It's been so freaking long since they announced it, I almost forgot about it.
I'll be the one to say it and I don't care if it pisses people off. For a drama to be benched for two or three years, it's going to be 1. no network wants to touch it for various reasons (actors being banned, which is not the case here, production values - but it's Studio Dragon, that shouldn't be it, or the plot/cast isn't worth the money the production team is asking for it. I'm not going to be the judge on that, but given how big the names they cast, maybe it's just the plot. Hopefully). Or 2. There's some litigation over it (someone already paid for some of it and then didn't wanted it any more and didn't release it for other buyers either or something.)
We'll have to wait and see. I hope it's not going to be a mindless romance but with a starry background. If you send someone to space, they should be doing something interesting there instead of just finding love among a whole female population of one.
What's wrong with Kopiko, Subway, Kia, all kinds of brands of water, LOL, coloured cool drinks (didn't catch their…
Envy level: nuclear!
Doesn't the Sportage look so damn fiiiiiinnnnnneee!! I loved it the moment I saw it in the drama, LOL, I think they were doing initial PPL for it and I didn't even see one of that build in real life (in Europe) til the next year or so, hahaha~
But yeah, still very pricey and too damn big for me (you don't want to know how good I am at parking, and I own a really small car :D)
The blurring of products comes when they either don't want to do free ads for them, OR the scene somehow would make bad publicity for the product so they straight out avoid showing it. Just imagine having some killer in the drama casually pick up and drink some Pepsi can or something - Pepsi would sue the production team into oblivion, LOL.
The novel is mainland China though so why put this on Taiwanese dramas, LOL?
"Taiwan do has a thing for step brother trope"
No they don't. As a matter of fact, Unknown is also based on a mainland danmei novel by Priest, Da Ge, just as The Only One/A Certain Someone is based on MuSuLi's A Certain Someone.
The producers are working with the original as much as possible and it so happens both these novels use the cohabitation-into-love trope (it's not even siblings. nobody's parents are married in either of these two novels).
Using the Taiwan (and Thailand) loop to make dramas based on danmei novels is pretty smart, IMHO, though I wonder how much til the Chinese censors put in new rules to stop this too (maybe block selling rights to danmei novels, who knows what they'll cook up). So far there have been precisely 5 novels that used this (My Stand In for Professional Body Double, Meet You at the Blossom for Blooming Flowers, Silent Sorrow, by the same author, Addicted Heroin the Thai version and Priest's Da Ge and this one). All other licensed ones were either watered down into bromances by mainland production companies that did what they could (TU, WOH, TSOMD, Guardian, The Spirealm/KoD) or completely blocked even if finished (2ha, Winner is King, Eternal Faith/HOB/TGCF, Seizing Dreams or any others). Anyway, out of the 5, only one really has the stepbro dynamics and that's Addicted Heroin. The other two who use cohabitation never have them as brothers, legally or not. And for the last two - TBH Shui QianCheng's novels both are abusive as heck and even with no stepbro routines, they have their eeck moments.
So it's not a "Taiwan thing" - it's just what they could license so far. Hopefully they'll be able to license more of the actually sweet and non-abusive novels, too.
PS TBH all the danmei I've read comes from the mainland and I have no idea if there are any known (and translated) Taiwan danmei novels. There are bound to be some, I just never heard of them. So assuming all danmei novels that dramas are using come from the mainland IS generally correct...
his brother literally passed out in front of him andddddddddddddddddd he is just looking THİS STUPID MFFFFFFFFFFF…
His brother has 1. drawn the Wen Clan on the Jiang Clan with his antics (obviously the Wens would have come eventually but Jiang Leader was on his way trying to raise up help and build a resisting alliance, or at least find some allies to wait it out), 2. caused his mother and father and his whole Clan's deaths (not directly, but served the Wens a perfect excuse to attack), 3. revived one of the death enemies of whatever was left of the Jiang Clan (Wen Ning), 4. forsake all his promises of working with Jiang Cheng and rebuild the Clan where he was raised, to go and live with the remnants of their death enemies, the Wens, 5. DIRECTLY caused the death of Jin ZiXuan, the husband and only man JiangLi ever loved and the father of their child, 6. caused the death of JiangLi on the battlefield, when he lost control of his shadow-spirits.
I don't mean to excuse JC's actions completely, but don't deny he has good cause to not trust WWX ever again, and to not be enchanted by him as everyone else is. Because of WWX, JC lost his whole blood family and his clan and his only remaining blood relative now is a child of another clan.
This will be addressed in the final few eps. but pay attention to JC's POV too. He's not entirely wrong. (And the novel is a lot more clear on WWX's shortcomings).
Only 14 eps planned but I feel it moves a bit too slow. I know the novel isn't long either, but we're a quarter in and the main culprits are barely appearing right now, a lot of time is wasted on secondary characters just wailing and talking and it's not adding to the slow building up of a case, not any time soon.
Maybe they're trying to be a little cryptic for the sake of the suspense but somehow it's still not gelling well. Maybe some more details could be added here and there, the sooner the better, to link everything together. As is, so far we're getting extremely little pieces (and if you don't know the story in the novel they're almost all irrelevant because of the lack of context) and very little movement.
The only good thing in ep4 is Noh SangCheol catching a scent - and it's not even exactly clear WHY is he getting the scent, since he didn't seem to trust GJW at all. I really hope they try to move at a more alert pace, or this is start feeling like pulling teeth.
It was disappoiting compared to my expectations since it was from orginal creator of global examination and screenwriter…
I don't really care, in the end, about what strangers want or insist on gatekeeping. But since it's a free place to exchange opinions, I might as well, too. So there's no need to talk about keeping calm, LOL, nobody on this site knows each other from Adam, so what does it even matter in the end? :D
I'm just calling out trolls because they are trolls already based on their behaviour, but they can keep trolling as far as I care. So don't get too worked out over this, LOL.
The novel is mainland China though so why put this on Taiwanese dramas, LOL?
I did give Mouse 1/10 after loving it for more than half its run. You know why? Because it turned stupid - switchbaiting all over the place for the sake of shocking the audience, pieces of plot coming undone by the scene, watchers being treated like they're stupid and unable to follow a plot line (that later also got changed) and all the other shenanigans. If you WANT to be made into a fool and like that drama, why not, enjoy it. Who cares? You don't seem to recognize what a good drama is anyway, but that's you and I don't judge, LOL.
And what does that have to do with the price of rice in China? This isn't about Mouse.
Oh and btw, why aren't you watching the Thai remake of Addicted? I thought that was your golden standard of stepsiblings drama!! And it being Thai they're probably going to have the rape displayed in all its glory so you're going to probably love it. Have fun with that! :D
Well it can never be addicted and it can never get it's fame
I seriously love it is not and it CAN NEVER BE Addicted Heroin because that is a whole can of worms. Wanna talk about the first rape, sorry, the first "love" scene? Wanna talk about all the psychological and physical blackmail and how Stokholm Syndrome that whole "romance" is? Wanna talk about the toxic families?
Are you REALLY sure you want to see your favourite drama/novel discussed in the open? Get the f over it, you're not that precious as you think you are.
The novel is mainland China though so why put this on Taiwanese dramas, LOL?
LOL, get over yourself. If you want to pick and chose, go invest your own money and buy the rights to the novels you think are the most important or the best in your view, and then you'll get precisely what you want.
Until then, it'll be take it or leave it. You don't seem to really enjoy most of the BL dramas you're watching, why are you doing this to yourself? Drop whatever you don't like, it's easy.
Genuine question: how was it love at first sight for Jian Tiang though ? Are you referring to from the 2nd episode…
That thread of Jiang Tian ALWAYS keeping his suitcase ready to bolt JUST IN CASE... When he's willing to just settle down and unpack it, for Sheng Wang's sake and presence in this place means he sees this house as home and then the parents freak out and rip it from him yet again...
I really really hope they let it in and play on that, because it was the most memorable part of the story for me, and I might not be the only one.
No. Pretty soon after they get together, when the parents find out, they freak out and they also separate in order to make them stay away from each other.
So they just wait until they're legally adults and then they meet again, like reasonable people (looking over to the AH fan crowd spewing nonsense about it being the OG stepbrothers story, LOL).
I don't know how much of the drama will be taken up with the reunion - after all, it's an adaptation, they might change some things, but I don't think they'll change something this important to the plot.
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When is JinYoung back from the army though? He only enlisted May '23, are they going to throw him into a drama the moment he's back? Poor guy...
I want the CEO to marry the novelist just so his mom could fangirl over her, LOL.
Other than that - Shin MinAh still has it :)
Nevermind me, I'm just second-hand reliving my youth :D
Today's theme - definitely Anti-Nostalgic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhSHpDYcY00
I'll be the one to say it and I don't care if it pisses people off. For a drama to be benched for two or three years, it's going to be 1. no network wants to touch it for various reasons (actors being banned, which is not the case here, production values - but it's Studio Dragon, that shouldn't be it, or the plot/cast isn't worth the money the production team is asking for it. I'm not going to be the judge on that, but given how big the names they cast, maybe it's just the plot. Hopefully). Or 2. There's some litigation over it (someone already paid for some of it and then didn't wanted it any more and didn't release it for other buyers either or something.)
We'll have to wait and see. I hope it's not going to be a mindless romance but with a starry background. If you send someone to space, they should be doing something interesting there instead of just finding love among a whole female population of one.
/I did not just write that LOL
Doesn't the Sportage look so damn fiiiiiinnnnnneee!! I loved it the moment I saw it in the drama, LOL, I think they were doing initial PPL for it and I didn't even see one of that build in real life (in Europe) til the next year or so, hahaha~
But yeah, still very pricey and too damn big for me (you don't want to know how good I am at parking, and I own a really small car :D)
The blurring of products comes when they either don't want to do free ads for them, OR the scene somehow would make bad publicity for the product so they straight out avoid showing it. Just imagine having some killer in the drama casually pick up and drink some Pepsi can or something - Pepsi would sue the production team into oblivion, LOL.
No they don't. As a matter of fact, Unknown is also based on a mainland danmei novel by Priest, Da Ge, just as The Only One/A Certain Someone is based on MuSuLi's A Certain Someone.
The producers are working with the original as much as possible and it so happens both these novels use the cohabitation-into-love trope (it's not even siblings. nobody's parents are married in either of these two novels).
Using the Taiwan (and Thailand) loop to make dramas based on danmei novels is pretty smart, IMHO, though I wonder how much til the Chinese censors put in new rules to stop this too (maybe block selling rights to danmei novels, who knows what they'll cook up). So far there have been precisely 5 novels that used this (My Stand In for Professional Body Double, Meet You at the Blossom for Blooming Flowers, Silent Sorrow, by the same author, Addicted Heroin the Thai version and Priest's Da Ge and this one). All other licensed ones were either watered down into bromances by mainland production companies that did what they could (TU, WOH, TSOMD, Guardian, The Spirealm/KoD) or completely blocked even if finished (2ha, Winner is King, Eternal Faith/HOB/TGCF, Seizing Dreams or any others). Anyway, out of the 5, only one really has the stepbro dynamics and that's Addicted Heroin. The other two who use cohabitation never have them as brothers, legally or not. And for the last two - TBH Shui QianCheng's novels both are abusive as heck and even with no stepbro routines, they have their eeck moments.
So it's not a "Taiwan thing" - it's just what they could license so far. Hopefully they'll be able to license more of the actually sweet and non-abusive novels, too.
PS TBH all the danmei I've read comes from the mainland and I have no idea if there are any known (and translated) Taiwan danmei novels. There are bound to be some, I just never heard of them. So assuming all danmei novels that dramas are using come from the mainland IS generally correct...
I don't mean to excuse JC's actions completely, but don't deny he has good cause to not trust WWX ever again, and to not be enchanted by him as everyone else is. Because of WWX, JC lost his whole blood family and his clan and his only remaining blood relative now is a child of another clan.
This will be addressed in the final few eps. but pay attention to JC's POV too. He's not entirely wrong. (And the novel is a lot more clear on WWX's shortcomings).
Maybe they're trying to be a little cryptic for the sake of the suspense but somehow it's still not gelling well. Maybe some more details could be added here and there, the sooner the better, to link everything together. As is, so far we're getting extremely little pieces (and if you don't know the story in the novel they're almost all irrelevant because of the lack of context) and very little movement.
The only good thing in ep4 is Noh SangCheol catching a scent - and it's not even exactly clear WHY is he getting the scent, since he didn't seem to trust GJW at all. I really hope they try to move at a more alert pace, or this is start feeling like pulling teeth.
I'm just calling out trolls because they are trolls already based on their behaviour, but they can keep trolling as far as I care. So don't get too worked out over this, LOL.
And what does that have to do with the price of rice in China? This isn't about Mouse.
Oh and btw, why aren't you watching the Thai remake of Addicted? I thought that was your golden standard of stepsiblings drama!! And it being Thai they're probably going to have the rape displayed in all its glory so you're going to probably love it. Have fun with that! :D
I think they're just trolling by now, because that's what people like that usually do.
Are you REALLY sure you want to see your favourite drama/novel discussed in the open? Get the f over it, you're not that precious as you think you are.
You're welcome for the wake up call.
Until then, it'll be take it or leave it. You don't seem to really enjoy most of the BL dramas you're watching, why are you doing this to yourself? Drop whatever you don't like, it's easy.
I really really hope they let it in and play on that, because it was the most memorable part of the story for me, and I might not be the only one.
So they just wait until they're legally adults and then they meet again, like reasonable people (looking over to the AH fan crowd spewing nonsense about it being the OG stepbrothers story, LOL).
I don't know how much of the drama will be taken up with the reunion - after all, it's an adaptation, they might change some things, but I don't think they'll change something this important to the plot.