Kannadin

Thanks for the hint regarding the end of the season, it's interesting but not to the point of sticking through 28 episodes that I can't get into. I don't necessarily mind unrealistic situations but I personally think it has to obey the rules of the world in which the story takes place and personally I feel they've stretched it a bit too much this season to the point that I'm taken out of the story.

Anyway, thank you for your comment, it did help me in knowing what to expect and making a decision. Given your comment and my personal feelings regarding the first 7 episodes, this season is not for me so that's a drop.
I have a principle of not rating a series I haven't fully watched, I just completely erase them from my personal list which occasionally leads me to give another try to series I initially dropped because I forgot I dropped them and realize I already saw some episodes. It's rare but sometimes shows I initially dropped are shows I ended up enjoying when I watched them another time.

Maybe in a couple of years, I'll give this season another try... but for now I'll keep fond memories of the first season which I truly enjoyed in spite of its flaws.

Yeah my mistake. This is why you should never do two things at the same time ^^

On the fence about dropping this show... Finished ep 5 but I don't know. The first season was nonsensical but entertaining but this one? I think for me one of the appeal of the first season was the contrast between Du Cheng who was on the field and Shen Yi who was drawing...

So far it seems that Shen Yi is literally making his own criminal investigation with lots of far fetched psychological mumbo jumbo and my suspension of disbelief can only go so far, they've gone really too far on that road for the first 5 episodes imho... I mean, I know I've got to switch my brain off watching this because the whole premise is ridiculously impossible in real life... but the first season still managed to make it "somewhat plausible" within the reality of the show... But now even in that "reality", I'm struggling, which takes me out of the show and makes it difficult to enjoy it.

EDIT: Yeah I think the main issue is the "psychological mumbo jumbo". Shen Yi is an artist... not a psychologist. Sure he's more sensitive than the average person... but now he's making psychological analysis as if he were a professional when he actually never was introduced that way... That for me is also a complete disconnect with the Shen Yi we met in the first season.

I was really not a fan of the first story either... My main issue being what I mentioned above...

Also Du Cheng is playing tertiary fiddle so far when their cooperation has always been the highlight of the show...

So yeah... Here I am... I still want to give this show a chance... Since I've seen some comments about a cliffhanger at the end of this season which hints at a big "red-thread mystery"... and I'm curious about it but I don't know if I'll manage... especially since I have to struggle with iQiyi's terrible subtitles issues which I already mentioned in a previous comment.

ShortCircuit answered before me ^^

Actually no. Being millenial is pretty large. As an "earlier millenial" myself, my father is past his 70s and my mum past her mid 60s. If the story is set in the 60s, my own parents weren't even 10 at the time. Even if they were born earlier... So 40s, and were in their late teens, early 20s in the 60s, well, they wouldn't have millenial kids them... That would be the previous generation... Those born in the 70s. And we're talking "early millenials" meaning I was born in the first half of the 80s.

Anyway @ShortCircuit is almost right.

It's actually not "grandparent's generation" but rather, the generation just after.

You don't jump from grandparent's to parent's to kids' generation.
Grandparents have their own youth, and that time period is a period when they don't have children... same after.

Millenials didn't give birth to Gen Zs, they're parents of Gen A. Boomers ( so my parent's generation) didn't give birth to Gen X but to Millenials. Gen Z's have parents from Gen X etc.

There's basically always a generation gap.

So if we're in the 60s, that's the generation just before the boomers, they're part of the "Silent Generation"...

Of course it also depends on how generations are divided which depends a lot depending on the source you use... but you get the drift.

Episode 4

Saaaaaaame. Sorely lacking time this month to watch anything but I'm glad I set my eyes on this one ^^ And finally some sparks next week :D I mean I LOVE the whole silliness of it all but it was about time 😍

Well well well Avoiding this thread because I'm watching on Viki and we're getting the episode one day later and I don't want to be spoiled... (My God this show is hilarious)
Couldn't resist watching the preview for episode 7 though...

Hmm... Well Well Well 🥰🥰🥰

I wouldn't necessarily call it a mess per say, but as far as I'm concerned，it's lots of good ideas, but not the discipline to follow through with them and make the overall plot consistent。 If you start to think of the logic behind it, it just falls apart like a house of cards...
There's always some plot holes in any story, but this one has just as many plot holes as a swiss cheese and I'm gonna be blunt, for me it's laziness in terms of writing. Some people are probably going to blame me for my "personal feud" towards the author as they say... But I'll just do as usual, I don't bother reading comments from people whose only goal is to get worked up on their own and insult me, they're automatically banned and that's it.

Hmm.. I would agree with you if the two Cirs weren't shown as being so similar. Yes all worlds are slightly different but P'Cir and Dark Cir are pretty similar, the only difference so far that led to all the rest is the fact that Dark Cir answered. This being said, I don't necessarily disagree with the psychological aspect of what you wrote. I think it's badly done, but yeah your explanation makes sense.
However I don't know if it's lack of time of just bad writing, but I read a comment where a person mentioned that too much time was wasted on some aspects of the story and not enough on the fleshing out on some ideas that where thrown in, and I do have to agree. It's cool to thrown in ideas but you have to follow through with them.
Because so far, lots of things just don't make sense and given the fact we only have one episode left, I doubt we'll get satisfactory answers for all of those. Some viewers might not consider these aspects as important as some members wrote above, but I disagree strongly with that point of view.

Thanks!

Looks fun ^^ Where to watch?

Nah story's different.

Lol ^^ Well you'll see ^^ Feel free to comment back once you've seen ep 8. I'm curious to see what you think 🤣

Absolutely NOT ^^
I'm glad I don't have any social network. The only place I interact a bit online is here so I really had never heard of it. Fun fact: I actually bought the books on Google play... not knowing what it was but because these were books in traditional chinese easily available in a digital format online without having to go on a chinese speaking website ( complicated at present for me) to register a new account... and they sold it with a bargain ^^ I don't speak Chinese but it's one of the many languages I'm learning so I thought, once my level is better I'll read these books.

It's only when I started to watch this drama that I realized what it was. It was a trilogy... and the covers looked pretty serious so I though... " Isn't it that?"

So needless to say, I had absolutely no clue where we were going with that one, so I was REALLY surprised when I realized it was about aliens all along ^^

And now I'm back under a rock until I'm either:
1. Capable of reading the books
2. Season 2 comes out.

Glad you enjoyed my review ^^

I just think it's way better to discover this story as it unfolds :D

I'm not. Do I hate MAME's WRITING. Err yes. I don't know her personally so nope I don't bother with needless hate towards a person I don't know but you're free to think that I think otherwise. I honestly really don't mind.

Maybe you find her writing has improved... Well it's better than the rest I've seen sure, but still bad in my opinion. You're free to think what you want. I don't mind people disagreeing.

I'm still watching the show. If you really read all my comments, you'd have seen that so far I'm planning on giving this one a 7.5 ( that will depend on the last episode obviously) based on how entertained I am...mostly by the actors though I think there's quite a lot to say about the writing but I've made my point enough times already, no need to add insult to injury again.

Why would I want people to agree with me? We're all anonymous nobodys online, what's the point? Waste of time and energy. It's important to agree with your entourage IRL on CERTAIN topics but not on DRAMAS with anonymous people you don't live with. Anyway...

For the "Brace yourself for disappointment" the commenter wrote :
"hopefully Cir doesn't get hit by a, i don't know, a car or something."
Well I answered honestly. Nothing personal there.

"hopefully Cir doesn't get hit by a, i don't know, a car or something."

brace yourself for disappointment then ^^

Yeah well. The point of my post was that that person is probably not lying, but there's no way of proving it unless they create a forum thread with screenshots of pages taken when they're connected and when they're not connected, which hopefully this person was sane enough not to bother doing. Petty arguments on Internet are not worth all that hassle.

You do have a point with your explanation... BUT that doesn't change the fact that it was poorly written. Because though you do have a point, in that case how come the other Cir that answered Phu was happily with his other half?

He didn't ask himself questions. When he got that stuff in the class, he immediately answered because he saw before another parallel life where he met Phu 10 years later. The mother problem was never taken into account. In fact it's not even talked about between this Cir and the Cir we follow.
If she was such a huge threat, that should have been the first thing addressed between both: How did this Cir handle the mother problem? especially since it seems their lives and personalities are the closest compared to other Cirs.
How come he was able to go out with Phu SINCE HIGH-SCHOOL without Phu getting hurt?

There might be a proper answer to that, but the show has failed to show it so far.

So far we've seen that the "Happy Cir" is stuck in that white room so logically another Cir should be with his Phu. Our Cir did meet his Phu and his Phu took a couple of minutes to realize this Cir wasn't his Cir... But in that case, that would mean that his Cir is still with him most of the time so how come do we always see him in that white room? Unless there's some additional time thingy going on... and time stops in that room... so his Phu doesn't realize this Cir is not with him...WHICH wouldn't make sense again because time still flew when our Cir was stuck in it. So what exactly is going on with his timeflow?

Anyway, it's good to throw ideas but you have to follow through with them but what can I expect from a writer with such poor writing in the first place?

Even if they explain it at the end of this week ( and good luck to them because the amount of things to cover in the last ep is just ridiculous) that would still be terrible writing.

Anyway MAME should stay away from "mental health" because she doesn't know how to handle it. No matter the trauma you can be sure that is you meet "your other half" everything is going to be ok because you just need love according to MAME.