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anyway special people are everywhere :D but it's not why censorship in china doesn't approve of those endings. i dropped in here from another drama where someone raised a similar question in this thread https://mydramalist.com/776939-again-my-life#comment-25451200

there are plenty of people in UK who try to get to hogwarts through platform 9 3/4 every year. i guess impressionable people are everywhere wth does it have to do with a country.

summit of our youth falls foul of rule 2: don't use it as a plot device. i haven't seen love conspiracy but by description it sounds like it was the case as well. i can only say that those directives they kind of grew organically over 10 years or so, and it's not a question of being harmless or not. just to avoid the risk those decisions would be made by a studio to avoid asituation where they film everything and then not get a license. i dont know about the official guidelines for books but honestly a coma/dream is a quick & easy get out clause to wrap everything up.

no it was not the case of a bunch of lemmings trying to time travel. that's why the methods of "time travel" are not banned. the issue was raised that stories featuring time travel & transmigration distort history.
2 shows that got the ball rolling were "palace" and "scarlet heart" in 2011 (like they were called out by name) and it kinda got formalized in 2017. short dramas became covered by the policy not so long ago (less than 3 years ago)

this is just from my shortened notes. i didn't find a definitive document on it:

"four don'ts".
(sensible overall, not just to time travel)

1) don't distort history.
explaining some historical event being caused by some fictional obscure character and not how it's in history books.
pretty sensible.

2) don't use time travel as a plot device.
concern is it trivializes history and makes it easy to distort it.
someone travels to a real dynasty and has wild adventures with a real emperor.
(note:yeah methods to time travel or transmigrate are not very safe in this situation.)

3) don't tell stories with a "pessimistic view of history".
well it's really about not being one sided. stories should inspire confidence and pride in chinese history and culture, not cynicism or despair.

4) don't fabricate historical side stories.
point focuses more on the method than result.
lack of seriousness and respect for historical authenticity.
like, costumes, materials, everyone is an engineer and has lots of ink & paper to write.

workarounds:
1) amnesia/coma/dream.
2) parallel universes & historical fiction
4) books and video games: destination is a fictional world.
3) body swap & reincarnation (born within the same timeline like with extra consciousness).
modern consciousness can exist in a historical setting without the mechanics of "time travel" being the focus.

i really thought it was a mini like plethora of others but yeah looks like they found a right balance of everything at least in these 6 episodes so far. so yeah will be looking forward to new episodes pity i came in too early :D

there a host is actually FL's mother and the person who she thought was her mother is actually another aunt. so the host dies and gets adopted by that aunt.

it's definitely an improved version but i cant expect a happy end.

yeah, there were a few minis recently with same premise. and one of the verticals looks really close to the plot. i think it's going to be like that ending.

absolutely not. no idea why someone thought that it;s somehow related ( but admittedly curious)

i was re-watching some other drama. thought hey let me check something out real quick in this one ... and ended up binging the whole thing again. except for that little extra in the finale simply brilliant.

i guess they succeeded. definitely no one here said that.

i dont know what you're watching but i thought it was very funny. in fairness it does oscillate a bit.

looks like someone imagined something and then you imagined something else. or maybe it was just you.

eh, i expected it to be vertical in which case it would've been alright.

i didn't see e14 when i wrote that. it really came to this.

yeah and like Ms Song no doubt could arrange for him to go there legally.
also, i'm just bewildered that FL didn't warn her family at all.

coz of that netflix i'm worried they'll geoblock it when it's released

i made peace with it coz, in fairness, 99% of people wouldn't care and dwelling too much on it will definitely affect the pace. most importantly although i have some familiarity with how company law works in "common law" regions and it feels weird to me; it doesn't mean that in china it's not possible.so i'm happy enough to chalk it down to my ignorance. the show has something for everyone so i cant say if it really affected the overall narrative for me.

i'm very glad that waited until it's fully out. it was an effortless binge. enjoyed it very much.

yeah that's the screenwriters for ya, one does all the good funny stuff the other introduces dead babies and psycho women. but after what double happiness's screenwriter friend said ...i'm just going to hang my head in shame.

i think now that the main story is done, it would be great if they made an S2 which deals just with his attempts to lose money based on the novel. something like strange stories chronicles or chinese fawlty towers. something that could be split into self contained chunks with a bit of extra detail. like, if too much included it would kill the pace if review of lonely road is included, but if it deals with just that it would be great. like the big omission from the lonely desert road game was that the game had no "pause" and the car had no breaks :D