Did you mean compilation piece?If not then what is companion piece and I'd like to read it but I didn't find it…
I never post in feeds or articles section, but I do put everything I really add in Discussions, easily accessed just above the comments section which everyone uses.
Articles are a cumbersome thing : they need lengthy reviews and cannot be altered or added to, as some lamented when they took pains to do one. They are published after a while after "official approval" (I am far too independent to let myself be bound by others approval...)
Discussion section allows more liberty, in real time, and posts can be tweaked by author, for proofreading or new info adding. It also, foremost, allows to post pictures and own (or other) GIF which I am lavish with; I prefer to post my own GIF and screenshots, but also use Weibo, Douban, Baidu and other re-posts, always linking what I show to source when it is not direct screenshot from drama.
These pieces are not just compilation. Although my views are not hammered blatantly in, they reflect my point of view and what led my interest for a given drama. They may go beyond the drama proper in adding background information (and sometimes exchanges of opinions) that can be relevant. The companion pieces are long, but use sections (successive post items) which I link together using a "Table of contents" in first post, and "reserved post spaces" until its finished (if I have enough of an overview concept to start with) Sometimes the Companion piece needs more space than originally envisioned, so the Table of contents device can bridge over any comment from visitors that might get added on the way (so it is not a problem if someone wants to express an opinion: that's why Discussion section is designed, anyway, although it is not just another Comments section space : I like to view it as a space where specific things can be pinned under a heading, such as book discussions, OST and related links, or where fans can congregate to exchange news beyond the drama -- and it is my favorite hangout for some dramas to which I feel in writing mood or think an illustrated gallery of characters will help ! 😆).
You can have a look at those I did before by clicking the "announcer" icon on my Profile (I like not to be too obvious, so while it is not difficult to find it, I just don't spell it out there. But the list, suggested by MDL's Cho Na, is also a help for those who are interested to find the Companion pieces quickly, to check things that I keep updating such as weekly views standing, Douban rating, new interviews - if I had time to check them out before mentioning them, or other things in my occasional actor profiles). There is also, now, a mention and link to that list under the Table of contents in my Companion pieces, the name and design of which are my own concept, refined over the past couple years (I will perhaps streamline the older ones to better fit the new design).
These "Companion pieces" also record more background information about culture, music, or places in China, not only from a touristic point of view. I have been to, lived in, have friends, family and contacts, both in China and neighboring countries, so could and did visit places that are not on mainstream tour operators menus. One of my friends and neighbors in Beijing was a UN relief work admin officer who was stationed for a few years in Vientiane after Beijing and the DPRK... But I did not check out the Golden Triangle myself. Such places around China are complicated, and my adventurous streak always was balanced by common sense - did go to some places, careful to drop names and hint to my guanxi, just in case, but just not that one, mostly because I don't like places that average above 30°C heat/86°F (I am an old alien barbarian bred with polar bear and Northern genes, who don't mind the cold and ice of Mohe city, but don't enjoy tropics and their insects). Nonetheless, I do hope I got a balanced view of the situation, not formed or deformed too much by what is written or broadcast about it. On my trips, I did meet some rabble-rousing reporters who were proud of their doing, so I don't put too much value on news items...
Now that was perhaps wish-thinking spoof from the Weibo page : the opening Douban was still blank at the time. I am amused that the poster picture was re-used when the Douban ratings were really published.
Douban rating rose to 8.2 🤗 even though it was "only" #3 in numbers watching it for the week ending August 26. I have started a Companion piece for the drama - still under construction for the illustrated characters and cast part, and for the BTS and interviews links collection part. But you can already enjoy my notes about the Golden Triangle, about tapirs, and about the White Night Theater of Youku. There may be some mistypes, since I haven't yet taken time to proofread all this. I may also add a little more about the shooting in Xishuangbanna - I only found the wrapping date, would like to find the launch of shooting date as well (does someone have it ?) Besides which, ongoing watching.....
So many dramas 😅 Escape from the Triangular Slopes reached 9500 heat index today ! 🙌 Thrilling, if rather unexpectedly violent series, in c-dramaland. As high now as Regeneration, after the new Youku "White Night Theater" collection started revving up, with Tender Night. Insect Detective S2 did not get over 7,181 in May, but I would not be surprised if Escape reaches the roster with 10,000 soon.
Of course. He was prevented from it by Dongfang Zui/Na Mianci's providential intervention. But he had spelled out in so many words to Xie Wanyin that his intention was to catch Na Mianci and have him watch the crown prince ravish drugged and memory loss FL. That's rape. This drama is tougher than it looked like in the beginning...
Rape is not "having sex with a sleaze bag". The emperor coerced her to submit to rape. He forced her against any acceptance on her part. She was not strong enough to fight, get killed and have her lover and family killed. He did not drug Jiang Mingyue as the crown prince did Xie Wanyin. Still, either of those two guys are textbook criminals, but being in power put them above laws... Only a revolt, or revolution can change the situation; can the Preceptor foment one remains to be seen. Since the empress and crown prince both want the emperor dead, the game of dominoes might begin from his demise.
This drama is tougher than it looked like in the beginning.
"Seeing the spoiler from episode 12, I have a feeling to save Tinghan she probably declares to the emperor that she’s pregnant (pretending it’s the emperor child ) to spare his life"
So unlikely. Do you think the emperor and his doctor can't count days? If there was even a remote possibility that the child was conceived before she entered the palace, she would have been beheaded. Tinghan was away not for a week but for a war, so impossible for him to be the father of the baby. It can only be the fruit of rape... It's a tough drama indeed, not the expected sugar...
Are u kidding me just when they fell in love and started trusting each other they bring a memory lost plot in…
It's ok, she recovered all her memories in episode 14. That device is over. But perhaps she will act as if she is still poisoned and lost memory, in order to confuse the palace criminals. As the medicine woman said, if she really got inserted those darts again, she'd become a drooling idiot, game over, so she can't have been hit with the darts once again. There are still many episodes ahead 😅
Hahaha, "haven’t tried those meats 🤯… " I did for some, but drew the line at live monkey's brains (I am a Sun Wukong follower from the Mountain of Fruits and Flowers, can't go cannibalize family!!). Did not hunt for bear's paws. Cobra was fine: I saw the critter before it got prepared in an open air restaurant of Guilin, many years ago; scorpions were just like a sort of crawfish ; silkworm is like jelly with a rather bland taste; hairy crab is a well known delicacy ; I am not sure I was not peddled rabbit instead of dog soup which was on one menu (I did not see any dog in the kitchen and was not in the famed town where they reputedly breed some meaty ones for soup, so it was probably a scam. Besides, although being a cat person, I don't hate dogs so much that I'd take one to be butchered ; some dogs are cute and appetizing like the sausage shaped Dachshund of Zhao Lusi, but they look too intelligent to be sacrificed ; rabbits look cute too: they are seldom on menus in China, more so in the West). Anyway, the tastes were not that special that I would go for repeat experiences, save for hairy crab in season. Now, despite not having turned full vegetarian Buddhist, I prefer not to eat meat or fish more than once a week.
I just looked at Douban ratings and it looks like the initial one is out now at 8.1 (https://movie.douban.com/subject/36097760/) Knowing how picky Chinese audiences are for ratings, it's in the very good category !
They are, unfortunately. See https://tapirs.org/tapirs/ One reason why they are now on the endangered species list. Not sure they are a delicacy except for rarity. But there are several sub species across Asian and American continents. I don't think tapir figured on the list of bizarre menus in China, or even in South East Asia : perhaps they are really worshiped as luck bringing beasts so a dead one would be an ill omen?
I may have missed it but are Chapo and Aiso's wife real siblings. Or is something else going on?
I think she may have been a cousin ("younger" or "older" "brother" often don't mean real siblings in China, just cousins or friends or respectful address), and her infidelity (and perhaps even incestuous behavior) was clear. But Aisuo is not going to tolerate it for much longer...
Thanks for sharing this. The Golden Triangle is a very complicated area and a known hotbed for drug trafficking…
Thank you very much! My thirst for info was well quenched! and next time I will not lazily forget to check the Chinese Wikipedia drama page which had it all 😆
Thanks for sharing this. The Golden Triangle is a very complicated area and a known hotbed for drug trafficking…
I totally agree with your views. It's interesting to be made aware of this "touristic zone" of the Golden Triangle through a Chinese thriller drama 😆 Love that there are so many different dramas to get our interest in the "summer slump" where some are lamenting the weaknesses of the romance ones, although I suspect YouTube audiences are more fascinated by the way Jesse Ren kisses romance partner in silly but amusing "Embrace in the Dark Night", than by tribulations of a young under achiever just looking for manual labor, caught in the tangled web of criminals of south east Asia to save his uncle who got snared in another part of the web. I don't think the drama is based on a novel, there are two scriptwriters listed on the Baidu page but still not much more. Do you know when and where this was filmed?
... I don't pay for Bloomberg. Just get their nutshell newsletter, and sometimes an item is clickable like that one (all links in the alert were not; they'd have me pay, but I'm ... very stingy 😆
"not available in your region". Automatic subtitles only on first 3 episodes on Mango TV (MGTV) but ok for all episodes on Youtube's Huace Global Fun channel, as checked today. I was randomly checking the status of Xu Xiaonuo as FL after 2018 "About Is Love" drama in two parts.
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Articles are a cumbersome thing : they need lengthy reviews and cannot be altered or added to, as some lamented when they took pains to do one. They are published after a while after "official approval" (I am far too independent to let myself be bound by others approval...)
Discussion section allows more liberty, in real time, and posts can be tweaked by author, for proofreading or new info adding. It also, foremost, allows to post pictures and own (or other) GIF which I am lavish with; I prefer to post my own GIF and screenshots, but also use Weibo, Douban, Baidu and other re-posts, always linking what I show to source when it is not direct screenshot from drama.
These pieces are not just compilation. Although my views are not hammered blatantly in, they reflect my point of view and what led my interest for a given drama. They may go beyond the drama proper in adding background information (and sometimes exchanges of opinions) that can be relevant. The companion pieces are long, but use sections (successive post items) which I link together using a "Table of contents" in first post, and "reserved post spaces" until its finished (if I have enough of an overview concept to start with) Sometimes the Companion piece needs more space than originally envisioned, so the Table of contents device can bridge over any comment from visitors that might get added on the way (so it is not a problem if someone wants to express an opinion: that's why Discussion section is designed, anyway, although it is not just another Comments section space : I like to view it as a space where specific things can be pinned under a heading, such as book discussions, OST and related links, or where fans can congregate to exchange news beyond the drama -- and it is my favorite hangout for some dramas to which I feel in writing mood or think an illustrated gallery of characters will help ! 😆).
You can have a look at those I did before by clicking the "announcer" icon on my Profile (I like not to be too obvious, so while it is not difficult to find it, I just don't spell it out there. But the list, suggested by MDL's Cho Na, is also a help for those who are interested to find the Companion pieces quickly, to check things that I keep updating such as weekly views standing, Douban rating, new interviews - if I had time to check them out before mentioning them, or other things in my occasional actor profiles). There is also, now, a mention and link to that list under the Table of contents in my Companion pieces, the name and design of which are my own concept, refined over the past couple years (I will perhaps streamline the older ones to better fit the new design).
These "Companion pieces" also record more background information about culture, music, or places in China, not only from a touristic point of view. I have been to, lived in, have friends, family and contacts, both in China and neighboring countries, so could and did visit places that are not on mainstream tour operators menus. One of my friends and neighbors in Beijing was a UN relief work admin officer who was stationed for a few years in Vientiane after Beijing and the DPRK... But I did not check out the Golden Triangle myself. Such places around China are complicated, and my adventurous streak always was balanced by common sense - did go to some places, careful to drop names and hint to my guanxi, just in case, but just not that one, mostly because I don't like places that average above 30°C heat/86°F (I am an old alien barbarian bred with polar bear and Northern genes, who don't mind the cold and ice of Mohe city, but don't enjoy tropics and their insects). Nonetheless, I do hope I got a balanced view of the situation, not formed or deformed too much by what is written or broadcast about it. On my trips, I did meet some rabble-rousing reporters who were proud of their doing, so I don't put too much value on news items...
For the present "Escape..." Companion piece, here is the direct link : https://kisskh.at/discussions/bian-shui-wang-shi/129385-escape-from-the-triangular-slopes-companion-piece -- enjoy?
I am slowly re-watching for third time to add the pictures and description of characters in the relevant section. Sometimes also adding to Photo section of MDL since not many others do so for this one.
even though it was "only" #3 in numbers watching it for the week ending August 26.
I have started a Companion piece for the drama - still under construction for the illustrated characters and cast part, and for the BTS and interviews links collection part. But you can already enjoy my notes about the Golden Triangle, about tapirs, and about the White Night Theater of Youku.
There may be some mistypes, since I haven't yet taken time to proofread all this.
I may also add a little more about the shooting in Xishuangbanna - I only found the wrapping date, would like to find the launch of shooting date as well (does someone have it ?)
Besides which, ongoing watching.....
Thrilling, if rather unexpectedly violent series, in c-dramaland. As high now as Regeneration, after the new Youku "White Night Theater" collection started revving up, with Tender Night. Insect Detective S2 did not get over 7,181 in May, but I would not be surprised if Escape reaches the roster with 10,000 soon.
This drama is tougher than it looked like in the beginning...
He did not drug Jiang Mingyue as the crown prince did Xie Wanyin. Still, either of those two guys are textbook criminals, but being in power put them above laws...
Only a revolt, or revolution can change the situation; can the Preceptor foment one remains to be seen. Since the empress and crown prince both want the emperor dead, the game of dominoes might begin from his demise.
This drama is tougher than it looked like in the beginning.
So unlikely. Do you think the emperor and his doctor can't count days?
If there was even a remote possibility that the child was conceived before she entered the palace, she would have been beheaded.
Tinghan was away not for a week but for a war, so impossible for him to be the father of the baby. It can only be the fruit of rape...
It's a tough drama indeed, not the expected sugar...
But perhaps she will act as if she is still poisoned and lost memory, in order to confuse the palace criminals.
As the medicine woman said, if she really got inserted those darts again, she'd become a drooling idiot, game over, so she can't have been hit with the darts once again. There are still many episodes ahead 😅
Yes, I used to be very adventurous.... now, just with my drama tastes, perhaps.
I did for some, but drew the line at live monkey's brains (I am a Sun Wukong follower from the Mountain of Fruits and Flowers, can't go cannibalize family!!). Did not hunt for bear's paws. Cobra was fine: I saw the critter before it got prepared in an open air restaurant of Guilin, many years ago; scorpions were just like a sort of crawfish ; silkworm is like jelly with a rather bland taste; hairy crab is a well known delicacy ; I am not sure I was not peddled rabbit instead of dog soup which was on one menu (I did not see any dog in the kitchen and was not in the famed town where they reputedly breed some meaty ones for soup, so it was probably a scam. Besides, although being a cat person, I don't hate dogs so much that I'd take one to be butchered ; some dogs are cute and appetizing like the sausage shaped Dachshund of Zhao Lusi, but they look too intelligent to be sacrificed ; rabbits look cute too: they are seldom on menus in China, more so in the West). Anyway, the tastes were not that special that I would go for repeat experiences, save for hairy crab in season. Now, despite not having turned full vegetarian Buddhist, I prefer not to eat meat or fish more than once a week.
Douban initial rating seems out now at last : 8.1
One reason why they are now on the endangered species list.
Not sure they are a delicacy except for rarity.
But there are several sub species across Asian and American continents.
I don't think tapir figured on the list of bizarre menus in China, or even in South East Asia : perhaps they are really worshiped as luck bringing beasts so a dead one would be an ill omen?
But Aisuo is not going to tolerate it for much longer...
It looks like it's heating up... now that 10 episodes are aired. 😆
It's interesting to be made aware of this "touristic zone" of the Golden Triangle through a Chinese thriller drama 😆
Love that there are so many different dramas to get our interest in the "summer slump" where some are lamenting the weaknesses of the romance ones, although I suspect YouTube audiences are more fascinated by the way Jesse Ren kisses romance partner in silly but amusing "Embrace in the Dark Night", than by tribulations of a young under achiever just looking for manual labor, caught in the tangled web of criminals of south east Asia to save his uncle who got snared in another part of the web.
I don't think the drama is based on a novel, there are two scriptwriters listed on the Baidu page but still not much more. Do you know when and where this was filmed?
... I don't pay for Bloomberg. Just get their nutshell newsletter, and sometimes an item is clickable like that one (all links in the alert were not; they'd have me pay, but I'm ... very stingy 😆
I was randomly checking the status of Xu Xiaonuo as FL after 2018 "About Is Love" drama in two parts.