ep8 I feel as if this drama is happening to real people in real time and a ripple went across the world when we all heard the following: when Hye-Jin announced that she was going to PUNISH Dong-Man by producing his script on a government grant!
I like the way that even the women who prove to be villainous are given their moment in the show to speak their piece, to demonstrate what may be stupidity or grudges and bad character on their part, but is still human.
They struggle desperately in the house hold of a toadying creep; his affection, shallow as it is and weak as he is, is the prize. The women have no recourse and no escape. He is their primary misfortune.
Concubine Song and her daughter Lan become complicit in attempted murderer along with their truly evil nanny. Perhaps if they had had better or stronger innate characters they could have lived peaceably with Madam Ji.
However the household itself was ruinous because of the character of the master. He closed his eyes to their treatment of Madam Ji, since he was indifferent to the wife he had only married for money.
I am doing a rewatch, and for a very short series on a very low budget it is still cute. The long conversations between the webtoon writer and the cat Bok Gil are really the highlights of the show and they are totally worth tolerating everything else as well!.
The FL is definitely the weak point -- the character is intrusive and clingy and the actress is weak on skills. But the cat and the mood and the story are just great! And there are two of my favorites as supporting characters (Lee El and Kim Min Seok) and one real idol (Solar of Mamamoo) plays a near-famous poet.
And Yoo Seung Ho is a really pretty boy, old-style.
me too. I think there might be a makeup change finally coming in SK. Esom usually looks like a shiny-faced gothic type. Here she had more translucent makeup, as did the rest of the cast; facial muscles show, eyes are less fantastic, people look healthier.
Yoo Yeon Seok's transformations while being possessed have been astonishingly funny and wonderful! Just finished the show after several stops and starts. Only now do I see how well it was structured. Really a pleasure to watch.
Yes, I thought that was great. However the Korean creative community is currently way ahead of the kdrama audience…
Distinguishing between film and drama communities. Sorry for the ambiguity. Not sure why this is, but in drama (except for BL obviously) the community seems less likely to take risks. But then again, here comes Soulmates. I am so on Mr.Chu's side in the choices he is making.
Only at Ep12 (Viki in US) Great episode though. Great episode. I really like the way Ren Min is carrying the weight of developing her character's re;ationship with Third Master. Although she is, in herself, a strong and decisive personality, she doesnt confuse standing up for herself with respect and proper behavior with an older and powerful person who is a very close ally of her family in Tongzhou.
Although she doesnt have conscious feelings towards YanYun, she has been sending out emotional feelers to find out what he expects of her, how he wants her to behave in her family and in public. So when she talks to him she always begins with a very open gentleness with a built in ask, what would he like her to do?
It is really very tender and charming and a breath of fresh air. She is not a willfully impulsive person at all but a deeply intelligent one with a high EQ. A fighter who can think on her feet. I do hope the path to marriage between her and YY is not too long.
am i the only one who doesn’t like the ml? no one in that drama deserves the fl tbh. the ml is very manipulative…
To each their own. Third Master is one of my definition for heat -- a classic romantic tsundere but with those excellent Chinese acting skills which Ci Sha uses discreetly for nuance. I hang on his every glance at this point.
Jin Chao treats Third Master's wound. Very nice progression of feelings. Perfect.ep12 beginning wonderful scene treatment, use of sound of rain, the image of the fire,
I loved the way yesterday the conspicuous consumption of the Ming period was portrayed. Nice to have an accurate background for the period, in broad strokes of course. Really puts a more of a point on the usual anti-corruption theme in Cdrama; the RL cadastral regulation is usually more a part of the reorganization of a centralized government (with good information collection). Of course the older elite hates it too. Good information mean good tax revenue which a stronger central government needs Sorry for rambling on. TMI. But it does make the context more exciting for the nerdy.
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I feel as if this drama is happening to real people in real time and a ripple went across the world when we all heard the following: when Hye-Jin announced that she was going to PUNISH Dong-Man by producing his script on a government grant!
8 on mdl is a 9 anywhere else! She says loyally.
that so did not go the way I expected!
I agree with everyone, it is astonishing how this writer continues to surprise us!
They struggle desperately in the house hold of a toadying creep; his affection, shallow as it is and weak as he is, is the prize. The women have no recourse and no escape. He is their primary misfortune.
Concubine Song and her daughter Lan become complicit in attempted murderer along with their truly evil nanny. Perhaps if they had had better or stronger innate characters they could have lived peaceably with Madam Ji.
However the household itself was ruinous because of the character of the master. He closed his eyes to their treatment of Madam Ji, since he was indifferent to the wife he had only married for money.
The FL is definitely the weak point -- the character is intrusive and clingy and the actress is weak on skills. But the cat and the mood and the story are just great! And there are two of my favorites as supporting characters (Lee El and Kim Min Seok) and one real idol (Solar of Mamamoo) plays a near-famous poet.
And Yoo Seung Ho is a really pretty boy, old-style.
Just finished the show after several stops and starts. Only now do I see how well it was structured.
Really a pleasure to watch.
I am so on Mr.Chu's side in the choices he is making.
lovely episode.
Great episode though.
Great episode.
I really like the way Ren Min is carrying the weight of developing her character's re;ationship with Third Master. Although she is, in herself, a strong and decisive personality, she doesnt confuse standing up for herself with respect and proper behavior with an older and powerful person who is a very close ally of her family in Tongzhou.
Although she doesnt have conscious feelings towards YanYun, she has been sending out emotional feelers to find out what he expects of her, how he wants her to behave in her family and in public. So when she talks to him she always begins with a very open gentleness with a built in ask, what would he like her to do?
It is really very tender and charming and a breath of fresh air. She is not a willfully impulsive person at all but a deeply intelligent one with a high EQ. A fighter who can think on her feet. I do hope the path to marriage between her and YY is not too long.
beginning
wonderful scene treatment, use of sound of rain, the image of the fire,
Sorry for rambling on. TMI.
But it does make the context more exciting for the nerdy.