Welcome to the battlefield, errr, the shooting scene. LOL
A kind of filler ep (with some extra action, I mean kissing, no wait I mean action after all scenes.) But I liked it.
I particularly liked the way Armin/Pond kind of very subtly licks his lips whenever he's looking at Thada/Peterpan. There's something so sensual about it, I can't even explain it.
I mean, this Japanese version is really much better than the Korean version except for the end of the 8 episode,…
I mean, it's pretty obvious the way she told him the effects can't be evaded, only moved onto another person - he knows he also died ('cause otherwise how would he have come back to the past?!) and can't think of a way to avert that death. So he passes her on to the cook guy (I seriously hope he doesn't do that, but it sure looks like it) then goes to freaking [insert her homeplace, I forgot its name] to get on with it already before she falls more in love with him. Because that's one lackluster trope they didn't want to do without, the noble sacrifice, ugh.
And we know he died - because there was a flashback to the car falling off a bridge, and then the fact he also knows when she should've died and how, etc. So that's settled, I think (I haven't watched the SK version).
TBH, every time such an article gets published to show how well a drama goes in this-and-that place I can't help but wonder how bad it really is that they need to get some PR on drama sites to get people's attention.
LOL, I'm that person who still burns DVDs for safekeeping hahaha~ I got myself an external DVD-RAM and still buy blanks by the rack in order to save my favourite shows :D And yeah I know large TB SSDs are now around, but not at the rhythm I'm using up space. And I don't really trust external SSDs either, they're kind of flimsy and not as permanent as I'd like. So DVDs it still is - for me.
My uni had Win95 already when I started (also in '95), they were state of the art at the time (and I assume they only upgraded to maybe WinXP if at all, on those machines hahaha~) mIRC was the best!! I haven't gone down the IT lane (programming is HARD!) but yeah, those were the times. I'm appalled at today's gen who are called digitally native but can't boot up a laptop, LOL, they're all locked into a mobile OS of some kind and can only use those... We used to muck around the insides of a computer or laptop like nobody's business :) (Still able to, but got kind of lazy TBH in these past few years.)
I've even seen some external floppy drives being sold, I've no idea what they could be used for (I mean, what precious data still goes packed into 1.44MB sizes?!) But yeah, for this drama, if Ren and Narin and the stupid jealous lil' not-bro decide to lose some important info to expose their evil doings, they could still do it by sending someone a non-encrypted piece of it on a floppy disk :D
I used them in my workplace til around 2006 at least, LOL. We used to have the most ancient computers too. And no, we weren't working at the tax office :D (We also had the dial-up net til around 2007 at least. Yeah it was grrrreat using it. /s)
My first PC - damn expensive!! - in the beginning of the millennium still had the floppy drive (and a CD-ROM).
...When I'm counting back, it doesn't seem to be so long ago, but in real-life feeling, it's been ages. I forgot how bad we used to have it not all that way back, in internet terms.
Eww, was what Thiwthit proposing what I thought he was proposing?!
Soooo... are we going to see Crown in a liquidity crisis forced to sell off Armin's contract? 'Cause that would definitely suck.
PS I remember the Y2K crisis, LOL. What a big bag of nothing that was. (Also remember the 2012 fiasco. I was totally ready to see the end of the world as the Mayans knew it hahaha! Those apocalyptic movies were complete busts too :D)
ETA Shoutout to anyone still remembering Lance Eriksen's Millennium. I think that was the only good apocalyptic show running out towards the Year 2000.
What, they're calling him a white ROSE? LOL, he should be a white LOTUS :D (I guess they didn't think people who…
Err... it's already obvious he's the X - Enigma one. The op scene is where he's investigating everything about what Sheng likes in an Omega, and studying well to fit the parameters, LOL.
And TBH, the only GOOD scenes he's in are those where he's shifting from tearful white lotus being so opressed and heroically - with a tear in the corner of his eye always - standing up for himself in the cruel-cruel world (LOL OMG that made my skin crawl hahaha) to the shameless Enigma planning how to get his claws in the un-suspecting wolf-soon-to-become-prey. That's when I do get interested... but I wish he'd act like that all the time, the white lotus meekness gets really boring for me :D
But Gao Tu is the regular suffering from a one-sided love Omega - I... kind of like that kind of Omega. At least he's not even trying to seduce his boss, I want to see Shen FALL and hit the ground really hard, LOL. Obviously not before they have a fall-OUT. Because tropes. IF we're getting an ABO, we need tropes. I just hope they keep any dubcon or rape out of this, 'cause that would ban danmei even outside China, LOL. Keeping fingers crossed.
And hey, I hear this is going to be mpreg, too, with both of the shous getting ~preganannte~ before it ends :D
The way they're making the teacher so obviously suspicious is making me think the writer is using her as a bait…
She's the third MC, actually considered a FL given her place in the main cast. I think it's pretty safe to assume she's the one, given this is a 6-ep drama and we're already a third in. There's no time to bring in anyone hidden. The detective lost the glasses, he didn't know about the red lines - he's not the one.
Thoughts on first 3 episodes -I really liked how they kicked things off with the whole Alpha-Omega setup. I love…
What, they're calling him a white ROSE? LOL, he should be a white LOTUS :D (I guess they didn't think people who don't read danmei would get the trope).
Gao Tu is my catch-on, too. I want to see his and Shen's story, I'm not all that into a conniving super-Alpha and another Alpha. I mean... if it's ABO, I expect Alpha & Omega, not two Alphas seducing each other LOL.
PS For a good (and A&O pairing) regular type of omegaverse, one could try "Accidental Mark" or "Indulging in Wine". Those are my favourite two ABO danmei :D (though I'll admit I haven't read all that many in the subgenre).
So I need some help to understand... I'm currently midway through episode 2. Why is Hua Yong talking to the doctor…
That is indeed Gao Tu's sister. I think Hua Yong is doing it to entrap Sheng (he also researched him - it's the first scene in the first ep) but maybe he's aware that Gao Tu is an Omega and needs help to pay for his sister's surgery. He definitely wouldn't tell Shen about it, given his aversion to Omegas, but since it's an opportunity to use it against Sheng, he's killing two hares with one arrow.
At least I hope he's that compassionate (since he's probably Shen's boss, too, and would have already had the money to just give Gao Tu directly if he wanted to) and just manipulating the truth a bit.
If it's all just a calculation to get on Sheng's side and then "conquer & dominate" him... then meh.
My favourites so far are the other pairing, LOL - Gao Tu and the clueless boss. I want to see THAT story now.…
Sheng Shaoyu also wasn't supposed to like new Omegas - he's changing them like socks, the most one of them lasted was six months. And he despised Hua Yong as long as he thought he's a kept Omega or something. Anyway, I haven't read this specific novel (and AFAIK it's still being translated) so I'm ready to be amazed, if it happens.
So I'm new to this omegaverse stuff. Can someone help give me a summary or explain so I can better understand?So…
There are very few stories where there's such a thing as an Enigma. I guess this is one of them.
Usually, there are Alpha (top of the food chain), Omega (bottom of the list, they can get pregnant and often do, weaker than usual for a male, pretty as heck is the norm), and Beta (regular people, don't experience heat, can get in sexual relationships with the other genres but can't impregnate or get pregnant from those relationships.)
Stories can pair whoever they want - two Alphas or an Alpha and a Beta, etc, but usually there's an Alpha and an Omega dynamic. Sadly most stories also involve dubcon or even rape, particularly when it's about heat - natural cycle or drug-induced.
An Omega would enter a reproductive cycle - or heat - when they're controlled by their pheromones and need an Alpha to settle them down. When they're mates, the Alpha would mark the Omega (by biting a gland on their neck, usually) and those marks can be permanent (and then the Omega would be assumed to be the Alpha's permanent partner and can't get with another Alpha again) or temporary (this is mostly a plot device, because everyone wants a forever love story). Any Alpha around an Omega in heat would be tempted and some can't control but respond to it and try to mark the Omega (thus all the abusive relationships in omegaverse stories).
BTW, everyone - in the real world, you, I, everybody - has pheromones (though the type and extent and uses are still in talk). So do all animals. We aren't particularly sensitive to them, but they do work in our bodies and can influence our lives. In most animals, they're usually related to sex/reproduction, but they can also be related to fear response or even communication (in insects). You've probably known about them already even if not in the specifics if you've ever had a biology lesson related to animals marking their territory, LOL (like wolves, bears, big cats etc spraying their territory in order to warn off rivals and let members of the opposite sex know they're available for reproduction). Or if you have a non-neutered tomcat - they're spraying in order to mark their zones and it stinks, so neuter your pets, people!
PS In an omegaverse, there are six genders (and we could top that by including Enigma), which means men AND women can be ABO.
PPS An S-tier person is someone in the very best class of his/her genre (in this case) or profession. So there are Alpha, but they're also ranked, some are less powerful than others. The S-tier Alpha is the top boss. There can be S-Tier submissives though (I haven't seen one in an ABO story but it's also not my main danmei subgenre, but I've read a few stories with S-tier Sentinels or Guides, and they're pretty much always the underdogs, socially).
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A kind of filler ep (with some extra action, I mean kissing, no wait I mean action after all scenes.) But I liked it.
I particularly liked the way Armin/Pond kind of very subtly licks his lips whenever he's looking at Thada/Peterpan. There's something so sensual about it, I can't even explain it.
"Husband, I don't like the way she's looking at me."
"Husband, she touched me!!!!"
"Husband, I don't want my first time to be with her!!!!!"
Oh LOL, Li Yan, you didn't touch him yet? :D
... Wow, someone who CAN stop at 30 for now. LOL. I devoured this drama the first time, I couldn't have stopped for anything.
Yup. Totally straight. Nothing to see here, censors, move along LOL.
I don't have the slighest clue how this first ep made it past the censorship.
For an extra win, both leads look freaking hot. I am so in!
And we know he died - because there was a flashback to the car falling off a bridge, and then the fact he also knows when she should've died and how, etc. So that's settled, I think (I haven't watched the SK version).
My uni had Win95 already when I started (also in '95), they were state of the art at the time (and I assume they only upgraded to maybe WinXP if at all, on those machines hahaha~) mIRC was the best!! I haven't gone down the IT lane (programming is HARD!) but yeah, those were the times. I'm appalled at today's gen who are called digitally native but can't boot up a laptop, LOL, they're all locked into a mobile OS of some kind and can only use those... We used to muck around the insides of a computer or laptop like nobody's business :) (Still able to, but got kind of lazy TBH in these past few years.)
I've even seen some external floppy drives being sold, I've no idea what they could be used for (I mean, what precious data still goes packed into 1.44MB sizes?!) But yeah, for this drama, if Ren and Narin and the stupid jealous lil' not-bro decide to lose some important info to expose their evil doings, they could still do it by sending someone a non-encrypted piece of it on a floppy disk :D
My first PC - damn expensive!! - in the beginning of the millennium still had the floppy drive (and a CD-ROM).
...When I'm counting back, it doesn't seem to be so long ago, but in real-life feeling, it's been ages. I forgot how bad we used to have it not all that way back, in internet terms.
Soooo... are we going to see Crown in a liquidity crisis forced to sell off Armin's contract? 'Cause that would definitely suck.
PS I remember the Y2K crisis, LOL. What a big bag of nothing that was. (Also remember the 2012 fiasco. I was totally ready to see the end of the world as the Mayans knew it hahaha! Those apocalyptic movies were complete busts too :D)
ETA Shoutout to anyone still remembering Lance Eriksen's Millennium. I think that was the only good apocalyptic show running out towards the Year 2000.
And TBH, the only GOOD scenes he's in are those where he's shifting from tearful white lotus being so opressed and heroically - with a tear in the corner of his eye always - standing up for himself in the cruel-cruel world (LOL OMG that made my skin crawl hahaha) to the shameless Enigma planning how to get his claws in the un-suspecting wolf-soon-to-become-prey. That's when I do get interested... but I wish he'd act like that all the time, the white lotus meekness gets really boring for me :D
But Gao Tu is the regular suffering from a one-sided love Omega - I... kind of like that kind of Omega. At least he's not even trying to seduce his boss, I want to see Shen FALL and hit the ground really hard, LOL. Obviously not before they have a fall-OUT. Because tropes. IF we're getting an ABO, we need tropes. I just hope they keep any dubcon or rape out of this, 'cause that would ban danmei even outside China, LOL. Keeping fingers crossed.
And hey, I hear this is going to be mpreg, too, with both of the shous getting ~preganannte~ before it ends :D
Gao Tu is my catch-on, too. I want to see his and Shen's story, I'm not all that into a conniving super-Alpha and another Alpha. I mean... if it's ABO, I expect Alpha & Omega, not two Alphas seducing each other LOL.
PS For a good (and A&O pairing) regular type of omegaverse, one could try "Accidental Mark" or "Indulging in Wine". Those are my favourite two ABO danmei :D (though I'll admit I haven't read all that many in the subgenre).
At least I hope he's that compassionate (since he's probably Shen's boss, too, and would have already had the money to just give Gao Tu directly if he wanted to) and just manipulating the truth a bit.
If it's all just a calculation to get on Sheng's side and then "conquer & dominate" him... then meh.
Usually, there are Alpha (top of the food chain), Omega (bottom of the list, they can get pregnant and often do, weaker than usual for a male, pretty as heck is the norm), and Beta (regular people, don't experience heat, can get in sexual relationships with the other genres but can't impregnate or get pregnant from those relationships.)
Stories can pair whoever they want - two Alphas or an Alpha and a Beta, etc, but usually there's an Alpha and an Omega dynamic. Sadly most stories also involve dubcon or even rape, particularly when it's about heat - natural cycle or drug-induced.
An Omega would enter a reproductive cycle - or heat - when they're controlled by their pheromones and need an Alpha to settle them down. When they're mates, the Alpha would mark the Omega (by biting a gland on their neck, usually) and those marks can be permanent (and then the Omega would be assumed to be the Alpha's permanent partner and can't get with another Alpha again) or temporary (this is mostly a plot device, because everyone wants a forever love story). Any Alpha around an Omega in heat would be tempted and some can't control but respond to it and try to mark the Omega (thus all the abusive relationships in omegaverse stories).
BTW, everyone - in the real world, you, I, everybody - has pheromones (though the type and extent and uses are still in talk). So do all animals. We aren't particularly sensitive to them, but they do work in our bodies and can influence our lives. In most animals, they're usually related to sex/reproduction, but they can also be related to fear response or even communication (in insects). You've probably known about them already even if not in the specifics if you've ever had a biology lesson related to animals marking their territory, LOL (like wolves, bears, big cats etc spraying their territory in order to warn off rivals and let members of the opposite sex know they're available for reproduction). Or if you have a non-neutered tomcat - they're spraying in order to mark their zones and it stinks, so neuter your pets, people!
PS In an omegaverse, there are six genders (and we could top that by including Enigma), which means men AND women can be ABO.
PPS An S-tier person is someone in the very best class of his/her genre (in this case) or profession. So there are Alpha, but they're also ranked, some are less powerful than others. The S-tier Alpha is the top boss. There can be S-Tier submissives though (I haven't seen one in an ABO story but it's also not my main danmei subgenre, but I've read a few stories with S-tier Sentinels or Guides, and they're pretty much always the underdogs, socially).