I didn’t catch that either!

lol.. i did!

wow.. you guys are lucky.. maybe having read the novel made me notice all nuances in 1st go itself.. so nothing left for second watch (no wonder couldn’t sit through the second watch)

Strange, I always thought it was good. Not that I have watched it but there were people who raved about it and the OTP’s chemistry. The only thing was that the ending was badly done.

I remember ff thru much of it and liking it a bit, but try watching it after Untamed. It’s just not even doable.

@outofthisworld the chemistry between the leads was the only saving grace of the drama. I wouldn’t have lasted as long as I did otherwise. But the drama was very clearly lower budget, story just felt like monster of the week and poorly written + confusing, outside of the otp the actors were pretty bad, one of the early villains was one of the most cliche you could get and the thing that forced me not to go on is it had one of the worst side characters I’ve seen in any drama. He straight up made me rage by how uttey useless and stupid his character was. I know some people like it but I think it got a bit of a pass because of thirsty girls wanting anything bl.

@trinpie Re Guardian, I didn’t even like the two leads together – they seemed to be a mis-match – though I really like each actor individually I just couldn’t see the “chemistry”. It was forced. I felt like nothing in Untamed was forced, it flows naturally and organically (except for the actress who played the Wen Qing, she tended to pull me out of the story).

Addicted is the BL gay c-drama that the censors, once they realized what it was, took it off the air before it was over. Ep 15 was the last episode out of ? and I really would have liked to know whether or not Johnny Huang was becoming a dangerous kid who was “addicted” to Timmy Xu. He had violent tendencies.
Blood is an older k-drama about a vampire. The idea was good, but the execution is terrible. Bad acting, bad camera work, bad cgi, but that’s just the 1st episode so I’m watching the 2nd when they change actors to the adult version of the vampire to see if it’s any better. He’s an actor that fell in love with the lead female and they got married in real life. He’s going to be in a new k-drama coming up so I thought I’d check out his other work.
I usually can stand up to 20 minutes of another drama before going back to Untamed. But to build the anticipation, I’m not going to watch Empathy arc for Nie til tomorrow. I don’t think I’ve watched that part more than once and don’t really remember it.

Hahaha….are the censors sleeping? Or enjoying their job too much?

Yeah, I thought Blood was the kdrama where the now infamous not couple got hitched. Just curious why you chose the drama.

@outofthisworld Why I chose Blood? I put all the actor’s dramas on my “to try” list and then I watch a bit to see if anything sticks. That’s what I did with Untamed and Longest Day in Chang’an, watched a bit of each to see which one stuck. And you know the rest of the story.

@outofthisworld Dropped Blood already – didn’t last long, did it! Dropped his other dramas too. Now back to re-watching whatever, besides Untamed. Although I do love Tale of Nokdu.

Same! I just read some of the chats and look at the stuff shared.

https://kittykat2010.tumblr.com/mdzsaudio

Thanks!

I was just wondering what can such a group talk about.

Me: Welcome to UU! Let’s talk about everything and anything as long as it’s not Untamed related!
UU: Hi everyone
Me: For example, we shouldn’t talk about Wangxian…
UU: Oh, like we shouldn’t post beautiful fanart like this? *post one*
UU: Wow! That’s gorgeous! Yes, this isn’t allowed.
UU: I saw this video pop up on my feed. “shows clip” I should delete it, shouldn’t I?
Me and everyone else – watches video even if we have seen it.

You mean like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs2sZNozK1w

For NIF S1, I only cared for Wang Kia’s character or maybe sort of something of the ML. Strangely, I am immune to Hu Ge so he does nothing for me although everyone in the cast were good to great actors. The villains in the show outdid the heroes in terms of complexity, depth and acting. NIF S2 was a lot less great in terms of writing and plot but I did feel more attached to the characters, even for Huang Xiaoming who I usually don’t care much for.

Untamed isn’t one of those dramas which are epic and grand. I know the visuals are great but there are some C dramas which are crazily splendid in this aspect.

@outofthisworld BTW, you mis-typed Wang Kai’s name. I know because my daughter’s nickname is Kai (which I’m told to change it because it’s a guy’s name, ha!). I don’t care of Wang Kai or Hu Ge . But I wholeheartedly agree with NIF2, I was really attached to the characters, esp Liu Hao Ran and the lady who played Lin Xi, well, just about everyone.
I loved NIF2. It’s on my list to watch again, and I’ve watched it I think 3 or 4 times since it’s aired.
I much prefer intimate personal emotional attachments to characters and their relationships rather than having grand vistas, beautiful cinematography, etc. Don’t spend the whole budget on visuals.

LOL! Yup, it’s a typo. There’s no such word ‘kia’ in Chinese.

It’s possible for Kai to be a girl’s name – it depends on which character you use. If it’s this 凯, then I think it might work if it’s a middle character rather than the last for example ‘surname/family name’ 凯玲 but if it’s just ‘surname/family name’ 凯, it’s definitely more male.

Many people loved it, later it even got a sequel, I find the plot silly and the secondary characters boring but they did take the time to let the romance or at least the tension between the MLs grow, that’s not to say it was ever developed but it was slow which was probably the reason it became a hit among this genre.