ShortCircuit

They love each other. There is a big problem with the husband's identity, which leads to the wife suspecting him (of being exactly who he actually is, though that persona is considered a dangerous criminal), but they are in love with each other and there are no misunderstandings.

Watch it, do. It's one of the best SK thriller-melo dramas in the past few years. Despite some people commenting below, it actually deserves its high rating. It might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it definitely worked just fine for lots of other people. Take a chance on it :)

They don't break up.

So, I've taken a look at your watched list, you seem to not have watched a lot of Chinese drama, and almost no wuxia/xianxia dramas. It's going to be a bit confusing, in that case.

This is a xianxia drama, which means there's going to be fighting (of the there-is-no-physics kind LOL) and supernatural beings (usually it's gods and immortals, here there are ghosts and spirits). Everything takes place in the Jianghu (the world of the cultivators), where people who can strive to grow ("cultivate") a Golden Core of energy that will sustain them in fighting, and keep them appearing young until they die, which will happen a lot later than in a normal people's life. Therefore, there are clans where almost everybody has the same surname, and those clans are competing to see which one's the best.

In TU, there are the Wen clan (they're the initial baddies, their colour is red), the Jin clan (the second most powerful and definitely the most rich clan, their colour is gold), the Lan clan (one of the MLs is from the Lan clan, they're hunting down evil and using music to cleanse it, their colour is white - or if they're happy, a pale blue; well that relates to Lan WangJi at least LOL), the Jiang clan (they're from YunMeng and good at fighting. The other ML is adopted into this clan; their colour is violet-blue) and the Nie clan (they're also famous for being fierce fighters, they use sabers and not swords and all their leaders died in madness; their colour is reddish-brown or a kind of mauve, I'm not certain since they don't stay the same as much as the other clans).

Everybody has at least three names, if they're famous. Their birth name (that nobody uses but family), the curtesy name and their title (again, if they're famous). The people you need to remember aren't so many -

Wei WuXian, (Wei Ying - nobody calls him that but LWJ, his foster-brother and everybody else when they want to insult him, LOL), the YiLing Patriarch. He was adopted into the Jiang Clan and is brothers with Jiang Cheng and Jiang YanLi. He's the ML that gives us the POV into the story. He uses a flute called ChenQing (had a sword called Suibian/Whatever, doesn't use it any more).

Lan WangJi (Lan Zhan - nobody calls him that but WWX, ALL the time, LOL), the Lightbearing Lord (Hanguang Jun). He's the other ML, the one we see in relation with WWX. He uses a sword called Bichen/Avoid Wordly Matters, and a guqin.

Jiang Cheng (Jiang WanYin), Three-Bane Master (nobody calls him that in the drama, it's more of a donghua and novel thing). He's WWX's foster-brother and tied down in the rules, unlike the free-spirited WWX. He uses the sword SanDu (Three-Bane).

Lan ZiChen (Lan Huan - nobody calls him that throughout the series), Brilliance OverGrowth Lord / Zewu Jun. He is LWJ's brother. He uses a sword (ShuoYue) but mostly a flute called Liebing (not the same kind of flute as WWX).

Other important people:

Jiang YanLi - the sister of the Jiang brothers.

Wen Qing - a doctor in the Wen clan. She and her brother aren't part of the Wen attack, but suffer for it anyway.

Wen Ning - Wen Qing's brother. He's killed injustly and is part of the reason for why WWX eventually is moved to set himself outside the Jianghu and become the reviled YiLing Patriarch.

Lan ShiZui (Lan Yuan) - LWJ's adopted son. He has a tragic history.

Lan JingYi - the most un-Lan to ever Lan. He's a sassy git, LOL. He and ShiZui are part of that Lan group of apprentices that tries to deal with the problems in the Mo Manor, in the first episodes. They're important.

Nie HuaiSang - the one Nie leader who doesn't want to die in madness and actually takes meaures to prevent it.

Nie MingJue - a heroic Nie leader, Nie HuaiSang's older brother.

Lan QiRen - the Lan clan's most respected teacher. People send their kids to him for education. Not that it stops WWX from playing havoc with his mind and beard and his most beloved LWJ LOL.

Wen RuoHan, Wen Chao, Wen Xu - the leader of the Wen clan and his sons. They're the baddies.

Jin GuangShan - the Jin clan leader, scum. He's the father of Jin Zixuan (nicknamed peacock), who gets to eventually marry Jiang YanLi.

Jin Ling - the heir to the Jin clan, son of Zixuan and YanLi. He has issues.

And most important, Meng Yao / Jin Guangyao. He's Jin GuangShan's bastard son and he becomes best friends with Lan XiChen. Pay attention to him when he comes.

Mo XuanYu - a kid of the Mo Manor (where the series starts) who was a bit mad and knew some sorcery, so he offered up his own body in exchange for revenge against his family that abused him. That's how WWX comes back to life after being gone who knows where for 13 years.

So there you have it. It's not too bad once you get into the series. Considering the scope, the people aren't all that many (and I've left out a few, for a nice surprise). But you don't have to remember them immediately - it helps to know the colour code, LOL, the names of the clans will tell you where they come from, and in the beginning, the only ones you need to take note of are Wei WuXian and Lan WangJi.

Have fun!

Go Won and Jang Uk had A MOMENT (complete with soundtrack too). That is all. Loved the 12th ep if only for that spoof, LOL.

There are ups and downs throughout the series - the downs whenever there's the politicking between the Royal (or not so Royal) faction, and the Songrim faction, the ups whenever the harem boys start coveting Mu-Deok (my favourite also-ran is Go Won, NGL. He is owning the character, LOL.) I still have no idea where the plot is going to end up, but I think it's high time Jang Kang came over again.

Thanks, I'll give the first eps out a try and then decide if it needs to be watched in real-time or waited out for a binge-watch :D

So snarky, LOL, stahp. Seriously though, this might be a heavy time-consuming watch and I would really love if it would prove deserving of it. I don't know about other people, but there are some dramas that catch me from the first episode, and others that I have to wait out juuust in case they're either 1. extremely good, so bingeable, or 2. not really great, so let's have a lot of people finish it first and weigh the watching of it then. So far, I'm not certain about this one, but there are good parts, and I'm already interested in some of the support charas too, and that's a good thing (for me anyway).

I hope this proves to be the bingeable kind (because I love the original title, Cheng Yi, Zoey Meng, the effects look great, etc), so here's hoping. In the meantime, enjoy your watch of the drama :)

Episode 1 feels rather generic, the soundtrack doesn't really help either. But there are sprinkles of humour here and there, here's hoping they're not going to disappear once the romance is established.

I'll keep watching for Cheng Yi and Zoey Meng, But if it stays the same, maybe not for 38 eps :(

Some of the clans are friendly, but they don't have a combined power that's enough to stand against the Wens. And as I said, WRH really does take into consideration which particular clans to hit in order to discourage the others from acting up.

If you got to LWJ getting there too, you alreay know why there wasn't initially much resistance against the Wen, and why the rest of the clans hesitated for so long before coming together. And if you got to after the Slaughter Tortoise cave part... Here's a hug. The heartache and epic parts are coming.

Most of the other clans aren't usually working together, more like they're competing all the time. So when the Wen Clan started their run for power, everybody was kind of taken by surprise. And yes, they are really powerful from the get-go, too, only the Jin Clan is of a somewhat similar standing, but the Jin Clan leader is scum so he takes basically no measure against the Wens until almost too late, and it advantages him.

The Yin Iron pieces have a role, but Wen RuoHan was set on conquering the other clans anyway. And since nobody said anything when smaller and unconnected clans were basically wiped out, the Wens had a chance to build a reputation and even plan grander things against more important clans (can't tell you more in order not to spoil it, but you'll see).

The clans that stand together against a threat survive, but if they're already divided... what chance of resistance is there? So they have to accept the Wen's ~invitation~ and pretend they do it of their own will.

Watch the movie that made him a star, The King and the Clown, it's a masterpiece (and the one he made right after, Fly Daddy Fly isn't that bad either). Also, there are a few more action-oriented dramas from his younger days - like Time Between Dog and Wolf (it's a bit dated, but still good), or Two Weeks. There's also Arang and the Magistrate, on a more hilarious ghost-ladden historical story, or even Iljimae, for the soundtrack if nothing else (and well, LJG).

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.

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.

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.

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 have a good feeling about this. I hope it'll be an awesome series. Ji Sung is always a good bet, he knows how to pick his dramas :)

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:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyi5xHtkb0

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.