ShortCircuit

So he was found dead (or dying) at 5.10 AM but at 5.50 AM he was sending messages about being blocked from leaving (I thought he fell from his own window?) and scary emojis? And the supposed close friend also confirms he was dead/dying by 5.30 AM too?

Like, seriously? You all are so willing for this to be a scandal that any crazy rumour will get a chance at getting viral because ~China?

Also, freaking mosquito screens are frail as heck, someone leaning on them by accident would have a chance to fall through (cats manage it all the time, too, sadly). If he was indeed drunk, it's a scenario with a high chance of being true that he might have been careless for a second - that's all it takes - leaned on it and broken through.

But yeah, that doesn't get the titillations of a suspected murder, oh, so gruesome, oh so interesting. All in the name of justice obviously.

I'll choose to believe his own mother, who also asked for her dead son's intimate life's details NOT to be spread around and for unfounded rumours to stop. If anyone would be willing to fight for their family's rights, it would be the family. And they seem most distraught with the hype of the cnetz instead of crying out for justice.

OMG, a star-studded kdrama reaching 6.2 on MDL. This is history in the making. Now I'm not even that mad about all that time I've wasted on TIH, that one still has 6.7 or so, I think, so it should be a masterpiece compared to this one.

PHS needs to make a proper superhero drama now. Even if he gets to be the villain. But it just needs to have a proper production team, an actual scriptwriter, a good director, and also a good support cast. Here's hoping.

TBH I kind of remained rattled since that one episode, and no matter how lovey-dovey they are now, the impression is fixed. It doesn't help that Gao Tu doesn't come on screen for more than one minute per episode now.

Oh well, two more and it's over.

I'm sorry, you really seem to have a problem of your own making. Thankfully, there's an easy solution. The block button. Should I show you how it works?

... like what happened to Baby Zhang's character before coming back to the Moma building? She just ceased to exist after she returned home one evening and her husband never confronted her again and she went poof LOL.

Or what did happen to Jiang YuWen, did they give him the powered-up RAN 2.0?

What happened to the bio professor, was he treated too?

What happened to WanQing or her body?

Did An Lan's mom actually wake all the way up?

I kind of liked the playboy heir too, what happened to him after the kidnapping? He didn't get to return to the building like Tang Xin.

And did Ding Qi get the RAN 2.0 or not? 'Cause it sure looks like in the new loop he remembers so either he didn't get it or it doesn't have the effect to cut the looping power. In which case, how is his heart going to take it?!

So yeah, I'd rather love to see another season at least.

ETA Anyway, at first I though their RAN drugs worked on the telomeres, since one of the effects is faster aging, but since the effects are all over the place, I guess not. Or at least not only that. OR it might be that it does actually only work on telomeres, just that it affects parts of the DNA differently - weak points or the whole telomere, maybe. Or maybe it just attacks the telomerase in some way.

Good ending. In terms of what I like better, it's still Reset, but I would definitely not say no to another season of this one.

I kept expecting them to bring in some info on the title (since it looks like a direct link to the Moebius strip) but got nothing. I guess they presumed people would just remember it and make their own connotations, LOL.

Oh well. I liked it, even with the loose ends.

ETA Wait, I forgot Rong Zi Shan had a guest appeareance in this one, LOL, when I saw him I thought he would be one of the plot lead threads, but oh well.

And also - were they really only speaking mainly Cantonese throughout? I think a few times they were using the official Mandarin (like with Maggie) but otherwise, it was pure dialect. I got used to the Mandarin in all former mainland dramas, LOL, the dialect kept pulling me out, trying to remember how it would sound in the ~official~ language.

Mid-13, Ding Qi dead-drops "I also know stuff, I have an iQiY subscription."

That was THE smoothest PPL/commercial I've EVER seen in a drama. EVER. Completely took me by surprise, LOL. (And yeah obviously the drama is on iQiYi. Which reminds me, iQiYi - Oh No! Here Comes Trouble Season 2 WHEN?)

Why did he just faint/die in the 3rd loop? Was there some toxin in that safety box, or was he exhausted, or do all loopers eventually die because of reasons?

And they never revisited it in the 4th loop, come on Ding Qi, what the hell is going on?

If they keep some alien in that secret lab I'll die laughing. Maybe it's An Lan's friend. And is Maggie's mom also a looper OR is Jiang YuWen telling her how to do stuff?

After 10th, this is frustrating...

I love character driven dramas, and also good plots. This is absolutely the best cdrama of the kind I love, IMHO. Haven't yet found anything like it, though I kept looking.

Don't expect a lot of romance, this is mostly historical and pretty heavy in tone. But if you're okay with bromance, there's going to be plenty of that (non-romantical). And it's very, very much worth the time. Give it a try.

And then the extras :D

What if time doesn't repeat but instead it vibrates? It definitely looks like all 5 loops share similar points (nodes), and if he changes something, there's a chance the ventrae also move. And maybe Ding Qi's brain vibrates on the same harmonics so he can "see"/"feel" all the vibrations at once and gets to pick the one that will have the desired result for him, only he experiences them separately because his brain can't handle it.

At this time I think they're going to find out who the jumper is and what's his role in it, and that botanical professor definitely is still involved ('cause of the hallucinogen given to the ex of the bride), and An Lan is part of some kind of vast network that anchors the vibrations, too.

IMHO the bad guy/gal is Baby Zhang's character, just because I have some beef with the actress, LOL. And she's definitely suspect anyway.

After ep 6, a new theory...

Yo, I have multiple personalities LOL. Took it again, now I'm Wen Qing.

Okay everybody form a line, bottoms up, gonna give you your shots. Starting from WWX, if someone's going to get nekkid first, let's go with an all-time winner.

...Anyone saw him lately, LOL?

ETA Dammit, took it for a third time, I'm back at being Nie HuaiSang. At least I proved I could act well and pretend to be someone else LOL. Still, if you need those shots, I'm willing to give it a try. I'm in the learning stuff business.

One option would be that they wouldn't be checked by the regulators. And the only way to make sure would be to oil the right palms.

I might be just a cynic on this, but other than this... there's just too much lack of knowledge over a too long period of time to easily believe it.

I don't have a dog in this race but seriously, who the hell has a big business and no legal dep't that would KNOW how business registration and things work?! They DO have lawyers because they write and sign contracts, who would actually BELIEVE they didn't ~know they were supposed to have a license in order to operate?! And even if they - supernaturally - had the worst legal counsel that couldn't tell them they're operating unlawfully... didn't the previous one or ten scandals on this theme warn them to at least check if they're legal or not?

LOL, I know businesses cut all possible corners, but they must think people are really dumb to come up with the ~we didn't know this was the law~ excuse.

So - theories -

1. the kid has something to do with it (or is it the deja vu he mentioned in the discovery of rules?)

2. the girl who retracted the message also has something to do with it, I wonder who she is.

3. don't tell me getting hit by a boozed-up bully and falling into water is what starts people getting a super-power?! Where do I find... errrr. Nevermind.

First ep is a great opening, LOL. Speed, Matrix and a bit of Point Break (maybe a bit of Johnny Mnemonic also, just because of the suits LOL) all rolled into one - like seriously, BJT is so much like Keanu in this one (in his younger days). And then after the intensity of the first half, that test-the-rules part with the water guns, I can't, LOL.

The ED sounds a bit like Backpacker, *approved!

Thanks! I am usually kind of serious, but there are some dramas that really inspire the imp in me LOL.

Last ep was a total hoot, LOL.

The Emperor setting up a trap for Jin'An was like...
HANS, GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER!!
And he obeyed too :D

Also the Emperor (I know it's Bi WenJun, I can't remember the character's name LOL, and I just finished the series...): I wanted to GIVE her to you so she lives on, but FIRST!!! I had to kill some more of my soldiers in order for you to show off. Also here's an antidote for some poison that nobody or their mother ever mentioned before in a drama full of all kinds of poisons and spells etc.
Jin'An (after killing those soldiers with the FLAMMENWERFER!! and also destroying the whole procession and stuff and almost killing the Emperor himself): Thanks bro. Be better at being an Emperor. (No or else 'cause he and the missus will be busy kthxbye).

My brain during the above exchange, in a science-y mood: You KNOW, after about 4 minutes without oxygen the brain cells start dyi...
Also my brain, under threat (by me): On the OTHER hand, shut up and buy it, this is fiction, she can not be breathing for a week if the plots asks for it.

The SnowWhite scene, sometime later:
Jin'An: It's been three days, he said three days, why isn't she waking up?
LX (who before was ready to swear ALL medicine is exact and will work on time): It could be 5 or even 10 days, who knows. *throwing Mo Yin under the bus* That's what Mo Yin said.
My brain, still fixed on the no-oxygen thing: You KNOW, after 4 minutes of no...
Myself to my brain: Oh shut up!!

Mo Yin being proposed to and getting shy. Because he can't escape being cute.
LX: Okay I'll lower my standards and marry you.
MY (in his complete Tang Fan impersonation): WHO'S LOWERING THEIR STANDARDS HERE?

Jin'An, a second before disaster: Let's run before these monsters awaken.
Jin'An, a second later: Why not make a little rugrat of our own?
Li Shuang's face when she realised he won't be a hands-on dad: priceless.

/end theatre.

TBH, the first half moved WAY better. He's a very good carefree character, and his smile lights up the room. In the second half, what with the plot going all over the place and him getting back his memories only the scriptwriter knows when, it was a bit of a letdown. And a lot less skin LOL.

He might make me try LOTFG again (though that one's first ep is a complete disaster).

There was a lot of chemistry going on with the main charas, not a lot for everyone else. Also, everyone else didn't have a lot of story to kill their time, either. Not complaining, 'cause the romance is what kept me here, and it's the rule that the MCs' romance takes top time.

Anyway - I am sorry, again, Song Yi is a good actress... but completely unconvincing as a female general of any kind (even of the kind that stays on a high ground and just directs soldiers, not fight herself.) She couldn't weigh more than 45 kilos or so, and most of what was bulk was the costume. I can't take that seriously (I don't expect the Hulk, but at least dub the military orders, dammit, she squeaks so much it's distracting. If I were a soldier, I'd die laughing (or if not, by martial law for laughing at her or something, LOL).

So, all's well that ends well. I was entertained.