it down, but they're freaking delicate machines which go down all the time even when all conditions are right... And JHG is actively blinding the pilots, making the side of the heli heavier, pushing it at an angle around a high rise building (again, amid high winds, they said), in currents they couldn't even control, above a well-trafficked area...
Even with suspended disbelief, someone give him a freaking HUGE FINE at least, for endangering the aircraft and its crew!
PS And I do mean it with the time condensation technique. I actually appreciate how they're not wasting "days" or "weeks" dealing with burocratic procedures, but they actually do take all that time, and there are reasons as to why all of them came into existence. NOBODY actually can find a DNA profile basically instantly, (not even if they had all the equipment in the world ready and sitting around, it takes time for it to be collected, prepared, analysed, etc - there's is a procedure for fast DNA analysis, but seriously, does that institute sit around waiting for JHG to send them any whichever random DNA sample he feels like having tested?!), or sweep a freaking sodium metal bombing of a freaking national university under the carpet (no, not even the prospective future SK president, actually, his life would probably be under the microscope even worse than a normal drug trafficker's). And so on, and so forth.
So I'm enjoying the drama so far - mostly because I like Bulldozer, LOL - but they should tread carefully when taking it that bit way too far off the grid, IMHO.
i have a question. about the ratings in the "episode guide" section of this page. Are they the actual Korean TV…
Do you mean ratings for appreciation, or ratings of viewership? The later are given by factors like Nielsen for example, and they're definitely used to prove people are watching the drama so they like it. (TV viewership ratings doesn't include streaming, though, so it might be even higher than noted). If you want to check if a drama is watched in SK, there's the wiki of d-addicts, they usually publish it on the drama's page when it becomes available.
As for MDL, it's just appreciation ratings, which means that if not enough people are watching, or not all of them are rating it, then the ratings might be higher or lower than you'd expect. I would basically igonore MDL ratings when actually watching a drama, they tend to be kind of distorted by many things that aren't related to the drama itself.
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Well, that was kind of fun. If anyone else wants a try...
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The special effects were amazing - those ghouls around Uk were perfect. I missed his banter with the crown prince, too bad the bromance is probably gone - it seemed like Uk is basically punishing CP by rubbing his face in how bad his life is going ATM.
I am not really pleased former master got rebranded as pure comic relief and is now cooking impossible dishes. He was already dense, the joke isn't new any more. Less of it, please.
As far as I can say at this point, this would be the story of how Belle saves the Beast, probably - and Uk is definitely going to help along being killed. Not that it'll happen, presumably, LOL.
That final scene, with the boat arriving - that was straight dead soul meets Grim Reaper material, complete with traversing the river of souls. I liked that.
Basically... I'm keeping fingers crossed there'll be some actual plot and not just amazing scenery, lots of romance and heartbreak, and some soul-shifter killing gore. At least they kept the original OP theme, though I'm so sad Uk's side profile (and most of all the little ponytail!) is/are gone from it...
I guess at the time when the original Naksu died, her body either 1. ended up petrified and discarded, not actually burned or 2. they swapped it from the get-go, or took it from whoever swapped it later, just to have a look at it. Then preserved it until Naksu died in BY's body, and the twinned soul returned to the original... somehow. I mean, BY does officially have superpowers even compared to every other super mage there.
LJG's going to look epic as EunSeom, still, for some reason, I'd love to see him in another police story instead. I really didn't like how Netflix butchered the release of AC 1 (or 1-2-3 according to them) and it was my first unpleasant reaction to the ending of a drama I'd usually love (as in, there-is-no-ending *I'm Neo-vibing here, just so you know*) I am not certain they'll make this a good story and I don't want LJG linked to it if it comes out they are just half-assing it.
On the other hand, I'm glad Kim OkBin remained as TaelHa, nobody could rock those body-chains like her (yeah, still wishing for one of those - and for the figure to go with them, LOL).
And can we please have some more Neanthals appear, please?! Ragaz is gone, but what of it? Let's have another Neanthal bro or uncle join EunSeom, pretty please? Those guys were the best.
Is it me or did they ditch the whole storyboard we were presented with in the ending credits of the last season?... Because it sure looks like it, what with the time gap.
I basically loved everything about the planning, counter-measures, desperate half-plans, winging out a rescue (or more) in no time at all, coming up with EVERYTHING and some extra on top BEFORE even coming to Jinling. I loved how once it all started, nothing could've stopped it, not even the main players deciding to abandon everything. Like a river, as the song goes. (Or a damned hurricane, LOL).
I loved each and every one of the main cast actors - not just Hu Ge, but Wang Kai, Ding YongDai, Huang WeiDe, Tan XiHe, but also everybody else and most of all, Liu MinTao. Her character of Consort Jing drew me in the deepest once the Inner Palace came into play - she immediately grasped all the intricacies, started subtly and unerringly support her son's impossible journey, recognized a dead person's real identity without ONCE coming into contact with him, even when his personality had already taken a 180 degrees turn, took such good care for him still having no direct contact, and then her tears when she did meet him and realised he's doomed already - yes, that's a master actress. And a beautiful one, to boot. I think Consort Jing is my favourite character this past half year and I don't imagine I'll forget her soon.
Little Wu Lei, LOL, he didn't have much to say, and his grumpy character fit his facial expressions a lot, :D I liked Jin Dong's character - Lin Chen - and initially thought he was the comical relief one, always playful and irreverent and chasing down girls and teasing Fei Liu... and then someone had to go say that Lin Chen is most playful when he's stressing about something. Poor Lin Chen, he had to be going out of his mind by the end...
The ending... ah the ending. Still processing. Despite the warning of the novel spoiler, I had still hoped they'd change something, but nope, full-dose of expected ending. Dammit.
The soundtrack is great - there were some tense moments when the BGM made the suspense go higher and higher and higher until things exploded and slowly drifted off. Some confrontations between characters were almost black-and-white-and-music. I loved that, this is my kind of storytelling.
Overall, a 9.5 for me (and I don't rate many as 9.5 already). There were a few tiny things that didn't set well with me, but I'll be reading the novel and try to find a deeper meaning to this all. I hope the drama did it justice, and that the novel is at least as good as the script.
Ah, this was such a good high...
Brain power is damn sexy, I have to say this first, The drama is best when it deals with the strategizing. The tiny drops of the personal hurt/healing process also make immense impact (I think I loved those episodes the best, but they were built on by the ruthlesness of the in-between political wars).
This one will be one on the rewatch list. So glad I finally got to start watching it (because after that first ep, nothing would have stopped me).
(I don't remember if it's explained in the drama, as it's been a while for me - they might have hinted at it if not told outright. But it's in the book, so that's the reason they were sleeping next to each other in an almost empty bus.)
PS They also showed the route is actually quite busy, as when MengMeng went through the molestation incident, the bus was packed. But this time it's mostly empty when the loop starts.
Edit (ep 40) If JingYan doesn't learn the truth by the end, I'm going to be so angry! T_T
One of the most bingeable dramas I've ever watched, dammit, it's the middle of the work week why is this my life now T_T
Here's hoping it'll be released... sometime soon. During our lifetime LOL.
So... maybe a fear of committing to a relationship and being the only one who does? A trust issue, I guess.
But they're falling, slow and steady.
I'll take less love triangles for actual separate pairs anyway, I'm already having SML syndrome on this drama :D
The HECK!
I know military movies make it look like every heli is basically army-grade and nothing brings it down, but they're freaking delicate machines which go down all the time even when all conditions are right... And JHG is actively blinding the pilots, making the side of the heli heavier, pushing it at an angle around a high rise building (again, amid high winds, they said), in currents they couldn't even control, above a well-trafficked area...
Even with suspended disbelief, someone give him a freaking HUGE FINE at least, for endangering the aircraft and its crew!
PS And I do mean it with the time condensation technique. I actually appreciate how they're not wasting "days" or "weeks" dealing with burocratic procedures, but they actually do take all that time, and there are reasons as to why all of them came into existence. NOBODY actually can find a DNA profile basically instantly, (not even if they had all the equipment in the world ready and sitting around, it takes time for it to be collected, prepared, analysed, etc - there's is a procedure for fast DNA analysis, but seriously, does that institute sit around waiting for JHG to send them any whichever random DNA sample he feels like having tested?!), or sweep a freaking sodium metal bombing of a freaking national university under the carpet (no, not even the prospective future SK president, actually, his life would probably be under the microscope even worse than a normal drug trafficker's). And so on, and so forth.
So I'm enjoying the drama so far - mostly because I like Bulldozer, LOL - but they should tread carefully when taking it that bit way too far off the grid, IMHO.
As for MDL, it's just appreciation ratings, which means that if not enough people are watching, or not all of them are rating it, then the ratings might be higher or lower than you'd expect. I would basically igonore MDL ratings when actually watching a drama, they tend to be kind of distorted by many things that aren't related to the drama itself.