After ALL that waiting, waiting, starving, dieting, belt tightening on belly for the feast of AaSoL .. I lost SO much Drama-weight (feel free to make any sense of that phrase LOL - will share mine if anyone is curious ;-p)
Drama has crept along noiseless and smooth as a snail, lulling me into that blissful state of cross-eyed dozing.. The FL is a delicate, tissue thin, sugary-sweet fairy; headache-y sweet, she moves through the show with least amount of air displacement... her lips part to release wispy dandelion seeds instead of words .. her Bambi eyes are always headlight-stricken
(Hey no cussing!! I LOVED Bambi and wept a pond .. and I love bambinos too).
(Something flew past me .. cawing .. Tan Tai Jin I'll KILL YOU) (TTJ You've already disrupted my Drama-life ENOUGH .. like for a lifetime)
Wu Lei is so sinfully, GOD-handsome, that after a while your eyes will glaze over until your head splits, and you want to unscrew your skull and dunk it in ice-cold water to wake up; and then chew on ice-cubes ... Episode after episode)
This treacly flow of gooey - sticky - honey and maple syrup.. A slow, wagon-spilling trail of endless sugar, and jaw-sticky candy.. Not a dot of salty, sour, no tinge of tangy, or pinch of pungent contaminant to spoil it all ..
Nothing breaks the texture of its rich, smooth, gloopy, glue crawl; a viscous stream of shininess reflecting rainbows of feelz and squees.
(WHOOSH .. was that the sound of some projectile barely missing my ears - Liu Shi Shi can aim right at my heart )
Not even a change in temperature - this thermostat controlled perfect warmth.. Undisturbed by any chilly breeze, gust of dry heat or arctic freeze This comfort of a "panic room" safety has no smell to recoil from ..
This cocoon wrapped haven, and a soundless sucking out the air .. WOW! One could FAINT here in slow motion ... and then DIE in slow motion.. Painlessly, noiselessly, almost until the last gasp; and BooM!!
Self preservation kicks in.. And I reach for the remote before I flatline .. speed-scrolling on screen so fast .. I pant : Where is my the Devil God, where are all His Evil Weapons? Where is the paddle 240 volts? OST blaring Demoniac level, as black Dragon drawn chariot races across a blood-red and gold sky.. Heart pounds back to life, as the face, that launched a thousand Xianxia-loving shippers, looms; blazing eyes, in all his dark cape billowing grandness - we can be resurrected from deathly slumber ??? ??? (Bwa ha ha ha) Phew!!
EXCEPT .. Darn .. I haven't moved a limb .. Episodes after episode on autoplay waltzes by right in front of me, winking? Grimacing?
I don't know what to say.. I have no opinion I think. And yet I do.. I do ..
Since I DID get out before the cobwebs got me. The spiders tickled me awake from this charmed bewitchment .. Screaming : Gimme back my Ling Buyi.. You Lin!! Gimme one chubby-cheeked, Niao Niao; some sweet, sour, salty, minty, chillie flavoured FLs (with a dash of bitters) to break the mono-flavour, the uni-feelz.
I am now silent-shrieking Till the End of the Moon and Back .. I love you not?? I imagine I spiralling away, dazed by Love Like the Galaxy .. Looking at Lin and wondering when did he pluck out Ling Buyi's eyes and wear them for this Drama .. CHEATER!!
Drama works, OF COURSE .. SO SO WELL ... And works ... and works ... and then me is the one that dies of exhaustion. WHY??
I starved and waited for you .. did'ja hafta to kill me?
(Duck Duck Duck there comes a smelly sock smack on my face .. and banana peel too? Egg cracking yolk dripping?)
(BOLDLY marching on me Tin Soldier or NutCracker? pick your toy)
I am too damaged by the larger than life Spice Queens, mind-bending, heart twisting.. Siren singing.. femme fatals .. Damaged by flawed, jagged, dented landscapes where Stories and Characters settle in uneven layers of grey, of charcoal black and snow white too. The Dwarves are ugly and Apples have poison. The sand, the pebbles, the grit and stones did their carving too.
Then there is AaSoL : galloping away with riches from a broad daylight robbery right in front of me .. ALL the CHARM, the SEXY, the FOXY, the oomph of ALL Cdramas was stolen?? That's what left so many of those other Romances looking dry and lip-pinched; soul-less, and hungry hollowed; bereft of chemistry, physics, biology too?? They left us lost and wandering some Stygian maze looking for "kisses .. glances .. hugs .. caresses" YEAH AaSoL .. "open sesame" you hid them here in your magic cave, you robbed 'em all for your own ends; this wicked cornucopia of FEELZ and FLUTTERS!!
Should I salute you .. Uh Huh .. absolutely.
Am I completely drunk on AsSoL's sweet liquor, and fuddling up metaphors - happens when your brain has leaked into the manipulative hands of the Wizard of Drama's Oz
Singularity anyone? That SINGLE point of HOTNESS : is an ML riding on a pair of come-hither eyes, a cleft chin you want to drown in; hitched to a camera disguised as a Seduction machine (Tell me now, which angle has been left unused from the 360 degrees of circling a face and body)
Oh Drama be generous! And dribble some of the luscious fat, plop some pudding and melt some marshmallows onto the aridity that rules the rest of Romantic Dramaverse, in general ..
In turn .. HEAR HEAR .. you can barter your bounty : ~ for a truckload of Tension (comfort be damned, tighten the wires for cutting); ~ load a large tank of wit and humour (smiles are great but guffaws make a cheery noise); ~ a few sacks of soot and one of chalk (to mix shades of grey, those rainbows will rise higher and shine brighter); ~ a pot of bitters (to refresh the mood, awaken the tear ducts, theaftertaste will be sweeter than sweet).
Anyone? Still reading this muddy mushy word mess?
oOOOpS .. "I hear the thunder"
I see a truck hurtling right at me .. speeding up now .. AaSoL-hippers aboard waving machetes .. One curvaceous 8.8 figure wiggling its hips on the dashboard ..
"But I am just one of you .. I BELONG in this damned DramaWorld .. and feel a little fooled and cheated occasionally .. "
Drama threw me in the ditch .. Oh they SO often do .. Even when I plead for fogiveness.
Rejection hurts!! I feel like a sad old wheezing geezer ..
🤪I too started this Sunday .. and have spent more time commenting since then than watching ha ha ha ..Curious…
LOL .. The exquisiteness of pain .. The eye-aching candy ... This head-splitting spotlessness Suffocation in fresh laundry .. This falling and lying in a cold, muddy mess, exhausted yet looking at the brightest of moons on the clearest of milky white nights .. and wondering .. what the heck am I doing here ;-p
HL had a lot SUPER young audience mainly because how it was set up. I don't think ASSOL was geared towards this…
Nicely summed up ..
~ "purely romance drama which very high concentration on two leads only" ~ "This drama is also for pure romantic only, not for those people who obsess with plots"
Only grown ups respond please lmao. Is this drama actually good or is it "good" like Hidden Love where it's cute…
:-D
I came away with the same impression : the show would have swept me off of my feet in my teens and early (college freshman year) twenties.
Hidden Love had elements that synced and vibed immensely for me ...
WHY this ping and no ping happens for Asian Drama viewers has been a sustained mystery for me, with some Dramas creating serious polarisations and some a unified wave of glory with just a smattering of disinterested and DROPPER crowds on the edges.
I’m only at ep.4 so i don’t know is it too early to judge but the ML is too emotionless and it is frustrating…
LOL .. Oh Dear .. ML is anything BUT .. ALL HUGE EARS .. African elephant Ears (Indian Elephants have small ears) to hear every single petal she drops .. breath she takes .. He can literally smell her a mile away Ha ha ha .. (carrying the animal metaphor along)
Those eyes of his are literally READING every blink of her eye, twitch of her brow, and quiver of her lips ..
Someone said it in the comments. These are two 'damned introverts' .. two clams knocking on each other's shells .. SO YEAH .. it could look 'emotionless' from that angle.
EXCEPT ......... Wu Lei and 'emotionless' don't belong in the same basket Ha ha ha
Right? Like, he doesn't even need to say anything if he wants to flirt. He can just let his eyes do all the talking…
LOL Lin "flirting"?
IMO I don't think Lin's character was drawn as a 'flirt' he is SINCERE AND OPEN in his attention and his deep looks are natural and he's not seen aware that he has that look on his face. He's as plain as a spade person (with the most DEVASTATINGLY HANDSOME FACE) and doesn't play games ..
And yet FL didn't pick up on the fact that 'he's into her' BLIMEY .. What a waste of "longing looks" LOL
How protected was her life? Or was she completely Isolated from her peers and friends?? Such that she did not experience flocks of males pursuing her, given HOW good looking AND talented she is. She'd be flooded with all kinds of pursuers .. older and younger and same age too ;-p
Plus, unless she is just 15 / 16 y.o. and barely beginning to get used to adolescents chasing her and confessing to her; it doesn't explain her cluelessness about male interest .. Even if it's about being on alert and alarmed if its an unwanted interest.
She is 21 (I think she is 6 years younger than ML in Drama?) )here and still writer (and director) has portrayed her as a 'naive, innocent, bambini' who is blind to the fact that a guy has the MOST BLATANT hots for her . ROFL.
Well go break your hearts gal viewers ..
This Missy was grown on a rose scented petal and never met an earnest Bumble Bee ever in her life.
(Even 15 y.o. Juliet knew Romeo was INTO her through his masked eyes LOL and she was no less sweet naive innocent in that other tale of "First Love at first Lock Eyes" .. OK OK .. that was a tragedy .. this one skirts away and goes to a safer ending)
You'll find it as one of the latest entries today on the main thread
After ALL that waiting, waiting, starving, dieting, belt tightening on belly for the feast of AaSoL ..
I lost SO much Drama-weight (feel free to make any sense of that phrase LOL - will share mine if anyone is curious ;-p)
Drama has crept along noiseless and smooth as a snail, lulling me into that blissful state of cross-eyed dozing..
The FL is a delicate, tissue thin, sugary-sweet fairy; headache-y sweet, she moves through the show with least amount of air displacement... her lips part to release wispy dandelion seeds instead of words .. her Bambi eyes are always headlight-stricken
(Hey no cussing!! I LOVED Bambi and wept a pond .. and I love bambinos too).
(Something flew past me .. cawing .. Tan Tai Jin I'll KILL YOU)
(TTJ You've already disrupted my Drama-life ENOUGH .. like for a lifetime)
Wu Lei is so sinfully, GOD-handsome, that after a while your eyes will glaze over until your head splits, and you want to unscrew your skull and dunk it in ice-cold water to wake up; and then chew on ice-cubes ... Episode after episode)
This treacly flow of gooey - sticky - honey and maple syrup..
A slow, wagon-spilling trail of endless sugar, and jaw-sticky candy..
Not a dot of salty, sour, no tinge of tangy, or pinch of pungent contaminant to spoil it all ..
Nothing breaks the texture of its rich, smooth, gloopy, glue crawl; a viscous stream of shininess reflecting rainbows of feelz and squees.
(WHOOSH .. was that the sound of some projectile barely missing my ears - Liu Shi Shi can aim right at my heart )
Not even a change in temperature - this thermostat controlled perfect warmth..
Undisturbed by any chilly breeze, gust of dry heat or arctic freeze
This comfort of a "panic room" safety has no smell to recoil from ..
This cocoon wrapped haven, and a soundless sucking out the air ..
WOW!
One could FAINT here in slow motion ... and then DIE in slow motion..
Painlessly, noiselessly, almost until the last gasp; and BooM!!
Self preservation kicks in..
And I reach for the remote before I flatline .. speed-scrolling on screen so fast ..
I pant : Where is my the Devil God, where are all His Evil Weapons? Where is the paddle 240 volts?
OST blaring Demoniac level, as black Dragon drawn chariot races across a blood-red and gold sky..
Heart pounds back to life, as the face, that launched a thousand Xianxia-loving shippers, looms; blazing eyes, in all his dark cape billowing grandness - we can be resurrected from deathly slumber ???
??? (Bwa ha ha ha)
Phew!!
EXCEPT .. Darn .. I haven't moved a limb .. Episodes after episode on autoplay waltzes by right in front of me, winking? Grimacing?
I don't know what to say..
I have no opinion I think.
And yet I do.. I do ..
Since I DID get out before the cobwebs got me. The spiders tickled me awake from this charmed bewitchment ..
Screaming : Gimme back my Ling Buyi.. You Lin!!
Gimme one chubby-cheeked, Niao Niao; some sweet, sour, salty, minty, chillie flavoured FLs (with a dash of bitters) to break the mono-flavour, the uni-feelz.
I am now silent-shrieking Till the End of the Moon and Back .. I love you not??
I imagine I spiralling away, dazed by Love Like the Galaxy ..
Looking at Lin and wondering when did he pluck out Ling Buyi's eyes and wear them for this Drama ..
CHEATER!!
Drama works, OF COURSE .. SO SO WELL ... And works ... and works ... and then me is the one that dies of exhaustion. WHY??
I starved and waited for you .. did'ja hafta to kill me?
(Duck Duck Duck there comes a smelly sock smack on my face .. and banana peel too? Egg cracking yolk dripping?)
(BOLDLY marching on me Tin Soldier or NutCracker? pick your toy)
I am too damaged by the larger than life Spice Queens, mind-bending, heart twisting.. Siren singing.. femme fatals ..
Damaged by flawed, jagged, dented landscapes where Stories and Characters settle in uneven layers of grey, of charcoal black and snow white too. The Dwarves are ugly and Apples have poison.
The sand, the pebbles, the grit and stones did their carving too.
Then there is AaSoL : galloping away with riches from a broad daylight robbery right in front of me ..
ALL the CHARM, the SEXY, the FOXY, the oomph of ALL Cdramas was stolen?? That's what left so many of those other Romances looking dry and lip-pinched; soul-less, and hungry hollowed; bereft of chemistry, physics, biology too??
They left us lost and wandering some Stygian maze looking for "kisses .. glances .. hugs .. caresses"
YEAH AaSoL .. "open sesame" you hid them here in your magic cave, you robbed 'em all for your own ends; this wicked cornucopia of FEELZ and FLUTTERS!!
Should I salute you .. Uh Huh .. absolutely.
Am I completely drunk on AsSoL's sweet liquor, and fuddling up metaphors - happens when your brain has leaked into the manipulative hands of the Wizard of Drama's Oz
Singularity anyone?
That SINGLE point of HOTNESS : is an ML riding on a pair of come-hither eyes, a cleft chin you want to drown in; hitched to a camera disguised as a Seduction machine
(Tell me now, which angle has been left unused from the 360 degrees of circling a face and body)
Oh Drama be generous! And dribble some of the luscious fat, plop some pudding and melt some marshmallows onto the aridity that rules the rest of Romantic Dramaverse, in general ..
In turn .. HEAR HEAR .. you can barter your bounty :
~ for a truckload of Tension (comfort be damned, tighten the wires for cutting);
~ load a large tank of wit and humour (smiles are great but guffaws make a cheery noise);
~ a few sacks of soot and one of chalk (to mix shades of grey, those rainbows will rise higher and shine brighter);
~ a pot of bitters (to refresh the mood, awaken the tear ducts, theaftertaste will be sweeter than sweet).
Anyone? Still reading this muddy mushy word mess?
oOOOpS .. "I hear the thunder"
I see a truck hurtling right at me .. speeding up now .. AaSoL-hippers aboard waving machetes ..
One curvaceous 8.8 figure wiggling its hips on the dashboard ..
"But I am just one of you .. I BELONG in this damned DramaWorld .. and feel a little fooled and cheated occasionally .. "
Drama threw me in the ditch ..
Oh they SO often do .. Even when I plead for fogiveness.
Rejection hurts!!
I feel like a sad old wheezing geezer ..
I hear you
Revenge of the Dead-Drops
I hear the phone ringing .. Not going to answer now LOL
Ha ha ha ha .. You are funny!!
The exquisiteness of pain ..
The eye-aching candy ...
This head-splitting spotlessness
Suffocation in fresh laundry ..
This falling and lying in a cold, muddy mess, exhausted yet looking at the brightest of moons on the clearest of milky white nights .. and wondering .. what the heck am I doing here ;-p
Lots of lurkers too polite to break up the AaSoL-shipping party ;-p
I grooved to that Drama HUGELY!!
Chuckled .. bewitched by the 'wickedness' of it ..
That was some 'ace flirting' and 'checking out' all the while balancing the office politics and daily life ..
Superb Script and Acting to translate the nuanced characters and their complex interactions.
BOTH the storyline if 1st and 2nd leads were gripping.
This is possibly the ONE rare drama that I have seen which solely focuses on the MAIN LEADS for 30 eps ..
I echo you X100
I think the question "why" was directed at that .. Why drop it then ?
If it weren't for that FACE .. and THAT ACT .. I'd not have spent much time here past Ep 2-3
I will have to 100 agree with you ..
Did you watch the full Drama? AaSoL I mean.
~ "purely romance drama which very high concentration on two leads only"
~ "This drama is also for pure romantic only, not for those people who obsess with plots"
Agree 100%
I came away with the same impression : the show would have swept me off of my feet in my teens and early (college freshman year) twenties.
Hidden Love had elements that synced and vibed immensely for me ...
WHY this ping and no ping happens for Asian Drama viewers has been a sustained mystery for me, with some Dramas creating serious polarisations and some a unified wave of glory with just a smattering of disinterested and DROPPER crowds on the edges.
Oh Dear ..
ML is anything BUT ..
ALL HUGE EARS .. African elephant Ears (Indian Elephants have small ears) to hear every single petal she drops .. breath she takes ..
He can literally smell her a mile away Ha ha ha .. (carrying the animal metaphor along)
Those eyes of his are literally READING every blink of her eye, twitch of her brow, and quiver of her lips ..
Someone said it in the comments. These are two 'damned introverts' .. two clams knocking on each other's shells .. SO YEAH .. it could look 'emotionless' from that angle.
EXCEPT ......... Wu Lei and 'emotionless' don't belong in the same basket Ha ha ha
Lin "flirting"?
IMO I don't think Lin's character was drawn as a 'flirt' he is SINCERE AND OPEN in his attention and his deep looks are natural and he's not seen aware that he has that look on his face.
He's as plain as a spade person (with the most DEVASTATINGLY HANDSOME FACE) and doesn't play games ..
And yet FL didn't pick up on the fact that 'he's into her'
BLIMEY .. What a waste of "longing looks" LOL
How protected was her life? Or was she completely Isolated from her peers and friends??
Such that she did not experience flocks of males pursuing her, given HOW good looking AND talented she is.
She'd be flooded with all kinds of pursuers .. older and younger and same age too ;-p
Plus, unless she is just 15 / 16 y.o. and barely beginning to get used to adolescents chasing her and confessing to her; it doesn't explain her cluelessness about male interest ..
Even if it's about being on alert and alarmed if its an unwanted interest.
She is 21 (I think she is 6 years younger than ML in Drama?) )here and still writer (and director) has portrayed her as a 'naive, innocent, bambini' who is blind to the fact that a guy has the MOST BLATANT hots for her . ROFL.
Well go break your hearts gal viewers ..
This Missy was grown on a rose scented petal and never met an earnest Bumble Bee ever in her life.
(Even 15 y.o. Juliet knew Romeo was INTO her through his masked eyes LOL and she was no less sweet naive innocent in that other tale of "First Love at first Lock Eyes" .. OK OK .. that was a tragedy .. this one skirts away and goes to a safer ending)