Alejandro

In Dhoom Dhoom, there is a quick scene where he pushes the girl aside and runs towards the guy...I choked on my own surprise! He is so amazing!

Lego's booty shake at the end of his performance was ridiculous! When I first watched that, I was in shock, and only realised I was panting later on! 😂

That is actually the one that made me fall in love with Lego! 👌😏😊

I'm all of a sudden curious to find music from LYKN on YouTube. These fellows fascinate me, as they are not only great performers, (I hope we get to see some Lego dance moves somewhere along the line...) but they are not terrible actors, either. Especially Nut, who is annoying the HELL out of me right now as Jun...which means he's doing his job very well! 👌😏😊

I never said it was a joke. A joke requires a punchline. Humourous wordplay only requires an intelligent person to understand the humour. If you ever read The New Yorker, The Atlantic, or Harper's magazines, you would understand the humour better, I suppose. My fault for choosing the wrong venue to share my sort of humour, apparently. I had no idea it would get such a defensive reaction. Certainly was not my intention.

Yeah, I was actually playing with the word as opposed to the name and having some fun with it...that's all... Incredible how difficult it is to translate humour online even when one uses emojis which should have made the humourous intent obvious to any observant reader...one would think, anyway...😏

Interesting, since in English, a 'fluke' is an aberration, an anomaly, a rare and unlikely occurrence... apparently it's the exact opposite in Thai...😉😂

I've only just finished watching the third episode, and, rather than chemistry everyone keeps talking about, I just see a rude and obnoxious FL who runs around interrogating people as though everyone owes her an explanation. Why no one has told her to go f*** herself yet is beyond me, because if it were me, the conversation would be over in just the amount of time it would take me to say just that. And breaking into someone's house, stealing from them, and then offering up some lame apology does not excuse the deed itself. This girl really thinks she has the right to do and say whatever she wants and is not accountable to anyone. I don't like this girl at all, and frankly, after learning what a piece of crap her brother was, I can't understand why she still thinks people are going to help her find out what happened to him. Maybe she becomes less annoying as the drama progresses. I guess I will give it another episode or two before I drop it.

And their mama? That's harsh! What do the mamas have to do with anything? 😂😂😂

I am watching episode 20 right now, and I am flabbergasted at the stupidity of Zhao's stepmother. She refers to Zhao working in 'trade' as 'lowly', but sees her own illegal lending activities as something superior? How does she manage to work that out even in her twisted mind? Legal trade is lowly, but illegal lending is FABULOUS! One can make you rich, or at least keep you with a roof over your head and food on the table. Whilst the other one can get you imprisoned and probably beheaded. I am VERY confused by this woman's logic! 🤔

So I have just finished watching this and I have some thoughts. Not a review...I am not qualified for that sort of thing. I don't want anyone's opinion to be affected by my own, and neither do I have the ability to fully describe what I have just watched. Ergo, I will simply share an opinion and people can do what they want with it.

Firstly, I enjoyed the main couple. They were adorable together, and I liked their looks. As for the way they were written, well, that's a different story. A ruthless 'dagger of the Daqi Empire' suddenly turns into a soft marshmallow because of some girl he met randomly on the street? Granted, she thought she was saving his life, and maybe that's what attracted him to her. But seriously. He became smitten at once, and immediately started working toward making sure she never knew who he was...even going so far as to confuse the hell out of his already confused little sister with his constant 'You must never mention...blah, blah, blah...' Huge plothole, by the way...the younger sister never kicked him in the nuts when she found out who he really was...she really should have...just saying...😉😏

The usual Cdrama trope of the woman always saving the man was way overused...but no surprises here...it's always been the propaganda of these dramas that women should always be stronger than the men in their lives and should never rely on them. Indeed, they CANNOT rely on them. The men are always lascivious, corrupt, abusive, etc...we got it all in this one series!

And the marvelous propaganda about how liberating it is to not have to think about money or position and just do the work you're told to do, have your meal and go to bed was quite a bit too much on point as well. If one were ever to forget one was watching a Communist country drama, one will be heavily reminded with this one, for sure! 😉☺️

As with all of these dramas, the 'good' people were all beautiful and young, whilst the 'bad' people were all (invariably male, except one), middle-aged, old, and/or unattractive.The youth are our future! So say the old men who run the CCP...but whatever...😏

Anyway, the Emperor was the main villain in this drama for me. His capricious pettiness, paranoia and vindictive nature made him a menace to anyone who came near him. He would force people into saying things they really would rather not say, only to them destroy them for having said it. He did this again and again, and no one ever seemed to learn from it. Frankly, if my grandfather had been sent into exile for falling into such a nefarious and spiteful trap, I would have avoided repeating the same mistake. But not granddaughter! She goes right ahead and repeats the same mistake, not only falling , but jumping head-first into the same trap, thereby ensuring her family will never be pardoned and will also lose all of their assets in the process. But because this is a Communist produced drama, the family doesn't blame her for her stupidity and arrogance, but instead revels in returning to the poverty they had only just crawled out of. Sounds realistic to me too! 😉

I get that Yanxi was following orders and was loyal to the selfish, vindictive and cowardly Emperor, I really do. He raised him. He taught him his ABC's, he gave him the only parental affection he'd ever received after the death of his mother. (Frankly, I think the Emperor pressured Prince Ling into killing his wife, judging from the paranoid personality he had... wouldn't that have been an interesting turn of events?)

But fir the granddaughter of one of his victims to fall in love with him, and for the grandfather to later be okay with that, struck me as a bit too facil. I would think they would have held some grudges, realistically. But maybe I'm wrong. Maybe it's a cultural thing that I don't get.

Anyway despite these (and many other) misgivings, I still found this to be one of the most entertaining dramas I have ever watched. And if one is willing to shut off one's common sense and simply indulge in the fantasy, one can truly enjoy it as much as I did. ☺️

Just finished my third viewing yesterday...I can NEVER get tired of watching this series! I'm actually looking forward to watching it yet again, as soon as I have the time...😊

I tried to like the Grand Priest, I really did...it's evident that the writers wanted us to come to like him, and so I tried. But I just couldn't get out of my head the idea that he killed so many innocent people with zero remorse, completely convinced it was the right thing to do.

Nirvana in Fire more than any other. And of course, The Untamed as well!

I don't know to whom you are referring. The only octogenarian that I am aware of who is worth 'shipping' is Yan Se. His shameless antics, his complete lack of any concern for what anyone thinks of him, and his fulsomely and wholeheartedly embracing of his own narcissism and his proud recognition of this same trait in his disciple made me fall in love with him. He is hilarious and delightful. I have never loved an 80 year old man the way I love this one! 😂

I'm just watching episode 30 now, and I want to be sure I understood this correctly...did Chen Pi Pi just call himself Ning Que's wife? 😂😂😂 When he was referring to the 'wife who can cook for you', he was referring to himself, wasn't he? That's just too absurd! 🤣

Thank you! I am on episode 19 and feel the exact same way. I have never seen a female lead in these dramas make such stupid and inane decisions before in my life. She has so many other options, but keeps choosing the ones which involve her worst enemy. I just don't get it.

I'm on episode 19 now and I have to say that, while I normally HATE 'strong' female leads who have bigger balls than every man in the room, I'm not really very fond of this weak, simpering, self pitying female lead either. She makes the dumbest decisions based out of fear, despite having numerous other options. She claims to want nothing to do with Prince Qing, and yet she does everything she can to continue to be involved with him. Even though, if she were to marry Prince Qi, I am certain Shen and his gang would be happy to protect her and her family. She is so stupid, it annoys the Hell out of me. She is as bad as Prince Qing insofar as she knows how much Prince Qi loves her, but she keeps torturing him nevertheless. She thinks she is being brave and stolid, but what she is being is a right bitch. I have never despised a female lead character to the extent that I do this one ever before. On a side note, I literally cried when Shen said 'From now on, you'll just be my Chuan'. 😢

I'm curious to know whether anyone understands the original text if this series and can explain to me how Xiling, the so-called representative of the 'Light' became so evil. I'm sure they think they are not evil. But I would really like an understanding as to how they came to believe that wiping out over a hundred members of a loyal general's household could be justified.

I'm in the middle of episode 16 right now, and I am so impressed. The conversation between Lu An Ran and her father was very telling in its complexity and subtlety. The father saying he would have been fine with her killing Xin Ran but was not fine with her humiliating her was telling insofar as he was more concerned about the family's reputation. He had already written her off, and couldn't care less whether she lived or died. Indeed, I'm inclined to believe the family would have been happy to forget she had ever existed once she was married off to Prince Qing. (One may recall during a scene at New Year's Eve in An Ran's first life, the Prince joined the Lu family for a happy family gathering. There was none of that during Xin Ran's marriage...so far, anyway... remember that I am only on episode 16!) I almost dropped this drama when I saw how pitifully poorly An Ran was allowing herself to be treated by Prince Qing. I'm glad I stuck it out, because I now see that it was all part of her plan. This really has become a far more interesting drama than I expected it to be. What's hilarious is that the director or writer must have known how exasperated we viewers would have become by now, and that we might have dropped it after Xin Ran got what she deserved, just because everything that happened before was just really too much. God knows I was tempted! So of course they offered a foreshadowing narrative which portends doom for our heroine (Oh No! 😲) So I of course have to continue watching...the bastards! 😏😂