Does anybody else feel that there’s not much of a spark between the leads? I think Gu Jin Zhao has a more interesting…
Dont agree. RenMin especially gave the main couple's interactions true punching level strength. YY and JZ have a very strong physical relationship -- more like a cdrama modern romance than a historical. As others have mentioned, perhaps you havent gotten far enough in the show to make that judgement?
Ye Xian is coming from a crazy different physical place -- he is literally physically ill, besides being completely immature emotionally, so his interactions w/JZ, weird as some of them are, are more about emotions.
My pain too. Suddenly, idol dramas feel so… performative. The main storyline of ASM felt very lived in, like…
It takes an intelligent script to engage actors fully, especially the young ones. They need something to believe in more than the more mature do. This is a very 'real' script. Love it.
CXQ!!!!!!?????^^^^^words cannot convey the disdain for how much his character is delusional and way out of line…
(36) I at first thought JinZhao was mistranlated when she calls him a lunatic, but he has really gone mad. Does it all have to do with keeping face? Or just classic overthetop villainy?
Ep36 So.. in a court governed by neo-confucian morals and an emperor ruling by 'the mandate of heaven', a court official can be impeached for not keeping his house in order. But... if the accuser is a member of his own household and is manifestly attempting to undermine the excessive powers attributed to heads of large household, the official in his status as a 'father' can apply normal punishment, barring murder. When... the case for impeachment is in process, that punishment is part of the official's defense against mismanaging his household.
Although... in this case CXQ is clearly unbalanced in his wits, and we of course on behalf of the solendid couple, hope that YY will find a clever way out of this,
all should agree... that the rule of law is preferable to the absolute power in the private sphere of the patriarch in the imagined 'traditional' household.
This drama most dramatically opposes both -- the private household discipline vs. the public curb of the law of the court. Very, very interesting.
ep35 I am actually ok with this one episode at a time. The political struggles require attention to all the names of various characters and a lot happens in one episode'
I am enjoying JinZhao as half of a power couple. She is as fierce as ever. She looks like she is enjoying the fight.
On the other hand, Yan Yun is so crafty that I am always nervous that one of his schemes will fall apart.
I know he is the ML and this is the nouveau Cdrama where main characters no longer tragically die near the end of the show, but I still carry some residual shadowy dread from older shows.
Valid comments but honestly, the show just finished yesterday and you gave a clear summary of key events, without any personal reactions or observations. Surely you could have waited even a few hours?
The graphics and plot are a little ironic and over the top, so I really appreciate the sound track which is understated but consistently complementing the action.
Mr. Bedroom Eyes needs a bedroom of his own. Give that scene stealer a series to call his own!!! I am watching a simple series called 'fateful love' and every time RSH swoops in all eyes are on him. Or his lizard,
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A great pair of episodes
Ye Xian is coming from a crazy different physical place -- he is literally physically ill, besides being completely immature emotionally, so his interactions w/JZ, weird as some of them are, are more about emotions.
So..
in a court governed by neo-confucian morals and an emperor ruling by 'the mandate of heaven', a court official can be impeached for not keeping his house in order.
But...
if the accuser is a member of his own household and is manifestly attempting to undermine the excessive powers attributed to heads of large household, the official in his status as a 'father' can apply normal punishment, barring murder.
When...
the case for impeachment is in process, that punishment is part of the official's defense against mismanaging his household.
Although...
in this case CXQ is clearly unbalanced in his wits, and we of course on behalf of the solendid couple, hope that YY will find a clever way out of this,
all should agree...
that the rule of law is preferable to the absolute power in the private sphere of the patriarch in the imagined 'traditional' household.
This drama most dramatically opposes both -- the private household discipline vs. the public curb of the law of the court. Very, very interesting.
I am actually ok with this one episode at a time. The political struggles require attention to all the names of various characters and a lot happens in one episode'
I am enjoying JinZhao as half of a power couple. She is as fierce as ever. She looks like she is enjoying the fight.
On the other hand, Yan Yun is so crafty that I am always nervous that one of his schemes will fall apart.
I know he is the ML and this is the nouveau Cdrama where main characters no longer tragically die near the end of the show, but I still carry some residual shadowy dread from older shows.
I talked back to the screen constantly; I had to close the door so no one could hear me.
Crying and laughing sure, but giving the characters advice? It was embarrassing.
I REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY loved it.
But it took a bit of fortitude just like life does.
Collateral damage: the supply of crockery to throw around ACTUALLY RAN OUT in the Wang household!