ShortCircuit

There's a book?!

You watch 1001+ FMVs first, obviously, then you read the novel (in case you haven't already) then you slowly transition to the donghua, like this:

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

because this is what's waiting for you in the donghua:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sVSqEcPNoc

And then you heal your (again) broken heart with the chibi donghua:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M20KpN3UJiw

So you're able to graduate to more danmei :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icGyEwDdsYA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px4kG4bYSKQ

And this one just because I love this song (and the donghua OSTs are something great on their own):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2hjj4kfafw

I am a fujoshi myself and used to like Thai BLs for their courage to show UNC scenes (well, as much as UNC as they could and still air them). Nowadays though, every other actor who's debuting or trying to build recognition is in a BL drama, and there are basically no actually UNC scenes anymore, just lackluster poorly lighted, poorly edited, poorly scripted and repetitive scenes that have mostly lost all charm. KinnPorsche doesn't count, LOL, that one's not my genre (I don't like gangsters, even when they're in love, but also - they did a lot of good UNC scenes. But - and this is a big but - the drama was made by One31 - see below).

Ironically, I think about the last time they (generally "they" as in Thai dramas) showed mostly convincing scenes was in My Stand-In and that's a cweb-novel adaptation, LOL. And not on GMMTV either, IIRC iQiYi made it. Or produced it. The last good one from GMMTV I remember is Not Me, and it's been 5 years already. (Leap Day counts, but not as BL, for me, LOL).

The best Thai dramas involving BL or at least bromance lately have been coming from One31, IMHO, and they don't focus on the UNC scenes (if any). I mean - Spare Me Your Mercy was great, Goddess Bless You From Death also, now this one - I think they're onto something with these more plot-filled dramas. (ETA And what I like about them the most is not even the bromance/BL, but that they FINALLY are mostly about MEN, not school children or college-aged youths).

I really hope this one stays strong, it started really well.

Wow, the second ep already raised the stakes, and the preview for 3rd seems they will keep doing it.

A strong supernatural story so far, and LOL, they are working so hard to show this will NOT be a BL, hahaha~ what with the women all around.

I like it so far, I hope they keep it up. Niran's gray side came a bit out of the blue, but it fits him perfectly. I want more nice surprises like that one!

This was the best episode so far. I have no rant to give.

I think it's just the warm-up, LOL, and they're revisit the scene next week.

IIRC Wayu dropped out of college in his third year, so he'd be 20-21 or thereabouts. Krit should be a lot older, since he finished the uni and then went to the police academy or had more studies and now he's already a captain (I know his father has clout, but he wouldn't advance immediately, IMHO). So maybe at least 30 or about to reach it?

This ep, Tai served great relationship wisdom - as usual - which Wayu promptly ignored - also as usual.

Methinks there was too much "Pete" backstory all at once, nothing against the actor but I was kind of waiting to not see his face any more, given the tropey ex-plot. But "Krit" cried prettily, I'll give him that.

I don't know about the rest of you, but IMHO, while Wayu was definitely the most athletic on that pole, LOL, Sky's show was sexier.

Anyway. Socks! (At least he's not hiccuping, LOL. I was 80% certain there'll be SOME kind of quirk about it :D)

The first ep is so easily freaking funny LOL

Chief: High risk, high gain! (In English)
SeongJae: Yessir, I CAN DO IT (also in English)

hahahaha~

The freaking Dunkirk sausage landing battle!!! The FREAKING SAUSAGE LANDING BATTLE DO YOU HEAR ME!!!! So many victims!! All in the soup!! :D :D :D

The foreshadowing with the cat out of hell in the road before they got to the post, and then DongHyun nonchalantly goes "to cook well, you have to have feeeeeeeelings for the cooking, you can't just throw something together and make something not even the army cat would touch!* - so THAT's where the cat was running from OMG ROFLMAO

I really should've realised it was going to be a wild ride when the VERY FIRST BGM OST is Bridge On the River Kwai theme OMG LOL. And then the chief goes and mentions MacArthur too, just in case nobody caught the reference.

This is going to be amazing, I can already tell. I need to look up the freaking manhwa RIGHT. THIS. MINUTE.

PS Also, where can I get that VR/reborn/transmigrated-with-a-System game, too? 'Cause I really need help with cooking. Like, a lot. And with keeping order in the kitchen. If someone makes that kind of game for the masses, he'd be worth his billions.

I misread, sorry, for some reason my eyes saw 23 not 33. You mean the song the guqin player is singing on that cliff, then? It might be in the BGM score.

They re-copied what was burned. Sima RanDeng was an asshole and kind of stupid (because of why the library was functioning as it did - I guess his masters never let him in on the secret, LOL). Maybe he's not a reader :D

Anyway - what I liked best from that part was that the humans (or rather, non-cultivators society) were not too idealistic either. Their actual purpose wasn't (only) some noble elevation of the regular person from ignorance into knowledge, but also kind of very long-term political gains and independence and they were willing to do what was needed to get it, even if it included murder and mayhem.

Pretty human of them, IMHO.

Jess Lee / I admit. There are versions of the song throughout the whole drama (I like the BGM versions too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAguUoGgVYQ&list=PLLaG0k-PXfne-qkHxwh6lHX698kVGcHQ5&index=7

Because that would be a complete another story. He is NOT the same person he was. He CANNOT remember anything from his previous life and anything they went through together. It was made crystal clear that if they get together again, they'll be complete strangers starting over.

I know it's frustrating, but hey, that's dramaland for you.

I thought so too, but grew to understand her POV a bit better after I calmed down. I mean, she IS her father's daughter. She WAS raised with a bone-deep mentality of kill-or-get-killed, she'd justify ANY means to get to whatever goal she wants. She was never much hindered by morality and she also never did love HIM. Her childhood trauma probably twisted everything inside her head and heart, so she just uses and takes from people with no instinctual thought to give something in return.

What's out of the her normal reactions is her complete devotion to Xin Mei and doing everything so XM still likes her. But we'll allow her a flaw, LOL.

Also, LOL @Jin Lun's reaction to losing an arm and then losing his divine sign and then losing his lover and then (he probably kept losing things hahaha~): Oh well, too bad. We'll get'em next time!! :D That man had ZERO survival sense.

Finally had the time to properly sit down and watch the last few eps. Still holds its own. While I get why the romance fans were maybe a bit let down, for me it's a good ending. (I am not really invested in romances anyway LOL).

The pace kept strong from beginning to the end, the characters - particularly LQQ, Rusty and Li MuHan's - progressed greatly, the effects were not bad at all, I even liked some of the villains, the MUSIC was amazing (the OP/ED songs are unskippable. I really wish they release the OST sometime soon). And I want each cdrama from now on to have a sidekick as great as Chu Ying! Petition here, sign up people.

The down side - there are some VERY under-utilised charas for which good actors were picked, I don't know why (I mean, you get Riley Wang, put him as main cast and then don't do basically anything with his character?!)... and that kitty at the end looked stressed out as all get out, so I kept getting stressed too. Chinese dramas production teams, use CGI as for everything else, okay? Don't stress out kitties. Also, all the cameos went over my head, LOL. I mean, okay, LXY is always welcome but I don't think I'll ever watch that sequel drama that came before the prequel LOL, Also I'm not really a fan of ZYC so I am lukewarm toward his big guest part in the final ep oh well.

So in short - great music, nice progress, tropey but written well enough, good characters, that's a wrap.

PS Had a laugh at the tribal guy wanting to teach YingYing horse-riding when she got there riding a horse LOL.

Shoutout to the whole VA cast, they did great and I recognised half their voices :D

So far, though. Maybe he would this time. The others... weren't as great either, LOL.

Season 2 with the same cast, right? Right?...

Regeneration kind of can't, given the ending - if it's the one with Jing BoRang. Unless it changes main cast, I guess.

No, I won't remove my comments. They were not related to the scenes you say they removed - which goes to prove it's the team's job to do that, and not MDL's.

You, and your "team" on the other hand went overboard, in a "holy war" of your own making. Did you remove the fake 1-star reviews?

Bye.

Why is A-Sheng doing that to him?! He never did her any harm, he always helped... and now she's breaking his Dao because she needs him for a bit - then she'll probably throw him away again.

She really is like her father.

LOL, Xiao ShunYao's character (Bai disciple) ended up in a deep prison. His characters always seem to do that, LOL, it happened in MLC too, now here, he's cursed hahaha~