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I finished watching Joy of Life S1
Jul. 1st, 2024 02:49 pmAnyway, I've only watched the first episode because the weekend was busy and then I also wanted to keep watching Nirvana in Fire. I'm on episode 43 and I'm tempted to try alternating one episode of each show (JoL and NiF) a day. Bot shows are so good and I want to keep watching. It's a shame I have responsibilities 😞
I woud like to write something deep about JoL because it has so many layers and I feel like I could spend hours just talking about different aspects of it, like Fan Xian and how he sees the world he lives in through the lens of all the knowledge he has about the history, literature and culture from other world/time. But I also enjoy the court intrigue so much and wondering who is behind everything that happens and why. And when we get the answer to that, there's a part of me that goes: yeah, I totally get it... I don't agree with the method but I get it. I can like both the protagonist and the villains of a story, and love them both 😁
Something else I like a lot is the way it makes me laugh and then cry in a single episode. And the outfits (particularly Fan Xian's) and headpieces... how I love them.
But yeah, I don't even know where to start and maybe I can try at some point or when I finish watching S2. I don't know.
Something I also got from this show is that now I want to read Dream of the Red Chamber. I mentioned a couple of days ago on fedi that I am taking a MOOC about China that talks a little about the history, philosophy, literature, language and other aspects about chinese culture through the centuries and they mention that book as one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature, and of course I want to learn more than that of what I see in c-dramas or c-novels. (I also wanted to do that when I read Qi Ye, but maybe I need to re-read it first and actually write down a list of the poems and other works referenced in it.) And maybe it won't give me a new, different perspective on the story the show tells but maybe it will, like the way it happened when I watched Tian Mi Mi (1996) after watching Moonlight Chicken. In any case, I like learning new things, so it will be good. I should also try to read some poetry but even in Spanish I've never vibed that much with poetry... I like some poems but I feel like I cannot grasp the meaning of many of them so it gets a bit frustrating.
I have post it's on my laptop about other things I want to write about but maybe I'll do it later or tomorrow.
