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I'm so dissapointed in Ling Xi right now, I feel they have ruined her character a bit. She is acting like a irrational mad crazy woman. Such a huge bratty bitch! She is in her 20s but acts like a 8 year old. I can't believe she went to the office and started accusing Bai Yi Ling (screaming mean things to her etc) in front of everyone and throwing papers and such on the floor. Like seriously!?? I get that she is heartbroken cuz Zheng Li basically rejected her but that doesn't mean she is allowed to act like that. Such a immature person Ling Xi is! Such a huge embarrassment... She has lots of apolopy to do. I hope she will grow up and become less self-centered.

I would have been more interested in this drama if they needed to keep warm (lots of skinship then) instead of having having to keep cool.

Ah ok, thank you for the explanation :)

Yeah, I think actors need to speak standard mandarin perfectly without accent in order not to get their voices dubbed in chinese dramas. Yang Zi's voice isn't dubbed (I think) because she is from beijing, where they speak standard mandarin (so she can speak standard mandarin perfectly without accent) while Ray Ma is from another city, Idk if mandarin is the official language there , even if it is he will have a accent when speaking standard mandarin (I think standard mandarin is only spoken in Beijing and places nearby) . If mandarin isn't the official language from his hometown, Ray Mo still can speak mandarin, because it's a mandatory for all chinese people to be able to speak mandarin. .. but as I said, when speaking standard mandarin he obviously speaks with accent (otherwise they wouldn't get his voice dubbed)

All actors, no matter how good their mandarin is, if they speak standard mandarin with accent, they will have their voices dubbed. It can be difficult for some to understand everything one with accent is saying... so that's the main reason why they dub actors voices (those with accent) so that everyone who watches dramas will be able to understand everything they are saying... If I'm not mistaken, someone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong :)

Can't wait for this~
It's nice to watch for a change a romantic drama with the main actor and main actress being older (not in the 20s/early 30s like in so many other romantic dramas), love is not only for the young people... but then again, I don't know if in this drama they will be around the same age as they are IRL or if they will be younger adults. Neverthless I still look forward to this drama!! Yay, Ha Ji Won is the female lead, I really like her! :)
But I need to be emotionally prepared because the screenwriter is no other than Lee Kyung Hee who is known for her dramas being tragic... Btw, the director of this drama is Lee Hyung Min , also director of the famous classic "I'm Sorry, I Love You", written by Lee Kyung Hee. "Chocolate" is their third work together (their last work which is "I'm Sorry, I Love You" , from 15 years ago) So most likely this drama will be VERY good and get high ratings/viewership in S. Korea! :)

I really hope the main characters will act their age (behave maturely, so no aegyo please). Overall I hope for a really mature feel to this drama and that the main couple will have a mature, adult-like relationship, because after all they're IRL 40/41 years old (in a not too far future they're middle age) So I would cringe if Yoon Kye Sang and Ha Ji Won's characters acted cutesy and acted like teenagers in love, freaking out from simply holding hands, kissing or hugging (which is so common in korean dramas, at least it's so common if its teenagers to people in their early 20s). I hope for lots of natural skinship between the OTP with real, passionate kisses, this drama is gonna air on a cable channel, therefore there is big possibility for that. Hopefully they will act like a real life couple around their age would.
Sorry for my long rant xD I'm just soooo excited for this drama!!

Yeah and a ghost behind the window, also a ghost's hand on the floor... oh, and marks of hands on the wall~ There is also some cracks on the floor and wall.

I came across one of Dae Kyung (Eric Mun) and Hae Young (Seo Hyun Jin) kiss scenes on youtube, which was the main reason l decided to watch this drama cuz the kisses (especially in ep 9) was one of the best l ever seen in kdrama! Anyway l like Another miss oh despite Seo Hyun Jin's character being sometimes so annoying /doing some over-the-top things, but generally I really felt sorry for her character, cuz she was always by everyone seen as inferior in every way to the other Oh Hae Young (Jeon Hye Bin)... I get it, l would have had such low esteem /feeling hurt too if l was always being compared to another woman with same name and surname where everyone sees her as Godness while l'm seen as "trash".... So while Seo Hyun Jin's oh hae young did get on my nerves at times l felt sympathy for her... She felt so REAL... So human, not one of those candy like female leads without any anger, jealousy, resenment etc.. So she was rerfeshing, cuz she was not perfect.. She DID feel anger, jealousy, resentment, which I like cuz it made the character more realistic. Would l recommend this drama? Yes! The chemistry between Eric Mun and Seo Hyun Jin is so great!! Also the secondary couple was nice too and their kissing in ep 17 was just as good as any of the kisses between the lead couple!

Not perfect by any means and not one of my fav dramas, but still way better than the original (korean version). The chemistry betwen the leads here is much better , also more skinship/ more sweet and romantic scenes. The FL is absolutely adorable and feisty, the ML is nicer here than in the original. I hope Mike and Aom will star in drama together again, and this time in a drama that is NOT a remake.

yes plz do so! I'm curious to know what you think of HYD after you seen it :)

Wow really ?? I'm glad I made you want to watch it! :D Its not perfect but I personally enjoyed it ~

Awesome list, I couldn't make a better list than you. If I ever made a top 10 list of my favorite badass female characters I would put Tsukushi Makino from Hana Yori Dango s1 & 2 + the final movie on the list. It's one of the Boys over flowers adaptions based from a popular manga... meteor garden(taiwan), hana yori dango(japan), boys over flowers(korea), meteor garden 2018(china). Anyways I have only seen the japanese and taiwanese version, I like the japanese version better... I watched HYD during my younger teens and its one of the first dramas I seen, so it will always have a Special place in my heart and I think Makino is really awesome.

She is so strong and won't take any crap from anyone, she stands up against the bullies and stands up for those she cares. Also when she kicks the ML at the beginning is very cool :) Makino never gets weak as the drama goes on (which sadly happens in many other dramas), she stays strong until the end.. She won't even take any crap from the ML's mom, which I find refreshing. I just find Makino very admirable, she is also charming and has lots sympathy /empathy and never gets bitchy,but still is cool af! Maybe HYD is "childish" but to this date Makino is one of my favorite female characters in dramaland! I haven't bothered watching the korean version despite its huge popularity because of what I heard about the female lead Jan Di, she seems to be much weaker than Makino.. As for the chinese version, I read lots of negative comments about it and that the female lead there is not really that awesome either. Maybe I should still watch those and not let comments affect me so much, but idk... I don't have any interest as for now to watch those... Who knows Maybe in the future. Anyways I enjoyed reading your very insightful post! :)

Oh nice :) same here, I only cared about AePete and TinCan too.

Anatheia ooh I didn't see until now that you are currently watching LBC. Enjoy watching ~

I have no idea either why some find it hot... And I agree, shouldn't definitely be romanticized. I don't mind rape in shows - as long as they don't romanticize,but instead that they actually show it as something terrible and problematic. But seems so common in asian BL having rape (and it being seen as "romantic" ) ... I hope as you that in the future asian BL will represent more healthy relationships (I have no idea how common rape is in western BL but I guess not as common as in asian BL...)
Also some nice spoilers about LBC *don't read from here if you don't want to be spoiled:)





The main couple has a very beautiful relationship, and their first time is 100% consensual.., the "seme" Ae even avoids at first having sex with the "uke" Pete (even though he wants to have sex with Pete so badly) 'cuz he is afraid that Pete will get hurt..but Pete assures Ae that he wants to have sex with him. More BL couples should have like that too, making sure with each other that both wants sex equally as much ... :)

LBC is a wonderful show overall so you should definitely still watch:) The show includes 2 wonderful couples... Ae and Pete (the main couple), Tin and Can (the secondary couple which is the most popular couple in this show.)

The last ep, ep 14, I watched the scene and it made me feel discomfortable, one of the reasons I couldn't give LBC 10/10. A lots of people fond the scene so hot, but I fond it anything but hot.

The first half was so good but then in second half it started getting a bit slow and annoying IMO. Well all in all it was a good read, its the first BL novel I ever read anyways. Good but not mind blowing aweaome...I look forward to this drama, maybe OffGun can potray the feelings/emotions so well that I come to love the drama more than the novel...

apparently to the writers, realism = when in relationship one of the partners will always cheat at least once in their lifetime towards their lifetime partner. B*LLSHIT I say! Is cheating supposed to be a final test or smth ?? like if you truly love your cheating partner, u will forgive him/ her , otherwhise you never truly loved him/ her ?? IMO you can forgive your partner most of things - except for cheating, murder or abuse, etc. I'm not looking down on those who forgave their cheating partners, absolutely not! I'm just saying that if the writers thinks that you don't truly love your partner for not wanting to be with him/ her after he/ she cheated on you, well they are clearly dumb then... You can truly love your cheating partner even if u dont take him/ her back, just means you have self respect and know u deserve better :)

Some say Korn was on drugs hence he cheated on Knock, but I don't know...Neverthless, they ruined one of my fav BL ships :/ I cannot stand cheating, maybe - just maybe - if Korn was heavily drugged, without his knowledge - I MIGHT have given him a pass, but it was never cleared out if he was on drugs or not

If this had been only about Ae/Pete and Tin/Can I might have given it 10/10. I fond the 2 side couples Kengkla/Techno and Tum/Tar completely pointless and whenever they appeared it felt like I was watching another show. Zero development (I know I know, LBC had planned for a second season , so those 2 side couples would probably gotten more development/more screentime...) My biggest problem however is the romanticization of rape/attempt rape and manipulation...

I know LBC is based on a novel , it makes no sense to me... The author created Ae/Pete, where they had consensual sex , Ae even put Pete's well being over his own desires and made sure Pete really wanted to have sex with him (which is very admirable!) So I thought here is a author who is against rape/ attempt rape but I was wrong. Kengkla raped and manipulated Techno, I felt very uncomfortable watching the rape and morning after scene, was I supposed to be turned on by the rape and was I supposed to find the morning after funny when Kengkla manipulated Techno? Because I didn't the slightest, all I felt was disgust. Kengkla is a horrible human being, I could never root for him as a character, so there is no way I could ever come to like him and Techno as a pair. And then we have Tum and Tar, poor Tar was once gang raped and then Tur - who seemed all nice - turned to a completely different person and tried to rape Tar, like wtf???

It makes zero sense to me why the author who created 2 wonderful main couples (Ae/Pete and Tin/Can) - that are pretty healthy relationships in BL standard - had to create 2 dysfunctional creepy side couples (Kengkla/Techno and Tum/Tar) , sometimes I wonder if its really the same author who created AePete and TinCan who also created the 2 side couples lol.

okay, sorry for my ramblings and I'm sorry if someone was offended, this is just MY opinion.Apart from KengklaTechno and TumTar I fond this show very lovely :)

I'm reading the novel meanwhile waiting for this drama to be out. And I'm in love with the novel, its such a emotional roller coaster! Now I am even more hyped about the drama!!! I know there will be some uuhmm scenes from the novel that will be cutt out from the drama lol, but I really hope they don't cutt out one particular scene (I dont wanna spoil which one) because its a very important scene... The novel has some surprising twist and turns :D such a great novel!

for anyone interested in the novel here you can read it translated in english (by the amazing Summerhula! not all chapters are yet out in english. anyway here is the link

http://summerhula2018.blogspot.com/2018/12/theory-of-love-chapter-1_26.html

Now that I think about it, I think that in Our Skyy we get to see the TRUE Arthit, in Sotus he was hiding his soft loving side because he was the head hazer. In Sotus S he was hiding it because of fear of what people would think about him being in gay relationship. But now,, in Our Skyy Arthit can finally be his True self, because he is not a head hazer anymore nor is he anymore afraid of what others will think of him. :) I love this Arthit the most <3