ShortCircuit

*just checking*

...Yup, still missing them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, XIAO ZHAN! Here's to many new dramas and many new fans to discover a great (and handsome, too) actor!

When WWX summoned Wen Ning, he made him a bit too fierce and dangerous for the juniors. So he instinctively tried to calm him and used a song he barely remembered - it was the song LWJ played for him in the cave of the Tortoise of Slaughter (WuJi theme in the drama, WangXian theme everywhere else).

LWJ never played that song for anyone else, only WWX got to listen to it. So when WWX used it, with a flute, while controlling a fierce corpse (well, in the drama Wen Ning isn't, but that's what's happening, LOL), there was pretty much little doubt who could he be.

Around the end of the drama, WWX tells LWJ he figured it out too (when they're strolling about, LWJ leading Lil' Apple the donkey, and WWX riding it, LOL).

And, that aside - NOBODY else dares call LWJ "LAN ZHAN!!!" quite like that, LOL, not even Lan XiChen :D

Cats are lazy but extremely beautiful, graceful - and efficient when going for the kill.

The man knows best, I'd say we believe him :D

Things start to go very, very wrong around episodes 15 - 17. And then they go extremely wrong, with a vengeance, until WWX dies in episode 33 and is resurrected - not a spoiler, because that's the first scene in the drama.

So the flashback ends in 33 and present time resumes. Don't skip it, though, it gets epically dark before things change.

AGAIN, what does this have ANYthing to do with same-sex relationships or BL?! There is NO link. There is NOTHING same-sex partners or gay persons have to take responsibility for. It's all on the guilty persons' back.

I mean, seriously, are we going to discuss it in this tone? I feel a need to repeat myself here, and not under a spoiler tag - kids watch romantic movies (and famous TV dramas) that involve intimate scenes (some of them extremely graphic) and DO NOT become rapists anyway. It's not about being curious. It's ALWAYS about power over someone. There's nothing in it about "monkey sees, monkey does". Some children are unhinged, and the police will very probably find the roots of their evil actions in their families or entourages. NOT in some drama - that in China they dilute so much that can't be called BL anyway. NOT in the existence of gay people around them. This is a false narrative and nobody has to accept any responsibility over what two unhinged children did - over a period of time, there's no "impulsive action motivated by curiosity" in this. THEY did this, THEY are guilty. It's not something that was imposed on them.

This is all I have to say on this. /end rant.

I don't understand what that atrocity has to do with same-sex relationships and BL. I mean, rape sadly happens a lot more in the hetero world (if only going by the huge numbers difference between straight and gay people), and we don't go around saying, ooooh, this will ban romance movies!!

I don't know who owns that account, but pairing bullying and rape with the general idea of BL and even specific BL-inspired titles (let's not pretend they're not going to censor everything they think might hint of BL) is extremely far-fetched and maybe just throwing a rock in the lake to see how many people start trying to take it out.

She started out believing he is - or is definitely going to be - the devil incarnate, because that was who he became in the world he never fell in love with YXW. She had to inch slowly, ever so slowly into loving him, and her belief in him is easily shattered because it's only based on love and him showing her he could be good, from time to time.

All things considered, WE saw him show affection and caring for everyone way more than she did - we knew he cared for her, we knew he never intended to kill Xiao Lin and had let the other army make a retreat in order to let them all survive, we knew he was always yearning for her love.

Whereas she saw him being calculated, she saw him becoming the mighty king who would lord it all over her, she saw him chasing down Xiao Lin and his army (as total enemies), she did stab Xiao Lin because of TTJ's influence, and he seemed to her to be more interested in YBC than her, to the point she'd rather just not have hope.

She did sacrifice instead of him, though, that shows how much faith she does have in him living on cleanly, without her. I don't think it's a lack of trust - more like others have said, it's a lack of choices. She just can't risk the world for his love (HE would, instead, for her love.) How does that saying go, he fell last but he fell hardest? :)

You just have to love him for it, in the end :D

Because of first impressions (she saw him killing her parent and her whole sect when he was DG in their actual first meeting) and she knows no matter how good he actually might be, the Devil Bone won't be turned to the good guys' side no matter what.

She's on a mission and has to lie to herself it's all justified, even if it breaks both their hears.

Also, novel readers assure us he's not that likable in it till the end, so maybe her actions are easier to comprehend considering the original story.

I felt the same (started watching - after actually dropping it after ep1 - after it ended airing). If you're like me, you're going to love the parents. That part of the drama makes up and then some for the start.

Also prepare for some gore in the later eps. Quite a lot of it.

It gets way better (IMHO) after ep7 or thereabouts (when they tell the stories of the parents). The kids are pretty same-old, same-old awkward school romance (with extra superpowers) but the parents are heavy guns and make the whole drama very much worth it.

I meant she replaced him as final boss / strategist of the whole superpowered "test-and-replace-the-old-ones" thing. Throughout the whole S1, Min was the obvious boss and evil mastermind and then oops, she becomes the boss.

If someone didn't read the webtoon (like myself) that comes through as a cheap switch for the value of shock and diminishes DooSik's choice to come get rid of the planner - while JuWon gets rid of the sniffer. If they had managed to separatedly destroy the head and chain of command in that institution, that would have warranted some applauses, but instead DS only removes a figurehead that betrayed him and that's that.

Oh well, they have a chance to make it clear in the second season, when it happens.

So this actually needed webtoon background info to make sense (for the switch in the end, I mean?) Bummer. It should at least had been hinted at in S1, even if it becomes clearer in S2. Left as it was, it came out of the left field and made zero sense (and lowered the stakes for the final battles).

Thank you for the info, though, here's hoping S2 comes soon enough and makes sense too.

It took til around ep7 for me to get interested. The first 6 seemed aimless until they started filling the backstory and then it got really, really amazing. For me, the parents' tales are the best and the parents are actually the heroes (though the youngsters have a part too.)

What he did before he "awakened" was simple uncontrolled gliding, and mostly falling. It took HS being in danger for him to get in control of it.

Their powers need to be awakened. NK decided to do it the brute-force way, with placing them in life-or-death situations (actually the NK flyer also does this to BongSeok and HeeSoo to check how powerful they are), while SK decided to just check and see how to awaken their abilities and that only for kids of known superpowered.

That guy who got wiped by the cleaning lady was trying to do it a bit more NK-like, with arranging accidents, and it worked... in a way. Not completely.

Also, the wait-and-see approach definitely did NOT work on the smart superpowered kid who could stop time and managed to get transferred to a different highschool. I bet we'll see him in the next season.

Even if SK would have left them alone, MiHyun would not risk it because she's paranoid and smart. HeeSoo and her father can risk it because her file is gone, nobody actually really pinpointed her ability, if any, and Mr Choi would also help cover it. And then Jang JuWon dispatched the sniffer, so all's well (for now).

That final switch of the final boss was pretty lame, though. I mean, okay, the old guy was a douchebag, but he probably (maybe) really wanted to do something for the country, if it also helped him. What use is it to change it to him being a lower rank than a random girl who just played at being a bullying victim in the highschool? Made no sense.

DooSik was the action hero in this one, his gunfights were always pretty awesome. In the final fight, JaeWon won the day for hulking out to protect his kid, and then MiHyun was the best smart killer around - she herself took out three of the NK gang, LOL, and led to the demise of their leader (him with the late-found morals), whereas the guys couldn't basically kill anyone. JuWon indirectly caused the Smeagol quake-starter to commit suicide, but later on adopted his huge-ass foster bro' or whatever he thought they were for each other.

JuWon did make some progress with killing the sniffer, though, and not a second too soon. And then DooSik again came to cleap up, LOL. (Though seriously, changing the boss really brought the whole story down a level).

WTF was everybody and their dog doing in Korea while the superpowered were totally levelling the school though?!! Shootings, quakes, people flying around like nobody's business etc - what the hell, did everyone decide to take a deep nap at the same time collectively?! And Mr NIS guardian didn't even call headquarters to let them know their huge-ass project is being torn down by NK agents?!

Also, the NK soldiers guarding against DooSik, LOL, none of them had ever seen a flying man before (maybe not in movies either) and nobody batted an eye when the flying man started shooting them all off?! (Not complaining, he was cool as heck in all his missions, a huge positive point in the drama, LOL) And then in less than just a few years suddenly mature superpowereds start appearing out of the woodwork all over NK, what, were they powerless before? (Because in SK all of them seem to have discovered it pretty young. Especially the flying ones.)

Oh nevermind. It was entertaining - particularly the parents, as I've already said - and I will probably watch a second season, if it involved MiHyun and DooSik again LOL. Just to see the smart one and the cool one against the stupid new bossy bitch.

This has got the be one of the slowest starting dramas ever. I watched the first, let it aside, re-started after it finished airing and it only hit a good stride around mid-point. The adults' part was the best, the final fights were pretty awesome, the kids' part was the most boring (despite the cute aww~ romance parts).

When it was about the parents' origin stories, it was amazing. Not too sure about the kids and their future in the rumoured S2. But the FX were pretty great.

Disclaimer: I'm not Chinese and don't speak the language.

From what I've seen in dramas, mostly, the ~a is an endearing term used for people you know (family and close friends. Kind of like the Korean ~ah, ~ya, added at the end of the name). Same goes for ~er, but that one seems to be even more intimate, mainly used by close family and very good friends (maybe lovers?). Whereas Xiao~ comes through usually as a nickname, less familiar, more like a cultural prefix for someone you know but maybe you're not that close to, though obviously everyone, family included, might use it. Like using "ge" for someone you don't really know, but it's an acceptable term (if they're older), or "jie" for women (also if they're older.) I don't remember the words right now, but same goes for "uncle/aunt" (no actual relationship involved, it's just polite to address them that way, like using "sir/madam" in Western society, just a bit more close).

So you might hear YanLi calling WWX "A-Xian" in this drama, because they're family and it's an endearment term, though not really a diminutive. (I don't think it works like that in Chinese.) Adding Xiao~ in front of his name doesn't make it a diminutive. And I've noticed that the Xiao~ (if used) is placed mainly in front of the family name, usually - WWX would be called Xiao Wei for example, or we'd have Xiao Lan, if anyone dared, LOL.

I might be totally wrong on this, so take it with a huge grain of salt.

PS Another term used between friends - or to show respect, at times - is Lao, placed in front of the family name. If it goes between same-age persons, it seems a bit teasing, like calling someone Lao Wen (when they're NOT old at all - Lao means old, in one of the ideograms, LOL) as ZZS does in WoH. Also, still not a diminutive :D

You can also hear colleagues - even actors, if you're watching some BTS - calling each other Laoshi all the time (it means teacher/master). (Because supposedly you always learn from others, I guess :D) And saying something like "Laoshi will show them how it's done!" (maybe while pointing at yourself) is pretty cheeky LOL, like bragging you're better.