ShortCircuit

The last episode is a take on se7en and nobody can change my mind. I am not sure I liked it as I would have liked it in 2015 had I watched it then but it was a decent drama with way too many coincidences, genius-level computer nerd (I'm in - type), annoying cop + guaranteed sad ending from dark OCN drama.

So... yeah. That's it.

No. 10 is right. He is perfect. In order of appreciation, based on only the dramas and movies of his I've watched so far, WWX is still my most favourite character (because I actually do love an untamed hero), and then, equally, Dr. Gu and Ji Chong. It's extremely surprising to me to learn he played Ji Chong even before TU - he already had the acting chops, as they say, and he very much saves the day in that drama, given the way the post-production and repeated censoring destroyed its original story flow. (Also, that 183.6 cm height really shows in that drama, LOL, because I sure did notice the long legs :D, ChoNa will know, I linked some YT FMVs in a comment about it in a previous article :D)

I'm looking forward to TLP, and any of his dramas or movies, my only complaint being there are too few of them still... Here's hoping there'll be more XZ content in the future, including more songs, and even more appreciation from the rest of the world :)

PS I love he loves his cat, too. There's no instance of BTS or interviews he's asked about her, and he wouldn't start giving detailed explanations of her everyday life and habits. That's what any catlover does, LOL, they rule our lives :D

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It's actually a tactics of NingQue, it's not because he's resenting SangSang or whatever. He's just trying to protect her - I mean, they have to have a lot of cliches there, and what's more cliche than the "I'm pushing you away because I want you to be safe" trope? :D She's going to do it in return too for good measure :D And in his favour, NingQue looks like he really likes ShanShan too.

The ending of S1 is not really a cliffhanger, though obviously the story isn't finished. And they changed so many actors in S2, not just CFY but Zoey Meng too (the Sword Saint) and a lot more, maybe due to time restraints, I don't know (she most probably was already preparing for The Untamed, and he's been trying really hard to make it into the big screen movies... and was SO young at the time - he's only 22 now, LOL, and this was filmed more than 4 years ago). But there's something going on between CFY and Ireine Song that isn't there between her and Dylan Wang, so after I gave it a try for a few eps, I dropped S2 too. The story itself also changed from doomed-world-waiting-to-perish (and AWESOME atmosphere) to something like okay-now-what?! once the prophesized dark child is revealed. The fighting is there, the FX are there... but the soul of it seems to be gone (for me anyway.) It goes from something new and fresh and always interesting to something more xianxia/wuxia regular, and I really didn't like the switch.

I myself went in (S1) for the bromance, the mystery and the great fighting scenes. The rest followed. You'll probably end up liking it anyway, as I did, LOL (though it didn't hit too hard with me in the beginning, I still think about it from time to time, and revisit the soundtrack). So I hope it'll be worth the watch :D

The mains are NingQue and SangSang, all the rest are there for the giggles.

Pay some attention - not too much - to the Saints, the Calligraphy Master (just because he's a hoot!), LongQing (because he acts like he's the main villain, but his story isn't done by the end of S1), and the Brothers in the Academy (for the bromance).

As for the rest, just enjoy the romp, the special FX and the music, because it's great.

(Darkness in particular, I love that theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3eG63ktTAk)

And oh, all the epic battles and fighting scenes!!!

1. MinSoo is supposed to provide a twist in the later eps. Sadly it's not the twist we were all hoping for - as in, he's also from another timeline like KHW.

2. No he's not.

3. No he doesn't.

4. He ends up - somewhat - with Hee-Ah, in the last two or three eps. Nothing obvious but suddenly they're into each other or something.

5. Some of the small fry end up in prison, some with suspended sentences, main villain dies off somewhere (he goes missing, presumed dead.)

So he woke up from being concussed and set up as if he had killed the snitch, and what does he do, FIRST THING? He destroys evidence. I mean, it was obvious he was being set up, but he was SO by the book before, hating on SY just because he provided the aged portrait of his former colleague, never ever bending the law... and in one hot second he turned and became almost a crooked cop.

I mean, what good cop EVER destroys evidence, even if it points at him? He had the whole team behind him, he had Shen Yi - who was trusting him with everything, including his life (he had at some points in that ep and the following ones til it's cleared away, a face like his whole world was going to crumble. Just because he was ONLY beginning to think that DC was involved in the whole mess.)

And they never even addressed it, either. They found the real culprits, solved the case, and nobody just went - oops, but what about DC destroying evidence, investigating by himself when he was actually one of the main suspects (admittedly just suspected, but HE and basically SY too knew the truth), and he's never punished for it...

That first instinct to hide or change evidence and then to go looking for new clues.... that did bode fairly bad. We're lucky China doesn't allow many crooked cops in their dramas, or we'd be left without a hero and/or SY would have to point the finger at DC.

There are no erotic scenes in the novel OR the extras (usually that's where the 18+ scenes are hidden.) There is clear flirting but more on the romantic side. Unless it's by WKX. The only small part where it's implied they actually get down to business is in one extra where the emphasis is on how they decided who gets to top, but no details beyond that.

AFAIK, there are English TLs, look it up on novelupdates. Though some (or most) TL sites might be under lock by now, given the crackdown on unauthorised TLs that happened in the beginning of this year.

She's just the set-up for season2, if any (I doubt there'll be a second season, myself, but I've been surprised before by SK dramaland *cough* like the Tale of the Nine-Tailed extra seasons nobody asked for *cough*).

She's supposed to be the main villain and is only in it for the money. The villains-assemble! cast at that table also looks to be there just in case some of them would be willing to resume their roles.

Nevermind her, LOL.

IMHO they didn't show Du Cheng pulling Shen Yi from the water in that serial swindler episode (because there's no way an ambulance would have gotten there in time) because then he'd have to give him CPR. And that includes mouth-to-mouth, And THEN where would we all be? :D The drama wouldn't have made it out from the censorship bureau LOL.

PS Also, is that Luo YunXi's shadow as Chu WanNing in your profile pic? Because that nose is (almost) impossible to mix up with someone else's. And I can't think of any other drama he's in - or about to be in - than 2ha.

Wei WuXian (ML) can control spirits (it's corpses in the novel, but censorship didn't even want to consider that, LOL) and is using them for fighting.

Lan WangJi (the other ML) and basically his whole clan can use music in order to fight - and also can control and/or quiet spirits with it.

They all can use swords, and there are some battle scenes, individual and melees.

But this is not a drama about wars and battles, and not even about mastering a fighting style. It's a drama about people and what makes them tick, and about assumptions, redemption, betrayal, sacrifice and love.

Do consider it :)

He is not the Clan Leader, he's just a teacher and the uncle of the Lan brothers. He doesn't HAVE any actual power other than being a respected teacher that all clans send their kids to in order for them to get a good education and discipline. And given certain circumstances about his own brother, the father of the two Lan brothers, he is VERY much against anyone who might even hint is not well-disciplined, nevermind someone like WWX. In the drama, by this point Lan XiChen is actually the Clan Leader, as his father is now gone (there's a bit of a difference in the book timeline, but esentially the father, the former Clan Leader, is out of the picture after the Wen Clan burned down Cloud Recesses.) So no, Lan QiRen is there just as a teacher (or Master), not a leading power figure.

Lan XiChen on the other hand, is very much the model Clan Leader but he has this friend that he trusts just as much as LWJ trusts WWX and well... things happen.

Does anyone know if there's going to be a release of the OST that includes the BGM music?

There is no romance LOL. The OP means they put in a smidgeon of a rosy ending scene to make watchers a bit uncertain, before hitting them with the real ending (which is a huge surprise).

Be assured nobody's concerned with anything romantic throughout the series, LOL. And I definitely get the feeling of wanting romance-free (or as much as possible) police/heist stories :D

I was going to, but I read a spoiler in here that his character died. So unless he was a villain there (which he probably wasn't) I need more time to prepare for it.

We didn't get to see it, but he has a black hole in his pocket. So anything he puts there gets forever caught in the event horizon. It would definitely never come in the way of a good a** kicking. Heh.

I want to bet you he'll die one day stung by his own meth+alcohol syringe, but I couldn't give a f*** at this time, pardon my French.

WTH is this? Is LMS being the main villain the endgame? Is he trying to play CTS and bring him down - why isn't he confiding in KHW if that's the case?

UNLESS he's gotten so bored stiff with the antics of the always-plotting-never-finishing dream team, he decided to overtake the whole drama and become the main hero.

PS Mr Park mysterious-ex-special-forces-agent or whatever suddenly-turned-hacker has more chemistry with the FL (or she with him) and they'd fit each other perfectly.

Make it so, writer-nim!

Episode 13: Wherein Kim Hee Woo gets the s**t beaten out of him by Dr K (again).

Also, PPL in the middle of the ep, with some water painted blue with some crystal things. I was so enticed I felt a sudden need to trim my nails. *yawn*

Well, the necklace did serve a purpose, it's just that it was in the beginning, when he used this memento of his mother to short out the circuit in the vault so he wouldn't die there. And in the end, giving it to LZY, well. I guess someone wanted to throw in a pinch of romance LOL.

The message is definitely from his father, LJ told him he'd cut off the relationship and anyway, what would LJ congratulate him for?! They had a chance to talk directly, he told him what he meant to say. So it's definitely the silent one who wasn't ever found, and didn't want to risk the police finding him now either. If there's a second season, I hope it's about the father-son dynamics.

And non-spoilery comments - it seems cdramas have found a certain stride in contemporary non-romantic dramas. Reset, Hunter, Under the Skin, now Be Reborn - they're all pretty good. I want more. Where do I get more of these?

Particularly after the tease with the too-cute too-sweet possible love interests of both MLs that I don't care about, but yes!! A secret message finally. There's no one who could send it, or even care to, EXCEPT for Zhuang YaoBai. If this means there's a chance for a second season, YES PLEASE! I mean, ZY's body still isn't found, and someone so resourceful as him wouldn't have just easily died...

We'll just have to pretend the university wouldn't expel WJ for being a criminal (even if pardoned), or that he still had a chance in the legal field. I mean, we pretended that waterway was at least 50m deep LOL. So why not?

The setting for the desert city reminded me a lot of the best ep of Hunter - ep 6 - when there's a desert shootout. If you haven't watched that series, give it a chance, it's very much worth it!

My favourite relationship (sorry LJ) - that between WenJie and his father, hands down. You could see the love and care for his kid. Kudos to the actor, Pan YueMing. He made me really understand why would WJ still yearn for him after being left alone for a dozen years.

And then, second favourite relationship, WJ-LJ. They just clicked. Thinking about it, it's almost retribution for WJ not to trust LJ with the painting, given LJ's angry words about trust... I can find an excuse for him. But I loved LJ placing his trust in WJ, over and over again. They were definitely acting like mentor-mentee, at least on LJ's side. If there's a second season, I want them in the police force together (and not, say, on different sides of some heist...)