a total watching time well north of two hundred hours (for scale, long enough to watch Guardian seven times in a row and then some)
Oh, wow. :o I knew the show was long, but I never thought about just how it would compare with a typical drama. That's an amazing amount of content! Especially for language-learning, like you said, with the dialogue being unscripted and casual and in such a range of registers and accents.
The part that bothers me much more is the negative space.
Ah. I feel like this is often the case in dramas, too -- some things just conspicuously don't get said. And of course reading between the lines can be difficult if you don't have enough background knowledge about what's being glossed over, which I feel like I often don't.
thought it might make nice background Chinese listening practice while I did something else. Then I found I wasn’t making any progress on any of the something-else because I kept paying attention to the farming show
Hah, fandom in a nutshell right there. XD
Interesting to read your comments on the show being both slice-of-life (which was clear from the Wang Yang episode, and surprisingly interesting and amusing to watch) and also character-driven, which isn't something I would have really predicted, although I guess when I think about it, a lot of reality shows do rely on the strength of character of the contestants/participants. But that was something I definitely didn't pick up as much from the one episode I watched (well, except for Li Hao, whose personality seemed pretty irrepressible XD).
Neat to see your descriptions of all the farmboys, and also where they're all from. I just recently went through a deck of Anki cards for learning all the Chinese provinces, so I'm enjoying that I can now actually visualize how spread out all the places they came from are! Also neat to hear that several of them write their own songs -- I was under the impression that that was pretty rare in Cpop, but maybe that's a trend that's changing.
"Needs [X] like a fish doesn’t need a bicycle" is a great phrase. XD
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Oh, wow. :o I knew the show was long, but I never thought about just how it would compare with a typical drama. That's an amazing amount of content! Especially for language-learning, like you said, with the dialogue being unscripted and casual and in such a range of registers and accents.
The part that bothers me much more is the negative space.
Ah. I feel like this is often the case in dramas, too -- some things just conspicuously don't get said. And of course reading between the lines can be difficult if you don't have enough background knowledge about what's being glossed over, which I feel like I often don't.
thought it might make nice background Chinese listening practice while I did something else. Then I found I wasn’t making any progress on any of the something-else because I kept paying attention to the farming show
Hah, fandom in a nutshell right there. XD
Interesting to read your comments on the show being both slice-of-life (which was clear from the Wang Yang episode, and surprisingly interesting and amusing to watch) and also character-driven, which isn't something I would have really predicted, although I guess when I think about it, a lot of reality shows do rely on the strength of character of the contestants/participants. But that was something I definitely didn't pick up as much from the one episode I watched (well, except for Li Hao, whose personality seemed pretty irrepressible XD).
Neat to see your descriptions of all the farmboys, and also where they're all from. I just recently went through a deck of Anki cards for learning all the Chinese provinces, so I'm enjoying that I can now actually visualize how spread out all the places they came from are! Also neat to hear that several of them write their own songs -- I was under the impression that that was pretty rare in Cpop, but maybe that's a trend that's changing.
"Needs [X] like a fish doesn’t need a bicycle" is a great phrase. XD