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I’m not familiar with source lore, so I’ve come to think of ML as Batman and FL as Batgirl. They don’t kill anyone, try to put them in prison/asylum, but bad people inevitably escape and start causing havoc again 😁

ZRN was great in The First Frost and even in My Boss (underrated drama which is much better than its synopsis here).

Have watched it up to middle of episode 13 and starting to agree with Viki comments that it’s dragging a bit and there’s a bit too much talking. All the moralizing is probably true to the source material, but it’s not making a riveting drama, especially since we know who the bad guys are.

Very true, that’s why I’m a bit worried this has 42 episodes (and this is coming from a fan of slow-burn dramas, so it’s not like I can only watch K-drama length shows).

P.S. One of the things that has always bugged me about Peony/Blossom is why couldn’t they just un-alive 💀 bad guys by claiming it was a hunting incident or something else. Once they knew who was scheming, just get rid of all the bad people and be done with it. Don’t even need to make it a court case or anything. Hunting accidents can happen, you know 😉

If it goes full 40 episodes, maybe? 🤔
I really enjoyed TIA but if fights were a bit shorter it’d save them some CGI budget and would move things along quicker.
Maybe in a few years they could take full 3D scans of YY and then merge donghua & live action to give the full story quicker. Just feed the script and CGI models into AI and have it generate everything 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks! Having three seasons may be the best we can expect overall for the live action drama (unless they do 9-10 seasons in total and make Yang Yang play the character for the next 10-15 years). In season 2 he’d be far away and then he’d come back and get married in season 3 (being vague to avoid spoilers for others).

Hopefully in the novel FL was some sort of an ink scientist or something like that. Because a normal person would definitely not be able to make any ink 🫟🤣

We need a liveblog of your watching this drama 😁

To be fair, forgiving bad people was far from the biggest issue with Flourished Peony / In the Name of Blossom. I want our leads to have a normal cooperative relationship without unnecessary misunderstandings and conflicts. And not having suffering for the sake of suffering would be good too 😁

So what’s the latest scoop? Are they going to shoot season 2 and season 3 back to back? The rumor mill was that the renewal was going to be for 2 & 3.

Dramas sometimes are shot 1-1.5 years in advance (to allow for CGI, editing, approvals, funding, etc.), so this may have been shooting before/during TIA release.

ZZ is Batman of this universe, for better or worse. If Yang Yang’s character from TIA was here, things would have been resolved more swiftly 🪄 🪦

It’s available on domestic Chinese YOUKU, but in other countries it’s on Viki or VIA.

Thank you, PBG! I’ve read before the drama started they probably wouldn’t give a different partner to ML even though it’s an AU (would be like giving Superman a different love interest). But maybe it’s not that serious :)

C-nets must have eagle vision to distinguish body double use. Seems like the least of the concerns when it comes to an action drama/movie, but maybe I’m applying different standards 😁

It’s pretty clear the drink was spiked to make her father fall asleep 💤 and the ink was burned by someone else, but your point still stands.

Correct, he isn’t the only one bu lt he was responsible for the workshop operations and things like that. Oh well, MDL synopsis kind of spoils it won’t end well for the clan 😳

Yes, it’s to get justice for her family for sure, but she’s very undercover somehow becoming a top disciple in a span of a year (?) or so. I think after the first meeting he realizes it’s her but it didn’t seem like he recognized her the first time when she almost killed him. Poor guy, lol 😆

All the comments here convinced me I should stop 🛑 and not watch any more episodes before going to bed since it’s not going to be get any lighter 🥺😳🫣

It’s definitely not the Li clan for sure. There’s an obvious answer so I’m curious if they are going to go with that one or not.

Was that part announced in later episodes? I don’t remember it in ep. 1 😳