[ 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 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.