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I beg to differ, Meyer is crap, you are right, but the Inteview with the Vampire movie was spot on, one of the best, it is from an Anne Rice novel with Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, beautiful cinematography, beautiful background music, ancient (ish) vampires, love story? not really, sort of. Was my big favorite for many years. It is rumoured that Rice lost her daughter to leukemia and she wrote the novel because of her pain and unable to accept death. 2 hours from your life, give it a try if you think.

Oh, VZ was unforgettable in the King's Woman. Sorry, I don't know the other guy. The character they play is almost everything to me, no matter how I like an actor or actress, if the drama is not good, I can't carry on only because of them. JTC (the demon guy) was excellent in that role, he is a good actor but the next drama, Go East, was just so boring with an annoying FL that I dropped it.

Watched 8-9 eps, somehow boring, I can't really tell why but it just didn't hook me. Also poor FL is not my type, I know that appereance is not everything but somehow her poor appereance and the character she plays together is a bit too repulsive to me. Sorry. I think I give up or pick it up at a later time. Without TJC even that 8 episodes would have been unbereable.

You're right. But cruel or not, he was absolutely magnetic. At the beginning he had no feelings and just let her (him) know about her limits (the 2x20 slashes), later he didn't eat her for her "treasure body" he used only the blood for healing (bad engouh, but he was a monster after all and somehow the vampirism has become trendy - giving popularity to writers and film makers). The rest, she was a god, she was not so easy to kill, he pushed her down from the back of Chubby or from the tree but that's still not "bugs eat her hands/toruture her till the level of almost dying" or "break her legs" or when her brother became narcotic dependent and hurt her.

The fox was not any better, he didn't use physical tortutre but the emotional he gave to her was absolutely over the top. Since the beginning he let her down again and again for "noble" (selfish) reasons. The granny was a monster in heart, the financee is also, brother also - there is a limit to feed the beast even if they are related to him especially if the cost is an almost eternal torture of the so called loved one. He was so weak, he didn't try to save her out from the fire (why? makes no sense), he just went into a coma - his actions were pathetic to me.

That's why I ended with the conclusion that XL was the least cruel among the 3 men around her and the most powerful to keep her safe and happy.
Sorry, this drama, the character was so addictive, how silly to still living in it? :) I hope soon there will be another good drama, I loved Ashes of Love and Story of the Kunning Palace, The Wolf, City of Streamer,those were similarly addictive one, so I hope there will be another rater soon.

Yep.

Good, not open.

The other thing is that how stupid or blind one person could be? 37 years of taking care of, a life sacrified and suffering just to save her, even if he asked something in exchange (and why not?) it was clear he loved her but she didn't notice? Or with accepting the bug. Or appearing in her life again as FFB? Or teaching her self-defense.
In my opinion there is no such thing as only friendship between man and woman because one of the parties always wants more but accepts friendship only because the other doesn't want more. XL actions were far more much you could expect from only a "friend". Again: a ruined happy ending only to reach a sad ending.
Every time she was with the cowardice fox (whose decisions made her suffer for hundreds of years, humiliated her, let her down) I felt she was cheating on XL. To be honest she didn't deserve XL's love but as he loved only her that was it ... but while she loved everyone if there was a promise to stay with her forever (why not keeping a cat instead?)! Yeah, I am finished, just was so disappointed.

What if scenario goes back to the writer. Their war at that point was pointless. At around the end soldiers was offered to leave and have a last drink before going, they stayed because "even the military advisor XL stayed". What's the point of staying when it is surely end with death of all of them? They were already heros anyway but without real support (of the people) so excalty why they carried on fighting? At that point XL character should have made the whole lot to surrender as the way they could do it was not humiliating. They were brave fighters - for how long, 100 years? - they were not all gods but normal people, how they have the offspring to go to fight at all? In a military camp without women and family around? Where do they find new soldiers to replace the old or dead? You feel it to be a complex problem but I feel it just so made up! This part - the loyality part - was strongly made up by the writer for accessing a sad end only. Yeah, because of the writer there is no good solution but in reality XL should have persuade his adopted father to give up to save lives including the father's there are better hobbies than wars, and he could have used the condition, his strenghts and connections to reach an end where the soldiers could retire honorably with home to live in there instead of place for their ashes. More hurting that both ex-kings gave free way to XL to be with XY after the ruined marriage. The old one asked where was XL/FFB to stand in front of them wanting XY, the other declared that XL/FFB was far more interesting than the guy she was engadged with. Sometimes I really hate the writer. with the feeling that XY character and cowardice/chocies based on her own life' disappointments - sorry. :) The only point she made well was that kids don't want heros, they want their parents to be with them.

Btw, why the red robes on both of them, XL and her, before the actual marriage with someone else?
It was like an imaginary marriage agreed by both. Also when they both welcomed the bugs, that felt a very strong connection between them, like another marriage or so and the part he took her under water to admire that world around felt like a honey moon journey.
I never really understood the meaning of the ball with the mermaids, it was like a message to me: I love you / I want you. Especially after that in what situation the mermaids were when she discovered them and spyed on them. You really send such a private message (memory) with a strong sexual point to someone you don't love and don't want to be with? Really?
Sometimes I really "hate" the writer, it is her right of course to kill this or that character but it hurt so much. She could write another novel bring him back to life, reincarnation or whatever. XL is one of the best c-drama, c-novel character ever existed. I thought after Xie Wei' c. that there wouldn't be anyone similary good and interesting or even more - I was wrong. Also, I somehow expected XL to send Chubby to live with her at the end to comfort each other. The two still living beings who liked him the most.

I stopped there. I fast fowarded to know the end then I couldn't watch the episodes between 7 and the end, I was utterly disappointed. I've just finished properly, watching those episodes.

Felt similarly. Maybe just my taste but I would have chosen XL to anyone else "available". He felt to be the true, matching love, the fox was just a convenient choice of a "puppy" escorting her forever, and the brother while he was hot, felt very cruel. I thought that when XL cured her but sent her home without saying bye she was not in a hurry despite knowing that the fox was about to die. If I am so much in love with someone and got the news he is dying I would rush no matter what instead of wasting time with crying on the empty bed of XL. The mirror - you wrote - is a good point, yes, indeed, why only XL was in the mirror?
Also interesting what would have happened if there is not the sentence "I don't want you in my day-dreaming". That hurt XL a lot as was repeated several times in his memory. If XL never thought of giving up fighting and disappear with her, why did it matter that who would she liked to spend with her life the most? XL said, she didn't love him but someone else. Probably because of it he didn't even consider seriously to give up on the war. He was a demon after all, despised, a "lower being", hard to cope with, he had to choose someome to make his life stand out either a real love or being a real loyal hero.

Anyway, still so much obsessed with this drama, sorry for the long comment, just wanted to chat.

He is good, not only good looking but can act. I saw this drama and previously the Lost You Forever with him, while I rooted for the demon-guy, his acting was perfect and the role was a difficult one in my opinion.

I don't want to defend him, I've never seen him but only this drama, was it the carachter or the actor. The fox-guy was an absolute coward, he did nothing but betrayed her, the top of the cake was when he hired XL to ruin the wedding instead of doing it himself. He was called clever but how clever you are when you let survive the guy who tortured you for years simply because it is your brother, so what? But even if he didn't want to kill him, he - with so much brain - could create a situation to completely ruin him and chase him away. His power came from money and money only. Nothing to respect, nothing to be attracted to. Maybe this is why I didn't see a happy end but a very sad end. The irony is that while it looked the demon was the most cruel one, in fact, both of the other guys tortured her more and more deeply.

In my opinion it's a bit more complex, people with harsh background - like the girl had - abandoned by everyone doesn't feel love on the same way other people do. They love the one who is theirs, before that they keep their emotions on hold, surpassed, and treat every attractive (ina way or another) male as a good friend, buddy without raising hope. They 'release' the emotions, love when they feel secured in the relationship, the 'mine' ace card, 'he will stay with me forever'. If anyone of you knows the book Eneagram, the girl is a 4 type, called Individualist.
Also, it is maybe just me? but I felt her true love was Xiang Liu but due to misunderstandings and the way he also didn't give away his feelings openly, they lost each other. She cried in that shell befole leaving because of the news that Xiang Liu didn't want to see her but only ' being delivered to home'. She was not in a hurry despite knowing about the fox-guy dire condition. With the fox guy the relationship could be warm and even loving but on a relaxed lukewarm level. The hot deal, the big love was Xiang Liu wheter she was aware of it or not, a shame that without fulfilling it.

So devastating, I sawJo Jin Mo in several dramas, good looking, good adctor, then due to the rigged system he played a role in Forzen flower - a homo, absolutlely disgusting king with kissing scenes with another male I wish I colud forget but I cant. Since then he is - whie being a very good actror - I feel like vomiting, I can't watch anything with him as he is so REPULSIVE. I wasted my time as he ruined everything but probably was nicely paid - how deep you can go for money and fame?Utterly disgusting but I bet he earned a lot.

Nice try and a big fat NO. I don't want my boy grow up seeing girls as machosits slaves, degeradig them , it is SICK. I don't need Hollywood for brainwashing and it looks I don't need the most restrictive, despicable country absolutely cowards slaves to make a soft war on the west. You really think we are all morons? Till a point the far-east cuulture, movies was ineresting - but the point is change Hollywood the same of Chinese or Korean wersion. I don't want to disrespectful but you are a slave by desingg and we are not. I sooner gave up my life than obeying , being V-d or couldn't live without a mobile phone. I am grateful to you, and THANK YOU for the entertainment, but you ara slaves by indocritnation and no where closet o us. Good luck agent LG BT what ever the rainbow has for sexual demoliting, you cowards on the east, never ever can ruin us. Sorry for the honest opinion what about to wake up for the propanda or are you well paid?

So sorry, I found it so boring I gave up somewhere around the first couple of episodes. Because of it I didn't even start to watch The Last Immortal. But I'll watch this, because of the director it is a must for me.

Same here, I love the director and have high hope for this one, too.

I finished it and really liked it. Around the middle I got used to the expression less guy (ML), and the drama altogheter was really good, the actors and actresses even just the supporting ones were also very good and believable. The story was intelligent enough, I really love the director, he is top to put together series well. He is my favorite Chinese director for sure.

There were many sex scenes in the movie: Empire of Lust, but they were justified, the story itself justified them and I had no problem with that even if it was at the verge of porn. This is now different, here it was used without justificiation and was so upsettingly humiliating (the slaves at the beginning).