Question about the scene when LJQ died; can someone who speaks Mandarin clarify? He said he wanted to be husband and wife in the next life, but she said one lifetime is enough. Is she referring to him already "paying back what he owes" in this lifetime, or that she doesn't wanna meet him again in the next life?
So, she should push the values of that bygone era instead ??? i.e. the values that subjugated, oppressed, and…
Something can be historical without pushing for outdated values. True historical dramas are just like that - portraying people from the past, with their own constraints, values, hopes and dreams. We enjoy seeing them interact with their environment, it's interesting *because* it is different from how we live. We can still enjoy the story without making a moral judgement about it, and alas, we're intelligent enough to not enact entertainment in real life (if we did, I'd be very fearful of everyone who's ever played violent video games!?
It's not that we need more episodes; it's that we need fewer episodes on secondary characters. We spent too much…
Yes, and, we would need more episodes if we want to flesh everyone out. Time is a zero sum game. Though I suspect this insane time skip and narrative narcoleptic is not due to episode number...
Is the Story of Minglan picture quality as good as Against the Current on wetv? I'm watching at 1080p on youtube…
Watch it on the production company's official YouTube, it's the best one there. There are many versions on YT all with low quality except this one: https://youtu.be/7lDoO4Tp-3s?is=NwsgfqbHxeJdVtnV
By her did you mean Xingtang? If so the woman who was killed right before LX saves XT was her cousin, Zhao sixth Miss. XT said her father and brother already killed Qingxiang (servant) before they abandoned her and the cousin.
I really love how this drama going, but I'm confused with the way people call the interactions between the leads…
Agree. I'd say she's softened towards him but I don't know if I'd call it romantic. I'm happy for him that he's making tiny progress, and I feel sympathy for him as a character, with all of his misguided actions and flaws. But I believe the romance, if it comes, is still a few episodes away.
Xiulai is Jinqi's younger sister, she's just the eldest female of the siblings. I'm annoyed that the subtitle keeps labeling her as elder sister when he and LX refer to her as meimei.
In the preview and the last one that bitch is still trying to bring the Lin family down; especially LJQ; I really…
is it necessary to be calling her names? also, she wanted to help LX. Her experience in that family was party her own doing, partly circumstantial, and it wasn't pleasant, so of course she has resentment. She's human after all.
Ep.31: It's incredible to me how much this drama has derailed to the point I cannot recognize the FL, ML or the…
Can you share more about the jingoist propaganda point? I thought jingoism is about nationalism and foreign policy. What does it mean weak-minded female audience?
(Also, I don't think every guy is bad - we have the Lin brothers, Scholar Han, Mr Lu, Marquis Yuan; I'd even say the grandpa is not "bad"; he's a bit extreme in his methods and patriarchal. Not every rich person is "bad" either. I think categorizing everyone as just "good" or "bad" is doing this drama a disservice. Madam Zhao is not "good" or "bad"; she's complicated. Ji'er too.)
Came across this drama on viki and was wondering why the ratings were so high so I decided to check out the reviews.…
Omg sometimes I don't know why there are still people who are hysterically and confidently wrong even though we have Google. Well, thanks to that ignorant person you're here with us!!
Ep. 29-30: I've started forwarding all the stories of all the miserable women shown in most episodes, whose lives…
Well said! I think we should still wait and see the context of 33-34, a lot of time the teasers have been misleading. Splendor similarly had a long, strange, and weirdly plotted period of non-marriage even though they already lived together, mostly to sustain some tension. I wouldn't say that plot was tighter. But I do agree that the writer is taking her time here with FL's emotional turmoil. I have some empathy for that - she's repressed it for years! With all the messed up things the ML has done, I'd say - let him suffer more :) longer!
Wait people find it romantic? That's... interesting. I find it utterly repulsive, the same way LX might feel.…
if you hate the character you are immersing yourself in the story too! :) I think what people find it hard to accept is that someone can disagree with how they view a character, and can still enjoy watching a show.
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(Also, I don't think every guy is bad - we have the Lin brothers, Scholar Han, Mr Lu, Marquis Yuan; I'd even say the grandpa is not "bad"; he's a bit extreme in his methods and patriarchal. Not every rich person is "bad" either. I think categorizing everyone as just "good" or "bad" is doing this drama a disservice. Madam Zhao is not "good" or "bad"; she's complicated. Ji'er too.)