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hahaha rip, it was bit hard getting used to it in the beginning, I think the episodes later got better to be honest? Maybe because I find it easier to relate later (they start planting mushrooms and some people goes to work in Fujian). I think you haven't seen the Fujian characters yet? (think they appear in ep 7 or 8) Their accents are great and absolutely hilarious, and much closer to what I'm used to hearing too. Watch one ep at a time maybe? Even if you don't finish it, you gave it good try!

I just saw the synopsis, the 1966 makes it kind of confusing since the drama is set in late 90s lol. It's even later than both Like a Flowing River.

In similar vein to this drama and soooort of your article, I remembered https://kisskh.at/30365-perfect-youth I didn't watch it because it looked like suffering, but it was rated pretty well on douban so I remembered it.

Wu Liao-like robot are used in banks and i think in some museums in china to help with general inquiries, I've seen some funny clips of them, not sure if it's programmed speech or if someone is answering more difficult inquires behind the robot (I've seen both explanations).

demo wasn't overly important in the novel iirc, while 97 is, I remember more about inin than demo, and GGS didn't have inin. demo's actor might have other engagement and didn't care to reprise his role here?

ahahah I like him as Ying Si! Ying Si is super cool, could definitely have used him as Ying Zheng, or Qin Empire 3/s Zhang Bo would work too, who also played Sun Quan in Three Kingdoms (2010).

Are you talking about the short comments, that only makes up of not even 1/3 of the total ratings, you can rate without commenting. The different stars with percentage adds up, it's fairly easy to find other dramas rated 7 with similar percentage, it doesn't have abnormal amount of 5 stars either.

Basically, I guess not enough people care to downvote it, they are simply refusing to touch it. Douban definitely have its water armies but if they are here, these ones are smarter than most of the other ones and they aren't super significant enough making a 3 drama into 7. (i would have predicted a 6 with downvoting, high 7 without the controversy, which matches the shape of the current ratings)

For interest, you can look at If There is No Tomorrow 我是余欢水, which had one terrible dialogue in the last ep that set off analysing its misogynistic roots (you can argue the writing is a bit) and consequent downvoting. it's sitting at 7.4 with 8.9% one star, similar to MHH's 8.2% one star. That one actually started at 8 or high 7 I think? and dropped and there was bit of upvoting to 5 stars to combat the 1 stars too.

higher rating isn't particularly difficult, popularity is little hard to say since it's on two different platforms, but this definitely have a wider reach since it's mostly comedy.

nope, it's better off not to to be honest, since the details are different, and directing of the drama, career focus and some characters' personalities are different.

It was never LoL to begin with, it's a fictional group shooting game in the novel, CS:Go (multiplayer shooting game) when they filmed GGS, ctf (cybersecurity, not gaming at all) when they aired GGS. They changed the career probably because they wanted to air on tv to reach a wider audience, all the gaming esport dramas are webdramas and have fairly limited audience.

douban ratings have always been influenced by controversies. this latest one happened in january, it's too recent, it's also tangentially connected to this incident where a female author spoke up about being harrassed in events, and bunch of male authors just attacked her going "not all men", even though she didn't name any names. zhui xu's author was one of them, AND THEN he mentioned "i didn't really think about female audience", I sort of understand what he was saying, but it's just hilariously bad PR. If the drama wasn't adapted this well, i would have dropped the drama like a firebomb tbh.

you can watch this as a separate drama since details are different, it'll explain everything relevant.

Yeah ZRY lost some weight before filming snow sword stride, Maybe because his wife gave birth and they were losing weight together? Or he got used to feeding everyone else with his cooking. This drama's cameo was done when he filmed SSS.

You are already here! I was going to rec this to you ahahaha. This is so much fun and easy to watch.

As for JoL's bgm, it's intentional comedy for some people, they think it's brilliant, while other find it rips them out of the drama.

just watch this one, watching GGS might make you more confused lol.

they are very close friends, not romantically linked at all, although some novel readers said hua ti has a crush on her? I totally didn't notice so it's real subtle.

ooh yeah i remember that scene. they just age them up 3 years for some reason?

you don't need to. it tends to confuse you since there's career change + bit of personality change as well as cast change. watching it might supplement some background story that you might be curious about, but you can always ask here, unless you can separate the two dramas really well.

novel age + age gap between gun and appledog. (gun is confirmed 29) where did grandpa say 25?

dt is 22 and appledog is 25. appledog is younger than solo and gun by 4 years.

they call her "da sao", sister-in-law, but you also call your bro's girlfriend that, it's not sequel yet. Timeline-wise, if we are reconciling the two version, it's before they date, but 97 and One misunderstood their relationship. (between GGS ep 4 and ep 7) ep 13 = Chinese New Years = GGS ep 8