I think my second favorite part about this live action Hikaru no Go adaptation is the breadth of people who play Go. The delinquents. The nerds. The monks. Rich people. Poor people. The owner of the Go board manufacturing plant AND the workers. Old people. Young people.
The adorableness of the many pairs of men playing Pair Go at different ages! 
Wow at this "Agender" shirt Shi Guang is wearing, with the show featuring the year 2005.
#cdrama #HikaruNoGo
Mission: catch up with the Watch Party.
Here we go
Episode 9
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Well, hello there. Seems my Youku sub is paying off nicely. 
What content do you replace the #doomscrolling content in your feed?
What content just makes you happy and calm?
Me: Anything about #Obsidian #Cats #Dogs #Cooking #Notebooks #DigitalGardens #Gardening #Cdrama and #Birds
How about you?
Ps: I am looking for peacescrolling content too, like this one below
Wang Ye wearing only a towel off camera. A+ acting - if it is acting.
Seriously, how do you cast for roles like Wang Ye? Does the casting agent keep a list of C-drama land cutiepies, with marks for the ones comfortable showing skin, and then just grabs the one who happen to be free at the moment?
Utterly wild jackets and cardigans seem to be high (expensive) fashion for men in China rn. So Wang Ye's jacket isn't a thrift store find* - it marks him as jet setter.
(*To people of my age it would be, but before any of my peers feel superior; our generation bought jeans with ready-made holes.)
*snrk!* Like I said... but I've sworn to ice box the b-word for a while, so let's just say Wang Ye is raking his father over coals. (Aaaand Neo Hou will soon star in a classical historical romance - at least it looks like that - so we may have to savour these scenes.)
Am watching episode 34 of “A Journey to Love” 
One more episode tonight
Winter Begonia ep 8
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Winter Begonia ep 7
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Producer: I want the light to shine through the windows so we get dramatic shadows...
Location scout: Mhm...
Producer: ...and I want Zhang Zhiwei's reflection in the window.
Location scout *suddenly remembering some basic physics*: Errrr...
Producer: It's _symbolism_!
Location scout: *sigh* We'll fix it in post...
(They did their best by having the bottom part of the pane in deep shadow, because it is, indeed, good symbolism.)
#cdrama #WinterBegonia #WinterBegoniaWP
Was dancing on the drum to show how lightly his steps were? (I keep wanting to call him "her" when he's performing.) It probably DOES take a great deal of leg and core strength to control your footsteps that quietly!
"Is this four-eye Fan Lian really worth that much?" 
#cdrama #WinterBegonia #WinterBegoniaWP
Does touching your earlobe reduce the heat of holding a hot baked yam? Both these guys keep touching their earlobes.
"I'm inviting you to eat noodles, not lick the table." 
"9 out of 10 times it is boasting" and "i have a new act, too! It's called ... um ... um ... Goddess Steps."
Ok, I can see what they were going for. And I can see why a small after scene would have been considered important. I kind of like the ambiguity, it feels more like real life that way. And allows for some imagining after. Even the epilogue leaves some of that so not disappointed overall.
The muddling of life, death, good, and evil makes this an excellent morality tale. Nothing is clearly black and white, and this reflects that very well.
It was a good universe, and a good story. No regrets on this one.
We're not in Heng Dian World Studios anymore! While it is possible to weather sets the carvings are a bit too detailed - HDWS does great work, but they err on using modern materials and reducing complexity. I wonder which old temple had to bear a drama production for days?
#cdrama fans. The Best Thing is the comfort watch you've been waiting for. I got a little tired of historical dramas and short dramas (one can only watch so many half siblings cheating with your fiance stories) and started this modern romance. Zhang Ling He is so soft in this. This is how you do gentle, competent romance. Nobody's parent is an asshole. None of the females are white lotuses. Neither main character ever gets stupidly involved in a love triangle. I feel healed.
Watching episode 33 of “A Journey to Love”
Ok, normally I start rooting for the Bad Guy when the plot gets too dumb, but that's not the case here. The plot is good. But the sheer ambition of Sinister Pleasure bringing a _band_ to their riot, with both traditonal Chinese instruments, Western ones, and a pianist (not in picture)...
...Sorry Good Guys! I'm with the grand piano!
