ShortCircuit

What do you mean there's going to be only one subbed episode per weekday?! *falls apart in despair*

This has such strong Untamed vibes - like the music, the settings, the freaking Five Sect Alliance palace interior looked almost the same as the Jin palace, the general esthethics of the drama (costumes, hairdos, etc), it's hard not to compare. (EDIT: oh LOL, Music Department - Lin Hai. No wonder the music reminds me of The Untamed. I'm proud of myself for recognizing it.)

But there are hints of other dramas in it - like that peach blossom scene LOL, out of Ever Night and Love and Redemption, and the fighting scenes are definitely better and more up-and-personal.

I applaud the producers and the whole team involved - this is shaping up to be one of the sensations of the year for me.

As long as ZZS doesn't die. Will the Nails be removed sometime in the future? Keeping fingers crossed he doesn't win and die.

The kid is cute as a button too - what's the deal with him, does anyone know? Why wouldn't he eat until prodded? Why would he hide the wound? At first I thought he was actually a girl in disguise, but then he stripped and nah, LOL.

Which reminds me... SO MUCH SKIN O.o

Dazzling!!!!!!! *faints*

Wow, this is actually quite interesting. I already love that flirty WKX, I'll have to read the novel if they don't sub it faster.

At this point in time, we can only hope. One thing that attracted me to Asian television is the way most dramas are complete in one season, no sequels over sequels until every last fan of the series drops dead from old age (looking at basically all successful Western series).

I don't quite appreciate Netflix changing that.

So many horror tales and not a hint of Arthdal Chronicles season 2 (or 4, whatever they want to number it). This is not so great. *sigh*

Thank you, that clears a few things up!

I am not really into shonen-type novels (particularly when the MC is overpowered from the beginning, which the first episode of the donghua suggested. That's why I like the drama better, since TS starts really really low. But well, if there's no news of a second season sometime in the future, I just might take a look. Thank you for the links!

What level are TS and XW by now? It's not the number of rings, right?

The bunny did nibble a bit on the grass, but there has to be more.

How did they leave the Soul Hall? What happened to the rest of the team? Where did Hu Lie Na leave for? What's Bi Bi Dong's problem? And did she cause her husband to die because she wanted to catch a Soul Beast (TS's mom)?

Where are the teams that were kidnapped? Why should Xiao Wu leave Tang San alone and where would he go to up his ring level and mastery? Will his father go into hiding again?

Aaaargh so many questions....

This was a steady 8/10 for me throughout the series, but the last episode fight took it to 8.5. I guess they paid their fights choreographer for that final battle only LOL. And I have to admit, Shi Nian's defeat in the previous eps is actually satisfying. I hope TS gets to have YZQ's help in the future as promised. And the Moon Blade 5-ring Soul Master will probably be an antagonist sometime in the future too.

Season 2 when....? T_T

I SO want to see Master get his third ring, pretty please with a cherry on top!!!

Finished.

So ripped LOL. What happened to his shyness around Liu Er Long? He got more courageous?... Then again, his meeting with BBD shows that there are some feelings left on both sides.

...And that he and TS are clueless without maps, LOL.

Hot older bro' just came back, why is he allowed to cut off DMB's claws? Is that allowed? So unfair that from 5 teams in the final, two are the imperial ones by default. No wonder nobody goes there much.

On episode 35... Master... Wow. O.o

" hate to state the obvious, but this work is in fact derivative--drawing comparisons/contrasts with its source is the whole point. Otherwise, there's no reason to title it Douluo Continent. "

I have NO problem (ZERO) with pointing out the differences as long as they're under a spoiler tag. That would make it easier for me - and others - to avoid it, and not have it shoved in my face all the time that - "this isn't HOW it was SUPPOSED to be", "what the drama does is worse than BECAUSE...", "this is OOC" and so on and so forth.

I get it, some fans of the novel and/or the donghua are disappointed, and if I were a fan too, maybe I would've been, too. But I'm not. And so would love to watch the drama as is, without all these inklings of information about what's wrong, different, not like the novel/donghua, etc. ALL. THE. TIME.

That's what spoiler tags are for. Even if people ask about certain details (I did, myself), it doesn't mean everybody else wants to know those specifics. One could start a comment saying they're disappointed and place the reasons for it under a spoiler. And don't get me started on the way some people who are watching advanced VIP episodes are commenting in the open about what goes on in there. Is that the way to respect other people watching it?...

Not trying to start any kind of fierce argument here. Just asking for spoiler tags to be used as needed, please.

I didn't even ask what episode you're on... Oops. LWJ is a stoic, don't expect extraordinary PDAs from him. But, when they happen, they're outstanding.

Have fun watching the drama - it really is one of the best ones out there :)

Edit: if your watchlist is correct, you're on 11. This is where the wild ride starts amping up. Enjoy the rollercoaster :)

It is, isn't it?... I thought it would stop by now, I guess not. Oh well. At least the drama IS entertaining for non-submersed watchers like me, and even if not "perfect", it's still a good escape from everyday problems :)

Yup, people will like or dislike whatever suits them. It's just - there are so many unhidden spoilery comments that "reply" to questions people ask out of curiousity... and they kind of tell you what you should be expecting, what comes next, what there isn't in the drama that "should have been", that the MCs are or are not fat, strong, intelligent, etc BUT "according to the canon they should have been such and such"...

Seriously?! LOL.

And then there are the really mean comments - things like such-and-such actor is ugly or expressionless, that music is stupid, that music writer is on drugs?! WTH. Music choices are a bit out of the norm from time to time, but that was actually a refreshing take on BGM, for me.

But as I said... whatever rocks their boats. Just use a spoiler tag, what's so hard in that?! *despair*

Some comments here decry the beginning of the drama - the first two episodes set in the present seem to make no sense with no background information, and for someone who didn't read the novel (that begins exactly the same way) or are not into xianxia dramas (so they don't know what cultivation, clans, qi deviation, orthodox daoism and all the rest actually ARE) it can be daunting.

Then you get to the flashback but orderly sequence of what led to the present day, and by the end of it you're hopefully committed and interested in the fate of all the characters you've met. That worked for me.

I had a bit of a problem with the donghua - it IS extraordinary too, the same story, obviously but much better FX, as animation is easier than live action in that aspect, just as good music, and the same beloved characters - but the time skips are kind of hard to follow for me.

That bittersweet emotion is exactly what I appreciate most about the drama - I'll take not so great CGI and a somewhat changed main plot due to censorship, but the emotions are raw and I was invested in the story from start to end. As I said, the actors, music, beautiful cinematography and pace really worked magic.

The fact that the flashback ends in tragedy is mitigated by the fact that we already know Wei Ying is back already... And that helped me entice other people, previously uninterested in Chinese dramas, to give it a shot :D

I'm pretty sure the producers balanced everything before deciding to go the way of the long flashback and then return to the present for the end. For me, that choice worked perfectly :)

Watch the donghua for that, then. The third and final season is supposed to start this March, and they do the chronology closer to the novel's.

For myself, I rather like the drama version, instead. That way, when the second plot starts in the present, all the characters are known, all the secrets are exposed to the watcher and you can join the MCs as they make their discoveries knowing what lead to those.

The novel and the donghua can be a bit distracting with the ongoing time jumps, and if I had not watched the drama first, I would have been a bit lost.

MXTX likes that kind of stories, though, she did it again in TGCF and SVSSS. Speaking for myself only, I again did not appreciate that kind of storytelling, and while I enjoyed parts of the novels, they didn't captivate me as much as MDZS did. I guess most of the charm - for me anyway - came from the cast, the script, the music and basically all the production levels of TU, and reflected upon the other media.

But it's a personal taste matter in the end, isn't it? I like logical progression better and that helped me appreciate the drama more.

As for the episodes themeselves - Ye Zhi Qiu is a biological weapon, LOL. I loved Master teaching the arrogant kids a lesson. I am pretty sure they won't be able to wrap up all the threads in the remaining 7 episodes as the producers probably hope for more seasons.

If there is a second season, I'd watch it. this has been a lot more fun than what I'd been expecting (but keep in mind I didn't know what I should have been expecting, just a general impression this was somewhat like a shonen manga adaptation, think something like Naruto and Bleach, just of a Chinese origin.)

(Ep. 33).

I am getting rather frustrated with the comment section here and I might stop checking it because of too many comments that should be hidden under spoilers but are not.

As in, I get it that people would rather have a direct non-straying donghua-to-drama version, or a direct non-straying novel-to-drama version but dammit, there are other people - myself included - who like it as it is. Yes we might not have had the presumably immense pleasure to have read the novel or followed the very long donghua but what of it? It is what it is and it won't ever be different. They won't go back 2 years in the past to re-write the script, the music, re-do the direction and change the actors.

It's like some people would not let other people have their fun unless everybody joins in the woe and dislike chorus. It's a bit bothersome but hey, whatever rocks your boat.

That said, I am aware this is not a perfect drama, as many are not, that there are some parts that could have been done better, and that people expected more of it. I have NO idea what the novel is about, and I won't be reading it because it's not my kind of story usually, I looked at the donghua and while the first episode is entertaining, I don't have that kind of time to keep watching it, etc. So this is my one and only foray into the DD 'verse, if it stops at the first season.

Is that the aim of the people who keep comparing the drama with what should have happened, according to the novel or donghua? Keep new people away from it all? Just curious.

Also, new characters get swapped in. The Control Branch Master would just go away like that because TS's old dad's friend came into play? Then why not have all the oldsters come together again and deal with the Martial Soul Hall, if they're all so powerful?

Still loving DGB - he just comes and goes whenever he wants to. I think he adopted TS as a nephew, LOL. He gets so protective :D

DMB fight when? I want to see the next level tiger!

Support Branch kids are the GOAT. Nobody expected them to survive the arena, LOL, and they wiped out two of the Imperial Team members. Loving the team action!

On episode 31. Will Master actually go for his third ring, or wait for the school contest to be over?