Thanks galore @pkml3!!! OOoooh you chose his eyes! What smoulder in his stare!!! And this was just the first time he caught sight of her. The inexplicable ‘love at first sight’ trope strikes very hot indeed, and I believe it was not one-sided, at least, not for long!

I hope you and everyone who tries this drama will come over here to comment and squee!!

Hi @Good Twin! Great timing… this thread has just been opened so that we can weigh in with lots more than just ‘how intensely he looks at her!’ comments LOL.

I’m surprised at myself actually, I didn’t think I’d want to rewatch bits or most of Show and continue with it for long. But I’m past the half-way point in the series, and am eager to watch the episodes that will air tonight!

Unlike with “Love Me, Love My Voice” (LMLMV), I’m more invested in this couple. I feel heartstrings being tugged and a great desire to see either character and both together, succeed in what they do. This must be testament to how well they express their emotions, even with all the mundane dialogue they have to speak. I must admit though that the dialogue does improve, although not by as much as I’d like.

This Writer seems to like her male characters to become sort of tongue-tied and brain-fried when they are in love lOL. Maybe it’s her idea of a cute male character. I was amused that there is another couple and the same lack of being able to say the needful. (The same situation in LMLMV).

I’ve in mind to list the common characteristics of this Writer’s male protagonists in love. I feel they’d be possible candidates for the Boyfriend Hall of Fame, plus give us some giggles as to our fantasies about what the perfect boyfriend would be like.

Yay!!!

I am not reading this thread yet 😅
For fear of knowing anything before I watch..

Been looking forward to any / all shows of Leo Wu (Wu Lei) since :
~ LLTG
~ Upcoming Summer ( precious gem of a film)

Squirreled away “Nothing but You” for a rainy day.. First nibble on Ep 1 was SO delish.

Excited to watch this..but will wait till it cans.
I am a binge-watcher (sigh!) – like to have when I watch in my firm grip and not on the weekly drip 😝🫣

Thanks for choosing this show here.

AMIDST A SNOWSTORM OF LOVE (‘Snowstorm’ for short)
(Definition “snowstorm” = a heavy fall of snow especially with high wind)

I should have guessed that a title with the word ‘storm’ in there somewhere should indicate that all would not be only plain sailing, totally angst free and or free from high velocity winds. However I still do not expect that Show will have overmuch in the way of pain or suffering for anyone either, (I’m guessing Writer won’t go there because she hasn’t before, but I could be wrong!) but I do see that there’s room for a few characters to grow, which is what I enjoy watching in any drama.

I was saying before that I thought this would be a series I could dip into from time to time, without feeling a compulsion to hit play Next at the end of each episode, but strangely I’m wrong! I find our leads riveting. Their pauses to think and their slow responses take place amidst a myriad expressions and I wait with bated breath to know if they are going to just say something mundane or heart-tugging or nothing at all. LOL.

I wrote on the MMH thread: I like that the male lead is not just good and gets everything right from beginning to end, but is impulsive and flawed and growing as a character. He is going to have to reverse the ill-effects of what he did in the past. The female lead is also not as colourless as feared and the romance has room to grow, so there is something to look forward to.

I’ll see if I can post some notes on the episodes. I have not actually taken any but thoughts flit through my mind as I watched. 🙂

Hi @agdr03! I applaud you for seriously starting your Lenten preparation! Yes, besides the fun and games and food (what with Chinese New Year!) there is too much enjoyment as we enter Lent LOL. I have the excuse that if I don’t help to eat up the snacks, they may get throw away!!!

As for Shows, if I ask to start the thread, then I hang around to keep it going. Giving up one of these fun things is going to be a challenge!!!

Kalimera Ladies!

As I have said, I am up to date until Episode 16. I am enjoying this and I find it totally different from “Love Me, Love My Voice”.

Still, Li LiYang is a fascinated character if we see how far he has come.
He is an orphan. For two years, he took care of his younger brother by himself. Then he became a billiard champion. Then he quit for the reasons we know. Then, he immigrated to Finland and did his degrees. He was almost accepted to a PhD programme – we don’t know if he enrolled.

As for Yin Guo, there were times in episodes 5-8 that she was acting immature. Yes, I know she is 21. The boy doesn’t talk much and he said so to her repeatedly. He mostly shows that he likes her with his actions (all the time!). Then, he tries to say some things about his past and she shuts him out. I was “oh boy” she didn’t realize, that was not easy for him?

Anyway, I am enjoying this.

I’m here. I’m loving the snowy Helsinki scenes. Thank you, @packmule3. 🍪🍨☕ I think you might like the relationship in this drama.

Wu Lei certainly has a hypnotic gaze when he is interested in someone. I haven’t watched him in other dramas before, but he can convey a lot as an actor. His character Lin Yiyang’s laconic style in the first episodes is in part because he is inexperienced with women and also because he doesn’t want to be arrogant.

I like that he’s smitten, but as @GB said, flawed. Like Mr Darcy, he realises this and is reflecting on how he acted in the past, so we will see growth. Currently he has a lot of friends, but I think it wasn’t always so. I’m just starting episode 8.

While it started slowly, I am also very drawn to the main characters. This is another drama that will spoil me for more standard dramas, I think. The FL Yin Guo is realistically modest and cautious for a young woman on her own, and also reflective, but not passive. She thinks before she acts. As time goes on, she calls him out when she wants something. –For him not to go easy on her when they play a game of pool for example.

@Fern, somewhere in the later episodes, Yin Guo calls him unapproachable but had to admit that his face was great LOL. Still she did not use the word pretty, I don’t think. I’d put him down as having striking, good looks, but manly and not at all feminine.

@Growing Beautifully, you and I have the same opinion.

I just finished episode 18 which I liked because it set up some conflict between the couple. I liked the scene at the car – he is upset after having his apology rebuffed and she goes out to the parking lot to see him. He angrily tries to kiss as if to mark her as his and her she tells him no. I thought she particularly did a good job at communicating her hurt and anger towards him with almost no dialogue. I’m thinking if the old coach forgives him it will help soften the her mother’s prejudice against him.

Hiding and Revealing Oneself
The teenage (16 years old?) Lin Yi Yang made a mistake in his youthful career, which could have been easily settled, but which became a ‘big’ mistake because of his pride. He quit his Snooker Club and went into hiding, only keeping in contact with a few of his contemporaries, and ending up in Finland where he seems to have partially re-invented his identity as a hard-working student, dependable employee, generous helper of friends, and well-respected billiards ‘master’ who tutored others. He embarked on his dream to hone the skills of other billiards players by offering them a billiards hall where they could train, and by giving them a training programme.

In the first few minutes of Episode 1, we see that despite being hidden behind a scarf and thick hood, YY was recognised by a passing stranger, but he chose to lie that the stranger was mistaken. He remained hidden until he saw Yin Guo through the window of The Red Fish pub. He seems to have stopped in mid stride in the blasting wind, arrested by the sight of her.

Yin Guo was also partially hidden behind the condensation that frosted the window pane. She drew a sad face on the glass and then wiped it off. Although we never see her look up to notice that YY was standing outside staring at her, her voiceover tells us that she was quite aware of him. “I do not know how long I was on the phone that day. And he kept watching me through the window.”

When YG finds to her surprise and consternation that the strange man who’d been staring at her had bought her a cocktail and was offering to share his cab with her and cousin Xiao Tian, she’s hesitant and discomfited. To allay her suspicions, YY does the opposite of what he’d been doing for 15 years. He revealed most of his official personal details to her by showing her his ID, his University Card and even his passport (stuff we don’t normally show even our close friends!).

YG is understandably stunned and embarrassed. She hardly takes the opportunity to know the personal details of the stranger except his name, age, and that he was studying in her best friend’s alma mater. She is too cautious to take this as an opportunity to reciprocate by telling YY anything about herself. It is only when her cousin gives her YY’s Wechat so that they can meet with him to buy him a meal, that YG introduces herself to YY.

(To be continued)

EPISODE 2 and 3 – The episodes of opportunities
Since Writer-nim has this thing for making her leading men the rather shy, clueless, silent types in the beginning of relationships… who speak only briefly and lack the social skills to carry on a lengthy conversation with the girls they like, she then has to come up with multiple scenarios in order to throw ML and FL together in situations where they can do stuff together, albeit still rather silently LOLOL. (Pre-assurance… the guy does end up talking more overall as time passes, so hang in there!)

What gets me tickled are the number of times YY says to YG: ‘Is that all you want to ask?’ Or ‘why did you stop talking?’… ‘If there’s anything else you want to know, just ask.’ And all this without realising that he’d sort of killed the flow of conversation by something that he’d said.

I found upon rewatch that Episode 2 was the episode of Making Opportunities and Having Golden Opportunities Fall Into YY’s Lap (Heh!)

We like our would-be boyfriends to be attentive, pro-active, full of initiative and caring, and we get just that in YY’s character.

He was quick on the uptake that YG’s unease with him was due to unfamiliarity and lack of trust and he took action to eradicate that by showing her his personal valid documents to prove that he was bona fide.

He assessed what YG and her cousin needed and immediately offered food and drink and a ride.

Remotely, when the cousins made the mistake of going to Hexin (no such location in Finland?) YY gets his friend to buy dinner for them (but they refuse the meal).

Not only did he pay attention to YG but he noted that XT was interested in his University and got his classmate to show XT around the campus.

He continues to make opportunities to get close to YG through her cousin by booking the Café Engel so that they could meet. He was careful to tell XT not to let YG know that he’d booked it, knowing that she’d be uncomfortable if she thought she would again be beholden to him for a meal. If she had found out that he lacked the money (and time) to meet up but had taken on a game for a friend in order that he could meet her, she would have been even more mortified, so he didn’t tell her the full reason why he was back in Hel (Helsinki I guess).

(Continued…)

(Continued…)

In her text message to her cousin, YG inadvertently lets on to YY that she’s hungry, and YY gets trusty WW (who’s in the middle of shampooing his hair, poor chap) to book a table at their friend’s restaurant so that he can feed the girl. To ease her discomfort over eating together with him, he bluffs that Wu Wei had asked him to eat ramen that night and gets her to join them. He does not let on that it’s his birthday! His thoughtfulness should be appreciated!!!

Whether deliberately or not, he makes it even harder for her to refuse, when he says that he had not yet had his dinner, that he had planned to eat after winning the game (sounds arrogant, but he’s just so sure of himself! An attractive trait?), but had forgotten when he met her. LOL. She would feel guilty for distracting him from his dinner! Hence the girl was going to be beholden to him for yet another meal.

In Episode 3, YY has his opportunity to bring YG back to the hotel. The sight of a couple making out in front of it is suggestive and embarrasses YG who pretends she does not see it by turning towards the gas station and speaking seriously about the bad tasting hotdog she had bought there. Unknown to her, YY has thoughtfully called down her cousin to accompany her to her room so that she would not be accosted by strangers and drunks from the hotel bar.

YY then does a strange thing … he goes to the gas station to buy the unappetising hotdog to try it for himself, just because YG had eaten it before and had spoken of it so determinedly. LOL. In a later episode, we will find out that in a similar gesture, YG had kept two of the coffee beans that YY had given to her in Episode 2. I imagine it was because he had been the one to give them to her, and she could not just throw them away! But their continued existence on the table in her room told YY (when he saw them) that she was not averse to his attentions.

One of the best, indirect opportunities that took place the same night, was that Wu Wei intentionally posted that Lin ‘has a crush on someone’ (in literal translation it was ‘has someone in his heart’). Lin ordered him to delete the post, and he did so a few minutes later, but not before several others had seen it. This could be what paved the way for YY a bit later.

I thought it sweet that YY by his generosity and determined attempts to spend time with YG, actually managed, without trying too hard, to celebrate his birthday in a very low-key way together with her. He totally deserved to have a happy birthday!

@agdr03 LOLOL, I never tried the acronym for this show, but good grief!!! The title creators should check on how it read when shortened. We’ll keep to ‘Snowstorm’ thanks very much! 😂🤣

@GB, I only realised it when I was typing my comment. 😂

Snowstorm! Yep! 🤣

@packmule3, no problem. I’m limiting myself, too.

Maybe the next time you have a long flight. The characters are great and the acting is strong.

@Fern, it’s my pleasure and I’ll be very happy if readers are encouraged to watch this Show. It’s become a rather great pleasure to watch the episodes as they air and then to re-watch to catch what I missed.

It turns out that there’s a bit more plot to the running of the clubs, and to the various relationships than expected, which is a good thing. This is such a vast improvement upon LMLMV that I wonder if an additional Writer has been called in. 🙂

Hi, @Janey. Great to have you aboard.

Thanks @Fern and @GB

Ah, so YG’s companion is her cousin! Thanks for the info @GB. Watching ep2.
I cannot bear the cold! Brrr! It’s interesting to see the day to day in Finland.

Just a tourism note. I’ve been trying to guess the locations of scenes in this but it’s difficult. Many of the Finnish scenes are in Helsinki. The seafront restaurant where Yin Guo bought Lin a meal of lobster pasta is there – the name was clearly marked. But I can’t figure out where the fictitious university city is where Lin studies. It would be 3 hours by train, I think, from Helsinki.

I did laugh a bit at the beautiful apartment furnished so nicely but rented to students. I was looking at the decorations and thought that no landlord in their right mind would rent a place with so many breakable things to students coming and going from other countries. I’ll bet in the credits one might find it’s an AirBnb or similar advert.

Their flight to the “Island” I located in the French Alps because of where they first stopped high up and spoke about the stars. There was a “Chalet Nordique du Plateau” behind them.
https://www.semnoz.fr/ski-nordique/

The mountain lake would be Lake Annecy which has a Pont des Amours (trust the French).

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pont_des_Amours

Hey @Fern

Thank you for the Info. You have guessed right on the locations you have posted!

I have found a post on MDL, where some locals posted the shooting locations!

https://mydramalist.com/discussions/during-the-snowstorm/122953-shooting-location

@Fern,

You are welcome. At first I was trying to understand where HULL was. LOL

The same thing applies to “Descendants of the Sun” that filmed it in several locations around Greece but they said it was a weird war zone.

I would love to visit that part of the world too. It is interesting isn’t it? To drink your coffee in a place where the OTP filmed their scenes.

Have you heard what happened with the CLOY locations in Netherlands? Many people were visiting the lake making lots of noice. So, the village have decided to have some visitors enter the village at specific hours, but you have to pay a ticket first!

Episode 23 and 24 so emotional, so good. Ep 23 so much is said in English by the one who hardly speaks LOL. Ep 24 full circle.

Kalimera @Cleo! Happy to be watching this with you and BOD! I’m also watching Dr Slump! Thanks for the locations, will check it out the link later. Several of my friends actually visited CLOY locations in Switzerland and had to pay €5 each for posing at the lake dock! LOL!

I’m at ep6 and enjoying it so far. Same as @GB, I’m liking this OTP better than LMLMV (I watched a bit and dropped it, did not get to comment much).

As an immigrant, it’s a challenge to find a good community to belong in a new place. Seeing how well connected Lin is with different people, he has build up his network/community by working in multiple jobs and also focusing on his strength (teaching snooker). Happy to see them rooting for him and his budding romance with YG! He is very lucky to have this and it is a testament to him being a good person.

His “love language” is having food, treating a person for a meal. He mentioned that makes him boring and his food focus stemmed from being poor and hungry when he was a kid. I like knowing these insight on him, how your youth experience shaped the person you are.

Looking forward for their relationship to start blooming! And we have some potential hurdles with YG’s brother.

All remaining episodes have dropped at one time!! My only grouse is that they have cold opens and the ending song gets cut. And of course the inserted ads are there but some of them feature Leo Wu Lei so that’s not too bad.

A satisfying conclusion to a good series!

@Good Twin and @Growing Beautifully, here in the UK I have to wait until tomorrow to watch the last 2 episodes.

I really like the FL as well. In rl she’s only 21, so she’s very similar in age to her character. The ML is 24, so actually younger than his character. I think their acting together has been fantastic and, for me at least, much more believable as a couple than the LMLMV OTP.

I’m looking forward to seeing the last episodes!

I haven’t started this yet but here is Wu Lei with Love and Shine, OST for the drama. 🥰

CTO!

https://youtu.be/XIaSmiEqgtg?si=Ha6giQNqt8HMzYLp

Here are the 2 leads at an Elle interview. They are just very natural and good to look at.

WARNING some SPOILERS… don’t click unless you don’t mind SPOILERS!!! 

Thanks @GB! 🥰

I’ll definitely watch it. They say it might be Wu Lei’s last modern drama in awhile as he will concentrate on doing movies instead.

Hopefully it won’t be that long. I like him more in modern dramas than period ones EXCEPT for Love Like The Galaxy. 😍

@Janey Yes I was smiling and squeeing most of the time Eps 7-9. The gentle progress as YY kept bringing on the moves… the woo-ing was continual. I can’t recall if it was in the interview or at the end of the Show, in the lyrics of an OST or that Actor LWL in his character as YY mentioned how his love for YG took over everything in his life. It shows in how he is with her, providing on the spot, and how he has her in mind for his major decisions and plans.

I was writing a few notes and laughing to myself that we have YY’s …
Bid to Kiss the Girl taking place concurrently with the attempt of all and sundry who are his contemporaries to Woo YY Back Home.

Who will win their bid first? LOLOL.

I really like that despite his attempts to hide away and avoid his old friends/rivals, they recall the good in him. YG’s brother could not find him all those years but he must have done some research on him, because he could tell YG that she had chosen well… YY is decent and would make a good boyfriend.

I guess a lot is owed to friendly Xiao Tian whom YY befriended first. XT must have given his family and friends a glowing review of YY for his generosity and care, even when they were strangers. Of course, at that time already, YG had been YY’s objective, but he was universally good to all who knew him in Finland, and likely would have offered some help to XT even if he had not already been smitten by YG.

@Janey, yes I really liked that scene where YY showed how considerate he was. Even YG’s coach knew his ability and that he’d have trounced the team members and broken their confidence if he’d played with them. It’s true that he, too was a coach. I like his point of view, that even the ordinary person who wanted to play for fun, should be coached, should e given an opportunity to enjoy the game. He was not out just to find star players and only give them attention.

Taking on the losses of renting a whole billiards hall just so that people would have an inexpensive place to practise in, and not boasting about it. These are some of the hallmarks of this Writer’s fave boyfriends.

I wish I had all the time in the world to rewatch and write up notes. I’ll just leave my thoughts here and there when I can! Enjoy the rest of the series! 🙂

@GB, I hope I can lure you back in with my comments so you can share some snippets of your thoughts. ☺️ I’ll try to continue to provide key and notable scenes and feedback as I watch.

@GoodTwin – IKR? That was the refrigerator scene when he whispered to her ear to sleep! How can she sleep after that?! LOL! I agree the OTP makes these type of scenes seem fresher. There was not aegyo or overacting or cutesy moves. Even the start of the holding hands was not corny. It feels natural.

Thoughts on the Other Attempt at Woo-ing
While YY is making his moves to woo YG, we find that attempts are also being made to woo YY back to China and back to an official role in Snooker and especially back to the Dongxin City Club.

Like YG at first, he similarly fights shy of being found by his contemporaries, friends, rivals in competition, juniors who come to meet up with him: offering gifts, giving attention, praising his abilities. He literally runs away to the laundry room where he can date YG without the crowd of people trying to get his attention LOL.

In Ep 1 he had refused to acknowledge whom he was to the Chinese strangers (probably fans of the game), but he could not just let the strangers waste their time at the subway and came back to tell them to take a cab. His kindness won out even when he wanted to hide and disappear.

He credits (later) YG as the one who drew him out, but I believe he would have still come forward to help ultimately, when it became evident that he was the main, best or only person to do a task.

It was because he was attracted to YG that he showered her and Xiao Tian with a drink each, a ride to the hotel, etc… so she does get credit for this part. And because of this generosity it led to XT spreading word of YY. Word of YY got to reach Jiang Yang, Coach He and Xiao Dong. All these or their representatives came all the way to Finland to see YY and to suggest that he returned.

I was amused that the so-called ‘enemy’, XD was the one quickest on the uptake and figured out the best way to get YY back. He guessed that YY’s generosity had something to do with YG and promoted YY to her and got her flustered by assigning her the task to bring back her man LOL. If all else failed, there was always love for his pretty cousin! In the end, he was right.

YY wore a compass without a needle because he was drifting without a direction. He had paths ahead of him… stay in Finland to do the PhD, work there, and/or train others while running his billiards hall, … but he had no end goal until he decided that YG was the one he wanted to be with forever.

In the end, while he wooed YG successfully, she too inadvertently wooed him back. He would still have to decide if he would just quietly be a citizen outside the ‘circle’ of Snooker and billiards players while being her boyfriend, but the love for the game, the love for his family and his sense of responsibility for the greater objective were stronger than his self-centredness.

I like that the undercurrent theme is a parallel with his relationship, of finding where one belongs and returning home: a growing from being a mere impulsive, arrogant, hot-tempered child to awareness of one’s mistakes to becoming humble and making things right, a move to take responsibility for one’s actions even if these would preferably have been avoided. He had been in avoidance mode for too long, living only for the day and for himself. And I like the other message that comes through gently, that ultimately it is better we do what we can for the greater good and not just for ourselves. (Yes it’s partly a nationalistic message, but it’s true in all things too.)

@GB, you are spot-on about the other wooing happening in this drama! Lin is being pursued quite actively, and as XD gauged his skills with their mock game, Lin is in his prime. I’m glad the show did not blow up this “enemy” as a big conflict to the romantic relationship. It keeps the focus of the story on Lin and his personal journey to finding the “needle in his compass”, to find his true north.

@GB, I’m watching ep 11 and there’s really a needle-less compass that Lin wears as a necklace! I thought you were saying it metaphorically. I really like that, well thought of props and integral to the story. Oooh, can’t wait for him to meet YG’s mom! Will be on the lookout for it,

@Good Twin, it was a cute interview, wasn’t it? Her eye makeup made her look extra glam.

About the actresses in interviews… I’ve found it to be the case with a few other Chinese actresses… on screen they have to portray someone naive, shy, reticent, etc, but in real life, they are more extrovert and articulate, and may even be more so than their male counterparts. I recall Zhou Ye from LMLMV surprised me too, and we see that Zhao Jin Mai is self-possessed. Zhao Lu Si of course is a pro at interviews and not at all like her Hidden Love character and Esther Yu is the loud-talking ‘boss’ among the actors team.

I’m not sure if Leo Wu was more shy, but he was careful. I watched an unsubbed BTS of them, and he might have been more shy there during some of the more intimate scenes.

I realised after watching that unsubbed video that they had a kiss scene while on a merry-go-round. I must have fallen asleep and missed it!!! Pl let me know if you notice it, which episode had that merry-go-round kiss.

Kalimera Unnie,

I am currently watching Episode 18, but I am busy too, so I am not writing much.

The Episode you are looking for is when they visit France, before she lives Finland. There they find a merry go round and kiss… 😘

Thanks @Cleo!! Will look out for it!

Rewatched Ep 14… caught the parts I left out from first watch. What a fantastic vacation in France that was!!! I’m soooo jealous. LOLOL. How many kisses did we get? At least 2.

Finished the drama yesterday. Final thoughts:

The drama was another easy to watch, stress-free romance. No conniving ex’s or manipulative parents. No frustrating breakups or misunderstandings. Leo Wu is easy on the eyes, as are his buddies LOL. All of the Chinese actors and actresses did a great job. None of the secondary characters got on my nerves. I didn’t fast-forward at any point until the last ep, when the ML played the guitar and sang…I’m sorry Leo, but no.

I also learned through this drama that taking a nap is a pseudonym for s*x lol.

Too funny. Cdramas are so much more conservative/censored than they were just a few years ago and it is not like they were ever very racy. Here you could actually see him making some moves – in Road Home she came home from their road trip pregnant and it was a bit of a head scratcher.
I was stuck with that song in my head for a couple of days.

Love and Shine is the one. Definitely an earworm.

Kalimera!

I am slowly slowly watching this one. I am not reading your comments for the moment, since I am a bit behind of you all 😛

@GrowingBeautifully, the video was so interesting. It made the competitions seem real to have the actors’s play actually filmed. Also as a person who only knows the most basic pool moves, this was instructional.

@Fern, @Cleo, yes wasn’t that video great for us to see so that we know how it was BTS preparing to be pro Snooker players! Leo Wu Lei made so many attempts before managing to pocket the ball and it was filmed and used for the show. I mentioned before that I noticed some long shots without edits where the actors really did look like they pocketed the balls, and now we see what they went through to get those few shots.

I am running out of time, hence I’ll be quietly coming and going and will only be present for the Rewatch parties. If inspiration hits, I may post more later.

One thing that just occurred to me… just as the one mistake YY made blighted his youthful career, the one to two acts of sincere apology, respect and humility he demonstrated opened to him everything he hoped to achieve. Despite not wanting to take on responsibilities that were not in his plans, YY put others first. This was a far cry from how he’d been just full of himself. It’s not quite a coming of age story, but the end result is that our main character(s) grew into maturity.

@Kelly CC

LOL .. did you get back on?

@GB I just finished my 2.5 rewatch of LLTG few weeks ago!!
But would love to follow what others say as they go along ..

It has SUCH RICH RICH pickings .. in each watch ..

@agdr03 That’s good news! Enjoy! It appears slowburn but when we consider that they had only some 2.5 months in Finland… it was fast!!!