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Re: Chengli in ep 36

Chengli's disciples calls Gao shigu 师姑 which imply that Gao is Chengli's shijie or shimei (sister sharing the same shifu), so chengli didn't marry her, he must have married someone else.

when there's huge influx of ratings, esp if it's 5 star or 1 star and esp if they come from new accounts, they lock it while they clear out ratings they deem invalid (bot ratings or newbies that just rate one drama but doesn't do anything else). douban clear out invalid ratings regularly without locking, but when there's too many, they probably can't do it fast enough or something?

the rating looks like it's been locked actually, probably from influx of ratings earlier. I say it looks like it's been locked because rating tends to fluctuate as update goes but this is just stuck at 8.6. Not sure when they'll unlock it.

did you look up word of honor? there's shan he ling and word of honor, WoH should be the international version that's eng subbed and not region locked.

look up "Word of Honor" and that version should have the eng sub.

she never commented on it, her weibo is all just audiodrama and a donghua repost (different novel's adaptation), she liked the film wrap up post since the drama acc @ her. It's probably for the best, a lot of her book fans were upset that scriptwriter used vital dialogue + key item from different novel. The scriptwriter meant it as a homage, but some fans found it overstepping boundary since it wasn't a nod, it was stuff central to different novel that have upcoming adaptation. ah well.

look up "word of honor" and that version should have eng subs :)

for reference, there was something like 15 dramas that's 8+ last year (it's closer to 20 now since year end dramas were really strong), less than 10 in 2019, 3 in 2018 (idk what happened that year lol), just under 10 in 2017 (there was a boom of quality webdramas this year), about 5 or 6 in 2016 and 2015 (i can't be sure because i didn't watch some of the dramas at the time so I don't remember their score lol).

9+ dramas in the last 5 years are Nirvana in Fire, last year's thriller Long Night (Bad Kids is stuck at 8.9 rip), then it's dramas most international fans aren't particularly interested in, all aired recently, Like a Flowing River 2 (about economic reform, from 88 to 92), Min Ning Town (about reducing poverty, 90s to early 00s), Awakening Age (early republican, 1915 ~ 1921, literary movement that led to social and political reform)

you can buy the episodes at 3 yuan/ep every tuesday and friday (vvip/on-demand), you basically watch the episodes slightly ahead, eng sub follow the vip schedule and will finish on saturday.

it's like imdb and what most (young) cnetizens use to rate dramas, the industry regularly look at the score. cnetizens are extremely harsh on cdramas because they are bombarded with them, and there's lot of reasons for people rating various popular dramas one star (out of five), plagiarism, scandal related to actor or drama, overpromotion, cheap looking set, tropey characters and plot, bad acting, ugly, actors not being right age etc.

Usually 7+ is pretty good for cdramas, 6+ if it's a idol fluff drama, A LOT of popular cdramas on MDL are in the 6ish or 7ish range, 8+ ones are usually not as popular due to subject matter/subs not being available. It's been slightly inflated in recent years due to huge expansion in users + industry caring more (so there's more bots/paid people influencing the score sometimes). WoH's score is slightly inflated since it's BL (BL fans rate higher but it's just a slight difference), regardless it's a really good score!

it's not literal magic, more established skill in wuxia world, certain people's disgusing skill is just that high level, kind of like certain people can save a dying person?

lol no. that's 源博雅 Yuan Boya, that movie is based on the Japanese novel Onmyouji, his Japanese name is Minamoto no Hiromasa.

Pretty sure it's a "come play the game" easter egg lol.

next saturday if you sub to youku.

it's based on the game not the novel, this was also filmed first.

you can pay a 2 dollar/month to sub youku, and you should get up to 28 ep in english subs (you get one ep a day after that and will finish the drama next saturday). The site is in chinese though and if you are using android, it's little trickier since there's no applepay, someone posted link to tweets showing how to sub in the discussion if you are interested.

there's no reason besides youku purposely prolonging the drama's airing time (domestically, it gets you to watch their other dramas and you are more likely to sub their vip). it's following the non vip schedule they released at the start of the drama. The initial weeks were to build a loyal fanbase of people to watch the drama. A much more dramatic example is tencent's The Sword and the broacade. airing 6 days in a row in the beginning and switching to regular 3 days in second week, then on demand starts on third week..

different writer XD priest and mo xiang tong xiu respectively, in fact I think their (author) fans hate each other but that's another story. WoH share same author as Guardian and Legend of Fei.

the vip schedule is one ep a day, the on demand ep (raws) is basically you paying to watch them 3 days earlier, so you'll see 28 today, 29 on sat, 30 on sun, 31 on mon etc.