#Advanced Television

[biglisbonnews]

Research: Internet access via TV doubles in Portugal The number of Portuguese internet users who use their TV sets to access the internet has doubled in the past four years, according to data from market research company Marktest. This makes TV the fastest-growing medium for accessing the internet in Portugal. The peak of this growth occurred during the pandemic, when the number of […] https://advanced-television.com/2023/09/15/reserach-internet-access-via-tv-doubles-in-portugal/

[silviakundera]

Are You The One very spoilery drama review

"Do you remember the archenemy I mentioned? ...Three years ago I played against (him). I lost that time. It was my first defeat in life. Strangely, I didn't feel sorrowful. Instead, I felt a kind of joy in meeting a worthy opponent. Since then, I've played against (him) several times. We're almost even. Each game is a battle of wits and courage, thrilling and intense. Rather than seeing him as an arch enemy, I consider him a close friend. I enjoy each game against (him). As long as he's my rival, the result doesn't matter."

Imagine you're a protagonist making THAT speech about his nemesis... then encountering said nemesis with injuries & amnesia, presuming this person is actually your nemesis's lover (because rumors/secret identity/sexism), and fake marrying them as a pretense to draw out and capture..... the person who is now your fake wife that you're falling in love with! Cause you were half in love with your nemesis already lmao. 🤡🤡🤡

Welcome to the set up of Are You The One, a costume drama romance with situational comedy and a dark under belly (as both ML and FL are ruthless schemers with blood on their hands).

The circumstances are inherently hilarious and the comedy revolves around the Shakespearean absurdity of the situation the characters find themselves in. This tends to be my preferred style of humor, in comparision to the comedy stylings of pratfalls, pranks, and goofy insults. Anyone who read my fanfics back in the day knows that I enjoy throwing my couples into ridiculous situations and then watching them have to deal with it in all seriousness (and fall in love in the meantime.)

Per usual for me in a narrative that's primary-romance, what matters most is that A) I understand why these 2 people match each other; B) by the time we reach the end, the otp are equal partners; C) BLOOD LUST (look I just enjoy an otp who will both stab an enemy in the gut, it is very sexy of them ok? ok)

Things that make me rabid about this drama:

At first he doesn't even register how beautiful she is, while canonically people are staring at her in the street, she's so lovely. This is because he is so fixated on this rival that he admires, who he has been battling for 3 years, that he only registers her as a pawn in their game

Very romantic & sexy to me that his connection & attraction to her build from him growing to understand her personality and admiring her qualities

Zhang Wanyi handles situational comedy tbh much better than I expected (having previously enjoyed him in a tragic role and then an angsty melo). Both Zhang Wanyi and Wang Churan very much embodied their characters, both the dark and light sides.

True enemies to lovers because he falls in love with all the qualities that he'd admired in his respected enemy: her decisiveness, her clever scheming, her loyalty, her meticulous nature. He is drawn to her as someone who is his equal and could be a true confidant - the same thing she sees in him.

By episode 7, he's started falling for her and the audience can see how it happened and why.

It was so good for me that when her memories secretly awaken, he senses this by observing, "Lately, I've always felt that there is someone who understands my thoughts, spies on my actions, and constantly leads me by the nose. Even if I gain something like today, it's because (he) made me this way. I haven't felt this way for a long time." / "When did you last have this feeling?" / "The last time was when I dealt with Lu Wen. Lu Wen should have returned."

We can also see why FL is falling for this person who lets her take charge and likes it, who enjoys her wits and starts backing her play.

The narrative structure is not just in medias res... It's truly atypical: we're dropped into this story 3 years in and because the perspective in the first third of the drama is the ML's, we share his narrow viewpoint and naturally presume that he's the protagonist hero of this tale, the morally grey but capable prince who is defending his province against bandits while fending off a royal court threatened by his military power.

But oops, what if it turns out that basically you're the sheriff of Nottingham and you've been battling Robinhood, who's actually your hot & brilliant fake-wife. And when you unknowingly captured Robinhood, it was too late -- she'd already been secretly supporting The Rightful King™ for years, and now she's a hero who helped the monarch rise to the thrown, and to an outsider you would be considered the dastardly scoundrel in this tale. 🤡

So IS he a villain? No, not really. He can coldly have his enemies killed and he certainly originally intended to kill FL, and then dispose of her bloodlessly, and then... (ANYWAY, yeah bro is Going Thru It™)

But everything he does is within the rights & privileges of his role, as ruler of the province and subject only to the emperor/empress dowager.

A man accostomed to wealth & power who was jaded and obviously just going thru the motions, fulfilling his responsibilities and resigned to being suspected by a weak ruler & conniving court, marrying a cousin who just wants his title, and protecting his borders out of duty. Until 3 years ago, when he starts battling against bandit leader Lu Wen. Now he's awake, he's excited, he has news to look forward to.

It's hilarious how he doesn't even see it in the initial episodes, the way he's accidentally moved that person in and now he's having to constantly maneuver around this person's decisive actions, and it's invigorating him. It's emotionally and mentally stimulating.

And then it's flipped where FL now has to come to the realization that life is more rewarding when she has ML to plan with, more satisfying than going it alone.

As a hater of amnesia plotlines, why didn't it repel me? 1) when we meet the character, she already has the memory loss; it's a defining trait and 2) she doesn't lose her intellgence with the memory loss and become pliant and just malleable like portrayed in other dramas - what makes the first 17 episodes a cat vs mouse cat game is that even with her memories stripped away, this person who's been told she's a merchant's sickly wife is still clever, conniving, and assertive... and we even see the willingness to get ruthless & violent if needed.

She's understandably infuriated & resentful upon regaining her memories -- such a proud & capable & independant person with big plans just manipulated for a year, tricked into giving care and affection to her enemy. But when she dismisses ML's now sincere feelings as, "What he wants to marry is not me, but the canary he has raised." ....the script has provided substantial evidence that in actuality he has a total complex about his mysterious nemesis; the real her inside, that couldn't be erased, is what he has always liked.

And then he gets the chance to prove it and finally openly express that to her.

After 17 episodes of her under the thumb of manipulation, the drama provides another 15 or so where she is in control of her own life and given the agency to decide if they could work, and she waits to be certain that ML doesn't want the canary in a cage after all. 👌 👌

I just very much appreciate dramas that show instead of tell, and earn the relationship. Convince me! The screenwriter shows their work not just on the main ship and secondary ships, but also the friendship between FL and the He merchant daughter. (The way they shift her from 'love rival' to empathizing w each other and actual friends was great - lol reminds me of Qin Zhenzhen from Princess Royal; sorry not sorry, my love rival actually likes me best now 😜)

Also also the emperor and empress slow burn ship in the 2nd arc of the drama was good stuff, I quite liked them.

Also also ALSO the main otp get 20+ minutes devoted to their (real) wedding in the final episodes. We get a proposal, marriage certificate signing, and one of the longest wedding ceremonies I've seen in a cdrama. Giving the people what they want!

[deweyduck]

40 YEARS OF DISNEY CHANNEL

On 18 April, 1983, The Disney Channel (rebranded as just “Disney Channel” in 1997) launched on cable television in the US. Throughout its 40 year history, Disney Channel has created over 80 original series and over 100 original movies, many of which have come to be considered cultural classics. The network is also responsible for launching the careers of some of the world’s biggest superstars, including Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Zac Efron, Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, Zendaya, and Olivia Rodrigo (to name a few). Several generations of kids have grown up with Disney Channel and its lasting cultural impact surpasses that of any other children’s television network.

I, personally, am so grateful to have grown up watching Disney Channel, and even more grateful to rediscover my love for it as an adult. So many of my interests and tastes today have been impacted by Disney Channel. I’ve made so many friends and memories because of our shared love for these stories. Thank you, Disney Channel, for the stories, the characters, the friends and the joy you’ve brought me throughout my life. I can’t wait to see what’s coming next.

[tv-moments]

3 Body Problem

Season 1, “Only Advance”

Director: Jeremy Podeswa

DoP: PJ Dillon

[rickssecondhandfinds]

misc. tech

23/Mar/24

[youssefguedira]

oh it's gonna be good good

[wuxian-vs-wangji]

See, I don't really think Architecture is as hard of a major as Payu and Rain claim it is.

Payu looks freshly bathed and put together, not like he's on the verge of a nervous breakdown.

[astridcookie]

my father bought aNOTHER TELEVISION AND IT IS SO BIG AND EVIL AND I WANT IT TO BURN IN HELL

[parab0mb]

Honestly these are pretty accurate.

[ssaalexblake]

Apophis is using goa'uld zoom to talk to his troops 😭

[theinfinitedivides]

oh God oh f*ck the walls are made of glass you think he rented the entire compound out or what. does the place belong to him does he have the f*cking keys is there an opportunity here

[biglisbonnews]

Data: 4.5m pay-TV subs in Portugal Portugal added 117,000 pay-TV subscribers in H1 2023 (+2.26 per cent) compared to the same period last year, taking the total to 4.5 million, according to data from the National Communications Authority (Anacom). Of this figure, 4 million were residential and 506,000 were business customers. The pay-TV penetration rate among Portuguese households reached 97.3 per […] https://advanced-television.com/2023/09/08/data-4-5m-pay-tv-subs-in-portugal/

[flowerandthesongstress]

MAAARRRRR: I have a placeholder so setup, it makes analogies look like punchlines. LAVERNICA: My setup lacks awareness, but my punchline doesn't know. MAAARRRRR: Abusively cynical one-liner dismissing everything you just said. LAVERNICA: Absuuuuurd reaction! HECTOR THE WELL-ENDOWED: You guys, can we put a pin in the B story and focus on the A story? ZIPPITY-DOO: I don't trust A stories. Never have, never will. I had a setup about a story that was so placeholder, the punchline came five words early. And I can tag it too. HECTOR THE WELL-ENDOWED, high-fiving ZIPPITY-DOO: Ooh! [??????]: I'll just take a moment to explain the risks involved in all decisions made from here until eternity. ZIPPITY-DOO: Who the hell are you? FRANKIE DART: I'm Frankie Dart. ZIPPITY-DOO: Is this combination gonna work? FRANKIE DART: Not my place to say. Abed? ABED: 😵😵‍😵‍😵 BRUTALITOPS: Lizard. Fire hydrant. Obama. Chaaaaaaangggg!

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[tv-moments]

3 Body Problem

Season 1, “Only Advance”

Director: Jeremy Podeswa

DoP: PJ Dillon

[lecliss]

Why tye fuck am I crying over ninja clash in the land of snow???? I fucking love this movie so much. It's sooooo fucking good. It's definitely my favorite and it was only the first ever Naruto movie. Can you believe they peaked at the first fucking one??? Why is it so good??? Fuck man aaaaaa