Yall know I wanted to be able to defend this drama since they announced the cast and director, but yall other…
I dropped this show at about episode 10, but kept an eye on this comment section hoping they will manage to pull it through. I really like LYR and he was the reason I watched PA in the first place.
I wasn't very fond of the director since he messed up the ending in The Double. WXY putting the jade pendant in his mouth before facing the enemy army by himself is shorthand for preparing to have his head cut off, and in the reunion sequence you see they are still young, but the tree they planted when they got married is old so the implication is they reunited in death. The fact that the director caved to public outrage and shot a special episode does not change the initial ending, especially since it is not available in the drama package and the common viewer is not aware of its existence.
I gave him another chance with Generation to Generation - the show was watchable until the last episodes and then it became infuriating due to multiple attempts to mislead the audience that the ML was dead... and the FL decided to bury the ashes of the villain next to her aunt's ashes... her aunt was the great heroine of the previous generation and had died to save everyone, while the villain killed all their remaining friends. Good thing she didn't have a corpse that could turn in her grave!
And then I saw that in Rebirth the storytelling I liked so much in PA was nowhere to be seen, that the characters have lost all the nuances they had and became 2d and a lot less intelligent, and that the drama relied on visuals to make things seem cool without any consideration to logic (the body pyramid, the armour underneath the wedding robes, YX waiting until he was in the palace before rebelling, where the security would have been a lot tighter etc). Instead of being able to immerse in the story, these small things kept annoying me and at one point they accumulated so much that I could not continue watching the drama.
So, to sum up, I will be avoiding this director and his projects like the plague!
Every character feels different in rebirth so might as well just watch rebirth as independent drama. PA is better…
They explain the basics of Princess Agents via flashbacks in Rebirth, but you do not get to understand the nuances regarding the characters, their motivations and their relationships to each other.
If I was A'chu I'd pick Yan Xun but I'm not and the heart wants what it wants. Wen Yue is a morally grey person.…
I think the reason A'Chu does not pick YX is because she finally sees his real character. He never let her in on his plans, because he knew she would disapprove and fight to change his mind. He wants her by his side, but not actively involved.
He reminds me of Liu Yan from The Prisoner of Beauty... he might view the FL as a treasure, but he treats everyone else like ants.
I can't! I literally dropped this in the middle of Ep.14 last year and decided to pick it back up again and man...…
The characters are so well-written in this drama. It's interesting to me how much you get attached to the 2nd male lead and, because of that, even whe he starts showing his true colours, you keep justifying it and making excuses for him until it's too late.
did you watch the double it's the only one i watched with this director and i loved it, i'm not gonna watch this…
I did and I loved it except for the last minutes of the final episode. He messed up the ending from the novel, implying the duke died by beheading while facing the enemy army by himself, and that the main couple reunited after death . Then he went and shot a special episode showing everything was OK mainly due to public outrage.
I watched Generation to Generation which came out earlier this year. At the end of the drama, the FL places the ashes of the villain next to her dead aunt's grave, who was a renowned heroine of the realm, because they used to be friends before she died. The villain had killed all their surviving friends and has been obsessed with the aunt for decades.
There are many other issues I have with his dramas, but these particular choices seem spiteful to me and lead me to believe the director is a misogynist who hates to see intelligent women be happy and in charge of their own destinies.
Keeping the same cast won’t save the story, and smart actors won’t join a flat storyline anyway. The changes…
If this is the level of storytelling the author is capable of, I understand their need to plagiarise. Princess Agents didn't need camera work to keep the viewers engaged, nor did it rely on the beauty of the cast to tell the story. Because there was a story to tell.
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I wasn't very fond of the director since he messed up the ending in The Double. WXY putting the jade pendant in his mouth before facing the enemy army by himself is shorthand for preparing to have his head cut off, and in the reunion sequence you see they are still young, but the tree they planted when they got married is old so the implication is they reunited in death. The fact that the director caved to public outrage and shot a special episode does not change the initial ending, especially since it is not available in the drama package and the common viewer is not aware of its existence.
I gave him another chance with Generation to Generation - the show was watchable until the last episodes and then it became infuriating due to multiple attempts to mislead the audience that the ML was dead... and the FL decided to bury the ashes of the villain next to her aunt's ashes... her aunt was the great heroine of the previous generation and had died to save everyone, while the villain killed all their remaining friends. Good thing she didn't have a corpse that could turn in her grave!
And then I saw that in Rebirth the storytelling I liked so much in PA was nowhere to be seen, that the characters have lost all the nuances they had and became 2d and a lot less intelligent, and that the drama relied on visuals to make things seem cool without any consideration to logic (the body pyramid, the armour underneath the wedding robes, YX waiting until he was in the palace before rebelling, where the security would have been a lot tighter etc). Instead of being able to immerse in the story, these small things kept annoying me and at one point they accumulated so much that I could not continue watching the drama.
So, to sum up, I will be avoiding this director and his projects like the plague!
He reminds me of Liu Yan from The Prisoner of Beauty... he might view the FL as a treasure, but he treats everyone else like ants.
Then he went and shot a special episode showing everything was OK mainly due to public outrage.
I watched Generation to Generation which came out earlier this year. At the end of the drama, the FL places the ashes of the villain next to her dead aunt's grave, who was a renowned heroine of the realm, because they used to be friends before she died. The villain had killed all their surviving friends and has been obsessed with the aunt for decades.
There are many other issues I have with his dramas, but these particular choices seem spiteful to me and lead me to believe the director is a misogynist who hates to see intelligent women be happy and in charge of their own destinies.