ShortCircuit

TBH I am not sure about this.

Haha, LOL, I did misunderstand you, sorry :D TBH I didn't pay all that much attention to Mizuki... I was obsessing over Yoh and his uncanny resemblance to PSH :D

So I went to take another look, and I'll give you he has that sharp jawline... but that nose is definitely NOT the right profile LOL.

The guys in TKTAK all look SO young, LOL, and the guy playing Takara looks like a doll :D (I saw him in My Happy Marriage movie, but he didn't really register, I was all over Meguro Ren in that one LOL - yes, I'm shamelessly shallow, what can I say? :D )

But those lips! And that smile!! (And Sanee has a much sharper jawline, IMHO).

Nah, he's basically a SeongHwa clone for me... Also, too pretty for his own good, LOL (re: the actual drama character :D)

I don't see San anywhere, but I'm still stuck on seeing Yoh as SeongHwa and this is not sane and I need help!

*posted after a 2.5 hrs Ateez hits list trek - ongoing BTW*

They're both good in different ways.

So it goes like this: if she remains the girl who accepts to be TaeSung's GF, TS's crazy wanna-be GF will probably push her under a bus and she gets paralysed. Since SunJae would believe she's not interested in him but in TS, he'd remain alone and depressed and so it goes as in the current timeline.

If she manages to go back (which it seems she will), she HAS to undo that hurt, try to make more small changes so that her accident doesn't happen, or if it does, she doesn't live alone and SunJae isn't alone either. I have a fear that means TaeSung will end up either dead or paralysed instead, in that case. Or worse, SunJae also gets hurt.

Oh well, we're only 3/16, there's time. Things are probably going to be super green in the end, or else... we'll send Korben Dallas in to negotiate with writer-nim.

PS Is it me or did TaeSung hear her talk about a FUTURE house fire that wasn't happening at the time? Is it because it was about to happen anyway, or does he have the power of hearing her when she's talking about the future?? The writing deleting itself might be because the accident will be prevented, not because there can't be physical traces of untold futures, right? Anyway that's what I'm going to hope for.

This is that one drama I should've waited to binge. Dammit.

Also, dunk the freaking watch. Hit it with a rock. Do something!!

She said "Unbeliebubble" and I heard that in Ruby Rhod's voice, did anyone else hear it like that LOL? And then all kinds of things also came up - like BIG badda boom! and Super Green! and MOOL-TEE-PASS!! :D

Given this is a censored danmei adaptation, as are ALL cdramas adapted from danmei, sadly, one would never get the full experience unless they read the novels. They definitely will never show any clear skinship or any actual implied sexual content, like Thai dramas do, for example (or BL j-doramas try, from time to time). If you prefer dramas that show (a lot) more spicy content, censored danmei adaptations will not be it.

If you're interested in how it actually goes in the novel (including the ending... and the extras, LOL), you could try the novel and see if it's more to your liking - re: spicyness level :D

WWX is playing the WangXian theme that LWJ played for him (and ONLY for him) in the cave of the Xuanwu tortoise. He heard it once but found it really soothing, so when he needed to calm down Wen Ning, he played that theme. The drama calls it WuJi because of reasons, but it's WangXian, LOL.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqRq_MewX4

Since he was the only one who knew it, besides LWJ... and used a flute to play it (after calling out a fierce corpse of Wen Ning's power - also something only the YiLing Patriarch could try to do) - AND LWJ already had some suspicions (given what happened at Mo Manor)... it only follows he could only be WWX.

And WWX confirms it for the drama watchers later on, when they're journeying together, because he's smart and he can remember things better then - he tells LWJ he now knows how LWJ recognised him, after playing the tune while on the back of Lil' Apple, LOL.

In the novel, he doesn't think LWJ recognised him so easily and tries to make his not-so-sneaky escape with love bombing LWJ, LOL. He's hilarious like that, thinking his soulmate would NOT recognise him hahaha~

The main thing I'm taking from this is that Rain is an amazing actor and I need to check out more of his leading role dramas.

I seriously doubt that. But don't mind me, I'm being really on edge tonight because we're probably going to see another sea-change in the world politics soon-ish and I am all but spent on stressing about the fate of the world LOL.

I'm ready so see something actually hopeful in real life. Keeping fingers crossed.

But seriously, let's be honest - no powerful and connected and rich person would see justice as it's shown in kdramas. At most they'd disappear from the limelights, unless their connections drop them. But let's leave it at that.

It was a kdrama miracle that SooHyun's hairstyle remained the same for about 15+ years (including during prison time) and that she never aged a day (again, not even while in prison, presumably suffering horribly all the while, and with no skin care or other beauty products to help her through.) Which is another way to make you realise this is still just fiction.

I am a bit unimpressed with Kang SuHo's storyline. It turned a bit twisted when he suddenly decided to join Kim Joon (because there was ANY chance that snake would trust him?! No, but seriously, that's the reasoning?) And then all his supposed under-cover actions in KJ's campaign just... went away? What purpose did it serve? Couldn't he have remained just a bereaved father and journalist with some integrity and that would have been that? Because after all, the whole tablet switcharoo was masterminded with the help and with some applied pressure from SeonYul. Another wasted twist.

There were quite a lot of twists that in the end didn't really serve a drama purpose other than making the FL undergo blow after blow - so her husband and adopted sister cheated on her, with each other. Heartbreak. Then later on everybody moved on. The mom now has dementia. Later on, everybody's moved on. SeonYul's team all hated on the FL and were totally determined to do her harm. Later on, they're her allies because SY changed teams too. The doctor (the BIL) had found out he was being used... and now he's showing her to his mom as a presumptive SO?! Because why not...

And then, there's the boy from the arson case - they saved him so dramatically and then what?!

For a drama so full of melodramatic moments... they kind of became too much in the end. Particularly with the one-person-protest. I get it, they do that in SK... but I kind of doubt there's such a high rate of success with those protests. Not that I really care, though. It's just so... overkill. (Especially since - again - it's NOT the protest that undoes the villain, in the end, but being betrayed by his own former underlings).

Anyway - it was good, particularly in the first two eps. when I wasn't expecting it was going to go on being melo and political conspiracy-full. Glad to have seen CEW in something else than the regular cutesy romcoms. He can improve further.

The way it turned way too idealistic and melo at the end - it's just to remind you this is all just fiction.

Oh well, that's life.

Think about it as if - instead of just binging it and being done with it in 6 hours, you're just enjoying the sweet and painful ride. For some dramas, it's totally worth it.

He expected to die, that's what he expected. He even said so.

You forget they were both in gangland life before, he knows the stakes. He knows now Le is back, something's got to give in order to appease the gangsters. They were quiet because they didn't know what Le wanted done to the brothers. But they also knew Le was almost arrested - and them along with him - because of Wei Qian. So in order to wash their reputations as true gangsters, they'd probably just go after Wei Qian.

So Yuan just decided he'd go instead and let them beat him to death (if he couldn't convince them to let the both of them go) so they'd have their reputation and Wei Qian would have his life.

What he doesn't get, LOL, because he's stupid in love, is that Wei Qian never stopped being Big Bro and WOULD take care of it himself, as soon as he finds out.

Also, even if he's mature for his age and he HAS been raised by WQ... Yuan doesn't really have a solid foundation in trust issues when dealing with dangerous things. He's too young yet to reason it all through, even if the want is there. TBH, just see who taught him how to live - someone who relentlessly and totally selflessly sacrificed his own life for the lives of his siblings and friends. It's basically what he was raised to be like - someone who wants and accepts and takes the initiative of sacrificing himself for the ones he loves.

Which just means, WQ raised him well, even if a little too much like himself, LOL.

"Everything in my life is summed up in two words: Wei Qian."

Okay, not going to lie, that's an awesome line. If WQ doesn't fall now, he won't ever.

Though him crying so desperately and heartbroken over idiot Yuan offering himself up for Russian roulette was also just as good as a confession, LOL.

PS "Don't forget you're still on trial" is also a good line, LOL. Poor San Pang :D All those years of brothership/hood and now?! :D

O-ho, we're coming closer to the disclosure.

Also, Dr. Lin is the most handsome character in this drama LOL. He needs his own love story or a whole side-story drama, I don't mind.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, anyway.

For the two dramas you've mentioned, I found the leads looking better than the leads in this one (again, according to my preferences). That doesn't mean these guys are ugly; just that there was something more to my taste for the other two pairings.

But in the end, if they are lovable, they pass my threshold test LOL. I don't need them to be glamourous, just nice guys (in the actual sense of the word).

I know, I read the info, LOL, but I didn't want to check the manga because I would read it all (TL or raw, I don't care) and get mad if they changed too much or went in a different direction if I liked it :D

I already did that with a few manga/manhwa-based dramas when I just couldn't wait for the next ep... but I kind of like to be suprised, more. And I really like the slow-paced, homely universe they're reaching for with this dorama. It deserves its weekly attention so far :D

His resting b*tch face isn't drop-dead handsome, true, but when he smiles his whole face lights up. I tried to make up my mind if I actually like him (his looks, that is, not the whole acting thing) for this role, and TBH, he grew on me. I still don't like those deep lines on his face when he's NOT smiling or being active in any way... but when he IS smiling or speaking, or doing anything that requires his face not to be still... he IS handsome.

As for acting - I haven't watched him in anything else yet. From three eps in this drama I've seen him in, he can act, IMHO. I particularly like the way he just blends in the group yet still stands out a bit (mainly because I'm looking for him, TBH), that's a nice thing to be able to do as a lead when you're NOT supposed to be the most important character in that scene.

So far (ep5) I'm loving the makjang and can probably see a lot of possible future plots LOL. 10% in, let's see the rest :D