It also says the Han Ji-hyun was confirmed in Feb 2023 and the other major cast were reported to have “teamed up” in Sept 2024, but “Principal photography begin in March 2023”. Filming before you have most of the cast is a bloody good trick.
I like the revised romanization of the title though, “Peiseu mi”.
Yes, my years teaching English in Taiwan back in the 70s taught me to proofread things a bit, except of course for my own Dramabeans posts, where I add some “typos” just to prove I’m human and not an AI. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it 🙂
The number part actually gets updated as the episodes release. For instance, the number of episodes for Family by Choice shows as 10 as of today.
As for the casting, they definitely have written it badly. But the article cited for Principal Photography actually mentions both leads being confirmed and the article is from Feb 2023 so it’s possible they did shoot somethingin March 🤔.
I have really fond memories of the place. The people were super nice.
Nowdays you may hear that period called the “White Terror”, and while things were pretty bad for a while around 1949-ish (I’m a bit shaky on the details) by the time I was there I it didn’t seem any more “Terror” than driving around in some parts of the US if you are the wrong kind of minority and the local police have the wrong philosophy.
As a teacher the big difference was that students had more hours or class and less homework. Then there were the night school students in a 5-year BA program that would involve about 15 or 16 hours of class. Most of them had jobs with a 44-hour work week (4 hours on Saturday) then a bus ride, quick dinner, 4 hours of class and another bus ride home. You have to really, really, REALLY respect the work ethic, but good luck trying to get them to do the amount of homework that I did in my own college days. With colleges full of students like that, Taiwan’s economic growth since then doesn’t surprise me.
The legal system was worth a mention. They had their share of “ordinary” crimes like burglary, and for many crimes the punishments didn’t seem too outrageous, but for other crimes… Armed robbery by a group was automatic death penalty for the entire group and I had the impression that you could be dead within a few weeks of when you were caught, but I can’t point to any examples because there were pretty much zero armed robberies. So if anyone tells you that strict punishments don’t deter crime, laugh at them and say that American-style punishments don’t deter much but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. (Some crimes seem harder to deter than others. There were the occasional executions for drug dealing and that one case of rape-murder by a group. After that one the news quoted the late suspects as saying they wished they had known the penalty. I wouldn’t be surprised if that quote was fabricated, but the government made sure people knew the penalties after that because they ran TV ads with just text and voiceover listing the penalties for various crimes).
Wow, thanks! I visited Taiwan for about 10 days in the early 2000’s, and I agree, even in that short time I have some great memories.
It was noticeable to me that the flats were much more fortified than where I live. I notice that on K-dramas and C-dramas as well. Everyone has walls and gates around their houses, and security bars on lower floor windows. That made me think that burglaries would be a lot more common, except everyone has decided that prevention is better than cure.
Working that hard, and then study on top- that sounds exhausting. I’m not surprised though. I have a friend who is married to a Taiwanese woman (which is why I got to visit and stay with them) and the pressure for him to have a degree was so high that they just decided to lie to her parents. I think they only told her parents he did not have one after he was most of the way thru his degree (as a mature age student)
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Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
November 6, 2024 at 1:17 PM
The Wikipedia article on Face Me has some issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_Me
“No. of episodes 1”
It also says the Han Ji-hyun was confirmed in Feb 2023 and the other major cast were reported to have “teamed up” in Sept 2024, but “Principal photography begin in March 2023”. Filming before you have most of the cast is a bloody good trick.
I like the revised romanization of the title though, “Peiseu mi”.
Yes, my years teaching English in Taiwan back in the 70s taught me to proofread things a bit, except of course for my own Dramabeans posts, where I add some “typos” just to prove I’m human and not an AI. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it 🙂
miso
November 6, 2024 at 1:59 PM
The number part actually gets updated as the episodes release. For instance, the number of episodes for Family by Choice shows as 10 as of today.
As for the casting, they definitely have written it badly. But the article cited for Principal Photography actually mentions both leads being confirmed and the article is from Feb 2023 so it’s possible they did shoot somethingin March 🤔.
Neolttwigi
November 6, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Taiwan in the 70s must have been interesting. Feel free to tell me a bit about it.
Lord Cobol (Kdramas, like water, flow downhill)
November 6, 2024 at 7:33 PM
I have really fond memories of the place. The people were super nice.
Nowdays you may hear that period called the “White Terror”, and while things were pretty bad for a while around 1949-ish (I’m a bit shaky on the details) by the time I was there I it didn’t seem any more “Terror” than driving around in some parts of the US if you are the wrong kind of minority and the local police have the wrong philosophy.
As a teacher the big difference was that students had more hours or class and less homework. Then there were the night school students in a 5-year BA program that would involve about 15 or 16 hours of class. Most of them had jobs with a 44-hour work week (4 hours on Saturday) then a bus ride, quick dinner, 4 hours of class and another bus ride home. You have to really, really, REALLY respect the work ethic, but good luck trying to get them to do the amount of homework that I did in my own college days. With colleges full of students like that, Taiwan’s economic growth since then doesn’t surprise me.
The legal system was worth a mention. They had their share of “ordinary” crimes like burglary, and for many crimes the punishments didn’t seem too outrageous, but for other crimes… Armed robbery by a group was automatic death penalty for the entire group and I had the impression that you could be dead within a few weeks of when you were caught, but I can’t point to any examples because there were pretty much zero armed robberies. So if anyone tells you that strict punishments don’t deter crime, laugh at them and say that American-style punishments don’t deter much but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. (Some crimes seem harder to deter than others. There were the occasional executions for drug dealing and that one case of rape-murder by a group. After that one the news quoted the late suspects as saying they wished they had known the penalty. I wouldn’t be surprised if that quote was fabricated, but the government made sure people knew the penalties after that because they ran TV ads with just text and voiceover listing the penalties for various crimes).
Neolttwigi
November 7, 2024 at 4:29 AM
Wow, thanks! I visited Taiwan for about 10 days in the early 2000’s, and I agree, even in that short time I have some great memories.
It was noticeable to me that the flats were much more fortified than where I live. I notice that on K-dramas and C-dramas as well. Everyone has walls and gates around their houses, and security bars on lower floor windows. That made me think that burglaries would be a lot more common, except everyone has decided that prevention is better than cure.
Working that hard, and then study on top- that sounds exhausting. I’m not surprised though. I have a friend who is married to a Taiwanese woman (which is why I got to visit and stay with them) and the pressure for him to have a degree was so high that they just decided to lie to her parents. I think they only told her parents he did not have one after he was most of the way thru his degree (as a mature age student)