ShortCircuit

This is makjang. If you've watched the genre before you know what it is. What it is not, is rom-com as per usual, or thriller as expectations. Expect makjang and enjoy it as is, over the top events and larger than life emotions all included.

They would be step-sibling by law only if HID recognised SDJ legally as his son. By blood, there's ZERO connection between them.

And seriously it doesn't even matter - they didn't grow up together as siblings, don't have a shared past, met as strangers and fell in love as strangers. There's no blood connection between them so the possible fact that TaeYun shares one parent with each means nothing. At most TaeYun would be bothered because he did grow up with EunNam so he should be seeing her more like HIS sister than seeing SDJ as his brother, LOL.

SeonWoo is calling Chairman Cha (who's supposedly his own father) by "halabeoji", which means grandpa (not necessarily your own, more like a polite term towards an elder LOL). And he kept calling him so even after he learned he's his father LOL. And then he started calling each family member by their titles LOL, he's hilariously rude like that :D

You don't know he didn't set everything up because he wants to have HID by the neck (maybe they're filming or something and would use that to blackmail him). Or maybe he just wanted to clear up the genealogy and showed up prepared for any trick HID could think of. He HAD given him an ultimatum.

Yeom JangSeon called HID to tell him he was killing his own son, right after HID pulled the trigger LOL - because 1. Yeom is a sadist and 2. He had given the gun (and bullets) to HID - wanna bet he gave him blanks, probably? If SDJ didn't arrange for someone to film this, Yeom pretty certainly did.

The test from way back that HID got before pushing the car off the shoulder of the road has Yeo SunHo (EunNam's father) as SeongHyeon's father too. I think the test that SDJ got is maybe one he arranged, so that the later one is actually real and the one HID got in the past was faked (because Yeom wanted him to marry into the Cha family and be his monkey paw into the conglomerate funds).

I want to see GuHo kill Yeom, LOL. For reasons.

So Dream is main cast, she can't die so fast right? And the synopsis says BOTH of the MLs are born in the same day, and they're both cursed for it. I was wondering how come Day knew about Night's curse.

Anyway - other than autistic people getting a supernatural sense that makes them communicate with the stars, LOL, this is pretty interesting for an opening ep. And I don't care - Gun's in, I'm in. I just hope the plot makes sense and allows all the cast to show their abilities.

Gun Atthaphan in a new series, finally? Yes I'll sign right up.

(And it's not even a BL, or at least it doesn't look like it).

Things to notice so far (ep 1): Gun is good. Dew is also very good (never watched him in anything before but he's also grabbed my attention). This starts as well as 4Minutes, hopefully it won't devolve into a mess as that one by the end. The main scenographer / cinematographer or whoever is responsible for framing and close shots should get his/her license revised (because seriously they were in Pond's face basically every other scene.)

ETA WAIT I JUST ONLY NOW READ THE SYNOPSIS. Oh, NOW I get it, LOL

I know it does. It's still confusing. I'll admit to English not being my first (or second) language.

Ayyyyy, Speed but with trains. I mean, we've already seen the bus and the cruise versions so why not.

That title is pretty convoluted, at first I thought she was supporting protestors in favour of Yoon, but the article shows it's the other way around.

Anyway, here's hoping on Thursday the judges show some spine and do the right thing. There's enough corruption and authoritarians in power in the world already, they should be democratically removed when they do stuff like Yoon did.

I don't really care, LOL, I'm a desktop warrior who doesn't mind cross-commenting but I never saw him in anything yet, so ZKL fans, come at me. I still have some ban powers on MDL :D

Looking at that picture, it's not just the mane... the eyes. He also has great eyes. And he's pretty tall. And I guess it doesn't hurt he can actually act, LOL. He and Meng ZhiYi fit perfectly together (I had liked her since TU, but she had a lot more to work with in Blossom, I hope more doors open and she get another or more chances to act in a costume drama.)

I guess we're just lucky China remembered they can do lots of great dramas, and there's a whole generation of new and old(er) actors and actresses who can act AND be eyecandy at the same time :D

ZKL seems to be SML on Rebirth and I've no idea what they're doing with it, haven't watched Princess Agents and won't ever (not sorry, I don't like the FL as in, at all.)

If Rebirth is another transmigration, then LYR is doing it again - in Blossom I think he too would remember (in the novel) though in the drama he didn't. Anyway I don't care, I'm shallow, I'll watch it for the mane of glory if for anything, LOL (he's not even my type I don't know why I'm so attractred to him, must be the hair :D)

Also I really REALLY like rebirth/revenge stories (though I mostly read danmei, usually the het xianxia are too syrupy for me :D) So here's hoping if they're re-doing the same story they don't try to make it so different that it turns into Sailor Moon and some extra MLs LOL, and if they're doing something new, I won't even be reading the comments because everybody who did watch PA will come in with some complaint (they already complained in the news article when the trailer dropped, saying the FL is too young - like who cares?! If there's little to no romance - yay! - it won't matter if she's underage. If there's some romance, I mean, we've all been teens. We've all had crushes. As long as the ML or any other older character doesn't act on it, it's all good I guess. More time for the mane of glory to wave in the wind LOL.

Despite all super hero movies or bad-ass female fighters, for someone like a pretty house-bound Ancient China concubine, there's a nil chance she could out-fight her husband, even if he was weakened by hunger and being locked up. I mean, he WAS running away, the strength is still there, LOL.

Her daughter, who is much more athletic and much stronger from her riding days, has no chance against her own husband - she strikes and runs (at least she was smart for that). Her mother being an avenging ghost makes no sense.

But oh well, I guess the FL needs to stay snow-pure so she could be the mother the little kid needs and leave all the killing (if more is needed) to side-charas or her husband. Or stuff. *sigh*. It started out so well. And even went on so well... until the writer discovered 'shrooms, or something. I guess he just forgot about the FL's hairpin...

Song Mo, any time the baby does ANYTHING: "Look, look, he OPENED HIS EYES!!!" ~Amaaaaazing~~~~~ or "Look, look, he just burped!!"

No seriously, he's cute. (And Lin YunRui is drop-dead gorgeous, both white and black-haired. I don't care, I'm watching Rebirth even if it's a remake and I don't understand anything, if only for him :D

But WHY did he run away?!! He's the Gordon Ramsay of killers, he KNOWS how to take the knife from her... WHY IS HE FREAKING RUNNING?!

Writer... make it make sense, LOL.

And they would have used those crossbows too but sadly bamboo got in the way. And they were out-ridden and out-smarted by some undisciplined girl (with no crossbow) who teleported there for plot reasons.

I guess Storm Troopers don't really belong just in a galaxy far far away...

TBH I quite disliked the father, and it's not just the character. Or if it was, then that one's a great actor, but he gave me the ick through the whole series, including (and especially) when in a scene with YuShan. Like creepy-crawlers on my skin. That's not how a father, close or distant, acts or talks around his daughter, WTF.

Nah, this (the ending anyway) doesn't compare to Blossom. Just found the novel and skip-reading things that weren't in the drama, Song Mo is terribly cute BTW, I recommend the novel (or at least those chapters not really covered in the drama).

Not just the horse just happening to exist there right when she needed to escape, but she also from all roads available to flee, she picked precisely the one who led her to HanYan being in need of a rescue ('cause of course we couldn't have her be rescued by actual soldiers who freaking should know what they're doing) AND she suddenly decided now it's time to save her half-sis that she detested enough some two eps back to marry to a man she KNEW wasn't any good... And then take her order/command/request to go BACK into the city (where her husband is supposedly looking for her) and even to the palace, like...

... I really would like to know what the writer was smoking when he was writing the last 7-8 eps.

The MOST infuriating scene in the last part, TBH, is HanYan barely managing to get inside the prison to pry off some helpful info from YunXi to save his life, but instead they're busy declaring their love, him finally telling her he's dying by poison, also "pushing her away for her own good" and she trying to use reverse psychology on him like a middle-schooler ("if you don't want to live, I won't be there for your family" - girl, puhleeze.)

So, I myself am a woman, but this got really cringey by the end.

Like... what the actual f!ck is all that emasculation of all male characters AND the girl-boss-power switch around ep 23 or so?! From mysterious, broody and secretive, FYX suddenly became passive, useless and always a step behind anything happening. In front of her mother's tomb in the epilogue he says "though I'm so dumb I'll try to protect her" - like WTAF?! He was always three steps ahead of her until the writer decided he wanted a girl-boss.

Then the genre switched from hatred-fueled revenge displaying intelligent kind of really hard/strong charas to basically costume melodrama.

All the women in the story got redemption arcs, people who were in it for two seconds in the first arcs suddenly get together and help the FL when she's down (AGAIN) because in patriarchal Confucianist ancient China suddenly men are irrelevant and women can do anything and declare it all out in the open. No but seriously WHY?? It was working very well before they decided to change it, and for what?!

All her plans were missing the final execution needed to succeed, her father always found a scapegoat - ALWAYS, she was befuddled and striking in all directions at once, and then suddenly things moved really really fast, we got expositions of what went down and not a single scene to show anything actually taking place, and instead of seeing the actual defeat of villains, we're "treated" to yet ANOTHER misunderstanding between FL and ML, yet ANOTHER plot-switch from the father, outside of focus, making anyone else the culprit, like... But in the end all's well that ends well, or something. Because they love each other and she - instead of skinning the bastard father alive, chooses to live and let live??! WHY the f!ck?! Like, did the writer forget who he was writing about, or did they actually change writers mid-filming?!

I'm a little frustrated TBH.

I was ready to say this is CDL's best role yet, but right now I'm disinclined to do so. The first 2/3rds of the story's HanYan - yes, that's great. The last part is a total mess.

Anyway, it was fun while it lasted. The soundtrack was good - the ending song reminded me of TTEOTM's OST, LOL, and the BGM reminded me - a lot - of The Embers' OST. Since there's no one credited with the OST writing in here, I guess I'll be looking for some info elsewhere. I wish Xin YunLai gets another chance at costume drama where's he's allowed to show anything else than a stern and unflinching face and at least SOME actual normal-human dialogue in the final parts of it, since he didn't get that chance here.

PS So, let's all just pretend Zhuang ShiYang really COULDN'T have taken that knife from his concubine, because he never spent his whole life in a kitchen around knives and he has zero idea how to use one. And oooooh, he's SO afraid of his wife because of reasons. Like, no... SERIOUSLY?!

SMDH

PPS What was that strange nothing-related Zhang KangLe and the other actress cameo in the middle of things? They got names and all, for just about one minute of story. Is Rebirth produced by this same team and/or company or something, LOL?

TBH this is kind of the first time ever I watched a not-BE epilogue of a cdrama in 2x speed.

I really liked the first 2/3rds of the drama, then something happened and the latter 1/3 basically blew the landing. Still, the first 2/3rds of the drama are intense and tightly written, so I guess it deserves a good rating, if only for that.

Thank you! Let's hope they keep the spirit of the novel's ending even if not the actual ending, and it's a HEA :)

He got all the gold and other treasure from being the adopted son of the dead eunuch. Now all he wants is to drive away the ghosts and not get found out.

Nobody saw that gold, LOL, not even FYX.

After the Pei partisans were removed from the court, I guess it's now just the two adopted sons - the real one and the undercover lost spy.

I think he'll get dead somehow, I haven't read the novel so I've no idea on that...

But the grandma didn't know the skeleton had been dug up. And they presented Yuwen's findings in the courtroom, he might think it was all Yuwen, FYX and HanYan.

Is he also poisoned in the novel? And if so, do they find an antidote in time or is it a BE?