ShortCircuit

When they got on respectively, the bus was full. They were part of the few people who had to go farthest along the bus route, so they both got kind of sleepy and dozed off. When the loop started, there were only a few people left in the bus as it had mostly emptied out, but they were obviously in the same seats they had dozed off in, LOL.

(I don't remember if it's explained in the drama, as it's been a while for me - they might have hinted at it if not told outright. But it's in the book, so that's the reason they were sleeping next to each other in an almost empty bus.)

PS They also showed the route is actually quite busy, as when MengMeng went through the molestation incident, the bus was packed. But this time it's mostly empty when the loop starts.

I know, I got to 37 in 2 days (barely slept, who needs sleep anyway?!), it took over every free moment I have, and I just can't stop. Amazing drama, amazing story, amazing actors!

Edit (ep 40) If JingYan doesn't learn the truth by the end, I'm going to be so angry! T_T

Just finished ep 23, this is actual fire, what the heck did I do not watching it before now?!

One of the most bingeable dramas I've ever watched, dammit, it's the middle of the work week why is this my life now T_T

Chu WanNing is worth waiting for. And Luo YunXi is perfect for the role. I just hope they leave a bit of the raw side of the story in, despite censorship.

Here's hoping it'll be released... sometime soon. During our lifetime LOL.

He's not afraid of love, I think, but he has a fear of not being first and foremost for the one he loves. At least, it came like that in the first eps, in the discussion he had with Dean. As if he's tried and been burned before, expecting to give and receive in return, but being seen as a second-best, or a fallback option. There might be something about his father's attitude about him in it, IMHO, though it's still not clear.

So... maybe a fear of committing to a relationship and being the only one who does? A trust issue, I guess.

FWB (friends with benefits) is a thing, actually. They're both not really ready for deeper meanings and romantic conversations under the moonlight, but sex? Hell yea.

But they're falling, slow and steady.

LOL, yeah, it won't go away easily if at all. Welcome to the circle of withdrawing from TU watchers. It's been 3 years for me and counting, but hey. I regret nothing.

She has the password to the cloud account of the girl who took the picture. At that point, they're already used to what they have to do to get the loop to break.

The husbands' club, LOL.

JHG and Song Seol (she's interested, he's playing cool, but it looks like the writer is making them romantically involved). Also, Bong Do Jin seemed very interested in Seol too, but now I have this impression there's less of a probability of a love triangle, as they had Yoon Hong basically stake a claim on BDJ, LOL. Or at least an interest.

I'll take less love triangles for actual separate pairs anyway, I'm already having SML syndrome on this drama :D

WTH was JHG doing, hosing off the heli?! I mean, it's not the pilots' fault that the villain is scum, but they're basically being taken down by a madman with a hose on a rooftop, amid high winds?!

The HECK!

I know military movies make it look like every heli is basically army-grade and nothing brings it down, but they're freaking delicate machines which go down all the time even when all conditions are right... And JHG is actively blinding the pilots, making the side of the heli heavier, pushing it at an angle around a high rise building (again, amid high winds, they said), in currents they couldn't even control, above a well-trafficked area...

Even with suspended disbelief, someone give him a freaking HUGE FINE at least, for endangering the aircraft and its crew!

PS And I do mean it with the time condensation technique. I actually appreciate how they're not wasting "days" or "weeks" dealing with burocratic procedures, but they actually do take all that time, and there are reasons as to why all of them came into existence. NOBODY actually can find a DNA profile basically instantly, (not even if they had all the equipment in the world ready and sitting around, it takes time for it to be collected, prepared, analysed, etc - there's is a procedure for fast DNA analysis, but seriously, does that institute sit around waiting for JHG to send them any whichever random DNA sample he feels like having tested?!), or sweep a freaking sodium metal bombing of a freaking national university under the carpet (no, not even the prospective future SK president, actually, his life would probably be under the microscope even worse than a normal drug trafficker's). And so on, and so forth.

So I'm enjoying the drama so far - mostly because I like Bulldozer, LOL - but they should tread carefully when taking it that bit way too far off the grid, IMHO.

Okay so FFD police time and stuff aside, what really really bugged me this (7th) episode...

Do you mean ratings for appreciation, or ratings of viewership? The later are given by factors like Nielsen for example, and they're definitely used to prove people are watching the drama so they like it. (TV viewership ratings doesn't include streaming, though, so it might be even higher than noted). If you want to check if a drama is watched in SK, there's the wiki of d-addicts, they usually publish it on the drama's page when it becomes available.

As for MDL, it's just appreciation ratings, which means that if not enough people are watching, or not all of them are rating it, then the ratings might be higher or lower than you'd expect. I would basically igonore MDL ratings when actually watching a drama, they tend to be kind of distorted by many things that aren't related to the drama itself.

It should've broken his neck, too. A full grown man hanging by a handcuff (a metal one too) would've probably sheared off a lot of the muscle and/or tendons on JHG's hand and slipped through - and at least would've completely destroyed his wrist, OR the tension should've dragged JHG's body towards the edge, while he got the cord wrapped around his neck... thus breaking it.

There is.

Neither of the two movies involve the main leads, so it doesn't really matter which order you watch them in. Fatal Journey is about the Nie brothers before WWX's resurrection, so more directly linked to the plot of TU, The Living Dead is a side-quest of the juniors and Wen Ning (after TU ends). So if you want to learn more on why Nie HuaiSang went to all that trouble, it's FJ first, but if you want to see some more cinnamon buns and ducklings, it'll be TLD, LOL.

The SE is the same as TU, only condensed more around the romance part and with the last scenes in their initial order (that didn't leave any doubts about how it actually ends up, LOL). There are just very few extra scenes, or rather, a few longer scenes, but it's good enough to feed the TU withdrawal symptoms.

But then there's a three-season donghua (animation) that's basically perfect, too, and the audio drama (with NSFW sound effects, LOL), and the chibi donghua MDZSQ for more cuteness, and obviously the novel, where all of the extras will give you what the censorship removed from the drama :D

If this comes up before Immortality airs... *sigh*, who am I kidding, I'm going to watch it as it airs, I mean - Luo Yun Xi and Bai Lu, that's a double trap for me LOL.

Err. TU is a bit (like, a whole lot) more than a bromance. IMHO, that is :D

But, good bromances: Be Reborn (father/son dynamics), The Devil Judge (flirty love-hate, veering reaaaaally close to actual shameless BL, LOL), I Don't Want to Be Brothers With You (friends pretending not to like each other), Beyond Evil (cops, no trust), At a Distance, Spring Is Green (teasing flirty, straight romance though), Someday Or One Day (BFFs, time-travel changing things), Under The Skin (love/hate to BFFs, also a bit too close for BL, LOL), Nobody Knows (different class kids becoming BFFs).

Actual BL pretending it's just bromance - Word of Honor, The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty, Guardian, Advance Bravely (all Chinese, all based on BL novels, all censored, LOL.)

Just a curiosity, if anyone's read the manhwa - is JinYoung's character acting for the future DoJoon? It totally looked like he was doing it for someone he cares a lot about, and he even says he's doing it because of someone's "greater need". For me it makes sense that someone is future JDJ... Is he the one?

I couldn't make it past the first episode (at least not yet), and I didn't even want to commit to it on MDL, LOL. It was just a look-see (and it looked a bit boring.) JinYoung (a cameo?) definitely was a surprise - but even more, Ateez's JongHo's "Gravity" kept me interested. I think this song is hypnotic.

If I get to watch this, it'll be because of this song. So glad they finally released it :D (And now because of the way YT is presenting it, I got to get addicted to EXO's Chen's "Heaven for You" and so maybe - just maybe - I'll take a look at The First Responders.)

Yup, kdrama OSTs are a gateway drug...