From what i understood after reading the novel was there's a myth among the vampires that the golden blood of…
I was able to read all of the chapters, through the end of Ch 20, without making an acct.
But at Ch 21 the website forced me to make an acct, and I couldn't read the rest until that happened.
So I made one and finished everything late last night. And there were definitely some plot twists.
My opinion: If that was a faithful translation of the original, then I hate to say it, but it reads like a high schooler or perhaps a college freshman wrote it. Unfortunately the intimate scenes were.....not well written, either.
It reminded me of WAYYYY back when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was super popular and fanfic websites sprang up all over the internet so everyone could write their "shipping" stories.
90% of those stories were poorly written, but other people were telling the writers things like "That was amazing!! Oooh that was so hot!! I love how you wrote this scene!!"
TBH, the majority of those writers should have never been encouraged to write. At least not at that point in their lives, lol. How do I know that? Because **I** was also one of those awful Buffy fanfic writers. Now I look back on those stories with a lot of embarrassment.
So now I'm in my late 50s, I'm back in college after being out of school for decades, and I'm a writer myself (mostly poetry and short stories - nothing you've ever heard of). I've had some great professors who were pretty demanding and as a result, I have a much more developed and skilled perspective on writing in general than I used to. I am certainly not a world-class writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a pretty good grasp of when something is well-written or not.
My final assessment is.......I can only hope the series is better.
Side note: I would love to know the process of how these stories are scouted / discovered, and how someone eventually decides, "This would be a good series." I would also like to know the percentage of series that are from adapted works (such as My Golden Blood), versus how many are original screenplays. I might have to do some research.
Thank you for the nice comment. But tell me, was Sangmin Dinneaw as awful as people say?
Sangmin-Dinneaw was pretty bad - but only from the 2nd half.
The first half was kinda cute and somewhat interesting,
But in the middle......I don't know what happened, but it changed a lot and not in a good way. It became gratuitous and gross, and there was a last minute sub-plot (sorta hinted at earlier in the series, but as a viewer I thought that it was just a tiny back story that was mentioned to establish some context, but NEVER thought it would be followed up on at ANY point in the story. Yet.....right at the last minute.....WHAM, there it was. )
Suffice to say things just got weird at the end and for me, at least, it completely ruined the entire series.
From what i understood after reading the novel was there's a myth among the vampires that the golden blood of…
Hey - I'm reading the novel right now, and it says the opposite.
I'm copying and pasting, here:
"Once Tong turns twenty-one, the power in his blood will fade on its own. At that point, neither Nakan nor anyone else will be able to exploit it anymore."
From what i understood after reading the novel was there's a myth among the vampires that the golden blood of…
So if Mark really wants to "protect" Tong, as he claimed, why did he say "I'll protect you until you're 21" ?? Meaning......once Tong turns 21, Mark will not protect him anymore?
Does that mean Mark is ALSO waiting until Tong turns 21, like the other vampires, so that he can drink Tong's blood when it's at its peak??
If yes, then that means Mark actually has an ulterior motive.
Is it possible we've been fooled, and it's actually Daon who is the original red flag here??? Did all the trouble start with HIM?
Did he pit Jaemin and Su Hyeon against each other??? (Buying perfume for and confessing to Su Hyeon in the letter, but also backhugging Jaemin and confessing to him, too?)
Is that why Daon said "I'm not as good a person as you think I am. I might only end up hurting you." to Seong Hyeon?
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I'm really hoping they DON'T camp up MGB. I can't watch it if they do.
But at Ch 21 the website forced me to make an acct, and I couldn't read the rest until that happened.
So I made one and finished everything late last night. And there were definitely some plot twists.
My opinion: If that was a faithful translation of the original, then I hate to say it, but it reads like a high schooler or perhaps a college freshman wrote it. Unfortunately the intimate scenes were.....not well written, either.
It reminded me of WAYYYY back when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was super popular and fanfic websites sprang up all over the internet so everyone could write their "shipping" stories.
90% of those stories were poorly written, but other people were telling the writers things like "That was amazing!! Oooh that was so hot!! I love how you wrote this scene!!"
TBH, the majority of those writers should have never been encouraged to write. At least not at that point in their lives, lol. How do I know that? Because **I** was also one of those awful Buffy fanfic writers. Now I look back on those stories with a lot of embarrassment.
So now I'm in my late 50s, I'm back in college after being out of school for decades, and I'm a writer myself (mostly poetry and short stories - nothing you've ever heard of). I've had some great professors who were pretty demanding and as a result, I have a much more developed and skilled perspective on writing in general than I used to. I am certainly not a world-class writer by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a pretty good grasp of when something is well-written or not.
My final assessment is.......I can only hope the series is better.
Side note: I would love to know the process of how these stories are scouted / discovered, and how someone eventually decides, "This would be a good series." I would also like to know the percentage of series that are from adapted works (such as My Golden Blood), versus how many are original screenplays. I might have to do some research.
And on another note.......the acting in this series is just BEYOND good. All of them. Wow.
Other than those two comments ^^^^, I am speechless right now.
The first half was kinda cute and somewhat interesting,
But in the middle......I don't know what happened, but it changed a lot and not in a good way. It became gratuitous and gross, and there was a last minute sub-plot (sorta hinted at earlier in the series, but as a viewer I thought that it was just a tiny back story that was mentioned to establish some context, but NEVER thought it would be followed up on at ANY point in the story. Yet.....right at the last minute.....WHAM, there it was. )
Suffice to say things just got weird at the end and for me, at least, it completely ruined the entire series.
I ended up giving it an extremely low score.
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Ahhhhh......Nevermind. I just read Ch 16. Wow.
I'm copying and pasting, here:
"Once Tong turns twenty-one, the power in his blood will fade on its own. At that point, neither Nakan nor anyone else will be able to exploit it anymore."
Possibly to use the blood smell from the meat market as a cover in case any of the other vampires were following them?
Just a guess.
Does that mean Mark is ALSO waiting until Tong turns 21, like the other vampires, so that he can drink Tong's blood when it's at its peak??
If yes, then that means Mark actually has an ulterior motive.
Did he pit Jaemin and Su Hyeon against each other??? (Buying perfume for and confessing to Su Hyeon in the letter, but also backhugging Jaemin and confessing to him, too?)
Is that why Daon said "I'm not as good a person as you think I am. I might only end up hurting you." to Seong Hyeon?
And yes, I'm definitely looking forward to Revamp the series, too. Is there a date for that one, yet?
And I haven't seen the trailer yet.
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EDIT - now I've seen the trailer, and I'm hopeful.