Fox Spirit Matchmaker: Red-Moon Pact Episode 36

Fight with black fox

This episode was decent. ShiJi and HongHong had their face to face battle giving HongHong a lot more hate to deal with. The spirits were having a hard time with the zombie humans because they did not stay dead and animated with even more hate. YueChu had the YiQi Alliance on standby and wisely put constable as the one to dictate when to start battle. YueChu went in first and said to wait on his signal. She was the one that truly waited for the right time. After ShiJi was defeated black fox empress took over as dark HongHong. She was very confident that love could not save HongHong. YueChu saw the sacrifice formation and understood why she took the heart thread. This would keep tree from letting him be sacrificed. He met her in spirit realm and they forged the tear of void. Black fox empress said they could create it but not determine who got to use it. What they successfully did was send it up top so that spirit army could see the black foxes and defeat them. YueChu gave everything to her and she returned the favor. Together they created a new grief tree and kept their memories in a new dimension. Their daughter came down and everybody thinks it’s HongHong made a child. I wasn’t sure on this til she showed up and reminded the girl where they could meet and to help them in new mission.I think she might have put herself in a love dream and that YueChu died but where death is not always as it seems I’m not completely sure. They showed happy couples and a better world where there was more understanding between spirits and humans. I also watched bonus feature that shows all the couples in a future setting. It kept the same vibe between them as in drama so I appreciated that sentiment. I am still not happy with what they did with FuCheng. That was the knot in Yue Chu’s heart that got things going…but they could have given her a much more honorable death and did not have to have that atrocity on her conscience . I still am annoyed at that.😝 Overall this was much better than rated. It was judged harshly because it is the middle of the story so of course it didn’t seem to make much sense. If you watched Love in Pavilion first it ended with questions about QinLan. They also cut her finale scenes for reasons unknown😝 and this drama started with what happened to her after she disappeared. Then YueChu’s story would have made a lot more sense in proper context. The storytelling was kinda awful at the end but they ended YueChu and HongHong’s story rather well in spite of a lot of bad. The only one that was really shortchanged was Fu Cheng. That entire debacle was avoidable. Overall this is a good watch in spite of the bad as long as you watch it SECOND in the series as it was meant to be. My one last question is when do we get to hear RongRong’s story? Even in modern bonus episode she was a sidekick…..she deserves a story too.

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I hate these "deus ex machina" plot solutions

I finally watched the last episode. But how illogical the ending is. Three couples ended up together, but without logic, without explanation. How did that happen? It's not explained. The main couple (without logic). And two other couples. A second couple (the girl had died, how is she there?). The third couple is even less incoherent, but... He was like in a life sentence. How did he get free, to be with her? No explanation. I hate these "deus ex machina" plot solutions, where the solution happens (without explanation, left in the air, appears out of nowhere). Anyway, that's why it took me so long to decide to watch the last episode.
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And I have no interest whatsoever in watching the extra they created (in modern times). So far it's enough for me.

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