mundane9
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I have watched Park SJ in many romcoms and paired with many leading ladies. While I previously had the deepest impression of him with HJE in She is Pretty (I have a preference for HJE being paired with JS ever since Secret). I have to say, this is the first female lead he has paired up with where an almost palpable chemistry can be felt. I really prefer this pairing over his other most previous romcom Fight My Way. This is probably my most fav. Kdrama right now over everything else......
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Thank God for this show which is about the only REAALLLYYY entertaining TV drama series going on right now. The others - even on other days of the week are pretty MMMEEEHHHHH. And it doesn't help that domestic + international politics as well as soccer matches are pre-empting other dramas - which makes it even worse. Thank goodness some TV station folks have enough wisdom to continue broadcasting this show...... YAyyyyyy!!!
2 hours ago, kaoriharang said:Those who know the backstory between MS, SY and YJ would understand why now he said those line.
What's the backstory? I'm curious. THx
2 hours ago, minwoojin said:She also got to touch his abs
I"D like to touch his abs too.....
3 hours ago, kdramaznoob said:how PMY is able to jump on him repeatedly without laughing hysterically or dying of embarrassment is beyond me!
I wouldn't be laughing either - I wouldn't be able to wait. I'd probably make a lot of mistakes deliberately just to get a hold of that six pack for as long and often as I am humanly able. ... mhwahhahahahah
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one of the few korean dramas I have watched so far this year that has kept my interest in the first 2 episodes and panting for more. Hope they keep up the momentum. There is sufficient mystery to pique my interest esp. with PSJ's sudden transformation, and especially both their deep scars that is clearly present yet suppressed.
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anticipating this with excitement. I hope the show will live up to the book. Loved DIlrabat's and Vengo's chemistry 3L3W.
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as much as I like JJS and his acting, this drama lost me at episode 1 (and I was hooked to both OMGhostess and Jealousy Incarnate). Something is wrong with the scripting - the zips, bangs and sizzles are just not there; pace is not there. Kudos to JJS for trying to emerge from rom-com stereotyping. I recognized his ability in transitioning between personality types but the dialog overall is just not compelling enuf. Don't care for the female lead either.
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4 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
I wrote this because I had to. Because there was a voice in my head that said that if I didn't,
@40somethingahjumma bombard the producers and director of PA with yr fanfic edition and tell them to finnish the g'darn show properly with a PA2 movie-sequel to the series starring our original cast!
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8 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
when I was helping to edit subs for I Love My President
@40somethingahjumma that show verged on S&M and Stockholm Syndrome. The storyline had Massive gaps in continuity.
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On 8/2/2017 at 1:55 PM, gentlelily12 said:
join us at the shippers thread
@gentlelily12 where do i find the thread? THX
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Yup - LGX needs to 1) work out 2) quit smoking..... Bubble burst!! sob!!!
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1 hour ago, tsukimori said:
i read your summary of the wedding scene, who's RongEr?? who's baby is that... wasn't CQ pregnant at that time?
@tsukimori
RongEr is Prince Liiang's son whom CQ got 'custody' of after he was klled by his mother. CQ will not conceive her first child until another battle soon after she returns with YWY to Wei, as well as post consummation of their relationship.
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10 hours ago, xohelen said:
What's more dumb about JoF season 2 was that it made no sense at al
@xohelen - i was under the impresssion the sequel hasn't begun filming uet as they haven't gotten a replacement for ZLY but Wallace Huo they managed to get. Theere is a contemporary version of JoF that followed soon after the orig but there is apparently a 'real' one in the works if not in progress....... unless that is old news.
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ok I can deal with that ending :-----because it gives me hope (for the couple not the pt 2 of the series). At least they (producers, editors, etc.) sort of cleaned up their act at the end somewhat which is a vast improvement from the previous last hatcheted 10 episodes.
I hated the JoF ending coz apparently happy ending aside, it didn't make sense how the imminent death of both lead characters suddenly swtiched to them both alive and well on a boat (maybe it's the afterlife journey they were on) but if that's the case - that was unclear. I just didn't get a good feeling about that ending no matter how promising it appeared to be.....Anyways, Back to my fav couple........
SpoilerSatisfied with
1) her acts of confession - kissing him on the forehead (would prefer on the mouth but then she has never inititated any kissing so that means a lot,
2) her eye expression shot-footage at the end, (she looked pissed off......) and
3) the flower tattoo reappearing on her back (then she becomes wonder woman and may use her recovered super-duper powers to save YWY and killl that idiotic assh*** YX and the entire band of soldiers present.... hahahahhahahahaha
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4 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
I cannot for the life of me understand why the subbers chose to translate jianghu as "underground" in this context.
@40somethingahjumma my understanding of 江湖 jiang hu (shang) to mean 'world at large' or something like that. so 'jiang hu die zhi' could mean at least 2 things:
1) would mean the world of spies at large or anyone involved in that line of work/world.
2) It could also mean a spy network that calls/names itself as the 'worldwide spy network' which if used in this way, Jiang Hu is used as a proper noun.
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3) least likely with be this scenario - a combo of both of 1) and 2) - a loosely organised group of independent spies working with each other..
Another one of those chinese concepts that does not have a direct english equivalent. I have moved on to other dramas..... this ending and the way the producers have parsed it out is just too manipulative and disappointing.
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ok - my last rant as I am just about to just skip the rest of this show, but sometning probably went wrong with the scripting and editing to begin with, but this whole drama appears tattered at this juncture with too many side stories-plots inserted way towards the very end that 1) do not cohesively come together nor seamlessly transitioned 2) detract the audience's attention from the protagonists and the primary storyline.
They tried to stick too many things in within a short period of time instead of making experienced decisions 1) suck it up and make the series longer if almost every detail or side-plot is to be included or 2) edit out the insignificant portions and some characters within the script to produce a clearer and easier to follow story line that does not require anyone to read the novel. At this juncture - the novel is easier to understand than the show itself.
Unlike CQ who appears masochistic at this juncture, i am hyper-critical and have a tenuous internal threshold when it comes to tv entertainment, and no patience for BS. What can I say..... disgusted is an understatement.
Thank goodness Li Joon Gi is back, I may have something better to tide me over these woeful days
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1 hour ago, rampantwolfhound said:
So why hasn’t CQ left YX? Why haven’t we left PA? Why is she still trying to fight for an ending that she’s now reasonably certain cannot be? Why are we still watching for an ending that’s likely to let us down? Like it or not, we’re all locked in and can only go where the writers take us regardless of what we want to happen. At the end of this thing, we all might end up at the bottom of that icy lake unless the writers pleasantly surprise us.
Or we could just walk away, right?
@rampantwolfhound well said. my best version of walking away from this show now would be to cover my eyes with both hands yet leave a peep-slit between 2 fingers for one eye in casei miss out on something unexpectedly and unforseeably good. hahahahahahhaha
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9 minutes ago, mrsyooknit said:
But they forgot about her sister and it seems she forgot about her sisters too. She has blind loyalty, but forgot about her sisters?
@mrsyooknit not to make too many excuses for our heroine who is a work of fiction. We are looking at the story thru the eyes and psyche of the storyteller - not our own. The story may relfect on what the author perceives as a heroine-hero. A character created out of idealism, fantasy, imagination, etc. We can criticize it till the world ends and will still have issues of contention - even with saints. On the other hand, real humans are flawed. We cheat, lie, kill, criticize, analyse, dissect and everything else that is capable of being done. Fantasy situations, interactions and relationship aside, our heroine(s) and hero(s) within this story contain enuf flaws that make them relatable with real people.... That's why we intensely struggle and rage about them and their decisions-directions in this forum.... hahahahaha.
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43 minutes ago, mrsyooknit said:
honestly CQ is an idiot for staying next to him after that. What else does she need? Why doesnt she just pack and leave? YWY is right. You can also tell she is utterly disappointed in him, even somewhat disgusted. So ????
@mrsyooknit yup she's very stubborn - and hates admitting she was wrong about YX. The YX etched in CQ's mind is the naive, powerless, tragic and exploited one. In her mind - she probablyy can't imagine he could have become what she has been witnessing-observing - the calculative-exploitive, cold, ruthless and cruel avenger and power-mongeror. She really needs YX to cross her internal threshold of no return for her to abandon her promise to him made while they were in prison. That is who she be/IS - extremely loyal as she has thus demonstrated; that's why the XiuLi army loves her. As for YWY who totally GETS her and her extremely stubborn ways - she is one who does not respond to persuasion nor retreat to demonstrations of might and force So he has to wait patiently as excruciating as it is for him to witness and stand on the side lines, and help her in ways where she will not take it the wrong way (from him).
ps - seriously in modern day terms - dating CQ will be impossible-difficult for the average dude. YWY is a SAINT for putting up with it the way he does.... zhen shi Chi Xin (dedicated)
On a side note - It seems that another tangent they inserted into the storyline that appears to detract from the novel at this point is the YS-MF probable romance based on today's episode.
Hot damn - I wish this series could have come to a proper ending and not the one we are probably going to be left with shortly.....
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9 minutes ago, tashalynn said:
Can someone plz confirm, will YWY and CQ/XE be togther at the end?
@tashalynn if the series follows true to novel it will be CQ-YWY in the lake where YWY pushes away CQ who jumped in to try and save him. THe novel itself has YWY-CQ married w/3 children at the end.
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1 hour ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
YX and YWY aren't pitiful. They are men with serious social obligations that they can't set aside just for the love of a woman.
@40somethingahjumma I surmise this to be true only up to this point in the movie a (and definitively in the novel). What it goes on to eventually occur would be the consequences of what one man did over the other, i.e. one chose love of a woman over duty-revenge while the other chose conquest-revenge, and that one man, of course, is YWY. The outcome would have been revealed in due time if this show carried the story to the conclusion of the novel which of course we all know - won't be concluded.
SpoilerThis was written in the last chapter of the novel where the author penned:
In this world, hard work, status, wealth, authority，is available-attainable through perserverance and to all perservering people，only love can be attained by one who is sincere-authentic.
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5 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
I think it's true, just judging from the comments on the YT thread for that episode that quite a number of non-Chinese speaking viewers believe that CQ doesn't understand or appreciate how much YWY cares about her. (I had to go and have a look) It's a confusion that I don't understand because even if the subs weren't precise enough, it's clear even from CQ's reaction that she does have quite strong feelings for YWY because she cares enough to try to explain why she can't promise him anything.
@40somethingahjumma It all depends on the values and environment an individual is-was raised in.I suspect the frustration lies in the lack of understanding 'older' chinese values where there has been a LONG and drawn out history of unfulfilled love i.e. you yan wu fen as Prince Liang (DL) pointed out. Just look at all the old tales and popular old show-movies interjecting love stories with obstacles nad misunderstandings ad nauseum - and if one is lucky - there is a happy ending; most endings end up in tragic separation or suspended-vague open-endings. Chinese folks have this traditional 'preference' for silent suffering which is regarded as virtue and a sign of being 'educated' (not same as literate). Whereas a 'twittering', 'everything splayed out in the open for the world to see including one's dirty laundry' generation will not have any understanding, familiarity or regard for any of that. Modern folks with western-influenced romantic notions, greater freedom to exercise and test dating-marriage practices and constructs, and accustomization to instant gratification will find all that CQ-YWY obstacles-misunderstandings as flabbergasting rather than regard those trials as tests that forge or break the solidity-conviction of love and relationship-marriage. Being a product of all and no generations, as well as identification with some traits of the herione, I get it and also find the whole thing (ALL of it) unnecessarily frustrating,
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5 hours ago, 40somethingahjumma said:
Unless of course, that they're fishing for responses
@40somethingahjumma - that's the most likely motivation - they are testing the waters with all types of hooks to see how folks response and from there - make a calculated guess as to whether a sequel is worth the investment-expenditure..... With Chinese folks in general - it's always about money, money, money......
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9 hours ago, cenching said:
what do you think about Emmanuel Macron
@cenching - she is one lucky lady. we don't often find May-Dec relationships where the woman is the May...... and he's cute.
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13 hours ago, gentlelily12 said:
Wonder who's holding the sword:
@gentlelily12 based on the book it might be CQ. Go look back at the summary of c181? or !80 translated where CQ cried and kissed the scar on his chest....or she feels responsible for that scar.....But since this story line has changed from the original - it might be YX or someone with him.
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15 hours ago, meems said:
There's no reason why YX should remain lonely living out the rest of his days even if CQ isn't in his life. He can always find a woman who is much more accommodating of his goals in life and support him through his ambitions. Many men do. I'd say the same for YWY even as a fan of the character. While I'm a strong advocate of monogamy but when people lose spouses or experience relationship breakdowns, they can and often move on to find companionship elsewhere. If YX ends up alone or lonely, then that will be his choice because he doesn't need to be. He mightn't love his future bride the way he loved CQ but he doesn't have to in order to enjoy the benefits of conjugal bliss.
@40somethingahjumma - yup - there is a wide chasm between fiction and real life - and real life is so suckily unromantic. Movie and fiction heros live in the realm of 2D die-hard-hopelessly-devoted-to-you universe whereas 3D men are pecker-driven practicals unless he is Justin Trudeau. Just like YWY vs. LGX; the former I'd marry in a heart beat - the other I'd ask for monthly STD tests b4 dating......
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one of the few korean dramas I have watched so far this year that has kept my interest in the first 2 episodes and panting for more. Hope they keep up the momentum. There is sufficient mystery to pique my interest esp. with PSJ's sudden transformation, and especially both their deep scars that is clearly present yet suppressed.
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Finally, some action between the 2 at the end of the most recent episode. I hope they don't muck it up with some type of silly slapstick interruption next week.....