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The Last Oath hong kong drama review
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The Last Oath
8 people found this review helpful
by Eliot_Rulez
19 hours ago
24 of 24 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 8.5
Music 1.0
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

We should never ever normalize the use of AI where it does not make sense!

This is another CBL which makes use of lot's of AI - meaning, it takes jobs away from humans. It's not that humans are necessarily more expensive than AI. In conventional datacenters it consumes astronomical amounts of energy and water (and we have enough droughts as it is). The whole soundtrack except the title-track is made by AI. Why? It's not that a whole orchestra can't be created by software anyways. Of course they used AI also for arial shots and you can see it.

The story has some massive problems: We have the killer and the naive young man, nothing new in the world of BL. But when they finally got together Lin Zai brakes up because he is an coward. He used a lot of hurtful words to A Leh and when he is saved A Leh says "Baby, I'm here for you"... WTF? Where is the argument? That makes no sense at all.

The second problem is the predictablitiy of the story. It begins with the cannibals. We all know at first glance that family is not a friendly one. And this continues. They use stereotypical cliché characters and the story evolves in stereotypical patterns. Of course nobody would trust that crooked doctor when he did turn on the first time.

And then we have the Zombies... In literature, movies, video games, they are slow as hell, but not here. In movies, video games there are some special types like the runners - who are fast, but here all Zombies are fast which is not what I would expect and which I felt silly.

I can't fault the acting or the chemisty, but I lost interest in the series quite soon, because when you know what will happen next, it's not interesting anymore. They could have left out the cannibal family and could have just made it a fight against the evil corporation, but maybe that would have been too close to Resident Evil. So from me it's a big "no no" for such a series.
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