monstersnroses

I just browsed your watchlist, I think I might be able to be of some assistance, b/c we have a lot of overlap on ratings. So what exactly are you looking for rn? fluff, spice, plot, something long something short, something easy or hard or what.

Hey. Nobody told me Moonlit Reunion was full of actual cats!

I was kind of avoiding that show. But I'm bored today and there's nothing else, so I thought... since MR doesn't even really get started romance-wise till ep 11, then why don't I just start it on ep 10. RN I am on ep 11. I have no idea what's going on right now, but there's something about the combination of Kai and a bunch of cats that's super hypnotic. This is curing my between-episode boredom pretty nicely. Good characters, very happy-looking and well-fed cats that I'm sure were not stressed out a lot on set or mistreated.

I also like that Kai can kind of like cosmically appease the Cat Gods by doing MR, because of what that poor poor cat went through in ABAY.

I don't know if they're both single, but I also would ship them in RL.

omg, that's genius, they should have hired you to write for this drama lol

concur, they have a lot of basic similar elements...

It's a place to discuss. We're discussing how the drama relates to the novel, you're discussing your feelings. Those two convs can co-exist. I don't know who attacked you or why you feel gatekept, but I'm sorry you feel that way.

Although I have to say, that my thoughts on that matter come from a total opposite pov.... if I don't like a drama I'll often watch it to the end, number one to say I watched it b/c I'm just that kind of person, and number two, shows deserve a fair shot all the way to the end. So I'll often be in a comments section venting my dissatisfaction with this or that about a show, and IM the one who gets viciously attacked and often verbally abused by FANS of a show when I don't share their opinion. Which is also super mega toxic.

So you feel like the critical viewers are toxic, but the fans are equally toxic on MDL. I can say that I do know how you feel just because I've been attacked so hard on here so many times for various reasons. And by attacked I don't mean attacking my ideas or opinions (although that happens too), I mean personal attacks like namecalling and abusive comments.

If you let a bunch of randos on a public platform influence what shows you will start, that's just giving people who don't deserve your attention too much power.

Maybe you could try these:

Eternal Love of Dream

and does it really have to be a wuxia/xianxia, because

A Dream of Splendor
Blossom

were both good imo

I thought the story when taken as a whole was just "above average", but the experience of watching it once for the first time was admittedly awesome, if for nothing else than the comedy and the cameos.

I used to be kind of a fan of that FL but I think her schtick is getting a little old, and what was she doing with her chicken lipstick, that was so so so distracting...

It didnt blow me away or anything but I had a lot of fun watching it.

ikr

I think for me at least, it's less abt that, and more about the fact that the feels you get in the novel at this point, diverge a lot from the feels you get at this point in the story in the drama. In the novel, everything is very understated, sweet, poignant as the 2nd arc turns into the 3rd.... and they changed it so dramatically, to the point that instead of a sweet and sad transition, you get a chaotic, violent sudden transition. You also get this added layer of guilt that the FL must be going through that to me is just not as good as how the novel laid it out.

I'm on track to give it a 10 still, but that will def depend on how they decided to play out the 3rd arc. Now that they've diverged so significantly from the original story it's like ok what will the writers pull next lol

Dude I heard they don't even start getting together till ep 18 in that one. And they're 45 min episodes.

I think if you just want a quick fix of spice that Dangerous Love is not bad. Not great, but not bad. Gao Min Cheng is super hot. The plot is boilerplate stupid republican era plot, but Han Le Yao is in it, and she's always fun to watch act. I tried to watch Luminosity Behind the Palace because I adore Fan Zhi Xin, but the FL is ruining it for me totally, I can't even finish it.

They should have done this part as written in the novel. Not happy. All that shit was so not necessary. Now this makes me wonder if the 3rd arc is even going to go the way it's supposed to at all or if theyre just gonna make a bunch of shit up.

I really generally can't stand green-flag ML's. But I love this one. It's because he has a sub-personality who's like a barely contained psychopath that simmers under the surface. My fave stories are vampire stories, and SimaJiao is very vampire-adjacent, especially the way Arthur Chen plays him.

Please god no.... i hate 'strong independent female' stories where the man is cucked. One of the things i like abt the ml here is he doesnt go spineless after they get together.

The way i view it, theres 2 reasons for it to be a practical move...
One = if they follow the book there would be lots of confused viewers abt why hong ruo is born with her memories and sima jiao isnt, when they both underwent soul transfer. In this version hong ruo foesnt have memories at first. This will foreshadow what happens to sima jiao to prepare the audience.
Two, in novel, sima jiao and tingyan meet when sima jiao is sixteen. By portraying hong ruos accelerated growth as happening in 2 days instead of slower like renesmee from twilight, then when its sima jiaos turn, they can conveniently skip how they got together when the 2nd incarnation of sima jiao isnt actually of legal age.

It does make sense why they're in the story, but honestly that's besides the point. Straight up, if she was cuter, and he was hotter, this conv would never be happening in the first place. Both of them have what I'd call a unique look or maybe a quirky look, and that's just not hot enough for them to get a Hot Pass to be taking up screentime in this show.

If the snake was Yu Ning or Ling He, and Ru Ling was Lusi or Bai Lu, no one would care about whether they were useless to the plot or not.

omg that's hilarous and accurate.....

"Hey snake, which robe do you think she'd think looks better on me. The black one.... or the black one?"

blessings my friend 🌺

Now you have an equally good looking substitute-Wu you can fawn all over guilt-free because Arthur Chen isn't a r**ist. Yet this does not make you happy.

It does add to the story, but not in an obviously understandable way to the viewer. I think they add that side-plot for a reason that if I said it outright would be a really big plot spoiler.