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Stay in School - Part 1
Good thing I read the comments and reviews before watching so I was mentally prepared to be left hanging. Like another show I watched, this was written with a season 2 in mind, and that doesn't bother me as long as I know that beforehand LOL
Having said that, this is at heart, a fun watch. I felt like I was watching a live action video game. Our ML who shows his thick skin and mental prowess from the opening scene, is transported into the world of Dafeng when he visits a game room, with his co workers after a group dinner.
He wakes up in a prison cell as Xu Qian, waiting to be executed with his family. He perhaps adapts to this magically world a little too quickly for realism but I honestly soon forgot about it as the hi jinks started. Xu manages to solve a puzzle with some chemistry know how and saves his family. From there, it's step after step, using his modern day knowledge of chemistry and poetry, and riddles we may have heard before, he manages to impress/manipulate himself into being offered a position as a Guardian where he continues to go up the ranks, making friends and enemies at every turn.
Overall, it's like playing a game where you can impress or do favours to make powerful allies, and in turn, when you need help they can come in and defend you. Our Ml Xu is perhaps a little too good. It was like one big lesson to stay in school because he must have all his memories of chemistry and lit class to have such a backlog of modern information to use.
His marital ability is strange though. He seems to have just picked it up randomly and his extra power boosts make him a powerful and skilled warrior naturally. I think his real power is just simply getting most people to like him. He is a bit of a selfish goofball but ultimately wants what's proper justice in the end.
Most of the side characters are enjoyable to watch, as they are each their own character and leave you guessing what their main motive is. The FL, unfortunately, is the usual, spoiled and silly love interest, that always leaves you wondering how such a strategic and firebomb ML fell in love with her. They keep promoting this kind of character as the FL but I'm not buying it. Like most, I did find her a nuisance.
The humour is very cartoonish but I kind of liked it. I felt like the humour in the show was a mock take of the wuxia genre. It was very much poking fun of the stereotypes you usually find in these sorts of shows.
It did at times, I feel, ruin the flow a little though, the further you go into the series. Although I did enjoy it, after I was into the 20s eps, I was starting to skip a lot of the sillier scenes because I just wanted to go back to the actual plot.
I enjoyed it enough to be interested in a season 2 and hope it doesnt take years to air lol
Having said that, this is at heart, a fun watch. I felt like I was watching a live action video game. Our ML who shows his thick skin and mental prowess from the opening scene, is transported into the world of Dafeng when he visits a game room, with his co workers after a group dinner.
He wakes up in a prison cell as Xu Qian, waiting to be executed with his family. He perhaps adapts to this magically world a little too quickly for realism but I honestly soon forgot about it as the hi jinks started. Xu manages to solve a puzzle with some chemistry know how and saves his family. From there, it's step after step, using his modern day knowledge of chemistry and poetry, and riddles we may have heard before, he manages to impress/manipulate himself into being offered a position as a Guardian where he continues to go up the ranks, making friends and enemies at every turn.
Overall, it's like playing a game where you can impress or do favours to make powerful allies, and in turn, when you need help they can come in and defend you. Our Ml Xu is perhaps a little too good. It was like one big lesson to stay in school because he must have all his memories of chemistry and lit class to have such a backlog of modern information to use.
His marital ability is strange though. He seems to have just picked it up randomly and his extra power boosts make him a powerful and skilled warrior naturally. I think his real power is just simply getting most people to like him. He is a bit of a selfish goofball but ultimately wants what's proper justice in the end.
Most of the side characters are enjoyable to watch, as they are each their own character and leave you guessing what their main motive is. The FL, unfortunately, is the usual, spoiled and silly love interest, that always leaves you wondering how such a strategic and firebomb ML fell in love with her. They keep promoting this kind of character as the FL but I'm not buying it. Like most, I did find her a nuisance.
The humour is very cartoonish but I kind of liked it. I felt like the humour in the show was a mock take of the wuxia genre. It was very much poking fun of the stereotypes you usually find in these sorts of shows.
It did at times, I feel, ruin the flow a little though, the further you go into the series. Although I did enjoy it, after I was into the 20s eps, I was starting to skip a lot of the sillier scenes because I just wanted to go back to the actual plot.
I enjoyed it enough to be interested in a season 2 and hope it doesnt take years to air lol
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