Exactly! In the first several episodes the comedy parts were so jarring and out there that they ended up being…
yes, those little hints of comedy were jarring, you used the right word, tnx. I was actually about to drop this drama when a glimmer of hope came out: "Then, you'll sleep with me" (ep 16). The fault is not entirely in scriptwriting, because the dialogues, misunderstandings and conflicts are mostly ok, they follow their inner logic in order to depict the characters. I think the imbalance was created by the lenght of subplots, 8 episodes of Heman arc ending with tragic suicide of general's wife and splitting of the CP were too long and heavy for a rom-com and the things didn't improve with their return to the capital with so many new characters and things happening: a viewer again was kept too busy connecting the dots and figuring out what's going on, left in an uncertainty what was important and what was not. It's a director's job to remedy such flows. Last night I've quickly checked the K-drama from which the main subject was taken: it isn't a great script either, the story looks even less interesting than FYH, but the comedy element was there from ep 1, offering relief and lightness to a rom-com. Luckily, the actors here were very confortable with each other and with what they were doing. They saved the stage.
It took 20 eps to build up some elements of comedy, which is the best-fitting genre for shapeshifting/body transformation or nose-reconstruction in "ancient" (ie., phantasy) time. We've got some (not particularly convincing) hints before, with Tong Sai'er in search of her fiancé or a farting Persian foreteller... and it's a pitty, because this cast is sooo well picked for a good comedy. I would have never expected Ryan Cheng, perfect as a dark, calculative, hot-like-a-hell but mind-twisted Gong Shangjue, was able to deliver here almost an opposite character. But he did it, flowlessly. The comedy isn't even mentioned among the "genres" above and I think not introducing more comedy in the first half of the drama, especially to contrast and smooth the initial rigidity of Jiang Xinbai is a mistake of the authors and it is probably the main reason for a relatively low rating. Lets hope it will improve in the second half, because almost all the actors are convincing in their roles and deserve better ratings.
"Then, sleep with me" --- when I've thought to drop this drama, these few words convinced me to keep watching 👌 Actually, there's a moving sweetness in their (not much believable, shapeshifting, come on!) akwardness that makes this drama watchable
--- want to know too if its worth watching. Even though the cast members are well know actors, still, the story…
it looks better than other "return to the past to redeem" dramas C-productions are so obsessed with (and I usually drop at a certain point, because they reveal themselves as cheap tricks with little or no added value to the topic). The authors certainly poured some money and care into this one: a refined setting, costumes and makeup are fine (more or less coherent with Wei/Jin period), good pacing, logical switch between past and present scenes from narrative pov, no weird filters or camera angles, pretty convincing acting. The story itself isn't great and the dialogues aren't spectacular and yet, the storytelling is convincing. The main leads are a bickering old-new-wed couple, sufficiently entertaining through a balance between serious, funny, resentful and romantic moments. There's a tension, too (political struggle, love triangles from both sides) but it isn't overwhelming or illogical. All in all, this drama has strong points to pass even the scrutiny of a highly picky watcher, notwithstanding some boring trope-inserts into the story, probably present in the original (and maybe not-so-original) novel, like the disguise of the leads (FL, who is a powerful princess... as a belly dancer) to investigate the money-laundring by stealing a ledger, while they could have done (they are powerful people) the investigation with "ordinary means": seizing the assets and arresting the suspect. But if I find it still watchable, I think you may, too
Sorry for interrupting your inquires about 32-36 eps fast speed release, I've just watched ep 31 (machine translation), and discovered an important clue: why those weird hairpins? Lady Fan, promoted at the wedding as FX's matriarch, fanned herself with her hairpin. That "Fan" surname is a part of the plan, right? 😂
Well they don't even have any banks yet so I guess it stands to reason there would be no central bank. You don't…
So what? Having standardized coins doesn't mean having a central bank, it only means having a mint to coint and the force to make those coins exchangeable (=standard). Actually, the (known) world's oldest coins go back to the Iron Age, the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor (1200 BCE–540 BC). Letters of credit are not money. I merchant, lend you, a farmer, money to buy seeds (or fertilizers, or workforce) in March on condition that you sell all the crop to me exclusively, at a this (minor) price in July, which will cover your debt and assure my profit. They functioned even more to guarantee the lender. You are a rich dude who wants smth done by an artisan, but he wants an advanced payment to cover his costs, instead of giving him an advanced payment (he may fall ill, die, have problems of all kinds), you issue him a letter of credit. It's a guarantee you'll at least get back your money from his inheritors. In use maybe before the coins :))) Maybe you confuse the letters of credit with checks, smth similar appeared probably with Knights Templar issued to those going on the crusades or pilgrimages as early as the 12th century, but they were certainly not even a bank, central banks were nowhere in sight. :))) Actually, as Italy is considered "a fatherland of banking", there were and still are never-ending discussions among historians, if before the world-wide known "first bank" (Banco Monte dei Paschi di Siena, evolved from a pawn shop, which existed in ancient China), there was a "Bank of Venice"? The answer is: it depends on what you assume as a "banking activity". And none of these were central banks, of course
There was nothing similar to the central bank in ancient China. The oldest one in the world is Sveriges Riksbank,…
I know, but the setting follows certain patterns from the ancient China history and the remark was "they were not so primitive because they had paper money". Paper money is not related to the existence of central bank. When existed, paper money was a treasury money (guaranteed by an imperial treasury, but of a floating value according to the amount of exchangeable valuables in it), not by a central bank. It was doomed to fail in the moment the treasury was short of money, then it lost its worth.
There was nothing similar to the central bank in ancient China. The oldest one in the world is Sveriges Riksbank, founded in 1668. Modern banking was introduced in China only in late 19th century. There were "shops" which could have dealt with basic banking affairs (deposits versus bearer checks, small loans as working money, security deposits), but not long term investments in bonds. Paper currency lasted less than a century before collapsing during the Ming dynasty.
I am surprised and also not surprised we got a real kiss and not a fishy one. Haven’t seen ZRY lock lips with…
It's because this drama made us expect only unexpected and weird things. The thing we would normally expect in a wedding night scene of a couple in love in any other drama, such as a passionate kiss, in this drama appears so weird and unexpected...
As Eldest Princes is the main villain - screenwriters are keeping her out of our view - so it will be a surprise…
I'm glad you don't think I was rude. I actually don't like War and Peace (if we talk about Russian classics, I'm certainly more a Dostoevskij, or even Bulgakov person, than a Tolstoy person, War and Peace was a long and somewhat boring I ought to finish only because it was an obligatory literature in classic studies). Although picky, I'am omnivourous, the only condition is: the meal (or narrative, in whatever form, written or screen performed) has to be good and contain all the necessary "nutrients" my body (or mind) needs. As I don't snub "street food" if fullfil the criteria, I don't snub popular narrative: among my 10 top readings of all times (and I was a kind of a bibliomane for the most of part of my life) is an autobiography "Open" written by a tennis player Andre Agassi, among "top 10 movies", an animation movie for children The Bug's Life and among top 10 dramas the Turkish series The Magnificent Century, labeled as a "soap-opera" in its own country. Why? Because they are GOOD, very well written and well delievered. Any kind of narrative is "the art" if it can convey and stir up emotions, that's the purpose of all arts. I'm not in a literature business (although I can be counted as an author of narrative, too), but anyone can analyse anything, if it's based on logics. I can't tell if I'm like your mom, but you're certainly very like my son, he is an engineer, too. :))))
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Could you pls post ep 24 trailer, too?
I was actually about to drop this drama when a glimmer of hope came out: "Then, you'll sleep with me" (ep 16).
The fault is not entirely in scriptwriting, because the dialogues, misunderstandings and conflicts are mostly ok, they follow their inner logic in order to depict the characters. I think the imbalance was created by the lenght of subplots, 8 episodes of Heman arc ending with tragic suicide of general's wife and splitting of the CP were too long and heavy for a rom-com and the things didn't improve with their return to the capital with so many new characters and things happening: a viewer again was kept too busy connecting the dots and figuring out what's going on, left in an uncertainty what was important and what was not. It's a director's job to remedy such flows. Last night I've quickly checked the K-drama from which the main subject was taken: it isn't a great script either, the story looks even less interesting than FYH, but the comedy element was there from ep 1, offering relief and lightness to a rom-com.
Luckily, the actors here were very confortable with each other and with what they were doing. They saved the stage.
I would have never expected Ryan Cheng, perfect as a dark, calculative, hot-like-a-hell but mind-twisted Gong Shangjue, was able to deliver here almost an opposite character. But he did it, flowlessly.
The comedy isn't even mentioned among the "genres" above and I think not introducing more comedy in the first half of the drama, especially to contrast and smooth the initial rigidity of Jiang Xinbai is a mistake of the authors and it is probably the main reason for a relatively low rating. Lets hope it will improve in the second half, because almost all the actors are convincing in their roles and deserve better ratings.
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when I've thought to drop this drama, these few words convinced me to keep watching 👌
Actually, there's a moving sweetness in their (not much believable, shapeshifting, come on!) akwardness that makes this drama watchable
The authors certainly poured some money and care into this one: a refined setting, costumes and makeup are fine (more or less coherent with Wei/Jin period), good pacing, logical switch between past and present scenes from narrative pov, no weird filters or camera angles, pretty convincing acting. The story itself isn't great and the dialogues aren't spectacular and yet, the storytelling is convincing. The main leads are a bickering old-new-wed couple, sufficiently entertaining through a balance between serious, funny, resentful and romantic moments. There's a tension, too (political struggle, love triangles from both sides) but it isn't overwhelming or illogical.
All in all, this drama has strong points to pass even the scrutiny of a highly picky watcher, notwithstanding some boring trope-inserts into the story, probably present in the original (and maybe not-so-original) novel, like the disguise of the leads (FL, who is a powerful princess... as a belly dancer) to investigate the money-laundring by stealing a ledger, while they could have done (they are powerful people) the investigation with "ordinary means": seizing the assets and arresting the suspect. But if I find it still watchable, I think you may, too
Actually, the (known) world's oldest coins go back to the Iron Age, the ancient Kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor (1200 BCE–540 BC).
Letters of credit are not money. I merchant, lend you, a farmer, money to buy seeds (or fertilizers, or workforce) in March on condition that you sell all the crop to me exclusively, at a this (minor) price in July, which will cover your debt and assure my profit. They functioned even more to guarantee the lender. You are a rich dude who wants smth done by an artisan, but he wants an advanced payment to cover his costs, instead of giving him an advanced payment (he may fall ill, die, have problems of all kinds), you issue him a letter of credit. It's a guarantee you'll at least get back your money from his inheritors. In use maybe before the coins :)))
Maybe you confuse the letters of credit with checks, smth similar appeared probably with Knights Templar issued to those going on the crusades or pilgrimages as early as the 12th century, but they were certainly not even a bank, central banks were nowhere in sight. :)))
Actually, as Italy is considered "a fatherland of banking", there were and still are never-ending discussions among historians, if before the world-wide known "first bank" (Banco Monte dei Paschi di Siena, evolved from a pawn shop, which existed in ancient China), there was a "Bank of Venice"? The answer is: it depends on what you assume as a "banking activity". And none of these were central banks, of course
But I agree with you: that scene was very... very art
I actually don't like War and Peace (if we talk about Russian classics, I'm certainly more a Dostoevskij, or even Bulgakov person, than a Tolstoy person, War and Peace was a long and somewhat boring I ought to finish only because it was an obligatory literature in classic studies). Although picky, I'am omnivourous, the only condition is: the meal (or narrative, in whatever form, written or screen performed) has to be good and contain all the necessary "nutrients" my body (or mind) needs. As I don't snub "street food" if fullfil the criteria, I don't snub popular narrative: among my 10 top readings of all times (and I was a kind of a bibliomane for the most of part of my life) is an autobiography "Open" written by a tennis player Andre Agassi, among "top 10 movies", an animation movie for children The Bug's Life and among top 10 dramas the Turkish series The Magnificent Century, labeled as a "soap-opera" in its own country. Why? Because they are GOOD, very well written and well delievered.
Any kind of narrative is "the art" if it can convey and stir up emotions, that's the purpose of all arts. I'm not in a literature business (although I can be counted as an author of narrative, too), but anyone can analyse anything, if it's based on logics. I can't tell if I'm like your mom, but you're certainly very like my son, he is an engineer, too. :))))