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Gotta give it to Carmen Lee/queen Baili.

She's fantastic.

👏👏👌

Not watching d*mnit!

"I promise you can be reunited with your mother."

Yeeeeeaah. That wasn't ominous in this slightest. Not at all. lol

Honestly I don't even know whether the relationship melodrama of the crew actually impacted the quality.

It seems to me like all this talk of the relationship drama of the crew affecting the series quality is more a meme than anything. 'Meme' in the original sense of the word. People are saying it is so because other people have said it is so.

I could be wrong.

Maybe there is actual evidence to point to the relationship tomfoolery having a material impact on the end product.

Or maybe the end result is simply the result of the available talent used to make the production, and that whole crew melodrama is merely something for rubberneckers to wag their fingers at.

His gang used to commit crimes. Maybe he wanted to know who to look out for and beware of?

Like those non-sect non-fountain abode bystanders that were shouting for BFX to be imprisoned or killed for the shifus death ... and who it seemed like kept looking to Yu Wuyuan. Who were they? Why were they there? Why was there a ceremony of sorts? Was it just for shifu's retirement or passing of leadership to Langhua or something else?

No explanation. They're just there all of a sudden.

And this poison that causes hands to shrivel ... I don't remember Lanxi mentioned this about his mother's death earlier. Did I miss it or was it not mentioned prior to this point?

And, have they actually unofficially married/become a couple? Because it seems like they were just going to go off, disappear into the wilderness and live their lives but all of a sudden, they have to go back to town to visit Lanxi's dear old dad.

Check the discussions forum in the box above the comments section.

Precisely.

The saying "can't see the forest for the trees" comes to mind.

So that, for at one more time, we can watch together and sigh - a link to a clip of that rooftop scene ^^:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_al0ZvZE44

My main motivation for continuing to scroll through these comments is to find admiring comments of The Ponytail that I can <3. 😁

It's all good with the no kissing contract. The man is devoted to his spouse, I gotta respect that.

That they filmed it in a way that they seemingly did kiss, perhaps using camera perspective, perhaps using doubles, whatever. Even though its just 'movie magic' I still count it - simply because as a romantic scene that entire drunk rooftop kiss + 'Wish' as musical accompaniment was just ... perfect.

Her drunken uninhibitness, her subsequent moment of self doubt on her actions, his then taking the lead, the lyrics/music moments that was partnered to it.

Perfect. Sublime.

Seriously, I have it bookmarked in my mind as one of my top scenes ever.

I don't get why some people get their knickers in a twist about whether actors really actually kissed. Do they expect actors to actually have arrows in their chest, or to actually be eating? I've never seen anyone get upset over the fact there was no food on the chopsticks that went into the actors' mouths.

That being said. If I'm paying money to go see a concert and the artist is billed as a singer, then they'd better be singing live. Mouthing to a backing tape my arse.

I admit it, I have fantasies of capturing Yu Wuyuan and forcibly teaching him how to behave. They're very very enjoyable fantasies. Very. 😘😊

Don't tell anyone else. Keep this between us. 🤫

Admit it, it's for the occasional glimpses of The Ponytail that you cling on and continue watching.

It lacks:
-overacting
-excessive melodrama
- ... I was about to add character moments that are deliberately inanely stupid so as to wedge in a plot/drama moment ... but admittedly there has been the occasional incident of that happening. That said, only moments here and there, it isn't like the entire story is riddled with inanely stupid character moments.
-more saturated colours.

You don't count the drunk rooftop kiss?

Well, I loved it too, but admittedly it dragged quite a bit in parts, and the 2nd couple's story added to that dragged out feeling.

That aside, I've become addicted to 'Wish', and that rooftop drunk kiss scene accompanied by Wish is among my all-time top scenes.

Thanks for checking into it for us. ^^

Given the plot based around the dam building border tensions, I think that is a fair assumption.

I tried a web search on 'who rules the world' + 'map', but didn't get any relevant results.

Maybe there is a map in the original novel, if anyone who passes by this comment has happened to read it?

Hasn't happened yet. Looking forward to it!

Washed out colours aside, I at least have to give them some recognition for the effort put into detailing on the costumes. At least there is that.