The interesting thing about this "good youth" drama is that the two of them were so good and studious and patient and all the rest that they almost lost their chance to be happy forever.
It is almost a cautionary tale. The moral is the opposite of what you might think -- DONT BE TOO PATIENT AND CAREFUL. Dont be too proud. Ask for what you want, take it with both hands.
Granted, I am still just at episode 28. The two of them are stiff as two sticks.
Ep27-8 Jeez-Louise. When they were in love in highschool I seem to be discouraged.liked the unspoken understanding. But now that has just turned out to be a really bad habit of not saying what they mean. Either that or now that they have finally gotten back in contact they are still producing that hidden confidence. At least Qing Ye doesnt seem to be producing a grudge and therefore doing stupid things. (Like going out with Meng suddenly to spite her recalcitrant love,) Nor does Xing Wu seem to be despairing of her love. I am pretty sure she was giving him the death stare during that strange dinner date.
ep1-2 on a rewatch, These are a good pair of setting up episodes. Main issues and themes. The most fun things are not the most meaningful -- the lecture on futuristic fashion, the "rugged man" training, the first lust rather than love.
I was quite all geared up to watch this drama expecting great storytelling, scenes and cinematography, bit it…
Wow, I really disagree. I am now watching the First Jazmine in tandem and First Jazmine seems tired, slow, poorly acted and with a meh soundtrack in comparison to ATC.
I think the contrast is some sort of generic one. There are some huge differences in style of acting and the aims and themes of the dialogue and the completely different scene-setting (what is that called)).
I am continuing with FJ to see if that is the problem, and if I will ease back into the current standard romhistorical.
OMG I just finished ep 14… and all I have to say is if you’re emotional prepare those tissues!!!! I balled…
For aficionadoes of palace intrigue this one has almost a musical cadence with the pair of them( DengYi and Xie YanFang) doing their dance in court and then Xiao Xun dooming away in his green home (how unfair that the Xiaos get my favorite color!). Technically excellent cinema.
Ep14 Xie Yan Lai is as passionate, guilty and obsessed as Chu Zhao, isnt he?
His second lynching in life, both fundamentally caused by duplicitous big 'brother'Xie YanFang shifting blame onto YanLai for military matters.
YL takes all the blame willingly, then is saved dramatically by Chu Zhao, backlit -- in red #1 (life) and in white #2, please let this not mean death, but some gesture of fundamental innocence!
To be honest, the two of them are truly made out of heroic stuff -- mildly nuts. They seem so different, she is driven by rage and fury and he by some sort of hero-worship and self-sacrifice, but that fundamental driver of guilt and self-blame...they really need to get rid of that to be real human beings.
a side irony -- general Zhongrong and Chu Zhao ride in to protect Xie YanLai from a self-induced lynching. The two exhort the crowd to let the military courts determine justice and guilt. Tghen they of course proceed to enact the chinese court-of-village-opinion fiction right there and then and defend him. The court of village opinion is an amalgam of' the righteous village' and of classic beliefs in the reasonable ability of humans to come to a fair and just conclusion through public discourse.
I am not enjoying this. The arch and relentless cheer from the despised wife? ChengLei's simple gaze makes her seem soulless. Too many mid-distance shots of an entire room when one close-up would do 20x better.
There is something wrong with the soundtrack/acting. Definitely empty spaces in both without purpose. Why? (Ep1-3) ..
I will stick with this a little more for the sake of the disable hero trope which I love.
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And interfering parents! Mr Qing is a mini case!
A few of my favorite little cdrama tropes for lifelong love
He cooks her a great meal and promises to go to chef level for her.
He ties back her HAIR (shriek, almost as good as combing it out before bed).
All their friends immediately share everything by wechat and call up to congratulate them!
It is almost a cautionary tale. The moral is the opposite of what you might think -- DONT BE TOO PATIENT AND CAREFUL. Dont be too proud. Ask for what you want, take it with both hands.
Granted, I am still just at episode 28. The two of them are stiff as two sticks.
Jeez-Louise.
When they were in love in highschool I seem to be discouraged.liked the unspoken understanding.
But now that has just turned out to be a really bad habit of not saying what they mean.
Either that or now that they have finally gotten back in contact they are still producing that hidden confidence.
At least Qing Ye doesnt seem to be producing a grudge and therefore doing stupid things. (Like going out with Meng suddenly to spite her recalcitrant love,)
Nor does Xing Wu seem to be despairing of her love. I am pretty sure she was giving him the death stare during that strange dinner date.
Now to wait until tomorrow.
on a rewatch, These are a good pair of setting up episodes. Main issues and themes.
The most fun things are not the most meaningful -- the lecture on futuristic fashion, the "rugged man" training, the first lust rather than love.
definitely a good cry. Not much time left, so I guess the enphasis of the series is really right here. Lessons learnt. Family healing.
I just dont like it when people start a bushfire under my name.
For clarity, although everybody flies off the handle so why try,
I SAID BY COMPARISON AND THEREFORE THIS MAY INDICATE A GENERIC DIFFERENCE!
I think the contrast is some sort of generic one.
There are some huge differences in style of acting and the aims and themes of the dialogue and the completely different scene-setting (what is that called)).
I am continuing with FJ to see if that is the problem, and if I will ease back into the current standard romhistorical.
Technically excellent cinema.
Xie Yan Lai is as passionate, guilty and obsessed as Chu Zhao, isnt he?
His second lynching in life, both fundamentally caused by duplicitous big 'brother'Xie YanFang shifting blame onto YanLai for military matters.
YL takes all the blame willingly, then is saved dramatically by Chu Zhao, backlit -- in red #1 (life) and in white #2, please let this not mean death, but some gesture of fundamental innocence!
To be honest, the two of them are truly made out of heroic stuff -- mildly nuts.
They seem so different, she is driven by rage and fury and he by some sort of hero-worship and self-sacrifice, but that fundamental driver of guilt and self-blame...they really need to get rid of that to be real human beings.
a side irony -- general Zhongrong and Chu Zhao ride in to protect Xie YanLai from a self-induced lynching.
The two exhort the crowd to let the military courts determine justice and guilt.
Tghen they of course proceed to enact the chinese court-of-village-opinion fiction right there and then and defend him.
The court of village opinion is an amalgam of' the righteous village' and of classic beliefs in the reasonable ability of humans to come to a fair and just conclusion through public discourse.
There is something wrong with the soundtrack/acting. Definitely empty spaces in both without purpose. Why? (Ep1-3) ..
I will stick with this a little more for the sake of the disable hero trope which I love.