Love Like the Galaxy: Part 1

If you are looking for a good comedy pill then this show is the one !!

Oh, its one of the best Chinese shows out there. Although it is more than 50 episodes show, you wont feel like Why I have started this show.

The chemistry between the lead pair is so subtle. Zhao Lusi is again delivering her good performance.

But specially the male lead - Leo Wu is doing a fantastic job. His subtle and serious expression and his indepth character is intriguing.
The story will capture you within first episode. It is light hearted show. With good humour, show will also provide you a good storyline and its execution.
Now talking about cinematography and VFX, this show is meeting our expectations.

All in all , a MUST WATCH Chinese Rom Com.

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The first part I love it. Everything in this drama is good. The Martial Arts, the in-house fighting, the visuals are fantastic, and the music makes your heart beat as if it were marching with the soldiers. I can't believe that Leo Wu is only 22 years old. He is very mature and can act greatly. I just added more drama which he stars in. I'm impressed. I have watched many dramas with Zhao Lu Si in them. She is also very good. She drives me crazy with her acting because I love what she does. She can be so perky which is a great thing. I can watch her all the time. I can hardly wait for future dramas in which she is the main lead. I'm watching this on Viki-Rakuten but they are not showing it in 2 parts, they are showing it as one drama.

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FLs the Master of talking back, fronting face, scheming and faking it! — A Drama Queen!

Before anything else, I wanna say that Zhao Lusi gave her AAA+ in playing her role in this drama and deserves a Top Actress Award for doing so. Damn, I cackled so hard whenever she says or does anything. She offered and gave so much 'drama' and comedy to her character which is something I've never seen before—one of a kind. I will be forever in love on how calculating and scheming she is, a badass capable lady!

This first part is all about the process—struggles and obstacles someone must go through in their lifelong Journey.

I kind of contemplated to write this reaction after finishing the first 27 episodes (Part 1) because I feel like it shouldn't really be cut-off in the middle and it's just a continuation without any timeskips or so happening, but I still decided to do so because I feel like it has been giving me the best enjoyment and it deserves this early review to serve as a commendation to how excellent this drama has been going thus far.

I never expected this drama to be this good in all honesty. I'm just glad to finally watch another ZLS & WL drama after quite a while but this masterpiece hook me from the very beginning till this very moment. It's a 'one in a thousand' type of production you'll got no choice but binge and get addicted to because of how crazily addicting and great it is.

Cheng Shaoshang as a female lead has been giving me nothing but pure joy and excitement. I feel like she was born and created to give non-stop color to brighten up my day. Every scene she's in felt like a whole damn amusement park ride— exciting and thriling. Take note that, not even once have I felt bored watching her. She's got a whole variety of entertainment in her that never cease to amuse me.

I also love how the story didn't dwell much on her sufferings with her relatives, Instead, they gave us another twist by showing us how parental love can be hard, rough and tough. It was indeed cruel I would say... and up till this moment I still can't agree that her Mother's way of disciplining her is correct. Heck! I even hated her mother a lot of times for using an 'Iron-Fist' to educate her because it hurt her even more. Not to mention how often her mother tells and shows her how someone is better than her and that she's nowhere close to how good her cousin Yangyang was. It made me upset so much to the point where I wish that she can just disown her mother and give her love to her 3rd Aunt instead because her real mother doesn't deserve it. But at the end of the day I just understand why her mother is doing it that way as well. It was because her mother loves her so much but didn't understand and know her at all. Her mother's lack of understanding of her made them drift miles apart as story goes by and I just hope that they can slowly reconcile and gain mutual understanding of each other in the next coming episodes.

Another thing I wanna mention is how lively and comical her entire family is. They were like a Circus troupe full of funny and unexpected tricks you'll never get tired of. I love how her Grandmother is greedy yet ignorant and how the rest of the remaining family and friends around truly loves and cares for her. Special mention to her Father, Maidservant, Qiqi and Brothers for being a great support and companion— specially during their silliest times.

Next is set of fine men who love and adores her...

×× Ling Buyi, I'm always satisfied with his character. He's always been respectful and honest with his own feelings and not even once disrespect the FL. Although he kind of lack the basic knowledge of how equality works, I just know that he'll do great in the future.

×× Lou Yao could've been a really great Husband and Partner to our FL but I'm just glad it didn't happen because I still want Ling Buyi no matter what. One thing I wanna mention is how pityful yet outstanding his character is. He's simply well written and would love to see him succeed and live a happy life with his Wife.

×× Yuan Shen is just like his Master. Cautious and coward to express his feelings. I just know that he'll be regretful and will suffer from a brokenheart for eternity because of how taciturn he is with his real feelings.

P.S. I badly need to mention how entertaining it was to watch all of them interact. Very different from the usual Jelousy scenes I was expecting but still very satisfying. It clearly shows how some men of the ancient past deals with Jealousy and stuff through their wits and imposing way.

Story - 10, It deserves beyond that honestly. Story is well-written and on top of that very funny and entertaining as a whole. No dull moments even once considering how l've finished Part 1 now.

Acting/Cast - 10, Solid and Perfect set of actors and actresses. I've never been this satisfied before with any dramas entire cast. I feel like they've got the best characters for each role and they also made me realized what real acting is. God, gonna mention how Zhao Lusi's acting is insanely one of the top and Wu Lei's imposing posture and body! whooa! He grew up so well from the Fei Liu (Nirvana in Fire) I've known and adore.

Music - 10, I'm really satisfied with their choice of music. I also love how the flute and its sound fit so well whenever Shen Shaoshang's playing it. I really thought they would murder it but they did extremely well in making it sound and look pleasant. P.S. Dubbing is really good too!!

Rewatch Value - 10, I would rewatch it again and again whenever I want to. It is one of those dramas that can never make you feel off and bored even one bit.

Overall - 10, Come on! This drama has been nothing but a masterpiece so far and i'm expecting it to constanly progress with the same intensity and satisfaction. I highly recommend this drama to everyone and I'm very excited to watch the Part 2.

IF you find my review helpful please let me know

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LOVE

I can already say the rewatch value is high because I am not even sure how many times I've rewatched this drama from episode 1.

This is probably one of those dramas that I think is near close to being perfect. I had high expectations for this drama, and it definitely has not disappointed. I will add that the script is very layered, it takes maybe 6 or so episodes for the drama to pick up (however when I rewatched it after having an idea of the bigger picture, even those first few slower episodes were wildly interesting to me). Plus each time you rewatch, you catch more details, more connections and analyzing the complex characters in this drama and their motivations is something that is deeply satisfying. The drama does have arc's (and each arc may feature some characters more than others) and new and interesting characters are introduced throughout the drama to build the plot in a meticulous way.

The cast is superb. I think this is one of the top 3 dramas for me in terms of where every single character from the main cast, to supporting cast to even minor roles has played their characters to perfection. The direction, attention to detail, cinematography, sound editing, sets, costumes, lighting, fight scenes and the music scores are amazing.

The chemistry between the two main leads is out of this world. Even the simplest scene with them in it just takes my breath away. One other thing I would mention about this drama is that this is the only Chinese costume drama where I haven't skipped forward some parts, and this is one of the only dramas that has made me feel EVERY emotion as a viewer watching. There is no wasted air time and its like a roller coaster ride of joy, tragedy, humour, fascination, shock, anger, embarrassment, butterflies etc.

Definitely give this a chance and stick with it prior to the slower build at the start. It is so worth it <3

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If you are a lover of historical drama and romance, then trust me you will not regret watching this

I want to make a confession, I'm madly in love with this drama. Should I give credit to Niaoniao's parents? They really made me cry...... They both care about her even though they left the her in the beginning. All because of their responsibility to protect the country and the people, I admire and love them. Oh sure, the chemistry between General Ling and Shaoshao is amazing and the most interesting thing that caught my attention is how each actor looks so handsome and beautiful, you can fall in love at first sight then fall in love with someone else, then and again. . and again and never ending lol. My heart is always excited [badum badum] when she takes revenge from the episode she took revenge on her uncle, princess and so on. I highly recommend this and I can't wait to watch it

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definitely worth watching

I honestly could watch it several times and never get bored , everything is amazing the characters, the plot , the humor , rich tapestry of politics but not in a boring way , Incredible storyline and battles , the action scenes are very well directed and the OSTs are extremely great too .
the first season might be a bit slow but in the second season we get such a fast paced turn of events and i think this is the strongest point of the show , the writer took their time and they developed both story arcs and characters arcs so when stuffs happen , you'll be hooked.

All the actors own their roles exhibiting superior craft with expressions alone . another main feature that distinguishes Love Like The Galaxy is its character development .
- the FL is shown to be stubborn and immature girl in the beginning but as the drama progresses she develops into a mature person with a good control over her emotions .
- the ML went from a person who doesn't embody love and caring to a man who'll do everything for the woman of his life , but i'm glad they didn't change his dominant and ruthless personality after he fell in love because it's what make him the unique general Ling buyi .

The tension and chemistry between the main couple is insane too .

the greatest Political Historical Cdrama of all time .

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terrific story well scripted, wonderful cinematography. A must watch.

I only failed to give it 10/10 because some of the music was a little strange for me. The whole crew have done such a brilliant job on this C Drama. I have watched a few but this one seems to me to be a stand out one.
The F/L portrayal of her character was brilliant. A traumatised child with huge distrust of adults, with very little warmth in her life. I felt really sad for her. It was lovely to see her grow from a sad beginning to become a beautiful warm but certainly strong woman.
The M/L portrayal of his character i felt, is outstanding. The predominant dark side, the anger and resentment of the people who had betrayed his family was so strong you could see it, feel it. Wow. The eyes have it. The controlled anger in his voice.
My other stand out actor was the Emperor, he balanced out the dark side with humour, love and compassion.
The Mother 's story was sad, how did she expect that punishment was the way forward to heal her child. The actress was so good. only realising much later that love and not fierce discipline was the way to go.
Infact i don't think you could criticise any of the actors even the minor roles were acted so well. i really really enjoyed it.
Sometimes the subtitles were a little strange, but then again, i don't speak any other languages, except for hello, goodbye, thank you and to do my grocery shopping. i can do that in a few languages. Nonetheless it did not spoil my enjoyment of this series.
Will i watch it again, i have, when i need to escape from my life for a little while, i will pick out one or two episodes depending on my mood and rewatch them. But i have to say i have watched all of it a couple of times. i expect i will again. I am quite old so i have the time.
Many thanks for all the efforts from the actors, and crew, screenwriters, director, in fact everyone involved in the production of this outstanding C Drama.

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Amazing, beautiful and yet sad at parts

Got attracted to this series because of Zhao Lusi. I have to say, this series (2 seasons but many they just combined it together so it is a whooping total of 50+ episodes) is quite nice to watch. There are alot of quirky and fun moments and also a few drama moments and the "omg I just want to kill that person and get rid of it once and for all" moments. The male and female lead did a very good job in their roles, not to mention all the other casts as well. I really love how the way the male lead carefully and lovingly protects the female lead all the time, even secretly, though I really hate how he still kept so many dark secrets despite the female lead asking him completely point blank if there was anything else he is hiding. Nonetheless, the series turns out great - in my personal opinion... you may think otherwise - and I actually like watching it. The music paired to this series is also quite nice.

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Best of all time (seriously)

I must confess, I did this show a great injustice. I have watched and rewatched this series, but I never left a single review for what i consider to be the best costume drama show of all time.

LLTG is the story of growing pains, family, romance, and political intrigue, all embroiled into one from the POV of a teenager, Chen Saoshang. Technically, this is nothing new in costume drama land, there are hundreds of costume drama story like this. But LLTG stood out with its stellar story telling, casting, acting, and directing. I applaud the director, Fei Zhenxiang, the story writing, and the actors of this show, for breathing life into the characters.

First, the acting. I have to highlight the main character of this story: Chen Saoshang. CSS as a character was as different as it gets from me as the audience, in terms of age, time period she lived in, family situation, and personality. But throughout the series, I can't help but myself in her shoes, sympathize with her, and root for her. CSS was flawed, immature at parts, innocent, and sometimes too smart for her own good. We will see her make mistake and mature up as an adult, and I felt the loss as she matured due to what she went through. And not just CSS, but also the rest of the actors breathed life into the characters. Each character were unique, they were not just mob character just to support the leads, but each acting was believable and true to character, and the cast has great chemistry.

Second, the storytelling. In theory, this story was as common as it gets, a girl gets together with a dreamy guy, there will be other suitors as well, and she gets embroiled into politics due to said guy. Seemingly nothing special. But what I like about this story, is how things flow realistically and how it takes time to develop. The dialog was smart but natural, even laugh out funny at times. Forget cringy expository dialog. And not just dialog, everyone had a driving reason behind what they do, and given their situation, what they do make sense. For example, the story does not shy away from the fact that LBY is too good for CSS, and the characters admitted it, even CSS herself. But later in S2, as we get to understand LBY's perspective, we understood why he fell so hard, against his better judgement, and how deeply flawed he is because of his past.

Another example would be the realistic character growth. Often times in dramas, once the characters fall in love, they become cookie cutter characters, head over heels in love, and everything is seen from rose-colored glasses. But CSS and LBY are 2 different people with different personalities. She fell for someone else, because someone like her would not right out-of-the-box fall for someone like LBY, they clashed often, as any couple do, and this conflict and growth was depicted realistically. I even learned some things from their relationship.

Third, the casting. I love, love the casting of this series. Everyone are looking appropriate for their role, who's supposed to be old are old, who are supposed to be plain looking are plain looking, those who are supposed to be ripped are ripped (LBY, im looking at you). The make up and lighting was natural and not overdone, cinematic, even. Usually with idol dramas, I always have a hard time telling apart one person from another (I'm bad telling faces apart) because they all looks bling, as if they're trying to cram as many idols in as possible. For example, Cheng Shaogang (Shaosang's twin brother) commented, he could never expect Yangyang to get the same fate as Shaosang, because Saoshang is prettier. The audience can easily pick this up, because Yang yang looks plainer, though memorable in its own way. But not so in other dramas where often time i can't tell apart who's supposed to be considered plain and who's pretty because everyone was equally bling.

Fourth and lastly, the directing is simply chef's kiss. I like how it's subtle and cinematic the camerawork is. You wont find silly mistakes like shaky or halted frames (often found even high budget cdrama) or other accidental misses. Their work was perfect given the limited time and budget. I was very surprised to find out later that the series was at first only a filler series (so it didn't have SS+ budget) and was suddenly forced to air earlier, and they were in such a hurry that they didn't have any reserve eps, and often times, they finished editing just the night before the day they need to air. There were even some air and edit later. I love how subtle and quiet the music is, but apparently it is not intentional, as they did not have time for the OST until around eps 20 or so. But accidentally it makes the tone of the drama more endearing and special.

All in all, I highly recommend anyone to watch Love Like the Galaxy, even if you don't like cdramas.

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