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Indeed, he is great no matter what he plays. I really like that he is not narcistic, doesn't want to be the handsome(est) guy ever in the roles but rather to be perfect to the role. Back then when he played in the Secret of Three Kingdoms, Cao Pi, it was a role not for a heart-robber but a difficult one imho and he delivered awsomly. The other huge benefit of him is his background as dancer, his movements are just so elegant and full with meaning, really stood out when playing Xiang Liu. even his body talks. Rare talent.

I did't really like Filter, I watched many of his dramas, he is a great actor who makes himself to be noticed and remembered but somehow Filter was not my cup of tea despite liking the FL, too in other dramas. That type of humour doesn't work for me, it messed the whole story, constantly changing love interests including an animal, was so lame that it killed the romance completely. And that sooo dumb song meant to be "cute", painful. Without him in the drama I would have dropped at that part.
Can't wait for the new serious drama, I almost finished the novel despite of the double translation caused mess, looks to be a good story.

LYF was epic. It was a show you'll never forget. I don't know about others but I often end up not remembering for the content of this or that drama, I know I saw them, I fainlty remember that I liked them (or not) but absoultely forget the content till I start to rewatch (if). LYF is different, it is a drama I tend to watch again and again (certain parts) and while every actor was very good, Xiang Liu stands out and a couple of other epic parts - little spoiler - when Xiao Liu mistakes the wife of the king with her (dead) mother, her interactions with her sister (I love that actress who played her sister, hope to see her again), her brother and his motives were very understandable and also tragic, her grandfather was extra cool, her father also. To be honest the only carachter I didn't like was her forever-love, not the fault of the actor but the fault of his written personality. Compared to nowadays idol-dramas, that was a clever, well built one with depth.

Go East, it was hilarious, very entertaining if you like sarcasm and society-parody. Everyone is flawed and grey but likeable, very human-ish. I share the opinion about the FL being annoying, but still it was a good show, rewatched it 2-3 times.

I am on half way of reading the drama, due to double translation a pain the arse, but still, this script is just so HOT. Xian Liu personatily is so similar to this guy's. IT WILL BE EPIC. It the guys or dumb AI won't screw it, it will be epic. Can't wait. Especially that I also love to the FL to bits, such a - I am so weak, delicate etc beauty while she is not. I absosutely love her since her perfomance in the My Journey To You,
I also in love with ML since Lost You Forever. I hope that poor AI-like dumb scripting won't kill this. Can't wait.

I've finished it. It was not bad. A sort of different and entertaining. ML is not charimsatic enough, but still the drama was good and I shall remember it - nowadays it happens so often that after a couple of month I competely forget dramas. At least this had an imprint to think and rememer that what is reality when we all accept our world based on translating frequencies via our senses. What is real, really, what is real?

Does it matter? I am a western person, what I learnt here that dramas with good looking guys are absolutely overrrated, one can't belive the rating. While this drama had it faults, some parts were unbeliavable, still - maybe due to the actors and chemistry, for me it was really entertanining and enjoyable.

I've just started it and absolutely love it. It has a depth and the visuals are beautiful. I like the remarks on the meaning of life. Fans have a look at Monroe's Loosh legend (not the exact title, it's Far Journeys). While they are two absolutely different genre, the concept behind them looks the same (after 3 episodes). Emotional energy as "food" to who knows what beings. For me only that "meaning of life", earth/life as a loosh farm makes sense as can't explain otherwise the level of suffering that every living thing has to experience, you eat or you'll be eaten, if you want to live you have no choice, even plants have feelings (RoseLab, the soprano singing Vera the aloe vera plant).
Now I have high expectations while carry on watching it (soon).
Also both leads are very good, I agree that so far this looks to be the best drama of Dilraba, I also like the ML, he has an attactive, strong charisma.

It is not the point, the intelligence, deepth of the characters, decisions was my point. This one was as if an AI would have written it but intelligent people. None of the characters were belieavable to me, expect the bird. In SL the FL was trained from childhood to be a military leader meaning she understood not only how to fight but how to make strategy. In this one a butcher just somehow becames a general "overnight" simply based on her strenght and bravery - as if it would be enough to lead an army. But let's assume she is hyperintelligent, a military prodegy, shame that this 200+IQ didn't show itself in other areas.
To be honest, I have the feeling that nowadays an AI writes the scripts but real people. Feed: what people like, what are the popular fragments, how it should look, then just print it and excecute.

It was not bad but with 9.2 it is highly overrated. ZHL is talented based on the Story of Kunning Palace, so far it was his best role and most memorable role of him but to compared to this, I loved him better even in the Princess Royal. I can't really tell what was wrong with this one, somehow unsatisfing, despite that the FL was also good. Probably the story telling, somehow lacked tension, felt underwritten. As about how I imagine a female general, Shadow Love's was more believable. All in one the whole production despite of the beautiful visuals felt childish, too childish to take it seriously hence it failed to really move me. The only thing why it standed out the idea of a female butcher, in the novel her life in that village, the precisity of her thought about her job and the development of her business-vein made it outstandingly original.
Story of Kunning Palace was an adult drama, made for more matured people, with all of their characters, acting, choices it was well written and excetuded. This felt a tale for children with underwritten characters. The puppet emperor was especially poorly written, I mean till some point every emperor is a puppet of the different fractions and interests trying to influence decisions. But as much as I can recall the novel - what I dropped before the very end - just got bored - it is probably not the fault of the screen writer(s) but the novel's itself.

You're right, meantime I managed to watch those episodes. Mechanical, really? Wow. I enjoyed more these parts, but as I wrote, the problem was myself and my mind being full with stuff preventing me to be glued to the story.

No, thankfully not, when I wrote the comment I saw 4.5 parts, since then I saw 6-7, drama gets better, hawkí' scenes are also much better so far. :) I am happy.

I read it with double translation, not precise enough I guess, the overall view in my mind was like I wrote. That would be the normal by the way. Apart from that the drama gets better, when I commented I saw the first 4 and a half part.

Another thing, they should have put more effort into the falcon' scenes, in the novel they were the best, the bird' interactions but they changed the plot and 'muted' the falcon's responses, interactions. It should have been similarly well made how Chubby was in LYF. In the novel the falcon was absolutely adorable, was caught by FL, was injured, was treated well by the little sister and many more, the bird had its own opinion, expressions, interacted and those were the best parts (to me). A bit disappointing.

I share Freshy's opinion below, not bad but somehow didn't glue me to the screen either. I am thinking that it is because I have a lot in my mind these days or because I made the mistake and read the novel almost fully back then. To be honest, I got bored with the novel just before the end and dropped. Also to me the best part of the novel was the beginning (exactly the parts we now can watch and a bit further) but after that I gradually lost interest, FL's story became unbeliavable.

The novel is dark, I mean no matter how much I am not a fan of Hollywood's depressing brown-grey-mud-rain-blood coloured movies, this novel had the impression of that kind of world (the village they are now) where everyone stuggles for survival, clothes are worn down and dirty, situations are dire - but that little clean, well-organized, cheerful coloured village / people we have now. It feels off. I can't feel how desperate their lives were, how much they struggled and fought for survival. Reading it it didn't felt funny at all but serious to the score. Even when the orphans were harassed I did't feel the tension. People didn't look hungry, poor, desperate, worn out via war and poverty around and I finish not go into spoilers. Anyway, we will see.

One thing I learnt, while I started to read Dancing with the Tide, I now stop, I don't want to know what will happen and to compare the novel to the drama, maybe after the drama I'll read.

I watched it because of the main leads, they were great, but to be honest this type of submerging and 2D characters and whatever is not my cup of tea at all. Without the MLs I would have dropped it early. This drama is the type you watch, you can't recall a week later how it ended, something like that.

I don't like masks, bad memories of total idiocracy but apart from that I fully agree.

Smilar here, I was a bit bored with that one, I think I missed to watch the last 2-3 eps because of that. Part of the story that I don' t really fancy that actress, she is good but she has something in her which is irritating for me, whenever I wach something with her I always end up with " why her but another actress". Mea culpa, not her fault, my personal taste.

Don't worry, as they are on different sides and the fluff is due only to the lost memories of previous life of the prince, that fluff will disappear. Around 28 or so.

Absolutely, it's a gem. To me it left a deep impact similar to Lost You Forever's or Ashes of Love, or The Wolf or Story of Kunning Palace - it was a drama I won't forget and will re-watch from time to time.