I think I developed a crippling addiction to rewatching this drama's trailer... Like seriously, they can't just drop a banger concept and then make a bitch wait.
Adaptation of Jin Yong's novel? Sign me tf up. He's the grandfather of wuxia genre so if they did his 'The Smiling, Proud Wanderer' justice, it would be worth a watch. Although I have to admit that I'm not really fond of Dongfang Bubai being played by women (the actress seems good though so nothing against her), it has happened in the past adaptions, but it doesn't quite scratch the itch. A feminine woman isn't same as a flamboyant guy, as you can obviously find the former much more easily in cdramas. Sometimes characters that are rarer, are more interesting to watch. Ding Yuxi stole the show when he played him in one of the adaptions, this alone speaks for itself.
Bubai was interesting to the core and a fresh character concept not only for its time, but even now. He was an eunuch who castrated himself to practice the sunflower manual, that's how dedicated he was to cultivation and his loyalty to his skills always earned him respect even from his enemies, while his looks were described as androgynous and rigid ancient beliefs regarding homosexuality were still applied to him (to make sure that there's some sort of 'explanation' behind him having a gay lover, an 'explanation' that won't bother those who are otherwise not accepting of same-sex relationships or individuals, Jin Yong's tactic made even those people adore him) but he was still very much a guy, and a whole gay icon lol. Perhaps, they're going to contain romance in this drama so they had to make him female since we all know how the censorship is like. I feel like they might even refer to him as a woman altogether, but I wonder what they'll do with the sunflower manual thing if they did this.
Either way, I'm intrigued and looking forward to this drama. Mainly because Bubai is in the main role, despite the fact that he appeared in only one chapter in the novel.
Correct me if I'm wrong since I'd love to have a (friendly) discussion and I watched it at 3am with only 3 of my braincells alive yesterday, but did anyone else notice how floor 8 figured out some things so quickly and withheld information from all of them? During the flashback to her first day, it was shown that she burned her original stuff after changing into the game outfit, then checked it and everything was gone. They could've solved the poop problem through this — just burn it, the door closes by itself so you won't have to bear with the stench of burning feces, and you're done. No poop to store inside your room, or anyone else's room for that matter.
But she never told anyone about this, because she wanted someone among them to suffer, to make them think that they're 'bottom of the barrel' and have to store her own and others' feces in the same room they eat, live, and sleep in. She wanted to bring the hierarchy into the game since day 1. And she knew that they won't be able to do anything to her because the food is delivered to her room (there's no way she didn't realise she got that many bottles and packages because she had to share it — she's manipulative, not stupid), she can and actually did make them starve when she was told to deal with the feces as her room's the biggest. I mean, she literally jacked off while watching everyone suffer when she tortured them. This girl ain't right. Satan tremblingly checks under his bed every night to make sure she isn't there.
I'm loving the amount of death game dramas we've been getting since the past few years! I only remember a handful of movies with this concept in the past but now they're a bit more common. It's one of my favourite concepts. I hope we get season 2 soon or at least more dramas like this one.
I agree 100% this drama felt much more grounded in reality and did a better job with a similar concept, the game itself mirrored real life and even the future — with the price inflation issue. Even the visuals were creative, I especially liked the way they lived in a fake place with fake stuff (and fake people lol), it was like they were dolls in a dollhouse, mere playthings of the rich elites who made the game. Nothing against Squid Game since they did what they could and the only similarity these two share is the difference between rich and poor + money game that exploits the poor's desperation, but I personally liked this drama more.
Same. I get liking the actress and her screen presence because she was amazing, but the character itself was unbearable. I hated her and that psycho man (floor 6 I think?) the most. Not a single redeemable quality in them. Outside, they were dirt poor just like everyone else, and still CHOSE to treat others the same way they've been treated just because they were in the position of power now. I couldn't care less whether there was something genuinely wrong with her brain (that's no excuse, even zombies aren't as cruel as her), there's tons of people with mental health issues and they aren't going around harming people like she does. So why should she get the free pass? It was also obvious that she wasn't as dumb as she pretended to be, she was aware of what she was doing and the consequences of her actions.
I'm still glad a character like her was in this drama though. Because it's not far-fetched to think that some people are pure evil regardless of their background and financial status, they just don't have enough money to act on it but when they do, they turn out like her. As a villain, she was good. But as a human being, she wasn't.
I'm not sorry for the person I'll become when this drama airs, because I know damn well that all of you would be the same. We're about to have a clown reunion.
Floor 8 creating shitty lil artworks because she was 'overwhelmed by emotions' and could 'feel the world's suffering' (the same suffering she inflicted on them) really reminds me of bored rich people who go to poor areas to shoot their poverty porn, dehumanising poor people to the point where they're just mere 'inspiration for muh art' in their eyes, rather than helping or even seeing them as their equals.
Love the way this drama is shot, it's quite fresh. I especially liked the hallucination scene in ep 7 — everything was just so overwhelming, it felt like a bad drug trip.
its good but AM I THE ONLY WHO FEELS THAT THE FL ACTING GIVES SO CRINGY VIBES 😶😶
It's probably her character, that's often the case in age-gap dramas. The older person is shown as immature or childish and the younger as 'mature for their age.'
Nothing. Some people just got a phd in Delusion from the Delulu University and they can't wait to show it off in the comment section. After all, even getting into that university is tough, but acting like you know a person through something as shallow as entirely basing it on their appearance and 'vibes' makes it no mystery why someone was chosen.
The MC and by the Emperor of Northern Qi/Zhan Dou Dou. When her gender began to get questioned by others, she drugged Fan Xian with the help of Haitang Duo Duo and Si Li Li (both of them know her secret and are loyal to their kingdom, that's the reason why Haitang never ended up with the MC) to get pregnant herself and make others believe that she's a man through showing them a child. Zhan Duo Duo then married Shi Li Li as imperial noble consort and announced the child as theirs (and that Shi Li Li carried it). Fan Xian only found out about the child quite late into the story.
Not only was it a terrible thing to do, it also made no sense because if Zhan Duo Duo was going to claim that Si Li Li carried the child, she could've told her to seduce him and get pregnant (Fan Xian and Si Li Li even had a small 'romantic' subplot, he mistakenly thought it was Si Li Li who drugged him and did that to him that night) so it would've been more logical. The only reasons why she didn't do this could only be — either she wanted the child to have her own blood/lineage instead of Si Li Li's or she already had ulterior motives towards the MC.
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Bubai was interesting to the core and a fresh character concept not only for its time, but even now. He was an eunuch who castrated himself to practice the sunflower manual, that's how dedicated he was to cultivation and his loyalty to his skills always earned him respect even from his enemies, while his looks were described as androgynous and rigid ancient beliefs regarding homosexuality were still applied to him (to make sure that there's some sort of 'explanation' behind him having a gay lover, an 'explanation' that won't bother those who are otherwise not accepting of same-sex relationships or individuals, Jin Yong's tactic made even those people adore him) but he was still very much a guy, and a whole gay icon lol. Perhaps, they're going to contain romance in this drama so they had to make him female since we all know how the censorship is like. I feel like they might even refer to him as a woman altogether, but I wonder what they'll do with the sunflower manual thing if they did this.
Either way, I'm intrigued and looking forward to this drama. Mainly because Bubai is in the main role, despite the fact that he appeared in only one chapter in the novel.
But she never told anyone about this, because she wanted someone among them to suffer, to make them think that they're 'bottom of the barrel' and have to store her own and others' feces in the same room they eat, live, and sleep in. She wanted to bring the hierarchy into the game since day 1. And she knew that they won't be able to do anything to her because the food is delivered to her room (there's no way she didn't realise she got that many bottles and packages because she had to share it — she's manipulative, not stupid), she can and actually did make them starve when she was told to deal with the feces as her room's the biggest. I mean, she literally jacked off while watching everyone suffer when she tortured them. This girl ain't right. Satan tremblingly checks under his bed every night to make sure she isn't there.
I'm still glad a character like her was in this drama though. Because it's not far-fetched to think that some people are pure evil regardless of their background and financial status, they just don't have enough money to act on it but when they do, they turn out like her. As a villain, she was good. But as a human being, she wasn't.
Not only was it a terrible thing to do, it also made no sense because if Zhan Duo Duo was going to claim that Si Li Li carried the child, she could've told her to seduce him and get pregnant (Fan Xian and Si Li Li even had a small 'romantic' subplot, he mistakenly thought it was Si Li Li who drugged him and did that to him that night) so it would've been more logical. The only reasons why she didn't do this could only be — either she wanted the child to have her own blood/lineage instead of Si Li Li's or she already had ulterior motives towards the MC.