ShortCircuit

Did PA not adapt the whole novel, then? I looked and they already had 67 eps, that was plenty of time to do it (according to today's rules anyway).

I meant the poison the Ximeng people feed the ML - the Bonegrass Cold one IIRC. That's usually kind of a BE classic setup - they'd control him through it, he'd eventually break with them and not get the antidote, some drama ensues, ML heroically dies (usually). Or she saves him. Probably...

This is what I got from ep1, having not watched PA:

1. People in Ximeng don't comb their hair. ML will continue not combing either LOL.

2. This was (probably) a short recap of PA, more plot unrelated to follow.

3. I should've probably watched PA first.

4. I have never seen the SML, why does he get so much airtime (and will the ML's airtime match eventually).

5. That poison they already fed the ML will probably lead to a BE sometime in the future.

6. I should wait to binge it when it's done, maybe also watch PA first?...

(ETA) 7. Spending half the ep on that one scene without context seems overkill.

How close am I?

This one - yes. I've been looking forward to it for a long time. I hope it delivers.

TBH if I got my hands on the Third Crown Prince, I'd wring his thick little neck. He basically forces Han Hsieh into the contract and its renewal because he can and because he found himself a great Agent and doesn't want to let go of him. And while HS is doing the hard work, he (the 3rdCP) is concurrently tormenting him with images of his parents suffering in Hell.

Like, WHY the eff. (Yeah he did things but isn't he busy redeeming them?! Have a heart, you idiot Prince of the Underworld).

PS It took me quite a while in the last ep to realise the egg was supposed to create the new Myna messenger LOL. My bad.

This turned out to be extremely entertaining. Nice pure-souled, clear moral compass lead, good support cast, good special effects, a very nice BGM, too bad it wasn't longer.

I wouldn't say no to another season or two, though if the whole novel was already covered, I wonder what else they could show. This season too wouldn't have hurt for a few more eps to better develop the ML's past trauma.

The ONHCT rec is spot on - this is supernatural with a soul.

PS Though seriously the rating right now is a joke. This deserves a lot more. Hopefully its audience finds MDL and rectifies it.

Yeah, I'm doing the smart thing this time around - binging it after it ends. I am strong. I can do this!!

Inb4 the foundation comments start.

And hey Yan An! I approve LOL.

He gets shy if he has a wet dream LOL. He would NEVER. Those genes don't get pased on.

Oh hey there's a block button for your particular type of crazy kthxbye

I am not Korean on any side of the border - why does it matter? The STATE should work for the betterment of the CITIZENS. Not the corporations and oligarchs. That is all. Is that left-wing? Then I'm left-wing (again, not that it matters).

The SK is probably still shocked over the support Yoon got from the right-wing US of A, when keeping him in power after his attack on the parliament and declaring martial law would have gotten them at least a try at a nuclear attack from NK. I guess seeing their anti-aerian defenses broken down to be moved over the Iran side of the new all-American war their great "allies" just started will help South Koreans become even more entrenched in their beliefs LOL.

Because they're still virgins, that's why.

MinBeom's uncle put him and his side-kick at the disposal of MinBeom, who asked for an assassination. But since they got BaekJeong, they faked his dead corpse and just recruited him into helping to break up the initial and ongoing financiers of the IKFC (and the drug trade that went with it) in Asia. So... win-win. As long as Baek Jeong doesn't escape and just come back to GunWoo to finish the job.

This is so dumb. "Are you left wing?" "Are all celebrities left-wing?" Hell YEAH they should be (even if some are definitely not, and very vocal about it, CSW, I'm looking at you).

I mean, what the hell is state FOR if not for the betterment of its citizens?! Why the F would we all (basically EVERYBODY save some few thousand billionaires and so throughout the whole freaking WORLD) just get together and create states and cultures if not for ALL of us to live a better life?!

Plus, just for the idiots attacking him - it's one thing to one-sidedly declare martial law in the region and put your own capital at risk ('cause it's in the range of nuclear/tactical weapons should NK decide it's time to end it all), and another for the OTHER reckless, headless rogue super power to one-sidedly try to start WWIII to cover up for its orange leader pedophilia and as a by-effect close the only way for some 20% of world's oil traffic to reach its customers. Both are as stupid decisions as they come, both from right-wing leaders - what, are those knetz so blind not to see WHO exactly caused these problems, both times? Like... WTF. Inflation doesn't freaking feed on sunlight.

NF never translates the honorifics though, in kdramas or cdramas either. One who hasn't picked up a few words here and there could never even tell they're not saying each other's names most of the times, but using honorifics or very specific titles. In kdramas, NF doesn't even differentiate banmal from formal address anywhere (which leads to certain strangely-formed TLs and/or loses in-language jokes and innuendos).

That's just how they operate.

They all seem to have too many TBIs, they lost too many brain cells.

After you fight it out, you cry it all out (or the other way around) - the motto of this season.

What the hell is wrong with GunWoo, why did they make him such a wuss?! He WAS kind of shy and starry-eyed in S1, but here he's a total wimp. He cries for anything, he needs pep talks for every battle, he's ready to give up at the slightest problem etc.

And at the same time they make BaekJeong the strongest, undefeatable opponent only for him to devolve into uncontrolled insanity (for reasons) then get his mind back and accept working with the NIS agents (because why?) Also while the Marine brotherhood and all got brownie points in the first season, here they were... made smaller somehow. So one of them is an underground money lender and recuperator, the other is a bloodhound himself, having also killed people (good people, he says) and did they just forget MinBeom's cousin in his ER bed after getting one too many knocks in the head?

The first season, despite the obvious cuts around KSR, made a lot more sense and felt a lot more diverse, both in the kind of fights they got into, and in the manner they were solved. Here it's just illegal MMA (or some derivative of boxing, not quite MMA) and that's it. Like GunWoo is the only good fighter around etc. And WooJin suddenly can't even hold his own in a fight for too long...

So yeah. I don't really expect there'll be a third season of this. But oh well. It wasn't THAT bad.

TBH, this is less than S1. I don't care about the post-credits scene, NF (and others who produce or finance dramas) should finally learn that NOT every villain deserves a redemption arc (or chance) and even if we like the actor, we don't really need for a character's second (or third or fourth) chance.

Everybody became a crybaby somehow, and the police was kind of way too emotional. The ones I actually liked were the cold-blooded NIS agents not caring about anything and getting the spoils while barely lifting a finger.

All hail MinBeom though, he's still cool.

Also (ep6) I can kind of see where GunWoo got his stupid from. Like... what the hell.

No but what the hell are those walls made of, plaster and paper?! This is so American-like. Do they even have that kind of not-actually-a-wall things in SK?!