ShortCircuit

Yes this is the first one in the sequence. Then Kyoto Inferno, then The Legend Ends, then The Final and then The Beginning (yes in that order).

The first four deal with the introduction of the main characters (the first movie stands alone just in case you're not interested to continue though hopefully you will :D) and their adventures to the grand finale in the story and the original source and the last one, The Beginning, shows how it all started. It's a whole different beast and way differently toned story to the first four movies, so it makes sense to consider it also a stand-alone. And it hits different, too, when you've known and (presumably) liked the characters from the other movies.

So my advice is, watch them in the order they were released. That's the order of the plot pacing (as is in the manga, too, and the anime, come to think of it), and that way they tell a complete and great story.

The Sleuth of Ming Dynasty is being carried by Darren Chen (playing ML Tang Fan) being the most cute ML ever (seriously, cute as in THE cutest), then by Liu Yao Yuan (playing Wang Zhi, a Royal Eunuch) being the most awesome two-faced chaotic good character ever, and by Fu Meng Bo (playing Sui Zhou) being the most stoic PTSD soldier/cook ever. And by Tang Fan being a glutton which makes him attracted to Sui Zhou in the first place, LOL.

Which means to say, it's more of an action/comedy than a romance. Actually, it's so low in the romance quarter, it doesn't even come off as romance. The novel it's based on is also very subtle about it, and most romantic interractions appear in the way the MC and the ML talk to each other (and a bit of that managed to be moved over to the drama). But yes, it's not ANYWHERE near TU in terms of romance. Not even hidden glances there, just a few... suggestive moments LOL. I still would recommend it, because of the trio of the MLs. They're gorgeous. And there's a little girl there who is smarter than the whole lot of them LOL.

If you'd rather watch something with crazy chemistry between (male) leads, there's not a rule you have to contain it to the BL genre (censored of not).

So, not BL, but amazing male/bro chemistry: Under the Skin (CN; warning. This drama CHEATS so hard on not being BL, LOL. But I am happy, because it means there might be a second season in the making :D), The Devil Judge (SK), maybe even Be Reborn (CN).

For BL... well, SK is trying hard and IMHO in the short drama they are making progress - there's a very likable character in To My Star, for example. And Thailand is always ripe with good BL dramas - I Told Sunset About You, A Tale of Thousand Stars, Not Me, Theory of Love. Then there are the Japanese dramas - like 30-years Old Cherry Magic.

There are plenty of fish in the sea, and they're all kinds of colours, which is the best - I mean, you don't want them all to be the same :D

It definitely looks like PCH is actually BM (he either gets a true list of names in the last minute switch, or he really does know some people... If I were him, I'd name the three stooges in the prison, the Chief Warden and the strange robocop guard. That man has killed some people).

As for who could be BM, otherwise... I'm inclining toward JuHee, the Mayor's wife. She's deeply linked with the hospital so she would have a stake in shutting off the report, she has that creepy DNR rule enforced, and she also plays some powerplays. Who's the elder though? I hope it's not going to be some cameo from Lee Kyung Young, he's been everywhere lately and I've kind of had it with him, yuck.

Other than that... Move the plot along, writer-nim, please! Nothing much seems to have changed from the start. For such a short drama, that doesn't leave a lot of time for plot development. I sure hope this won't be a 2-3-whatever number of seasons, I want some actual endings for a change :(

It needs to move a bit faster re: the actual plot. Not saying it's too slow, but we're after ep4 and PCH is still in prison and the original setting hasn't changed much and a quarter of the total time is gone.

Must... go... faster! :D

Though, in the trailer for the next week's eps...

Definitely a HEA (depending on your expectations. this IS a censored BL adaptation so no PDAs LOL). Though there is tragedy on road to the HEA, be warned.

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It's canon that WWX is absolutely the very last one to catch up on what's actually going on in LWJ's mind (and heart) regarding their relationship, he - WWX - basically spends the whole story convinced LWJ either hates him, despises him or holds a grudge against him, LOL. Kind of like... staying on the same page re: LWJ throughout the whole plot (until the light finally hits him and he goes OOOOH!!!!) So, having that username, being on the same chapter for a long time... It looks appropriate to what WWX is actually like in the novel :)

I hope I'm explaining this in a manner that's understandable, English is not my first language. Anyway, my humour can be strange and things sometimes hit me as being hilarious, which might not be the same as everyone else. Don't take this personally, it's a joke :) I also hope you can find the joy in reading the novel, there are indeed some parts that are a bit different and sometimes even boring than the drama, but it's all worth it in the end :)

Nobody explains it, WWX's demise doesn't even happen like that in the novel (in the novel, WWX doesn't fall, he kind of... gets destroyed by overuse of qi energy while defending Burial Mounds. JC then gets the flute after quarelling with the other clan leaders for it). It's just LWJ telling WWX what happened immediately after he let go, and the focus is set on why LWJ didn't go down himself right after, too (a hint for the later revelations regarding the reasons for THAT).

IMHO, it could be both - he'd go look for WWX in the far-off hope he's still alive, while at the same time, he's still full of hatred and frustration over his actions (since YanLi just died, too, he'd have no cool-off period). But IF WWX would have been there, dead or alive... it's anyone guess what JC would have done. Probably taken him down to YunMeng and imprison him, if he were still alive. Or given him a proper burial if dead.

But JC is VERY stubborn and he hangs on to his anger, as seen later with the chasing down and even killing of any and all "disciples" of the YiLing Patriarch until WWX's resurrection. He wouldn't forgive him nor let him be, if he had found him under the cliff, because he did think at the time that WWX was guilty of everything. He's still rather honest, though, so when he discovers it wasn't WWX's complete fault for the whole mess, he does forgive him. And the extras to the novel show he's not interested in stopping Jin Ling from running around with the other ducklings and Wen Ning, either, so his forgiveness must be pretty thorough.

Well, brothers will be brothers.

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After the resurrection (ep 33), LWJ tells WWX that after WWX jumped off the clff, JC went and looked for him, and only found ~bones of the dead~. And then when 3 years later LWJ himself went, there weren't even bones anymore.

It's very probable JC found the flute when he went looking for WWX. The sword and the manuscripts and whatever else they could get from the Burial Mounds were kept by the Jin clan, but the flute was with JC.

It's because Oh Aew is precious and sincere and totally committed from the beginning, and Teh keeps wavering and self-denying himself and trying to remain safely on the hetero line.

It's painful to watch at times, but it's a good story, well-acted, with superb music and exceptional cinematography.

The second season is not actually praised all that much, compared to the first, and you can also skip it if you want to keep all the fuzzy feelings (not that it doesn't have a HE, because it does.) The first season is one of the best Thai dramas I've watched, and I've watched a lot of them (of the BL kind, anyway).

The sister has a fried chicken shop and a crush on OJH (don't we all), the girl still lives with KDC and is preparing for her equivalency test while also doing art, and the nephew hasn't come up these first two eps, but he should be around. I have this impression the sister's family isn't living with KDC any more, but it hasn't come up yet.

It's unrelated to the first season other than the same police team and the usual (already established) relationships still work. Most of the cast came back, not all though. The plot is new, so there's not much to go back to season 1 to, except if you forgot who these guys are :D

I think the serial killer is either Cheon Sang Woo (a bit too obvious, but he already attacked someone once, and there's no rule the killers can't be obvious), OR, and I'm leaning more toward this variant, it's Woo Tae Ho. I mean, the stress he lives under needs something to let out from time to time. His wife is a cold fish (letting him know like that, as a side commentary to where she was going to sleep that night, that she already aborted the child he probably hadn't known about yet... COLD.)

This final (or final for now) murder looks to be either ANOTHER serial killer who just decided to copy cat the location and means (it looks to me from the preview the bus driver IS a killer too, or maybe just inspired from the initial killer, we'll see), or the same killer becoming stupid out of the blue. Well, more stupid. I think it's an opportunity crime and no relation to the others, unless the murderer is on a contract or just started killing.

As for the boys... This second season looks to be more focused on actual legwork that the police has to do, it looks more down-to-earth than the usual same-old, same-old politics in hidden bureaus (though there are those, too).

I like it so far, let's see some more!

If something comes their way, the chicken suddenly becomes delicious, even if undercooked and over-condimented LOL.

At first I thought the Mayor would be BM, but he seems just as surprised as anybody else. I don't think it's MiHo, or her father - so far.

I DO kind of suspect his lawyer friend to hide some 3-4 billion won to pass the guilt onto him (I mean, he's supposedly swindled some 100 billion won too, what's a measly 3-4 then?) but I don't think the lawyer (yet) has any rational reason to bring the heat so close to himself, if he were BM.

And so only two things remain - 1. BM is not a person, but a whole organisation of underworld big shots, or a crime syndicate, if you will, and 2. BM is PCH.

The first case also lacks a rational reason - why would a crime syndicate do anything to involve themselves in a open-and-shut drug case for someone who's unrelated?

The second case though... now imagine PCH is actually narrating the story. He could very well be an unreliable narrator, only telling/showing what he wants to, just like a real swindler.

Or maybe 3. BM is the prosecutor guy playing both ends, because where the heck did he get the list of drug users BM supposedly sold drugs to?

Anyway, I like the way PCH - long-lived and incredibly unlucky - manages to brazen and fight his way out of the dangerous situations, The psycho crying for missing his mom was the cherry on top :D

Not too bad, for the first two eps. I am most surprised by MiHo's character, LOL, and LJS keeps getting younger and younger.

I don't have any expectation for a well-rounded, intricate plot, but I already am certain this will be action-filled and awesome in a comics-kind of way :D

So, after episode 2... This will either be a slow burn or a flop. Can't form an opinion yet, but I'll trust Ji Sung for picking good stories, at least for a few more eps.

Because I don't like crazy-creepy characters in general, and obnoxious and crazy/crepy is just a specialized class of that type, LOL. And she's already married, and HER husband isn't dead (yet).

So why would he get involved with her? Unless the show needs both of them to have some romantic scenes. If SSH gets a relationship that's enough, IMHO.

I almost think one of them will be dead by the end of the drama, anyway, so no need for even more melo.

That freaking bloody mass murder in the cell came out of nowhere, I really really really didn't expect it.

So, hypothesis, on episode 1:

The father had something on someone important and he had to be eliminated (probably at Kwon's order, I don't know or care at this time). Both sons are obviously marked by it (I mean - bloody eye missing off the body yeeeeeeesh) and both seem to be kind of genius face readers or expert psychologists/sociologists. HWS stands out in that department too, but SSH isn't bad either. I guess there'll be some kind of romance between SSH and the reporter and then she's killed, LOL. Or maybe they'll subvert my expectations and don't kill her.

I think there's going to be some murder in the compound and HWS eventually becomes main suspect and/or a death-row inmate. There's time.

The least thing I care about is the freaking diamond dart - Adamas itself, LOL - and I have no idea why HWS would want to steal it, unless it's to 1. destroy it or 2. use it to prove who his father's killer actually is.

I'm hoping for some bromance between HWS and Choi TaeSung, and LOL, they used the actor's own name, just turned it around :D

PS HyeSoo is probably either crazy herself, or kind of a prisoner in the compound acting crazy in order to survive. I don't want her involved with HWS, so please let's not go there, show.