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Got it. See? Please don't take offense but the second time you did it, your comment came across loud and clear.

Can you rephrase or something? Trying hard to understand what you wrote, but I can't figure it out. Are you saying she is good or bad?

It costs that much? Must be all the battle scenes and Zhang Ziyi's high salary. But she seldom film drama, so must be worth watching.

You will have to be patient. We have been waiting for months.

Yup. I think Hunan TV, the producer of Happy Camp, will never reveal the true reasons behind ceasing the production. Could be too sensitive.

There will be many good historical Chinese dramas this year.

Here is another article that contains rumours related to Happy Camp:

https://www.todayonline.com/8days/why-are-there-rumours-chinese-host-he-jiong-quit-happy-camp-which-hes-hosted-over-20-years

We may never know the real reasons. That video and this article may provide some clues, but the real reasons will never be revealed.

https://inf.news/en/entertainment/a4db3745f890cf21f836cd22c5e3c669.html

We just look out for any official news in Twitter or Weibo, even while we watch some other dramas.

That seems to be the case. We always knew TBW was scheduled for first quarter of 2022. Just hoping it would be Jan., instead of March.

With the end Jan already in sight, Jan broadcast is looking near to impossible. Also, if they were to air it after MTC, they may also wait till after the Winter Games are over, meaning, after Feb 20.

If I am not wrong, final episode for MTC for VIP members is 16 Feb; for non-VIP members, final episode is 26 Feb. So, we could well be looking at a broadcast in early March, if they wish to even avoid forcing non-VIPs to choose between the two dramas.

Why the long delay? They either want to avoid MTC (perhaps due to backdoor agreement with Tencent, if indeed TBW will also be aired on Tencent's streaming platform), or they needed more time on post production of TBW.

As viewers, we don't have a choice. Just go watch something else, while we wait.

Actually, this is already written in the synopsis in the synopsis above, in an actual historical event called the Xuanwu Gate Incident. To know more about this incident, you can read this link:

https://kisskh.at/discussions/princess-changge/63441-latest-interpretation-of-the-xuanwu-gate-incident

The relationship between Li Changge's father and uncle is explained in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.

In the drama, as to why or how Li Changge's mother died, you keep on watching. It will be clearly explained in one of the later episodes.

Waiting patiently for this to air. Given their immense popularity in Yanxi palace, millions of fans in China and around the world will be waiting for this drama. Wu jinyan had amazing chemistry with all the other actors and actresses in Yanxi palace, not just with xu Kai. But romance wise, it was great chemistry between those two. People are naturally keen to know, can they repeat the same magic, the same charm? Obviously, we hope they can. They are both great actors, so we know they can.

Happy Camp had two hosts who are extremely popular in China: He Jiong and Xie Na. It seems that the new show has this Hong Kong lady called Adai Choi. I have not heard her speak Mandarin. If she speaks Mandarin with a very heavy Cantonese accent, it might turn off the mainland viewers.

Let's hope this new one will be just as popular as Happy Camp was. Cdramas does need a popular variety show as a pre-airing or even mid-airing promotional tool.

Ah? I think you clicked your reply to the wrong person?

The last few episodes where they showed the satellite launch was filmed in Wenchang, on Hainan island. If you Google, you will see that there is a space centre there. They launched a number of satellites from that centre. So the scene that we saw of the satellite launch in the final episode, it was not made by the drama production team. Will be too costly and difficult to do it. The space centre provided them footage of a past launch, and they blended it into the drama.

This is a serious romance drama, sprinkled with some doses of humour. I think this time Yang Yang would be different. He is acting with an actress skilled in eliciting the best chemistry from her male co-stars.

Many of the awards that this drama has won, they stemmed from the amazing chemistry between Yang Yang and Dilraba.

Take a sip. See if it is your cup of tea.

I enjoyed this drama immensely, despite fast forwarding a number of the episodes or scenes involving the aerospace stuff. I know that they had to do those scenes, because they were getting so much support from China aersospace. The launch of the satellite in the last episode, it was a real launch taken from footage in their archive. They loaned the control room to the cast for the drama. They had consultants to help with the production team. So, only fair that there would be sufficient scenes in the drama dealing with the aerospace industry.

Yes, it is getting more and more unlikely to get it even during the 1st week of Feb. Unless they do an official announcement by next Monday, followed by a new trailer a few days after that, and then OSTs and airing schedule, all within the period of one week.

It is still possible; but if we are to rate things on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "Impossible," and 10 being "Almost Certain", we will probably have to put it as 2 or 3. In short, very low probability.

Got you. I meant to respond to your earlier post. I think I clicked on the wrong reply button.

You said 7 episodes in the middle. So you must be referring to E 14-E 20? This drama follows the novel very closely and those episodes are all part of the storytelling by the author Gu Man, who is also the scriptwriter of this drama.

They were indeed not the sweetest part of the story, but somewhat essential to the plot. I watched this drama when it first aired back in August. So, when I found certain portions between E14-E20 uninteresting, I watched it in twice the normal speed, to save time.

For instance, I am not into aerospace, so I fast forward some of the very technical scenes, when they were dealing with lunar rover. But, some episodes were still interesting to watch. Like those that showed QJJ made YT paid for his mistake of rejecting her for the 2nd time. Those scenes made the scene in E21 so much sweeter, to know that she did not give in to him so easily.

The sweetest parts of this drama all occured from E21 onward. So, if you are at E27, everything is sweet the rest of the way. It is their sweet chemistry from E21 onward that made this drama magical.