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I guess im only bothered bc the novel has this content, zenned-out FL who has this thing happen to her that it's like "Yay! I won the lotto!" And that's it, that's the story. That's the kind of quaintness I loved about the story.

I don't like it when the writers take a sweet adorable FL, and feel like it can't be complete as a romance unless they've given her PTSD. Aiyaaa...

I think hypothetically one could skip from Grain Rain Vale when it's sweet and lovely, straight to end of ep 28 where his soul manor catches on fire, and be totally in line with the novel basically. Everything in between was just one big detour-loop that brings you full circle right back at the plot of the story.

I wonder why they felt the need to create that entire frost fish plotline. It's weird because when he wakes up, he looks at her passed out demon-ruler body and says "You really made something of yourself" as if he's proud of her for it, but I don't think that's in line with SJ's character. He never wanted her to work hard or be his equal, he just appreciated her for who she was and wanted her to never have to struggle or work hard or be in any pain. So I think SJ would wake up and see her like that and get super pissed off and sad, not be proud of her for "making something of herself".

She never took thunderbolts for him in the novel, correct?

And then she also repeatedly tries to stab him as she struggles with the assassin frost fish, and I thought that kind of dented the original dynamic between them a little bit.

I am just really glad that by the time you get to end of ep28, you do get that same feeling as in the original story where you feel like he's protecting her from knowing he's dying and it's super sad and sweet. I'm optimistic that this could finish out really well.

Bantz for novel readers:

When I read "side-eyeing SOKP wildcats" my mind immediately did the SOKP wildcat sound effect "reowrrrr!"

@Vickymouse
Nice user profile you got there 🤣

My completely uneducated blind guess is that they're rl into eachother. And that's why they have blow the roof off chemistry.

I appeal relevance b/c people want to know what to watch between eps or what to go to from here. when the new eps drop, there will be more to talk about. I dug through 3 other crap shows to finally land on MR as a decent between-ep watch.

This is jonesing between doses of Sima Jiao.

does the production value or sound/dubbing have to be there for you, or can you go old school? Do you care if it's historical/modern or red/green flag? Or taboo?

I just browsed your watchlist, I think I might be able to be of some assistance, b/c we have a lot of overlap on ratings. So what exactly are you looking for rn? fluff, spice, plot, something long something short, something easy or hard or what.

Hey. Nobody told me Moonlit Reunion was full of actual cats!

I was kind of avoiding that show. But I'm bored today and there's nothing else, so I thought... since MR doesn't even really get started romance-wise till ep 11, then why don't I just start it on ep 10. RN I am on ep 11. I have no idea what's going on right now, but there's something about the combination of Kai and a bunch of cats that's super hypnotic. This is curing my between-episode boredom pretty nicely. Good characters, very happy-looking and well-fed cats that I'm sure were not stressed out a lot on set or mistreated.

I also like that Kai can kind of like cosmically appease the Cat Gods by doing MR, because of what that poor poor cat went through in ABAY.

I don't know if they're both single, but I also would ship them in RL.

omg, that's genius, they should have hired you to write for this drama lol

concur, they have a lot of basic similar elements...

It's a place to discuss. We're discussing how the drama relates to the novel, you're discussing your feelings. Those two convs can co-exist. I don't know who attacked you or why you feel gatekept, but I'm sorry you feel that way.

Although I have to say, that my thoughts on that matter come from a total opposite pov.... if I don't like a drama I'll often watch it to the end, number one to say I watched it b/c I'm just that kind of person, and number two, shows deserve a fair shot all the way to the end. So I'll often be in a comments section venting my dissatisfaction with this or that about a show, and IM the one who gets viciously attacked and often verbally abused by FANS of a show when I don't share their opinion. Which is also super mega toxic.

So you feel like the critical viewers are toxic, but the fans are equally toxic on MDL. I can say that I do know how you feel just because I've been attacked so hard on here so many times for various reasons. And by attacked I don't mean attacking my ideas or opinions (although that happens too), I mean personal attacks like namecalling and abusive comments.

If you let a bunch of randos on a public platform influence what shows you will start, that's just giving people who don't deserve your attention too much power.

Maybe you could try these:

Eternal Love of Dream

and does it really have to be a wuxia/xianxia, because

A Dream of Splendor
Blossom

were both good imo

I thought the story when taken as a whole was just "above average", but the experience of watching it once for the first time was admittedly awesome, if for nothing else than the comedy and the cameos.

I used to be kind of a fan of that FL but I think her schtick is getting a little old, and what was she doing with her chicken lipstick, that was so so so distracting...

It didnt blow me away or anything but I had a lot of fun watching it.

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I think for me at least, it's less abt that, and more about the fact that the feels you get in the novel at this point, diverge a lot from the feels you get at this point in the story in the drama. In the novel, everything is very understated, sweet, poignant as the 2nd arc turns into the 3rd.... and they changed it so dramatically, to the point that instead of a sweet and sad transition, you get a chaotic, violent sudden transition. You also get this added layer of guilt that the FL must be going through that to me is just not as good as how the novel laid it out.

I'm on track to give it a 10 still, but that will def depend on how they decided to play out the 3rd arc. Now that they've diverged so significantly from the original story it's like ok what will the writers pull next lol

Dude I heard they don't even start getting together till ep 18 in that one. And they're 45 min episodes.

I think if you just want a quick fix of spice that Dangerous Love is not bad. Not great, but not bad. Gao Min Cheng is super hot. The plot is boilerplate stupid republican era plot, but Han Le Yao is in it, and she's always fun to watch act. I tried to watch Luminosity Behind the Palace because I adore Fan Zhi Xin, but the FL is ruining it for me totally, I can't even finish it.

They should have done this part as written in the novel. Not happy. All that shit was so not necessary. Now this makes me wonder if the 3rd arc is even going to go the way it's supposed to at all or if theyre just gonna make a bunch of shit up.