Oh, Linda, I completely missed the “c” or my elderly eyes thought it was a typo. And, as I have my settings to show me the latest posts from all threads, I also didn’t see it was posted in the Chinese drama category. My mistake, I’m sorry, I’m deleting that post. You might delete also your reply to me and then I’ll delete this one too, so that the thread remains clear of things that don’t belong to it…
yes, the valiant mulgasis - which is why when sophie2you said she would help, I really hoped she would complete the drama.
there are a good many folks who would really like to see that one finished. it really is a GOOD drama.
So if this would happen in ANY fashion, I would be thankful to the person or persons who did it. Because mulgasis deserves support AND the drama is really exceptional.
I need to watch it end to end again once it’s ready. It’s that good.
…and now back to the Chinese drama discussion.
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There is no need to worry this, as I said, the fact is, we didn’t get anything we really need on Chinese dramas right now.
The fact remains - and yes, K Drama got a good buffet.
We are happy for you here and yes, we work on ALL Asian dramas - I have I think completed 3 K dramas already since I started volunteering in September of 2016…my greatest affinity though is with the Chinese dramas, and that’s also my joy at present with Condor, Demigods and ASITW.
And should we get something that well, makes any sense in C drama land…we will obviously welcome your help too!
sigh…
but…the fan channel GREAT DELETION OF 12/22…shall not be forgotten… GPG, Novoland, and so many others stricken entirely here in one bloody night.
…all that remains is my word, my name is no longer here.
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Nirvana in fire!!! yeah the three kingdoms
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Ode to joy 2
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LOL I love this ‘term’. This is actually the Season 2 of it. LOL. Season 1 was ‘played out’ in Sep although it was with prior notification. Oh well, many (Cdramas) fan channels were taken down back then too. Sad. Sad. SAD! If love wasn’t the motivation (for the V-community), I think a ‘ghost town’ would have taken over. 
PS: I hope Viki keeps copies of the subtitles on file somewhere…
https://discussions.viki.com/t/fan-channels-update/12246
You are probably already aware… but if not, just FYI. The Condor wind will begin blowing strongly again soon. The 2017 version is upcoming on Dragon TV on 1/9/17. Wonder if Viki will license and host it? It’s helmed by Li Yitong(Demon Girl) and William Yang Xuwen(Legend of Chusen 1). Looks interesting too (although I’ve had my fill of Condors, this can wait. LOL). Such an awesome classic that never will dissipate into nothingness.
Jiayou!
http://i.imgur.com/LzIyepF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ZkXqFVm.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmSQmEWSSc
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Sigh. Yes, and that’s why I did the survey - to find out what really was on the fan channels during stage one and what we could do to save them.
It was then I wrote and posted a number of things including the survey information and tried to get license apps out and tried to find a way to convince the viki overlords to respond positively. To also try to help all of us understand that a full 46% of the Chinese Drama here was on Fan Channels…and at risk.
And the answer I and everyone else got was The Great Deletion.
I don’t think they saved anything, I doubt it. Because that would have meant contacting someone and possibly telling them “look, we’re going to save the files, be off them”. Instead…the silence tells us all.
As for a new Condor - who knows. I will do my best to complete the one I have, and it’s hard to really beat the Condor from 2008. It is listed in the top 20 ever in the historical/wuxia for good reasons - and the cast will be very hard to top, all of it.
Remakes…sometimes are great, sometimes are lesser. It remains to be seen.
I guess on all of it, we wait and see. And now I have to go back to keeping my word. That’s all I have here right now. Thank you for your response. (bowing) and Honor to the Valiant Volunteers, all of them.
pax vobiscum omnes
per ferrum, ad astra
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I wanted to remind you something that you maybe already know. That sometimes, for some dramas if not all, there is someone who saves viki subtitles. They are… ehm… to be found in some sites we all know of, although I cannot post the link here for obvious reasons. You may want to go and collect them from there, to keep somewhere safe just in case these dramas get licensed in the future and appear on viki again. Thus you wouldn’t have to re-do all the work.
On one such place I did a quick search for “Legend of the Condor Heroes” and found the following:
The Condor Heroes (The Romance of the Condor Heroes) (2014) [they have viki subs]
Green Hill Fox Legend (Legend of Nine Tails Fox / 青丘狐传说 ) (2016) [they have viki subs]
Armour of God II: Operation Condor (飞鹰计划 / Fei ying gai wak) (1991) [it’s a film, not a series]
Return of the Condor Hero (神雕侠侣 / Shin chou kyou ryo: Condor Hero) (2001)[ I don’t know if they are viki subtitles, probably not, however they are complete, all 40 eps]
Legend of Eagle Shooting Hero AKA Legend of the Condor Heroes (射雕英雄传 / She Diao Ying Xiong Zhuan) (2003) [the subs are not English, unfortunately]
Heroes Shed No Tears AKA The Sunset Warrior (英雄無淚 / Ying xiong wu lei) (1986) [English but not viki]
You know what you’re looking for, so you could find stuff much more quickly and easily.
we’re still doing legend of the condor heroes 2008 - we haven’t completed ours yet, and ours is licensed - but thank you for the information.
actually someone was trying to take our subs…and I have not let them join our project for that reason…!
(sigh). And explaining why he should not is well, good luck.
pax vobiscum omnes
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One can totally save subs from a series without being a team member, though.
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IF, and only IF, you knew it was going to happen.
When exactly was the GREAT DELETION OF DECEMBER 22 SCHEDULED?
We only know when it was executed. No one, not CM’s, volunteers, let alone fans were told a single word.
So when exactly was anybody supposed to save thousands of subtitles, from what, hundreds of videos deleted without real warning to anyone?
The milk has been spilled, water under the bridge cannot be retrieved.
I am going to leave you with one final thought here:
Have you ever heard that as long as there are trees on the mountain…(intentional pause…).
[I don’t have to complete the sentence for some of you reading this thread. ]
pax vobiscum omnes (SIGH)
That’s pretty rough. I guess I’m hoping more Chinese Web dramas that have already aired will get licenses (ones that used to be fan channels) - like Go Princess Go. I like how they’re a little more crazy and liberal than a regular TV drama which often refrains from stuff like sexuality, gutter humor, etc…
I think innocent would be the words to describe most primetime Chinese (and Korean/Japanese) dramas. That’s fine and I don’t dislike it but I sometimes I want a show with more edge and maturity to it.
The series are back. Jonathan said it was a bug
look
https://www.viki.com/tv/6229c-the-queen-of-sop?q=The%20Queen%20of%20SO
https://www.viki.com/tv/7431c-the-secret-angel?q=the%20secret%20angel
https://www.viki.com/tv/7160c-the-legend-of-zhen-huancompleted
https://www.viki.com/tv/5748c-sealed-with-a-kiss-completed
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Dear Chinese Wuxia Friends,
I saw a new CDrama airing yesterday and I had no clue this was coming out, checking the status or availability on Viki I found the channel is sitting there for 7 months. The CM is absent, I have not received any notifications of this channel and asking for the License. Only upon airing elsewhere the channel got a bit of traction.
Who CAN or WANTS to take over the Channel of THE GENERAL AND I
https://www.viki.com/tv/31736c-general-and-i?q=general%20and
The present absent CM is https://www.viki.com/users/2lizz5/about
It would be nice to get a great exposure to fans and asking for the license, we might still get it later.
I thank everyone who supports this, this drama is supposed to be superawesome, we didn’t get Weiyoung let’s get this one, pretty please 
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You’re right. This is another amazing Cdrama, just as Princess Weiyoung was. It has just started and I’m loving it already.
What a pity (for our global fans) Viki didn’t get the license. I wonder what is taken into consideration, really. So many awesome ones have slipped away/are slipping away 
PS: Form submitted.
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We don’t have a license. Without a license, that’s not really a channel -
the fan channels and downloading from other sources have been stopped. So that channel - unless we get a license - there’s little point in CMing it.
Sigh.
Now the potential ones aren’t even put up, by the way. That’s my my advisors page isn’t something anyone can see.
It might be they’re trying to avoid people well, trying to load onto fan channels again? who can say.
a thousand years of effort…
Linda, I meant that this channel did likely not get proper exposure to chinese drama fans so that they could have requested for the license because the CM is several months on hiatus, I never got a notification. Notifications/Announcements of new channels to fans of alike dramas help in the support to when people send license requests.
Wenn CM’s request a channel it needs to be approved, then CM’s spread the word so that fans can support it in order to increase the chance of getting it licensed.
If your channel isn’t up for fans to see it’s because Viki has not approved your channel yet, has nothing with licensing to do. In this case there was never a download from another site, this particular drama started airing this week but the channel has been created 7 months ago. It is still possible that a license could come in later if a high amount of requests are sent, one can only hope that there is a chance of 50/50 to get it.
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Yes, I understand what you are saying BUT here’s the NEW way it’s going.
I can’t get MY Advisors channel up and asking for license requests - because they won’t LET it go public. I think this is the case of a LOT of CM’s with good dramas who dearly want to help their cause? But …they seem to have stopped doing that for the most part. I heard of 1 K drama one that’s out for license request lobbying. It seems most CM’s are desperately spamming (yeah good word, sorry guys) in boxes because they have NO other way to help get the dramas they want to run and well…hoping it works to get the drama. I don’t know what to say, I haven’t spammed on this myself - I would really love to have advisors and run it - but…it seems an awkward system, we are in the dark not knowing what they will give us, or when?
So that’s an older channel by the way - it was already up when I took the first survey of the channels. Tribes was already up too. Sigh.
Crouching Dieter, Hidden Donut
Dozens of good reasons…and donuts…!
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By that time, it’s usually subtitled on youtube and Viki won’t make as much money as they should.
I think that, since Viki took the fan channels away, CMs should be provided with new promotional tools.
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when is Viki showing the legend of chusen season 2. I cannot wait to see what happens next.