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Unfortunately the link on youtube with English subs has been taken down but there is a link in good quality with Malay subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiNkhuKgM-U

There are English subtitles on both opensubitles.com and subscene.com so if you can download both the video and the subtitles you should be able to watch it. 🙂

You're welcome!

https://kisskh.at/list/mLnGwlz3 I have a list of historical romance dramas. Not all of them are heavy on action but maybe you can find something you haven't watched yet. 🙂

When I have streaming issues like that I usually try to change the streaming host if I can (I know that's not an option in this case). If that doesn't work it's usually my internet connection so I'll just restart my router. And if that doesn't work restarting my computer is the last resort. 😆

You're welcome! I love history so anytime I watch something based on a true story I end up researching it to find out what really happened.

Thanks for catching that! Yes the male lead does die so I'm not sure why I had it on the list in the first place.

This is the right answer. I get impatient and start currently airing shows all the time and then see that they have crappy endings so I drop them halfway through. It's better just to wait until a show has finished airing to see if the ending was good or not.

I'm not sure the exact reason, but I imagine it's just easier to create shows (budget, scheduling, writing, etc.) with a specific amount of episodes in mind. Not all Korean shows are 16 episodes. From what I have seen 6-20 episodes ending on an even number of episodes are the most common. There are also many family or historical dramas (they typically air on weekends) that have 50+ episodes. And there are daily dramas, basically soap operas, that have 100+ episodes.

I've tried searching but it's hard when I only speak English. I tried to use google translate to find anything out on Baidu. I do know that China has relaxed animal testing regulations for cosmetics a little bit in the past year. Basically they have removed premarket animal testing for cosmetics but they can still take products off shelves and test them randomly if they want to. But at least they are moving in the right direction. I can't find anything on the film industry animal regulations specifically though. But yeah this is something that has bothered me ever since I started watching Asian dramas! I've spent my whole life loving animals so it's a topic I care a lot about.

This is something I have always wondered about Asian dramas in general. There have been scenes in Chinese historical dramas with horses that look painful and I've seen cats in modern Chinese dramas kept in cages with wire bottoms which hurt their paws. I've also seen a few instances in Korean dramas with animals that seemed iffy to me. Of course on the other hand, even in America where there are really detailed animal safety guidelines animals are still injured and/or killed on film and tv sets. In general I think horses are tricky to deal with considering they have huge bodies on spindly little legs. If they get even a non life threatening leg injury it's more likely to be fatal in the long run because horses are designed to stand on four legs. During recovery from a leg injury their circulation can become impaired to the point that their health gets worse instead of better so ultimately many horses with leg injuries get put to sleep. Not to mention the fact that horses get spooked really easily which makes them more prone to hurting themselves or someone else. It's a tricky subject, I think real animals generally look better in shows still (unless the show has a really high budget that can produce realistic CGI) but I don't want them to get hurt just to provide entertainment for people.

I would recommend just watching the original Cube from 1997 if you haven't seen it. This remake is slightly different but the story isn't as good.

I thought this was cute. It was pretty funny at the beginning but after that the comedy just wasn't there. I did appreciate seeing a movie where BDSM is explained and practiced safely.

You're welcome! I decided to search for it when I saw people were looking for it in the comments and I got lucky that it was recently uploaded to youtube for free.

Honestly I think a lot of people don't understand women's history. Women had little to no agency in the past. If you aren't allowed an education, aren't allowed to own property, aren't allowed bodily autonomy, what are your choices? As you said love marriages were not common. You would be lucky to even have a choice in who you married. The best you could do for yourself was to marry someone who had money that would also treat you well and hope that you would grow to love each other with time. I don't blame any woman, fictional or nonfictional, for trying to better their situation through marriage before women gained basic rights.

There are a lot of reasons why it can be hard for women (and men) to leave their abusers. Often the abuser isolates the victim so they don't have a normal support system to ask for help. The victim could be financially dependent on the abuser and not have the money to leave. They could have children or pets that they need to take with them. There is also a lot of social stigma and shame surrounding domestic violence that can prevent people from getting help. I really applaud the people who are brave enough to get themselves out of abusive situations since I can't imagine how hard it is to do.

I'm not sure why I never commented on this when I finished it, but if you have the time to spare this is a wonderful show. It ticked all the boxes for me: history, family, friendship, romance, with the added bonus of art and animation. Even though it's a longer show I never found it boring since it was so fascinating to see the beginning of Japanese animation through the eyes of a female animator and her peers.

There are a lot of drugs derived from opium. Laundanum, a tincture of opium, was used by both Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin. The subject of the famous Ophelia painting by John Everett Millais, his wife Elizabeth Sidall, died of a laundanum overdose at a young age. Something interesting that I read yesterday was that when heroin was first synthesized they tried to give it to morphine addicts to help get them off of morphine. We all know how that turned out. 😆 The early 1900s were really the wild west of medicine considering how many dangerous drugs were used to treat things like a common cold.

I got sucked into a research hole since it is fascinating. That happens to me a lot when I watch tv shows since I like history. I knew a bit about the Opium Wars already but not that much about origins of opium itself until I started to read more about it yesterday.

You made me curious so I decided to look it up and I'm not seeing anything online specifically about "opium maids". I think in this show it's more like she was his mistress who prepared opium for him. Apparently preparing opium the right way was an elaborate procedure so female servants (who were also often prostitutes) would prepare it for the smoker. From what I read, opium was mostly used as an aphrodisiac and a painkiller, but it got so popular that by the 1800s many people were using it recreationally in their own homes. It was used as a social lubricant like alcohol. Even lower class people would use it if they had the money to buy it. It was just like any other drug used today, some people used it occasionally and were fine but others got seriously addicted to it. Government officials both tried to ban opium and collected a lot of tax revenue from the sale of it (often at the same time). The Chinese government really started to push hard against opium use in the early 1900s but it wasn't eradicated until Mao was in power. It's really an interesting subject.

Here is the youtube playlist with English subs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nc3xvz5uAfY&list=PLQrFjzJJcnruK2GY5CJi5B5kBZbz5QeNP