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Just watched Yun Miao. Really enjoyed it, thank you for the recommendation.

4th link down of the above list has the best eng subs (one ending NzHg)

Fab, thank you!

I just watched this and agree with Jerell's take , which is also why she was able to not only keep her power and her child but even promote her lover- it was a deal she made with her husband to give him an heir. The Commander shot all his medals both in fury that he had won those at the cost of his ability to reproduce, leading to this situation, and in his impotence at not being able to shoot the soldier who had done what he could not. Whole movie gave me Frozen Flower vibes.

The red cloth I think was wrapped around the "serve the people" tablet that had been their signal - first she gave it to him as a farewell memento when he was looking for it on the table- then he returned it to her 15 years later as a call to meet and that is when she walks out never to be seen again - to "serve the people".

Although.....what do you make of the scene where he had just discovered the entrance to the Wizard Cult HQ, and then passed a patrol that would be able to report to and mobilise the Guardians. If he had alerted them then a strong group could have attacked the base and had a chance to succeed, but by changing his mind about telling them he not only failed to beat them all but also startled them into changing the entrance location and put them more on guard.

I like reading your take, thank you so much for sharing your thoughts! Things to think about for sure. I might give this another watch once I'm over the initial feeling of disappointment and see if I can appreciate those aspects.

Stigmatising ill mental health by having 2 people with symptoms of depression where the implication is: they brought this on themselves because they are selfish narcissistic depots-in-the-making who, despite being put on magical time-out, refuse to self reflect or change.

One suicides by cult.
One "suicides" by abandoning their identity. Thus meaning noone even knows to mourn either of them.


So not the fun of the parent story for me. My only laugh was for the overwritten Flag as he charged into the uruk-hai.

I am so disappointed!

TY. Do they give the same feeling as the Grandma ones? Because I was surprised how much I enjoyed that despite being no romance (a weirdly young biker Tang showing up at the end doesn't count) . Everything from her Grand Ma'am aura to old guy acting like a baby to the grandsons being whipped into shape just felt so good!

Thank you so much!

This was my first time-traveling Grandma drama and it was so satisfying. Please could you give me links or names of the others you've watched?

Right out the gate they made me snort my tea in laughter: flapping around in a random tuff tray of water before a jerkily descending gauze-festooned chandelier image magics them to the morning after. ML stalks around all eyebrows, suits, winklepickers and whisky. Everything else just seems like the vehicle to showcase his series of fashion mag poses but FL drives it well enough that I mostly don't mind (plus after Snowfall and Fateful Love I like seeing him come out on top). I can only watch this when I'm the mood for that tufftray humour as at other times I find it quite eyeroll inducing.

aka Refreshing Dr Ling

This maximalist mini slides into my brain and whispers "wallpaper your stairs!"

Having just watched ep 11, and even without having read the novel, I can now understand the ire about the editing/direction. That whole "bandaid" moment was proper jarring.

I felt like there were 2 different people in charge of that scene, one said "let's make it arty, obscure and just show some leaves with cicadas chirping, alluding to summer and poetry and such" and one said "no, let's make it silly and an in-joke for those who've read the book/ had a passionate youth moment of their own and play it off with a sheepish nudge-nudge -wink -wink -know -wot- I- mean vibe" and they couldn't decide which so just did both. Simultaneously and awkwardly.

In Derailment there was a hair washing scene that stayed with me for its delicious tension that had nothing to do with a close-up smooshing of lips so I don't think this is about wanting to see more graphic intimacy nor the actors themselves; it was a choice and it felt weird to me.

I've actually really been enjoying everything else about this show, whether it be the chats between the dads, the not conventionally academic BF showing her EQ and finding her own strengths amidst a sea of intimidating high scorers, or the refreshing nature of encounters with Gu Yan. I've enjoyed XZ visibly perking up whenever ClZ says something that inspires her and CLZ being gratefully surprised at being appreciated for something other than his looks, scores or obedience as if he'd been given tea when he didn't realise he was so thirsty. Their unconventional growing closer without dating yet understanding something deeply in each other reminds me a bit of a (somewhat role reversed) Lighter and Princess type dynamic. So I will continue with it for now.

Are you enjoying it? Do you also feel sad because of knowing all their fates?

How are you finding it?

Only up to ep 7 but enjoying this more than I thought- FL seems to me to be slightly autistically coded and I Iike how that's making ML confront and reflect on his own prejudices.

Watching this after Blood of Youth to stay in line with release order, and I really wish I hadn't. It's hard knowing the future. If you are debating: watch this one first is my advice.

All the characters were so brave that it made me cry. I didn't feel that way watching the Korean one but now I'm curious if a re-watch would change anything.

After reading comments about the costumes I started paying attention but I disagree that they were horrid. It was refreshing to have a guy in tight waisted clothes with frills skirting over high heels and to have girls in genderless amorphous yet sculptural shapes ( not unlike Miu's sculptures in comparison to her ex's one) and still shown to have attractiveness. I think the costume arrangements were such that the camera could zoom in on the face and there would still be layers of interest but not distractingly so. Often with a crafted vibe (cable knitwear in tonal variation of colour resembling hand dyed yarn, colourwork knit wear, hand woven patchwork) or sculptural element (stacked coils of knitted scarf, puffa jacket ribbing.