TianQi

Agree about the dancing. I'm almost positive the actor isn't a dancing nor has any background in dancing. The camera angles even changed during his dancing scenes to not film him as directly, I think.

I feel like the best way to watch this series is:
-watch the first five episodes of Mood Indigo
-watch all of Pornographer
-watch the last episode of Mood Indigo

Having Kijima and Kido contextualized for when Kido pops up during Pornographer would make for a more fulfilling watch imo.

I feel like the best way to watch this series is:
-watch the first five episodes of Mood Indigo
-watch all of Pornographer
-watch the last episode of Mood Indigo

Having Kijima and Kido contextualized for when Kido pops up during Pornographer would make for a more fulfilling watch imo.

I can see how you would get that if you didn't come in knowing it was basically just a series of adverts for a grocery store. lol

Basically all the same things people are saying here. From what I’ve read personally, the general response is that it’s disturbing.

The way I read it, the implication of what you wrote was that sexual assault was somehow more acceptable/normal in Asia and that in western countries, people clearly know that it’s not which is why you put it in quotes to begin with...to imply that it’s not western morality, it’s morality, period....and that morality is “differently perceived” in Asia about this topic.

If that wasn’t your intention, then good to know. I just responded how I understood it.

I wonder if it's a cultural/continental difference? In Asia, especially in the southern part, that actor is considered skinny, but not sickly. That body frame is extremely common here. In America or Europe though, I can see where you'd think he looks "anorexic" (though that's the most ineloquent way to put it).
It's like how people here would consider someone walking down the street with Mariah Carey's body to be categorically fat. The notion of "curvy" (in the Kardashian way, not the Fan Bing Bing way), "thick", and "healthy" don't really exist here. When people see western people like that, we know to accept that because more western media is consumed here in Asia than vice versa, so we kinda get it, but in general, in my experience, well over 70% of what a westerner (particularly a North American) would call "healthy", we'd just call "fat" or "big".

I got that for a split second too.

Don't give western morals that much credit. This series is catching a lot of flack from fans in Taiwan too.

So happy to share a birthday with this handsome man.

Watching Yong Jie and Xing Si's conversation in the bedroom where Yong Jie says he's basically lost himself and said 'I couldn't lock you up because you wouldn't smile at me' or something like that gave me flashbacks to Killing Stalking. Actually, Yong Jie actually gives me a lot of Sangwoo vibes at some points, albeit much, much milder.

I thought so too. I think it's mostly the haircut and the eyes for me.

I'm a sucker for period pieces, so the clothes, way of speaking, and setting earned this a lot of points from the start for me. This wasn't super deep or complicated and it didn't need to be. It was a nice and easy watch.

It's BL and it ends with them getting to be together happily.

That isn't quite the same as learning to bartend in order to get him drunk though.

I really don't think he loved the queen, at least not how he loved the king. I also think the queen genuinely loved both of them.

I liked this series generally, but we deserved a better ending than that. It felt a little lazy.

Ok, I was just checking because he is pretty crazy, so I wouldn't put that past him. lol I just didn't recall that part in particular.

There's weeks' worth of comments responding to the rest of these points, but didn't Yongjie say he learned to mix drinks in a bartenders club? Did he really mention at any point that he learned to mix drinks just to get Xingsi drunk??

This show is basically just about Teng Mu Ren and his little sidekicks for me now.