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His arrogance has a humorous angle, making it easy for SWM to hit him with sarcasm 😄

I think there are more interesting cases in S2 than in S1. My rank would be: 1. Death of coroner, 2. Letter from ghost, 3. Mara's defeat and Drunk in Yunding. But I also like Mo's Inn because of the comedy.

Same. But with only 40 episodes, it would be impossible to squeeze in the interaction between Xijun and Xuehuan.

Have you seen an anime version of LuLu? It's cute!

Can I say that LLF sounds like Mr. Darcy in Pride & Prejudice? 😉

That's his character traits I suppose. In real life, there are some people who are not good at showing affection to someone they love or care about. But they do care and show it by doing actions that may look trivial but actually speak a lot about their deep affection.
If you have watched Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, you see that Mr. Darcy is cold but he truly loves Elizabeth.

I got annoyed with Xijun in early episodes of S1 too. But I think it's because her integration to the team was not well-written. Her character was inconsistent. She became likeable I'd say from mid to the end of S1. Had they not made her like a spoiled brat and love brain in the beginning, people would have had more positive opinion about her.

I like her here much more in season 2 than in Season 1. I guess because her integration to the gang in season 1 was not well-written in my opinion. Well, tbh both Xijun and Ying Tao's integration to the squad was not my favorite in S1 😁 But I'm happy they made the girls so much better in season 2 in terms of character growth and their contribution to the story.

Beautiful edit! She also made an edit of Season 1, I think.

If it's true, that there are people who are sabotaging the score, I wouldn't surprised.
I remember when S1 aired and got 8.5 on MDL and then went down to 8.0, I posted a comment questioning why the score had gone down. At that time somebody replied that it could have been that some people were not too happy or even jealous of the success of SToTD1 🤔
I've observed that fandom culture seems more rampant among the international audiences than in China.

I hope you're right.
I've noticed that the rating went up to 8.2 for a couple of days last week before went down to 8.0 again.
And in comparison to season 1, season 2's rating on MDL is going up very slowly. I remember when season 1 started, it immediately got 8 point something on MDL and it even went up to 8.5 before it stayed at 8.3.
A lot of people here have been saying that season 2 is better than season 1 but the score is still lower than that of season 1.

I know. S1 got 7.9 on Douban and 8.3 on MDL. S2 got 8.4 on Douban and only 8.0 on MDL. What's wrong with international audiences?

Wow! Thanks. I've been curious about historical and cultural references in SToTD2.

It was really moving. You can see how happy they were to reunite. The hug!

I'm quite happy with the ending of the 7th case. I was a bit worried that the end of SToTD's Murder on the Orient Express would be sloppy. But I was relieved that it ended quite well. Kudos again to the writer! 👏

The story itself is fiction but the time when the story is set is real. It says "Set in the year 712 AD during the reign of Emperor Rui Zong of the Tang Dynasty"

Yeah, I think they intended to suggest that the squad's journey to the west resembles the most popular story: Journey to the West. They added references to this story such as a rake and even one of the characters in 3rd case looked like the piggy.

I used to watch the 1996 adaptation of Journey to the West. I don't remember much but I loved Dicky Cheung's Sun Wukong 😄

Xijun never hesitates to speak her mind when she disagrees with LLF. Even as early as in S1, in the case of Dugu Xiashu, she openly criticized LLF.

If their 7th case is inspired by this super famous whodunit, I'm curious to know how they will pull off their version of Murder on the Orient Express Tang Dynasty style :D

Ep. 33 - 34 reminds me a bit of Murder on the Orient Express.