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[Spoilers] Link Click (Shi Guang Dai Li Ren) - Episode 11 Discussion
what are your thoughts on the season 1 finale? ill be honest i really thought that this show was only going to be one season, that ending was so unexpected for me lol. it gives them a good jumping off point for a season two!! this was a really exciting finale :)
edit: season 2 is confirmed!!
the season 1 finale was a ride in itself, but i loved the plot twists! also season 2 is confirmed :)
when is it?
oh those sleepless nights that await me
i'm pretty sure the date hasn't been confirmed yet!
I read some comments in the fandom claiming that it would be released in 2 years
oh, interesting. so far, the only thing certain is that season 2 is confirmed due to the translation of the chinese that was displayed at the end of episode 11.
the suspense of the episode, the final part of it, holy shit, I am in shock, I am so ready for a second season, omfg this was so good (i juuuust finished it so i am not yet forming coherent thoughts about it can you tell lmao)
Tears in my eyes this was the greatest thing i have watched in a while hyped for the 2nd season
can someone explain the last 5 minutes to me this was too much for me
let me explain this to you. (I hope I make things clear.)
First of all, the killer calls cheg as his 'true friend' as their abilities are similar. cxs also possess the body in the photo. Just the killer's ability is more advanced. (they can possess many people.)
As for the flashbacks, it was to show that possession overrides the body capabilities.
I mean to say is.
like for eg. That child getting enough strength to beat that woman.
or cxs vision blurry with spectacles as he doesn't wear them in the present. (his eyesight is good.)
And the most clear one is liu min. his body should be paralyzed but he is able to walk after the killer possesses him.
and as for the killer admitting his wrongdoing, it's just his ego and his superiority personality. (well Idk what we call it lol)
cxs took advantage of that. And the killer doesn't care. that's the biggest point. after all, as he said. he can't be captured as no one knows who he is.
does anyone know what is said in the end credits?
I just found out about this show and decided to binge-watch it. I don't want this, I don't know what I expected but I DIDN'T EXPECT HIM TO DIE! Is he gonna be dead dead? No show has ever made me this shocked before. I'm gonna be honest with you, it took me a minute to finally understand what happened at the end. Started laughing cause I was in denial lmaoo
Luckily there is a season 2! Thought it would only have 1 season.
Maybe this is just wishful thinking but I really don't think Lu Guang is gonna die? Like come on, we're probably gonna need him in season two to defeat the bad guy... right?
But yeah I was just as shocked as you, I really hope season 2 will be released soon-ish, this show is definitely a hidden gem
I JUST FINISHED WATCHING THE WHOLE THING AND HONESTLY I'M IN SHOCKED WAIT HOW ARE THEY GONNA RECOVER FROM THIS
(Really heavy spoiler stuff starts here)
In all seriousness, though, my theory for why that ending happened has something to do with how the limitations of their powers work. Given how Cheng Xiaoshi was messing with a lot of the nodes in the first season + the anime, the slightest changes could snowball into something else, leaving people who are dead, well, alive. Lu Guang keeps stating over and over again that death is a node that cannot be changed, and it had to stay that way. It's possible that said entity exists because they're the one who's going to balance it out, and it will balance it out through cheating (lmao nice reference) and possessing people who are supposed to die. It may not be shown but it's a possible explanation as to why Chen Xiao's mom still died even if he told her to stay. Anyways, I'm honestly devastated about that ending because I love them three :( i am hoping that the game reset means that it's either going to be a loop or an actual game where they have to do certain tasks in order to save (insert person) from dying askcrjjsxnxh i am suffering ..... Still such a compelling ending tho wtf, i expected someone to die but i didn't expect him to die. CN weeb media loves killing off their precious characters, huh... (cough, honkai impact) (cough, a certain dress-up game)
One of the best shows I watched in a while, binged the entire thing in about a day XD
Just when I think it's going to be a sweet happy ending, comes a totally ming boggling plot twist.
Absolutely Amazing, Loved it!
amazing show. I can't tell now, but for a moment I thought that the killer is a future cheng, like he is trying to change something, maybe they changed the past too much that now he is trying to turn everything back. But well, then Guang Lu says "ability to possess a soul" so idk. Also he didn't know how Cheng's ability worked so my theory seems wrong. But this ending is so good.
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This animation was the first one that has affected me so much. Sure, I'm only on the 5th episode but the whole franchise is amazing and I can admit it right away without any doubt about it. I didn't get attached to any fictional character before and I'm pretty confused how it's possible to feel so many emotions at once. This is probably the best donghua of 2021. The art style is gorgeous, the characters are well-written, and this whole thing is a masterpiece. It was also my first time seeing an opening and an ending with so many effects. That was impressive.
Feel free to share your opinion about Shiguang Daili Ren. From my part, I give it a 10 out of 10.
While it has a good emotional story(sometimes it feels a little melodramatic tho), it kinda fells flat in it's mystery aspect, that is in the second half.
Super late to this but I'm finding that the emotional side falls a bit flat while the mystery feels way more interesting. The emotional stuff is generic and requires blind empathetic obedience in order to buy into it. This series feels engineered for a mystery rather than a melodromatic Kimi no na wa rehash.
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To start―I really didn't like the show. I wanted to make this thread since none of my friends have actually watched Link Click yet and therefore I don't have anyone to make this rant to, and I wanted to hear some of your thoughts. I watched it a little over a month ago and my memory of it isnt that bad, but I still remember how much I didn't like my time watching the show.
I had a lot of complaints in the beginning eps that were just not answered, and everything about the show feels so unaccomplished and vague. I often make this comparison between Link Click and Erased, because both shows have similar errors in the show present, but they're somehow overlooked in Link Click―there isn't any explanation towards the main characters' abilities which is a BIG downside for me. The bigger downside is that neither of the main characters have any character development or backgrounds aside from Cheng Xiaoshi, and his backgrounds don't answer at all why they have this time travel ability. Hell, Erased was much better imo because you can at least watch it all in one straight sitting, whereas Link Click was never going to be good for as long as they didn't explain to me what the fuck was going on in the show, and in the end they never did. And the ending was―just like Erased―very rushed.
I don't really watch a lot of seasonals, but so far it's the worst this year. I don't know, what are some of your thoughts?
Personally I really liked the show and I love the cliffhangers but I do agree with you for unanswered stuff . We know nothing about how they got their powers, we don't know even a little bit of Lu Guang's past and sometimes it could be confusing during some moments.
You right, there are lot of questions which if we move aside, make the story look amazing. There is going to be season 2, and they must tell us how people get those powers because the Villian also got something.
I think it wasn't that good idea to make separate seasons, but also, they have a budget, and it's common nowdays try to make 1 cour show and see how it does, than decide on continuingi also heard somebody say that, but imo its far too late to be expecting any character development or any sort of backgrounds, I think it was something they should've explained over the beginning four eps
To each their own I guess, your preferred way would be too formulaic for me. It didn't bug me because when I watch or read something, I like to assume the creator is top tier and they'll be covering the glaring missing spots some time somehow (I mean if I can see it, the creator must know it too right?) until it's obvious that they won't. They can do it early or late, it's a creative decision (tbh I like the natural voyeuristic perspective the slow approach gives). While it was airing by week, there were a lot of theories floating around. That's also a nice effect this approach brought, creating suspense and community activity. People were especially interested in the protagonists' summer vacation abroad, guessing it could be the origin of their powers. So it's not "no hints at all", just no "hint" hints – no plain hints that will lead most people to the same conclusion and be confident about it, spoiling what could come later as a surprise, but hints that tell you "don't worry there's something to come." Then, if unfortunately the whole show (all seasons concluded) really ends without a satisfying background, I'll subtract a big chunk off the points.
All that said I gave it a <8 rating because I have other issues with the show lolwhat are the other issues, if you can share?
I'm done with my essay.
1) I had many cringe or immersion-breaking moments during the show, for example that Jojo reference made me go 'wtf really. you're that desperate huh' because in Chinese they sound nothing alike. Part of it is my fault, I have like a very high-sensitivity and low-tolerance cringemeter. But I am Chinese so I'll catch these things, while foreigners wouldn't be judging, because they don't know. It's fresh to them. They'd take everything in, thinking "oh China be like that.' They're also less perceptive of nuances, at least not from those crappy subtitles. (Besides the sudden bursts of cutesy simplified cartoon segments, most examples of this are where something is not realistic or doesn't make sense given the setting. From the top of my head ep. 2, 3, 4, 7 had those but 5.5 is especially bad. // Other examples are where I think it's obvious lgbt/fujoshi bait. A popular way to look at it is they wanted to portray lgbt couples but toned it down to circumvent censorship. But it does not look like that to me. It just smells commercial, and sometimes it is even inappropriate, such as misleading the viewers with the atmosphere to make them guess Chen Xiao's crush is the team captain until the real crush shows up. It adds nothing to the story except a "gotcha" to the viewers. Classy.)
2) The emotive storytelling is admitted decent and works on me every time. It's just that while people are stunned and dishing out 10 stars because of it, I'm not, because again, it's not fresh to me. China loves family-themed stories and they always use those techniques (because they do work). Actually I ran into a movie review that perfectly sums up my feelings: https://boxd.it/A0Y7F (Don't worry it's short, unlike this one). If a show uses the FULL set of techniques, I'll start to notice how proficient the director is and it'll come as less genuine. It's like the good kind of cheesy that is also not impressive.
3) Nitpicking of its execution and time travel concept, written out in a MAL post: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1950214#msg64178381Sorry for the long rant. Still I'd like to say I probably still enjoyed it much more than you did. XD
My honest opinion is that I don't care about the characters background. I don't need to know why magic exists in a Disney movie, I don't need to know why supernatural stuff exists in an anime, or really how a character found out about it. I can suspend my disbelief on the details if the rest of the show is so good that it doesn't need it, which imo it didn't need it
I wish we did get that answered though, because I personally love Lu Guang and want to know more about him, but does it actually affect the overall quality? Is it a worse anime because of it? To me, it wasn't. Which, yknow, YMMV on that and I completely understand why that's frustrating, as it does limit how much you can like or relate to a character
If I'm remembering it correctly, Xiaoshi's ability was explained, that people who have a deep connection to Lu Guang can act as a key. I'll have to rewatch it to make sure though. Actually, that's a big criticism I do have of the show, the explanation scenes were cut up and added into multiple episodes, sometimes with new content and sometimes as just a flashback reminder, and even things that were implied but not said got a lot of flashback moments. I get that it was probably to save costs, but that could've been dealt with waaaay better
It's a very, very flawed show, but it is genuinely my favorite of... I wanna say of this year but the only anime I like more than this is from 2017. I love it's concept, I think it was executed really well, I hated how it ended things because the cliffhanger also felt cheap to me, but I loved the grand majority of it. I wish it stayed as relatively episodic and that what connected the episodes to one another was the characters themselves. I loved the first episode because of how it ended, but it felt unnecessary to give that a resolution when... the resolution should've been Xiaoshi realizing the consequences of his actions, rather than finding a loophole to try and fix it.
My honest opinion is that I don't care about the characters background. I don't need to know why magic exists in a Disney movie, I don't need to know why supernatural stuff exists in an anime, or really how a character found out about it. I can suspend my disbelief on the details if the rest of the show is so good that it doesn't need it, which imo it didn't need it
Using that same logic, you can excuse many bad shows like erased for example by completely dismissing the flaws of the show and saying that it is a good show because there are some parts or aspects of the show that you like.
I never watched Erased but I know it's a mystery, and those usually have a bigger emphasis on the reveal. Whodunits kinda rely on there being a person who did it, yknow? And I guess Link Click counts as a mystery, but the mystery isn't the time travel itself.
Where I grew up, the concept of magical realism is a pretty big part of fantasy media. I'm used to reading a book where a widow cries a literal river, or eating roses cures impotence, or whatever. Part of the charm is that things happen and the reader is strung along for the magic, because weird things just happen in this fictional fantasy world. Maybe it's because of that that I feel you don't need to explain the small stuff if the bigger narrative doesn't need it. Idk. Your mileage may vary on that.
There's going to be a season 2 so you can't just give your final rating yet. Maybe you'll like season 2, and they'll probably explain more about the characters' backgrounds too. Personally, I loved the anime, can't wait for season 2.
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but there isnt any hints, and not explaining the details would outright be a plot hole imo, not some sort of inconvenience that we can just ignore because its episodic or whatever
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Notice how if you pay attention there still aren't any backgrounds given... how are you supposed to guess the fundamentals of the power system for the show? This isn't no "Oh, so-and-so's mother died, he might depressed" type of show where you can just piece together some sort of explanation for a thing that happens, this is a supernatural show where the worldbuilding is set to mimic that of real life's therefore this is a show that needs to have an explanation. Since the world is set to mimic real life, everything that should happen in the show that is supernatural would be better off explained as that gives it a much more established ground in the show and it can make it have... better writing? Yes, better writing. Am I supposed to predict that Lu Guang and Cheng formed a contract with a magical girl and therefore have their powers? It's not some sort of thing where you can piece together two or three parts and make sense of it, if you don't explain it it's straight up a plot hole.
I understand if you didn't mind it because you were enjoying it, because in the end it's all for your enjoyment, but you're basically saying I didn't understand the show when everything is obviously in the dark from episode one
Then tell us. What did we miss?
Is true that I did ask myself how they got such a capability, but I didn't dig much into it, I was just that invested in the story. Especially since it wasn't the right time to ask those questions.
The show was following a main plot which needed answers and at that time explainig how the MCs got their power could have maybe ruined the pacing of the story.
Also, the anime ended on a cliffhanger and from how it looks we will meaybe get an explanation.
There's going to be a season 2, so everything is still up in the air. It's like dividing Steins;Gate into two seasons and ending the first one on episode 12 (Yeah, that one) and saying that it sucks / is boring.
However, maybe it's just me, but I don't need the show to put a bib on me and shovel plot into my mouth. Give me a few hints and clues and I'll figure out the rest.
Regarding supernatural stuff I really don't need an explanation. Just tell me they're psychic or whatever and I'll buy it.
I know there's gonna be a season two, but all this supernatural stuff is rushed as hell and the fact that there's no backgrounds towards anything or any explanation is the major reason why I'm not invested into these characters or anything they do. I'm not really that excited for season two, partially because I stll doubt that I'll be getting any of my questions answered.
I guess if you don't care about all this supernatural stuff happening this could be for you but its pretty huge for me
