These are all your comments on this site , unless you post only here 😊I don’t think there re available statistics…
I'm not quite as eloquent as @Regina de Sá LOL. I'm usually just analytical and boring AF about what I see and dissect. But yes, it was The Last Immortal that brought me to MDL because I wanted to talk about it and found a link to the site, then I just spent a lot of time reading through comments there and LYF Season 1. LYF was my obsession for years a decade ago (still is) and it was one of the first Chinese books/character that moved me to rethink about Chinese novels and its possibilities LOL. I think I exhausted myself ten years ago writing about that book all by my lonesome self in my files (diary) because none of my friends read Chinese books and so it was fun going through that board seeing people getting to love/know my favorite character/book. Then came The Double and I started from the beginning here too, but was mostly quiet as I enjoyed the first ten or so episodes to see if I would chase the drama. I was hooked and now y'all have to suffer through 2000 comments from me, LMAO. Poor you and @Regina de Sá!
No, how does one find out how many comments one posted?! 🤔 You’re just a fount of numbers!
I only joined MDL last year, so started posting on The Last Immortal forum. That's why I said 80 percent here. The 20 percent is there and a post here and there LOL.
Not surprising, since China did not prohibit marriages between first cousins until 1981
Are they real brother and sisters? I watch many douyin drama and there is a popular repeated one that is about brother and adopted sister. They weren't blood related but through it all it was gege and meimei this and their flirting.
Like it literally serves no purpose to the rest of the main plot of the story. The main plot effing ended already.…
I love your very insightful take on poetic justice. The fates of those you described were definitely filled with karma and poetic irony, which is what poetic justice is about.
And yes, we cannot explain the deaths of Tong Er and the Ji Brothers. Perhaps we shouldn't put them under the theme of justice because they were not the ones to whom justice was administered, but were just part of the "whims of fate."
I do know, though, that this director LOVES mirroring his scenes with different outcomes. Thus, we were shown Duke Su's father in battle gear with all his men dead, battling alone. He did NOT survive. In Episode 40, we see the same bloody scene with Duke Su and his faithful men. And thus, perhaps that's why the Jis had to die, because the mirroring the earlier scene, all the General's men died. The different outcome, of course, was that our Duke survived this battle.
We see this mirroring/different ending with XFF running in red in the beginning and we know she was going to be "killed" by a faithless husband. So, the mirroring ending with her running in red, we know it would be the opposite outcome.
If we believe in karma, which is part of many a revenge plot, then we know it was poetic irony for SYR that in the end, it was his wife who received everything he wanted: noble status, power (she was now the scholar/teacher), equality with a mate, a lover to play music/go with, a peaceful family life.
Here is the other irony, XFF was given the nickname Li for Civet, the "replacement." We've earlier already discussed the Ancient Story of the Civet and that XFF's civet replaced Jiang Li's Pear. But, could we further push this civet story that XFF also in some ways replaced her SYR in life? She was the one inside the gates now, the one being the scholar, the one entire groups of people/families looked up to, the one the Emperor could seek advice from (and you know he did!). I think that is a pretty cool "mirror" maneuver!
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And yes, we cannot explain the deaths of Tong Er and the Ji Brothers. Perhaps we shouldn't put them under the theme of justice because they were not the ones to whom justice was administered, but were just part of the "whims of fate."
I do know, though, that this director LOVES mirroring his scenes with different outcomes. Thus, we were shown Duke Su's father in battle gear with all his men dead, battling alone. He did NOT survive. In Episode 40, we see the same bloody scene with Duke Su and his faithful men. And thus, perhaps that's why the Jis had to die, because the mirroring the earlier scene, all the General's men died. The different outcome, of course, was that our Duke survived this battle.
We see this mirroring/different ending with XFF running in red in the beginning and we know she was going to be "killed" by a faithless husband. So, the mirroring ending with her running in red, we know it would be the opposite outcome.
If we believe in karma, which is part of many a revenge plot, then we know it was poetic irony for SYR that in the end, it was his wife who received everything he wanted: noble status, power (she was now the scholar/teacher), equality with a mate, a lover to play music/go with, a peaceful family life.
Here is the other irony, XFF was given the nickname Li for Civet, the "replacement." We've earlier already discussed the Ancient Story of the Civet and that XFF's civet replaced Jiang Li's Pear. But, could we further push this civet story that XFF also in some ways replaced her SYR in life? She was the one inside the gates now, the one being the scholar, the one entire groups of people/families looked up to, the one the Emperor could seek advice from (and you know he did!). I think that is a pretty cool "mirror" maneuver!