Mailyn

No. I was replying to your comments 'CONGRATS ON 28.000 HEAT!!!' and 'investment level'. I have been watching films and dramas for seventy years, and I would never consider how much investment went into the production of that which I watched or the number of people who liked it. It is unnatural. The only important thing to me is whether I liked it, and it should be the same for you. I get the impression that you are too concerned with knowing how many thousands of people like a particular drama. just because you like it.

P.S. My question, 'Who cares about ratings?' was not rhetorical.

Why would you be 'very worried' worry about this? If nasty people want to make hateful, immature comments about an actor or an actress, or indeed, anybody at all, it is not your responsibility to feel anxiety on his or her behalf. This is unhealthy and will cause you a lot of stress. You can appreciate someone without carrying this burden.

Really, who cares about ratings. One likes a drama, one doesn't like it, or one has mixed views about it - ratings will never change that. Even if one is influenced by the ratings why think that the rest of us want to know the figures. A rating is not a review.

Spot on!

Why does it matter where the ratings are? Does it alter your personel enjoyment or unenjoyment of the drama? If so, that is a very narrow world view.

Because he is an arrogant male who thinks that he should be above women; who thinks that he should be able to have muliple women, whilst his wife, whom he refuses to acknowlege that he divorced, should not be able to have another man even when it was legal. People like this can not see their own hypocrisy.

I wonder why he thinks that she killed (or was responsible for killing) his family? Nothing in the synopsis to reflect this.

I, too, struggled to understand such badly written drivel.

Shen Li: Are you one of those twisted, psychotic netizens from China that I have been reading so much about? If any of my grandchildren behaved the way that you seem to do, I would disown them.

Grape: is that a cross between a grope and a rape, then, Yoruka? Ha ha.

I agree - entirely. But he does not display 'psychopathic' behaviour. There are some personality disorders that might fit.

Look at the grandmother's expression when the ML told her that he had given the evidence to him.

Firstly, the men whom he commanded would be put to death if they did not obey his every order - not because of the nasty character of the marquis himself but because that is how obedience was maintained world-wide throughout history. Secondly, the way that they behave, however reprehensible to us in modern times, would have been quite usual, too, given the lack of todays societal mores and legal rights, etc. I am sure that the ancient world had its fair share of psychopaths but, these guys do not actually fit the medical definition of the word.

Hmm ...sauce for the gander.

Are these responses because you have read the novel and know something about the Duke of Ling that we (dramawatchers) have yet to see (I have watched up to ep. 22)?

Although I surmised that he was the FL's father (from the expression on the grandmother's face when she knew that he (the ML) had brought Ling into it), I have seen nothing to suggest his bad treatment of women. Is that still to come?

Trish: What group of 'psychopaths' (using the word in its correct sense) is that, then?

If you still haven't found it: myasiantv.ac

No. You misunderstand. I mean normal incense. It is far more dangerous than cigarettte smoke. Also, different types (I don't mean aromas) give off different poisons depending on how they are made. ) I got rid of all of mine and just burn tealights now. Apparently, good quality Japanese style incense is the safest.

What is with the rejoinder? Again, you misconstrue.
P.S. I think that you meant 'mould'!

Far worse than cigarette smoke from a medical point of view!