So I'm watching The Sword and the Brocade, a show I figured I'd try bc some friends had recommended it, but I honestly wasn't expecting to get hooked; I was more thinking I'd give it a go, get bored, and cross it off my list of c-dramas. And instead, I am INVESTED.
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Erniang is selfish and scheming, but she still doesn't deserve to be married to a domestically abusive asshat! Lianfang is manipulative, arrogant and callous, but she's stuck in what is often a genuinely pitiable situation! And it's just such good storytelling -
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- that we're allowed to dislike them, but also feel for them; to understand them, but not always condone them. Bc the real culprit here is a system that denies them diginity and autonomy outside of very strict parameters. The personal stakes are *so high* for the women.
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Anyway! I wrote this because the rice plot is making me Anxious and I needed a break but this show is really good, actually! Even though I lowkey resent it for making me find Wa-ge attractive in any way! (He's very sweet but foremost he's my dorky SDC3 uncle, NOT a hot guy.)
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