I know its a bit too much. But i was comparing feiyus interaction with jingyi and zhou yue and i did see a big…
Ummmm Why did you need to post this twice? Btw the FL character ("heroine") was not Zhou Yue, but Zhu Yun (ζ±ι΅). Chen Feiyu is known to be very polite, so formality is normal between him and co worker, even though they say they became friends (as in "putong pengyou" ordinary friends) on set, so of course they can joke and laugh. He is supposed to have brought some ideas to the directing (after all, he has experience as assistant director before), so the tickling was his idea. In an interview he said Zhang Jingyi WAS Zhu Yun, to which the actress agreed (she had completely embraced the character) whereas he also said that he was NOT Li Xun (He just did his best to embody the character, including bringing his ideas after research, about how a man with a back injury would sit and walk). So, respect for their acting skills from me! I was happy to watch the drama and a good many BTS, interviews and miscellaneous PP and stuff around it, will look forward to the promised "party" by end 2022, if it gets on platform s that I can access.
Gongzhuπππ I miss anticipating new episodes
Go to Youku-English channel on YouTube. It has only reached #20 there just now π Some admit they are there on "second" re watch. If I stayed there it would be 5th, but I really ought to shake off the addiction (hard to do so). I am amazed by the addictive quality of this one !
4th re-watch : is this turning into addiction ? I was on the go, and still clicked back when not at the wheel, at every way station, during breakfast, lunch, dinner... Showing parts to fellow travelers and at destination before the (perilous) journey back on small roads with heavy fog and steep precipices, where wild animals (pheasants, hares, one deer lol!! luckily no bear or boar) crossed at full speed with a death wish. And now back here. I MUST get away soon ππ€£π€£π€£ But a last thought. Reflecting on my watching journey of L&P. First view was perhaps superficial, with some emotional incomprehension, and questions that heaped up. I was aware that I needed to pause and examine some scenes more carefully, so that's what I did when some words or sentences flitted past on subtitles, at lightning speed (I admit dialogues suffered from so-so translation, which made eyebrows raise, even when quite inured to the approximations). I learned a new word !!!!! IN ENGLISH !!!! π€£π€£π€£ "empleomania" (running to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to find the definition, together with a list of other obscure words and a test, that I took, reaping a perfect score to my satisfaction). But come to mid point, I felt I really needed to go back to stitch it together with second part, since that one made clear the somewhat cryptic episode 1 and half of 2 -I hope this editing did not deter viewers from continuing. There are pros and cons of starting "in media res", it is fine for those who are used to it. Coming from reading, I am unfazed by such "literary devices". They have also been used in some other recent or older c-dramas I remember with favor (such as Legally Romance). Maybe some watchers don't agree with the device and will offhandedly term it as "poor editing". But no. It is a logical choice. And here's what I wanted to say and ask if others felt the same : to me, the beautiful and complicated logic of story and characters really became clearer on 2nd and 3rd watching. This is one c-drama which not only can allow pleasure in re watching, but add more pleasure at the discovery of overlooked details or reactions, to uncover the logic. Which is perfectly fitting for a drama that tackles programmer's mindsets. This is one of the reasons it skyrocketed into my faves of 2022 list. Not just the "pretty faces" or thrilling story, but the way it still could make us say : "ah yes! so that's why!..." when going back. Many of the questions in these 9960+ comments here have contributed, by sounding different people's perceptions, to a better view of this c-drama. Thanks to all who contributed long or short answers, feelings, links, pointed out to the MDL game and to the funny "shitty powerpoint" on the c-drama subreddit! It has been great.
When will the mourning period End in china? So many dramas are on-hold this week ugh
Okay. So there is the mourning for the passing of Jiang Zemin, but that was till today Dec.7; (not 49 days gaaaah!! Jiang was important, but he was neither Mao nor Deng) BUT I also had heard/read other factors were going to disrupt scheduling for entertainment. Notably the "Memorial Day". Although I should well know, having family in the NJ region, I had somehow blanked on dates (it is not a happy event), but here you are, for full explanation : "On Feb 27, 2014, China's top legislature approved two new national days, namely the Victory Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, to commemorate Nanjing Massacre victims and all those killed during Japanese aggression against China. (*) Victory Day: Sept 3 - the day after Japan officially surrendered in 1945; (*) National Memorial Day: Dec 13 β the day Japan occupied Nanjing in 1937 and began a six-week massacre." + "Students at Fuyang Normal College in Anhui province light candles to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre on December 11, 2014. Commemorations were held across China on December 11, 2014, to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were brutally killed after Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937" (China Daily, 2014) Since then, the Dec 11-13 period has occasioned numerous solemnities, such as inauguration of the NJ Massacre Monuments , which have been documented and recordings could be found on YT too.
Therefore, this year, in addition to other possible real world events breaking in, I understand that things may be "on hold" until next week, and perhaps until Dec.14. At some point, more happy festive mood will take over, since Christmas will lighten stores, streets and moods with appropriate Jingle Bells tunes, despite it not being a grassroots Chinese holiday (although there are many millions of Christians in China, and btw Chen Feiyu is one) .
You have not posted a review to make clear your judgement. Myself, I am not shy to put up a 10/10. May assemble…
Agree with your 9s (esp LLTG) but have no opinion on the SK or other dramas you favor (I specialize in c-drama watching at the moment, have really no interest in SK & J, my choice ). You put up 9.5 for Better Days. Have not seen it so, if you care to write your opinion. on that one, will read it later (have to go for extended time now). π
My other favorite modern cdrama with focus on romance is Begin Again with GongJung and ZhouYutong. Try to see…
To me it felt simplistic. airbrushed, and sometimes sanctimonious like a heavy handed moral lesson. Not that realistic. The beginning was farfetched as "overprotected but rebellious teen behavior" goes and there were several things that made me cringe, such as the way they handled the online slander bit. But the song is good and I won't imply Xiao Zhan and Yang Zi are not competent actors. I just never was carried away as much as many by that one, and on retrospect, it does not make it into my favorite drama list.
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Btw the FL character ("heroine") was not Zhou Yue, but Zhu Yun (ζ±ι΅).
Chen Feiyu is known to be very polite, so formality is normal between him and co worker, even though they say they became friends (as in "putong pengyou" ordinary friends) on set, so of course they can joke and laugh. He is supposed to have brought some ideas to the directing (after all, he has experience as assistant director before), so the tickling was his idea. In an interview he said Zhang Jingyi WAS Zhu Yun, to which the actress agreed (she had completely embraced the character) whereas he also said that he was NOT Li Xun (He just did his best to embody the character, including bringing his ideas after research, about how a man with a back injury would sit and walk). So, respect for their acting skills from me! I was happy to watch the drama and a good many BTS, interviews and miscellaneous PP and stuff around it, will look forward to the promised "party" by end 2022, if it gets on platform s that I can access.
Some admit they are there on "second" re watch. If I stayed there it would be 5th, but I really ought to shake off the addiction (hard to do so).
I am amazed by the addictive quality of this one !
He's not clear about the impact of Memorial Day, though.
But a last thought. Reflecting on my watching journey of L&P.
First view was perhaps superficial, with some emotional incomprehension, and questions that heaped up. I was aware that I needed to pause and examine some scenes more carefully, so that's what I did when some words or sentences flitted past on subtitles, at lightning speed (I admit dialogues suffered from so-so translation, which made eyebrows raise, even when quite inured to the approximations).
I learned a new word !!!!! IN ENGLISH !!!! π€£π€£π€£ "empleomania" (running to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, to find the definition, together with a list of other obscure words and a test, that I took, reaping a perfect score to my satisfaction).
But come to mid point, I felt I really needed to go back to stitch it together with second part, since that one made clear the somewhat cryptic episode 1 and half of 2 -I hope this editing did not deter viewers from continuing. There are pros and cons of starting "in media res", it is fine for those who are used to it. Coming from reading, I am unfazed by such "literary devices". They have also been used in some other recent or older c-dramas I remember with favor (such as Legally Romance). Maybe some watchers don't agree with the device and will offhandedly term it as "poor editing". But no. It is a logical choice.
And here's what I wanted to say and ask if others felt the same : to me, the beautiful and complicated logic of story and characters really became clearer on 2nd and 3rd watching.
This is one c-drama which not only can allow pleasure in re watching, but add more pleasure at the discovery of overlooked details or reactions, to uncover the logic. Which is perfectly fitting for a drama that tackles programmer's mindsets.
This is one of the reasons it skyrocketed into my faves of 2022 list. Not just the "pretty faces" or thrilling story, but the way it still could make us say : "ah yes! so that's why!..." when going back.
Many of the questions in these 9960+ comments here have contributed, by sounding different people's perceptions, to a better view of this c-drama. Thanks to all who contributed long or short answers, feelings, links, pointed out to the MDL game and to the funny "shitty powerpoint" on the c-drama subreddit! It has been great.
"On Feb 27, 2014, China's top legislature approved two new national days, namely the Victory Day of the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims, to commemorate Nanjing Massacre victims and all those killed during Japanese aggression against China.
(*) Victory Day: Sept 3 - the day after Japan officially surrendered in 1945;
(*) National Memorial Day: Dec 13 β the day Japan occupied Nanjing in 1937 and began a six-week massacre."
+ "Students at Fuyang Normal College in Anhui province light candles to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre on December 11, 2014. Commemorations were held across China on December 11, 2014, to mourn the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were brutally killed after Japanese troops captured the city on December 13, 1937" (China Daily, 2014)
Since then, the Dec 11-13 period has occasioned numerous solemnities, such as inauguration of the NJ Massacre Monuments , which have been documented and recordings could be found on YT too.
Therefore, this year, in addition to other possible real world events breaking in, I understand that things may be "on hold" until next week, and perhaps until Dec.14.
At some point, more happy festive mood will take over, since Christmas will lighten stores, streets and moods with appropriate Jingle Bells tunes, despite it not being a grassroots Chinese holiday (although there are many millions of Christians in China, and btw Chen Feiyu is one) .
You put up 9.5 for Better Days. Have not seen it so, if you care to write your opinion. on that one, will read it later (have to go for extended time now). π
I just never was carried away as much as many by that one, and on retrospect, it does not make it into my favorite drama list.
That and full wedding ceremonies are things I don't linger on, since I don't need models any longer. Never did, in fact. I know many styles, having been invited to weddings for both American, European, Indian, Syrian, African, Chinese and other Asian friends, either same culture or mix (latest was a Palestinian Syrian mathematician who wedded an Ukrainian Russian Orthodox teacher of English, lol - I kid you not. , ). So the rites and ways to formalize are not a novelty to watch on screen for me.