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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 19:43:28 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   My thoughts on the first arc of #JoyOfLife2 - interestingly, it's disliked by a lot of viewers, but I love it. My thoughts on why and my reflections on the first six episodes of the series.

   #CDrama #CDramas #TV #Entertainment

   https://dramatea88.wordpress.com/2024/06/08/joy-of-life-season-2/#episodes-1-to-6-ressurection-brothels

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     AnnaAnthro (annaanthro@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 21:01:43 JST AnnaAnthro

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     @liztai So glad you commented on the Deng Zi Yue scene.

     I thought it was superbly well acted by both - the dialogue was like watching acting jenga.

     Fan keeps tapping at all the facade Deng built up, all the rationales. Then the cracks appear and then the utter collapse of the mask.

     IMHO It reinforced Fan’s arc of needing independent thinkers around him not tools. Again, showing an alternative mode around power to the Emperor’s. It was such a powerful scene.

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 13-Jun-2024 21:01:43 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • AnnaAnthro

     @AnnaAnthro I love your last point! Yes he carefully chooses people who are not blind loyalists but who hold firm to their principles. Not righteous per se, but who dare to go against authority - independent thinkers like Qinian, Zi Yue and even Sanglian (his retainer) all are people who dare to go against the grain to stand up for what they believe in.