The Taoism Grandmaster

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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The makeup artists, editing, and cgi could have been better but the producers probably just needed more resources to work with in this series. So the production of The Taoism Grandmaster seemed low to moderate budget.

Acting ranged from poor to good for most of the cast. There were some exceptions that gave very good to excellent performances. Xu Hao (Liuli) gave an outstanding performance. I think she is very talented and underrated as an actress.

The story was entertaining and i binged watched it fairly quickly. I think it was good but there were aspects that could have had been improved on. I didnt like the male lead character some of the time especially his attitude and treatment of Liuli during their interactions throughout much of the series.

I don't really remember the soundtrack other than the opening song.

Although there were many imperfections in this series i was more entertained by it than some other series i have recently watched. So i think it had good entertainment value. However, the last several episodes were not a good way to finish a series or story imo. The final episode alone would need to be completely reworked to not be awful.

Overall this is an okay series and worth watching. Unfortunately some of the issues i've mentioned held down the overall rating.

I doubt i will ever fully rewatch it but i think there may be others happy to do so.

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Promised a supposedly a good adventure but..

This is an awful waste of time. I watched this because the actors looks good on screen and the premise of the show looks like a really good adventure.

Most episodes were draggy, I almost dropped the show multiple times. The effects used were not that good, considering that this was released only a few years back.

All those challenges, all those deaths, all that, for that mediocre ending.. I honestly mourn for all those deaths. With shows this long, there should at least have a happy ending to make all the death and sacrifices worth it..

Would I recommend the show? Maybe not. Would I consider a re-watch? Definitely never..

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