ShortCircuit

TBH, all men (who aren't disqualified) HAVE to go to the army and most of them do not get extensions until they have a stable career, either. They have to put their lives on hold from 1.5 to 2 years of their youth for the army and it doesn't sit well with the regular citizen, if the stars and chaebols and the sons of politicians or well-connected people do not do the same.

And there are plenty of stories of abuse against soldiers in the regular troops, while most of the media stars usually get to go to the PR dep't or some such easier post (with some exceptions - some of them did go to the regular troops, by choice, I guess). There have already been great scandals of stars caught in fake exemptions from army service, some of them have been completely cancelled for it.

What I mean is, there IS some substance to South Koreans being mad about anyone trying to dodge or extend their career building instead of going to the army like everybody else who isn't privileged.

Pasin is a merc, one of JinMan's friends, who needs to pay for some medical issue in his family and then for his child/children school. He is a man-of-all-trades, who can cook, likes old Thai songs, does teach Muay-Thai well enough to at least two girls with no martial arts base, is loyal but also prudent, likes money (likes money a lot, LOL), does construction too, but might be a bit shady (or just careful about being in too much light). And he might have a soft spot for MinHye, LOL :D

They did build him up. too.

I wanted to see that too. She HAS to have hit him (for real or he let her), because she DOES have a new appartment that he's "fixing" by putting bars in the windows and giving her metal wardrobes to hide in, LOL.

He didn't, though (change his personality). In the "novel" Sunbae/Grim Reaper offered MyungHa, YeoWoon was completely devoted to his love interest (who was also the FL of the novel and ended up with the ML, who was NOT YeoWoon), to the tune that he did EVERYTHING for her and still got absolutely nothing from her in return.

When MyungHa was thrown in the alternate world, YeoWoon instead got involved with him... and also became totally in love, head-over-heels, with him. His one-sided devotion was one of the things that MyungHa felt compassion for him over.

So, it's been 13 years since WWX died. The events before his death took (in-drama) about a year. Let's say two, at most. Jin Ling was born right before WWX dies, so he's 13-14 at most, in theory. Shizui/A-Yuan is three or four years older than him and LWJ took him to Cloud Recesses also right before WWX died (that's why he was late to the battle).

A-Qing DIED almost immediately after she got to Yi City (Xue Yang stayed with them for about half a year, until he made XXC kill most of the people in the city.) So no more getting older for her after that. Sorry it's not immediately obvious she's been killed. She's now a revenant, or something of the kind, mostly similar to the Mo family members right at the beginning of the series.

MDZS is choke-full of avenging spirits (like the red bride tormenting Wen Chao, only SHE wasn't in the novel at all, LOL), fierce corpses (like Wen Ning and Song Lan), all kinds of ghosts and ghouls and the like that never made it into the drama (because censorship of horror elements). Even the Measuring Snake didn't make it in, LOL (it's in the MDZS Q though, at least there's that :D) And from the ghoul beasts we only got the Wen Clan's owl/chicken/vulture :D

What the drama did was make everything uniform, so that there's not (too much) confusion over WHEN, WHO, WHAT, etc. Obviously they screwed up some timelines (particularly since they matched up all the flashbacks in the novel into one huge flashback, to talk about how we got to the present time) and merged storylines that didn't go together at all (as in, for example, Xue Yang never met WWX and LWJ before Yi City, and also he's the only one (along with A-Qing) who even ever MET XXC and Song Lan when they were alive. Everything about Yi City, except for the final resolution, happened while WWX was dead, and not even Chaos-Finder LWJ ever got to intersect paths with them.

As for WHY they look older (or younger) than they should, given their ages... In Chinese novels, kids as young as 3 are learning Taoism (obviously reading/writing already by then), 15-16 is the marriageable age for most of the youth (YanLi being almost 20 is an old maiden), young heroes are almost always around 16-17, people around 30 might be grandparents (not too often, but still), someone in their 60s is old and ready to die. That's why there's so much talk about cultivation - longer lives, looking young for much longer, and then there's immortality, which is the main goal of all cultivators...

HEA.

Well, most of those who didn't honour the code are already dead, LOL. And the rest, JiAn bought them off in the end.

Green Code is reserved for owners pf the murthehelp. Everybody who wants to work with the shop needs to protect the owner's life. The only two Green Codes are JinMan and JiAn.

His superpower is that he is the luckiest idiot and there's nothing more than that about it. Just dumb luck all the way through.

At least they didn't kill the dog. The episodic nature of the drama helped a bit, what with changing focus once in a while. The "main" villain was weak, the main "hero" was weaker (main villain was right that ML's attacks only worked when people weren't expecting them, LOL). So NF is probably fishing for a sequel with that ending scene, but IMHO it doesn't warrant one.

The detective was all over the place and the revelations about his father were the only interesting things about his life. Roh Bin's side of the story should've been the most impressive, but again - too little shown for it. He's not shown as a great hacker, but he regularly hacks police databases, and never goes to jail for it even when caught. He manages two separate killers and still he doesn't get his hands dirty directly. And then he takes all the glory for himself post-mortem because the drama needed that to happen in order to clear Lee Tang.

By the end of it, TBH, watching it became a bit of a chore, and it almost put me to sleep in the final episode, LOL. I did get through because it was short enough, but one more episode and I would've dropped it.

It's good enough for a teen revenge fantasy thing, but among those, it's not the best, or even in the running for the top ten.

PS And oh, that first sex scene is still completely unwarranted, put in there probably just to spice it up and keep teenagers interested. I pity both CWS and the actress who had to film that and know it was going to end up on screen. Embarassing for both at the least .

Episode 1 was a total failure, then 2-8 made up for it. It's not the greatest story but not the worst either. Just middle of the road, I guess. It made me think of Unbreakable, and it stayed so til the end.

If Hiro was a cat, Kai's face would be all scratched up.

...Or maybe he'd just lick his face, I dunno, LOL.

There's a second one in ep 5, but at least that one made some sense as it was related to the trauma of one of the victims. Still, the first one is just there for titillating the easily impressed, meh.

More like Unbreakable, IMHO,

The 4th ep looks like it's made based on Unbreakable, LOL, and the slo-mo scenes are the best yet in this drama.

And it's nice they changed CWS's styling, he's looking like he's not the same Lee Tang any more, which is also good. Finally we seem to be getting somewhere.

PS To all kids watching, there's still no second sex scene, and the first one is still unwarranted.

By episode 4, it's actually turning into something good.

Just to make sure we're talking about the same thing - he's having sex (well, it's a scene where he's just lying there and she's bouncing up and down his stick or so we're supposed to believe) with a woman that doesn't even EXIST in that room at that moment, and then the man he killed shows up in his imagination and tells him - and us - he's just masturbating.

Are we really clear on that? The woman does NOT exist, he's just jerking off, the woman never existed and by the end of ep3 (where I'm at now) doesn't appear again, and you're telling me that scene had a MEANING and wasn't gratuitous and there for the sake of making it seem more "realistic", or rather, more shocking and had no other importance at all?

What are YOU, then, five? Basic representation of reality?! Seriously? LOL, okay. Maybe in a horny teenager's imagination that makes sense. As it is, that scene didn't need to be put in, but hey, I won't judge, get your sex scenes wherever you can get them, warranted or meaningless, whatever. Because, hey, tits! Bleah.

He's either the dumbest superhero, or the luckiest idiot killer. Either way, he's no shining beacon of intelligence. (Still on the 2nd ep, I'll see how it goes.)

PS The dog didn't eat her, he just licked the spilt blood. It doesn't follow he ate manflesh. Unless he ate the parents buried in the yard.

The way they're going about the "superpowers" thing is kind of dumb, though. It's like the killers/serial killers are forced to throw themselves on him and he swats them away. I hope there's some better development later on.

Also, the dog is cute and they'd better not put him down.

For all the people mad about comments I've made before - see, they don't NEED sex scenes anyway.

Second episode is better than the first. There's still hope for this.