[ SECRET POST #4783 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4783 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Art by Itks]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]


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[The Last Kingdom]


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[Judah from Bojack Horseman]


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[The Untamed]


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[Project Blue Book]











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Comments

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

I just finished the Chinese drama Guardian. Like Untamed, it's another BL novel that was adapted into a live-action series but all the actual BL got cut, though it's ridiculously obvious what's going on between the two male leads.

It wasn't THAT great overall, mainly because there was a lot of irrevelent filler, awful scene direction, and assumed you'd care about numerous characters that were at best forgettable. But the two main actors were extraordinary, and moved me to tears. If I could chisel a bunch of the nonsense and cringe from the sidelines, and allow the story to be a little bit meaner to the side characters so I'd actually feel more sympathy for them, and really let the group dynamic shine, it'd be a fucking awesome show.

I'm reading the novel now, which is naturally leagues better, but the two main actors from the show are 100% canon for me. Those beautiful, beautiful bastards.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

I also think they majorly changed the ending in the drama, iirc.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

WHAT.

Was it... not supposed to be sad??? T___T

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[fishnchips]

Just double checked with the spoilers thread and yes, the novel does have a happy ending. It's generally quite different. Tragic endings aren't actually that common with webnovels.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

AHHHH

I mean, I love beautiful tragedies.

But Shen Wei has been through enough and deserves happiness, goddammit!

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[fishnchips]

They changed the original plot a lot because magic and ghosts and everything that's going on in the original novel is also kinda difficult to keep when it comes to censorship. A lot of fans of the novel were majorly pissed about the changed ending though, understandably.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

I loved The Untamed, and Guardian is on my list of stuff to watch in the future!

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

The show isn't high budget but it has so much heart, and the main leads are great (especially the two protagonists, but the hero team is all love). Plus, the theme song is fucking LIT. Spotify actually recommended it to me months ago, before I'd ever heard of the show, and I'd listen to it all the time. When I realized it was the theme for a BL (inspired) show, I pretty much dropped everything. Zhao Yunlan and Shen Wei (the main couple) have pretty much destroyed romance for me, because nothing else can live up to that devotion.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

Sounds great. I really love it when the casting of a show nails it like that.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

I like the MC, he's unusual for BL stories. Shen Wei (the professor) is a bit typical as he's silent, pining, restrained kind of guy, but I feel that the actor portrayed him very movingly so he wasn't boring.
I'm not sure if I'll finish the novel. I watched the TV series first and I prefer them to the book.
Agreed on the fillers and unnecessary side stories.

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed about the two leads. Zhao Yunlan was a pretty atypical BL lead, and even though he had a kind of asshole cowboy personality, he/the actor managed to carry it so well that I just found him really likable. Shen Wei was definitely a more common BL trope, but the actor's performance was just so wonderful that I found his elegance and devotion really moving. I was pretty obsessed with both of them.

It sounds like the book and TV series are pretty different; or rather, the TV series had to make a number of changes to get through censorship in addition to the normal tweaks to adapt something. I overall really liked the TV series, even though it had a lot of flaws (mostly in the filler stuff, got a bit cheesy and the tertiary characters were either boring or obnoxious, and it kept neatly tying up subplots in a way that felt like a Disney kids' show that really took away from the more somber, serious, and truly exciting stuff.) It was all worth it for the two leads though, and I really liked a few side characters as well (Zhu Hong the snake woman, Da Qing the catboy, and Old Chu especially.)

Re: What media did you recently finish?

[(Anonymous)]

Old Chu is awesome! I'm almost sure that he and Guo (the naive guy) is a side pairing in the series. It really resembles Disney with the vilains with weird motivations for their evelness. I heard that they had a pretty large budget cut so that might be the reason some special effects are rushed. I fast forwarded a lot tbh.