Sol1056

You're right that these are competitors, but they're also each distributors, and not all of them have access to the same regions. Each 'region' for streaming is negotiated differently, often based on that country's laws (here's what it's legal, or not legal, to show) and with whomever owns the local network (as in, the physical cable/satellites/broadband etc).

Which means it's not entirely accurate to say they're all *always* competitors; if I can't sell my whatzits (tv production, movie, song, book, etc) in your country, I'm not your competition. We're only competitors in regions where we both operate. Let's say you can sell (distribute) your whatzits in India, but I don't have a distribution license for India, so I can only sell/distribute my whatzits in Bhutan.

Let's say I create a whatzit that I know and you know would be super-super-popular in India. You'd pay me for the distribution license, and your subscribers will line up to pay more to see this awesome whatzit. So we agree you'll distribute my tv show -- but *only* in the region you control that I don't. You may also have distribution rights to Bhutan, but that's my turf, and that's where we become competition, and if you try to distribute my show there (at the same time that I am), I will squash you like a grape.

You'll see glimpses of this in streaming, when a distributor will say, "this is not available in your region." That means, no [distributing] company operating in your region has arranged for distribution rights with the [producing] company. Obviously, the internet makes this a thousand times more complicated, like people using VPNs to watch BBC from Brazil, or spoofing your IP to see behind the Great Firewall, etc. (Companies gnash their teeth and make a big production of that, but really, the percentage of people savvy enough to evade region restrictions is probably 1% at best.)

Or in short: there are absolutely places and times where a [distributing] company with sole broadcast or streaming rights in region A can and will broadcast a Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Tencent, Youku, etc etc. None of the [producing] companies are in this to be exclusive; they're in the business to make money. To them, being paid a rental fee by a local broadcaster in Bhutan is better than no money at all -- which means yes, Tencent may distribute Mango, or Netflix distribute Tencent, and so on.

What is When Destroy? I'm not finding that listed. Do you know the official english version of the name?

I feel like at some point it'll be time to stop adding +s and just move to the next letter! Super, Tremendous, Unparalleled?

Seems to me it was pretty clear what you wrote. Unfortunately, some people are determined to read what they want to read, even if it's not what you wrote. Just remind yourself, that's a them problem, not a you problem.

Sorry, it never even occurred to me that YN was an SFL, at least by the classic "competition for the ML's love" standards.

I feel like they said, "ok, since one is required, we'll add her, then we'll just disappear her by the end of the next episode." Really, I'm very happy with absolute minimum possible of deluded second (or third) leads.

I wasn't talking surgeries, I was talking things like disemboweling someone. And yes, blood doesn't flow once the heart's stopped, but you can still end up with stuff like viscera going places it shouldn't.

I suppose there've always been people who don't mind standing ankle-deep in innards, but in cultures where cutting a body is borderline desecration even when the person's well past dead, it's seems reasonable most people would want to end with a clean good-looking corpse to return to the family. Though I suppose we'd have to find an actual 8th century (4th? 1st? 12th? who knows) coroner to ask, to know for sure.

I had thought it was because most coroners don't expose the entire body when working, but instead open only the part they're focusing on. So if they're cutting open the stomach, there'll be a cloth that covers head to above the stomach, another that covers from below the stomach to the feet, and sometimes additional cloths above and below the area they're focused on.

Mostly (as I understand it) because you don't want splatter from what you're doing to end up on another part of the body and mislead you into thinking that splatter was there originally. So while the curtains are also acting as a 'block' to keep viewers from seeing 'everything', it could also have a legit reason, of letting the coroner isolate one area and work on it, without risk of contamination of another part of the body.

I guess it's in the template cdrama contract that somewhere, at some point, a borderline-insane (or at least supremely delusional) and thoroughly malicious 2FL must appear.

Yes, I'm genre-savvy and aware. It's just rare to see a cdrama willing to crank the parody and stupid all the way to eleven and then some.

"So, I'll disguise myself as the guy we think he's disguising himself as, and burst into the room. You go to remove my disguise, and if he's really the one disguising himself as the guy, he'll naturally stop you when you go to remove my mask".

me: .... wait what

I've reached ep7 and it's taking so long for all the times I have to pause, back up, and play again to make sure the idiotic incompetent plot I just heard is really what I just heard...

So apparently the nightwalker crew are the send-ups from AJTL? We've got the right-hand man who's a lady's man with metrosexual ambiguity (Alen Fang's role) and is also the ML's oldest and most trusted friend, the one who's a bloodthirsty monotone murderizer (Wang Yi Zhe's role), and the sweet/innocent-ish one who seems the most well-adjusted (Chen You Wei's role, iirc?) but may actually be the most deeply traumatized.

Which is both funny (given LYN was lead there and here), but also highlights just how classic the dynamic is for a four-person team. The only thing missing is the single female member, aka "the Chick" whose entire characterization is that she's, well, female. (Notably, AJTL subverted this by including the princess as a 2nd chick, if you're wondering.)

or on Nan Heng's face:

1 scrape
2 scrapes
3 scrapes...

I think we're up to 5 scrapes, now, and I haven't laughed this hard at anything in way way way too long.

not to mention, the multi-part discussion about halfway through ep2 is being carried on like each of them is in a completely different drama. CL thinks he's in a comedy, his sidekick is definitely doing the stoic wuxia personal-guard thing, the minister just stepped out of an idol drama where the politics are lukewarm at best, and the ML is solidly in a super-serious everyone-dies red-cliff-level of historical drama. I suspect on paper it looked like madness but somehow they're all pulling it off. chef's kiss!

I just spit iced tea all over my keyboard. "When a general is on the battlefield, some orders may be disregarded" (or words to that effect) -- pretty sure I heard those only a few days ago, but in another series, where it was said in all seriousness. Oh, right, Rise of Ning. lol. Clearly no story will be left unscathed, by the time the dust settles on this show!

I'm on ep2, and it's already a wild ride of get in the car, no time to explain levels. Is there someone online keeping track of every show/story getting parodied here?

Absolute props to whomever came up with the transition in ep1 from present-FL to story-FL -- a short but really well-done bit that shows just that extra bit of attention to detail. Impressed.

I really started to lose it when we got to the separate scenes (with a theme song for each)! I could name all but the first drama, but when we got to the "choose one" (with the scrolling comments at top)!!! that's when I lost it. forget the censors, how did they keep a straight face while filming all this?

Watch it now before the subtitles really tank.