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July ~ Nov 2020 iirc.

they haven't filmed them and I'm 90% sure there's no script unless they got someone else to write s2. It's too expensive and too big of a gamble to film all of it at once.

when they ban stuff, they never outright say it though :P

I'd interested in Reset since I like time loop and time travel, and I like the two directors (directed If There is No Tomorrow and Madhouse respectively). I'm a huge daylight fan and tend to watch most of their dramas even though last few years most of them don't really work for me, I liked Surgeons and their Candle in the Tomb though but that's early works I guess. Jing Tian I liked in Rattan, but I'd pass on this tbh. Jin Dong's is a different drama, I think his spy drama might have got a license too, but they are waiting for a slot. Mirror Twin Cities I'm passing on unless there's positive review.

Lei Jiayin have two upcoming dramas too, but they are set in like 70s or something and sound like not my thing. What else, oh Li Gengxi (SSS FL)'s sport drama is airing soon, I believe this one isn't a fluffy romance, and it has Hu Jun, I may or may not watch it. There's hardly historical this year I'm looking forward to tbh, I'll probably watch stuff I missed last year and start classic espionage drama binge or something. Oh right, I have to watch Enemy. oh Hunan TV aired something else instead of Imperial Cuisine (the Yu Zheng historical featuring Xu Kai and Wu Jinyan) rip, not sure if it'll make it for CNY slot, hopefully.

it hasn't started filming yet lol, slated for q1.

Daylight ent's new drama airs the day SSS finish airing, Jing Tian and XWZ have a drama ready to be dropped too, so I think that's next week, Mirror Twin City is probably the week after? waiting for the kids to be home and perfect for CNY slot. Tencent has a Jin Dong drama that has a license slated for CNY too, but it's a tv drama, so idk if it can win the fight for CNY slot.

they just dumped another document today talking about regulating BL dramas so probably not seeing it any time soon unless the platforms want their heads on the chopping board.

hey spoiler tag for people who aren't caught up to current ep yet, please.

DLDL is a bigger IP than SSS, but the donghua does far better. Views DO matter, but there's no real cost estimate for either dramas so you can't really gauge if they made money, and how much money they have to make to make s2.

there's a cultivation (applicable to most xianxia/xiuxian/xuanhuan novels) wikitionary, but it's useless here because SSS doesn't use it. SSS's power level from lowest to highest is rank 9 ~ 1. At 1 there's four realms, Jin Gang (Vajira), Zhi Xuan (idk how to translate this), Tian Xiang (Celestial), and Di Xian (earthly deity?)

JoL share the same producers as MHH, JoL and SSS' producer difference is only on the platform side, JoL's delay is mostly because the script wasn't ready. The scriptwriter's schedule from late 2017 at the least (JoL s1 filming start, likely start writing 2016 cos ZRY had script of first 3 ep when he accepted the project) till mid 2020 (SSS filming start) is JoL s1, Young Blood s1, DLDL s1, SSS s1.

the Rise of Phoenixes (pretty flawed IMO), Advisor Alliance, and for high level of sheming, Ming Dynasty in 1566.

It was planned, the schedule never changed once it got released. It was released pretty late but I put that down to tencent and cctv fighting.

Both my sunshine and love designer are considered romance dramas and the other stuff are all backdrop which isn't quite what this drama is going for.

I wish that too, but i guess it make sense due to how busy they are? They are constantly on work mode, especially ML who's company is in trouble left and right. The drama purposely gave them a vacation so they could get together lol.

I like that dating and business rival conflict with each other, so there's some trust issue going on, and both leads prove they are ruthless when it comes to work, so the trust issues aren't unfound either. I like their push and pull, they are trying to get the upper hand over each other, so even when FL is being somewhat unreasonable, I still like it because she has upper hand and that's so rare in dramas!

It goes lowest to highest, rank 9 ~ 1. Then at 1, it's the four realms. Jin Gang (vajira), Zhi Xuan (??? this is srsly made up), Tian Xiang (celestial), Di Xian (earthly sage?). Most of the really awesome fighters can only get to rank 1 Jin Gang, then they can't advance further. A lot more are stuck like at 3 or 2. Cursory search says Xu Xiao is 2? There's something about real and fake realms but the drama hasn't really introduced that concept.

Sorry for the confusing terms, I only remember the ranks after I talked about the realms lol.

I mostly remember her ignoring or blocking him because he flake out on her for a date, or refuse to tell her things, or she got jealous. I could usually follow her reasoning as well as his, she's a little immature at times, but he can be too so.

This is also a big drama lol, ML is A list and the director is super well known and critically acclaimed.

For happy ending-ish, ep 45 I think. The actors give their best performance around ep 50 but it's angst so up to you.

HAHAHAHA maybe that too, he could just invite his wife to do cameo :P but he's surrounded by girls, so idk if that helps.

oh dear god that does sound like hell.

He had good chemistry with Chen Yao in Wuxin! :D I think he had more chemistry with Li Qin too, but maybe I just can't get over how young Li Gengxi looks, if this was Wang Churan (Serenade of Peaceful Joy's consort), I wouldn't find it so odd, but she might not fit the character, just an example.

He's taking these roles cos JoL was successful and these characters tend to more interesting than the romance dramas, give him more room to showcase his ability and prove his commercial success blah blah. omg feng zhiwei, *sniffs* you are reminding me how much better she could be, alas.