So why is it so hard for Tang Li Ci to let go of his lost for Fang Zhou? Here are some of my thoughts: TLC can’t…
yes, his perception of FZ is idealised, it's like a vision we have of our parents when remembering sweet things from our childhood: playing with them, going on picnicks, barbecuing in the garden, learning from them by making things together. In such reminiscing visions, our parent is always good, skilled and powerful, always doing right, knows everything and gives us a feeling of safety and comfort, briefly, a great person we would gladly sacrifice for. When he remembers FZ, TLC constantly sees himself as an impulsive, childish, neurotic boy who can only be calmed, taught and shaped to a better person by such a well-intentioned and good teacher as FZ, his saviour. Beside his immense love and devotion to FZ, he also "rationally" has no doubts FZ will always do better than him, because in this reminiscence frame, for TLC nobody can do better than FZ, this is FZ's "ratione personae", being also generally percieved as a great, just and good man.
Seeing you all here, I've tried, got severly hooked (gosh, all pretty people from Heroes are here except LYN), binged 9 eps in one night shot... what to say? Addicted. Love how the pieces of the puzzle drop in each and every episode like drops of rain enlarging a big black hole, transforming it into a chasm. The water element is so present and aesthetically well employed: the rain scenes (usually connected with Vivian), the ocean light effects in YZH bedrom/living room, close shots of intoxicating liquids being poured in glasses... conveying the sense of slippery, of danger, of a vague dream. Does YZH reminisce or just imagine things? And while you are distracted by ZJ's artistic hands, I am distracted imagining being handcuffed by (and/or handcuffing) the hot policeman, probably reminisceing these scenes in Heroes with the same actor playing a soldier in it. 😁Maybe that was the point of the creators, to make our imagination run wild while we follow YZH's tracing, reasoning and deductions...
Strange Tale of Serial Abducted Victim. Moral of the story: we can evade any prison and get rid of any person suppressing our freedom except... of our own mother. 🙄
I wonder what's going on between the emperor and his nanny. Could it be Li Longji had a secret relation with his older maid even in reality? Did he like older chicks? 😁
What do u think abt that sanitation worker? I think that girl, like Wu Zetian, is with him
Ofc she is with him, why would he at first hide the fact he acted as a letter courier revealing this crucial fact only later when he knew "hermit" was already caught? At the time he was asked about her but diverted the topic on the dead drunken man and the phoney female diviner... Aside from the fact he is the only person connected with all the persons who took part in her abduction, he is more or less her age, they may have mutual affection and interest to escape her control freak mother.
Can I still watch this without watching the previous two seasons? Will I be lost if I don't?
you can try, but it will be better to watch the previous seasons in order to understand better the dynamics between the leads, deeper (dynastic) power struggles influencing their lives, authority and general setting of the drama... if you are not aquainted with these things, you'll miss half of our enjoyment
BTW, amazing to me that under 1,000 MDL users are currently watching this. It's absolutely one of the best Cdramas…
yup, we've discussed it yesterday. But maybe, in this case, the less is more - we should look on the positive aspects of such a low MDL's following: there are no haters either, who'd rate 1 the eps which haven't aired yet as it happens with high-hyped dramas. And our small group of "SToTD lovers" can freely exchange our thoughts without being attacked or worn out trying to prove our pov.
Anyone find the grand princess and emperor a pain in the ass in all three seasons
She is there to raise the tension, as well as the emperor's eunuch(s). But if the synopsis is correct and they'll be allowed "to interact with a broader range of common people and their livelihoods and to avoid the power struggle between the Emperor and the Grand Princess.", we won't see much of them
Wu Wenbin, in any other serial, would have gotten a pass and be in 10 more episodes. brutal is better.
Handsome and brutal is even better. Even I, who doesn't particularly care about men's appearence, remember him as a hot stable guy FL's sister married in Prisoner of Beauty. Now, I'll try to add his name to the cast list https://kisskh.at/people/29035-zhou-lu-la
It's a shame, indeed! And truly can't figure out the reasons.
yes, I agree with you. I speak many languages, but although they are mostly Indo-European, I can distinguish and understand many words, morphology and syntax of Turkic languages as well. Mandarin is totally fine to my ear, I can distinguish the words pronounced, hear its total difference from Cantonese and even the accent of certain words in its different dialects, no matter I have no idea what the words mean. I also feel smth "familiar" in Mandarin, eg. the word "Kuài diǎn" sounds so similar to Turkish "hadi", having the same meaning ("move!"), Chá (which is the same in Korean and Japanese "ocha") is çay in Turkish, Persian and Slavic languagues and so on. Yes, from the three languages you've mentioned, if I should pick one for the softness of its sound, I'd pick Mandarin
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When he remembers FZ, TLC constantly sees himself as an impulsive, childish, neurotic boy who can only be calmed, taught and shaped to a better person by such a well-intentioned and good teacher as FZ, his saviour. Beside his immense love and devotion to FZ, he also "rationally" has no doubts FZ will always do better than him, because in this reminiscence frame, for TLC nobody can do better than FZ, this is FZ's "ratione personae", being also generally percieved as a great, just and good man.
Besides, we know MDL's users' preferences for romance and idol dramas... SToTD 3 still didn't reach 1K viewers.
And while you are distracted by ZJ's artistic hands, I am distracted imagining being handcuffed by (and/or handcuffing) the hot policeman, probably reminisceing these scenes in Heroes with the same actor playing a soldier in it. 😁Maybe that was the point of the creators, to make our imagination run wild while we follow YZH's tracing, reasoning and deductions...
Moral of the story: we can evade any prison and get rid of any person suppressing our freedom except... of our own mother. 🙄
Aside from the fact he is the only person connected with all the persons who took part in her abduction, he is more or less her age, they may have mutual affection and interest to escape her control freak mother.
But if the synopsis is correct and they'll be allowed "to interact with a broader range of common people and their livelihoods and to avoid the power struggle between the Emperor and the Grand Princess.", we won't see much of them
Even I, who doesn't particularly care about men's appearence, remember him as a hot stable guy FL's sister married in Prisoner of Beauty.
Now, I'll try to add his name to the cast list https://kisskh.at/people/29035-zhou-lu-la
Yes, from the three languages you've mentioned, if I should pick one for the softness of its sound, I'd pick Mandarin