Ep 6 made me theorize more strongly that Erng is not actually Erng but an alien. Probably 42's partner who were both experimenting on Erng. She was maybe curious about humans and wanted to live like them for a bit or fell in love with Mew and the world through Erng's memories. Whatever it is, I am guessing the real Erng is dead and this Milk's Erng took her memories (losing her own memories in the process/intentionally losing to truly live like a human), took on a human form, and came down to earth. I am guessing we will probably see her slowly go evil as she sees Mew growing closer to Fahsai, regaining her memories in the process.
I swear the internet is going to break when the trailer finally comes out. I know that I certainly will. I haven't found a good xianxia ever since L&R and that happened in freaking 2020. So believe me when I say that the thirst. is. real.
I did see your comment just a bit below! Glad there's someone else. I will never understand Lita getting hated on for.....being deceived and betrayed by literally everyone around her. It doesn't add up but ok, let us just be the weird ones haha
Ep 12 was a train-wreck the likes of which I haven't seen in a long time. The ML is officially trash and so is everyone around him - the FL, the friends, even the damn maids in the house. The only one from this circle who comes out baaaaarely unscathed is Kavin, which is ironic considering what we know of his character. How in the world does this show expect me to have even a smidgen of care left for them, forget going as far as rooting for the main couple.
Huh. Who was Goryas boyfriend tho? Kind of odd that the show made it explicitly clear that just because Gorya…
She cannot withdraw if she never opened up to him in the first place. Nobody is saying that the breakup shouldn't have happened. But that it lacks any real emotional impact, due to due to due to and due to.
Huh. Who was Goryas boyfriend tho? Kind of odd that the show made it explicitly clear that just because Gorya…
Things have happened post the zoo scene to change things around. As for the girl power thing, you don't have to make everyone like Lita to establish a character's feelings for another. I went back to read my comment and yeah it may seem like that's what I am saying but I was just trying to combine several things into one line in a hurry haha. The show just didn't do a good job of developing and establishing how deep her feelings and investment in this relationship is which makes her scenes in ep 9 and 10 not land well. All that they have made her do is shout at Thyme. It's not an approach unique to this show (curse hate-love stories) but it's definitely a disappointment cause I expected better after the previous episodes. The push-pull was fine at first but they continued to keep her the same even after things changed and I don't find that to be romantic. I still held hope that the writers knew what they are doing but ep 9 and 10 happened. Lmao these eps were just horrible for Gorya's character. No matter where one stood on the nature of their relationship, it was plain bad all around.
Huh. Who was Goryas boyfriend tho? Kind of odd that the show made it explicitly clear that just because Gorya…
No the show never advocated that Gorya has every right to not accept Thyme just cause he likes her. More like it's shitty old school 90s writing coming into play where a woman's no is really an yes. Cause heavens forbid a woman actually pursue her man and be vocal about her love for him. But I digress. The show has been pretty clear that they have passed the stage of courtship into a relationship, most obvious in her conversation with Ren in ep 9 and the emotionality and dialogue of the breakup scene.
......the amount of hate people are throwing at the SFL when all she's done is try to make it work with her own fiance, whom she unfortunately also ended up falling for, while being kept in the dark about the leads' backstory by everyone around her.
All this while the actual FL has had 0 growth ever since the start of the show, put equally zero effort into her relationship with her BOYFRIEND no less, and would much rather trust, talk to, and go out on dates with random creepy people over him.
Honestly, show. If you do this at ep 10 then how the heck do you expect me to care for this relationship. Oh how I wish second leads could get the guy/girl for once.
1) Xie Bao Luo: So WTH actually happened in his past? Was it really not a suicide and he was the one at fault for the accident, leading to his fiance dumping him? Most importantly, there is a memory that clearly haunts him - of watching Mei Bao have sex with someone. It was not something he shared with the officers because he had been adamant about keeping her image pure and it was something he would think about when by himself. Heck, he even had nightmares about it. So what in the world was that about if the whole Lin Da Sen affair was one big fat lie?
2) Lin Da Sen: Why did we spend so much time on their childhood together if it was alll false?! The end makes this feel like filler which is disappointing. Unless, highly unlikely but, some of it was actually true? Cause there were a bit too many details there for everything to be false. Like them playing that LP everytime they slept together or the time that he stopped and stared at seeing the LP being resold somewhere else. Which....oh boy. Having an affair with a married person is bad enough. But to do that with your best friend's spouse? Oof. Plus, there were a bit too many flashbacks to their time at the pool as kids for a lie. Too bad I can't remember if there were scenes where he was thinking about his past by himself.
3) Li Meng Yu: Now this was just plain confusing. So the vent traversing peeping tom thing was all false? Even if we say that his wife made up the part where she followed him through the vents back when he was sleepwalking and the time that he left a note for Mei Bao which she switched with her own, all to save her husband, how did his fingerprints get in the vent? Did he make that up after the murder when we see him fixing the vents to support his story? Cause at the end, he sure does not look like he ever had a crush on Mei Bao. Ding Xiao Ling is clearly all that he can see.
4) Yan Yong Yuan: I really wish that he hadn't been the real culprit. For a show that started out so mysteriously with unreliable narrators, they blatantly pointed him out as the villain quite early on. I had been hoping that it all turned out to be this one big lie by Mei Bao in order to cover up something else (will get to that later), especially with the way that Mei Bao never really comes off as that genuine, kind, etc etc of a person. There always seemed to be this falsehood around her expressions and actions whenever we would see others' perspective of how good she was, most probably cause she had this desperate need to make everyone like her through whatever means and maybe to manipulate them into doing who knows what she wanted. They painted such a Mother Mary picture of her that it HAD to all be false. Except, there really was no other twist there (and no, locking up her abuser really doesn't count for much under the circumstances) and it really was just acting that was not up to par. It would have been something if the mother had turned out to be the one who physically abused them, blaming them for everything that had gone wrong in her life, and the ones they had Stockholm Syndrome for was her, while the father was a greedy opportunist trash to take pictures as blackmail material instead of helping them.
DISCLAIMER: I am not at all romanticizing whatever I am about to say next. Not even a bit. It is just my objective opinion on the ways that this story could have gone to better showcase what it was trying to be.
5) Mei Bo & Ah Jun: Let me first start off by saying - ah, these two. For a show that is centered around the FL's love for her brother, it severely lacked more meaningful bonding moments between them to actually make me truly feel their connection. Now, on to my main point. I had actually started suspecting early on that these two perhaps had an incestuous relationship. It would have honestly explained everything so much better. Like why Xie Bao Luo was so disturbed after seeing her be intimate with a guy whose face is never revealed even in the supposed fake reality, why the family could never go to the police, the blackmail and its effect, why everyone around her tried so hard to cover up details of her past, etc. My theory was buoyed by all the little things like the LP playing whenever Mei Bo was with her lover, the OST duet at the end which was sure as hell not resonant with the base nature of her relationship with Lin Da Sen, the supposed despair-filled suicide to the sound of Ah Jun's piano, Ah Jun's admittance into a mental hospital, the silhouette of a man leaving while Mei Bo cried on the night of her death, the fact that we never actually get to see the other photos taken by the father, etc. A scenario like this would have made a lot of sense considering the kind of negligent, tough, and abusive childhood they had gone through with only each other to depend on. It would have really taken the tragedy and trauma to a whole other level. But alas, I thought the show to be way smarter than it was.
At the end of it all, while the ride was good (with a banger of an opening sequence), the end result was not and makes you question why you spent all that time on things that were supposedly false.
Everything in the begining seemed so pretty close to what I was imagining while reading the novel except the fact…
Reincarnation is not banned in China, time travel is banned. China thrives on reincarnation haha. I haven't watched the eps yet but if what you say is correct then I am a bit disappointed cause I had been excited to see her chasing after him with the heartbreak still in her eyes. I guess I will wait it out a bit and see how it goes first.
My opinion for Tribulation of Chaos;From what I believe, the Tribulation of Chaos is a one-time. Why did it have…
Hm do I remember it wrongly then. I cannot tell you exact episodes sadly because it has been a while so really, if you all insist on it then imma just accept that I remember wrong haha. Though I do find it unbelievable because I have never misunderstood such a major plot point but I guess there's a first time for everything (and adds a negative point for the drama regardless in the world building department. oh well). This scenario again brings up more questions however. If the tribulation was really a one time thing then why did some of the secondary characters equate Shanggu's comeback in the last arc with the tribulation coming back again? Bai Jue temporarily suppressing the previous tribulation was something only the true gods knew. Others thought the trial had been seen through fully and hailed Shanggu for it. Also, regarding the trial that happened way back when the Ancestral God was alive - Xuanyi (I think that was his name) refused to sacrifice himself. And yet, despite nobody suppressing the trial like Bai Jue did for Shanggu, the trial was calmed and only came back after 180,000 years, like clockwork. Now, while this wasn't really explained properly by the show because the true gods were supposed to be oblivious about it all, I think we can infer that a) somehow a sacrifice was made and that was probably the Ancestral God himself who was the God of Chaos. It was a combination of Xuanyi's attack and the trbulation that killed him and the true gods just hadn't realized the second reason. And, b) that the tribulation isn't a one time thing.
Lol, I loved their identity crises the most. In other dramas it's usually either doesn't matter at all that character…
Yeah the second half had plotholes. Shanggu had been smart enough in the first half to doubt and try to find out the truth. But come second half, suddenly the same Shanggu cannot think ahead heh.
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All this while the actual FL has had 0 growth ever since the start of the show, put equally zero effort into her relationship with her BOYFRIEND no less, and would much rather trust, talk to, and go out on dates with random creepy people over him.
Honestly, show. If you do this at ep 10 then how the heck do you expect me to care for this relationship. Oh how I wish second leads could get the guy/girl for once.
1) Xie Bao Luo: So WTH actually happened in his past? Was it really not a suicide and he was the one at fault for the accident, leading to his fiance dumping him? Most importantly, there is a memory that clearly haunts him - of watching Mei Bao have sex with someone. It was not something he shared with the officers because he had been adamant about keeping her image pure and it was something he would think about when by himself. Heck, he even had nightmares about it. So what in the world was that about if the whole Lin Da Sen affair was one big fat lie?
2) Lin Da Sen: Why did we spend so much time on their childhood together if it was alll false?! The end makes this feel like filler which is disappointing. Unless, highly unlikely but, some of it was actually true? Cause there were a bit too many details there for everything to be false. Like them playing that LP everytime they slept together or the time that he stopped and stared at seeing the LP being resold somewhere else. Which....oh boy. Having an affair with a married person is bad enough. But to do that with your best friend's spouse? Oof. Plus, there were a bit too many flashbacks to their time at the pool as kids for a lie. Too bad I can't remember if there were scenes where he was thinking about his past by himself.
3) Li Meng Yu: Now this was just plain confusing. So the vent traversing peeping tom thing was all false? Even if we say that his wife made up the part where she followed him through the vents back when he was sleepwalking and the time that he left a note for Mei Bao which she switched with her own, all to save her husband, how did his fingerprints get in the vent? Did he make that up after the murder when we see him fixing the vents to support his story? Cause at the end, he sure does not look like he ever had a crush on Mei Bao. Ding Xiao Ling is clearly all that he can see.
4) Yan Yong Yuan: I really wish that he hadn't been the real culprit. For a show that started out so mysteriously with unreliable narrators, they blatantly pointed him out as the villain quite early on. I had been hoping that it all turned out to be this one big lie by Mei Bao in order to cover up something else (will get to that later), especially with the way that Mei Bao never really comes off as that genuine, kind, etc etc of a person. There always seemed to be this falsehood around her expressions and actions whenever we would see others' perspective of how good she was, most probably cause she had this desperate need to make everyone like her through whatever means and maybe to manipulate them into doing who knows what she wanted. They painted such a Mother Mary picture of her that it HAD to all be false. Except, there really was no other twist there (and no, locking up her abuser really doesn't count for much under the circumstances) and it really was just acting that was not up to par. It would have been something if the mother had turned out to be the one who physically abused them, blaming them for everything that had gone wrong in her life, and the ones they had Stockholm Syndrome for was her, while the father was a greedy opportunist trash to take pictures as blackmail material instead of helping them.
DISCLAIMER: I am not at all romanticizing whatever I am about to say next. Not even a bit. It is just my objective opinion on the ways that this story could have gone to better showcase what it was trying to be.
5) Mei Bo & Ah Jun: Let me first start off by saying - ah, these two. For a show that is centered around the FL's love for her brother, it severely lacked more meaningful bonding moments between them to actually make me truly feel their connection. Now, on to my main point. I had actually started suspecting early on that these two perhaps had an incestuous relationship. It would have honestly explained everything so much better. Like why Xie Bao Luo was so disturbed after seeing her be intimate with a guy whose face is never revealed even in the supposed fake reality, why the family could never go to the police, the blackmail and its effect, why everyone around her tried so hard to cover up details of her past, etc. My theory was buoyed by all the little things like the LP playing whenever Mei Bo was with her lover, the OST duet at the end which was sure as hell not resonant with the base nature of her relationship with Lin Da Sen, the supposed despair-filled suicide to the sound of Ah Jun's piano, Ah Jun's admittance into a mental hospital, the silhouette of a man leaving while Mei Bo cried on the night of her death, the fact that we never actually get to see the other photos taken by the father, etc. A scenario like this would have made a lot of sense considering the kind of negligent, tough, and abusive childhood they had gone through with only each other to depend on. It would have really taken the tragedy and trauma to a whole other level. But alas, I thought the show to be way smarter than it was.
At the end of it all, while the ride was good (with a banger of an opening sequence), the end result was not and makes you question why you spent all that time on things that were supposedly false.