i always find it hilarious how, everyone in the series was obsessed with psychopathy being genetic and the son…
Yeah but the whole idea was that she did it in self-defence and in the heat of the moment (not sure if it would have worked in the legal trial if she claimed it, at the time; also, back then the crimes had an expiration/prescription date, some 15 years in hiding after murdering someone and you were free, even if they caught you afterwards, which is what DHS is actually trying to do when taking the blame for it. I guess being a serial killer's kids they figured they wouldn't have a chance to claim actual self-defence.)
And then DHS was always strange, maybe on the spectrum, definitely having marked psychological problems... I mean, they tried to freaking exorcise him, which indirectly led to the murder of the foreman. I don't think he's a psychopath in any way or means, he CAN feel emotions, he just can't recognize most of them or reproduce actual expressions in order to emote like "normal" people do. That's being on the spectrum, IMHO, not a sign of psychopathy, which includes the inability to feel empathy toward different human beings (or any kind of beings actually) than the psycopath himself.
What I mean, it's not that people necessarily thought he was an accomplice in the killings (maybe the taxi driver thought it definitive, the police didn't, much, at the time), but he was STRANGE and that meant MAYBE he could have done it. He had the potential, the problem was proving he did anything, which nobody could even begin to try to, since no evidence was available and he was gone.
IMHO, one of the themes is not linking inheriting genetic traits and turning a serial killer, but the prejudgement of people who are different, until they either disappear or tranform into what society expects them to turn into (monsters, usually), because of how they're treated by society. Like a self-fullfilling prophecy.
LOL, sorry for the rant. I really miss this story :(
Latest two eps were kind of slow, but I guess they can't run at breakneck speed all the time. Still enjoying it, I am not too sure about the renewed romance strain but that's just me I guess. The villains could stand to be a bit more fore-front and important - as they are, either the main villains haven't entered the story yet, or there won't be any actually scary and powerful villains at all... which wouldn't be so great.
Do watch the drama. The spirit of the story survived Chinese censorship, and there is no better Wei WuXian than…
TGCF is all nice and cool, but so long (too long!) and for me, while there are sparks here and there, it's not always sizzling as in MDZS or SVSSS. I'd go with SVSSS because there's more hilarious dialogue (the System rules!!) and Shen QingQiu is amazing. (There are donghua too, first season for either of the stories. I still like SVSSS more :D And there are donghua for MDZS too - the whole story in all its glory, and the chibi version :D)
As for Xiao Zhan... he IS perfect for WWX. There are no words. Consider this - after you watched the drama, you'll be able to picture drama WWX whenever you re-read the novel :D
OMG 2ha!! Luo YunXi as Chu WanNing - yes. My body is ready. Bring it, LOL.
A question for those who have finished this:But first, a quick explanation… Back in the day, I dropped more…
The first 10-15 eps are setting up a lot of what's to come (the first two are actually a link to the present once you're done with the past). So yes, the drama levels up for a long time once it hits its stride, and then it keeps moving like a freight train.
You're either going to love it, or be mad at it, but it won't leave you indifferent.
I read the book like 3 years ago and I completely fell in love with it and the characters! I remember after I…
Do watch the drama. The spirit of the story survived Chinese censorship, and there is no better Wei WuXian than Xiao Zhan. If you loved the book, you'll love the drama. (Edit: no seriously, you get drunk LWJ. Do watch it! :D)
As for other MXTX adaptations... SVSSS is letting itself be waited on, thank the powers that be that I least get a donghua version!
I really like the movie, haven't watched the drama and now I probably won't. But I'm interested in the second season (once it's done).
The story flows amazingly well, but I wonder, does the drama explain the background of the side charas? And why is KSJ so afraid of loud noises? Do I have to watch the drama to find out?
I came here for Byakuya, got a bit disappointed (not really Miyavi's fault, anime Byakuya is a tough act to beat), stayed for Ichigo (and I don't even like anime Ichigo all that much, LOL.)
Can't say how it compares to the manga, TBH, that's too long and convoluted for me (and actually got fed up with the anime around the halfway point too), but it's an honest adaptation of the first bits of the first arc that delivers on special FXs (the Hollows could've stood to be a bit scarier), and is not too hard to follow for people who didn't watch even the first part of the anime and/or didn't read the manga.
It kind of falls flat in the part where there's no time at all to develop any of the characters, up to and including the MCs, so there's that. But nothing much on the Quincys (really disappointed on that, too :( ), Urahara was there for the background, nothing at all on the school friends, too much time spent on how Ichigo ~sees~ ghosts. At least they had Eguchi Yosuke (SAITO!!!!) as the dad, and OMG Renji got massacred (OK, time to stop here, or I'll start seeing all the bad parts and none of the good ones.)
The music is just so-so (NOTHING even close to Shiro Sagisu's On the Precipice of Defeat, though I could swear there was just a little SOMETHING there, trying hard to remind people of that awesome theme), but hey, at least Fukushi Sota is cute and he definitely has the right body for action scenes :D
For those who don't remember the first OSTs of Bleach the anime, here's On the Precipice of Defeat, just so you know how amazing that was:
according to mkvdrama episode 29 is the last episodeis there correct if not where can i find episode 30-32
This has been asked and answered dozens of times, LOL. There's a DVD version (29 eps), and a TV version (32 eps). The content is the same, the cut is a bit different (TV ver. eps are shorter.)
If you found a 29 eps ver., it's probably the DVD ver. Don't worry, it's complete.
As for why the two versions happened - because of time restraints on the TV channel as compared to online, probably.
I have to say this - I love that stony brook. I want to move there forever, build a little cozy wooden house and expel every other human from its area. There, I have staked my land lot, you all can go elsewhere.
I'm starting to really like this - there's heartbreak, there's goofiness, there are mysterious strangers doing whatever the hell they're doing (I don't care), I like how he's only advancing through being in peril of his life, LOL. Yes, I'm strange like that.
Is this going to be something like Naruto or Bleach, LOL? Then Yool is being very Byakuya :D It's looking to be something very shounen anyway, more of the getting-stronger-and-stronger-and-STRONGER!! type. But then they ran away. Heheh.
So yeah, I'll be watching this. Too bad about the 10 eps coda, if it'll happen, because it will definitely break the series' stride. But maybe I'll get lucky and the coda will either happen and make sense, or not happen and the series will stand on its own. Arthdal vibes have mostly settled down at least.
After ep 13 - she's really cute playing the new fox, and Xiao Shun Yao should really, really do a drama where he's a father or older brother, he's shining. And the little girl is cute too :)
Episode 2 is better already, in terms of story flow (for me at least). There are some relationships already forming (I love that very young gisaeng with a sense of business :D), the effects are still good, and they stopped hopping from here to there to back again at least for now.
So the dynamics so far are - Wook is interested in Mu-Deok (as master for now, maybe more to come), Mu-Deok is not interested in anything but now has too little choice, Dang-Goo sees her as their pet/mascot (he's always petting her head LOL, some day he's going to get that hand snapped off), and Yool is intrigued by Wook's new maid but still not caught in her gravity net. Poor Cho-Yeon seems relegated to the role of Princess B*tch who got rejected and now is still mad about it.
Overall, there were some Arthdal vibes again, LOL, it looked like half the tribes' chieftains AND half the Arthdal priesthood cast are here :D
The music still sucks, but hey. There's time. Here's hoping.
It's not the editing. Editing is the choice of shots in a scene once the cam got the images. What you say is related…
I stand corrected. I thought editing was the arrangement of scenes in an official order according to the plot and/or director's choice, after all the filming is done. I would have imagined they had a logical plot or at least an order to shoot the scenes that would need the least money/time expenditures LOL. At least that's how I would do it, were it my job.
Why would Jang Wook's dad reject him? I mean, okay, it was the other dude's SOUL who was inside his body doing…
Oh, that's such a wonderful idea - Mu Deok's eyes being the actual mark of soul shiting. It would explain how come she's suddenly seeing (if the original was really blind), and also establish that Wook is also good at some things magical, because nobody else has (yet) seen it.
Maybe they need perfect soul-shift mates to not go crazy, who knows. Maybe it'll be part of the magic system later on. And yeah, other than being mad that the king inflicted a rape child on his family, maybe the mage decided a soul-shifter's soul-son is too dangerous to live AND practice magic too.
I wonder how come Wook isn't the king's adopted son or something, though, since the king said he'd need to swipe bodies exactly because he couldn't have kids of his own... Definitely more plot to cover this is needed in the future :D
Why would Jang Wook's dad reject him? I mean, okay, it was the other dude's SOUL who was inside his body doing…
There's a lot of time to add to the story, obviously. Jang Wook's dad who is a vagabond now (according to the rumours) couldn't be the rapist king, though, and he'd be the one who sealed off Wook's power. So he was alive at least until the child was born.
Poor (actual) Mu Deok, LOL, though, If her body juuuuust happened to be the right one for the assassin. She's gone :( Oh well, we never met her anyway :D
The editing or the genres? you got me at that.....also, FL and actors.....you are not familiar with any of them?…
The editing AND the genres. You have the intro with the horror soul shifter (which I don't mind, they add some more horror stuff later, or at least it's horror for me, since some things out there look like zombies, LOL), then the soul switch with the intention-to-rape villain added in, then the action sequence with the fearless assassin, then the fantasy with the soul shifting assassin, then the rom-com, then the bits of childhood memory, then the origin of the assassin's obsession with the four main mages families, then again some rom-com harem, then some more action, then a chase (but is he really wanting to harm her or just wants to find out about the whistles from his childhood?), then the dramatic declaration of Jang Wook etc.
I got whiplash, a bit. So it's settled - this is a mash up of rom-com and fantasy, with a background of horror, let's see how well they make it work in the end. But it would really help if the transitions are bit more smooth, at least for me. I see now it's by the Hong sisters, which I didn't really watch before (because of cast and genre, mosty), so it might be a hit-and-miss in the end for me anyway, but I'm willing to give it a go at least for a few eps.
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PS, you added some more, so I'm adding a bit too, LOL. I DO understand what is going on, actually, while I haven't watched Hong sisters' dramas in the horror mash up genre before, I am WAY too familiar with fantasy of any kind, including horror rom-com fantasies, even if only in books. I also HAVE watched a lot of fantasy dramas - Western or Asian - and so I am not a newbie scared off by a new-to-them genre LOL. This added for background.
What I'm saying is that the first episode is interesting (even for someone who didn't watch the writers' previous work so is unfamiliar with their preferred tropes - which is a good thing) but that the tech details could use some help. Particularly in editing and music, come to think of it. But also, yes, despite the cast's previous work, some of them are still not yet convincing, hopefully because they didn't yet have any time to be settled and properly introduced (which brings me back to editing, but let's give it a rest there).
This is a long drama, they'll have plenty of time to iron out any problems, hopefully. Let's see and enjoy then, shall we? :D
The editing is all over the place, there are parts where I wondered if it'll be a reverse-harem comedy, then they…
Why would Jang Wook's dad reject him? I mean, okay, it was the other dude's SOUL who was inside his body doing the thing and getting his wife pregnant, but the BODY was his. Would the magic system imply that when there's a transferrence of soul, something changes in what that inhabited body does to the world in return (aside being under another soul's operation, LOL). I mean, the genes are the same right? If Jang Wook is going to have some magic powers, he got them from his father's body, not the soul.
Also, is it implied that ALL soul shifters eventually go mad and need to attack people to retain their human aspect? Then wouldn't Mu Deok sooner or later become a zombie-look alike and lose herself too? Why would she actually want to soul-shift and REMAIN there until she gets her power back? What then? Would she shift again?
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And then DHS was always strange, maybe on the spectrum, definitely having marked psychological problems... I mean, they tried to freaking exorcise him, which indirectly led to the murder of the foreman. I don't think he's a psychopath in any way or means, he CAN feel emotions, he just can't recognize most of them or reproduce actual expressions in order to emote like "normal" people do. That's being on the spectrum, IMHO, not a sign of psychopathy, which includes the inability to feel empathy toward different human beings (or any kind of beings actually) than the psycopath himself.
What I mean, it's not that people necessarily thought he was an accomplice in the killings (maybe the taxi driver thought it definitive, the police didn't, much, at the time), but he was STRANGE and that meant MAYBE he could have done it. He had the potential, the problem was proving he did anything, which nobody could even begin to try to, since no evidence was available and he was gone.
IMHO, one of the themes is not linking inheriting genetic traits and turning a serial killer, but the prejudgement of people who are different, until they either disappear or tranform into what society expects them to turn into (monsters, usually), because of how they're treated by society. Like a self-fullfilling prophecy.
LOL, sorry for the rant. I really miss this story :(
As for Xiao Zhan... he IS perfect for WWX. There are no words. Consider this - after you watched the drama, you'll be able to picture drama WWX whenever you re-read the novel :D
OMG 2ha!! Luo YunXi as Chu WanNing - yes. My body is ready. Bring it, LOL.
You're either going to love it, or be mad at it, but it won't leave you indifferent.
As for other MXTX adaptations... SVSSS is letting itself be waited on, thank the powers that be that I least get a donghua version!
The story flows amazingly well, but I wonder, does the drama explain the background of the side charas? And why is KSJ so afraid of loud noises? Do I have to watch the drama to find out?
Can't say how it compares to the manga, TBH, that's too long and convoluted for me (and actually got fed up with the anime around the halfway point too), but it's an honest adaptation of the first bits of the first arc that delivers on special FXs (the Hollows could've stood to be a bit scarier), and is not too hard to follow for people who didn't watch even the first part of the anime and/or didn't read the manga.
It kind of falls flat in the part where there's no time at all to develop any of the characters, up to and including the MCs, so there's that. But nothing much on the Quincys (really disappointed on that, too :( ), Urahara was there for the background, nothing at all on the school friends, too much time spent on how Ichigo ~sees~ ghosts. At least they had Eguchi Yosuke (SAITO!!!!) as the dad, and OMG Renji got massacred (OK, time to stop here, or I'll start seeing all the bad parts and none of the good ones.)
The music is just so-so (NOTHING even close to Shiro Sagisu's On the Precipice of Defeat, though I could swear there was just a little SOMETHING there, trying hard to remind people of that awesome theme), but hey, at least Fukushi Sota is cute and he definitely has the right body for action scenes :D
For those who don't remember the first OSTs of Bleach the anime, here's On the Precipice of Defeat, just so you know how amazing that was:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyi5xHtkb0
If you found a 29 eps ver., it's probably the DVD ver. Don't worry, it's complete.
As for why the two versions happened - because of time restraints on the TV channel as compared to online, probably.
I'm starting to really like this - there's heartbreak, there's goofiness, there are mysterious strangers doing whatever the hell they're doing (I don't care), I like how he's only advancing through being in peril of his life, LOL. Yes, I'm strange like that.
Is this going to be something like Naruto or Bleach, LOL? Then Yool is being very Byakuya :D It's looking to be something very shounen anyway, more of the getting-stronger-and-stronger-and-STRONGER!! type. But then they ran away. Heheh.
So yeah, I'll be watching this. Too bad about the 10 eps coda, if it'll happen, because it will definitely break the series' stride. But maybe I'll get lucky and the coda will either happen and make sense, or not happen and the series will stand on its own. Arthdal vibes have mostly settled down at least.
So the dynamics so far are - Wook is interested in Mu-Deok (as master for now, maybe more to come), Mu-Deok is not interested in anything but now has too little choice, Dang-Goo sees her as their pet/mascot (he's always petting her head LOL, some day he's going to get that hand snapped off), and Yool is intrigued by Wook's new maid but still not caught in her gravity net. Poor Cho-Yeon seems relegated to the role of Princess B*tch who got rejected and now is still mad about it.
Overall, there were some Arthdal vibes again, LOL, it looked like half the tribes' chieftains AND half the Arthdal priesthood cast are here :D
The music still sucks, but hey. There's time. Here's hoping.
Maybe they need perfect soul-shift mates to not go crazy, who knows. Maybe it'll be part of the magic system later on. And yeah, other than being mad that the king inflicted a rape child on his family, maybe the mage decided a soul-shifter's soul-son is too dangerous to live AND practice magic too.
I wonder how come Wook isn't the king's adopted son or something, though, since the king said he'd need to swipe bodies exactly because he couldn't have kids of his own... Definitely more plot to cover this is needed in the future :D
Poor (actual) Mu Deok, LOL, though, If her body juuuuust happened to be the right one for the assassin. She's gone :( Oh well, we never met her anyway :D
I'm going to keep watching for Mu Deok, myself.
I got whiplash, a bit. So it's settled - this is a mash up of rom-com and fantasy, with a background of horror, let's see how well they make it work in the end. But it would really help if the transitions are bit more smooth, at least for me. I see now it's by the Hong sisters, which I didn't really watch before (because of cast and genre, mosty), so it might be a hit-and-miss in the end for me anyway, but I'm willing to give it a go at least for a few eps.
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PS, you added some more, so I'm adding a bit too, LOL. I DO understand what is going on, actually, while I haven't watched Hong sisters' dramas in the horror mash up genre before, I am WAY too familiar with fantasy of any kind, including horror rom-com fantasies, even if only in books. I also HAVE watched a lot of fantasy dramas - Western or Asian - and so I am not a newbie scared off by a new-to-them genre LOL. This added for background.
What I'm saying is that the first episode is interesting (even for someone who didn't watch the writers' previous work so is unfamiliar with their preferred tropes - which is a good thing) but that the tech details could use some help. Particularly in editing and music, come to think of it. But also, yes, despite the cast's previous work, some of them are still not yet convincing, hopefully because they didn't yet have any time to be settled and properly introduced (which brings me back to editing, but let's give it a rest there).
This is a long drama, they'll have plenty of time to iron out any problems, hopefully. Let's see and enjoy then, shall we? :D
Also, is it implied that ALL soul shifters eventually go mad and need to attack people to retain their human aspect? Then wouldn't Mu Deok sooner or later become a zombie-look alike and lose herself too? Why would she actually want to soul-shift and REMAIN there until she gets her power back? What then? Would she shift again?