For anyone interested, I think we'll be getting a proper OST for The Spirealm soon because there have been posts of studio recordings taking place for songs from the show! As a music lover I'm very keen. Gao Jiayi (the same singer who sings 'I Know') recording another song from the show: https://twitter.com/mngwns/status/1780584193514439087/video/1
Is this worth watching? Is it funny? Is the plot and medical theme consistent and well done? I'm not looking for spoilers, just a general idea of the quality of this production please. Thanks :3
Now I have to wishes before I die: To watch Immortality (Hao Yi Xing) and for someone to make the live action…
I have two wishes as well, and my first is the same as yours, I want Immortality to be released too 😭 BUT my second wish is probably NOT a popular one but I don't care, I just want to see Eternal Faith re-shot and finally released with Xia Zhiguang as Hua Cheng 😭😭😭 It'll never happen but wishing is free real estate 🥹
LOL, no one will come at you xD (I think)The thing is, the drama didn't follow the novel because BL is censored…
Yeah, but if they followed that plot twist, how would they explain it? How would they explain Qiushi forgetting about THAT much of his life. Guo Dawei couldn't erase his memory, Lanzhu is not a god of the doors, so he would not have been able to erase Jiushi's memory, and the memories of everyone else who would have known Jiushi as the leader of Obsidian.
In order to make that twist work, Lanzhu would have to be as he is in the novel, a god of the doors and a real being. And to achieve that in China with the censorship in a BL, they would have to made the show completely non BL, basically just have the whole story with them as friends or summat. Otherwise, they could have just used the novel story the way it is, but they couldn't do that.
Censorship affects Nanzhu/Lanzhu's story, which affects Quishi/Juishi's story, because their whole story centres around their romantic relationship development because Nanzhu literally altered his reality because he fell in love with Qiushi.
1. Is RNZ really the door god of the 12th door?In the novel it's mentioned that LQS was the leader of obsidian…
Nah, it's not. The 12th door isn't a level, it's whatever Nanzhu wants it to be, it's his world, they're all his doors and he is the ending. And for Qiushi, he just wipes both their memories and resets it.
Quishi realises it himself in the novel, that the 12th door doesn't exist, it's just the end. In chapter 139 his narrative reads: "Lin Qiushi began to laugh, pained. He finally understood why pretty much nobody talked about the twelfth door. Because the twelfth door didn't actually exist."
So, his memory is wiped, and he just goes back to door 1, meets Nanzhu and then after they clear the door, they go back out into the real world and so the story goes. They don't stay in the door world, it's not the 12th door.
Ok...People might come at me for this...But, it's just my opinion. So..I have read the Novel, one of my favorite…
LOL, no one will come at you xD (I think) The thing is, the drama didn't follow the novel because BL is censored in China. The show made the non-platonic attraction between Lanzhu and Jiushi quite obvious, way more obvious for example, than the famous BL drama The Untamed, and so to combat that and suit China's 'no homo' policy, at the end of the show they essentially made Lanzhu 'not really real'.
Making Lanzhu 'not real' was supposed to negate the romantic aspect (can't be gay and in love with someone who isn't real kinda thing), and then it also made Jiushi seem like he'd been in coma and dreaming the whole thing because none of it was 'really real'.
Personally, I think up to the point where Jiushui tells WuQi he intends to find the Spiritual Realm at the end, it was still okay, because that ending could technically have still tied into the ending of the novel and people who read the book could assume he and Lanzhu found their way back to each other after a short while.
The show's final ending ,where they are separated for decades, I just choose to ignore it. It was probably also about the 'no homo' policy anyway, making it so that by the time Juishi 'finds/recreates' the virtual/spirit realm again, he's old and his life has been wasted, and fans wouldn't be able to say that he had a proper happy ending with Lanzhu.🙄
The book ending is definitely superior, it's the best outcome, but that said, considering what the showrunners had to put up with in terms of censorship in China, and how obviously Lanzhu, and Jiushi too, had non-plantonic feelings for each other for the entirety of the show, and how amazing The Spirealm turned out to be despite that, I think they did an amazing job.
But yeah, basically, censorship is responsible for the different ending.
I just have to know why? He's so harmless 😂 like comedy relief
Honestly, even as I think about it now, there wasn't any character in this show that annoyed me. All the mains were likable and the rest passed the vibe check or they were fleeting ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Just thinking about this show, and seriously, I'm so glad that 'special episode' wasn't some extra thing that tried to change the end of the original run. I legit enjoyed this show a lot, one of the best and most interesting Thai BL's to ever come out, it was a 'BL' that went against the grain/tropes/expectations in order to SERVE that ending. This show holds a W imo.
The novel does not have any explicit sex scenes. There is teasing, flirting, kissing and references to their sex…
Yeah, no, don't worry, it's not lacking in that department and once the relationship is established they don't hesitate to say 'I love you' to each other. Nanzhu is also handsy and he's super flirty from the start, his attraction is very obvious :3
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Gao Jiayi (the same singer who sings 'I Know') recording another song from the show:
https://twitter.com/mngwns/status/1780584193514439087/video/1
Zheng Chungji (Actor of Wuqi) recording a solo song: https://twitter.com/mngwns/status/1781190051688493377/video/1
EDIT: HJJ is singing too!
https://twitter.com/mngwns/status/1781270173032611866
EDIT 2: There is also a MV
https://twitter.com/burninglight92/status/1781265544353910917
https://twitter.com/xianguang0104/status/1780906169152029078
In order to make that twist work, Lanzhu would have to be as he is in the novel, a god of the doors and a real being. And to achieve that in China with the censorship in a BL, they would have to made the show completely non BL, basically just have the whole story with them as friends or summat. Otherwise, they could have just used the novel story the way it is, but they couldn't do that.
Censorship affects Nanzhu/Lanzhu's story, which affects Quishi/Juishi's story, because their whole story centres around their romantic relationship development because Nanzhu literally altered his reality because he fell in love with Qiushi.
Quishi realises it himself in the novel, that the 12th door doesn't exist, it's just the end. In chapter 139 his narrative reads:
"Lin Qiushi began to laugh, pained. He finally understood why pretty much nobody talked about the twelfth door. Because the twelfth door didn't actually exist."
So, his memory is wiped, and he just goes back to door 1, meets Nanzhu and then after they clear the door, they go back out into the real world and so the story goes. They don't stay in the door world, it's not the 12th door.
The thing is, the drama didn't follow the novel because BL is censored in China.
The show made the non-platonic attraction between Lanzhu and Jiushi quite obvious, way more obvious for example, than the famous BL drama The Untamed, and so to combat that and suit China's 'no homo' policy, at the end of the show they essentially made Lanzhu 'not really real'.
Making Lanzhu 'not real' was supposed to negate the romantic aspect (can't be gay and in love with someone who isn't real kinda thing), and then it also made Jiushi seem like he'd been in coma and dreaming the whole thing because none of it was 'really real'.
Personally, I think up to the point where Jiushui tells WuQi he intends to find the Spiritual Realm at the end, it was still okay, because that ending could technically have still tied into the ending of the novel and people who read the book could assume he and Lanzhu found their way back to each other after a short while.
The show's final ending ,where they are separated for decades, I just choose to ignore it. It was probably also about the 'no homo' policy anyway, making it so that by the time Juishi 'finds/recreates' the virtual/spirit realm again, he's old and his life has been wasted, and fans wouldn't be able to say that he had a proper happy ending with Lanzhu.🙄
The book ending is definitely superior, it's the best outcome, but that said, considering what the showrunners had to put up with in terms of censorship in China, and how obviously Lanzhu, and Jiushi too, had non-plantonic feelings for each other for the entirety of the show, and how amazing The Spirealm turned out to be despite that, I think they did an amazing job.
But yeah, basically, censorship is responsible for the different ending.