Wow - comments are flying thick and heavy.. Been off MDL for a while and I see the buildup of convos around many themes.. Tops being about ML being toxic or not.
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Any way it was 30th Dec 🎊🎊🥂🥂🎊🎊💖💖 Happy birthday to Zhang Ling He turning 26 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 Looking forward to more work from him.
'Skin you' is a common threat in china! My mum says it to me whenever I'm in the house barefoot without slippers!…
Correct..Even in our part of the world elders when angry rant and rave at young ones with choice cusses - "will skin you" is common 😂🤣😂 No need to get all worked up.. It's just a phrase.. No one has been reported skinned till date 🤣
When will they make another drama like this with this level of sophistication, authenticity and soul? In terms…
you know what I AM SO feeling that ;-D
Happy to have finally settled on a drama that I can slow chew my way through .. LOVING the 'maturity' of the cast - director - scriptwriter - set designer - camera person
Ah that rare smell of a well-woven story with nuance and complexity and several layers of dynamics moving the characters along ..
the realistic lighting with torches and flickering lights .. the low key sets as one would expect in a magistrate's home .. the various concubines and their conniving .. nothing loud or excessively dramatic ..
It's as slice of life a feel as it can get for a period drama ..
True. Very underwhalming, and for anyone who watched more than 1 movie with similar plot, (time loop) not very…
uh huh.
Have you watched Nine : Nine Times Time Travel (2013) IMHO it's a CLASSIC .. check it out .. Hitchcock - Ian in feel and style .. Edge of seat speed and story development .. and the ACTORS .. of course top ones in the stable
exactly. forced myself to continue bc of the rating but it doesn't get any better for me
PHEW!!!
Thank God ~ I didnt want to be the ONLY daft person who dropped this drama at Ep 1 .. I did FFD and chunk watched upto Ep 5 .. eeesh!! It's a snail was writing on the pavement as it crept along ..
Now THAT is a time loop drama that was Hitchcock-ian .. and had me sitting at the edge of my seat with the 'speed' it was developed and moved forward .. breathlessly ..
Such fab reviews .. just started watching .. drawn by the effusiveness and the 9/10 rating.
Ep 1 : Anyone else thought that it was dragging a lot - reducing the tension of the drama significantly .. no one forgets what happened barely 15 minutes ago (within the same episode ) in drama time to require such drawn out 'repeats' of previous scene .. Such repeats usually are done when a new episode is aired after a week .. just as a quick recap and pulling back into the drama tension .. Making lose my patience ..
Going to persevere and FFD the repeats .. both actual footage .. and each character being individually being given the recap in some form or other (eye roll) ..
I think you should put a spoiler tag here :-)It's NOT something I'd like to be told before I watched the show.
LOL .. it makes no difference to me as of now .. because thankfully I had already watched it before wading in here ..
Honestly speaking I'd not have wanted to know this fact before I watched the show .. it was an important reveal for me .. and one of the MAIN reasons I value this show is how well it incorporates this issue into the grain of the drama .. I for example was NOT aware of male breast cancer.
The only reason I had asked for a spoiler tag is just in case there is someone like me who'd prefer not knowing this fact - it's not in the MDL story brief either for a reason.
Of course I'll agree to differ .. it's your call on what you wish to include in your comment ..
Been off MDL for a while and I see the buildup of convos around many themes.. Tops being about ML being toxic or not.
😝😝
Any way it was 30th Dec 🎊🎊🥂🥂🎊🎊💖💖
Happy birthday to Zhang Ling He turning 26 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
Looking forward to more work from him.
No need to get all worked up.. It's just a phrase.. No one has been reported skinned till date 🤣
Nice explanation.
Happy to have finally settled on a drama that I can slow chew my way through ..
LOVING the 'maturity' of the cast - director - scriptwriter - set designer - camera person
Ah that rare smell of a well-woven story with nuance and complexity and several layers of dynamics moving the characters along ..
the realistic lighting with torches and flickering lights .. the low key sets as one would expect in a magistrate's home .. the various concubines and their conniving .. nothing loud or excessively dramatic ..
It's as slice of life a feel as it can get for a period drama ..
Finishes Ep 2
Going back.
It's OK .. my laptop was stringy .. Rebooted.
Watched it on Dramacool ..
;-p Dropped it though (didnt work for me)
Welcome to the club
IMHO KING of time loop Drama .. you'll also get your SOLID heart Squee romance with TWO top notch FL and ML actors
NINE : Nine Times Time Travel (2013)
IMHO a classic in the genre
Have you watched
Nine : Nine Times Time Travel (2013)
IMHO it's a CLASSIC .. check it out .. Hitchcock - Ian in feel and style .. Edge of seat speed and story development .. and the ACTORS .. of course top ones in the stable
Thank God ~ I didnt want to be the ONLY daft person who dropped this drama at Ep 1 .. I did FFD and chunk watched upto Ep 5 .. eeesh!! It's a snail was writing on the pavement as it crept along ..
Now THAT is a time loop drama that was Hitchcock-ian .. and had me sitting at the edge of my seat with the 'speed' it was developed and moved forward .. breathlessly ..
Check it out ;-p
Ep 1 :
Anyone else thought that it was dragging a lot - reducing the tension of the drama significantly .. no one forgets what happened barely 15 minutes ago (within the same episode ) in drama time to require such drawn out 'repeats' of previous scene ..
Such repeats usually are done when a new episode is aired after a week .. just as a quick recap and pulling back into the drama tension .. Making lose my patience ..
Going to persevere and FFD the repeats .. both actual footage .. and each character being individually being given the recap in some form or other (eye roll) ..
I tried several times and it's jumping and patchy and slow .. not streaming smoothly.
Just wanted to check if this is just an issue today .. or for a while? Or no one else is having this issue.
Am so eager to check this out - the rating of 9/10 made me so curious.
Honestly speaking I'd not have wanted to know this fact before I watched the show .. it was an important reveal for me .. and one of the MAIN reasons I value this show is how well it incorporates this issue into the grain of the drama .. I for example was NOT aware of male breast cancer.
The only reason I had asked for a spoiler tag is just in case there is someone like me who'd prefer not knowing this fact - it's not in the MDL story brief either for a reason.
Of course I'll agree to differ .. it's your call on what you wish to include in your comment ..