Everyone loves episode 5. Just to add my little favourite scene to the growing list of great lines and scenes, all of which I also loved; Mi-Ran the actress venting at how to do method acting on one more moronic female role.
I really had a good time watching this! What is a good Chinese costume drama without multiple poisonings and suicides? So absolutely Gothic. Some like horror for the same ridiculous feeling of liberation amidst the makjang. Incest too, lost siblings, motherless children, such a pile up! And then with that last minute time-jump and a nod to all the female generals out there, the FL goes out to find herself and comes back after maing lots of money and learning how to fight. So crAZY.
I'm really glad to see that the courts are taking action on this kind of thing. There have been several cases…
People need to learn that the same rules apply to posting as to all forms of public speech. Defamation and slander are crimes, civil ones?, I guess. Once that fact sinks into the regular person's consciousness we wont have so many nasty cases of harassment of our actors who work so hard.
Although I like the idea of her starting her own production company away from all the toxic colleagues, I wouldn't…
True although I am sure that the mother could probably doll up an investment somehow to make her look better in the public eye -- nothing so criminal as an actual threat. It is a reality that the mom behaved horrifically and that Eun Ah is so damaged that she hasnt been able to figure out what to do about it. Just a word to a reporter and Mom is toast. No threat, a reality. It is on the mom to fix that, not Eun Ah. A big fat apology is needed, and money always helps.
Ep4 I was thrilled when Hye-Jin said firmly to Eun Ah's ex that he must either credit his female writing partner as a co-writer on his script, or get explicit permission not to do so.
Hye-Jin didnt know she was talking about Eun Ah. She, as the head of a production company, was clearing any potential legal problems in advance. He tried to bluster his way out of it and she very crisply told him that anybody in the business could tell which parts his friend had written.
I hadnt been listening to his name when Eun Ah had pretended to her grandmother that they were still dating. So I was surprised when I realized who he was mid-meeting with Hye-Jin. But terribly thrilled at how succinctly and matter-of-factly the matter was dealt with.
I have really liked both Hong Min Ki's and Shin Ye Eun's work lately. Not sure what LJW needs to put out a better fperformance lately but hope he has it here. He is one of the seniors in this group. Hope all has gone well for everyone in production. Looking forward to getting to know Lee Soo Kyung and Kim Yoon Woo.
Ep16 I am still having a good time! Why take this too seriously? It is only a short form Qing era story, it doesnt have to be great literature. A friend calls it neo-gothic. Love that about it too.
I like the FL, she reminds me of a scrappy friend of mine, a lovely wild flower who can stand up to the strongest wind. I think the General has bedroom eyes and keeps nicely offering to help make a baby, what's not to like?
True comedy surprises and opens your eyes. This one has a MAMMOGRAM!!! I laughed and laughed!!!
A true Zhang Qing Jie project, this drama just goes a little bit beyond, while still fitting perfectly into its particular genre. Not ironic not self-deprecating but somehow wickedly cheerful about its very existence.
Thank you Lily Alice for this article. It could have been shorter, and I dont endorse repeating everything just any celebrity says. Also I am no fan of Jackson's work, just of him as a thoughtful intelligent person out there. He said some really good things in this interview that made even me, an elderly woman with completely different life experiences, think positively and review what I have been through.
But most importantly we are seeing a real push by China to export cultural products that goes beyond the more stuffy usual. I think its good, I think it affects the production of Cdrama and even if JW seems a little far afield I think he shines a positive light on the process. It is important to separate out creators from the state processes which may support them or create obstacles for them. I feel as if my responsibility as a consumer is to look at the art from the point of appreciation, part of which is keeping a perspective both on the limitations artists use with such creative ingenuity in the East, and the more usual aesthetic considerations.
I have finally started watching this, am at ep21. Chen Kun is the hottest thing ever. How can that man have been 45? He is also a brilliant actor, and it looks like he got stuck in action films after this?
Anyway, the take on palace intrigue as endless skirmishing which crushes the soul is one of the ways I can relate it back to Zou Yue's s cripts, like POJ.
It’s true for any cdrama. How can non Chinese person fully grasp it although they can still enjoy what they…
I realized I was going to be missing half the script for a Cdrama ever after when I watched Joy of Life 1 a year or two back. You can literally see the actors delivering good punch ;lines and waiting that millisecond for it to hit. It makes me feel like I am 6 again, trailing around after the grown-ups trying to guess their jokes.But it is still fun -- as long as the subtitles give us something silly to laugh at. In LBFAD the Demon King just keeps saying 'whatever' and it had me rolling in the aisles.
Why did Wei Yan received death penalty while Li Jing (grand tutor) who committed treason was not punished?
I think about it as total human suffering plus personal karma: Wei Yan's totals include all retainers associated with the tiger tally, the Jizhou massacre itself which includes the death of the Crown Prince, his treatment of family, including bringing up the ML without love to be his weapon, then we have his affair with a royal concubine. The Old Emperor was a bad guy, so was WY trapped? Maybe. But should he get another chance? Only for the sake of the family he despised....BUT he was sexy, focused, extremely powerful and manipulative, a mensch in this life. He got a death without humiliation. Li Jing was an autocratic creep too, but his sins were arrogance, pride, stupidity (he backed the wrong person for the job) and treason. His punishment was to have the position he cared for so much taken away, much crueller than death.
My feeling is that the show had its own standards -- loyalty to the state was way down on the list of values. Protecting the inoocent was very high. Sincerity in love was very high.
The largescale slaughters -- Lin'An, JiZhou were counted precisely in terms of lives. The Imperial Family were small potatoes, their world a perverted one.
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Just speaking the truth is so liberating.
Incest too, lost siblings, motherless children, such a pile up! And then with that last minute time-jump and a nod to all the female generals out there, the FL goes out to find herself and comes back after maing lots of money and learning how to fight. So crAZY.
I would like Eun Ah to somehow blackmail her horrible mother for enough money to start her own production company.
I was thrilled when Hye-Jin said firmly to Eun Ah's ex that he must either credit his female writing partner as a co-writer on his script, or get explicit permission not to do so.
Hye-Jin didnt know she was talking about Eun Ah. She, as the head of a production company, was clearing any potential legal problems in advance. He tried to bluster his way out of it and she very crisply told him that anybody in the business could tell which parts his friend had written.
I hadnt been listening to his name when Eun Ah had pretended to her grandmother that they were still dating. So I was surprised when I realized who he was mid-meeting with Hye-Jin. But terribly thrilled at how succinctly and matter-of-factly the matter was dealt with.
Not sure what LJW needs to put out a better fperformance lately but hope he has it here. He is one of the seniors in this group.
Hope all has gone well for everyone in production.
Looking forward to getting to know Lee Soo Kyung and Kim Yoon Woo.
I am still having a good time! Why take this too seriously? It is only a short form Qing era story, it doesnt have to be great literature. A friend calls it neo-gothic. Love that about it too.
I like the FL, she reminds me of a scrappy friend of mine, a lovely wild flower who can stand up to the strongest wind. I think the General has bedroom eyes and keeps nicely offering to help make a baby, what's not to like?
A true Zhang Qing Jie project, this drama just goes a little bit beyond, while still fitting perfectly into its particular genre. Not ironic not self-deprecating but somehow wickedly cheerful about its very existence.
He said some really good things in this interview that made even me, an elderly woman with completely different life experiences, think positively and review what I have been through.
But most importantly we are seeing a real push by China to export cultural products that goes beyond the more stuffy usual. I think its good, I think it affects the production of Cdrama and even if JW seems a little far afield I think he shines a positive light on the process. It is important to separate out creators from the state processes which may support them or create obstacles for them.
I feel as if my responsibility as a consumer is to look at the art from the point of appreciation, part of which is keeping a perspective both on the limitations artists use with such creative ingenuity in the East, and the more usual aesthetic considerations.
So I think you made a good choice with this one.
Anyway, the take on palace intrigue as endless skirmishing which crushes the soul is one of the ways I can relate it back to Zou Yue's s cripts, like POJ.
Li Jing was an autocratic creep too, but his sins were arrogance, pride, stupidity (he backed the wrong person for the job) and treason. His punishment was to have the position he cared for so much taken away, much crueller than death.
My feeling is that the show had its own standards -- loyalty to the state was way down on the list of values. Protecting the inoocent was very high. Sincerity in love was very high.
The largescale slaughters -- Lin'An, JiZhou were counted precisely in terms of lives. The Imperial Family were small potatoes, their world a perverted one.