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southerner -

As I assume most of you out there are foreigners, I'm surprised you would watch it. Simply, the
humour in the drama primarily comes from a recognition of classic and contemporary Chinese culture
in China, opposed to Taiwan. I read this on Wikipedia it was broadcast in Taiwan, and the audience
rating was miserably low for that matter. You don't watch it, when you don't understand. However
if you like it, you must understand what the characters are getting at. That's something. How did
you manage to do it?



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roddy -

How many people get all the references in, say, the Simpsons? I've no doubt I miss a lot of what's
going on, but there's still plenty I do pick up, and you don't need a huge amount of cultural
knowledge to spot stuff like references to search engines, a plan to IPO, parodies of adverts,
reality talent shows, etc.










southerner -

It depends. Say you laugh when it's in reference to Chinese ads, because you've developed
familiarity with them. Now you mention it, I like that episode where two girls competed for
老白, making references to ads for products such as 雕牌洗衣粉. That was very smart and
funny.










ChugokuOtaku -

finished watching My Own Swordsman a couple weeks back
probably by far the most creative/original comedy serious out of mainland China I've seen to date

You'd have to be part of Generation Y growing up in mainland China to understand most of what's
going on in the series. I remember watching a talk show where they invited the actors and director
of 武林外传, braking it down, discussion the different aspects of the series. One thing they
talked about was a list of "requirement" in order to completely understand the series, all
references included, etc...
I don't think I know a single person who matched all criteria on that list

they mentioned:
familiarity mainland talk shows
up to date on Mandarin/Canto-pop(pretty sure they even had a song form the late '80s in there)
knowledgable with colloquialisms in regional Chinese dialects(no wonder they didn't get it in
Taiwan)
up to date with mainland Chinese TV commercials
having read Jin Yong's WuXia novels
handful of classic Chinese lit including 四大名著(for all reference 秀才 makes)
and to top it all off, Level 4 English comprehension.

never the less, it's a great show
my two favorite episodes are the one where 佟掌柜's father came to take her back(the way he
talked in his dialect floored me, everything had to do with a horse), and also the one where
无双 and 芙蓉 took on each other in 展堂's show










renzhe -

Unfortunately, I'm way too crap to follow this one

Kudos to all of you who can understand everything, I'll need some serious practice










roddy -

Ha ha, how pleased am I - I appear to have got hold to the plain text transcripts for the ENTIRE
SERIES!!!!!

I'll probably never even use it, but I'm going to attach it here as I'm sure many of us will want
to download it and let it gather dust on our hard drives. Will also clip out the first one and add
it to the relevant First Episode topic.

Noticed it while searching on emule, took weeks to download as only a couple of people seemed to
have it. Finally finished today. Can't testify to its accuracy, but a quick look didn't throw up
any issues.

The .txt file is fairly chunky at just under 2MB.










Shadowdh -

Thanks for that Roddy, I am indeed going to let this gather dust on my hard drive and go out to
get the series...












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