Here are the reasons:
1. Story- the storyline here is superb. I think they really put an effort into making it. I feel that there is no filler here(maybe a little bit of flashback here and there). The story doesn't just make one character shine but all of them.. Every episodes are amazing. So if you think of skipping some episodes please don't you will regret it..
2. Acting cast- The actors here portray their role very well. Even the side characters, supporting characters, antagonist up to the main cast. One of the reason i watch it is because of the handsome actors and pretty actresses. Also, love the couples here.. not just for the main couple but also the supporting couples..
3. music- i feel that they only use 1 music here(the opening song) through the whole 46 episodes. even in scenes for action and sad scenes.. but i don't know why the opening song still fits on the scene.. maybe because i am just hook into watching it hehehe..
4.The Ending- i think most people will see it as a happy ending.. But some will see it as a sad ending if you are into romance because the male lead doesn't end up with anyone here.. You know the typical chinese drama.. If you are not into death don't watch it because this drama has a lot of it. I am not a fan of death too but i think those deaths are required to make it more exciting..
Overall... it is a must see drama that worth spending your time in the 46 episodes.
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Watch it for Characters, not the Story
The Taoism Grandmaster focuses on the themes of friendship, found family, and fate. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys them because this drama has some of the best developed characters I've seen.Heroes: The main leads of this story are all beyond reproach. Zhang Ling is smart and funny, Tie Lang is simple but not stupid, Feifei is strong and kind, while Liuli is dedicated and passionate. All of them work wonderfully as the main characters, and you can't get enough of them. Their friendship is what drives the story. The side characters are no slouches, either. This story has many of them, and each one gets a developed personality and an actual storyline. There were so many good ones that instead of writing them one by one, it would be easier to just copy-paste the entire list of characters. Everyone was that good.
Villains: Since the good guys get so much effort put into them, the villains ended up suffering for it. The main enemy is... random. Her scenes are often confusing, and by the end, you just learn to accept that she can do whatever the plot wants her to do while her actions and motivations are pretty random. However, the story has a few secondary villains that are pretty cool. They don't last long, but that's a minor problem.
Story: If you can turn off your brain and listen to the logic presented in the drama, then you're gonna enjoy it. The story is cohesive and well-developed within its own universe. All episodes are good and necessary. There were a few times I thought something was a little pointless, but later, it showed up that it was actually very important. It was all necessary to make the story work.
Overall, I enjoyed this drama a lot. It focused on friendship in all its forms, and while the story was often light-hearted, it did not shy away from showing the results of distrust or putting others too far before yourself.
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Good to watch
I like it and watched it more than once.The array is a precursor to a satellite system in the sky with an AI in control. It controls agents on the ground who are normal faulty humans who run around with gadgets that control communications and what they do. Who they fight and kill. Sound familiar? Lol.
Any way costumes are cool. Computer work is good. Acting is good. Belts show how skinny people are. Lol.
Worth the watching for me.
Lots of fake blood and drinking. Love triangles. Fight dancing.
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If the ending was different....
When I watch the first few episodes, I thought this is one of my favorite dramas and it's so good. But the last few episodes are so disappointing. It's like the last few episodes are written by a different writer. All the people you love dies and after the character you love the most and expected so much died, What's there to watch? And the main actor ends with the female lead you don't like that much instead of the one you love! Normally you expect an ending with everyone (at least some people) be happy. But the ending here is the worst ending I've ever seen. Because there's no one left to be happy.Was this review helpful to you?
Written for teens/YA
Not very inspired world building using the more standard xianxia/wuxia tropes without adding anything significant. Pretty much standard hero quest.Generally male-centric as usual which befits the target audience, one supposes. While it has a "balanced" by numbers gender representation, not so much on the intelligence/power scale of things.
Characters are presumably supposed to be young (late teens/early 20's possibly) and have the cognitive skills of teenagers. Either swing a sword, and if that fails, swing the sword some more. Planning? Ideas? Not so much. Saving their compatriots involve running to be physically close to them, getting caught in the same trap, not analyzing the enemy and just generally not having a plan to proceed. So the IQ level isn't set to be very high.
The main story only makes sense if one doesn't look too closely. Early, it seemed that there was some attempt to offer different perspectives on either side but the execution defaulted to "let's not make it hard to determine good vs evil because our audience is dumb".
Barely adequate acting but the material probably isn't there for any actor to get into it. So mostly saying their lines in the cheesiest method possible. CGI is below average by 2019 standards.
It all boils down to a barely watchable (with fast forwarding) drama that is only good for spending time at home during a quarantine. A drama made with little inspiration or vision in all aspects - acting, character, story, plot, dialogue, cinematography, music.
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Much potential... it did not live up to -by yoda
Mild Spoilers:VFX suck in this series, but I overlooked it because it honestly had a pretty good start. Male lead's acting is kinda poor and cringy at best, especially when he tries to emote, Looks so hilarious.
Looking for romance? Well get ready to be disappointed, cause the second girl is one most ppl will end up shipping, but the writers won't let you have it. Nope. It's just another predictable plot. No chemistry whatsoever between the main lead and main female. Liu Li (second female) carried this drama for me. Once writers got rid of her, the drama died then and there.
The main lead is also pretty useless. He's smart and saves people in the beginning, but then suddenly becomes useless. People are saving his ass in every situation once the story picks up.
Story? it started off interesting, but pretty much from the beginning, I predicted the ending....too bad the writers didn't prove me wrong. It would have been more interesting if they didn't make it so predictable.
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I need Season 2 When coming
Need a season 2 please this storyline amazing and full superb this Hindi season superb nice ,................................................Need a season 2 please this storyline amazing and full superb this Hindi season superb nice ,................................................
Need a season 2 please this storyline amazing and full superb this Hindi season superb nice ,................................................
Need a season 2 please this storyline amazing and full superb this Hindi season superb nice ,................................................
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Overwhelming
LIKEWhen participants went through trails as a form of training before fighting real demon
DISLIKE
Too many draggy trials to the point it made me felt annoyed - there were about four trials then probably like five competitions to find armours. In one on the competitions, another three barriers or something... that's crazy...
MUSIC - personal fav
恍然知爱 Huang Ran Zhi Ai - 严艺丹 Yan Yi Dan
REWATCH VALUE
It doesn't matter if I re-watch or not
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Super fantastic. Great drama
Although I always go for romantic and happy ending dramas, i accidentally found this gem and watched it without knowing whether it has a happy ending or not. Because I think this was my second or third cdrama which I watched around the time of covid i guess. So I only hoped for FL and ML romance but the drama took me to whole another world where I guess the subtle romance was enough for me.Now coming to story, it was the journey of a man who finally become the thaoism grndmaster and honestly saying the journey was filled with friendship, sportsmanship, leadership, love, brother love, teacher - student relations, unrequited love, triangle or i must say more than triangle polygonal love . I really liked the relationship between ML and his best friend SML . The ML is a humorous guy and has a particular charm. The SML too has a peculiar charm. Although FL is good her character was little annoying because the fact that she only realised ML's love at the last episodes.
ENDING
Yes it has a sad ending but it was worth it. Also I can assure you it is really worth it. Because I am person who always avoid sad ending but in this one it was necessarily needed. Because him losing his beloved ones in the journey to become thaoism grndmaster helped him to attain the state of mind like a god or thao maybe. Like he was not restricted by his earthly feelings. Well it's a journey with happiness, sadness, sweetness, bravery and the fact that the man started his journey from no powers to become the most powerful was literally epical.
If you are trying to know if it's worth it... Watch it I assure you it's the best .
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Worth a watch
Great series. Entertaining throughout as the location, scenery and plot changed often so the show did not become stagnant. I thought all of the actors did a great job, except for the lead - couldn't get into his wooden acting and look. We won't talk about those bangs, lol. The ending has both positive elements and tragic elements. I'm not sure why C-dramas have to write in so much tragedy into their story line endings as it takes away from the investment you put into a long series. Worth watching overall though.Was this review helpful to you?
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Romance seema to be forced in this serie
I searched another serie after Guardian of Defeng and found this one.The binge watched the serie with a lot of skipping on the lovedove parts. It seems that the writer wanted to match as much pairings as possible in this serie. In the moat parts it didn't made sense either.
For example the male and the female leads. There is no chemistrs between them. The male lead seems to have fallen for her because of her looks and she was only interessted in him because of a failed first love. That is a childish realationship without base.
All in all I was more sorry for support characters. I even asked myself if the five chiefs were really knowing what the title of Taois-grandmaster means..They all fight only for honor, expatations, power and other worldy things.
A lot of death, some of them only to get the number of competioner down.
After all, I found the idea behind it okay but the forced romances were to much.
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