ShortCircuit

Well, that cliffhanger was to be expected since the chemical slurry thingie.

I just hope they don't ruin the ending with a tragedy.

Danmei is a genre of BL literature (usually in the form of webnovels - that is, novels serialized online, when the author, even if they have a plan and structure for their novel, might even interact with the readers and change things or add something according to what the readers want. Like some fan-service, for example, LOL. Or they might not.)

Mo Dao Zu Shi (The Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) is the danmei novel that The Untamed is based on. MDZS is definitely BL/danmei (up to and including 18+ scenes). But the Chinese won't allow anything like uncensored BL to pass review and be aired, so the script writers of the drama tried really hard to adapt it so that the original relationship survives and is visible, even if there are no PDA or love declarations.

Which means to say, so-inclined people COULD theoretically see this as just a bromance, but anyone who knows it's rooted in a romantic story definitely can see it.

As to the ending, yes. I find it definitely a HEA. And I have the novel (and the extras to the novel) to back me up :D

She probably convinced herself she's doing it to avenge MinJo, and who knows, maybe she actually is.

It just twisted really fast once the SIH pulled SooHyun in.

And don't you just love it how everybody in the story - and their dog, too - just fell immediately in love with WooShin's Persona Non Grata novel? :D Then again, now that I think about it... basically two of the three people who read and liked the novel are now dead - Sgt. Ko and cute fanboy Agent Kim, and now only TaeSung is still alive.

Is this an omen?! Trying hard to remember if Mrs. Kwon only read the heart transplant story or did she have a Persona Non Grata volume in her room, too? (In which case, RIP, in advance.)

Persona Non Grata - this person is unwelcome. I'm beginning to fear for TaeSung...

No, poor WooShin's hand!! He's a lefty, too. Dammit. Who wants to take a bet that the destroyed tracking devices will come into play? I do NOT want them to be important in identifying which twin is still alive, if we get to that point...

LCW is a serious BASTARD and I LOVED it when SooHyun said his real father was dead and LCW had no relationship with him - take THAT, sperm donor, LOL. And the freaking action toy was there all these 22 years - what if they had just decided to gift it away to some orphanage? Then again, it was the last toy their step-dad ever gave HWS, it would have a huge emotional weight...

So, Sun is on HyunJo's side, who does she want to kill? I'm thinking it's her sister, I don't think she's too addicted to the idea of killing either twin, they're just business for her. Maybe SeoHee, but still, it would be too little to pay for what HyunJo wants. I bet she asked him for Yoon Jin TO HIS FACE, because Secretary Yoon couldn't hear her anyway. And I bet he agreed, maybe thinking he'd play her out later.

Mr. Lee (psycho ex-Team A leader who just got reinserted LOL) wants to kill SSH, and maybe HWS just for the giggles, but all the rest of the team are bumbling idiots. Where did Agent Park go, though? Since SIH is being dismantled. And where did KHP go, too, after sending TaeSung to the safe house?!

Where are all these people hiding?!

Show, do NOT hurt WooShin any more, I am a sadist and I like watching heroic characters suffer, but somehow HWS's honest fear and pain are getting to me like nobody ever before. He's trying to put things at right, he needs to survive (hand intact, too). And not lose his twin either, since we're bargaining anyway.

There can't be just two eps left... there just can't!

Jimmy Hoffa is in one of those barrels.

Also, Mrs. Kwon got a tad overdramatic, LOL and still didn't get to the level of HyeSoo. This story is bonkers!!!

And I was under the impression I was watching ep. 12, and then remembered this was 14... only two eps left?! NOOOOOOOO! *overdramatic Vader roar* (what, why can't I? :D)

It comes down to charisma, and he has it in spades. He's always been one collected actor, who shows high levels of EQ in scenes that need it, and can also do action (even when he was playing the cliche hit-by-a-white-truck-of-doom, DOUBLE amnesiac chaebol heir, LOL, in Save the Last Dance for Me, he already shone. And he's pretty good at picking his projects, I'll say that.

Unlike Lee Joon Gi, who is also very charismatic. His dramas are always either hit or miss, but he's always involved in the character and at times, when he's the only one sustaining the drama, he's in a world of his own. If you haven't had a chance to watch him perform yet, try Flower of Evil. Two Weeks and Time Between Dog and Wolf are also pretty good, if a bit older. International fans also like Moon Lovers (and he was the best thing in that drama, IMHO), but that one is a romance and I struggled with it just for him.

Other magnetic SK actors are Jung KyungHo (from Life on Mars and Hospital Playlist) and Jang Hyuk (from Slave Hunters, My Country, Wok of Love, Voice). Lee JunHo (Red Sleeve, Just Between Lovers) also seems to be on track to becoming one of the best SK drama actors.

But Ji Sung... yeah, he's up there with the very best of them.

One overarching case, other cases related to the overarching one.

The seasons are separated, but the MCs (the police team, and not just the two leads) are the same, and initial team dynamics and establishment of friendship and trust happened in the first season and now they're already settled. S1 delved a lot more on the MLs psychological problems and got a lot more personal for both of them.

I wonder if TaeHo found some proof it was her all along and offered to take the fall for her, because he loved her, but she didn't trust him so she killed him.

She's an actual psycho - manipulated the evidence so far that even her own brother, who DID ask for HeeJoo to be killed, doesn't know now if she was killed because of his order, or because NaNa manipulated them all in order to get it done.

So if she got jealous or offended, she killed HeeJoo and then killed TaeHo too. Next week's preview looks like grandpa is in danger, and EunHye is always around him, I hope she doesn't get pulled into it too.

But the endgame will probably be OJH... He KNOWS she killed or fabricated the accident that killed TaeHo and won't forget about it so easily, and she knows his weakness. He'll be her final prey... :(

PS DongWook's brother is an idiot, I hope he doesn't come again. Send him away on a fishing boat, show, so that he can be redeemed and stop hurting his brother with his stupidity! DongWook, here's a hug!

So it's like that. I already thought she was crazy, now it's confirmed.

mkvdrama has the raw, there's an EN sub on subscene.

Are we there yet?...

HA! That's exactly what I thought of LOL.

I'll definitely be watching, because sci-fi and Joo Ji Hoon. Though we're already way past the beginning of the second half of 2022 LOL, maybe they meant the last quarter of the year :D

Also, I'll make a bet - SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE! :D

TBH, I have a pretty low threshold for horror gore and I freely admit it. It doesn't have to be anything bloody - a maggot-infested cadaver will do. Even in police stories. Eeck.

And anything zombies (which fierce corpses and ghouls definitely are similar to) also is a bit too much for me. I liked it that they mostly changed it to dark energy and avenging spirits in the drama.

But that aside, anything horror involving children (dead children especially) is a bit over the top for me. I kind of tried not to pay attention to that chapter in MDZS and I am glad they changed it for the drama, but it's still eeck for me anytime I think of it.

>there is no gore in the novel

The creepiest moment in the novel, for me, is the child corpse eating off Wen Chao's body one tiny bit at a time, which is why he's so afraid of the flute sound. I know why they did the change in the drama, and TBH I like the bride ghost quite a lot - she's evilly cute - but eww.

And then there's Nie MingJue's headless corpse piecing itself together throughout the story, too... Gore doesn't have to be bloody wars.

Ji Sung is one of the best actors I've ever watched. When this one is finished, give a chance to The Devil Judge, the adrenaline rush of that one is epic. And if you want to see him doing multiple roles... Kill Me Heal Me has you covered, long live Perry Park :D

I absolutely LOVE how WooShin always gets afraid. I mean, it's the character, obviously, but he's so certain of himself when analyzing others, and then he is placed in danger and he keeps standing strong while being obviously afraid. I love that nuance. WooShin is the best twin.

On the other hand... I also absolutely loved how frantic SooHyun became as time went by and no text came from WooShin. SSH is the almost-best twin, LOL. If he would stop being so hasty and take a bit to calculate probabilities, like WooShin does, they'd take down anybody and everything together.

Poor TaeSung, I bet he thinks he killed Mr Lee (psycho ex-Team A leader). And then the police / SIH counterpart got suicided WITH HIS WHOLE FAMILY WTF!!!!! no wonder TaeSung cracked. I hope when Mr Kwon survives, he's disabled or has brain damage so severe he can't speak, move or otherwise do anything but breathe and suffer.

Mrs Kwon on the other hand was a surprise - she's not ready to go down yet. I want to see her working with HWS, they got along (as actors) like a house on fire.

LCW is a bastard, always has been. I bet he never tells them where the freaking Adamas is. His interests lie own skin first, no matter what he tells to the twins.

I don't want this to end now it's moving so well :D.

I had completely forgotten about the implants LOL.

Ok, this has me waiting for the next episode, again. I like it.

It's the cherry on top the donghua. There are 30 some 5-min long episodes of pure cuteness. Fluff and nothing else.

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T15okAJuoso&list=PL1XL0duQrCwRMtNrxNDHxamgI52maHCRW