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He blocked all the info and offered a fabrication she was attacked by bandits and him coming to rescue her.

yes, and Gou'er's, too.
And all that profetic fish dream with "your mission on earth" felt forced into a story of completely different kind.
But overall, it was really a good drama

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So many faces from LDiC, but for some reason I like LR more. Maybe it's what you've said, the LD in Changan was a bit "stressful", lol.

it's intriguing, unusual, immersive in Tang atmosphere with many funny scenes, The dialogues are great, I'd certainly recommend it.

The conversation scene in ep 25 with his former colleagues, how it conveyed the hypocrisy, pass-the-buck and manipulation is simply a masterpiece of writing.

I agree with you

Indeed

What, she was banned for those scenes? I've thought she wasn't active as before because she married in another country... Voltaire was right, stupidity is a cosmic power.

As far as I remember, Zhang Ziyi was also discovered by Zhang Yimou (in Hero), like Gong Li before and Ni Ni after. But now that you've mentioned Tang Wei... for me, she has smth more compared to them. Lust, Caution by Ang Lee with Tony Leung is one of those rare movies I've seen twice in the theater and watched it several times on (Italian) TV after that. Later, I went specifically to the Venice Film Festival to see her Golden Era which premiered there closing the festival.
Ming Dynasty was a bit to long (read: dragged) to be a great drama and the plot involving the competition between two sisters for a man was outdated, if I were her, I wouldn't accept to play even that single drama role, she is too great for dramas...

Tnx. The problem with ZRY's Escape from the 21st century may be in the story, I find it completely uninteresting just reading the synopsis. Condor Heroes are different, I'll check it independently who plays in the well known story, just out of curiosity. ZRY is just a better actor than Xiao Zhan, but the latter is not only handsome but also persistent and hardworking, so I think he may find his path on the big screen too.

Who's ZRY?
Btw., I've seen Lost in the Stars had a good overall reception (I was tempted to watch but then seen your low rating and gave up)
I've seen LOCH, it isn't great, but was watchable...
Agree with you two, Breaking Bad is a masterpiece

now I've quickly rewatched it, what a great movie, what a pack of actors (many of them are here and in TLDiC)...

Thank you for the info. I've looked into his works, I've seen only Full River Red (and I've seen it tnx to you, again! 😂😘) but I can't remember the support character he played there.

Techically, even Chang'an was accessible from the sea through waterways during the Tang dynasty: the Yellow River and the Wei River were navigable, one additional canal (Cao) was built to connect it directly with Yellow river, used when water in Wei was shallow.
But it would have also taken its time, bc. the upstream navigation is slower

Me too. Lei Jiayin's acting is given for granted, he is always perfect in all his roles, so the real surprise here is YYP, he is totally Ping'an, totally natural, as you've said.
The allegoric cock fight reminds me of smth. similar, some other colourful, hyperbolic & and exaggerately tense scene, but can't recall where or what exactly I've seen. People who thought this drama definitely know their job.

"We can't collapse just because we are about to die" 😁Li Shande's deep wisdom, trying to comfort ZPA but he is truly like that. Wait, "comfort" is too big of a word... my stomach hurts from how much I've laughed on "bad luck transfer". The episodes are so well organised and edited, so steadily hilarious 😂😂😂... What a treat is this drama!

right, very Tarantino humour with gloomy background

such a great Leitmotif for a story! 👌

PBG used "marie antoinette" as an internationally better known epitome of a kind. We know the story "let them eat cakes" in reality was invented by the detractors of the monarchy but her name is still used to indicate a superfluous, wasteful, egocentric and spoilt woman - characteristics Yang Guifei possessed...