EP12 So the romance is over? Or does he already know that she is like that and he will take her back? Like that = completely needy and guilty with regards to her father, completely prideful with regards to her mother. Violent and mistrustful.
And after XieYanLai actually coaxed her back inside to say goodbye to her dying father....
Did she deliberately miss him with that arrow or was it her uncertain aim and she actually meant to kill him? Now is when I agree with some on the DuLing 'look' -- what is going on inside there?
Bro we betting get at least 5 episodes with them being away from each other for 5 years or whatever it is. If…
It should be soon, right? Their exams should be in tomorrow's ep and off they go? right, so ep24 (wed) they will meet up again, all suited up with glasses.
ep 22 fireworks between the leads, literally in one shot. But she is definitely dousing the flames with those looks. They know she is planning to go away for school ....fireworks and accidents from fireworks...didnt they ban private fireworks somewhere in asia last year...
Wow I have never thought about whether or not in china a person can start over after prison. The way Cao Fan is talking to Cao Ping in jail makes it sound much more like the USA than I thought. It is all fiction, but with some truth?
Kdrama draws a picture of an absolute devastation caused to families by the criminal wrongdoing of one of its members. It is such a much smaller country, I guess. All sorts of ingrained prejudices remain powerful there ; I expect you would likely to see similar in rural areas of the c-mainland.
Wow I had no idea this would be so popular on Netflix. It cant all be ex-teachers and current educators out there watching?
I wish this meant that people could somehow figure out a way to fix things for the future. We can never go back to how things were, but the present is untenable and I cant see a way forward.
A lot of people must feel the same way. This show at least relieves some of the tension!
They’ve completely hijacked the political storyline to force-feed us a generic romance plot. Lmao
To put it another way, the political writing and quality of the acting is so strong that many 'hokey' moments have been marshalled into useful submission. Innumerable laments at things undone and unsaid dont make the scenes with her Dad any less powerful. I never would have suspected Zhou Yi Ran of this strain of vulnerability and power which shows itself beneath the usual hot bodyguard role either.
This ep went from brilliant scene to brilliant scene! I was so high on drama.
Her final meetings with her father and the dialogues with him are really classical pieces of writing. The themes of human lament, petty, selfish, despairing and grand..are further developed by her dialogues with YanLai. He is turning out to be a sturdy character, morally. Very clearheaded.
The modern transmigration plot is neatly wrapt up in the useless self-recriminations and desires for a redo that we all can face at the loss of someone close to us.
My instincts all say that this is the modern chinese theatre tradition, international and deeply national, that this is the training from the capital's acting schools.
The wonderfully strange and reserved debates and anti-alliances of Deng Yi, the Grand Mentor and Xie YanFang, the prime minister, likewise have that same lacquered finish.
And Xiao Yun, slowly revealing himself to be the ultimately duplicitous villain, going all mandarin on the poor envoy of the Northern desert alliance. Just wow.
Like all classical efforts, this show can be unashamedly a bit hokey, but also the familiarity we all have with the underlying themes being picked up in each set piece, like all tropes everywhere, leaves one free to enjoy the small perfections as each scene unrolls.
Very satisfying revenge fantasy. Thank you to the drama gods for allowing teachers to imagine for a few hours being free of paralyzing demands by all the stakeholders all at once, all the time.
Ep10 Now that, dear friends, is what a great commander does! none of this farting around with armor and horses, just tell everyone what to do crisply and swiftly once all the relevant information and personnel are in place.
Supreme generals usually command from the rear. So do general's daughters.
Xie Yan Lai and Chu Zhao running to fall into each others' arms, how could this not be the romance era! So surprising. So good. A bit hokey but originality is not mandatory.
The music is making all these surprising choices work beautifully! Simplified furniture, architecture and food; costumes are not neglected but neither are they overpowering. Color is handled well, but the scenery is bare minimum, even the cgi. The script is very good, great plot, decent dialogue. The actors are very pretty, the leads are very good. Why does it work? Beats me! But when the music plays it is thrilling.
Ep19 at the very beginning Qing Ye really goes all' good girl' (as in the marriage interview!) and harasses her someday boyfriend about getting good grades. Indirect in words, but, seizing the opportunity to describe her ideal boyfriend, she looks poor Xing Wu straight in the eyes and pins him down. And he of course, ideal husband material, looks completely unfazed, even a little happy about it.
I assume they will date much later, but this is like a much younger pair treating each other with the familiarity of a marriage. Cart before the horse!
ep9 The actual dramatic tension is only being upheld right now by Choi Mun Do -- how far will he go, how evil is he, can he be reached in time.... The lovers appear to be reaching an agreement on being reborn (him) and transmigrated (her) together, which is nice and sensible. But yet, the big romantic kiss is another one of those kisses where the man holds the woman's head immobile and she just dangles her arms to the side. Too weird.
Example: ep18, Our couple, leaning on a railing looking out to sea, notice their hands are touching at the same time, hesitate at the same time, move their hands a little apart and then each one smiles to him/herself, looking away. They know they liked the idea of holding hands but also the distance of not holding hands today, yet.
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So the romance is over? Or does he already know that she is like that and he will take her back?
Like that = completely needy and guilty with regards to her father, completely prideful with regards to her mother. Violent and mistrustful.
And after XieYanLai actually coaxed her back inside to say goodbye to her dying father....
Did she deliberately miss him with that arrow or was it her uncertain aim and she actually meant to kill him? Now is when I agree with some on the DuLing 'look' -- what is going on inside there?
fireworks between the leads, literally in one shot.
But she is definitely dousing the flames with those looks. They know she is planning to go away for school
....fireworks and accidents from fireworks...didnt they ban private fireworks somewhere in asia last year...
Wow I have never thought about whether or not in china a person can start over after prison. The way Cao Fan is talking to Cao Ping in jail makes it sound much more like the USA than I thought. It is all fiction, but with some truth?
Kdrama draws a picture of an absolute devastation caused to families by the criminal wrongdoing of one of its members. It is such a much smaller country, I guess. All sorts of ingrained prejudices remain powerful there ; I expect you would likely to see similar in rural areas of the c-mainland.
I wish this meant that people could somehow figure out a way to fix things for the future. We can never go back to how things were, but the present is untenable and I cant see a way forward.
A lot of people must feel the same way. This show at least relieves some of the tension!
This ep went from brilliant scene to brilliant scene! I was so high on drama.
Her final meetings with her father and the dialogues with him are really classical pieces of writing. The themes of human lament, petty, selfish, despairing and grand..are further developed by her dialogues with YanLai. He is turning out to be a sturdy character, morally. Very clearheaded.
The modern transmigration plot is neatly wrapt up in the useless self-recriminations and desires for a redo that we all can face at the loss of someone close to us.
My instincts all say that this is the modern chinese theatre tradition, international and deeply national, that this is the training from the capital's acting schools.
The wonderfully strange and reserved debates and anti-alliances of Deng Yi, the Grand Mentor and Xie YanFang, the prime minister, likewise have that same lacquered finish.
And Xiao Yun, slowly revealing himself to be the ultimately duplicitous villain, going all mandarin on the poor envoy of the Northern desert alliance. Just wow.
Like all classical efforts, this show can be unashamedly a bit hokey, but also the familiarity we all have with the underlying themes being picked up in each set piece, like all tropes everywhere, leaves one free to enjoy the small perfections as each scene unrolls.
Now that, dear friends, is what a great commander does! none of this farting around with armor and horses, just tell everyone what to do crisply and swiftly once all the relevant information and personnel are in place.
Supreme generals usually command from the rear. So do general's daughters.
Xie Yan Lai and Chu Zhao running to fall into each others' arms, how could this not be the romance era!
So surprising. So good. A bit hokey but originality is not mandatory.
The music is making all these surprising choices work beautifully! Simplified furniture, architecture and food; costumes are not neglected but neither are they overpowering. Color is handled well, but the scenery is bare minimum, even the cgi. The script is very good, great plot, decent dialogue. The actors are very pretty, the leads are very good. Why does it work? Beats me! But when the music plays it is thrilling.
ouch. Good cliffhanger.
Some people just cant take responsibility for their misfortunes and move on.
at the very beginning Qing Ye really goes all' good girl' (as in the marriage interview!) and harasses her someday boyfriend about getting good grades. Indirect in words, but, seizing the opportunity to describe her ideal boyfriend, she looks poor Xing Wu straight in the eyes and pins him down. And he of course, ideal husband material, looks completely unfazed, even a little happy about it.
I assume they will date much later, but this is like a much younger pair treating each other with the familiarity of a marriage. Cart before the horse!
The actual dramatic tension is only being upheld right now by Choi Mun Do -- how far will he go, how evil is he, can he be reached in time....
The lovers appear to be reaching an agreement on being reborn (him) and transmigrated (her) together, which is nice and sensible.
But yet, the big romantic kiss is another one of those kisses where the man holds the woman's head immobile and she just dangles her arms to the side. Too weird.
Example: ep18, Our couple, leaning on a railing looking out to sea, notice their hands are touching at the same time, hesitate at the same time, move their hands a little apart and then each one smiles to him/herself, looking away. They know they liked the idea of holding hands but also the distance of not holding hands today, yet.