As with the two versions of Descartes described in the show, we end up with two possibilities with regard to Zhang Dongsheng and will never know which is true.
By pretending to attack Chaoyang, he was deliberately getting the police to shoot him. Is it an act of partial atonement by the murderer who still has some conscience left in him or was it an sinister attempt to traumatize Chaoyang and Yan Liang, to make them live on like he has been living? Or perhaps both....
Wow! But what about pupu I mean she was kidnapped by the teacher ,then what they didn't show her or I missed something.
She wasn't really kidnapped but was staying in his in-laws' house. She had an asthma attack and almost died, but he sent her to the hospital. Not sure why she's not shown though.
According to the dialogue (Yuan asked Chen Si in the car what she said to his mother after he went off. ), they went to the tomb together but Chen Si remained in front of the tomb a bit longer after Yuan went back to the car. Still, it doesn't make sense for them not to leave together, and also: she's the one who lights the incense sticks--why would Yuan go back to the car even before the offering? So maybe it's all Chen's fantasy as you said. (I do see the mother's name on the tombstone though.)
As for the mother's body, the words on the tombstone said something like: "their bodies are not here, but there souls are resting here." So there's some sort of explanation for it. But the problem then isn't why the mother's body was buried there but why Fang's body wasn't there. lol ... His body certainly didn't disappear into thin air.
The tea-drinking part is richly ambiguous. They probably opted to have a glass vessel to show that it's tea inside, so there is something important about it. On the one hand, it could represent Yuan letting go of his past and having a new beginning with Chen. On the other hand, why would the tea remain piping hot (so it seems, from the way he blows into the vessel to cool down the tea) when he seemed to have driven a long distance to visit the tomb?
Further complicating the ending is the issue of Chen Si's illness. I think pains were taken to set it up as something significant, and there are a couple of moments in the earlier episodes that she was starting to show symptoms of the genetic illness she had a 50% chance of getting. The potential of getting the illness was also something that stopped her from getting into romantic relationships, so the last scene showing her with Yuan seems extra unreal. (And the music adds on to this feeling that everything is unreal.)
The multiple references to dreams at the end are equally interesting: the reporter wishes his readers sweet dreams, the words on the tombstone also expresses a similar wish, and of course Chen Si also ends the show saying that she wants to go to a place where good dreams come true.
Perhaps the names hint at some things. Fang's name, "De Sheng" literally means that he gets life/gets to live (though it's also ironic that he uses this name after surviving the childhood incident that traumatized him for life). Yuan's name "Bu Jie" can have various meanings from unsolved/unexplained to not being untangled, which is rather ominous.
I guess there is groundwork done for a potential sequel though it is one of the times where it's quite nicely done (unlike in a series like The Case Solver, for instance). Who knows, the entire part with Fang as the villain could turn out to be an elaborate dream itself if there is a sequel? In an earlier episode, Yuan (as well as the audience) is taunted by the masked man who removes the mask to show different people's faces, including Fang's.
I felt there were so many missed opportunities to make this show much better. It felt more like a problem with…
I can't even believe that Tin is upset after his girlfriend breaks up with him. He's been ignoring her, after all.
I guess Sea didn't get to finish what he wants to say before they started singing and crying--maybe Tin just ended Sea's sentence with the word "friendship" because he dreads to hear it from Sea himself. But Sea could have intended to say something else, given the way he looks at Tin lovingly.
In the rooftop scene, we also see Tin and Sea holding hands (before Tan and Oil appear), and everyone on the rooftop is paired with a special someone. I just take it to mean that the people in the group are friends forever, but there are also couples within the group.
Plz suggest me this kind of bromance series where there's zero romance
Do you mean zero romance, even straight romance? That would be hard to find. But if you are ok with bromance in some characters and romance (BL or straight couples) in others, there are probably a few.
It's hard to draw the line clearly between BL and bromance as I mentioned, but have you watched My Roommate is a Detective? It's rather good, with strong chemistry between the two main male leads but no clear-cut romance.
Advance Bravely is a BL novel that is turned basically into a bromance series, if you can take it. The Untamed, which I haven't watched, seems to also have BL elements converted into bromance or something.
Hotel Stars has both bromance and a bit of BL, but isn't all that good. The Shipper has some bromance but also some BL (different characters) though the series may keep you guessing.
I'm shipping the main characters even though they are bothers.
They aren't really biological brothers or even brothers by marriage, are they? As far as I understand, Oil just happened to spend a lot of time in Tan's house when he was young and Oil actually left because his parents took him away.
All the different costumes and "role-playing" makes it seem to be like there are allusions to/parodies of other series. Can someone enlighten me as to whether this is the case?
Honestly, timeline issues and weird new characters aside, I like this version of TinCan better than the original.…
Yeah, Tin is more likable in this reboot. He's aloof and cold but not inexplicably unpleasant (like when he was mean towards the female classmate, we can see why). We also see him going to look for Ae on Ae's side of the campus, which suggests that he is actually helping Pete check on Ae and take care of Ae as Pete has requested.
I was so excited for this series because I really love lbc and it was one of the first bl I watched but this season…
I feel conflicted about Can. I don't find him much different (if at all) from Season 1, but I think Plan has no choice but to act cute. The character is like that, and it's the somewhat childish and childlike character that endears him to Tin, who has serious trust issues. We can see how even Can's friend has little patience with him.
There's also another side of Can that hides his genuine emotions and make himself seem carefree. We see it in Episode 1, and that was pretty interesting. Unfortunately we were soon thrown a rather unexpected flashback.
Whatever Season 2 does, I just hope it doesn't destroy the nice Ae/Pete story of Season 1.
*me watching the klano scene*techno: ignores himme: good, that's what he deservestechno: runs away when kengkla…
The earlier scene with Techno saying to himself that he enjoyed it was worse. Wish the writer had re-written the Techno and Kengkla story too since she has rebooted TinCan anyway.
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By pretending to attack Chaoyang, he was deliberately getting the police to shoot him. Is it an act of partial atonement by the murderer who still has some conscience left in him or was it an sinister attempt to traumatize Chaoyang and Yan Liang, to make them live on like he has been living? Or perhaps both....
Which episode is the circle of light scene that you are referring to? I think I have to go back and watch it.
Thanks to your suggestion, I've created a discussion board in the discussion area. Lol
According to the dialogue (Yuan asked Chen Si in the car what she said to his mother after he went off. ), they went to the tomb together but Chen Si remained in front of the tomb a bit longer after Yuan went back to the car. Still, it doesn't make sense for them not to leave together, and also: she's the one who lights the incense sticks--why would Yuan go back to the car even before the offering? So maybe it's all Chen's fantasy as you said. (I do see the mother's name on the tombstone though.)
As for the mother's body, the words on the tombstone said something like: "their bodies are not here, but there souls are resting here." So there's some sort of explanation for it. But the problem then isn't why the mother's body was buried there but why Fang's body wasn't there. lol ... His body certainly didn't disappear into thin air.
The tea-drinking part is richly ambiguous. They probably opted to have a glass vessel to show that it's tea inside, so there is something important about it. On the one hand, it could represent Yuan letting go of his past and having a new beginning with Chen. On the other hand, why would the tea remain piping hot (so it seems, from the way he blows into the vessel to cool down the tea) when he seemed to have driven a long distance to visit the tomb?
Further complicating the ending is the issue of Chen Si's illness. I think pains were taken to set it up as something significant, and there are a couple of moments in the earlier episodes that she was starting to show symptoms of the genetic illness she had a 50% chance of getting. The potential of getting the illness was also something that stopped her from getting into romantic relationships, so the last scene showing her with Yuan seems extra unreal. (And the music adds on to this feeling that everything is unreal.)
The multiple references to dreams at the end are equally interesting: the reporter wishes his readers sweet dreams, the words on the tombstone also expresses a similar wish, and of course Chen Si also ends the show saying that she wants to go to a place where good dreams come true.
Perhaps the names hint at some things. Fang's name, "De Sheng" literally means that he gets life/gets to live (though it's also ironic that he uses this name after surviving the childhood incident that traumatized him for life). Yuan's name "Bu Jie" can have various meanings from unsolved/unexplained to not being untangled, which is rather ominous.
I guess there is groundwork done for a potential sequel though it is one of the times where it's quite nicely done (unlike in a series like The Case Solver, for instance). Who knows, the entire part with Fang as the villain could turn out to be an elaborate dream itself if there is a sequel? In an earlier episode, Yuan (as well as the audience) is taunted by the masked man who removes the mask to show different people's faces, including Fang's.
I guess Sea didn't get to finish what he wants to say before they started singing and crying--maybe Tin just ended Sea's sentence with the word "friendship" because he dreads to hear it from Sea himself. But Sea could have intended to say something else, given the way he looks at Tin lovingly.
In the rooftop scene, we also see Tin and Sea holding hands (before Tan and Oil appear), and everyone on the rooftop is paired with a special someone. I just take it to mean that the people in the group are friends forever, but there are also couples within the group.
It's hard to draw the line clearly between BL and bromance as I mentioned, but have you watched My Roommate is a Detective? It's rather good, with strong chemistry between the two main male leads but no clear-cut romance.
Advance Bravely is a BL novel that is turned basically into a bromance series, if you can take it. The Untamed, which I haven't watched, seems to also have BL elements converted into bromance or something.
Hotel Stars has both bromance and a bit of BL, but isn't all that good. The Shipper has some bromance but also some BL (different characters) though the series may keep you guessing.
Throw in a BL story for Pond, and I'm sold.
There's also another side of Can that hides his genuine emotions and make himself seem carefree. We see it in Episode 1, and that was pretty interesting. Unfortunately we were soon thrown a rather unexpected flashback.
Whatever Season 2 does, I just hope it doesn't destroy the nice Ae/Pete story of Season 1.