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[dreamingsushi]

Till the End of the Moon - Episode 40 Final Episode

I was almost done with my review when... I lost power at home because of a storm that came suddenly. I’ll do my best to rewrite it as it was supposed to be but... it sucks.

So finally, here it is, the last Episode of this series. It’s the first one I finish in a short amount of time since a while, so it kind of feels like a big accomplishment. As far as I know, it could go either way from now and I don’t know what to get ready for except for tissues, losing some characters, maybe all of them, who knows with a Chinese drama. Also, am I still the only one wondering about the masked king? Is it really Ye Qingyu as I supposed a few episodes ago? I need answers. So let’s just dig in.

This time, the wedding ceremony is rather simple. I mean, for a god I guess. Cang Jiumin brings the castle into the sky and out of the ground as a wedding gift for Susu. She herself also has a gift. She plans on using all of the energy of her harp, which is divine power, to kill him. She engages the self-abandoning array, which doesn’t please Cang Jiumin, cause in his plan he dies, she lives.

While Cang Jiumin is trapped, the cultivators arrive. Gongye Jiwu orders to get the punishment array going, even though it might kill Susu. They’re not there to save her, but rather to kill the demon god. Everybody obeys nonetheless. Cang Jiumin breaks the self-abandoning array and pulls Susu towards him, only to have her receive the lightning punishment on his stead. Probably to make her become a goddess. He can’t even bear to watch her being in pain. Seriously, his life was sad from beginning to end.

Noticing that Cang Jiumin escaped, Gongye Jiwu rushes to him and... HOLY SHIT!!! WAIT? NO? I don’t like this, I don’t like this, I don’t like this. Can Jiumin notices it’s not normal that he became that strong. It’s because of the demonic powers he took. And now like... OH GOSH. He’s sucking everyone else’s spiritual energy, cultivators and demons alike. And I hate it so mych, because he always was like.. the nice guy, super upright and this is so damn wrong. And the worst is that it kind of is off character, but it also totally make sense that he would sacrifice anything to let the ‘good’ guys win. But at the same time, to me he’s the guy that always follows the rules... I pity him so much too. Always someone’s puppet. Before his dad king, now Dimian who made him hate Cang Jiumin with his lies.. Fortunately, Cang Jiumin saves him from becoming a demon and losing it before throwing him down, to be caught by Monü. It’s crazy she kind of became somewhat good and he became somewhat bad. Anyways, we all have a little bit of both inside us.

Cang Jiumin does mean stuff so to provoke Susu. AND FINALLY WE KNOW. He launches the creepy eye and masked king loses his mask. And just as I predicted, he is no one else than Ye Qingyu. YAY. He uses his demonic powers to erect a shield to protect his city. The immortals also do so, but a lot die anyways. Susu finally has a breakthrough. Through yelling. Must be hard on your vocal chords to be an immortal with all that screaming.

When she awakens as a goddess, she takes Cang Jiumin away, to a place untouched by the all in distress way. She knows that it was his plan to make her renounce to her love and become a goddess so she would kill him. She takes away his appearance of the demon god. He takes her to the celestial pillar of the gods and shows her the view. She has stuff to say, but will only let him know the next time they meet. She destroys the evil bone and decides to die with him, since once there isn’t any demon god, any other god isn’t needed.

He seems to give in but that is a lie. Obviously. He uses the protective dragon scale to send her away and destroys the remnants of the evil bone. And as the all in distress way disappears, so does Cang Jiumin. He makes me so sad...

When she wakes up, she sees his tomb next to Ye Xiwu’s. And five hundred years later, she takes their child to see the world and the Mo River. I think this part made me cry even more than when they said their goodbyes. She still has the scales, and it is kind of implied that he might still live somehow in there? I don’t know. But that’s how it ends. Poor Cang Jiumin. His fate was so sad.

I will try to get over the ending, which was satisfactory at some point. I was hoping he would survive, but I kind of didn’t want him to, because it makes more sense that way, but it’s still super super sad. Thank you for keeping up with me throughout this series, let’s meet one last time for my overall review!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

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What do you think of Rook's savanaclaw card? <333

I didn't get him (and I need to save my keys for Silver's birthday, sob) so I looked up his groovy, and I'm not over how incredibly dramatic and epic and cool it looks in direct contrast to the absolutely ridiculous context. just look at that dynamic action and his majestic sparkling tears and keep in mind that this is pretty much right after a bunch of characters have been dance battling for his soul.

and then even the actual moment of the groovy is just like

this is NOT a negative in the slightest, I love it all, this truly was an incredible update in so many ways

[frenchpuppycormier]

*witch out*

Bonus:

[ariadnethedragon]

RIVALS (2024-)

‘No one ever buys me gifts like this’

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There's a shadow on both of you

Bonus:

[bereaving]

-Was your heart racing? I think my heart was. -Of course. We weren't being ourselves.

[khaopybara]

orm doesn't understand the definition of personal space (and we thank her for that).

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George Villiers & King James I MARY & GEORGE (2024) · S1·EP4

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[dreamingsushi]

Till the End of the Moon - Episode 39

Second to last episode. Already. It’s been a while since I watched quite consistently one drama so it almost feels like an achievement to have reached that far, so fast. I’m completely in the dark as to what might happened next. Cang Jiumin got all of the artifacts back. Susu came to ask him for the truth. We still don’t know if Ye Qingyu has become or not the king of Jing. I don’t know if I’m the only one still wondering about that? Like, they implied there was someone who knew about Tantai Jin behind that mask and they haven’t used that info yet and I kind of need closure on that. That’s the only think I haven’t seen reused so far and yeah. It needs to be used. Thank you.

He’s upset she came, but he still kills the demon that came to try and kill her. Then he tells her he did this because he hates her and can’t forgive her for what she did to him. She doesn’t want to believe it. But then the demon god take possession of Cang Jiumin and reaches for Susu’s throat, strangling her. More yelling. I was thinking that Luo Yunxi did a pretty good job in this part, like you can see him being torn while completely embracing trying to be the villain. But I don’t know why they ask them to scream all the time they’re fighting. It looks so stupid and kind of breaks any intense moment. Even though the demon god tries to convince Cang Jiumin that no one ever loved him, he manages to break free and release Susu. He tries to kill the demon god, but it doesn’t work, obviously and the demon god uses the demonic weapons to try and force him into becoming the demon god. It kind of backfires because the weapons don’t obey anymore the original demon god and Cang Jiumin uses them to absorb the demon god. Or something like that. It was weird.

He figures out that since only a true god can kill the demon god, it has to be Susu killing him, as she’s the daughter of Chu Huang and suitable to follow the Heartless way to become a god. So he tells the demons to announce to the different sects that he’s going to marry her in three days and they are invited to the wedding if they want to come and congratulate him.

Gongye Jiwu decides to let himself get contaminated by demonic energy, even though he’s going to become a demon because of that because he’s not strong enough to fight Cang Jiumin as he is now. That character makes me really sad. In all of his lives, he ends up being a puppet to others’ plan. He ended up dying miserably because of his stupid father as Xiao Lin. Then he’s manipulated by Dimian. He had kind of everything to succeed, but then... he’s so upright that it’s kind of his downfall. It’s so sad really.

Cang Jiumin prepared a dream like world like the one Mingye left behind for Susu to remember him after everything’s over. She wonders why he would love a simple mortal life, but he doesn’t explain much. In the end, she kisses him and they spend the night together as a farewell I guess. Then he takes her back for the wedding.

Pang Yizhi gave Gongye Jiwu a charm about the demonic punishment the gods tried to use against the first demon god. He plans on using it on the day of the wedding to kill Cang Jiumin. The other sects’ disciple agree to follow him in doing so.

I have to say once more though... The costumes in this drama. I love them. There was only the grass cape Tantai Jin wore for his wedding which was really bad (but still kind of grew on me anyways). Everything else... the head pieces, the capes, the details. The costume designers did a very good job. I mean, there’s so many of them so I’m not sure of the quality up close but on my tiny screen it’s gorgeous.

And as the wedding is about to begin, end of the episode. Only one left and it’s over. I have no idea how things are going to turn out, how it will be resolved. But none of the main characters died yet. So I expect that some of them will tragically perish during next episode, if not all of them.

[mrinafria]

When you realize these two things.

Two things:

That scene in the finale which is bellissimo. PICTURE PERFECT. Because she is about to touch his hair/head and he bends down juuust enough because he craves her touch her affection her love really that much and also so that it's easier for her to reach him. Because even fitting into each other like puzzle pieces is not enough in that moment.

But then you also realize that she is reaching out to part his hair/bangs ever so slightly, almost absent-mindedly, because she is confirming he doesn't have a scar there, like he used to in the ALT 2023 timeline. He doesn't have it anymore. As if that's the last bit of evidence she needed for her own peace of mind, a silent verification, to make sure her Seon Jae is finally, really, safe. A proof that her prayer has been answered in the end.

Of course she knows. She's been there all along, after all. But after everything she--and they both--have been through, I don't think either of them can quite believe it in this moment. That this is it, it's over: she doesn't have to look for any impending doom coming his way, and he doesn't have to fear losing her to the most heartless adversary that is time.

I cannot gush enough on the writing of this show.

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[heretherebedork]

This was just such a great moment. Poor JJ. He is caught in like fifteen kinds of drama at all times and he is just trying his best to hold everything together