ShortCircuit

It's always about surrounding noise when filming, though, isn't it? As in, if they can't film on a sound stage, (and sometimes even IF they film on a sound stage, particularly for costume dramas), the ambiental noise is way too much to be filtered out, so they re-do the sound in the studio later.

In modern dramas, the actors themselves usually re-do their own lines in voice-dub, if they're good enough in Mandarin and have no particularly strange accent, but I guess sometimes the producers want a certain voice/range etc, so the VA takes over.

It's not a big deal usually, it's just how the industry works.

It's more like it's "unpossible" grammar and some words are always mistranslated (even Gao Yang's name keeps coming up as Levin, no idea why, or the very regular "xia*/okay comes up as "row" LOL, Mr. Gao becomes Miss Gao etc.) It is a major headache to try and re-order the sentences or phrases so that they make sense, but it's not impossible in the end.

I guess it's all about if you do want to go to that trouble. Some parts of the TL can be very hard to make sense of. It took me a few months to go through the series, when I usually take much less, particularly for a shorter one, but for me yes, it was worth the trouble. I have to say that by now I do recognize some common Mandarin words or phrases already though, so some meaning was clear to me even without the subs.

I don't know why MangoTV does this... I still hope a proper fansub appears, at least, for some of their dramas that are not as popular as the major IP ones, but pretty good themselves.

And just when WenJie was all ready to own it all up. Now the other cop is just throwing accusations around and being suspicious based on WJ's background, and LJ can't even go back to their easy friendship and just ask WJ to just trust him on this one...

It's going to become an ugly mess if they follow WJ to the exchange and he gets caught in the whole ring thing. His friends are both involved too, now, and he'll have more pressure points to offer the bad guys to push on :(

I have a bad feeling about where it's all heading...

Just a few angry words and he destroyed all that trust... LJ, you fool...

Each adaptation did its own little changes. It's never mentioned in the novel that his eyes glow red either, LOL. But yes, it's easier (and definitely cheaper) to animate amazing effects around the Chi fighting displays, so the donghua was always going to win that one.

The drama won the character impersonation aspect (particularly where it concerns female characters) and with fleshing out more of the story in a more logical timeline (and also the soundtrack, it's the best IMHO among the whole lot of adaptations), the donghua does great effects and is allowed a bit more liberty from the censors, so some WangXian made it through, the audio drama waltzed around most of the censorship, LOL, up to and including sound effects from 18+ scenes, and the novel gave everyone free reign to their imagination. (And then the chibi donghua just added more sugar on top, LOL).

I like all MXTX's novels, but somehow TGCF is the least of them for me - it's too convoluted and, while there are moments when I totally love Xie Liang and Hua Cheng, I don't love them all the time, or actually like them much together. So for me, the next MXTX-adaptation I actually really-really WANT is SVSSS, because there isn't a moment when I don't love SQQ LOL. The donghua's first season was pretty good, I can't wait for season 2.

But I won't say no to ANY good danmei adaptation either :D

It depends... It looked like they had a pretty good relationship, despite what his dad was teaching him. It definitely seemed his father wanted to give him a certain edge, and when he died, WenJie was mad enough at him not to want anything from him any more (since he only took his mother's necklace to the orphanage as a keepsake).

Depending on what actually happened 12 years back and why his father didn't make contact again - if it IS his father - he might end up understanding... who knows. And then he'd face a choice between a crooked and a straight father figure, which would be interesting.

I think that one's "Lao Fang" (/Old Fang), Luo Jian's mentor in the police force. He even tells his superior not to bring him up every time he does an oopsie, LOL, he's embarassed.

I loved how WenJie was trying desperately to over-explain how he ended up on the construction site, and Cpt. Luo was only interested in yelling at him for placing himself in danger again. Like, WJ was: "...and I heard Officer Liao on the phone and..." but LJ: "AND you will NOT put yourSELF in DANGER ever AGAIN IS THAT UNDERSTOOD!!"

I was ROFLMAO by then.

And then obviously he - Cpt. Luo - has to go interrogate Ding ShengHuo again, and DSH is like, "Aww, the perpetrator died? So sorry not sorry LOL but anyway I had no beef with him, just his dad", then LJ went instantly into papa bear mode "Who EXACTLY do you think died, hmm?" Loved, loved, loved his change of expression, he was ready to go to town on DSH LOL.

Not sure how the internet student nudes case ended up on LJ's plate or how it'll tie up with WenJie's dad's death, but I think WenJie's dad is not actually all the way dead and he's very probably the mastermind behind all this. It would explain all the intricacies of dancing around taunting WenJie, and if DSH discovers him to be the master planner LOL, hell will break loose :D

Aww, eps 12 and 13 show more bromance and also start a new arc...

I don't use Spotify, so I have no idea if it's there already. But the English title seems to be the official one, so it it got/gets to Spotify, that would be the name there, too, I guess.

Looking up the song, though, it appears that the singer is actually Li Xin Yi (who goes by Rex in English), not Wang JungKai, so I think that, IF he's singing a song for the OST, this is not the one. But this IS the ending credits song, so... If there'll be a KW song, it's not here yet.

The drama changes the story a bit - the truth is that Wei WuXian really did lose control of it, on QiongQi Path and in Nightless City too. But since he's the main hero of the story, he can't be too black or else it would never pass censorship. So they made it a leap of logic and introduced a furthering of power for the tunes in the Collection of Turmoil book, so that Su She could use it to enrage the spirits WWX had called up, instead of letting them be appeased. WWX doesn't need the amulet to control the puppets, it just makes it easier for him to do so, and control many more than just with the tunes, and more powerful ones, too.

So no, Su She doesn't overpower WWX's Chen Qing, but he does alter the tunes enough that he can't efficiently control the spirits, up and until they act randomly, attacking whomever and making WWX even more distraught and in less control.

The end credit song is "The Box that Divides the World" by Rex (dunno if that's a stage name for KW or not and can't tell if it's his voice there...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD3SsKMeYw

In Chinese it seems to be 李鑫一-分割世界的框, which Google Translate changes a bit from the English name, don't know why.

Is there another song for the end credits other than this one? It's the one used up to ep 11 at least.

I find it extremely interesting how Cpt. Luo always finds the same answers as WenJie, and in about the same time, when he said he'd need WenJie's "way of thinking" to get those answers. Almost like Cpt. Luo himself has a secret ability or a hidden past.

I don't doubt there won't be any final switch showing that Cpt. Luo used to be a thief or whatnot, given Chinese rules for dramas involving the police, but he sure can send anyone's spidey senses tingling...

Also, WenJie, dammit, don't go there!! That kind of secret about one's father's demise NEVER ends on a good note, particularly when it's probably the main plotline of a police drama with such dramatic score, LOL.

So when is TGD season 2 coming, then? T_T

Also, OTT platform, Google tells me, is a over-the-top platform which means it delivers content directly to its users through streaming, with major examples Netflix and Hulu. I guess this will end up either on Netflix, or one of the other streaming platforms. Every day you learn something new, LOL.

I'm still waiting for proper subs for Hunter, that too is a great drama! But I won't hold my breath waiting for a fansub TL of this one either, this is more of a coming-of-age/family drama, fansubbers tend to pick up bigger names.

If it came to Youtube or another platform, there would still be hope, but if it remains with Mango only... it would be too bad.

So don't forget about it, it's worth it :D

I obviously don't know what goes through a pet's mind, but on that note, neither do you.

This is turning way too childish, so have a nice day and let's leave it at that.

I have cats and I talk to them. Pretty certain they don't give a damn unless it's about food and they can see it in front of them.

What I'm saying is not that pet owners do not speak to their pets, or not love them, or are loved in turn. But all the Reapers were spilling their lives' experience to explain to a dog that his owner would also suffer from the dog's passing, as if the dog was human-like intelligent. Which according to all science and sundry... just doesn't happen (they're definitely intelligent, just not up to that level). I am all for fantasy stories and ready to bend the rules, but for me it definitely broke the immersion, because they took it too seriously (and by them, I mean the production team - the writer, the director, etc, not the actors, they did amazingly, all things considered.)

But of course, all watchers' personal experiences may vary on this and I hope that is okay with everyone.

I loved the whole family reunion and I'll have whatever that PPL food is called. Two helpings please. (Also I really hate melt cheese.)

There are some sequences here and there that seem used to keep more glue between the main cast and the rarely appearing characters, so that we don't forget they exist - like the early morning run with the best-fighter-to-be, as if the director doesn't trust the audience to remember each and every stray puppy KHW ever brought home LOL. Trust us, PD-nim! We remember most of them.

I guess that means lots of time in-between that happened in the manhwa is danced over, but IMHO they should just go with the flow and make the best drama they can given the source, not try to be as faithful as possible. Maybe in SK there are fans who read the story and are claiming for more parts that are in it and weren't initially included in the drama plot... or maybe the editing skipped a beat here and there... I don't know.

I thought Mrs Han (ex-Bad-Shinigami-No-Cookie-Girl-in-Red) told KHW to lie down with dogs even if he gets up with fleas, in order to bring the whole pack down... He's not making any progress in that direction. Was he meant to? I like his direct, no-nonsense approach better. I hope he doesn't get gray-fied just so that he can better destroy CTS' web.

Also, CTS really can play the long game, wow. A villain with a long-term plan, and some actual smarts, finally. Let's see how all this develops!

(I'm hoping KHW trusts MinSoo and brings him on, or at least works with him to help him solve his cases and do his part of bettering the world!)

All I want to say it's that today is April 30th, we're due another part of the soundtrack and it better be the really great boom song. OR ELSE.

KHW really has a blind spot whenever MinSoo is involved. Where was MinSoo back in his first life? Why did he never get into KHW's orbit?...

... they were having such soul-baring speeches and the dog was just looking at them. I couldn't help but start wondering what went through their minds (all of the cast) having to talk sadly and concerned and soulful at a good doggie who couldn't care less.

That's why it's called acting.

I expected more of an impactful episode but overall... there were better ones.

Here's hoping they return to the stories of the MCs and that they're worth waiting for.