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requesting green role (Luwuang's server)

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The legend of heroes is out l but im not sure if i want to check it out. I have not watched any adaptation of legend of the condor heroes, i read 2 books i think back in middleschool when i had no contact with wuxia stuff so my interpretation of it is probs far from what any adaptation is doing. So idk...

But the cast intrigues meee

If anyone has checked it out is it any good?

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the 4th guy of the examination guys group never being there is so my kind of humor, im so simpleminded

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uhuhu my fave of the season the round faced eunuch is back! now of higher rank (as expected) and doing potentially bad things? yes!

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not 2nd prince trying to mess up with yelinger mind, my girl is not very smart dont do that! i know 1st prince is not very interested in politics but im surprised by just how little we see him

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finally! back to watching jol2, i have tried to avoid spoilers but i have seen some mixed opinions...

as long as i like it enough its ok, lets get into it ep 15 let go, i know this censor is going to die fr

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i made the mistake of opening tumblr and first post is pictures of fanxian crying

and i cannot watch the newest episodes until sunday 😭😭😭😭😭

thats on me for trying to watch something as it comes out

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well i must say i did not fully understand what was happening in ep 13, idk why but it didnt click, it felt sloppy

the scene with both 2np princes guards was great, 4th grade characters getting layers within themselves and with their relationships

also what is going on with all the yoghourt? is it a sponsor? i dont remember if it was also on s1

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ye linger: " you are special"

2nd prince *hair flip*

me: lets rewatch that 10 times

on another note 1st prince and qi princess are cute together, unexpected

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2nd prince is in the process of losing it now and its triggered not by being found out or anything. he has always held fanxian in high regard but just now he has realised he is better than him.

someone being smart ; yes give it to me the smarter the better

someone being smarter than me; hell no

and let me tell you something: he would not be that mad if he knew who was fanxian father, because deep down he still regards him as just a bastard 🤷‍♂️

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loooove this little round face eunuch working in the vegetables bureau (lol) my bet at the moment is that he works for Eunuch Hou but lets see...

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To the Wonder (2024) Ep 4

continuing with the rewatch

Chief bek note to sulitan: please babysit the weirdos for me, i am too old for this.

idk if i dont understand the joke here or what but i dont get what that is supposed to be, because one thing is for sure it is not sheep dung.

nice

is this a mistranslation? cause there are no cows there. And why would they pick it? it its not like they are planting anything , is it for fuel?. It does look like cow dung though but its already dry so like from the herders that stayed there before eh?? i dont understand

"Dont go out there are wolves"

"Nah dont worry" *proceeds to go far away in a very ambiguous direction based only on a finger signal*

They would have gotten mega-lost trying to go back if sulitan wasnt sensibly suspicious

Despite all the lack of caution i find the idea of leaving the ashes at the fairy cove very cute. Appart from that thing of them meeting there and being a beautiful place; Its both a thing for her, a symbol to keep surviving within her grief and for him, to lay a safe path for the beyond.

Also how kind of the wolves to wait until the emotional moment was over.

Another fun fact for you: wolves cant climb! And i would not recommend running when encountering one.

The 2 girls that dont shut up at the sleepover. They are so cute as a friend duo.

Also Tokan trying to say love and them not wanting to say sex xddd

This is funny because i learned a couple of days ago that yushi is mongolian and does speak mongolian. I do hope that some day he gets a role where he uses it.

"Does not matter how bumpy your life is, you mustnt lose your spark" say it granma

How cute are Tokan and Chaoge together holding hands 🥰 and him giving her the hand cream when a couple scenes ago she was complaining about her hands being rough from working :)

The conversation in the tent feels a bit "preachy", there are real conversations like this and "the only thing that is constant is change" is true but how would they feel if they were the ones that statement was directed at. Great thoughts but you are lucky you didnt get your ass beat.

three wet kittens

aaaaaaaa we are here, high pastures are my favourite places!

just like home

they feel soooo young

idk if that stumble was scripted but i chose to believe it was not

And that was it :) We got started with the good part yey, now 4 eps more of good stuff!! (I still seem over-critical but i swear im not haha, i just focus on details)

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so yeah i started watcing jol2 without rewatching s1 and i guess im not cathing all the details but i could follow easily from ep 1.

watched eps 1 to 4 in a row and good idea on my part because ep 4 was the hook!

looking forward to be following it as it airs :)

and to no ones interest, yes i will continue my to the wonder rewatch/commentary xdd

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Damn joy of life s2 is finally out.

Idk if i should rewatch the end because i only remember the main ending event but not how it came to be 🙃

But i really cant be bothered to rewatch the whole thing

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To the Wonder (2024) Ep 3

i have some more free time so lets go for ep 3!

Yes. Sing! I know there is some singing in this drama but i would have liked even more of it. Singing when working, singing when travelling...

i love to catch this things on rewatches

The way the soap is introduced to the viewer is by fengxia not knowing about it which is kind of weird that she didnt. This seems to be the reocuring way they choose to introduce stuff in this drama, by making people not know and its kind of its limping leg. for example the scene could have being like a seller trying to sell fengxia the soap talking a whole lot and her answering somethig about the price being to high and that she know where to get better soap blah blah blah. that way the viewer gets exposed to the new concept without making her seem like she does not live there

Ok i was wrong, wenxiu does hold a book once.

first watch i was 200% sure that all the things would get stolen

fun fact for all the nerds out there, in the internet cafe the pc makes the windows xp shutdown sound. xp was released october 2001 and this is suposed to be late spring 2001, so there you have it: a little anachronism :)

exacty

i really like the scenes in sulitans house

well yes maam, he can be

noo, dont shake your father!

They really dumbed her down some moments specially at the begining, how could she think that the village name was part mandarin. And then immediately after repeat the name of the horse that has only been said once.

Snowshoe is cute for a white "feet" horse. because when i was a child my uncle would let my brother and me name new animals sometimes and that is how he ended up having things like : Socks the dog and Socks the horse. We were very creative, just not with names.

Cute how differences become curiosity, curiosity becomes interest

Fengxia choosing not to "lie" for Tokan may be seen as unsolidary to some, but this is not a dangerous situation for Tokan and its understandable to decide not to get involved in an issue that does not involve you. Would have i helped Tokan? probably, yet thats not the only valid answer.

Checked, that is the lady from the lecture.

From all the hobbies you could have, writting is not one that cannot be conbined to housework but i understand that its not only about that.

hey virginia woolf, first watch i was hehe i see what you did there.

And now we are going to the wonder

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To the Wonder (2024) Ep 2

ok lets goo 2nd ep rewatch!

yap yap yap, where is the washboard eh?? all those bottles of beer and no washboard...

I really like the nightime scenes, filmed during dusk/dawn probably so it can actually show on camera, but looks like how night looks once your eyes get used to it.

Actually this type of death is quite common on cold places as alcohol makes you drowsy and because freezing is not "painful" you dont wake up so you comppletly freeze.

kept the bed broken, and this may seem like a basic continuity thing, but most productions dont even care enough to do that.

The conversation about taking the trail vs taking the highway is so familiar to me. And most people when they hear about it assume its about the dificulty of it when its not, its about confort and hability. Sometimes the trail is easier and faster, but you have to know and want to do it; while anyone can take the highway.

One of the moments that i refered to on my last post when i said that i think they rewrote her to be more city-like for the viewer to relate because how are you from a village and dont know how to handle a guard dog hahaha

the way i have been on both sides of this situation xd

damn no wonder they couldnt get the washboards, this man bought them all

I was kind of surprised when they talked about the hunting prohibition and the animal protection stuff being rural china in the early 2000s. I dont know if i will elavorate my thoughts on that

You can tell when Batay speaks with another kazakh that he sounds different and after learning that its yushi it does sound like his words are more scattered instead of a continuous flow. Then again pretty nice still, he does use intonation something beginners struggle with, but maybe beause mandarin is a tonal language its easier for them than it is between romance and germanic. Also im not 100% sure but he seems to be puting an accent when speaking mandarin.

I love the village chief because he is the type of old man that answers to your questions with a saying that you dont fully understand and then walks away holding his hands on his back.

they managed to include in this drama an average tumblr user with their blorbo

(also i dont recognise the man so i dont know if it suposed to be a reference or not)

simple yet nice shot, the angle helps with the ceremonial intention

Poor girl, fengxia was really setting wengxiu up. When one goes back to the village first thing is always updating on the community! or in this case introducing.

this scene is whack 😭 why the arrows askjfbsk

the differences between wengxiu who does not consider se has a "home" but lives where it would be considered her home, and granma who has a very clear home but has not being there in forever ( fengxia was born on another place) and has no links to it anymore.

ok that was end of ep 2. things are picking up from now on yey!

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To the Wonder (2024) Ep1

(A quick intro)

So i have to say i went into this drama with high expectations based on the cast, the cannes and peoples opinion i had seen. And i was a bit meh in the beginning. The first 2 eps are the lowest point of the drama (which is not bad by any means) but i really enjoy it as a whole. I´d say i enjoy it more than the actual quality of it, like it is good but its better for me because i like it, know what i mean?

I will be writing this as i rewatch . Also like im not going to spell/grammar check this so there may be mistakes

(lets get into it, its going to be loooong and SPOILERS)

"So in the coldest and longest days in winter, no set of footprints can lead to my home"

I really like the intro, gurl set that tone

Damn 3mins and im already glad that i am rewatching, the birch!

(just coping this here for later)

But i do find it curious that an young artist does not know what they want, how does one experience the feeling of wanting to create without a vision of ones creation? i guess insecurity plays a part on it but its something you dont see often

the way the camera panned here made me think this lady was going to be someone later on, is she the writer-housewife? ill see

Girl we will be able to tell... An yet (i am not knowledged in how altay is) one would think that the county seat is still quite "rural" for how city-like they have written Wenxiu to be, and eh i dont know if its the same in the novel but its definately something that made me go ??? at some moments later

the icon, the legend, speak your truth

and now this rat

we will get back to virginia woolf later on, nice

also another note, for someone who loves writting we never see her read, but there is a respect conveyed with straightening the frame that i liked

ok now we are on the village

Like why are we saying hello in mandarin to the neighbours. Here we have thing nº1 that bothered me: you live here, maybe before in a less rural area but still, and you dont know shit in kazak. And i get that she is han, that at home and at the school she went they spoke in mandarin, that they are closed off in their communities, that everyone has to adapt to them and not the other way around. But with all this considered i would still expect her to know some, like a greeting, like thank you. If this is what is normal irl yikes.

Because i understand its use to define a line and she is written to make the viewer feel like an outsider, but too much. Write her a greating please cmon. An ick of mine. Lets move on

We go from watching wuxia on tv to nature documentary to 200m dash, who told you to change the channel!

Exactly: baby. (but i feel this is a minstraslation)

Good point to talk about thing nº2 that bothered me. (it looks like im only talking shit but trust i love this). Ok this happened mainly before starting to watch it. I read the sinopsis and it says Yushi is playing Batay a kazakh and im like wait a minute, he is not. I liked him a lot on fengshen and i knew he can ride a horse pretty well an that is a positive here. So when i started watching and i hear him talk im surprised by the quality of the dubbing, he has the same voice! Then i found out its actually him, nice, another positive. Overall, would i wish that the main actor was kazakh? yes; where the chances high for that? no; am i satisfied with the end result? pretty much.

Also i find him really atractive so...

XD. But its a real thing.

Cute

Ok they have mentioned the county they live in: fuyun, total population of the county 99k, 54% kazakh. Point nº1 stands.

yes

"We are practically living like vagrants" watch what you say, in a couple eps you will be all in for that seminomadic life bby