wasn't planing on watching this one, too many things airing and upcoming, I was sacrificing this one. But I watch…
Well I'm going to dump the extra baggage in the long on-hold, to enjoy that one. Five seconds in and I was already hooked. I did need some belly tickling laughs after TWOT ! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Just love JC-T, Li Landi and all in team !
open end. They "walk away into the bright and shimmering future". I'd say it's a dream, like older people have after a stressful life, facing their sunset years, who cast themselves as forever young, forever happy, forever together. It glosses over the possible painful wounds, the perhaps impossible total healing. I'd say it has "sublimation" qualities, but some insist on painting it darker, which is inconsistent with the rest of the story. Since the pair strove always to save lives, why would they cowardly give up on themselves?
Stop your hate ranting please, it is really obnoxious here!Keep your trash advice where it belongs: in the bin…
No. But since you don't hate Chen Zheyuan or Liang Jie, and appreciated Lighter and Princess (it's nothing like it though), you might give TWOT a try. If you tried One and Only and fled because of the triggers of death by a thousand cuts and the princess jumping off from the wall, then be aware that TWOT is triggering too, but the end can be interpreted as open instead of definitely tragic.
I built a Companion piece in Discussions section which you can have a look at, to have an idea. No need to read that first, though, if you dislike spoilers. I tried not to reveal everything so if you just look into it for some background info, section 1, 2 and 3 are best to read first, and 6 about promotion and reception, and 8, about the music. Section 4 and 5 are about more details, so to avoid too many spoilers when you start, read only the parts about when and where the story is set.
The song "Home" is nostalgic : "Goodbye, my friend, to the laughter and pain we had/Saying goodbye to the endless nights in the rain/../Saying goodbye to the place where I call home." But not really ominous. More like wistful comparing options and letting go of the pains of past to find a more appeased home. The parents had learned to be less intrusive, but the (love)birds needed to fly from the nest. Build their own. Find My Way Back To Life was a song for the struggling times in the rat's maze of psychological pains. "In this darkness, search for a light... Ocean sadness, I'm under attack..." A Zan would not have even dreamed about using it to appease the other ptsd sufferer in Dongguo: only the title seems uplifting.
I sorta finished it. I got to ep 10 but the dynamic between ML and FL was just not enough for me to push through…
Not truly a military drama in my mind... I liked it enough, but admit it is not everybody's cup of tea. Watch what you like is certainly best, and if you did not connect with this story and characters, that can happen... :)
If you want to know if SR changed her mind about something or someone in the drama without referring to book, then you should reformulate your question to make that clear.
If you want an answer about whether the character Song Ran was changed from Novel to Drama version, then of course no.
If you want a further detailed analysis, then I am not the authority there.
I usually don't read the book first to compare with what is made of it. My angle at watching dramas is not to judge accuracy from source material to what is made of it; I am more interested in the way the drama world building goes, and what I wrote about in my Companion piece. I am not that invested in reading the source material! (I might read a book AFTER airing, but I dislike reading flawed translation or struggling to find original novel which is time consuming; I am, in a nutshell: lazy, impatient, whimsical, and only like to share without having to do too much research over what I already did.) So, I only read a few snippets from beginning, random chapter, and end.
There is a slightly different feel, and the background is also slightly different. The Rina (mom of SaXin) character was not in the opening chapter of the book. It looks like Song Ran was slightly different, although the landmine saving seems similar.
There was perhaps a better translation (you may notice the translation did not benefit from proofreading so there are a lot of "huh?" things in the above version) Unfortunately, I did not read it through when it was available so can't validly comment first hand.
Fans on fan sites seem to complain the characters were "done dirty" by the screenwriter's rewrite, so I assume there are some discrepancies in events and perhaps even about intents. Would have to take time to analyze book against drama, and don't feel up to it right now. Sad events for real in my family (won't go into it here), so my mind is less focused on drama and book...
Anyway, wish you luck with your drama digging. Happy you liked TWOT. Meet you perhaps later on Filter which just started. (I like Tan Jianci ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ almost as much as Chen Zheyuan, and am watching Bai Jingting and Zhang Ruonan in The First Frost now mostly to tide me over to something I'd feel more invested in than "dragging fluff" and scarecrow doubles of my favorite Sang Zhi/Zhao Lusi ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and Duan Jiaxu/Chen Zheyuan ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ characters from adorable Hidden Love).
"All men must die" : Valar morghulis in High Valyrian, salutation like "hello" lol(Disclaimer, I am not really…
Don't worry. I was musing about that salutation that reminds everyone that people are not immortal...
If you are not into other pop sub-cultures fandom or exploration, or into linguistics, you don't need to go down that rat's maze. Disregard what's in parenthesis. If you want to know nonetheless, just google GRRM, GOT, ASOIAF High Valyrian, and the rest. But it is in no way necessary to do so in connection with watching TWOT.
It's been a week and I still can't stop thinking about this drama. Most of the time I prefer cute, romantic dramas…
Also strayed to TFF after, also feeling not totally engaged there (perhaps because I, unlike the way I usually consume romances, did read the book first... so no surprise). I think the actress plays better than I expected, she is a great Wen Yifan, frail and conflicted. BJT as Sang Yan is physically impressive, has great charisma, no doubt. Still some sizzle and fluff lacking. For now. It may change. Although it is a very simple story. Onward I go, then, although I will perhaps refrain from commenting again: people keep repeating same questions over and over to puzzle out the links to HL. I already gave answers, and some comments on other stuff, so the gaggle of young ladies there should have some things to think of beyond swooning over WIF sleepwalking scenes. Ah, I should not deny that I don't hate that drama. Despite I do regret the way they portray Duan Jiaxu and Sang Zhi!!
Long story bro😭😭Okay so in novel they get married and even have kids but lizan never recovered from ptsd…
There totally may be another twist on that interpretation, since it is disregarding that the pair are heroes who valued life enough to save other people at all times, so why would they cowardly give up on their own one?
In dreams we see what we hope for and are forever young: this reconciles with the source story too, and it may be the way they see their rejoining in the "great beyond". But there is no indication of when, how, and where (and I also feel, that this nutshell end spares us from dwelling on further sufferings and focuses instead on happiness forever!). The olive tree is grown, so it's a clue that it's somewhere in a future beyond our own and anyway, the shimmering colors makes it more phantasmagorical than real! But at the end of credits, as fellow MDL commenter pointed out, you can see the pair standing without any shimmering under a silver green leafed real olive tree : they might have found a place where olive trees grow, even if that one was not white, to live their remaining life together away from too well meaning busybodies, grow their vegetable patch, use the money from the book and their savings....
wow, although I'm really sad with the ending, I have to admit it is really the most reality-like one. So many…
"All men must die" : Valar morghulis in High Valyrian, salutation like "hello" lol
(Disclaimer, I am not really a GOT fan, but a long time follower of GRRM, so he got my vote for his first twin Hugos, and I was an avid reader of ASOIAF, still awaiting, albeit with diminishing hope, that he'll give us more. But the High Valyrian language concocted for the first series adaptation amused me enough to learn some, as I also toyed with other artificial languages like Esperanto, Quenya, Klingon, Dothraki.... Recently amusing myself with other, real world this time, languages such as Mooré - tougher than it seems: it is a tonal language with some pronunciations akin to mandarin, in my mind!!)
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And that drama start was so funny. Grrrowl!
(But it's no use arguing with that one...)
But since you don't hate Chen Zheyuan or Liang Jie, and appreciated Lighter and Princess (it's nothing like it though), you might give TWOT a try. If you tried One and Only and fled because of the triggers of death by a thousand cuts and the princess jumping off from the wall, then be aware that TWOT is triggering too, but the end can be interpreted as open instead of definitely tragic.
I built a Companion piece in Discussions section which you can have a look at, to have an idea. No need to read that first, though, if you dislike spoilers. I tried not to reveal everything so if you just look into it for some background info, section 1, 2 and 3 are best to read first, and 6 about promotion and reception, and 8, about the music.
Section 4 and 5 are about more details, so to avoid too many spoilers when you start, read only the parts about when and where the story is set.
Am done with your toxic and dishonest rants: blocked you.
But not really ominous. More like wistful comparing options and letting go of the pains of past to find a more appeased home. The parents had learned to be less intrusive, but the (love)birds needed to fly from the nest. Build their own.
Find My Way Back To Life was a song for the struggling times in the rat's maze of psychological pains. "In this darkness, search for a light...
Ocean sadness, I'm under attack..." A Zan would not have even dreamed about using it to appease the other ptsd sufferer in Dongguo: only the title seems uplifting.
Keep your trash advice where it belongs: in the bin !
If you want an answer about whether the character Song Ran was changed from Novel to Drama version, then of course no.
If you want a further detailed analysis, then I am not the authority there.
I usually don't read the book first to compare with what is made of it. My angle at watching dramas is not to judge accuracy from source material to what is made of it; I am more interested in the way the drama world building goes, and what I wrote about in my Companion piece. I am not that invested in reading the source material! (I might read a book AFTER airing, but I dislike reading flawed translation or struggling to find original novel which is time consuming; I am, in a nutshell: lazy, impatient, whimsical, and only like to share without having to do too much research over what I already did.)
So, I only read a few snippets from beginning, random chapter, and end.
There is a slightly different feel, and the background is also slightly different. The Rina (mom of SaXin) character was not in the opening chapter of the book. It looks like Song Ran was slightly different, although the landmine saving seems similar.
Best would be to make your own opinion instead of asking for second hand one. Here is the link to the book version : https://www.wattpad.com/story/337712723-white-olive-tree
There was perhaps a better translation (you may notice the translation did not benefit from proofreading so there are a lot of "huh?" things in the above version) Unfortunately, I did not read it through when it was available so can't validly comment first hand.
Fans on fan sites seem to complain the characters were "done dirty" by the screenwriter's rewrite, so I assume there are some discrepancies in events and perhaps even about intents. Would have to take time to analyze book against drama, and don't feel up to it right now. Sad events for real in my family (won't go into it here), so my mind is less focused on drama and book...
Anyway, wish you luck with your drama digging. Happy you liked TWOT. Meet you perhaps later on Filter which just started. (I like Tan Jianci ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ almost as much as Chen Zheyuan, and am watching Bai Jingting and Zhang Ruonan in The First Frost now mostly to tide me over to something I'd feel more invested in than "dragging fluff" and scarecrow doubles of my favorite Sang Zhi/Zhao Lusi ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ and Duan Jiaxu/Chen Zheyuan ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ characters from adorable Hidden Love).
If you are not into other pop sub-cultures fandom or exploration, or into linguistics, you don't need to go down that rat's maze. Disregard what's in parenthesis. If you want to know nonetheless, just google GRRM, GOT, ASOIAF High Valyrian, and the rest. But it is in no way necessary to do so in connection with watching TWOT.
BJT as Sang Yan is physically impressive, has great charisma, no doubt. Still some sizzle and fluff lacking. For now. It may change. Although it is a very simple story.
Onward I go, then, although I will perhaps refrain from commenting again: people keep repeating same questions over and over to puzzle out the links to HL. I already gave answers, and some comments on other stuff, so the gaggle of young ladies there should have some things to think of beyond swooning over WIF sleepwalking scenes. Ah, I should not deny that I don't hate that drama. Despite I do regret the way they portray Duan Jiaxu and Sang Zhi!!
In dreams we see what we hope for and are forever young: this reconciles with the source story too, and it may be the way they see their rejoining in the "great beyond". But there is no indication of when, how, and where (and I also feel, that this nutshell end spares us from dwelling on further sufferings and focuses instead on happiness forever!). The olive tree is grown, so it's a clue that it's somewhere in a future beyond our own and anyway, the shimmering colors makes it more phantasmagorical than real! But at the end of credits, as fellow MDL commenter pointed out, you can see the pair standing without any shimmering under a silver green leafed real olive tree : they might have found a place where olive trees grow, even if that one was not white, to live their remaining life together away from too well meaning busybodies, grow their vegetable patch, use the money from the book and their savings....
(Disclaimer, I am not really a GOT fan, but a long time follower of GRRM, so he got my vote for his first twin Hugos, and I was an avid reader of ASOIAF, still awaiting, albeit with diminishing hope, that he'll give us more. But the High Valyrian language concocted for the first series adaptation amused me enough to learn some, as I also toyed with other artificial languages like Esperanto, Quenya, Klingon, Dothraki.... Recently amusing myself with other, real world this time, languages such as Mooré - tougher than it seems: it is a tonal language with some pronunciations akin to mandarin, in my mind!!)