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With two episodes a day it'll end a lot sooner, so I'm okay with just one

I would like to know who's making the posters lately, because there's no way a paid editor who'd create something like that.
Moonlight Mystique, The Wanted Detective (to name a few) and now Blood River... I refuse to believe these are official posters and not fan made on a low quality app for mobile phones.

Well, I guess it was too good to be true that such kind of drama didn't have any trolls lurking around the comment section
Fortunately, they've been few so far (easier to block) and most people here are actually kind, funny and mentally and emotionally mature enough to discuss about different opinions without getting offensive... which is also why I am enjoying this drama so much and I will miss this page once it's done airing
Really, after FoF, this has been the most positive and pleasant page to comment on ever since I signed in on this site

They probably hunt the living to warn them not to eat his food

Trolls and it's not romance focused
It should (hopefully) adjust to a more fair rating once it's done airing and more people watch and finish it
But don't pay too much mind to MDL ratings, they are the most biased

Just how bad is his cooking?
At this point he should just retire the umbrella and serve his enemies a dinner.

I believe the 40 episodes was a mistake of the site, because I have heard it was going to be 38 episodes long a while ago

And in that moment I understood why he never has a single penny on him

I am, I am. I'm not missing a single episode with this one.
But that's actually one detail that feels a bit off to me (I can't find a better expression for it).
I won't spoil TBOY, but I'm curious to see how they are going to connect the two storylines and whether this whole journey to create his own identity and live as an ordinary person will feel like a waste or not, since how everything ends for him is already established in that other drama.
That's probably the reason why I can't feel a continuity between this SMY and the other two. Knowing who and where he is in TBOY, it's like BR never really happened.
I really want to see how they are going to tie this up.

Although I feel there was a much better character continuity from Cheng Hong Xin to Jiang Zhen Hao's interpretation of Su Mu Yu (they really felt like the same person shown in two different stages of life), I'm really loving Gong Jun's version of him.
I know he basically has a whole fandom and casual watchers thirsting over his Wen Ke Xing (understandable, he was iconic), but I think I'm liking him as SMY even more, both because he's gradually growing into the character (first episodes he felt nearly robotic, but as we move forward, his subtle expressions feel a lot more natural and coherent with how he decided to portray him) and I just gravitate a lot more towards characters such as SMY.
Su Chang He may be fun to watch, but Su Mu Yu just has that Something for me, especially Gong Jun's.

I thought I was too old to have a crush on fictional men... but here I am.

One episode only is its own kind of torture
What even is this schedule?

On a positive note, I can't remember the last time I waited so impatiently for a drama to air new episodes and if it keeps that up, this is going to be one of my favourite dramas of 2025 and quite possibly one of my favourite in general
If it does lose its way... I might actually shed a tear or two

Seeing skin texture feels almost surreal
In some cases they used a little too much white powder make-up, but I love to see some normal, human and unfiltered skin on those characters
Smoothing filters are just a big no for me, personally

My problem is that I am still stuck with the way Dark River was presented in Dashing Youth and The Blood of Youth, so I'm struggling a bit to see them as the same organisation and characters from those two works (they had much plainer and practical outfits), but I also have to keep in mind that now they are the protagonists (pretty filter must be brought to the max) and it's just a trend of the latest dramas to have very rich in details costumes

I didn't think about the technicalities of it, but now that you mentioned them, visually it makes a lot more sense, although it's only in recent years that costumes have become so detailed and enriched with all these beads, pearls, sequins and dangling bits and plainer clothes worked pretty well too (but the new styles are pretty gorgeous to look at, I admit, although they don't quite feel the same, I don't know how to explain it)
I focused only on the worldbuilding and the coherence and practicality within that setting and I perhaps looked at it in a too much realistic way
They'll still distract me a bit and I'll still think some of those costumes have a lot going on, but I can sleep in peace now that I know there's probably a technical reason behind it lol
Thank you for your rich input

I have mixed feelings about the costumes.
On one hand, they are very pretty and I love the dark palette and everyone looks great in them, on the other hand, I would expect something a lot more sober and practical from an elite of assassins and all those pearls and sequin and translucent layers take me a bit out of the story.

The make-up is just bad.

I'm curious to see if we are ever going to find out their identities.
They seem to have white hair, but sound young, although that's not much of an hint, when in that universe there are masks that make you look like a completely different person. Dark wigs shouldn't be too hard to come by, I suppose.

I don't remember the exact episode, but, yes, they said something along those lines themselves

From what I have understood, they are the ones that actually move strings in Dark River, issue the orders and just control people, so on and so on.
So if this were a kingdom, they'd be the monarchs or, more specifically, the slimy and cunning advisor that controls the monarch.
They kind of remind me of the mysterious figures that ruled the Wufeng in My Journey to You.

But I honestly can't take them seriously, because I keep wondering how they spend their day whenever I see them just sitting in that dark room all by themselves.

And there are many more to come

I love that they are keeping this little tradition of casting the original actors from TBOY to play the parents and ancestors of the prequels protagonists
More of this, please