I love how An Ju Heyong was just like a sensei in this episode (ep 9), just helping everybody out and everybody…
Going from calling his teachers "Saem" in School 2013 and now becoming "Saem" 😅 (not sure how to write the romanized spelling of the nickname for teacher ("seonsaengnim") that always crops up in the high school dramas; I think this is it?).
There was one episode (I can’t remember which) where Mudan finally found out who killed her mother and she ended…
Kinda reminds me of the Dutch Tulip Craze.
Ah, so they don't do well in China unless carefully tended to? Thanks for sharing; I don't know much about them, but I do love peonies. I think they're stunning flowers! I fell in love with them when I traveled to England and saw them growing beautifully with gigantic blooms.
When I was a child, our family used to get Chinese food every New Year's Eve for many years from a place called Peonies, but we didn't know about the plant back then (we're from California and they don't grow well here at all, so you don't come across them often in gardens and such) so we pronounced the restaurant name incorrectly as "Pee-own-ees" (emphasis on "own"). 🫣🫢 We know now how to say it, but the name stuck and we still refer to it with the incorrect pronunciation for the sake of tradition. 😅
There was one episode (I can’t remember which) where Mudan finally found out who killed her mother and she ended…
Are peonies not supposed to get wet? In the opening scenes of Episode 1 of FL she kept trying to keep them from rain (so confused by this), but I've seen peonies in garden beds in England (so much rain there), and they looked as happy as clams.
Season 2 requires more patience. It’s similar to Season 1 but it starts to drag and test our patience when it…
Ah. Honestly, there is a part of me that gets that this happened. Season 1's frustrating/disheartening historical scenes/characters/themes (even the leads' vow not to marry, which in a rom-com costume drama would be for funny content later, but in this felt a bit ominous, to say the least) threatened to overshadow the cozy parts, and I felt wary of the leads "getting together" because it does feel like this story/writer is prioritizing social commentary over pleasing viewers who want cozy, happy, functional interactions between characters.
And the main theme from Season 1 seems to be that no one during this time period can do what they really want, even the Emperor. So... doesn't bode well for the leads, I suppose. Bummer! I don't mind social commentary, but don't throw in a basically functional, modern, healthy couple and tease their happiness (certainly should have left out all those adorable scenes with the ML's aunt matchmaking), but when push comes to shove subject them to this theme after all. It feels like a bit of a low blow. 😅
Figure out what kind of show you're writing, please! Sheesh. 🙄
Season 2 requires more patience. It’s similar to Season 1 but it starts to drag and test our patience when it…
Oh dear, this doesn't really give me much hope. 😅 Another user said they felt the ML got shoved to the background in this season. He's one of my favorite parts, so if that happens, I'm not sure I can hold on, haha. He and the FL were the bright spots last season for me.
They grew up together. The least they could do was visiting at the holidays ... Disappeared for 9 years and only…
I felt like that the time skip was so they could make them mid/late twenties in the later half of the drama, but it did feel really, REALLY long, didn't it? It was sometimes hard for me to believe that Jian Jian actually did care about them as much as she claimed to because she really didn't put in as much effort as the boys to stay in touch (though, like you said, they never visited, either), and was so distant for a while when they returned. I sometimes found her a bit frustrating.
Maybe a $1000, 14 hour flight makes sense to keep close family apart for NINE YEARS in the like the 80's at the latest, but in the 21st century? I agree it felt a bit too dramatic for the sake of creating angst.
Ah, so they don't do well in China unless carefully tended to? Thanks for sharing; I don't know much about them, but I do love peonies. I think they're stunning flowers! I fell in love with them when I traveled to England and saw them growing beautifully with gigantic blooms.
When I was a child, our family used to get Chinese food every New Year's Eve for many years from a place called Peonies, but we didn't know about the plant back then (we're from California and they don't grow well here at all, so you don't come across them often in gardens and such) so we pronounced the restaurant name incorrectly as "Pee-own-ees" (emphasis on "own"). 🫣🫢 We know now how to say it, but the name stuck and we still refer to it with the incorrect pronunciation for the sake of tradition. 😅
And the main theme from Season 1 seems to be that no one during this time period can do what they really want, even the Emperor. So... doesn't bode well for the leads, I suppose. Bummer! I don't mind social commentary, but don't throw in a basically functional, modern, healthy couple and tease their happiness (certainly should have left out all those adorable scenes with the ML's aunt matchmaking), but when push comes to shove subject them to this theme after all. It feels like a bit of a low blow. 😅
Figure out what kind of show you're writing, please! Sheesh. 🙄
Maybe a $1000, 14 hour flight makes sense to keep close family apart for NINE YEARS in the like the 80's at the latest, but in the 21st century? I agree it felt a bit too dramatic for the sake of creating angst.