How does protesting against AI in this comment section lead to anyone doing something about it? Your argument…
I don't like the use of AI myself, but that pushing the line thing is not an argument.
It's like saying the use of CGI took jobs from the people in the animatronics business (and it did). You might counter that they re-trained and found new jobs in using CGI or something, but it's not actually true. Every new industry breakout changes the former industry norms, and people always suffer. You might also counter that those people at least could remain in the field and AI is not giving anyone a chance for new jobs, which is partly correct. But all the same, the original argument, that allowing some changes will lead to complete change does not stand.
Myself, I think the AI bubble will burst sometime soon. It's unsustainable long-term, all the data centers they have and are building take way more power and water than we can reasonably provide and TBH, outside specific fields, the results given by AI are absolutely sh!t. So in the long run, I expect we'll see a lot of specialisation - like using AI for gene editing or in medical research, very probably, sadly, in military use, and maybe a bit in the special effects zone. And I also expect it'll tend to raise costs a lot, which is already an issue on the idiot companies who let go programmers and hired prompt-writers (I don't pity them, they made their own bed).
But overall, it's a shifting norms period and things will settle as they will. A plead in the comment section of a minor drama that will only be seen by a few hundred people at most, all powerless to change anything (because we all vote in our countries, did it change anything much?) will not lead to anything much but frustration all around.
If you really want to see advancement, there are plenty of non-profits that have a thing to say about it and can actually lobby the politicians for real change. That is the place to reason about it.
I know i am in minority here. I know i should not say this . But even after one and half week of staying away…
I get it you see something of you in him and so you can relate very hard to his problems. But I think you're projecting too much and he's not really that way.
He DID make all the mistakes that pushed people away so he ended up alone. He DID play with QL's feelings then abandoned him at the first threat to his career. He DID threaten him with exposing his relationship with CY and plotted with people who would do anything just to split QL and CY apart. He DID call Sister Lan while she was trying to drive on rainy mountain roads, having a tantrum and indirectly causing her to lose control of the car and die.
He is NOT an innocent nobody would help, here. He's frustrated he's not given credit or trust, but he blew all his chances to get that credit and that trust.
I'll give QL the credit that he knows how people work, and he can see their true colours. If he's unable to reconnect with SYH based on being betrayed years back, I'd say he knows better than us if he should risk and give him some trust again. LOL, the only time he does give him trust is when he's letting him set up a fake date to make his breakup with CY believable, at great pain to himself, I might add. That tells you something about SYH's actual personality (not when he's desperate for help).
When they were first meeting for that variety show, in the first part of the drama, what was he doing? Taking photos of QL wherever he went and whoever he met, tracking his moves, trying to use him to re-start his career. Even then he was calculating QL's worth to himself, not reaching out for a friendship.
Sorry, can't spare too much mercy on him. He did what he did and he earned the lack of friends and the lack of trust from everybody (which is why later in the series, when he finally gets it, he makes that decision that he does.)
“The Last Oath” is not “The Last of Us,” no matter how much I want it to be.I sound like a hater, but…
You're judging a BL story by comparing it with a successful (and well-budgeted) mainstream series, on 4 eps of 20-some minutes each that don't tell the whole plot already.
I mean, the AI issue is granted, but this is a BOYS LOVE story first. NOT a zombie/post-apocalypse only story. This IS what it promised, I don't get what you were expecting. They might give you info on the organisation next episode, as far as you know. Or not. Give it time to tell its story. (Or don't, you do you).
I think they're doing a good job considering their restrictions and budget, and I'm waiting to see what else do they have to say before making a judgment on the whole series. But again, to each their own.
ChangYang was in love with QingLang since at least two years before they met officially. (They also met once by…
If you can, DO watch it on Gaga, the subs are WAY better (and the subber left side notes explaining a lot of messages onscreen that on YT I think were left untranslated.
The Small Theater are a few very short eps (2-4 minutes each) that accompany a few of the regular eps. They're mostly scenes of QL and CY kissing like crazy that are not included in the regular eps (because of reasons). Not all drama eps are paired with a Small Theater ep, they're about 10 or so. They're on Gaga too, with subs (for those that include dialogue, 'cause not all of them do. They're busy doing... errr, other stuff.)
I don't think other than that the regular eps are different on Gaga than on YT or elsewhere.
ChangYang was in love with QingLang since at least two years before they met officially. (They also met once by…
Actually, we DID see that first accidental encounter (I can't remember which ep, and it was a short scene). CY was meeting WenShu somewhere in a hotel where the agency was doing a promo event, and QL mistakenly thought he was a room service attendant or something, LOL. CY had been interested in QL already but QL never saw him on radar hahaha (well, CY was VERY young at that age, 17 or something).
ETA HA!!! FOUND IT!!! It's episode 4 of the Small Theater, LOL. THAT BASTARD QL STOLE CY's FIRST KISS!!!! OMG hahaha~ I didn't remember that part. And it's even more hilarious because 1. that's basically the same pattern their first night after they met again went by, and 2. THAT's where CY gets an impression of QL as a bear that he references later in the drama :D
The father's problems also were an issue for a long time. When Shi YuHao threatened QL with exposing his and CY's affair, he had set pictures and collaborated with Xu dad to hold CY's dream of Hunter School over QL's head. When they arranged for fake date pics for the paparazzi, SYH told QL the Xu dad was laundering money through his firms, had been for a long while, and any scandal about his family would bring it all up to light. I guess QL breaking up with CY and playing along with SYH didn't manage to completely divert the attention from Xu dad who eventually got life in prison. Maybe it didn't become a national press scandal because WenShu managed to clear it up.
Ah yeah, we're going to watch this all out. At 4th ep's end - I did expect that. I mean, he was acting all very…
RE: this drama. I'm kind of certain at this point A-Lie isn't actually gay yet (or he'll at most be gay-for-A-Zai only), but he sure noticed A-Zai paying all that attention to him and has PLOTTED and already calculated how to seduce him from his base by using that interest. That's a scum move, A-Lie. Bad boy, no biscuit!
I guess they really need a subject to study how the immunity works, but there will surely be a few unsavoury characters who will try to use those findings to grab power before a vaccine or cure to the virus is developed. I think A-Lie is either too trusting, or he's deep in that organised survivalist org he's into and might not be adverse at all to use A-Zai for those purposes.
If it's the first... I really hope he doesn't have some family to rescue or something, because he'll throw A-Zai to the wolves for that. If the second... he's already scum for playing with his feelings, even if his motives are for a grander purpose.
Anyway, the zombies are tame so far. We'll see how it goes.
At 4th ep's end - I did expect that. I mean, he was acting all very obvious except to the unsuspecting eyes of Cpt. Oblivious LOL.
Did someone say this OST is AI-made? 'Cause I saw a long list of songs they used, and the BGM sounds pretty cool too.
Anyway. Leaving that aside - WOW oh WOW!! As soon as they found one or two minor loops in their draconian rules, the Chinese IMMEDIATELY started releasing amazing danmei at the speed of sound LOL. This summer was a whole feast, and if they keep going like that, we'll be soon drowning in danmei (this is not a complaint!)
BTW, how are they crediting Hong Kong for this? I thought there are no more autonomous rules for HK after China took it back.
I'd argue that some dramas do not work on hero/villain tropes but some have the anti-hero as a protagonist (as in Mouse). They don't all need redemption arcs either.
On another tangent though, why are all news posted only by Lily Alice and lately it turned into ALL articles being posted by her? Where did the other editorial authors go?! Since the beginning of the year it's mostly the same 3 or 4 people, LA included (and her account is mostly used to post news scandals, her latest added drama is in 2024, it's obviously either a publicity account to attract traffic or someone's alt they're using because they think scandals are fun. I tend to believe it's the first).
I mean, I knew it took a lot of time for editorials to be published, since the mod team is volunteering their free and unpaid time, but then they added that ridiculous rule of having to go to a person who was already a published article author for any editorial you'd like to propose and that seems to have driven away basically everybody who was ever interested in writing anything for this site.
Is this going to go on? It's kind of cheapening it all out, TBH. At least allow people to submit articles if they're so inclined without making them wait for half a year before you either publish them or not. No wonder a lot don't even bother any more.
Are there zombie scare jumps in this one? (I hate zombies and vampires LOL, though I fell for Nour before I knew what it entailed, don't hold me to my aversion to those topics hahaha~) This time I want to at least know what I would get myself into...
Can someone help me answer some of these lingering questions... How did Chang Yang first fall in love with Qing…
ChangYang was in love with QingLang since at least two years before they met officially. (They also met once by accident). QingLang is an actor, CY saw his movies (he's a fan) and also indirectly knew him through his brother. Love... happened. When they officially met, he's already done a whole conquering plan LOL. QL fell almost immediately - who could resist? :D
Very probably (the drama doesn't explain it but there are a lot of subtle hints) QingTian was mauled by a bear in an accidental attack. He wasn't aiming for suicide, but life is ironic like that.
CY is illegitimate. His bio dad embezzled funds, was caught, trialed and jailed (the Chinese don't cater to their rich people like other countries do. Well, most of the time). WenShu saved most of their fortune or was rich on his own, so nothing much happened to him, he continued with his business. The obnoxious sassaeng sister was sent abroad by her father when he knew he was going to jail. CY went to Hunter School then was away on missions for five years before returning to marry QL .
Shi YuHao deliberately sabotaged his own career in order to save QL from scandal (by releasing a sex video of himself). There would be no coming back from that one in China ent. So he probably decided even before he was done with everything then commited suicide (physically, after the virtual one, too).
10 episodes in & there's no OG NIF feel in it. Yes initially it had, with First episode starting at Langya…
Half to about two-thirds of the drama is the Xiao family's main story. Stick with it at least until then. The latter part is more like the villain's hero-to-villain journey, so I don't know. That part I wasn't all that happy about myself, but I stuck to it because it's still a good drama.
Don't expect it to be identical to NiF 1, it's not fair to either. This is a whole 'nother story.
'Cause they're somewhat related, LOL. Not directly by blood - you'll see when you get to that plot detail - but…
No. But IIRC, they both have some roots in the tribal populations that Prince Yu's mother came from (they were basically completely destroyed and even Prince Yu's parentage was kept a secret because they were so infamous, though the Emperor loved her and made her a concubine. As you remember, he was later officially adopted by the Empress as her own son, as was the usual method anyway.)
I might be wrong, it's been a few years since I watched this drama so some details might have become blurred.
Secret tribes or clans will come about in this season, too, but in a different way. Not all fighters use weapons...
Ep 1 War scene is a pure work of Art! I thought i'd be a little bit disappointed to see the Cast after experiencing…
Tell me about those war scenes!!! The whole ep is one long battle scene interspersed with some other scenes of people talking about that same war, LOL. When I first watched it, I was mesmerised by all the details.
And there will be more in the future. Also a lot of heartbreak. (And I got a crush on HXM LOL, he seriously looks like Shang from Mulan to my inner child).
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It's like saying the use of CGI took jobs from the people in the animatronics business (and it did). You might counter that they re-trained and found new jobs in using CGI or something, but it's not actually true. Every new industry breakout changes the former industry norms, and people always suffer. You might also counter that those people at least could remain in the field and AI is not giving anyone a chance for new jobs, which is partly correct. But all the same, the original argument, that allowing some changes will lead to complete change does not stand.
Myself, I think the AI bubble will burst sometime soon. It's unsustainable long-term, all the data centers they have and are building take way more power and water than we can reasonably provide and TBH, outside specific fields, the results given by AI are absolutely sh!t. So in the long run, I expect we'll see a lot of specialisation - like using AI for gene editing or in medical research, very probably, sadly, in military use, and maybe a bit in the special effects zone. And I also expect it'll tend to raise costs a lot, which is already an issue on the idiot companies who let go programmers and hired prompt-writers (I don't pity them, they made their own bed).
But overall, it's a shifting norms period and things will settle as they will. A plead in the comment section of a minor drama that will only be seen by a few hundred people at most, all powerless to change anything (because we all vote in our countries, did it change anything much?) will not lead to anything much but frustration all around.
If you really want to see advancement, there are plenty of non-profits that have a thing to say about it and can actually lobby the politicians for real change. That is the place to reason about it.
He DID make all the mistakes that pushed people away so he ended up alone. He DID play with QL's feelings then abandoned him at the first threat to his career. He DID threaten him with exposing his relationship with CY and plotted with people who would do anything just to split QL and CY apart. He DID call Sister Lan while she was trying to drive on rainy mountain roads, having a tantrum and indirectly causing her to lose control of the car and die.
He is NOT an innocent nobody would help, here. He's frustrated he's not given credit or trust, but he blew all his chances to get that credit and that trust.
I'll give QL the credit that he knows how people work, and he can see their true colours. If he's unable to reconnect with SYH based on being betrayed years back, I'd say he knows better than us if he should risk and give him some trust again. LOL, the only time he does give him trust is when he's letting him set up a fake date to make his breakup with CY believable, at great pain to himself, I might add. That tells you something about SYH's actual personality (not when he's desperate for help).
When they were first meeting for that variety show, in the first part of the drama, what was he doing? Taking photos of QL wherever he went and whoever he met, tracking his moves, trying to use him to re-start his career. Even then he was calculating QL's worth to himself, not reaching out for a friendship.
Sorry, can't spare too much mercy on him. He did what he did and he earned the lack of friends and the lack of trust from everybody (which is why later in the series, when he finally gets it, he makes that decision that he does.)
I mean, the AI issue is granted, but this is a BOYS LOVE story first. NOT a zombie/post-apocalypse only story. This IS what it promised, I don't get what you were expecting. They might give you info on the organisation next episode, as far as you know. Or not. Give it time to tell its story. (Or don't, you do you).
I think they're doing a good job considering their restrictions and budget, and I'm waiting to see what else do they have to say before making a judgment on the whole series. But again, to each their own.
The Small Theater are a few very short eps (2-4 minutes each) that accompany a few of the regular eps. They're mostly scenes of QL and CY kissing like crazy that are not included in the regular eps (because of reasons). Not all drama eps are paired with a Small Theater ep, they're about 10 or so. They're on Gaga too, with subs (for those that include dialogue, 'cause not all of them do. They're busy doing... errr, other stuff.)
I don't think other than that the regular eps are different on Gaga than on YT or elsewhere.
ETA HA!!! FOUND IT!!! It's episode 4 of the Small Theater, LOL. THAT BASTARD QL STOLE CY's FIRST KISS!!!! OMG hahaha~ I didn't remember that part. And it's even more hilarious because 1. that's basically the same pattern their first night after they met again went by, and 2. THAT's where CY gets an impression of QL as a bear that he references later in the drama :D
The father's problems also were an issue for a long time. When Shi YuHao threatened QL with exposing his and CY's affair, he had set pictures and collaborated with Xu dad to hold CY's dream of Hunter School over QL's head. When they arranged for fake date pics for the paparazzi, SYH told QL the Xu dad was laundering money through his firms, had been for a long while, and any scandal about his family would bring it all up to light. I guess QL breaking up with CY and playing along with SYH didn't manage to completely divert the attention from Xu dad who eventually got life in prison. Maybe it didn't become a national press scandal because WenShu managed to clear it up.
There is also amazing cinematography, incredible OST, shown-not-told plot, this is one of the best danmei I've ever watched.
Here's proof. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDCQ9aC7QBc
I guess they really need a subject to study how the immunity works, but there will surely be a few unsavoury characters who will try to use those findings to grab power before a vaccine or cure to the virus is developed. I think A-Lie is either too trusting, or he's deep in that organised survivalist org he's into and might not be adverse at all to use A-Zai for those purposes.
If it's the first... I really hope he doesn't have some family to rescue or something, because he'll throw A-Zai to the wolves for that. If the second... he's already scum for playing with his feelings, even if his motives are for a grander purpose.
Anyway, the zombies are tame so far. We'll see how it goes.
At 4th ep's end - I did expect that. I mean, he was acting all very obvious except to the unsuspecting eyes of Cpt. Oblivious LOL.
Did someone say this OST is AI-made? 'Cause I saw a long list of songs they used, and the BGM sounds pretty cool too.
Anyway. Leaving that aside - WOW oh WOW!! As soon as they found one or two minor loops in their draconian rules, the Chinese IMMEDIATELY started releasing amazing danmei at the speed of sound LOL. This summer was a whole feast, and if they keep going like that, we'll be soon drowning in danmei (this is not a complaint!)
BTW, how are they crediting Hong Kong for this? I thought there are no more autonomous rules for HK after China took it back.
On another tangent though, why are all news posted only by Lily Alice and lately it turned into ALL articles being posted by her? Where did the other editorial authors go?! Since the beginning of the year it's mostly the same 3 or 4 people, LA included (and her account is mostly used to post news scandals, her latest added drama is in 2024, it's obviously either a publicity account to attract traffic or someone's alt they're using because they think scandals are fun. I tend to believe it's the first).
I mean, I knew it took a lot of time for editorials to be published, since the mod team is volunteering their free and unpaid time, but then they added that ridiculous rule of having to go to a person who was already a published article author for any editorial you'd like to propose and that seems to have driven away basically everybody who was ever interested in writing anything for this site.
Is this going to go on? It's kind of cheapening it all out, TBH. At least allow people to submit articles if they're so inclined without making them wait for half a year before you either publish them or not. No wonder a lot don't even bother any more.
It doesn't look Republican era by the attire, does anyone know what period it's set in?
Very probably (the drama doesn't explain it but there are a lot of subtle hints) QingTian was mauled by a bear in an accidental attack. He wasn't aiming for suicide, but life is ironic like that.
CY is illegitimate. His bio dad embezzled funds, was caught, trialed and jailed (the Chinese don't cater to their rich people like other countries do. Well, most of the time). WenShu saved most of their fortune or was rich on his own, so nothing much happened to him, he continued with his business. The obnoxious sassaeng sister was sent abroad by her father when he knew he was going to jail. CY went to Hunter School then was away on missions for five years before returning to marry QL .
Shi YuHao deliberately sabotaged his own career in order to save QL from scandal (by releasing a sex video of himself). There would be no coming back from that one in China ent. So he probably decided even before he was done with everything then commited suicide (physically, after the virtual one, too).
Don't expect it to be identical to NiF 1, it's not fair to either. This is a whole 'nother story.
I might be wrong, it's been a few years since I watched this drama so some details might have become blurred.
Secret tribes or clans will come about in this season, too, but in a different way. Not all fighters use weapons...
And there will be more in the future. Also a lot of heartbreak. (And I got a crush on HXM LOL, he seriously looks like Shang from Mulan to my inner child).