ShortCircuit

is "Lord Seventh" recquired reading in order to get a grab of the actual relationship between the Prince Jin and ZZS?

ZZS said that the Prince poisoned Lord 7th (unless I misplaced him), I guess he didn't die if he showed up in the series. And is the Grand Wizard the same person as the Shaman in the later part of the novel? (haven't read the novel, just browsed the last half that I could easily access and there was talk of a Shaman, but I thought he was dead already somehow. )

And is Lord Seventh also a danmei story? (with a HEA, hopefully). The NU blurb isn't too rich in details.

After episode 30 -

I had to take a break because they're so CUTE together!!!! They're basically married right now. The romance doesn't need anything more sexier than this, and I keep falling in love with both of them all over again.

So cute! Gong Jun's expressions are perfection itself. I hope he gets more recognition than before and we'll get to see him more in the future.

EDIT OMG just watched the original take, with their own voices - so CUUUUUUTE!!!! I want more of this, do we get more of this later on???

Mid-27th episode right now...

didn't Off throw his bracelet away in the beginning of episode 9, and it fell somewhere in the water? How come he had the bracelet for the rest of the episodes? Did I blink and miss something?

So, after episode 10...

I originally did not want to reply to such an impolite message, but then if nobody tells you when you're on the wrong, how could you learn to notice it?

Please do not assume what I think or do not think about this drama. If I like it or not, my comments are just as valid as anyone else's. If they're not to your liking, please do not bother to read them. For the purpose I have used the spoiler tag so that people uninterested do not actually have to see the text and that is all the length I'm willing to go to in order to keep things civil.

As for why I am disappointed with the drama, I've stated my reasons and if you disagree with them, it really is not my problem.

Have a nice day!

I don't even mind scifi, I actually like it... if it makes sense. This drama isn't trying very hard LOL.

Yes, the bait and switch is what made me raging mad in the first eps, once I realized it didn't mean to be a true thriller with a logical plot and not a show of smoke and mirrors and retconning scenes instead...

Shame on me, I'd watched the writer's previous drama Black, and LOVED it, until the very last few eps, where she didn't know what to make of it and just slapped an illogical twist on it all. That should have warned me.

Now, though, it has become kind of hilarious. Yesterday I couldn't help laughing out loud for real when the brain surgery "twist" came up. It'll probably be explained away somehow, but seriously... ANYone with the LEAST understanding (and I include here fictional set-ups) on organ and/or cell transplant would just throw their hands up in despair at that bait LOL. I more expected something like massive-brain-injury-triggers-psycopatic-personality-traits (that has actually happened in real life; for example there has been someone in the US in the 19th century who survived a complete traumatic brain frontal lobe destruction and his personality completely changed, Google Phineas Gage if you're curious.) But we can't be too logical :D

I had really high hopes for this drama, as LSG has been a favourite for some time, and I was hoping for something better than Vagabond (at least that one was making sense in an action-thriller kind of way, despite the open ending) for him. And the second ML also raised a lot of hopes. But nope. His plot line is also extremely unlikely...

Too bad. But it's still a good source of laughs :D

Isn't this what everybody else is doing though? This thread is full of speculations, which is exactly what the writer intended with this drama. What's the big deal? Do I have to only speculate on things everybody else finds fantastic?

I DO expect the writer to twist it yet AGAIN by the next few episodes... but it IS fun to laugh at it. Particularly if it turns out to be close to the drama truth.

Please don't tell me what I should or not drop. Plus, I am not hating on the drama, I am disappointed with what could have been, and by now it's turned from being mad at the waste to being entertained by it. What's the problem? I AM using a spoiler tag, nobody's forcing anybody to READ the text hidden underneath it.

Have fun, I'll have mine. :)

A horror movie director? That makes so much sense. And we also get the killer (ghoul, whatever he is supposed to be) killing with a smouldering look/stance and then that lateral black eye swipe LOL. I don't know if you've ever watched the original V or the remake, but he reminds me of the lizards LOL. I keep expecting him to get a bifurcated tongue air taste :D

Seriously, (partial) brain transplant? And he doesn't even need immunosuppressives either? HAHAHA! I guess it's parts of the frontal lobe(s), in order to have some memories, but the writer'll probably invent some more genetic accidents to get the story moving along.

What, are they now going to be identical twins or have a pretty close DNA too? No, wait, it's because of the psycho gene right? That gene not only will make it unnecessary to use medication in order to not reject tissue from the donor, but ALSO transfer all (or at least some) select memories - like I don't know, the killer's childhood. And oh, his crimes too.

How convenient.

LOL.

And let's not even visit the fact that the surgery is supposedly done by someone who's been in prison for more than 20 years, and didn't get much practice in neurosurgery in the mean time, or had access to speciality literature, or seen how new meds or tools were used... He is just the type of self-taught genius that does that.

While he's at it, why not add eidetic memory and turn the subject's intellect up a thousand levels, too? :D

Other than that - the kid's body, if he ever died, is probably in Ba Reum's flower pots or flower rond, and let's not forget the missing supposedly dead daughter who's now either bumbling about not a care in the world, OR has left her only possession in this world to the girl who tied her up.

Which is also the girl who baited the woman in the first episode, probably. Coincidence?

Not in this show.

This is entertainingly, catastrophically stupid LOL.

Edit, wait I remembered KMC!!! I had such hope for him in the first episodes. WHY exactly is he so certain he's going to get in the SAME prison as the HH, even if he is convicted of the falsely confessed crime? (Given this show, he'll end up in the HH's cell as his cellmate too :D)

AHAHAHAHA!!!...

This has now reached The Darkness Supernatural levels of stupid, LOL.

Yeah, I watched 8th by now, it improved (no more strange spacey pauses between lines. I hope 7th is the only one filmed like that.) But also, 10 minutes or so of flashback scenes and lots of slo-mo scenes too. I think they really did have a break in filming sometime, hopefully the situation didn't repeat.

Whenever I see the ghosts, I keep thinking "this is where most of the budget went" LOL, the ghosts are pretty scary. But NOW I don't really like how most of the later ones have sob stories - I want some real exorcism, come on!

...And I could see some less of the ghost hunting club, seriously. The taller one is becoming annoying. The short one - Junior? - is cuter.

And the police... OMG the police are soooo silly. All those scenes, wasted. It's like those two officers never investigated a murder ever before. They waited until the student's funeral to talk to her BF?! Like, what? And then that silly threaded panel with victims' photos. And the way they're fixed on Jade, even if he IS the actual culprit. No self-respecting policeman would do that. It's taking a lot out of the tension in the series.

Though, if this one wraps nicely, I can see myself going to check out the original, even if the leads aren't among my faves.

That unsync'ed dialogue is one of my pet peeves, sorry. It's glaringly present in some BL series, and I was actually pleasantly surprised not to see it here in the first 6 episodes. It feels like they're dragging out the dialogue to make up some time in the episode, which now makes me wonder if that's the period when they got caught up in Covid-19 restrictions or something.

I didn't watch the original series, so I don't know what the focus is there. But even the romance was better - subtle in the beginning, clearer later - in the first 6 episodes. Something's different in 7th. I hope things improve in the 8th...

Something's off with episode 7. Haven't watched 8th yet. But their dialogue feels forced, there are those strange pauses after each character's lines, like they do in (bad) romance series, and there's a general lack of tension. Is it because they're switching the focus from the ghost-hunting to the romance side?

I expected more, coming from the first 6 episodes, which weren't actually bad at all.

Se7en with a lot of twists and turns that want to be edgy and mysterious, and then we get to the gaggle of psycho killers I kind of anticipated.

So disappointing. I really wanted to like one LSG drama again. Too bad for LHJ - by this time, I'm kind of fed up with his random "detective" associations that the writer has him pulling out of his ass at the last possible minute EVERY TIME, and calling it intelligent. And the way he falls apart with only hours until the kid is supposed to die - yeah, that's a pro right there. One motivated by hatred of the killer too, after his whole family was wiped out.

And then they go and leave the HH alone in the freaking prison med bay, I so do NOT wonder if that's going to become important along the way.

And those buckets of blood, yeah, no.

Let's not even bring in the freaking TIME it would have taken to take off the priest's clothes, sew the rocks into his stomach, close it and dress him right back, hung him high... in the time it took the karate girl to get a cab to the church she knew, which should mean it's a church close by her house.

Too many psychos at this time. And oh, the psycho no. 1's GF is oops, pregnant. I mean, SERIOUSLY?

I might continue watching if ONLY to laugh at the extra drama. It went from the bait-and-switch frustration I had with it to the MEH level very fast. Nobody's acting like they have a working brain in this drama, except for the policeman's GF, the one with the fender bender. She was pretty fast on her feet, considering she's probably not a cop. Is she someone making a special appeareance? She looks familiar, I almost thought she was Suzy, but I guess Suzy wouldn't be in this just for a look-see. (Edit is she Uhm Hye Soo, credited as police woman in ep 5?)

PS. The psycho no. 1 is a righty, and LSG's psycho no. 2 character is a lefty, if I remember correctly. Or he keeps using his left as a dominant hand anyway. Which begs the question - if he is the lefty killer, how come the P.NO.1 is the one framing out the seven anti-sins? This writer is taking so many turns and spinning it so many different ways, I don't have a lot of confidence the final resolution won't be something extremely improbable.

Yup, this is turning into...

You know what's scarier? High-rated dramas that are just... foam. Nothing but foam.

There are a lot who deserve the praise they get, but then there are the duds, waiting there for someone to try them based on high ratings, when they're all about the cast, the glitz, the brainlessness. I could name a few that really made me sour on high ratings, but I'm sure some of them have fans who actually like them and I don't want to chip away at their pleasure. Tastes aren't negotiable, they just are.

As for low-rated dramas... It's like with books. Before trying one, I'll have to take a look at the reviews and see what exactly is wrong with it, according to its public. And if it's something that would also make me put it away, I have to say I don't tend to invest the time in it. There are so many others that might fit my tastes better, and I have so little free time...

I love Ye Bai Yi bickering with Wen Ke Xing. They're like a cat and dog, LOL, and neither can resist provoking the other. If I didn't know WKX is head over heels for ZZS, I'd wonder :D

Can YBY really find a cure for ZZS? I bet that's driving WKX mad, no knowing if he should be kowtowing to YBY or cursing him out. So far he's sticking to cursing him out... probably for the hope he raised and then crushed in ep. 14.

Also, it just skipped right past me that Scorpion was even in this story until ep. 15. He feels slimy.

Cheng Ling is still a cutie, I hope he gets lots of love. WKX called him his child, LOL. And then he had such an expression when he looked at ZZS when he wasn't so affronted as WKX probably expected - who's the mommy and who's dad, hmm? :D

The actual wuxia plot is making me phase out, but the fighting choreography is amazing. I want to see more of those. And maybe even ZZS losing his senses a tiny bit, because that would definitely impact WKX. I'm a sadist like that.

WKX's expressions though... I see something tragic happened to him to twist him into who he is and I want to learn what it was, the sooner the better.

Last for now, CWN's eyes are amazing. I have no idea who this actor is, but his eyes are exceptional, it's like he has stars in them. Beautiful!