ShortCircuit

Can someone please tell Win I got some dust in my eye, too? Like... err, I need a little help here? :D

I finished it. I'm not going to spoil it for you if you haven't watched it yet, I'm a bit mad, but not because of a major cliffhanger, so there's that. But IMHO the first half was better than the second half.

He's not the accomplice, but it gets worse. There is an accomplice, left for season 2. Watch it.

It's pretty similar in aftertaste to One Ordinary Day, IMHO. I guess this is SK noir now.

KJH being crooked because his son is sick, like seriously? Is his son still alive, BTW? Is he still married, or did he get divorced/separated from the wife?

And he starts the whole crusade on such a PERSONAL level (yes, digging up dirt on Chief Seo, but still, he and KTR really did go way back so at least in that sense, the personal revenge really did make sense) and THEN it's revealed it's actually something he's manipulated into because he sold his soul to some DEVELOPER? Like, REALLY?!

What I take from this for the next part/season is that his accomplice is the one who shot him on command from whomever, that the newbie is still not in the clear (neither is daughter's husband) and someone who's very into knowing how things happened wants to take over from manipulating KTR. To be continued.

What I HATE about this is that all the crooked cops are SO friendly. I mean, KTR suffers deeply for his crooked friend who died first, then for the crooked friend whom KJH killed, and is scared for crooked Chief Seo, too, because we don't need moral heroes any more in dramas. They all have to be dirty and do senseless acts because otherwise the depression afterwards wouldn't be as deep. Dammit. I want noir, and I know it's supposed to let you feel hopeless and less empowered, but I HATE it when while they're doing those acts I'm supposed to be empathetic to their plight because WHY? Why would I care about all these crooks who used to be good cops but strayed, and now they're all dead, imprisoned or blackmailed?

I could care less. And then they have KTR CRYING for KJH because why the eff?! Crying for his lost youth and innocence? Four hrs ago he was fabricating or neglecting evidence, so that people like KiTae got to spend 5 years in prison for something they're innocent of, or the poor girl's mom had to look for her for 10 years in despair just because KTR didn't feel like finding real evidence.

WTF?

So... yeah. I am that TINY bit annoyed with the message of this drama, and no, I don't think everybody is redeemed because they suffered and feel pain like everyone else, or even die. Eff corrupt cops, corrupt officials and brotherhood between corrupt people!

Okay, rant over. *sigh*

So... I liked it MUCH better with the original revenge plot. I could care less about everybody being dirty in this drama, and about all the untied threads (that are not really all that important to the story, so it's not really a huge spoiler, IMHO.)

I might watch the second season but for now, this left kind of the same taste as One Ordinary Day did, for me - things happened, but in the end, much of it was meaningless. To me, anyway.

Auto-upload to the cloud. KTR accessed the cloud drive, I think. The phone ended up there because... magic! (Technically, he could've shared the cloud between the burner and his own phone and left the phone or burner at the tavern.)

But then I'm not the script writer and that's not the only unexplained thing...

I haven't watched any trailers or spoilers ahead, but at this time, based on the hints from the first 6 eps, I think he WAS involved in finances officially in some firm, and something really bad happened to make him quit. He was in securities, so maybe he got blamed for something and banned from the finance world, in which case his name in a trading account would be poison. Therefore, he might've borrowed his mother name and phone numbers so that he didn't attract too much attention from whomever.

I guess we'll see in a while how close I got :D

You're right, Qin Shi even said at one time that her father KNOWS how families work, given he'd been divorced and remarried three times, LOL. I'd forgotten about it. Maybe that's the stigma that TJH's mother couldn't accept on her side.

Thanks for the reminder!

Those lawyers heading up the firm are bit less nice now that they're trying to get their own money back before the firm folds, and leave all other investors hanging out to dry... Also, Li Dai, Tao JunHui, Wu Fei and all the rest are acting in Ally McBeal while Yang Mi and Xu Kai are in an actual meet-cute rom-com LOL.

I guess the law firm will either fold, or Qin Shi will get exposed and forced to start out her own firm pretty soon (because 40 eps and only 6 have passed, yet we're on the brink of her being discovered and brought "to justice" about the fake husband and child...) But I just want to have mom still heavily waging a battle with her, LOL, and them growing closer in the end over time.

And yay, there's a THIRD brother in the family - something's suspicious here. Why would TJH's mother make such a fuss over QS's family back in the day? So many kids, is their father someone who's rich and has a side-family like in the webnovels, and THEY're the side-family?

Older brother's wife is a cook so good everybody can't even make small talk before gorging themselves, but she doesn't participate in the debates regarding family? That's the first meek woman in this drama... What's the deal?

You know, there's a lot of meat to this story, even with all the tropes, and it doesn't definitely hurt there are so many good-looking people in it. If that's shallow of me, well, tough luck. I like it and that's that.

No, seriously, Xu Kai's expressions are killing me. Each and every time. And OMG, exposed so early?!

I might've been disengaging and missed that Mr Cheon was a tool, too. I had the impression they (all of them) used to be closer.

Then again, I haven't watched the last two eps yet, so I guess I'll have to wait and see what gives anyway. I just hope it doesn't end in a cliffhanger, since Lee SungMin is scheduled in at least two dramas as main cast before there's even a hint of SD season2, LOL. It'll take forever for it to come, if this season doesn't have at least some explanations.

Elevator guy was a hotel employee, he slipped her the key card to her brother's room.

I didn't notice Hua's lips swollen from the kiss, just smeared with lipstick. Then again, it was all over his lips and face, so yeah, they smooched intensively LOL.

Okay, those were a few pretty good first episodes. There were laugh-out-loud for real moments for me (Xu Kai's expressions are soooo cute LOL, all those THIS IS MY LIFE NOW moments, yes please may I have some more? :D)

I like all those picture-perfect women, I wish I had clothes and jewellery like that *jealous*.

But THE MOTHER!!!! I think I will LOVE the war between her and her intended daughter-in-law, the mother is to die for LOL. Also, ALL the women in this drama have their husbands or lovers well under control, LOL. Maybe that's why I like it. But OMG what Yang Hua thought was going to happen and what actually happened, ROFL, that was BEAUTIFUL.

I have NO idea why I couldn't wait until mid-December, now I'll have to wait for each episode dammit.

Somebody please tell me there's a novel or something, and that it's been translated, this would look so good as a novel :D

Maybe real voices, but dubbed at least in some scenes. There were a few unsync-ed moments.

But if that's Xu Kai's real voice, it's pretty nice. Not so sure about YM's...

I'm halfway through the first episode and it hits me... Xu Kai looks like a smol Xiao Zhan. OMG I have a type. But seriously, with that fringe, he does look a lot like XZ LOL. How come I didn't notice before? :D

So yeah, I was going to watch this anyway (because Xu Kai) but now I'm 100% committed. I hope he keeps the hairstyle, too :D (and I like his interactions with his mom LOL).

I read somewhere (might've been MDL) that the author stopped updating because she was either writing the script for BU, or heavily involved in writing it (as a collaborator). So it isn't that there's not enough story, but that it needs to merge with the UWMA timeline and make sense, and if there's any time after UWMA's plot ended, there'll be more plot added to BU, too.

Also, UWMA ended just before the pandemic, so not much filming took place afterwards, so the past 3 years mean nothing in terms of having the opportunity to plot/write it (I guess they didn't know either when to start working on it, given what happened). AFAIK, writing a script and writing a novel are two completely different things... So we get lots of side stories in order not to get too fed up with UWMA revisited AND the FWB part of WinTeam's story.

Though I don't mind FWB scenes each episode :D. Or just Win looking at the (double) sun, Luke Skywalker-style, LOL, I don't care, as long as he's on the screen :D

Listen, the first time, even when horny as hell - or particularly then - there needs to be a bit of trust in whoever is proposing to do it with you. Win asked, and Team followed (the first, and the second time.) He was left alone to decide before going after Win.

Then the first time, Win asks again and again, exactly because they don't know each other and what follows would be a one-night-stand. And Team trusts AND wants him enough to say yes again and again.

Imagine if it were one of the three of idiots - A, B or C - asking. (They'd also be horny and a bit buzzed.) I can't see Team saying yes to either of them. Or basically none of the other guys who were there, available and at least in part, willing (I mean, this is Thailand, but there aren't really all that many gay or bi people there).

So, the chances that Team would say no to any rando offering are quite high, actually. He said yes to a guy he likes enough to follow inside a room to have his first sexual experience with. Give him a break, he's 18. Hormones speak, but in this case, they didn't drown eveything else out.

The kiss by the poolside - Win led with his tongue, LOL. If I were Team... I wouldn't have made it inside in time :D

And that's why he asked for like, five times before going any further. And in this episode, Team had all the time in the world to follow or not.

Last week there were lots of people saying the asking took too long, and wasn't needed. Your question shows exactly why the asking needed to happen for that long and that in the end, it's still Team's choice, each time.

PS. Win is three years older than Team, it's not like he's experienced beyond belief and Team is a meek lamb led to the slaughter. And well. The trope IS love at first sight for Win.

Less UWMA, that's good, more Manow and Phruek, well, at least they're kind of new to the story, Tul and Waan, okay...

They tried to film it like UWMA was, with akward pauses and silences - because it fit Pharm's manner and character. Also Dean's. They were forever being either shy or reserved for minutes at a time, LOL. This doesn't work as well with WinTeam, but I guess since they're rewinding parts of UWMA, they're still trying to blend them together.

WinTeam rock - despite keeping it way more above the waist than I'd expected, they really have great chemistry. The intimate scenes are the best ones, though small-talk, everyday WinTeam are also good. I really really hope they don't introduce much more drama in between them than Team's nightmares and fear of drowning, because not every relationship needs huge problems to overcome. And Team's problems are kind of huge already anyway.

The music keeps being off - I don't really like it. I hope they get something, at least a new theme, in it, so that it becomes its own part.

A, B and C are really complete idiots - seriously, how come there are always some "students" who seem (or are portrayed) as) complete idiots, and yet we're supposed to believe they got into university by being that stupid? ITSAY must've spoiled me, and then Not/Me completed the erasure of idiot students... Dammit. My standards have been raised...