Mars: Ep 3-8
Yup, I am up through ep 8. They must put cocaine into this thing, to make it this addictive. I know, I know, everyone on flist is sighing and scrolling past. But never fear I only have 13 eps left so only a gajillion posts more :P
First off, let me mention how much I loathe the girl from Ling's high school. She is whiny, and little girlish and irritating and should be smacked in the face with a shovel. I don't mind her coming between the OTP because it's a melodrama after all, but I mind cringing every time I see her. Now there is someone who should have jumped off a building. I wouldn't wish her as a gf on anyone. Childlike helpless women who are all about self are calculated to send me through the roof. When Ling slaps her I cheer. Ugh.
I continue to be amused by the fact that Ling, even in love with Qi Luo spends his free time drinking bear with his guy friends and owning a bunch of girlie mags. Heeee. Yeah, he'd totally die for her, but if she wants someone who is all about romantic gestures, she is out of luck. I do love the bit where before the races he asks her for something of hers as a good luck charm and she ties her hair ribbon around his wrist. So medieval. And he calls her before and after the race. Good boyfriend material, there.
Tong Dae still creeps me out and I am bemused how easy it is to get access to files in a psych word. Good thing I never stayed there as they seemed not to have discovered a concept of lock and key.
And speaking of not right, there is clearly something not right with Ling. Just look at the fight with Ah Bin and his crew. He really slipped the leash and completely went beserk and then when stopped he lumped as if his strings were cut. Not normal. And then he slumps and sees Da Ye and QL seeing him, and I think he hates being seen like that. I think part of reason he didn't show up in school afterwards is because he didn't want to face QL because she saw him slip his leash like that. He is all shocked when she tells him she still wants to see him. And then he mentions about straightjacket and psych ward and tries to turn it into joke but can't keep it up because it's too important to him I suppose and asks if she'd still want to see him if it all was true and she says yes because it's the appearing normal people that are horrid.
I have to say I got this from the Mars manga too: I loved the characters as characters and I thought they were perfect for each other, but Ling has real and serious problems that would give me, for one, huge pause as to his suitability as a date. Hot or not he is no gift to womankind. But then of course, QL is a mess herself and I think it's normal people that freak her out because it's lies and deceit that are involved in keeping up appearances.
I love how now QL argues with Ling or even bosses him a bit, tells the upper classmate to shut it etc etc. And on their cute first date (museum stuff, heeee) she even laughs. A lot. And it's wonderful. And of course she keeps encouraging him, which is interesting because for someone so confident he has pretty low self-esteem (he is clearly hurt by Cang Ze's comment that he is a dummy and spends time in the library studying afterward and won't admit he is hurt. Though since Prof mentions he was first on entrance exams, I think his lack of academic achievement is yet another thing to be chalked up to his mental state after his twin's death). It's going to sound bizarre, but one of the reasons Ling needs QL so much is because she tells him about how wonderful he is (and in qualities he thinks he lacks and that matter: intelligence or goodness or bravery. Not him being hot or whatever). Repeatedly. This isn't as solipcistic as it sounds. He needs a heck of a lot of encouragement and for someone to believe in him. People have no expectations of him at all, after all, and she is the first person in a while to really have faith in him.
It was interesting to hear this early stuff on Sheng, in light of what I remember of the entire story. Running fr protection, huh? It's interesting because Mars deliberately draws parallels between not only Sheng and QL (QL is the good version of Sheng if that makes sense) but between Tong Dao (and his former DOA patron) and Sheng (and Ling towards Sheng somewhat) as a much darker version of Sheng/Ling dynamic. OK, I think I am overmetaing, but whatever.
Also, I want to mention I love their chemistry. My favorite little scene is after he's seen her painting of him, they walk off joking and he just casually puts his arm around her shoulder and it's so cute I squee.
Cang Ze almost jumping and Ling's freak out and flashback is always fun because I love angst. His promising her to come back to school is also cool: I love that she can get him to do things. When she says she wants to watch him leave this time because every time she says goodbye she is afraid she won't see him again and the incredulous melty look on his face and then he pulls her into this hug it's squeeful. I love my melodrama.
Let's see, other cool things. I love when he tells her that before he met her he thought there was nothing to be afraid of but now he is afraid of so many things, most of all he is terrified whenever she is in the back of his bike because then he can't make any mistake. The fact that he is careful and afraid is a good sign. Means he has things he wants to live for. Yay. I also love whenever she waits for him in school and glows from the inside and I love that her clothes are nicer now but still very conservative.
I am also interested by the fact that QL is so afraid she'll lose him that she is trying to act preemptively and do the whole 'I'll let him go' thing, so as not to hold on too much. Which is all mature and all but come on girl, what do you want him to do, swear in blood? He keep picking you over the childish one, k? (I just love the convenience store gf scene. And his phone call telling her she isn't a Sheng substitute and then them sitting on the stairs. Guuuh). And by the fact that Sheng clearly jumped off because he felt Ling developing his own life and identity and sheesh, characters, haven't you read the manga? Why do you keep wondering about why the guy jumped off?
Oh, and his apartment is a total dump. Eeeek!
First off, let me mention how much I loathe the girl from Ling's high school. She is whiny, and little girlish and irritating and should be smacked in the face with a shovel. I don't mind her coming between the OTP because it's a melodrama after all, but I mind cringing every time I see her. Now there is someone who should have jumped off a building. I wouldn't wish her as a gf on anyone. Childlike helpless women who are all about self are calculated to send me through the roof. When Ling slaps her I cheer. Ugh.
I continue to be amused by the fact that Ling, even in love with Qi Luo spends his free time drinking bear with his guy friends and owning a bunch of girlie mags. Heeee. Yeah, he'd totally die for her, but if she wants someone who is all about romantic gestures, she is out of luck. I do love the bit where before the races he asks her for something of hers as a good luck charm and she ties her hair ribbon around his wrist. So medieval. And he calls her before and after the race. Good boyfriend material, there.
Tong Dae still creeps me out and I am bemused how easy it is to get access to files in a psych word. Good thing I never stayed there as they seemed not to have discovered a concept of lock and key.
And speaking of not right, there is clearly something not right with Ling. Just look at the fight with Ah Bin and his crew. He really slipped the leash and completely went beserk and then when stopped he lumped as if his strings were cut. Not normal. And then he slumps and sees Da Ye and QL seeing him, and I think he hates being seen like that. I think part of reason he didn't show up in school afterwards is because he didn't want to face QL because she saw him slip his leash like that. He is all shocked when she tells him she still wants to see him. And then he mentions about straightjacket and psych ward and tries to turn it into joke but can't keep it up because it's too important to him I suppose and asks if she'd still want to see him if it all was true and she says yes because it's the appearing normal people that are horrid.
I have to say I got this from the Mars manga too: I loved the characters as characters and I thought they were perfect for each other, but Ling has real and serious problems that would give me, for one, huge pause as to his suitability as a date. Hot or not he is no gift to womankind. But then of course, QL is a mess herself and I think it's normal people that freak her out because it's lies and deceit that are involved in keeping up appearances.
I love how now QL argues with Ling or even bosses him a bit, tells the upper classmate to shut it etc etc. And on their cute first date (museum stuff, heeee) she even laughs. A lot. And it's wonderful. And of course she keeps encouraging him, which is interesting because for someone so confident he has pretty low self-esteem (he is clearly hurt by Cang Ze's comment that he is a dummy and spends time in the library studying afterward and won't admit he is hurt. Though since Prof mentions he was first on entrance exams, I think his lack of academic achievement is yet another thing to be chalked up to his mental state after his twin's death). It's going to sound bizarre, but one of the reasons Ling needs QL so much is because she tells him about how wonderful he is (and in qualities he thinks he lacks and that matter: intelligence or goodness or bravery. Not him being hot or whatever). Repeatedly. This isn't as solipcistic as it sounds. He needs a heck of a lot of encouragement and for someone to believe in him. People have no expectations of him at all, after all, and she is the first person in a while to really have faith in him.
It was interesting to hear this early stuff on Sheng, in light of what I remember of the entire story. Running fr protection, huh? It's interesting because Mars deliberately draws parallels between not only Sheng and QL (QL is the good version of Sheng if that makes sense) but between Tong Dao (and his former DOA patron) and Sheng (and Ling towards Sheng somewhat) as a much darker version of Sheng/Ling dynamic. OK, I think I am overmetaing, but whatever.
Also, I want to mention I love their chemistry. My favorite little scene is after he's seen her painting of him, they walk off joking and he just casually puts his arm around her shoulder and it's so cute I squee.
Cang Ze almost jumping and Ling's freak out and flashback is always fun because I love angst. His promising her to come back to school is also cool: I love that she can get him to do things. When she says she wants to watch him leave this time because every time she says goodbye she is afraid she won't see him again and the incredulous melty look on his face and then he pulls her into this hug it's squeeful. I love my melodrama.
Let's see, other cool things. I love when he tells her that before he met her he thought there was nothing to be afraid of but now he is afraid of so many things, most of all he is terrified whenever she is in the back of his bike because then he can't make any mistake. The fact that he is careful and afraid is a good sign. Means he has things he wants to live for. Yay. I also love whenever she waits for him in school and glows from the inside and I love that her clothes are nicer now but still very conservative.
I am also interested by the fact that QL is so afraid she'll lose him that she is trying to act preemptively and do the whole 'I'll let him go' thing, so as not to hold on too much. Which is all mature and all but come on girl, what do you want him to do, swear in blood? He keep picking you over the childish one, k? (I just love the convenience store gf scene. And his phone call telling her she isn't a Sheng substitute and then them sitting on the stairs. Guuuh). And by the fact that Sheng clearly jumped off because he felt Ling developing his own life and identity and sheesh, characters, haven't you read the manga? Why do you keep wondering about why the guy jumped off?
Oh, and his apartment is a total dump. Eeeek!