When I started this yesterday, I knew I could relax and trust the production so soon! That crazy good funny sound track with pansori instruments. Yoona daring to complain about the contract with the king quelled by a single look.
I knew LCM could carry off this big rawboned king -- he carried those older vibes so well on hierachy! And he was great at getting dragged around the forest. That wound dressing was pretty sloppy, I am glad that the bleeding unrealistically stopped!
Thank you so much for your comment. Your reviews was very insightful too! And yes, I totally agree with you, male…
Sorry to be nitpicky, but it is not about women's pain and feelings. Emotional empathy is too easy. My own viewpoint is plain jane radical, so ignore the rest of this if you arent a particularly political person.
It is that men are always unaware of the ways in which the system profits them, especially 'feminist' men who in the end use their politics as a way to get ahead (I am old enough to have seen this many times).
Its the old backpack metaphor, a person cant see their own pack even when they criticize others'.
Great male writers do sometimes sweep up great portrayals of women into their scripts but by sheer intuition and instinct.
The true ironies, horrors and difficulties of this great change that as women we all are working on are best expressed by women themselves, practically speaking.
HI, I liked your review a lot. Obviously, if you read my review I was ok, sort of, with the shallowness of Aema. Just want to say that I am waiting so impatiently for a drama that would be more like the one that you too were clearly hoping for!
I knew as soon as I saw that the director of this was a man that this would not be that. In SK, even the most enlightened guy has no idea. No idea at all.
However if you look at the way female directors are finally getting real chances to direct commercially successful films, I totally expect some great stuff to be made soon.. Thanks for your review. Write well and prosper.
pretty and prettyfunny -- it is a fact that a trope can be dull in the hands of one actor, but charming when another does it? How many girls have we met who live by their wits in the marketplace? How often does a person randomly fall through a roof into a room filled with their destiny?
ZHu Li Lan makes scrambling across the roof both refined and funny.
I just dropped it for many reasons you have listed.
One you havent which is powerful for me is the cynical use of popular or typical tropes.
Bits of a standard hero story will be applied hastily, for ex. the clever military genius with special cultural experience manages to turn the tide and claim victory by manipulating the opposing generals code of honor/desire for individual combat. The thin backstory we have for He Yan does not include the sort of 'outsider' knowledge needed.
And so on and so forth -- the "female-centric" city of Jiyang? In a world of silly episodes this made my teeth grind. etc etc She gets back to the nearby garrison and her special squad still thinks she is a man.
I only made it so far for Ryan Cheng's pretty eyes.
Thank you for the review. I think you touched many people with your perspective. You made me look again at Qiaoxi's mom -- I just wanted to forget her bec her behavior was so cruel and painful to see.
I did puzzle over Cherry's parents perspective. Her mom says 'what she (Qiaoxi's mom) went thru would have broken anyone '(or something like that).
You do see that sort of wildly cruel self-centered behavior in people who went through the incredibly cruel experiences of WWII. Family members in my time seemed more tolerant than one would expect of this behavior by related elderly persons, so maybe that is how her parents relationship with Qiaoxi's parents makes some sense. The original community was tight knit over a long period of time, so even the mom's craziness occurred in a social web which was essentially unbroken.
I didnt really think enough about the roots of Qiaoxi's behavior -- I just went along with Cherry's intuition of a healthy core being, and puzzled over things like his instinctive bolt off the construction site, which I think you have helped me to understand.
That did feel very directed at Law and the City lol. Even more so if you think about the fact the native title…
me too, as the two shows must have been filming close to simultaneously. It sounds like it comes from a joint actors dinner with drunken late night very noisy conversations?...
LatC ended up being a little lukewarm I agree, but there is a fan edit out there on instagram of ryu hye young's character's husband in his striped pjs shushing his wife..."baby can hear, honey" ...that showed the moment that was worth it all.
If you copy an artwork , how is it possible u copy the hidden image as well? Can anyone familiar with art explain?
I think his copying of colors within the larger pattern made no sense. The paint texture had to show the drip technique (which also made almost no sense either), so we are talking about discerning some sort of random underpainting? Im no expert, but maybe, if he was working off a digital image square by square he would not notice the background image, like those dot pictures used to spot green-blue color blindness. It made no sense. And that's why they call it soap opera. We keep watching nevertheless.
ep,6 In the infinity of drunken team dinners the aftermath of this one was the most spectacular in my memory: everyone lterally rolling around on the sidewalk unable to walk or even help each other up. Calling friends for rides from prone positions. Some very interesting consequences too!
This is a spotty series but some of the spots are insanely bright ones!
This truth-telling reveals that the fictional accounts of these events in kdrama are eclipsed by the absolute savagery of the real thing. Imagine what it feels like to live in this small country and still write literature and scripts, to act and direct film and tv....
Knowing most of what went on, writing for an audience only partially willfully ignorant of these events. It is so utterly painful. So scary.
Now we know where that emotional depth in kdrama comes from. And why cinema is so needed to heal from these events and to confront them. So many times I have cried at shows because they awaken exactly those feelings of sorrow and helplessness with regards to all sorts of tragedies, altho few so extreme, in my own cultural sphere.
The story of the clean streets campaign was in fact just exposed recently in Korea by a public investigation and report with respect to the exportation/abduction of many children in order to profit from overseas adoptions.
ep.23 if I were Xu Jing Fu I would not trust Chu Zhao's offer of fealty at all. No facial tension showing poor character -- CZ is too honorable and prett.y. We are meant to believe that CZ is secretly on the side of justice, but if he cant pretend to be corrupt he would not, in reality, be accepted by the Minister.
Why was Hyo Min sitting there like a dumbass at the club and then when they met again? She should have gotten…
agreed on the contact with the manipulative defendant. It made me angry and anxious. You are so right, without consequences she will just be a brat again.
About that romance tag, the FL did have a bratty Romance with her "big brother" in Family By Choice. Here she keeps being rescued from being a brat, from nearly busting the smart girl persona to pieces. Jin Wook is the acting power in the show overall, and yes, they could work as an older man-younger woman couple. That exasperation could become fondness -- he wants someone to take care of. To whit, Hash-time.
This makes me want to define soap opera as something you cant look away from because it is so offthewall. The premises just have to be good enough to argue about with friends, and the actors need to be excellent to look at. I'll take the waking up naked scene in your sunbaes bed over shower scenes anyday!
But did anyone notice the diss on Law and the City in ep.6... during the flashback to the ousting of Kwon Na hyeon (?the famous female mentor of the ML), someone insulted her by saying she should go down to Seocho-Dong where 'it is said that some lawyers with separate accounts have merged to call themselves a law firm'!
ep6, ! Osang sik/ Yoo Joon Sang goes into a karaoke room ****faced, and sings, but not in the usual offkey way, instead perfectly in tune. Its more surreal than anything, and it makes me love the actor even more. Which is weird too.,
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I knew LCM could carry off this big rawboned king -- he carried those older vibes so well on hierachy! And he was great at getting dragged around the forest. That wound dressing was pretty sloppy, I am glad that the bleeding unrealistically stopped!
It is that men are always unaware of the ways in which the system profits them, especially 'feminist' men who in the end use their politics as a way to get ahead (I am old enough to have seen this many times).
Its the old backpack metaphor, a person cant see their own pack even when they criticize others'.
Great male writers do sometimes sweep up great portrayals of women into their scripts but by sheer intuition and instinct.
The true ironies, horrors and difficulties of this great change that as women we all are working on are best expressed by women themselves, practically speaking.
I knew as soon as I saw that the director of this was a man that this would not be that. In SK, even the most enlightened guy has no idea. No idea at all.
However if you look at the way female directors are finally getting real chances to direct commercially successful films, I totally expect some great stuff to be made soon..
Thanks for your review. Write well and prosper.
How many girls have we met who live by their wits in the marketplace? How often does a person randomly fall through a roof into a room filled with their destiny?
ZHu Li Lan makes scrambling across the roof both refined and funny.
One you havent which is powerful for me is the cynical use of popular or typical tropes.
Bits of a standard hero story will be applied hastily, for ex. the clever military genius with special cultural experience manages to turn the tide and claim victory by manipulating the opposing generals code of honor/desire for individual combat. The thin backstory we have for He Yan does not include the sort of 'outsider' knowledge needed.
And so on and so forth -- the "female-centric" city of Jiyang? In a world of silly episodes this made my teeth grind. etc etc She gets back to the nearby garrison and her special squad still thinks she is a man.
I only made it so far for Ryan Cheng's pretty eyes.
I did puzzle over Cherry's parents perspective. Her mom says 'what she (Qiaoxi's mom) went thru would have broken anyone '(or something like that).
You do see that sort of wildly cruel self-centered behavior in people who went through the incredibly cruel experiences of WWII. Family members in my time seemed more tolerant than one would expect of this behavior by related elderly persons, so maybe that is how her parents relationship with Qiaoxi's parents makes some sense. The original community was tight knit over a long period of time, so even the mom's craziness occurred in a social web which was essentially unbroken.
I didnt really think enough about the roots of Qiaoxi's behavior -- I just went along with Cherry's intuition of a healthy core being, and puzzled over things like his instinctive bolt off the construction site, which I think you have helped me to understand.
So, thank you for your insight.
LatC ended up being a little lukewarm I agree, but there is a fan edit out there on instagram of ryu hye young's character's husband in his striped pjs shushing his wife..."baby can hear, honey" ...that showed the moment that was worth it all.
And that's why they call it soap opera. We keep watching nevertheless.
Calling friends for rides from prone positions.
Some very interesting consequences too!
This is a spotty series but some of the spots are insanely bright ones!
Knowing most of what went on, writing for an audience only partially willfully ignorant of these events. It is so utterly painful. So scary.
Now we know where that emotional depth in kdrama comes from. And why cinema is so needed to heal from these events and to confront them. So many times I have cried at shows because they awaken exactly those feelings of sorrow and helplessness with regards to all sorts of tragedies, altho few so extreme, in my own cultural sphere.
The story of the clean streets campaign was in fact just exposed recently in Korea by a public investigation and report with respect to the exportation/abduction of many children in order to profit from overseas adoptions.
But did anyone notice the diss on Law and the City in ep.6... during the flashback to the ousting of Kwon Na hyeon (?the famous female mentor of the ML), someone insulted her by saying she should go down to Seocho-Dong where 'it is said that some lawyers with separate accounts have merged to call themselves a law firm'!
Food Fight.