Anne: Whats up Drama Lovers! Hope everybody had managed to seek out one thing attention-grabbing to observe within the final two weeks or so. I spent the final week or so binge watching the Thai BL dramas from 2022. It began with my YouTube feed, as with virtually every little thing else that snags my consideration, the place in the future a clip of Harmful Romance popped up. I do not know why the English title is as is, as a result of the precise drama was about highschool/faculty college students. It began as a BL model of Meteor Backyard, with the bullying extra harking back to the Taiwanese model. This led to me being immersed in a second This BL drama, Cutie Pie, which has a really cliche premise, an organize marriage, between the 2 MLs. The drama has very optimistic messages. I loved each rather a lot, though I did FF some melodramatic sections… 😋 On the finish of this binge watching, I now am listening to the sound tracks in my automobile…
Okay…sufficient about my diversion into the non-current dramas. One motive I waited till as we speak to put up is as a result of finale. Let’s get into it!
The Double
I actually like this outfit of his. When underneath home arrest, the right Duke Su lounges round in his pajamas (I do know I might. I imply I’m going out in pajama pants!) And his look on this scene (that lasted underneath 2 minutes in a 40 episode drama) is my favourite. As well as, this was additionally the primary time, Xiao Heng calls her by her actual title, Xue Fang Fei. Okay, sufficient of my going gaga over this character.
So…the place did I go away off final time? I imagine I ended when Xue Fang Fei rescued her father and her father’s folks and as a bunch they began to return to the capital to demand a re-open the case. After all on the way in which, the enemy group used the famine to drive teams of individuals to stop her from getting again safely or rapidly. Regardless of the hazards, Jiang Li’s mom’s clan got here to avoid wasting the day. They have been capable of get meals delivered. It was fairly delayed attributable to her cousins avoiding the plain traps.
With all these folks in tow, Jiang Li’s actual id is just about getting an increasing number of troublesome to maintain hidden. As much as the purpose that the loopy Princess Royal tried to show her in courtroom. With Xiao Heng’s assist, Fang Fei was capable of escape as soon as once more. Regardless of nobody publicly truly acknowledges that she is not Jiang Li, the general public who is aware of her not solely suspects however just about is aware of.
Jiang Ruo Yao, the third miss, lastly grows a spine and not enable her mom to plan her life. When she determined to again up Jiang Li’s story that Zhou Yan Bang was trying to rape her that resulted in her hitting him within the head, inflicting him to be in a “vegetative” state. This was a complete facet plot that continued Yan Bang’s silly quest in making an attempt to get Jiang Li to “marry” him.
The subsequent shock we discover out is Ji Shu Ran’s (Jiang Li’s step mother) again story. Her ex-boyfriend previous to her being married to Jiang Li’s father (how this marriage occurred is ANOTHER facet plot). This ex-boyfriend is now a well-known exorcist, who believed that the “youngster” that Jiang Li “killed” in utero was his youngster. (I hope everybody acquired this clarification.) Thus, he’s provoked to kill Jiang Li. After all this again fires massive time, resulting in Jiang Lis’ father discovering out the true reason for his first spouse’s demise, the demise of his eldest daughter, and the way Shu Ran just about poisoned her daughter, Ruo Yao, to be able to stage the plot to kill Jiang Li. Poor Tong Er died in consequence.
Now, within the midst of those loopy males, we should not neglect Xue Fang Fei’s ex-husband, Shen Yu Rong, who upon confronting her along with her actual id, tries to get somewhat too intimate. Ye Shi Jie involves the rescue, however due to Shen Yu Rong’s standing, she convinces him to let her be the one who knocked him out (sure, our FL has one other man knocked unconscious attributable to being too handsy). And it was attributable to this case that led to us discovering out the loopy princess have saved Xue Fang Fei’s youthful brother alive this ENTIRE time (after he was supposedly killed by bandits on the way in which to the capital to assist his sister). The princess used her brother to get her to retract her accusation in opposition to Shen Yu Rong. After which this loopy princess decides to observe Shen Yu Rong’s plan to get Jiang Li to be married to him so he can “preserve” an eye fixed on her. The perfect half is when Xiao Heng went to select her up when she was launched from jail for falsely accusing Shen Yu Rong of tried sexual assault.
Xiao Heng held her hand so tight that her fingers have been going numb. This was in all probability the primary time the ML demonstrated an unquestionable motion that he has develop into a love-sick pet. 💕
Shen Yu Rong’s marriage plan did not occur. In flip, our loopy princess will get tricked into marrying Li Jin. That is in all probability the BEST instance of those two folks getting what they deserved. It was very satisfying to observe for a pair episodes.
Within the final 5 episodes, we lastly meet Xiao Heng’s grandfather, and are available to grasp the explanation for the deep divide between them. We additionally study why Xiao Heng loves watching reveals and rising unique flowers. Then we discover out the again story of the loopy princess and her elder brother, the Prince who was behind all these plots in an effort to take the throne away from their youthful half brother. I get that we need to give everybody a motive for what they do, however significantly, I do not actually need to really feel unhealthy for the unhealthy guys. And the loopy princess…might be essentially the most tragic character of this whole drama. And Shen Yu Rong turned essentially the most villainous, as a result of we notice on the finish, every little thing was an act (perhaps excluding his love for his ex-wife, however even then it may simply be possession).
Anyway, the coup did not find yourself the way in which the unhealthy guys needed. And our leads finally married.
However was the next battle/warfare bloodshed actually ALL essential? Did we actually have to kill off Wen Ji and Lu Ji, our hero’s comedian sidekicks? I LOVE these two. The ending is a cheerful one, despite the fact that the writers tried REALLY arduous to trace in any other case. The extras are their lives after their marriage, and the little scenes are cute.
Certainly one of issues that bothers me, and this isn’t one thing I often discover, as a result of cinematography isn’t one thing that I take note of and even study. However this one is so in-your-face, that even somebody like me who would have by no means seen, seen. Your entire theme that threaded by way of the drama in regards to the “viewers” and the “actors”. In order a part of this theme, to be able to convey the viewers into the “play”, there are a LOT of full face photographs the place the viewers is “introduced” into the scene. It was actually distracting to me. Among the photographs have been actually fairly, however it simply wasn’t my type.
So…in conclusion…I actually loved it. And it saved a extremely good tempo all through.
Observe Your Coronary heart
I used to be tremendous excited when this aired. Clearly as a result of it stars Luo Yun Xi. I have not gotten very far attributable to ending the on above and me being distracted by a whole lot of YouTube movies. Very first thing I believe everybody must be ready for is to deal with this drama like a fantasy. Let me clarify. Once I learn the synopsis that Yan Nan Xing (the FL) modifications look, I assumed we have been speaking alongside the traces of what usually occurs, like face masks, as in Phrase of Honor. However that is so NOT what this drama is speaking about right here.
Did anybody else whereas watching this scene thought this…”Hm… I assume it is a Chinese language historic Shrek.”?
Sure, we’re not speaking about altering “look” like simply her face or one thing. It is a FULL BODY CHANGE. This difficulty apparently was a results of somebody poisoning her, making her develop into a totally totally different particular person each month on the onset of her interval.
Why can NO ONE else hear this whistle (excpet the ML)? Appears a bit odd, when the “different” individuals are RIGHT subsequent to the FL or her mom.
That is in all probability not essentially the most absurd… So…our ML, Jiang Xin Bai, who’s affected by face blindness apparently can’t inform that this can be a man… and calls her “miss” (this is because of the truth that “he” is carrying the garments and hair type of a lady).
I actually need to ask the writers…why did they suppose that “face blindness” signifies that they can not inform a woman from a man by taking a look at their face? It is not that they do not “see” a face, I assumed it was simply that they do not keep in mind. In order that they’ll by no means do not forget that they’ve “met” a selected particular person, ever, not even their household. Nevertheless, if they do not have a look at the particular person, they will nonetheless establish folks by voice.
So…take warning, if you happen to watch this, be sure you throw all logic out the window and simply let the story take you on a trip.
And I’m completely positive with that. (I imply my favourite style is Xianxia, so I do not often want logic in my dramas 😄). Actually trying ahead to see the place this loopy plot will go.
And that is all for this week. Let me know if anybody has watched something attention-grabbing!