Sol1056

Seems to me it's a pretty significant bug that you can review something that hasn't yet been aired (or ever been aired).

I'm catching up finally and the comedy is absolutely golden, when the guy-with-his-back-to-everyone leaps into his dramatic attack. Well, dramatic close up, at least! 😂😂😂

I wonder if people new-to-cdrama are baffled at this point, since apparently Netflix's translators can't seem to understand that "madam" is an address to the wife, and it means "you" not other random "her". What does it take to get decent subtitles from Netflix?

aha! thank you for explaining!

Netflix is at it again with inconsistent translations. Originally DYX was listed as "first provincial scholar" and an episode later it's all "third-ranked scholar". If he's only in 3rd place, why's he the only one on the horse? Andao meanwhile I thought got 6th place (at least that's what I thought DYX told him when the scores were released), but in ep11, the subtitles say he was pushed from 3rd place to 6th because he was tactless with the king? What the hell are the right scores?

So she ended up as lead in one of the hottest dramas of Q4. I mean, playing second in a drama with semi-known actors versus a playing main alongside a blockbuster-maker like Esther Yu? I'd say she made a really smart choice.

wait, what does zhu xudan have to do with a story she's not in?

I got the impression from the start that 5th sister is completely and utterly spoiled (along with being the youngest and therefore with the highest chance of being immature). When the fake maids come calling, it's 3rd sister who slaps them, scolds them, and is about to throw them out when 5th sister joins in with the shovel. The real escalation isn't from 3rd, it's 100% from 5th, yet no one thinks to pull 5th aside with the admonishment that more fuel on the fire rarely helps, in the long run.

And yet it's okay the ML kicked a ball at a woman's head. Which as viewers we know she didn't deserve, but he wasn't thinking about that when he reacted. Especially when he's presented as such a smart and competent man.

Clearly Netflix is using someone else's subtitles, because there's an entire line in ep2 @ 21:46 that's just skipped. Fortunately an error in subtitles is a violation of the ADA, so hopefully Netflix will hop on that quickly.

This is true, but when you're dealing with an actress who's been in several historical pieces and dubbed herself, it's odd that this time she hasn't.

Did they dub LYX? She sounds completely different, and one of my favorite things about her is her natural voice!

She's a plot device: she does what the plot needs her to do.

(This doesn't mean she can't develop into a full character later, just that characters who switch moods with no discernible reason or warning are getting the plot device treatment.)

So is our evil wheelie guy a) FY's real brother, b) killed FY's real brother, c) has the same amnesia as the FL's sister? I'm assuming b, since we're already doing cruel-to-forgotten-sibling schtick. Seems kinda redundant to do it twice.

I'm catching up, and have gotten to ep22. Someone spoil me on a certain plot point, please.

I'm convinced there's something in her contract that requires she must have at least 3lbs of hair ornaments, a fully-styled wig, and flawless makeup at any given time, for at least 90% of the show's run. So if you see three minutes of her looking anything less than fully gussied up, just remember, this is eating into that 10% of non-done-up time, and there's just not that much of it to use every episode!

(and every time I'd made such a remark, I get a sinking feeling that probably *is* written into her contracts.)

I wonder if they're waiting for her 18th birthday to start filming.

ETA: hold on, there are shots in the gallery of what looks like filming, even if it's early filming. Or are those promo shots?

I know nothing of HTT's romantic history (or absence of it). I was illustrating the point of someone being aware of and sensitive to a colleague being a minor, using David Bowie and Jennifer Connolly of an example of it done right.

But the point remains: no matter how old the character is supposed to be, HTT was a minor at the time of filming, and I'm hoping that was respected.

Any time an antagonist starts into the "I'm doing this because I was abused/bullied/etc" with a long story of a horrible childhood followed by a detailed what, how, where, and when they carried out their plan... I'm all, cool motive, still murder.

And then I skip ahead 10sec at a time until I get to a frame where someone else is talking.

I think the older I get, the more willing I am to look for a reason to forgive than a reason to hate.

Plus I also know "raped" or "almost raped" is an old standby among male directors and producers. In this case, I could see them justifying it to underline her only ally (and her only hope) lies in the floral guy. To an awful lot of men (especially in still heavily-patriarchial societies like PRD), it's just a plot device, sorry if you were offended, etc.

That's made me really skeptical about judging a character by one act vs the rest of their actions/reactions. It's hard to tell this early whether he's a bad character, or just a badly-written one.