All these people trying to murder 1/2 the world to get to heaven/ become a deity when apparently all u had to do was find an asshole to kill (of which there r a ton in this world) and abandon you body.
Yuan Zhong and plotting to destroy the world name a more iconic duo. It's funny how the last episode was basically setup for a sequel but the sequel already happened last year. Very timy whimy of them.
My god! It took me so so so so sooooooo long to get through today's episodes because of all the Bai bullying going on😭 I need him to get his powers back so he can F*** these guys up but I also don't think it's gonna happen ☹️ Does this production have a vendetta against Xiao Shun Yao or something? First they give him the orange clown nose and now he's being bullied in story. I mean I'm joking but seriously what's up with that clown nose
For anyone who's watched A Moment but Forever, did the war demons in that have all these can't sleep, can't see color, can only taste rot, etc, etc that LQQ has? I don't remember that being a thing at all.
I was just about to get bored when they dropped in some tasty angst, the writers must know me well. Also is this the first time that an ML has immediately seen through a mask that frankly hides nothing? Usually everyone goes blind the minute someone slaps on a domino mask.
I love me a wuxia, and this is a very wuxia wuxia, so I did enjoy this, but... I thought the fights were very meh. I dunno, maybe I've just watched too much Cheng Yi stuff and need to recalibrate my expectations. The chemistry between the characters was also kinda tepid, not helped by the fact that Wuxin and Tang Lian were not in it that much. I cannot believe Liu Xue Yi shaved his head for what was essentially 10 minutes of screen time.
This makes it sound like I'm really down on TBOY, which I'm not. It was a good story, I liked it, but I guess it didn't grab me the way it could have.
I accidentally went to the vertical drama page first and got incredibly worried that the drama was going to lemming itself off a cliff in the second half when I saw the low rating. Thank god that didn't happen.
Based on all the BTS I've seen, I'm starting to wonder if the 2 capitals aren't actually really close together and it's taking 15 days to get there because he spent 14 of those days in various forms of captivity
Like Xie Huai'an I am so worn out, but unlike him, I have neither carried out a vendetta nor committed even one murder. I did, however, finally manage to finish the Vendetta of An, and it was incredible. I have no words. The acting, the cinematography, but especially the storytelling. The plot and pacing were so good, neither fast nor slow, and absolutely relentless. This is not the kind of show where you can go off to get a snack and come back, having missed nothing. And the fact that it had a sprawling cast, with some characters showing up for just a couple of episodes, and yet, somehow, this drama got me to care about each and every one of them. None of them were cardboard cutouts, they all had characterization, and you understood their motives. And Cheng Yi was absolutely fantastic in this. Unhinged and ruthless (while still suffering) is such a good look for him. I even enjoyed his idol styling that set him apart from most of the other cast because it made him look otherworldly, like a vengeful ghost wandering the streets of Chang'an (which he absolutely was). I also loved how this was a story where there were no clear cut good guys or bad guys, everyone had justifiable reasons. It was just a zero sum game that someone had to lose. I could gush about this drama for hours, but I've got life stuff to do. So, in conclusion, sorry Cheng Yi, but I'd like to thank the person who forced you to take on this role. Sometimes a villain is the hero we didn't know we needed.
Don't know that the special ep was necessary tho...
Fugui's actions in these last 4 eps made a lot of sense to me because Fugui is Fugui, and he has never deviated from that. (which is actually kinda amazing in its own right because literally everyone else was character assassinated at some point) But he's kind, self-destructively self-sacrificing, smart, pragmatic, not above subterfuge, and also incredibly ruthless.
Someone needs to give Cheng Yi a guest starring role as a villain, and before that monkey paw curls, I want to clarify I mean a good, complex villain, not one of those kuahaha you knocked me down one time when I was 10 and I've been holding a grudge for 30 years types.
I honestly don't know how I should feel right now. Should I be happy and relieved that the last 4 eps were good, or infuriated that we could have gotten something of this quality for the whole 36 eps but an intern accidentally dropped the scripts for eps 19-32 into a shredder and then wrote the trash we actually got in a panic because all the writers had gone on a months long no contact retreat after submitting the script.
Just imagining how much more impact the emotional scenes would have had if they had spent the previous 14 or so eps developing the lead's relationship instead of actively avoiding it makes me sad.
Oh well, at least these last eps were tightly written, well done, and everything (and everyone) made sense.
Do you guys think CY and LYT knew about the bomb that was about to go off in everyone's faces when they were doing the promos? Maybe LYT wasn't crying because of the 10 000 swords, she just knew a trainwreck was about to happen.
Welp, express today so we'll see how it goes, but I don't think it's salvageable. It would take a miracle.
It's funny how the last episode was basically setup for a sequel but the sequel already happened last year. Very timy whimy of them.
Does this production have a vendetta against Xiao Shun Yao or something? First they give him the orange clown nose and now he's being bullied in story.
I mean I'm joking but seriously what's up with that clown nose
This makes it sound like I'm really down on TBOY, which I'm not. It was a good story, I liked it, but I guess it didn't grab me the way it could have.
The acting, the cinematography, but especially the storytelling. The plot and pacing were so good, neither fast nor slow, and absolutely relentless. This is not the kind of show where you can go off to get a snack and come back, having missed nothing.
And the fact that it had a sprawling cast, with some characters showing up for just a couple of episodes, and yet, somehow, this drama got me to care about each and every one of them. None of them were cardboard cutouts, they all had characterization, and you understood their motives.
And Cheng Yi was absolutely fantastic in this. Unhinged and ruthless (while still suffering) is such a good look for him. I even enjoyed his idol styling that set him apart from most of the other cast because it made him look otherworldly, like a vengeful ghost wandering the streets of Chang'an (which he absolutely was).
I also loved how this was a story where there were no clear cut good guys or bad guys, everyone had justifiable reasons. It was just a zero sum game that someone had to lose.
I could gush about this drama for hours, but I've got life stuff to do. So, in conclusion, sorry Cheng Yi, but I'd like to thank the person who forced you to take on this role. Sometimes a villain is the hero we didn't know we needed.
Don't know that the special ep was necessary tho...
Just imagining how much more impact the emotional scenes would have had if they had spent the previous 14 or so eps developing the lead's relationship instead of actively avoiding it makes me sad.
Oh well, at least these last eps were tightly written, well done, and everything (and everyone) made sense.
Welp, express today so we'll see how it goes, but I don't think it's salvageable. It would take a miracle.