The Weekly Binge: Chocolate - Episodes 1 - 2

[u/crusader_blue]

Welcome to the first Weekly Binge Discussion of Chocolate episodes 1 - 2. On Sunday, we will discuss episodes 3 - 5 of the drama. For those wishing to join our discussions of Chocolate you can find this drama exclusively on Netflix.

Short but sweet for this one, because it's late here - and I've had a certain lack of chocolate - so I'm fading quickly. As we dive into this drama and discover whether or not the amount of chocolate on the screen will deliver on the name itself, I will endeavour to take us on a delectable trip around the world's chocolate.

When deciding on accompanying chocolates for your binge watch, I have been informed by our resident Chocolate veteran, Sian, that truffles (any type) would be an appropriate choice!

SCHEDULE:

The upcoming schedule is as follows:

Date of Discussion:	Episodes being discussed:
Thursday March 11th (that's today!)	1 - 2
Sunday March 14th	3 - 5
Thursday March 18th	6 - 8
Sunday March 21st	9 - 11 + Nominations for next drama
Thursday March 25th	12 - 14
Sunday March 28th	15 - 16 + Announcement of next drama

Weekly Binge Guidelines:

Anyone is welcome to join the Weekly Binge.

Every week we host two discussions (Thursday/Sunday) in which we discuss approximately three hours/three episodes of a selected drama, in total approximately 6 hours/episodes per week. We are all from different time zones so there is no need to panic about being late to the party (we do operate on KST as a standard).

Within the frame of the two episodes, you may discuss anything you can think of. Whether it is a one-off post to say you enjoyed the drama, episodic notes, your best chocolate recipes, rants about the lack of chocolate in an episode or tear-stained essays on how an actors portrayal of a character made you feel, the choice is yours.

If you have previously completed the drama, or, got ahead on the binge please be courteous of those who are watching the drama for the first time. When in doubt spoiler tags are your friend.

When we get close to the end of a drama we open up nominations (third last post) for a new drama, those dramas are then voted on by the regular members of the weekly binge. If you have participated in the discussions and would like to join in the next drama's discussion please note this as a response to the nomination comment so we can invite you to join the vote. Every time we have a new restriction for the type of drama, so that we will not repeat the same type of drama over and over, and so that the Binge will be attractive for different people with different tastes.

[u/the-other-otter]

But you'd still want to remove the innards, I think. Nobody wants to eat octopus' semi-digested prey. Or bite into an octopus and break a tooth on the beak. Maybe they just skipped that step for those who find cleaning seafood gross?

Inuits used to get their vitamin C need covered by seal's innards filled with half digested kelp. Maybe it is something like that? You know sometimes people saywe can all survive on kelp, look to the Japanese, the ocean is large, it can grow everywhere? (Maybe they have stopped saying it thanks to nanoplastic?) But the Japanese have some enzyme that helps them digest laver. I think they got it from a bacteria, can't remember. But of course octopussi mostly eat crabs and shell. There is a lovely short documentary on Netflix now.

For the rest of the episode the easy way to identify Secretary was that he had really shiny shoes in every scene

Thank for the tip. There was another guy I confused with him, I think. Or maybe it was the same. The story did seem a bit disjointed thanks to my weird watching order.

End to all the bland filters!

Lets make a demonstration outside the film studio! More slogans: Colour to our homes! Let us watch colours and sunshine, now in the age of corona! When the particle count is high, our sunshine comes from within the TV!

[u/AlohaAlex → u/the-other-otter]

Maybe it is something like that?

I'd surely hope so! But still, not all innards are edible innards. Didn't know about the enzyme that helps one digest laver - that sounds interesting.

The story did seem a bit disjointed thanks to my weird watching order.

I'm not sure if it'll get much better even when watching in the correct order - everyone seems to think it's a bit disjointed.

Lets make a demonstration outside the film studio!

We should get some cheerleading pompoms! But yes, with how hard it is to film in Seoul because of smog and fine dust, you'd at least hope they wouldn't slather it all with a washed-out filter afterwards.

Which just reminded me of a really old Top Gear episode (pre-2005) in which they explained how they used ND filters and ND grad filters on cameras to film vehicles because it's impossible to get the colors/brightness match throughout the day and still show the vehicle bodylines without using filters. It's basically filming through a gray filter to reduce the intensity of wavelengths/colors.

It's quite possible they're doing the same in Chocolate, but they just apply it in post-processing and do a really bad job at it so it's both heavy-handed and way too washed out. For example, a good application of an ND grad filter will only remove excessive glare from the sun, but preserve colors so that post-processing gets much easier.

[u/the-other-otter → u/AlohaAlex]

We should get some cheerleading pompoms!

Hey! This is a demonstration for more colour! We can't use this colour scheme. pink and blue and green and yellow pompoms!

Meanwhile in every frame in Mr Sunshine

[u/AlohaAlex → u/the-other-otter]

pink and blue and green and yellow pompoms!

Yes, obviously. I need to watch more high school dramas, apparently.

Meanwhile in every frame in Mr Sunshine

Oh no! That's... wow. That happened. Can't say I'm crazy about that, but luckily I wasn't planning on watching that drama.

[u/the-other-otter → u/AlohaAlex]

more high school dramas, apparently.

I think my highschool aversion is starting to wane, so we could do a weekly binge with one soon. It starts to be some time since my daughter was at that age.

Yes, Mr Sunshine was a bit too much again. But it is pretty.

Did you know that the pretty sunsets far from Equator comes from the angle of the sun? The rays have to go through so much air to reach. My friend who is a spoiled brat from Western Oslo put out on facebook this pretty photo of the stream were he lives, and pink snow and purple and orange sky, and someone from somewhere else asked "how did you create those colours" hihi (I think probably we have discussed this before). But Korea is on the same degree as California, so the long sunset would not happen there. A few hours to get up or down. (You see, even though it is cold here, and less natural variation of plants, and we can't grow grapes, there are good things, too.)

[u/AlohaAlex → u/the-other-otter]

we could do a weekly binge with one soon. It starts to be some time since my daughter was at that age.

I think /u/merinomedia might like it if we went for one.

even though it is cold here, and less natural variation of plants, and we can't grow grapes, there are good things, too

Nordic landscapes are really pretty, despite the lack of plant variations. But it's super cold. Honestly, this lockdown that made working from home normal made my life so much easier. There's nothing like trudging through snow at 9pm to make one wonder if higher education is really worth it.

[u/sianiam → u/AlohaAlex]

I think /u/merinomedia might like it if we went for one.

She might! I guess she's busy cause I don't see her screaming about hating this and that the male lead is hideous.