Even if they couldn't see, they both had smelled their partners' respective scents before. Can't explain that…
I could play devil's advocate and remind you this IS an Alpha-Beta-Omega 'verse where men can get pregnant and give birth LOL, so why should it be believable - BUT THEN even if it's all fiction, it should have inner logic and present events consistent with that logic.
And yeah... Someone in the production team doesn't care for it to make sense on its own 'verse. I guess it's expected that people are so into danmei that ANY drama that makes it past censorship will rack in the views without making much of an effort. That's a bit offensive TBH - we've all seen better, even with the heavily censored dramas...
Why are they calling them angels when they are the 12 zodiac signs? People can do research. But it's fine. I thank…
I love myself a dark PHS but TBH... Song Kang's single knife-wing in Sweet Home was a bazillion times better. And that drama also rocked from the first ep (the whole first season was fire. The other two... kinda meh.)
The Atypical Family, Moving, The Uncanny Counter (1st season only), Tale of the Nine-Tailed... I guess we've lost our chance for more dramas of that kind. The best they could do lately was Lovely Runner and that's definitely not focusing on the time jumps or anything supernatural/unnatural.
I've come prepared with the zodiac animals info LOL, I've watched Furuba in the past hahaha~
But yeah, the way this drama starts isn't inducing to a wish to keep watching... :(
I really liked the first episode (no time for more today probably). It has magic, humour, fighting, the little actor did a great job, the FL's costume is insanely beautiful - I don't think I ever saw that style in a costume drama (I want a dress in that style. Sadly I don't think I'd pull it off... *sigh*). I guess we'll be watching then :D
This is my first ABO show/story and I literally had to message my friend who knows more about it and ask if "Alpha's…
Even if they couldn't see, they both had smelled their partners' respective scents before. Can't explain that away without using more tropes - partners are dead drunk, they're on drugs, they just got hit in the head with some ACME hammer or something. There's nothing here to explain it away and that's just lazy.
So who is lying here and on other places? who says they already read ABO without rap3 or who says it is "IMPOSSIBLE"…
Accidental Mark is ABO and has no rape. Indulging in Wine has some dub-con (or more like misinformed participants) but no rape. They CAN do ABO with no rape. It's just that most write it like that because of reasons.
But this author already invented a 4th genre in the ABO 'verse, she could have easily changed the first-nights too... had she wanted to.
That's Huayong's plan from the beginning, to manipulate Shao You into loving him at all cost, he's a psycho; it…
So when this dog catches the car, what will he do? Move on to better shinier cars?
Because hounding your "loved" one into submission - to the extremes in this ep - is definitely not sane and healthy. I thought this might take a fresher turn than the regular abusive ABO danmei, but I guess not.
I knew that trope couldn't be missing in a regular-type ABO story but still.PS Before purists come after me, I…
BOTH of them had to have a first time sex scene that HAD to involve forced/dubcon/rape?! Couldn't at least one of them be seduced or any other trope - drunk out of their minds or something and horny?
In one pairing the Enigma forces the Alpha (who doesn't know who his partner is, supposedly), in the other the Alpha rapes a (stranger to him) Omega just because he's there and in heat?!
I mean... who would even WANT these people as partners, after this, if they weren't already couple-coded?! Presume your Alpha-intended goes around raping people in heat, wow so romantic, such love and restraint - and he's supposed to hate Omega people too! And the other pairing - your Enigma goes around raping YOU when you're NOT consenting in any explicit or pheromone-induced manner at all...
It's not freaking romantic. It's a trope yes. The author could have written something different, after all she introduced a whole ass new gender, she COULD have done something different here, too.
I knew that trope couldn't be missing in a regular-type ABO story but still.
PS Before purists come after me, I DID read a lot of ABO danmei until I grew sick of the tropes. There ARE better ABO danmei that flaunt the tropes. I know this is the one that's being turned into a drama and that's that, but still... this is the worst trope of ABO. And it's included.
So these guys are angels (because Korea has angels in its mythology or something, IDK) and now since they've defeated evil a while ago (like in the Paleolithic?!) are working as thug money collectors. But now someone unearthed something and the evil archangel / devil incarnate came back (it took about three minutes of rock-pushing and green littering.)
There's something off - for me - with the pacing. I get it they want to have some time to show us how mundane supernatural beings can become, but it was boring. From all the things they could ever do, they choose non-sensical violent money retrieval from gangsters? Okay, let's accept that, but why does everything have to be edited in such a way that nothing has any tension, I don't care about any of them or their issues, they're mysterious but at the same time such idiots. I never expected to be bored on a first ep of 8 about supernatural zodiac creatures (that now are called angels because I guess Western audience needs to realise their level of power or something) and then I don't even know if I want to watch the second (because definitely the newly unearthed devil will be evil and stuff. EVEN if he's freaking PHS.)
Something's also wrong - for me - with the character portrayal. Did we really need that detective who's probably either one of them or another supernatural to go through a whole luxuries store AND go gift his loot AND the giftee refuse it for about more than a quarter of episode time?! I don't know who these guys are, all that it shows me it's that their Chief / Tiger is an idiot wrapped around some woman / another zodiac figure's little finger. Should I care why?!
I know MDS is kind of a big thing in Korea and around and he brings in people in the cinemas, but I've already seen him in Bad Guys (he's not a stranger I mean) and for a drama to work it needs a whole cast to work together and bring in the magic. It can't stay on the one big name. And even with PHS added in - barely there, at the end, it won't survive without some actual plot that's not an action movie spread around 8 eps.
The way it's filmed, the lighting, the colours... I was expecting something actually enticing for a show about zodiac creatures doing stuff. This is instead the level of some of the earlier Bud Spencer playing Piedone movies - Italians should know the style. Not saying it couldn't work... but it's freaking outdated as hell.
The one thing I kind of liked in this first ep was the ED song. That's the one I remember before falling asleep for a few hours immediately after finishing watching, LOL.
About every third word out of his mouth is "kill" :) (kill you, kill him, kill me, kill them...)
She gave poor demon liaision such a scolding, poor guy didn't know what hit him. And she keeps dazzling Sima Jiao with neologisms LOL, he's dumbstruck every other sentence. I like her.
They could do with a lot less flashbacks from half an episode ago, though.
Then for the romance aspect (yes it's censored, so what? It doesn't need explicit scenes, they're in love - contains out-of-context spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLLumzo__GA
As for the fighting... yes there are scenes, though the plot isn't action, but morality. (Minor spoilers, includes scenes from the donghua): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzdtZiuwChM
Watch it. It's worth it. Despite the censorship, the relationship comes through very clearly :)
3 
And yeah... Someone in the production team doesn't care for it to make sense on its own 'verse. I guess it's expected that people are so into danmei that ANY drama that makes it past censorship will rack in the views without making much of an effort. That's a bit offensive TBH - we've all seen better, even with the heavily censored dramas...
The Atypical Family, Moving, The Uncanny Counter (1st season only), Tale of the Nine-Tailed... I guess we've lost our chance for more dramas of that kind. The best they could do lately was Lovely Runner and that's definitely not focusing on the time jumps or anything supernatural/unnatural.
I've come prepared with the zodiac animals info LOL, I've watched Furuba in the past hahaha~
But yeah, the way this drama starts isn't inducing to a wish to keep watching... :(
Please please please don't let the ML have to grow back to adulthood at the normal speed, ain't nobody got time for that LOL.
But this author already invented a 4th genre in the ABO 'verse, she could have easily changed the first-nights too... had she wanted to.
Because hounding your "loved" one into submission - to the extremes in this ep - is definitely not sane and healthy. I thought this might take a fresher turn than the regular abusive ABO danmei, but I guess not.
In one pairing the Enigma forces the Alpha (who doesn't know who his partner is, supposedly), in the other the Alpha rapes a (stranger to him) Omega just because he's there and in heat?!
I mean... who would even WANT these people as partners, after this, if they weren't already couple-coded?! Presume your Alpha-intended goes around raping people in heat, wow so romantic, such love and restraint - and he's supposed to hate Omega people too! And the other pairing - your Enigma goes around raping YOU when you're NOT consenting in any explicit or pheromone-induced manner at all...
It's not freaking romantic. It's a trope yes. The author could have written something different, after all she introduced a whole ass new gender, she COULD have done something different here, too.
PS Before purists come after me, I DID read a lot of ABO danmei until I grew sick of the tropes. There ARE better ABO danmei that flaunt the tropes. I know this is the one that's being turned into a drama and that's that, but still... this is the worst trope of ABO. And it's included.
There's something off - for me - with the pacing. I get it they want to have some time to show us how mundane supernatural beings can become, but it was boring. From all the things they could ever do, they choose non-sensical violent money retrieval from gangsters? Okay, let's accept that, but why does everything have to be edited in such a way that nothing has any tension, I don't care about any of them or their issues, they're mysterious but at the same time such idiots. I never expected to be bored on a first ep of 8 about supernatural zodiac creatures (that now are called angels because I guess Western audience needs to realise their level of power or something) and then I don't even know if I want to watch the second (because definitely the newly unearthed devil will be evil and stuff. EVEN if he's freaking PHS.)
Something's also wrong - for me - with the character portrayal. Did we really need that detective who's probably either one of them or another supernatural to go through a whole luxuries store AND go gift his loot AND the giftee refuse it for about more than a quarter of episode time?! I don't know who these guys are, all that it shows me it's that their Chief / Tiger is an idiot wrapped around some woman / another zodiac figure's little finger. Should I care why?!
I know MDS is kind of a big thing in Korea and around and he brings in people in the cinemas, but I've already seen him in Bad Guys (he's not a stranger I mean) and for a drama to work it needs a whole cast to work together and bring in the magic. It can't stay on the one big name. And even with PHS added in - barely there, at the end, it won't survive without some actual plot that's not an action movie spread around 8 eps.
The way it's filmed, the lighting, the colours... I was expecting something actually enticing for a show about zodiac creatures doing stuff. This is instead the level of some of the earlier Bud Spencer playing Piedone movies - Italians should know the style. Not saying it couldn't work... but it's freaking outdated as hell.
The one thing I kind of liked in this first ep was the ED song. That's the one I remember before falling asleep for a few hours immediately after finishing watching, LOL.
She gave poor demon liaision such a scolding, poor guy didn't know what hit him. And she keeps dazzling Sima Jiao with neologisms LOL, he's dumbstruck every other sentence. I like her.
They could do with a lot less flashbacks from half an episode ago, though.
Then for the romance aspect (yes it's censored, so what? It doesn't need explicit scenes, they're in love - contains out-of-context spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLLumzo__GA
As for the fighting... yes there are scenes, though the plot isn't action, but morality. (Minor spoilers, includes scenes from the donghua): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzdtZiuwChM
Watch it. It's worth it. Despite the censorship, the relationship comes through very clearly :)