AleksandraSucur

I've liked and felt everything you've said before Falling into You. I've dropped that drama immediatly. Unwatchable

The greatest female rulers of human history started as underdogs...

Yup, exactly. I didn't see this either, but felt he oughtta be important for QZ. I've told you, under the aspect of making sense and logics, till now, this story has no flows, I am a highly selective person, who drops watching 99pc of dramas and movies (of whatever production or country). That makes me so excited. 😂
Btw, I feel indebted with PeachBlossomGoddess, without her review, I would have missed an awsome movie, Yimou's Full River Red

Her decision is 100 percent logical, imo. She experienced the most machiavellian transformation, her journey to An can actually be considered as a full immersion course in machiavellism. During the journey she became acquainted (thanx to Ruyi) with An's politics and "who is who" there, so now she knows An better than Wu. She learned what power means (for that, she ought to fake being a person of the opposite sex), and she likes the position of power, I'll quote her: I feel I can finally make decisions on my own. After her experiences (with her ex, particularly) she simply can't return to any position where she can't decide for herself, she doesn't need any kind of dependant relation. YL is a true friend, her best male friend, they love each deeply but differently. There's no sign of physical attraction between them, it's just a deep care for each other, and mutual admiration.
Third, she learned (from the best, because both Ruyi and NYZ are experts in the field) she learned how to play "by the ear" because bravery (when intelligent) is related to the "playing by the ear". She is not an underdog anymore, as YL said, she can be whatever she wants 🙂

A person who takes an arrow for the emperor and dies is always "an important person". PBG is an expert here, of course she knows that. But in this case, my intuition was better probably because I didn't miss QZ aggrieved words during their fight with Ruyi. That level of grief was... personal.

The rythm actually slows down between 25-28. Too much unnecessary talks (well, those talks are actually necessary for the audience who doesn't follow attentively, to catch up with characters). After ep. 28 the speed returns and accelerates. You feel on a roller coaster.

"don't fall in love easily but have a child on your own" should be reformulated in "don't fall in love with a jerk but above all don't have children with a jerk". Poor empress had a child on her own, but it would be better if she didn't have him at all

Today's episodes were true rollercoasters. It's good we have a few days of break to settle down the emotions and to prepare ourselves psichologically for final emotional challenges. Re-charge yourselves, hard times are coming to us in three days time!✌️💪

I wouldn't use the term "linear" because the story gives more vibes of a rollercoaster 😅, but I understand what you've meant. There's a suitable expression in Italian when the story is credible: "even if it isn't true, it's nicely figured out" (se non è vero, è ben trovato). So, for a good story It doesn't matter if it's a truth or fiction, the important thing is it makes sense while progressing. Being "nicely figured out" no wonder we are debating about characters, that's what we all do in real life too. My best friend (in real life) once said we are not gossiping so much because we hate other people, but on the contrary: we care too much of them, that's why we waste our time talking about them 😂

The pleasure is mine, JeA. This is the First time I've felt to share my thoughts on MDL. Such a thing would be impossible if I haven't appreciated thoughts of other people here before than. And of course, I think the story really deserves our attenzione. 🙂

A path (envisaged above) to win CY over for the purpose to manipulate her better. He is rational and cunning in everything, but that everything desintegrates when shifu is around. This doesn't happen because he has a double personality, but because he developed a unique attachment to her which is - yesterday you've noticed it well, similar to the attachment Ruyi had with the empress

In reality, the heart is in the middle of our thorax. The main arthery (aort) and main vein are positioned to the left, but the point she indicated DH to stab her is above vital points, that may harm peripherical part of lungs. If someone cooperated in her mise-en-scene, that's DH. He is not such a loyal dog

Yeah. There were several moments in today's eps I've felt the authors wanted to remind the audience this drama is good but remains the work of phantasy. It's utterly good that way

Nope, she meant: only with killing her, LTG can be trusted by the emperor and climb up on a power ladder where nobody can harm him in any way. This was well elaborated by DH in that "small talk" before she asked him to stab her.

I like your profound reflection into the nature of these strong but unusual attachments. It's easy to label and discard certain behaviour as "crazy", "sick" etc, only because perceived "not normal" by the majority of people. When we are tempted to think of something as "not normal" we should first remember what that term means in its origin: "out of the norm" and norms are set by people, it's a confirmation of pre-dominant human behaviour. In a country of drunkards, not normal is a person who doesn't drink. The environment we grow up and our upbringing shape us all and, imho, one of the greatest values of this (phantasy) script/story/drama consists in orienting the audience not to be harsh with their judgements while preserving the sense of justice and decency.

You are totally right 👍about It. 😂😂😂

1) not only there was no strenght, but that was the wrong hammer and even the wrong (pointy) side of the hammer. 😂
2) when people are free to use their brains...

With the pointy side btw 😂, as he was decorating a brass plate, not certainly hammering a goddamn' steal... Too much sugar in that scene...

😂😂😂
I'm too old for that, that's maybe why I can relate with problems of my son's generation 😂
Turning serious, neither Ruyi was obliged to become his "motherly attachment", she just tried to fullfil the tasks her dear empress gave her: teach him martial arts (done) and make a man out of him. The second task is difficult to fullfil by a person of the opposite sex

My thoughts, again. Except that I still feel sorry for LTG, his insane attachment is not his fault, NYZ simply wasn't convincing enough in becoming "fatherly authority" for LTG. 😄
There's still space (10 ep) to come to that result 😅