ShortCircuit

This was pretty fun til the end, and while some plot points remained unsolved, the overall feeling is good.

The best thing about it was Jin Gun, IMHO. I hope he gets more roles to shine in, he seems to have what it takes.

Mama rules the nest LOL. Both husband and daughter are being played as the mom wants it, and don't even mind it. On the other hand, mom's crying breaks my heart.

Gu Xiao has to work too hard for SanSan. I don't like her character - and I seriously don't like her makeup artist. Her face looks over-done in pink tones, and it's annoying, if she's supposed to be a beauty. Also don't like the way she's treating GX, even if he too has his shortcomings (like having another girl lined up even as he's bringing flowers to his new crush). I hope the story doesn't have them as seasoned players accidentally falling for each other.

So far, I don't find Gao Xi annoying, on the other hand. She seriously seems to want Gu Wei back as a surgeon and not just for selfish reasons, it looks like she wants it for his own sake, so he could move past the trauma/PTSD.

But OMG Dr Yan!!! WTH?! I have no idea about stomach cancer operations, and no Dr. Gu to give me the Patient Family's Stomach Cancer for Dummies book, either, but removing his whole stomach?!! How is he supposed to live afterwards, with a needle in his arm providing liquid food forever?!

I guess Dr Gu will operate anyway, since this is a fluffy romance. Hopefully. Keeping fingers crossed.

No mini-theater at the end of ep 3, so sad T_T

So, ep3...

"Too bad I am not an actress, I'm so good at this" ROFL

Also, Xiao Zhan's deep voice. That's his real voice, right? He sounds so serious when he's speaking seriously, and then he goes and plays along with LZX's "appendicitis" problem LOL.

I actually really like the cousin who took Gu Wei to the club. His face when he sees GW entangled with a girl - priceless! But at the same time, he just HAS to catch the opportunity to get a hot girl's number, LOL. I hope he's a recurring character, he's cute, too :)

The plot doesn't seem too deep, but I am actually very much in the mood for a fluffy romance. Bring it on!

Mini theater: "Your eyes are beautiful." (Yeah we all know.)
"I actually didn't take your pulse then." LOL. You held her hand for a hot second, how could you take her pulse?! :D

I want more of this, and I want it now!

OoL is out?! My lucky day. Off to watch :D

Edit: Awww this is so cute!

They're finally starting promotion, but still no official poster? T_T

One more month... Come on, come on, come on :D

Re: The Untamed. It IS worth the hype. It's also not perfect by any means, but it's perfect in the sense that it does pack a full punch of good story, good acting, crazy chemistry, twists and turns that are not simply dramatic artifices, a perfectly satisfying ending that - despite the censorship - does credit to the original work.

For myself, who stumbled upon a very short FMV on youtube while actively looking at other dramas, LOL, and opened the first episode just for a look-see, it was a complete and delightful surprise. I did take about a week to binge it (because work got in the way), but it spurred an active interest in more cdrama AND a very active (and time-consuming LOL) interest in Chinese web-novels (they tend to be pretty long. Seriously. 500k-to-1M words for some doorstoppers, LOL).

If you're looking for a new drama to tide you over until your most expected is released, maybe Reset (2022, cdrama) will hit that spot :)

I've watched 9 of the 10 people on this list in dramas - the exception is Song Wei Long. Some of them are good actors (according to my tastes, or maybe it just was that the dramas they were involved in struck a chord with me), some of them, not so much, though obviously they're not just pretty faces.

Sadly the upcoming dramas all look pretty bland to me - there are even two themes that keep repeating - like the almost time-travel person-from-the-past-somehow-meets-person-from-the-present dramas, or the undistinguishable xianxia dramas that all seem to have exactly the same plot (and even some of the same actors/actresses).

Maybe it's me being a bit under the weather or extra cynical, given what's going on in the world and whatnot, but there have been a few snide comments lately on a certain drama's thread regarding this and that, and I can't help remembering tomorrow's date. It's disappointing this hasn't stopped, even after this long. But to each their own, I guess.

Yes, but VERY low key. Much lower than The Untamed, not even in the same solar system as Word of Honor.

BUT it has the cutest MC in Tang Fan, the big-bro energy MC Sui Zhou (who COOKS basically every episode, so eat before watching, or you'll get some hunger pangs) and the most endearing rogue talent MC Wang Zhi.

Watch this for Tang Fan and Wang Zhi. (Wang Zhi stole the show, IMHO). And because it's very funny.

PS there's a novel too, where you'll get all the less-than-bromance interactions.

LOL, Sima Yi's wikipedia entry paints him in blood, I guess someone really didn't like him and edited him meanly :D (he's basically Ferengi at this point :)))

I haven't watched that drama, but I've seen others (or just went from wiki page to wiki page until SOMEhow - it just happens - I got to that particular piece of Chinese history, LOL). I think it had something with the Romance of 3 Kingdoms, initially, then I had read all about Cao Cao and Sima Yi and whatnot, LOL. Kids, don't do wikipedia late at night :D

Historical dramas could end happily, if they left off the prince/princess, king/queen plots and moved over to more regular people. But then they have to be fusion, and all hell breaks loose :D

Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. The main cast doesn't seem even finished, they're basically saying it's going to get in production and that may take forever (not that it didn't already LOL).

I still didn't forget ANYthing in it (and mostly TaelHa's body chains, she had the BEST jewelry! I still want a body chain like that *yearning*) but it won't mean anything if they replace the main cast... and I guess they won't be filming anywhere exotic this time, either :D

But I can wait. Here's hoping it does happen.

They get off the bus, XHY is going into shock (basically), and they keep moving until he realizes he's covered in blood, at which point they find a water troughspout-with-basin outside a random house and he cleans up his face. She's not leading him at that time, he's just putting as much distance between him and the bus as he can, instinctively. The police searching for the ex-house-now-garage in the same area is a coincidence, until they get the pings from their phones and start looking for them instead.

Another "coincidence" is the truck with the statues leading them to an area of the city where Lu Di's house is - that's where XHY cleans up more thoroughly.

Re: water troughs - I don't know how often one could find such in a city, but there definitely is one, there, LOL.

So, theories - LSQ just happens to fall into a glitch in the matrix. So does XHY. They're the only ones asleep when the bomb gets on board, and the only ones to get off the bus before it explodes, multiple times, so they remember.

The other loops never happened, since the time just gets reset every time the bomb gets on the bus. This is a time-loop drama, not a paralel universes one, like Steins;Gate :D

LSQ takes XHY to Lu Di's house, because they were just there in a previous loop and Lu Di told them the door code. It was the safest place for them at the time, and XHY wasn't functioning well, going into shock and stuff.

IIRC, the series begins with a later loop, not the very first one, so that she eventually starts making changes to get out of it - first trying to get off herself, then pulling XHY along, etc. She has some time to remember things - even HXY learns the police station by heart with just one or two visits.

I was ready to tell you all about death in childbirth and neglected spouses (all those mighty husbands are raring to go to war and leave their wives behind in the clutches of their mothers-in-law) and stuff... but then I saw Wei WuXian. And my mind went directly to mother-hen mode.

Oh WWX honey, don't worry, the author and the drama script writers just decided to have you go off in the blaze of glory and then after you come back in 16 years, Lan Zhan will be there to catch you when you fall, carry you in a Xinya-lifts-Yuzu style, keep all dogs away, let you go around fighting monsters and saving baby ducklings and stuff, and then you both WILL get to ride off into the sunset! And if we're following the novel, the dog blood plots are plenty. Have no fear. The day is coming.

Re: romanticizing the historicals... I've seen more of the kind that ends unhappily than ones that end happily, including Moon Lovers. And those dealing with Prince Sado. And even some that involve regular people (or almost regular anyway), like Chuno, or Warrior Baek Dong Soo or DAMMIT My Country (altough at least that one got me a great WDH role, and I learned about the Wihwado Retreat, which decidedly changed the history of that part of Asia). At this point, it's harder for me to remember the HEA ones than the UEA ones LOL. Unless we're counting fusion sageuks, and then maybe Faith and Mr. Queen (with a LOT of indulgence on this one, because dammit!)

Or maybe it's just my luck to pick historicals that tend not to end happily...

This is one of the best BL mini-series SK made so far, I think. Jin Gun, playing YeonSeok, nails it. Who IS this guy?! His current profile on MDL is basically empty, but he doesn't look like a newcomer. He has great comedic timing and good facial expressions - he can't have come out of nowhere (the only other actor I was so struck with from the first few frames is Choi Jin Hyuk getting his big break as WolRyung in Gu Family Book.)

Song Han Hee as ShinBi the fox is so cute, too! I love her character so far :D

Here's hoping the plot does them justice, it would be too bad to see all those good things wasted!

The novel explains the burn scar on LZ. It probably was too much for the censorship, so they had to skip the explanation in the drama - but the readers know. The novel is also being published officially in English, in about 4 volumes, the last of which comes out sometime in the Spring of 2023. Want a spoiler on the burn scar in the mean time? :D

It's not explained in the animated version, IIRC.

The novel is worth the reading, IMHO. If for nothing else - if you like horror, there'll be a much better explanation about why in-world people don't really like the YiLing Patriarch just as much as we do. Also - zombies, not spirits. Lots of zombies (well, fierce corpses, same difference). And QUITE a lot more intimacy and a way more PDA-prone Lan Zhan LOL.

TBH, Scarlet Heart shouldn't get a second season, if it's another story fixating on secondary characters. Not to Kang Ha Neul's fault, but it got me so MAD every time she would foolishly go back to the 8th prince instead of getting along with Wang So. I mean, which was the main romantic pair and why did we spend two thirds of the drama on a one-sided love NOBODY cared about?! And LJG is playing Wang So to perfection - they had the perfect setting, the best actor in sageuks, and they decided to go with a secondary pairing fated to be doomed in the end and that left all viewers unsatisfied.

So, nope. No second season for me, please.

Vagabond, on the other hand... That one was among the first bait-and-switch Netflix Korean dramas, and I just couldn't believe that final scene. Are you serious?!! THIS was what it was all building up for?!

And now that I've mentioned Netflix... Dammit, Arthdal Chronicles. There won't EVER be another season. No resolution of any kind, except for the storyboard in the final credits. Those sets looked expensive as hell, they filmed in exotic places (Brunei, if I remember correctly?!), they hired huge names for MCs - that sequel is never going to see the light of day.

It still makes me so mad - I think (at least for me) AC was the first Kdrama that was serialized (and totally crazy, too) and also the first with no ending whatsoever and a clear TBC. Then a lot more followed, so I learned not to watch SK dramas made by Netlix, if they're not finished (it helps they like their silly zombie series, that I don't really watch. Ever.)

It seems to be an ongoing thing with MangoTV - I watched Hunter/Wolf Hunter from them, and the subs had the same problem. It made me so sad such a great drama didn't get the love it deserved - and all because it was nighly impossible to make sense of some of the dialogue.

Maybe they'll get picked up by some TL team *keeping fingers crossed*

So in the end, the boys might NOT be brothers after all?!

Very good. Short, well-scripted, filmed, acted. An actual gem.

The cdrama. I didn't know there's a kdrama too, LOL. Is there?