Knavery

Hong Kong TV is so typical with the cheesiness in its humor and innocence overall.

I was a little surprised with how the last episode ended it. Overall I enjoyed it despite all the twists and turns that felt like overkill.

I wish the sound on the videos was better. It sounds like they recorded their lines in soundrooms. And that's probably how it happened but still... it kind of makes the drama subpar for me.

The story is alright, I'm not sure how it's much better than the Wallace Huo one. It's good they avoided some of the big names but they should have invested in making sure things like sound were excellent. They did not.

Well I made a donation to CDramaBase to help out the lone person working on youtube, hopefully a few other people can contribute but regardless, I am just hoping it gets subbed.

How similar is this to NiF 1? Are the broad details exactly the same from the start to the ending? Like the sick mysterious and brilliant male lead? I don't want to spoil NiF but an ending like that too?

And she's flying back to China for what I assume is spring break (assuming she's an international student at a university somewhere in America?) so we might not see updates for a while depending on whether or not she can get access to youtube in China.

Hard to believe it's only one young woman working on it. Hopefully she keeps it up and gets some help. I'm crossing my fingers but I'm still thinking I might try that donation route via CDramabase if for personal reasons she has to stop and no one else picks it up.

I know they probably don't come here but thank you to anyone involved in subbing this.

I think I have the opposite problem where the vast majority hover around 7-7.5... sometimes I'll go back after a few weeks or months or after a re-watch and think back on what I watched and maybe rate it a bit lower or higher.

It was alright, I'm not sure why they need to reinforce the whole Communist Party/Nationalism theme at times. You get to see people's lives at around the time China moves from the rural poverty of Mao to the economic development and capitalism that has existed for the past several decades.

This wasn't a beautiful or happy drama, it was pretty dark at times, sensible at others (again aside from the nationalism to satisfy the Communist Party). I stayed to watch the interaction between one of the male leads, his career and the 2 women in his life. Bittersweet ending.

This looks like it could be a pretty good and interesting story. Hopefully it gets subtitled.

It got less funny as the plot moved along but it was alright. I don't usually have high expectations of comedies so maybe that helped me enjoy it.

Yay, I'll wait a few days to see if it gets subs and if not maybe I'll see about donating.

Count me in. I think CDramaBase or some other site said the show would be uploaded to youtube and they would try crowdfunding... I'm still waiting.

Still sending in a request about once every week or two to DramaFever & Viki.

Seems to be working tonight(?)

I think one thing to look at is more customization for profile page similar to what is now available to the "My Watchlist" page. Obviously the Profile page as it stands right now is a bit more complex but i think that should be a goal.

They should have made it more clear. There is a "Custom Theme" option where you can edit a CSS box. There are a series of templates (I'm using one) that were created already if you prefer them or don't have the knowledge to make a custom one.

I decided to go ahead regardless and do my part to help out... I have the money and I don't mind $35/year despite it not being that great in terms of pure value.

Family rituals and family visits are different. When I visit my family the expectation isn't that I'm going to work a full day. It's that we're going to spend time together doing something. If we're meeting for a lunch or dinner we all bring something, the person hosting cooks the main meal. We switch hosts between us for each holiday/year because obviously the main meal is the most time consuming and takes the most work.

As for the overall drama, it was average and typical for the most part. It's funny because you can see the writers and director are trying to make a "better" romance TV show but I didn't see it.

I think that makes it worse, doesn't it? I picked the top ones of each to see: Japan's top grosser has been out since July. South Korea's has been out since December 20th.

Surprising how little Japanese movies gross compared to Korean films given population size and the insistence of Japanese "oh it's our movies that are great, not our TV shows".

As you might see from my avatar, I watched Bad Genius and really enjoyed it. Haven't seen any of the others and don't really intend to.

It was disheartening to hear and see self proclaimed communists debate and get mad at people who had fled East Germany and the Soviet Union.

I think these days there are fewer of these self proclaimed communists on campuses but they still exist and they are a bit louder with the power of the internet.

It's just hilarious and sad to see some 20 year old British kid try to lecture a guy who grew up in the Soviet Union about what the Soviet Union was really like.