HIStory: Obsessed (2017)

A rapist wet dream

This was something else. I don't understand how this qualifies as a romance when there was nothing romantic about it. Don't be fooled, his obsession took the form of sexual assault, which moved to manipulation. Blokes like this are trash in real life, learn to take no as the answer, not as an invitation. Furthermore, don't be playing you crying because you taking advantage of someone and claim it is because you love them so much. That is just crazy.

Story - I think they could have developed it into a proper storyline that seemed to have a build up to obsession, but since it jumped right into obsession... It was not pleasant to try and follow, because it felt as if something was missing the entire time. The ending was just so messed up... That is not love that is just sadness. This is not a story anyone should live in real life.

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Viki lists this as HIStory 1: Ep. 3

I'm an H1O apologist but you should know what you are in for with that title. It has a stalking theme meets fated mates and quite a bit of dubious consent. Uke obsessed with seme to the point of losing himself and his identity dies after being rejected, and then has a chance to reboot his life. He decides to save himself by never falling in love. But destiny is a bitch, and this time the seme becomes obsessed with him.

This one owes a lot to dark Chinese and Japanese BL, but kind of corrects for the expected death and sadness by ending happily and playing with a ton of BL tropes.

The leads have good chemistry, it's higher heat and the first time Taiwan starts to push that, and VERY DRAMATIC.

There is a side dish pairing of disaster bi uke on an enemies to lovers track who also end happy.

If you liked China's Addicted you will probably like this show. RECOMMENDED WITH RESERVATIONS

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The story is fine if you can accept the premise. The acting is so-so - the main character spends almost the entirety of the story crying in a one-dimensional way. The music is utterly oppressive - to the point that if you're a non-Mandarin speaker you're better off turning downthe volume and just reading the story, because otherwise the crying and awful music will make you insane.

The vibe of the story is similar to Addicted/Heroin, but this is a bargain-basement version. The main guy is cute, but not in the transcendent way Timmy Xu is (I just felt a sledgehammer to the chest writing that, because he's so painfully beautiful).

I like that the evil girlfriend ends up being the exact opposite of that.

Anyway, it's only an hour & 10 minutes long, so if you don't like it, it's not like you've wasted a day of your life.

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Reading the synopsis on the website I thought the two main characters were involved in a car accident and to prevent to the car accident, one of the guys get reincarnated to erase their relationship. If they never meet, the two never get into a fatal car accident together. I was wrong.

The series starts with Yi-chen running out of what appears to be a coffee shop after being told by his boyfriend that he is going to marry someone else. Running in tears, he gets hit by a car and dies. He becomes reincarnated with the view of changing his life and ensuring that he never meets Jiang Jing Teng so that he wont be hurt in the future.

He burns the diary pages he has of him but a few blow in the wind which get to Jiang Jing Teng. He begins to like Yi-chen who wants nothing to do with him, but knows that the young man like him. After his accident, Jiang Jing Teng pretends to have amnesia so that he can be get closer to Yi-chen.

The premise sounds good but by the fourth episode, I was really getting pissed at all the sexual assault and kisses without consent. Kissing someone is not the same as talking or communicating feelings. Jiang Jing Teng becomes obsessed with Yi-chen but I didn't know for what reason. Based of a feeling that he should be his? I had expected the obsessed to come from Yi-chen. The Jiang Jing Teng from the future that we saw in flashbacks was completely different that the one that we see in the past. What the hell happened?

I will admit that the last 7 minutes of the last episode made me cry. I had wanted to know the aftermath of the car accident which we did get a glimpse of and some revelations. Overall, the premise was good though I had a few issues. This does not beat History 3: Trapped to me, but I do like some scenes that I have watched a few times.

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Wow I still don't know what happened exactly. You know those trashy webtoons online that have almost the same plotline like the one where the FL is betrayed by her bf and bff and ends up in the MLs bed or the one where the FL dies a horrible death getting tricked by her bff and abandoned by the ML. Well if the latter of the above 2 was made into a live action BL, this would be it. Literally, with the whole rebirth, the "I'm gonna change my life" and the very obvious -the obsessive ML who is obsessive because the other ML won't chase after him.
The story is quite messy (mostly because the whole series is too short for the story to actually pan out properly), the filming is more film class project and less like an actual web series (low budget ones usually are) and the music is so-so.
What is actually worth seeing is the acting. It's amazing. The emotions and angst and the passion. Some characters were surprising, some were as expected but still did the job very well. I just wish that Mu Bai and the senior he was with had their own storyline but I won't hold my breath.

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I watched this series after hearing it mentioned tirelessly as a recommendation in comments on other BL dramas, and i was not disappointed. It got me right in the heart. Compared to other BL series, i found this had a more serious, yet enjoyable plot, and the main characters had amazing chemistry on-screen and off (i recommend watching some behind-the-scenes). I can’t stress how much I enjoyed the acting of the two leads. I know that most people are saying that the time-travel-plot is a common bl theme, but it is really secondary to what the characters are supposed to learn and come to understand from that experience. I couldn’t give 10 stars for rewatch value because i don’t think i can handle watching the leads both crying again ????????

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Moins nul que ce que je croyais

J'ai découvert la franchise des HIStory peu de temps après ses débuts, et complètement par hasard. J'avais vaguement commencé à regarder Obsessed avant de laisser tomber, parce que n'ayant pas de résumé de l'intrigue à l'époque, je me suis retrouvée larguée dès le départ avec cette histoire de réincarnation. Et puis tout le monde parlait du côté toxique de la romance et ça m'avait fait un peu peur, de sorte que jusqu'à aujourd'hui, c'était le seul drama de cette franchise que je n'avais pas vu. Mais à un moment il faut bien s'y mettre (d'autant que c'est la même scénariste qui nous a offert Trapped et We Best Love, entre autres...), désormais c'est chose faite.

On a donc un héros qui se fait plaquer par son chéri (un sale con), et qui meurt percuté par une voiture alors qu'il s'enfuit en courant sans regarder autour de lui. Le voilà réincarné dans son propre corps mais avec un retour en arrière de 9 ans, décidé à prendre un autre chemin de vie et surtout à éviter le sale con en question. Hélas, c'est sans compter le destin, et quelques pages de son journal qui ont échappé au feu, sur lesquelles l'autre va tomber, et qui vont pousser ce dernier à s'intéresser au héros.

J'ai trouvé le scénario plutôt original, n'étant pas familière des histoires de réincarnation à part Until We Meet Again (et les deux n'ont rien à voir), c'était assez nouveau pour moi. L'intrigue manque un peu de profondeur et certaines choses auraient mérité d'être davantage creusées (les choix que l'on fait versus le destin, ou bien la dynamique de leur relation passée par ex.), mais le sujet reste tout de même intéressant. Je ne dirais pas que les acteurs méritent un Oscar mais au moins ça se voit qu'ils s'impliquent dans leurs rôles. Malgré le faible budget, les décors, les couleurs et l'image en général sont plutôt pas mal, la musique est sympa et ne pollue pas le drama, et les scènes intimes sont relativement chouettes, du moins si on les a vues à l'époque où il n'y avait pas grand chose à se mettre sous la dent en matière de BL et où un léchage de cou était déjà le summum du hot qu'on pouvait espérer. Depuis on a eu droit à des scènes d'un autre niveau et on attend davantage des BL asiatiques (surtout venant de Taïwan, parce qu'à part quelques exceptions il ne faut pas trop compter sur les BL Thaï dans ce domaine), mais je comprends pourquoi l'audience a été aussi enthousiaste lors de sa sortie, Obsessed étant un peu plus osé que nombre de ses contemporains.

Concernant l'aspect toxique de la relation, c'est vrai. On a un héros décidé à tout faire pour rester éloigné de son ex / futur petit-ami pour ne surtout pas retomber dans les griffes de ce manipulateur, sauf que l'autre ne l'entend pas de cette oreille et n'a jamais appris le sens du mot "non". Bref, le gars est toujours un sale con dans ce passé rebooté, mais au moins on nous le montre également protecteur, réellement amoureux et il a quelques bons côtés. Je craignais de grincer des dents car je suis très à cheval sur ce genre de sujets et la manière dont ils sont traités, mais bizarrement, ça ne m'a fait ni chaud ni froid. Il faut dire que le héros ne le repousse pas de façon très convaincante non plus, donc à partir du moment où il a pris sa décision, hein, bah qu'il assume quoi... Et puis aussi, peut-être que le court format de ce drama et son côté "amateur" jouent un rôle dans le fait que je ne me suis pas investie plus que ça dans cette romance. Je l'ai visionnée juste histoire de claironner que je me suis tapé TOUS les History, mais ça ne va pas plus loin.

En conclusion, je ne trouve aucun intérêt à revoir ce drama, l'histoire d'amour ne m'a pas procuré de frissons et elle était assez problématique si l'on considère la personnalité d'un des deux personnages. Toutefois, si le fond n'était pas top, c'était quand même moins lamentable que je l'aurais cru et sur la forme, ça reste un drama d'une assez bonne qualité au vu du faible budget à l'époque.
Donc, à regarder surtout si :
- Vous aimez les relations un peu tordues
- Vous n'avez plus aucun BL à vous mettre sous la dent et / ou les BL Thai ne suffisent pas à fournir votre dose de frottages de peaux (et encore...)
- Les histoires de réincarnation vous intéressent (et encore "bis"...)
- Ça vous démange comme moi tant que vous n'avez pas visionné tous les History
- Vous envisagez de pondre un mémoire sur l'évolution du travail de la scénariste Lin Pei Yu au fil des ans.

Sinon, vous ne perdez pas grand-chose.

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Late to the game

I'm watching all of the History Series out of order though seeing as they are all self-contained short stories, it's not a big deal.

What is a big deal is that I wish I hadn't put this on the back burner for so long in favor of other series that ended up being mediocre. This was so good that I am sure to watch it again and again when I want a short, palate cleanser in-between the longer series out there.

The story was fast paced yet still had enough substance to it to keep the audience engaged and entertained. The idea of rebirth yet reliving the same life, as if given the chance to correct one single mistake is complex but handled well enough here. Sure, there's no real explanation as to why or how he was reborn except for maybe the hand movement that Cai Yi Jun did by the riverside though we don't know why it works. Is she a witch or something?

Anyway, if you don't overthink it too much and take it at face value, this was a great watch. The chemistry between the two leads will surely satisfy the more mature audience out there who are tired of the dead fish kisses and lack of connection between leads. I like the forceful ardor of the lead though I know it could be off-putting to the more sensitive viewer. I'd just say look at the title of the story and there shouldn't be any surprises.

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HiStory 1: Obsessed is my favourite episode of the HiStory 1 series.

Obviously, it's super toxic love (and irl relationships like this are big yikes), but what I think a lot of people misunderstand is that the obsessive, possessive love flows both ways from Jiang Jin Teng & Shao Yi Chen; Jiang Jin Teng is just more overt with his possessiveness behaviour. Shao Yi Chen actively stalks JJT and pays such close attention to JJT that he notices his minute shoulder movements when playing basketball.

There is nothing wrong or bad about you if you enjoy this type of storyline, because more likely than not; you 100% do not condone these in irl relationships.

Enjoying problematic themes does not equal YOU being problematic.

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Obsessed is hands down one of my favorite BLs. While the plot is confusing in the beginning and the end, it does not ruin the drama.

The chemistry between the main and secondary couple is just mind blowing. They look comfortable around each other and don't seem afraid to intimately interact with each other unlike in other bl drama.

In addition while this should not have enthralled me as much as it did, the make-up team did a great job

Overall, I give this drama an A because even though the story was a little hard to follow, it is not the main reason for watching it. The chemistry is and the actors blew it out of the water.

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