One thing I’m beginning to discover about my viewing taste in dramas is that I prefer a plot-driven story to a character-driven one. In a plot-driven series, the lead characters react to one crisis after another, their archenemies create one obstacle after another, and I’m happy to follow one adventure after another. If a plot-driven […]
Love in the Clouds: Ep 16 My Notes
My highlights of this episode: 1. JBZ’s and MY’s crises of conscience result in a shift in their plans and strategies. JBZ feels guilty for using Fairy Ruo to free himself of his hatred (i.e., revenge on the gaoler of Sunken Abyss) and terminating all contact with her after he set her free. He acknowledges […]
Love in the Clouds: Ep 15 My Notes
As the story gets complicated, I often tend to forget the “first cause” or the initial reason the protagonists landed where they are at the moment. Here, in this episode, MY’s companion beast 27 is sent to MQ’s abode, the Dragon Carp Terrace, to search for proof that MQ is raising netherbeasts (for short, I’ll […]
Love in the Clouds: Ep 14 My Notes
Just to give people an idea of the length of this fantasy cdrama – The seven Harry Potters books were made into eight movies. (The last book was split in two.) These eight movies had a total runtime of 19.5 hours. In comparison, this cdrama has 36 episodes, each lasting 45 minutes, give or take. […]
Love in the Clouds: Ep 13 My Notes
There’s a lot to unpack in this episode so I’ll jot down my notes on a separate thread for quicker access. Only a handful of lurkers is watching this cdrama with me and @ibisfeather, but I don’t care. The synopsis from Netflix: In the Sunken Abyss, Twenty-Seven’s mission goes wrong. Meanwhile, Mu Qibai reveals Ming […]
Love in the Clouds: Eps 11 to 36 Open Thread
UPDATE 11/2/25 I’m making this into a general open thread to discuss Episodes 11 to 36, instead of just Episodes 11 to 20. The series already ended, and some of you might want to discuss it freely. Obviously, spoilers abound. pm3 🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸🌸 As I told @ibisfeather, I find the story engrossing. Netflix releases two episodes […]
Love in the Clouds: Eps 1 to 10 Open Thread
Thanks @ibisfeather for recommending this cdrama. I’m enjoying it because of the heroine, Ming Yi, played by Lu YuXiao. She’s both funny and unconventional at conniving her way out of trouble. Although she must masquerade as a fairy, she isn’t a boring damsel-in-distress like that Esther Yu’s character in “Love Between the Fairy and the […]