Restoration and maintaining has been going on for decades. There is this misconception that Chinese heritage is…
I'm not denying any of what Mao has done. What I wanted to point out is, the cultural revolution is often cited as the full reason for the loss of culture and heritage. Today's China bears no resemblance to the 1960s-70s China.
There is pride of China's past, particularly the imperial past with its rich history and art/literature. I'm glad to see more effort and money have been put into reviving and of course learning of past practices which produced some stunning clothing to architecture.
Awesome series. History inside a very nicely written story. Impecabble combination of production, directing, acting,…
Restoration and maintaining has been going on for decades. There is this misconception that Chinese heritage is lost by the cultural revolution and there is only a small band of people trying to restore the history and culture which is not true.
China is the second country to Italy in the world with the most UNESCO heritage sites alone. Go to China and you will see many areas have been painstakingly restored or even re-built. Old practices and historic methods have been passed down generations and revived.
Then there is the burning down of the summer palace by the British and French, and what happened afterwards still rings today where many of China's artifacts and art are sold to the British museum and other private collections. Today, China has asked for them to be returned, but so far nothing. See below link for a brief history that's conveniently brushed under the carpet in the western world. But instead, the narrative being pushed is the cultural revolution flattened all of China's past.
Can't speak for everyone, but from what I've seen, female viewers tend to be critical because they feel they represent…
Yes I noticed that with JXB's mum. The issue with historic dramas are as you point out the inequality between men and women of the time. In order to address this.
Women are merchant upwardly mobile, as seen here and in Blossoms in Adversity, or killer assassins hired by the regime at the time, but they can go rogue or obsessed with revenge as seen A Journey to Love.
Audiences can by-pass the status of women at the time. Notice how ratings on these dramas rise when they make the FL into these categories.
On the double the comments are very positive for xff
My reply was about The Double FL would be well liked because of the character. Here, the FL is completely different. The whole drama flavour is completely different. Almost all characters here are equally imperfect and lack a great portion of skill. Therefore the FL will be roughly the same. To me, yes she's stupid, but equally with everyone else.
when you see a painstaking amount of hate for female characters, before believing, ask yourself " are these girls…
Can't speak for everyone, but from what I've seen, female viewers tend to be critical because they feel they represent themselves. Part of the issue might be many (men and women) directors & writers are heavily influenced by early story-telling around 30-40 years ago where women can only either hen-peck someone or get so jealous, all logic can goes out the window.
Other issues are women written as overly uneducated and have zero EQ skills just to drive the story-line. These are often causing some viewers to criticise.
The final and controversial one is, some viewers are blinded by their ML or favourite ML and will not accept a FL or second FL character show any disrespect at the ML character. This one I think often creates some viewers to be overly critical of the FL rather than the actual storyline.
On the double the comments are very positive for xff
The reason is, she's very much catered towards the modern female audience, so not at all surprised. Sure-fire winners are cool, calm and collected FLs with a bit of knowing, and obviously not shy around the ML. That could be fiesty or in The Double, being smart and often using him to get what she wants first. Let's be honest, majority of female viewers don't want women being bunny boilers or acting silly around ML characters.
are the side characters complex and interesting?? I was really excited for sy cy hry in one drama so if they're…
Once you have seen CL in My Journey to You, it's refreshing to see him here in a completely different character. My sides are splitting seeing him, perplexed, barking and acting like a jobs-worth.
I like these types of drama where many of the characters will be classed as stock characters seen elsewhere but the silliness is equally distributed, rather than just side characters. I like how everyone seems to have failings all round, but of course they each bumble their way in a haphazard way for the plot to move along.
Most viewers think he was the most villainous but wanning was psychotic. He wasn’t at first The way xff and…
You may think that, but it glamorises toxic behaviour and not surprised some even feel sorry for Shen Yu Rong. Dramas are moving in this direction where some characters are clearly evil but they're given a humanistic line which some viewers think they are potential victims of the system.
In this case, it's worse because he tried to kill her and they over fleshed out his personality to the point of some people feeling sorry for him. Personally, I don't think it's an accident. They clearly want to show-case this particular actor.
In the novel, her soul took over jiang li’s body when she was murdered and when jiang li died after a suicide…
I don't have any issue with your summary. I just view both deaths of Wanning and Shen Yu Rong more humanising and less two dimensional. But again, I never read the novel to know how they were written. I'm not interested in the drama in a modern setting. Only the ending part where her imposter status is left like that, and wondered in a modern day setting this would this type of ending pass in China. Unless someone can show me a drama that does, I am interested.
In the novel, her soul took over jiang li’s body when she was murdered and when jiang li died after a suicide…
OK, I haven't watched enough dramas to see the variety of endings. Someone told me on another forum that all crimes must be resolved to be able to pass and get the drama aired. Obviously historic dramas are exempt by the looks of it.
I feel the end is problematic. How could an imposter live out her life with a corrupt official (her second husband)…
I don't have an issue with that either. I originally wanted to know if an ending would be able to pass in a drama representing modern day China. That's since been answered, thanks.
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There is pride of China's past, particularly the imperial past with its rich history and art/literature. I'm glad to see more effort and money have been put into reviving and of course learning of past practices which produced some stunning clothing to architecture.
China is the second country to Italy in the world with the most UNESCO heritage sites alone. Go to China and you will see many areas have been painstakingly restored or even re-built. Old practices and historic methods have been passed down generations and revived.
Then there is the burning down of the summer palace by the British and French, and what happened afterwards still rings today where many of China's artifacts and art are sold to the British museum and other private collections. Today, China has asked for them to be returned, but so far nothing. See below link for a brief history that's conveniently brushed under the carpet in the western world. But instead, the narrative being pushed is the cultural revolution flattened all of China's past.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-30810596
Women are merchant upwardly mobile, as seen here and in Blossoms in Adversity, or killer assassins hired by the regime at the time, but they can go rogue or obsessed with revenge as seen A Journey to Love.
Audiences can by-pass the status of women at the time. Notice how ratings on these dramas rise when they make the FL into these categories.
Other issues are women written as overly uneducated and have zero EQ skills just to drive the story-line. These are often causing some viewers to criticise.
The final and controversial one is, some viewers are blinded by their ML or favourite ML and will not accept a FL or second FL character show any disrespect at the ML character. This one I think often creates some viewers to be overly critical of the FL rather than the actual storyline.
I like these types of drama where many of the characters will be classed as stock characters seen elsewhere but the silliness is equally distributed, rather than just side characters. I like how everyone seems to have failings all round, but of course they each bumble their way in a haphazard way for the plot to move along.
In this case, it's worse because he tried to kill her and they over fleshed out his personality to the point of some people feeling sorry for him. Personally, I don't think it's an accident. They clearly want to show-case this particular actor.