I wish there was an option with better quality. The visuals seem to be one of this dramas strengths.
Awesome. Great review, thank you! I was just watching another drama before but it was so shallow and the FL was so silly and throwing childish tantrums all the bloody time, I started getting angry at her so I dropped it. Haha
Just started episode 3 of this one. It seems ok so far! Good soundtrack and visuals!
I'm watching it for the first time. It's so boring, superficial and immature. Perhaps more suitable for younger viewers (teens). I have watched a few of these "fluffy" dramas, but this is by far the most boring one. The characters are so 2D and shallow. I don't know if I can face watching this to the end.
This is why I'm dropping Netflix. A 20 episode drama starts in November and doesn't finish airing all episodes…
Series always used to air this way in Europe and the US. It's only a recent phenomenon of releasing whole seasons or series in one go or in a shorter time period. It's even worse when they have a "mid-season finale" half-way through the season and then air the rest of the season months later. Ugh... I totally agree though. With complicated plots and lots of characters, it's hard to remember everything if you can only see it once a week etc. I get a much more immersive / intense experience of the drama if I can watch it all in one go or in chunks at least.
I haven't heard that Netflix subscription fees are going up? By how much?
About Jie Lu (in Fanyinguo). Question / theory in comment below.
Who knows Jie Lu's parentage? There were some hints that made me suspect Jie Lu was Alanruo's and Shen Ye's daughter. There's that conversation between Jie Lu and her brother (actually her cousin) where he says that he promised his aunt and uncle to look after her. Which aunt and uncle? The Bi Yi Bird Queen says that she has to go and leave the tragedy in Fanyinguo and that one day she would understand? Also, while Dijun and Fengjiu are in Alanruo's dream, Su Moye says that the two years Shenye and Alanruo lived together, he doesn't know what happened then. Possible extra love child?
Hahahaha i remember the scene you're referring to! >.< btw i fell in love with Chen Kun in TROP too and I'm just…
Hahaha I know! ? Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were tragic characters who couldn't escape their own circumstances. I found the suicide scene particularly moving. I was devastated and angry at them for not communicating well and all the people around them, like that fanatical older brother of hers who never showed up in her life beforehand but was so determined to turn her against Ning Yi. Actually, if the two of them had married, they could have united the two dynasties. Their failure to properly communicate and trust each other led to the tragedy.
The Chinese sure know how to make heartwrenching tragedies! They really know how to make it unbearably sad.
There's a lot of problematic issues in Chinese dramas that I tend to ignore. For one, they're absolutely brutal…
What I find disturbing is that overweight characters are portrayed as stupid or even intellectually disabled and disgusting. It shows that there is a really strong stigma. It's not just about a beauty ideal. I also feel sorry for the actors and actresses who are overweight and can only get work playing those cruel stereotypes.
Hahahaha i remember the scene you're referring to! >.< btw i fell in love with Chen Kun in TROP too and I'm just…
I know what you mean, but those two did it to themselves by never learning to properly communicate and not do things to upset the other. Both Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were too proud, too shy, too stubborn. Plus, there was that oath she made her mother...
What amazes me about that drama is how they hardly even touch, but the sexual tension and the intimacy is so intense! When Ning Yi loses it in that scene and is like, "Send her to the harem!" I'm like... Finally!!!? But Zhiwei doesn't want to be forced obvs, but still, I was like, Come onnnnn....! I was shouting at the screen. ???
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I was just watching another drama before but it was so shallow and the FL was so silly and throwing childish tantrums all the bloody time, I started getting angry at her so I dropped it. Haha
Just started episode 3 of this one. It seems ok so far! Good soundtrack and visuals!
I didn't realise there were premium tiers. Do you get more and better films and series in the higher tiers?
I haven't heard that Netflix subscription fees are going up? By how much?
That's why they did it? For money? Sigh...
I know it's tragic and beautiful but also wtf? Can't they just be kind to us and give us a happy ending?
Ning Yi and Feng Zhiwei were tragic characters who couldn't escape their own circumstances. I found the suicide scene particularly moving. I was devastated and angry at them for not communicating well and all the people around them, like that fanatical older brother of hers who never showed up in her life beforehand but was so determined to turn her against Ning Yi. Actually, if the two of them had married, they could have united the two dynasties. Their failure to properly communicate and trust each other led to the tragedy.
The Chinese sure know how to make heartwrenching tragedies! They really know how to make it unbearably sad.
What amazes me about that drama is how they hardly even touch, but the sexual tension and the intimacy is so intense! When Ning Yi loses it in that scene and is like, "Send her to the harem!" I'm like... Finally!!!? But Zhiwei doesn't want to be forced obvs, but still, I was like, Come onnnnn....! I was shouting at the screen. ???