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The chinese title have nothing with to do with ggs1, the english title is probably in case people miss this spinoff.

As for this drama. treat it as an unrelated drama with same names will be for the best. (treat it like JoL and My Heroic Husband maybe) The career is different so team dynamic is bit different, the characterisations are bit different too, since some of the characters retain their novel personality (Ai Qing/appledog and Shen Zhe/grunt for example) compared to GGS. The timeline also doesn't quite match up even if I can vaguely trace it.

GGS the novel is technically the romance spinoff of Gun/HSY. This one's source novel is the main story, but its core plot (all the gaming bits and flashback) was taken and fused into GGS. So this drama adapted the remaining bits they didn't adapt + its prequel + romance, and added some original bits. So a lot of people have hard time reconciling the two and expecting something fairly different from what the drama is.

they are out for vvip/on demand.

yeah it's mostly due to comparison and there's significant characterisation and cast change, when some of the characterisation + events are straight from the novel that s1 ommitted, ah well. I haven't seen the ending yet, but i rather like the otp to be honest, little iffy on the slow start (too much romance for me honestly LOL)

the drama was filmed last year, same time as SSS, it's by the same production company, thus some of the familiar supporting characters.

they dropped 8 ep on the first day, 2 eps after, then they added wednesday to the update schedule, so that's why you have 20.

Pretty sure they did it on purpose to cash out on JoL while waiting for SSS and JoL s2, SSS should come out at the end of the year, JoL s2 is still waiting to be filmed. Both Xinli (production company) and yuewen (ip holder) purposely do this for ip development purposes. I'm pretty sure tencent didn't expect this to be popular considering its investment level isn't that high, but it ended up being popular anyways.

Anyways, just pass on it and wait Sword Snow Stride with Zhang Ruoyun :)

it's regular release schedule for a webdrama, they just didn't utilise the chinese new years period well when they should have. do you need subs, if you don't, there should be all episodes out today, since vvip/on demand ep get the last 10 ep in about 3 hours. if you do, come back in a week or two.

Ai Qing is meant to be 3 years older, the actress they cast last time is technically the right age but she looks too old (she looked kind of old next to Hu Ge who's several years older than her so eh), her characterisation was off last time too.

I do find the pacing little on the slow side, and i'm not a fan of this director, but i still like the drama alright, probably because I like Ai Qing more than Tong Nian (Yang Zi is great, the drama made TN better, but she still frustrated me when she basically revolved around the ML)

yes, tencent started it but iqiyi, youku and mangotv all do it with their dramas. the platforms are using price discrimination to maximise their profit.

the plot is fairly predictable but scorpion in bed is pretty specific, i'm guessing deja vu, sincet the book is pretty different from the drama too mhm.

no, not a remake. it does use a lot of common tropes though so might be that?

yes

ggs 2 is a bigger project than his other dramas though, wait unrequited love is decent ip but the novel is difficult to adapt, it's also one of the more promising projects for li yitong. Lower expectation is just better in general i think.

this one might be to maintain popularity in face of all the new dramas coming out, dt appledog's time might be from it losing popularity, they should have gave more updates during chinese new years for that one,

I haven't seen navi/nan wei appear in this series yet, but afaik Dimash is not involved with this drama. The person that portrayed navi/nan wei in GGS is Mohammadjavad Estilaf from Iran, he's popular regular from Hubei TV's Informal Talks (it's a variety show about cultural differences of different countries) and occasionally do cameos in dramas.

That's a great attitude! I generally don't mind sad ending too as long as they are well done, but I know lot of people that get upset at them.

Hope you enjoy the remaining bits of the drama, and feel free to stop after 63 if you don't want to see the horrific butchered last arc lol.

there's multiple parities of cnetizens and the background is chinese society in general is still fairly misognystic, both overtly and subtly, and there's been fight back lately. With feminism booming, there's people using it to cash out, there's people smearing it, there's people that's more sensitive will speak up and then there's people that will cry feminazi at every turn.

I personally think that what he said was mostly benign but just dumb thing to say, just like I think it's dumb to jump out and go "not all men" because someone talk about feeling harrassed. You also have to note that this novel is about matrilocal husband who end up starting a harem, it's not just a regular male fantasy, some people see it as using his wife's family and resources to build said fantasy, it makes it extra icky. There's people that further extrapolate it to men in real life targeting only daughters for her inheritance (this is a thing, it doesn't happen super often, but it's a thing)

The fact the drama made it much more feminist can't hide the harem core and blatant male fantasy to some people. (Male fantasy is all well and fine, but female fantasy gets criticised for being mary sue over and over again so some people are indignant about the different treatments.) There are a lot of little things like that that makes reaction more understandable and it's only the vocal subset of weibo and douban, so the more vocal bit of c-ent (which is generally mostly young women). It doesn't really stop the drama from becoming popular since it's decent, it mostly just suppress online discussion and promotion focus is shift onto douyin.

GGS is a romance spinoff of gun's so it's related, and timeline wise it interwines with fish playing while in secret room, but it starts later than fish and finish earlier than fish.

ohhh i hope she enjoys it too then hahaha. when it's busy it's definitely easier to watch light dramas that doesn't need you to pay too much attention.