Let's Talk ZJ

This is a blog dedicated to the feelings, theories, questions, and discussions for the ZJ series since this series is a mess of confusion literally all the time.

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How come you never finished the Episode summaries for Ko One 4?

Taking notes for the episode summaries while watching the drama made me stressed out when I was watching it, and I personally don’t believe in being stressed by something that is supposed to be a leisure activity, so I stopped doing them to actually enjoy the content I was watching.

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In your opinion, which one is the biggest loophole in zhong ji series?

The entirety of K.O. 3anGuo 2017.

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do you know if there's eng sub available for the new k.o.3an guo? i really really want to watch it! T.T

I’m just going to drop in a link for the raw episodes real quick so I won’t lose it...

But Eliz from Lyrical XiaoZero says she is working on it on her Twitter! I guess you can check her blog to stay updated too!

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Hello

Hello yes, it is I, Elise, and I am back. Not for long though, I just have a confession to make and I will answer the messages left in my inbox later in the day or maybe another day or maybe next week....

Anyway, I kind of just wanted to sum up what has happened and what keeps happening because I feel like I owe it to anyone who cares to listen.

If you care to listen, carry on reading. -->

So the last update on this blog was September 24th of 2017, which is admittedly when I started realizing that my mental health has gone dramatically downhill. The cause of that are problems in my life and most definitely not this blog, but I just felt so overwhelmed from the other changes in my life that I could not bring any positivity onto this blog and the ZJ series because the recently released dramas has diverged so much from how the dramas were when I first fell in love with them.

Right now, I am still trying to open up and adapt to the changes in life, but sometimes it gets really overwhelming and I don’t be feeling so good. I will try to check this blog more often, though, because I don’t want to abandon something that helped me cope with things.

In terms of the dramas, I have watched everything except for KO One 5. Next, I will dive deeper into how ZJC helped me cope with life because I always feel like I owe that blog and the followers my gratitude for getting me through high school.

When I started zhongji-central, I was feeling very defeated from my first AP class in high school. That was near the end of my freshman year, around the time of AP exams. I had always been adequate in academics, so being incompetent in a class, especially a history class (which I had been good at) made my self esteem drop.

Then came sophomore year, when 3/5 of my close friends moved away or transferred to another school. Of the remaining two, I was never really close to one of them and the other one (whom I am still close to) always skipped school. Needless to say, I felt really lonely at school at times. Plus, I was taking classes that didn’t appeal to me simply because I needed the credits to graduate. Then I fell into a period of existential questioning because I kept like everyday was a repeat of the last and updating ZJC and making gifs was the only thing that I could count as productive in my life. So then when the series when on a little hiatus, I started dailyspexial to make myself feel like I was actually doing something.

During junior year year, things started getting better. My family, who were the main source of my feeling incompetent no matter what I do, moved out and left me to live on my own. Since then, I started becoming more involved in school activities and just getting closer to my friends. Can you believe that before junior year, I never once hung out with my friends outside of school? Anyway, I started getting closer to the people around me and stopped using the internet as an escape and an outlet for me to feel competent.

And this is the reason why I really need to thank the ZJ fandom and the SpeXial fandom on tumblr for following those two blogs. You may not have known this, but your support for these blogs really helped build my confidence at a time when I felt like a useless slob as soon as I leave my laptop.

I also have to apologize, though, because as soon as I got very close to my friends and they became the source of my confidence, I left these two blogs and you guys. Hell, I even distanced myself from fandoms in general. Things got really, really good.

But I guess one drawback of getting so involved in real life is that when it stabs you in the back, it hurts more because it hurts more than just a flesh wound. When you care for something, it also hurts you on the level of spirituality. And that’s just what I’ve been feeling lately. However, I am not going to use this blog as an escape this time. I came back because I saw unanswered messages in my askbox and I felt that no one should be unheard, even if these messages were probably sent from almost a year ago. I quite enjoyed becoming more involved in my own life, and I hope to keep it that way without feeling negative. I also want to make myself available if anyone wants to talk about anything, not just the series. I know Hongzheng has left SpeXial, and that has made me feel a lot of things too. I will wire this blog to the tumblr account that I check more often and hopefully repay you guys with some of the little gratuities that I have for these fandoms and this series.

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What's your opinion on the differences between new and old 3an Guo based off of what's aired so far? I like some of the changes here and there, but not all obviously. I feel like some of the actors look "older" in the new version, but that could be due to the makeup and clothing since the setting isn't exactly the same.

*Looks at my unfinished viewing history of new 3anGuo* *laughs nervously* Yeah those changes are really um.... Striking.

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what do u think of tseng pets and spexials wes doing a romantic drama together could it happen and when what do u think about them two?

I can’t see the two of them together it’s like seeing Wayne and Yufei like it’s not wrong but it just doesn’t feel quite right but it’s just me being too attached to Xiu/Xiang so that’s like My Ship.

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Hi! When will KO 5 start airing? any idea?

I’m so sorry I haven’t checked Tumblr in hyperbolically 5 years.

Anyway, KO dramas tend to have a correlation with SpeXial albums so maybe around the same time since they have a couple of singles piled up to release.

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So part 1 of KO3anguo 2017 has ended. Do you know when will they air part 2? Zhi Ge's gundam look and fight against the dragon looks so epic even though its so cheesy

I had no idea it was split into parts because tbh I haven’t been catching up on the series buuuuuuuut I guess they would have to film part 2 first? And I’m not sure if it’s filmed yet? I have no idea what’s happening.

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Hey would we be having Pets in KO5?

I think she may have a cameo role? She mayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy? I’m not sure????? I wish I’ve been following the news but I really haven’t??????????????

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Do you know if Da Dong and Xiu will be in KO One 5 and future series? I really like Xiu's character and will be really sad if he isn't there! And by now i've kind of accepted that Da Dong is no longer part of KO...

I don’t think either of them would have a big role, but they may reprise their character for a little bit. They may. There’s a possibility. But then again, as long as they’re still active in the entertainment industry that possibility would exist. I wouldn’t get my hopes up, though.

Dude for the last part, if only the Chinese and Taiwanese fanbase would get on that page too. Honestly, the comments complaining about KO not being KO because Jiro’s not in the drama is getting very immature and annoying.

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Ctching up on the newest episodes (two more to go for this week) and i'm getting more and more suspicious of jack na's characters in this reboot. Especially with the new ah xiang appearing, and calling da nai nai her master (shifu)! i just knew da nai nai wasn't someone normal because of her able to not let lubu feel her presence, being there during the moterbike contest. And now he turns out to be a guy! I'm still betting on Siren because of so many reasons (no palce here to write) or Hong Long

Well considering this ask was probably sent some time ago I’m just going to leave it at that...

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A reaction to your fav charrie, Xiu, he would be my favorite too. he has indeed opened up and I really just love how he grew. he did have character development because he was like, i only play rock not take aprt in love yet he developed a crush on han and then fell in love with ah xiang. he's also like the key in almsot all the series except for the ones he didn't appear in and copper dim. since he has a counterpart over there. This character grew together with the viewers imo :D

Haaha I didn’t get any notifications for the messages until today hahahhh.

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My theory is that the new Ah Xiang is originally from Gold dimension (writers probably doing the same they did with Xiu and Ah Xiang because they're probably "tired" of thinking a new plot) then she went back to Gold dimension with Zhi Ge because true love . Please let's kill the writers.

What if 2017 is a fever dream and KO3anguo 2017 isn’t really happening and none of us are really “alive” and everything is just a collectively projected image perpetuated by the government because of a very serious alien invasion that would other wise instill so much fear in humankind that we would turn against each other and kill each other until there is nothing but the aliens on this green Earth.

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At first I was somewhat raging over the reboot of KO3anguo but I decided to make peace with it after awhile. Then they decided to bring out Iron Dimension spells (U-Pod and Xiao Bing Qi Ni) with Silver or possibly Gold residents (Da Nainai&Ah Xiang) and piss me off again

It’s all very confusing, I agree, but there is a chance that the two dimensions just have very similar Yi-Neng using methods. Like in Copper and Gold, the Yi-Neng users have enhancing weapons and typically fight with them. As for the Gold residents, I honestly can’t fill in the hole for the writers there, man. I do know that the actress that plays this Sun Shangxiang is in the coming KO One 5 so… I don’t think anything crazy will happen?

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Who is your favorite character (not actor), and why?

I love all of the characters like they are my own children, but if I can just exclude the installments past the original three, it would be Xiu.

From the mysterious man that we saw at the latter half of KO One and the cold and calm man in The X-Family to the man we see being vulnerable for all the people he loves so dearly in KO 3anGuo, Xiu’s character development fascinates me the most in the series. Maybe I shouldn’t call it character development and it’s better described as him opening up, but to see a character flesh out like that in three installments places him at a special place in my heart.

Now, I’m not excluding the latter installments because I’m a bitter old lady… I’m kidding, that’s partly the reason. It’s just that in the latter installments, Xiu kind of became the “I’m here to push the plot along” kind of character for me and his significance in the series is diminished, in my opinion. Which makes sense – Shu Chen wants to focus on his music career and many appears on the ZJ series to promote his music – and it’s completely fine, I just feel like my love for the character has mostly been set by the first 3 installments and no other character has made me care about them the way I care about Xiu’s character.

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Hey, I saw a video on youtube, explaining some possible theories about the explanation why KO 3anguo 2017 is repeating history without wiping out the original characters (since Ah Xiang still exists) & most ones where about interdimension quakes & such but what 1 thing got my attention is: King took them to silver dimension, she can't differentiate between left & right, travelling thru dimensions is like a maze! could she have possible lead them to the wrong direction, ending up in another dim.?

That is the funniest theory and the only one I will accept from now on. King took one wrong turn because Xiu said to turn left and she turned “left.”

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I do have to say, I like the new dong zhuo more than ah gong's character... (i'm surprised he's not that old as i thoguht he was, maybe cause he played ah gong so i thoguht he was like at least 70 xD) so i like the new actor for dongzhuo while i'm getting more and more awkward with the new lubu, .... That aside a new charrie of jack na appeared, they ebtter explain all these charries for me before end of this series

Ideally, the writers would, but with the history of the series, there’s a chance that they won’t.