Wow, the two male hosts exchanged half of their costumes (I know they didn't but it sure looks like it LOL). They should each pick a colour and stick with it.
Hwang MinHyun is out of the army, yay, Study Group 2 when? Let's go backpacking!
Song Kang is out too, I don't want to watch Four Hands, let's have another! (preferably some other supernatural drama, just don't even think about making any SW4, the 2nd and 3rd were bad enough on their own.)
Now as to the winners...
Grand Prize - wow. Well, that's a choice. A good actor, but that drama - nobody much watched it (don't know how it did in SK. Probably well enough to warrant this).
Best Actor - another safe choice but a lackluster drama. Though TBH there wasn't much to pick from the nominees (and I mean only the dramas they were nominated for, the actors themselves are good).
Best Actress - same as above. But the drama seems to be loved, at least.
Best Supporting - wait, wait, wait, there's a trend. So the people voting for these... are kind of old or at least pretty melancholic about the past? Most of the nominees were about dramas set at least 40 to 50 years in the past, what, is that inspired by WLGYT's success or something?!
At least The King's Warden seems to have got enough love. And the rest of the prizes are kind of evenly spread around, so nobody feels shafted.
Wait no way, did Omniscient Reader get a Best Actor nomination? Errr...
This is not half bad at all. It's full of rebirth tropes (but who cares), but the acting is solid, there seems…
I'm just sad Yin Qi distrusts ONLY Yanzhi, when it's the trio - the Ding (? IIRC their names) bros and this ZiMing character - that's the CP's spies.
Like bro, haven't you read any transmigration/rebirth novel before?! You're supposed to go back with full knowledge on what happened, and THEN plan and ennact a complete takedown of everyone involved, and even if you initially suspect someone - looking at you, The Obsessive Shou Moves On - you take revenge anyway - looking at you, Little Madman's Guide to Acting Good - and only afterwards do you descend into heavenly bliss - looking at you, Rebirth of a Movie Star.
*Ahem* So I read a lot of rebirth danmei, sue me.
PS Also LOL @the Emperor, he only gets gay sons, haha, take THAT, statistics!
This is not half bad at all. It's full of rebirth tropes (but who cares), but the acting is solid, there seems to be an actual plot, they even slid in some very soft smut LOL, and the ED song is beautiful!
I'm kind of sad it'll be only 10 eps, but at least they're full length. I have high hopes for this one.
I'm catching up too faaaaast T_TAt 25th now, and wow does Wang MingYang (playing DanReng) look so much like XZ…
LOL, she got to Nascent Soul and everyone in the city stopped to look hahaha~
Guys, guys, can I get your attention on the ongoing slaughter and also old-book-filled library burning (that can spread to the whole city, not like anyone's doing ANYTHING about it).
That poor guy who ran out of ink and started writing in blood... talk about DNA imprint!
Her old flame (ha!) could also please just drop dead, thankyouverymuch. Yo, XuanZi, got any more of those blood-linking Gu worms?....
At 25th now, and wow does Wang MingYang (playing DanReng) look so much like XZ in that get-up. He even has the dimples. (Also, DanReng sucks and should drop dead.)
Shoutout to Huang Yi (playing Xia XuanZi), his character is such a delight to hate on. And handsome! (Why are most villains so handsome. There should be a law against it).
Anyway - the past few eps were amazing, the music grew on me so much I'm looking for the OST, and A-Sheng's madness is making me start not liking her chara. I get where she's coming from but he WAS right - she duped Xin Mei into taking her in and that's kind of not something a good person would ever do.
'' Director Zeng Qing Jie made only one request of him — to lose weight. '' *makes face SERIOUSLY?!
He explained it though - it's because the character has suffered so much and is a cuckoo's egg in his enemies' lair. He would be extremely troubled and always imagining dangers even when there would be none. It's also nicely put as the character having a thin body, a hunched posture, never striding upright and confident in his own position - which his character's brother DOES show at all times.
I mean, it's not because the director was unreasonable, LOL.
He's reading the negative reviews/comments for the same reason I do, LOL (only I am not an actor). He seeks to understand what was wrong (in the eye of the beholder) about his role, and how he did it, and improve. I seek to understand what's wrong with the item I want to buy or am just interested in LOL.
Good (and not just insulting) negative reviews are the best in telling you what's wrong, exactly how they discovered that, and how to deal with it, if there's any way to deal with it. Nice and supporting reviews just cheering on for whatever never tell me anything - and they probably don't tell him anything much either, except that there are people who like the part he played.
... I thought everybody reads the negative reviews first LOL, is it just me? (I mean, those who liked it obviously already liked it, why didn't the others like it? That's what I'm interested in finding out :D )
From the outside, it sure looks like the team or whoever is responsible for these contracts ghosted the designer (because he's small and powerless, even more so at that distance) until the noise in the social-media got to them. And only then did they suddenly remember a six-months overdue return of items borrowed(?) that should have been sent back long ago.
As to why he's backtracking re: the theft (which, if it happened as he said it did, it definitely was theft) - who wants to bet that one of the conditions of resolving things from the "team" is that he goes on social-media and absolves their artist and her team of all unsavoury intentions?
Like, seriously, who would believe that? But let's just pretend in the name of saving face for all involved.
I used to be certain I was a scaredy cat and never liked horror (or almost-horror) dramas. Then I watched quite a few of them and decided I actually like them. Just not all.
Xiao Xing Chen is so Xie Lian coded. Kindness wrapped in elegance.
Xie Lian is kinder in the donghua, IMHO. In the novel, he did have some pretty stark edges. Particularly around and after the Human Face Plague (yeesh, still not liking that part of the novel AT ALL.)
It really hit him, that moment when he realised he LOVED teasing LWJ. When he's so hot and bothered and whispering in LWJ's ear, "you know, Lan Zhan, I really love it when you get angry", LOL, that is what leads to fetish drug dreams and "everyday means everyday" :D
Though seriously - don't you just love his simple nature? His own perfect dream was to play house with LWJ, he the providing husband and LWJ the stay-at-home wife. So cute! Whereas LWJ was planning violence in his own dreams and then acting up on some of it hahaha~
Still waters and all that :D
That boy was so repressed throughout his whole adolescence and then the love of his life disappeared... he NEEDED every excuse to gain back some of that lost time :D
Bichen deserves it. I mean, it's LWJ's sword. Like master, like sword. You KNOW it probably wanted it anyway. It's a spiritual weapon hahaha~ It does have an intent of its own :D
WWX is the same WWX as always. He just got hit over the head enough times he stopped being oblivious suddenly. And now he can tease and get punished at his own pace (which is pretty fast LOL). He says so himself - why have a mouth if not to speak with it, and then his mouth makes him dig his own hole and then the... other end has to pay the price.
TBH I'm kind of certain LWJ would take any reason to do it anyway LOL. Even if WWX suddenly stopped talking (though he won't).
...Also that moment in MDZS Q when LWJ ties up WWX and you remember Incense Burner LOL. Yup, MDZS Q was basically a honey trap for all fans :D
It covers a fan-moved theory (it's not canon AFAIK) that Lan Zhan kept waiting for WWX and playing the Song of Recollection to gather back his scattered soul, all those years he wasn't alive. And it shows (also very cutely) how well LWJ knows WWX's inner child, LOL.
I wanted to talk about the novel since a very long time. If I never read it, I was going to miss out on so many…
Now you see why I love JC. He is such a misunderstood character - even himself doesn't understand (or allow himself to feel) his emotions. This man needs a church of psychologists.
As for 4 - I was too busy squee-ing. I mean... He thinks that he sometimes landed well, and sometimes he fell and hurt himself, but he ALWAYS jumped, even if it hurt. And imagines himself being caught by LWJ if he jumped, and before he has time to reflect, he lets go.... and LWJ catches him. That moved my heart so much. He did a trust fall in Ancient Danmei/Xianxia China LOL. JC can go and suck a lemon about it, I don't care, that's one of the best romantic gestures WWX got before he finally saw the light and yes I include the blindfold kiss in it LOL.
And after many years of ignoring this (because I never liked chinese censored bls) I finally picked it up and…
Word of Honor, actually. And don't miss the special episode.
Going by already ended newish cdramas involving BL, there's just a tiny hope that upcoming Journey with You (coming on the 8th) doesn't end in tragedy. Don't bet on it though.
Heads up, The On1y One isn't finished (though I guess they won't ever make the second half, or not with the same cast anyway). The novel it's based on, Mu Su Li's A Certain Someone, does have a HEA, like most danmei. I loved it when it started, but when I realised they won't do the whole novel all at once... I was kind of disappointed. Telling you just so you don't get disappointed too - better read the novel for the latter half. Or better yet, read the novel anyway. Because it's cute, and Mu Su Li knows how to write :D
Anyway - other costume danmei (with a HEA, but lower production values, also based on a novel that's definitely not MDZS-calibre) - Meet You at the Blossom. At least they're cute LOL. And it's Chinese, despite it showing it released in Thailand, LOL.
Non-costume - Revenged Love (based on Chai JiDan's Counterattack - she also whote the (in)famous Addicted/Heroin.)
Myself, I didn't watch Guardian yet, because it's based on a Priest book and I just can't click with her style - but Word of Honor is also based on one of her novels and I did like it, so who knows, the drama might be worth it LOL.
And there are the foreign-made danmei adaptations. If you can stand toxic love (the drama is pretty faithful to the novel, and TBH I loved to hate on the ML and coo over the MC hahaha~) maybe take a look at My Stand-In (because while the ML is the reddest flag that should drop dead and die ASAP, they DO have chemistry together.)
And if you ever get tempted by actual bromance (no OFFICIAL love interest, though TBH I wonder how ao3 is surviving that drama), you might take a look at Fangs of Fortune. Those guys (and gals) are all paragons of beauty and I'm not even exaggerating.
3 
Rose: :Love Goddess
These two should seriously get together.
Also:
Krit: blah blah blah blah blah *serious stuff*
Wayu: *Should I kiss him? Should I not?*
Krit: *reading his mind like an open book the whole time*
PS Also Wayu DRENCHED in love pheromones, everybody was drunk on his happiness, so cute!
Wow, the two male hosts exchanged half of their costumes (I know they didn't but it sure looks like it LOL). They should each pick a colour and stick with it.
Hwang MinHyun is out of the army, yay, Study Group 2 when? Let's go backpacking!
Song Kang is out too, I don't want to watch Four Hands, let's have another! (preferably some other supernatural drama, just don't even think about making any SW4, the 2nd and 3rd were bad enough on their own.)
Now as to the winners...
Grand Prize - wow. Well, that's a choice. A good actor, but that drama - nobody much watched it (don't know how it did in SK. Probably well enough to warrant this).
Best Actor - another safe choice but a lackluster drama. Though TBH there wasn't much to pick from the nominees (and I mean only the dramas they were nominated for, the actors themselves are good).
Best Actress - same as above. But the drama seems to be loved, at least.
Best Supporting - wait, wait, wait, there's a trend. So the people voting for these... are kind of old or at least pretty melancholic about the past? Most of the nominees were about dramas set at least 40 to 50 years in the past, what, is that inspired by WLGYT's success or something?!
At least The King's Warden seems to have got enough love. And the rest of the prizes are kind of evenly spread around, so nobody feels shafted.
Wait no way, did Omniscient Reader get a Best Actor nomination? Errr...
Okay, let's see what next year's crop brings :D
Like bro, haven't you read any transmigration/rebirth novel before?! You're supposed to go back with full knowledge on what happened, and THEN plan and ennact a complete takedown of everyone involved, and even if you initially suspect someone - looking at you, The Obsessive Shou Moves On - you take revenge anyway - looking at you, Little Madman's Guide to Acting Good - and only afterwards do you descend into heavenly bliss - looking at you, Rebirth of a Movie Star.
*Ahem* So I read a lot of rebirth danmei, sue me.
PS Also LOL @the Emperor, he only gets gay sons, haha, take THAT, statistics!
I'm kind of sad it'll be only 10 eps, but at least they're full length. I have high hopes for this one.
Guys, guys, can I get your attention on the ongoing slaughter and also old-book-filled library burning (that can spread to the whole city, not like anyone's doing ANYTHING about it).
That poor guy who ran out of ink and started writing in blood... talk about DNA imprint!
Her old flame (ha!) could also please just drop dead, thankyouverymuch. Yo, XuanZi, got any more of those blood-linking Gu worms?....
At 25th now, and wow does Wang MingYang (playing DanReng) look so much like XZ in that get-up. He even has the dimples. (Also, DanReng sucks and should drop dead.)
Shoutout to Huang Yi (playing Xia XuanZi), his character is such a delight to hate on. And handsome! (Why are most villains so handsome. There should be a law against it).
Anyway - the past few eps were amazing, the music grew on me so much I'm looking for the OST, and A-Sheng's madness is making me start not liking her chara. I get where she's coming from but he WAS right - she duped Xin Mei into taking her in and that's kind of not something a good person would ever do.
Back to the ep.
I mean, it's not because the director was unreasonable, LOL.
Good (and not just insulting) negative reviews are the best in telling you what's wrong, exactly how they discovered that, and how to deal with it, if there's any way to deal with it. Nice and supporting reviews just cheering on for whatever never tell me anything - and they probably don't tell him anything much either, except that there are people who like the part he played.
... I thought everybody reads the negative reviews first LOL, is it just me? (I mean, those who liked it obviously already liked it, why didn't the others like it? That's what I'm interested in finding out :D )
So I see where he's coming from :D
As to why he's backtracking re: the theft (which, if it happened as he said it did, it definitely was theft) - who wants to bet that one of the conditions of resolving things from the "team" is that he goes on social-media and absolves their artist and her team of all unsavoury intentions?
Like, seriously, who would believe that? But let's just pretend in the name of saving face for all involved.
This one starts well. Let's see where it goes.
Though seriously - don't you just love his simple nature? His own perfect dream was to play house with LWJ, he the providing husband and LWJ the stay-at-home wife. So cute! Whereas LWJ was planning violence in his own dreams and then acting up on some of it hahaha~
Still waters and all that :D
That boy was so repressed throughout his whole adolescence and then the love of his life disappeared... he NEEDED every excuse to gain back some of that lost time :D
WWX is the same WWX as always. He just got hit over the head enough times he stopped being oblivious suddenly. And now he can tease and get punished at his own pace (which is pretty fast LOL). He says so himself - why have a mouth if not to speak with it, and then his mouth makes him dig his own hole and then the... other end has to pay the price.
TBH I'm kind of certain LWJ would take any reason to do it anyway LOL. Even if WWX suddenly stopped talking (though he won't).
...Also that moment in MDZS Q when LWJ ties up WWX and you remember Incense Burner LOL. Yup, MDZS Q was basically a honey trap for all fans :D
And then he gets jealous of himself - THIS man too, army of psychologists! GET HIM! :D
My favourite is this one - (subs on). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYawub3unls&list=PLKqviVFMvOJSs3lJKgPwmEMhedy_K6oBN&index=26
It covers a fan-moved theory (it's not canon AFAIK) that Lan Zhan kept waiting for WWX and playing the Song of Recollection to gather back his scattered soul, all those years he wasn't alive. And it shows (also very cutely) how well LWJ knows WWX's inner child, LOL.
If you can, do read the novel. It's amazing.
As for 4 - I was too busy squee-ing. I mean... He thinks that he sometimes landed well, and sometimes he fell and hurt himself, but he ALWAYS jumped, even if it hurt. And imagines himself being caught by LWJ if he jumped, and before he has time to reflect, he lets go.... and LWJ catches him. That moved my heart so much. He did a trust fall in Ancient Danmei/Xianxia China LOL. JC can go and suck a lemon about it, I don't care, that's one of the best romantic gestures WWX got before he finally saw the light and yes I include the blindfold kiss in it LOL.
Going by already ended newish cdramas involving BL, there's just a tiny hope that upcoming Journey with You (coming on the 8th) doesn't end in tragedy. Don't bet on it though.
Heads up, The On1y One isn't finished (though I guess they won't ever make the second half, or not with the same cast anyway). The novel it's based on, Mu Su Li's A Certain Someone, does have a HEA, like most danmei. I loved it when it started, but when I realised they won't do the whole novel all at once... I was kind of disappointed. Telling you just so you don't get disappointed too - better read the novel for the latter half. Or better yet, read the novel anyway. Because it's cute, and Mu Su Li knows how to write :D
Anyway - other costume danmei (with a HEA, but lower production values, also based on a novel that's definitely not MDZS-calibre) - Meet You at the Blossom. At least they're cute LOL. And it's Chinese, despite it showing it released in Thailand, LOL.
Non-costume - Revenged Love (based on Chai JiDan's Counterattack - she also whote the (in)famous Addicted/Heroin.)
Myself, I didn't watch Guardian yet, because it's based on a Priest book and I just can't click with her style - but Word of Honor is also based on one of her novels and I did like it, so who knows, the drama might be worth it LOL.
And there are the foreign-made danmei adaptations. If you can stand toxic love (the drama is pretty faithful to the novel, and TBH I loved to hate on the ML and coo over the MC hahaha~) maybe take a look at My Stand-In (because while the ML is the reddest flag that should drop dead and die ASAP, they DO have chemistry together.)
And if you ever get tempted by actual bromance (no OFFICIAL love interest, though TBH I wonder how ao3 is surviving that drama), you might take a look at Fangs of Fortune. Those guys (and gals) are all paragons of beauty and I'm not even exaggerating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu%27er_Shen
So yeah, they weren't even trying to hide it LOL.
ETA Also, LWJ was NEVER subtle. It's just that WWX is oblivious.
Exhibit 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr7EkQv5XdE&list=PLKqviVFMvOJSs3lJKgPwmEMhedy_K6oBN&index=25 (subs on LOL)