Thank you for the review. I think you touched many people with your perspective. You made me look again at Qiaoxi's mom -- I just wanted to forget her bec her behavior was so cruel and painful to see.
I did puzzle over Cherry's parents perspective. Her mom says 'what she (Qiaoxi's mom) went thru would have broken anyone '(or something like that).
You do see that sort of wildly cruel self-centered behavior in people who went through the incredibly cruel experiences of WWII. Family members in my time seemed more tolerant than one would expect of this behavior by related elderly persons, so maybe that is how her parents relationship with Qiaoxi's parents makes some sense. The original community was tight knit over a long period of time, so even the mom's craziness occurred in a social web which was essentially unbroken.
I didnt really think enough about the roots of Qiaoxi's behavior -- I just went along with Cherry's intuition of a healthy core being, and puzzled over things like his instinctive bolt off the construction site, which I think you have helped me to understand.
That did feel very directed at Law and the City lol. Even more so if you think about the fact the native title…
me too, as the two shows must have been filming close to simultaneously. It sounds like it comes from a joint actors dinner with drunken late night very noisy conversations?...
LatC ended up being a little lukewarm I agree, but there is a fan edit out there on instagram of ryu hye young's character's husband in his striped pjs shushing his wife..."baby can hear, honey" ...that showed the moment that was worth it all.
If you copy an artwork , how is it possible u copy the hidden image as well? Can anyone familiar with art explain?
I think his copying of colors within the larger pattern made no sense. The paint texture had to show the drip technique (which also made almost no sense either), so we are talking about discerning some sort of random underpainting? Im no expert, but maybe, if he was working off a digital image square by square he would not notice the background image, like those dot pictures used to spot green-blue color blindness. It made no sense. And that's why they call it soap opera. We keep watching nevertheless.
ep,6 In the infinity of drunken team dinners the aftermath of this one was the most spectacular in my memory: everyone lterally rolling around on the sidewalk unable to walk or even help each other up. Calling friends for rides from prone positions. Some very interesting consequences too!
This is a spotty series but some of the spots are insanely bright ones!
This truth-telling reveals that the fictional accounts of these events in kdrama are eclipsed by the absolute savagery of the real thing. Imagine what it feels like to live in this small country and still write literature and scripts, to act and direct film and tv....
Knowing most of what went on, writing for an audience only partially willfully ignorant of these events. It is so utterly painful. So scary.
Now we know where that emotional depth in kdrama comes from. And why cinema is so needed to heal from these events and to confront them. So many times I have cried at shows because they awaken exactly those feelings of sorrow and helplessness with regards to all sorts of tragedies, altho few so extreme, in my own cultural sphere.
The story of the clean streets campaign was in fact just exposed recently in Korea by a public investigation and report with respect to the exportation/abduction of many children in order to profit from overseas adoptions.
ep.23 if I were Xu Jing Fu I would not trust Chu Zhao's offer of fealty at all. No facial tension showing poor character -- CZ is too honorable and prett.y. We are meant to believe that CZ is secretly on the side of justice, but if he cant pretend to be corrupt he would not, in reality, be accepted by the Minister.
Why was Hyo Min sitting there like a dumbass at the club and then when they met again? She should have gotten…
agreed on the contact with the manipulative defendant. It made me angry and anxious. You are so right, without consequences she will just be a brat again.
About that romance tag, the FL did have a bratty Romance with her "big brother" in Family By Choice. Here she keeps being rescued from being a brat, from nearly busting the smart girl persona to pieces. Jin Wook is the acting power in the show overall, and yes, they could work as an older man-younger woman couple. That exasperation could become fondness -- he wants someone to take care of. To whit, Hash-time.
This makes me want to define soap opera as something you cant look away from because it is so offthewall. The premises just have to be good enough to argue about with friends, and the actors need to be excellent to look at. I'll take the waking up naked scene in your sunbaes bed over shower scenes anyday!
But did anyone notice the diss on Law and the City in ep.6... during the flashback to the ousting of Kwon Na hyeon (?the famous female mentor of the ML), someone insulted her by saying she should go down to Seocho-Dong where 'it is said that some lawyers with separate accounts have merged to call themselves a law firm'!
ep6, ! Osang sik/ Yoo Joon Sang goes into a karaoke room ****faced, and sings, but not in the usual offkey way, instead perfectly in tune. Its more surreal than anything, and it makes me love the actor even more. Which is weird too.,
Ep16. The character of Dong Xuan 'er, written as a spoiled manipulative brat is repulsive enough but to imply that a respected senior cultivator still had this deeply flawed personality just because she is a woman is insulting and disgusting. I love the show. am addicted and wont stop watching, but this stuff is a consequence of the audience-writer bond being boy-on-boy, and I say boy advisedly, and it makes me want to shriek and tear my hair out.
What is Wang Chan talking about when he tells his two companions to keep their mouths shut because "in (where? Yue), 'they' dont talk the way you do". do his buddies curse a lot or do they speak a different dialect or a different language? (obviously I am working my way thru the early edpisodes of the drama, ep.9)...mandarin speakers out there, is there a pun or a joke or are the guys just speaking Cantonese? ?
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I did puzzle over Cherry's parents perspective. Her mom says 'what she (Qiaoxi's mom) went thru would have broken anyone '(or something like that).
You do see that sort of wildly cruel self-centered behavior in people who went through the incredibly cruel experiences of WWII. Family members in my time seemed more tolerant than one would expect of this behavior by related elderly persons, so maybe that is how her parents relationship with Qiaoxi's parents makes some sense. The original community was tight knit over a long period of time, so even the mom's craziness occurred in a social web which was essentially unbroken.
I didnt really think enough about the roots of Qiaoxi's behavior -- I just went along with Cherry's intuition of a healthy core being, and puzzled over things like his instinctive bolt off the construction site, which I think you have helped me to understand.
So, thank you for your insight.
LatC ended up being a little lukewarm I agree, but there is a fan edit out there on instagram of ryu hye young's character's husband in his striped pjs shushing his wife..."baby can hear, honey" ...that showed the moment that was worth it all.
And that's why they call it soap opera. We keep watching nevertheless.
Calling friends for rides from prone positions.
Some very interesting consequences too!
This is a spotty series but some of the spots are insanely bright ones!
Knowing most of what went on, writing for an audience only partially willfully ignorant of these events. It is so utterly painful. So scary.
Now we know where that emotional depth in kdrama comes from. And why cinema is so needed to heal from these events and to confront them. So many times I have cried at shows because they awaken exactly those feelings of sorrow and helplessness with regards to all sorts of tragedies, altho few so extreme, in my own cultural sphere.
The story of the clean streets campaign was in fact just exposed recently in Korea by a public investigation and report with respect to the exportation/abduction of many children in order to profit from overseas adoptions.
But did anyone notice the diss on Law and the City in ep.6... during the flashback to the ousting of Kwon Na hyeon (?the famous female mentor of the ML), someone insulted her by saying she should go down to Seocho-Dong where 'it is said that some lawyers with separate accounts have merged to call themselves a law firm'!
Food Fight.
Lee Chae Min is the Bomb. And clearly an intelligent actor.