Kaihua

I feel like she's really dead T_T there have been some comments about faking her death because yes, it would be easier for her to marry a commoner this way, but the situation in Cangbei absolutely has no room for her station to die right now especially in foreign lands during peace talks. She cares about the peace and stability of Cangbei, so she would never purposefully lean into the trap

Guys I need spoilers about Ling Yun...

It's the way he looks at her without having to tell us with any dialogue.. AAH he's so expressive I always love watching him in dramas!!!!

the genre changes to supernatural HAhaha

LOLLL how awful, and also shocking considering it's someone as important as the second ML? Did the actor get cancelled or something? I know they did that to an actor in POJ to avoid a scandal, and it was so uncanny how much smoother his face was....

In regards to the shot, everything is wrong about it the more one looks - at first I just thought the tree shapes looked totally gross and completely unrendered rushed 3d, but it was even worse than that. A bunch of weird shapes, and there's a part where the trees among the mountains devolve into a stretch of tree bark pattern coming out past the treetops. The buildings in the middle were completely nonensical too, because they bent and folded into each other in all the wrong places like it couldn't decide what structure it should be. The trees are the worst part though. They just aren't even trees, there aren't even leaves it's just weird green masses. I don't know if it's different depending on where it's being streamed, but I was watching it on Viki. Most confsuing thing I've seen in my life. I even screenshot it but I'm not sure how to share it

For all the bad cg that cdramas can have, I have never seen any shot as horrible and immersion breaking as the ai generated establishing shot in episode 22 at 38:20
at first I thought it was the worst 3d render I'd ever seen but you're telling me you used up all that water and electricity to make a shot that looks like THAT????

loving the show otherwise but it's so indescribably bad that they could've used cg from 1999 and it would have looked more natural oh my g o d

UPDATE: Now I'm even more confused - In episode 34 it's properly rendered?? They used it one other time before this with different weather and it looked just as bad, but now in episode 34 everything is properly rendered with trees. Did they seriously just not finish the composite in time for earlier episodes? Did they accidentally leave object smoothing on?????????????????????? WHAT HAPPENED

UPDATE 2: It's still episode 34 and they went back to using the old ugly unrendered shot. When I'm on my deathbed I will still be asking what happened

People keep mistaking important (and obvious) setup, or exploration of themes/other more indirect dynamics of the story as filler. Same thing happened with POJ until the payoff. I keep getting reminded that literacy rates are at an all time low...

If only we had more than 24 episodes, we could have more than a choreographed intimate sword dance I mean military training 😂

the one that got to me was the most recent episode. The moment of her confronting XYL with the bow was awesome and then....it was still happening... and cutting back and forth to both of them
I think to build tension, but it had the opposite effect where it took away all the tension for me and I as wondering "how long is this back and forth omg" and fast forwarded 10 seconds lol

I think the best part about it is that it's only somewhat a misunderstnding. Whether or not it was intentional, he did it and it is his fault. It doesnn't matter if he didn't mean to. Chu Zhao's reaction, and most people in her position at that moment, would still react the same way. It's such a delicious tragedy, all the more so because even with time traveling there was literally nothing that could have been done.

On a side note, I love that this is the catastrophic consequences of XYL trusting his brother, and this is the moment he realizes (i hope) his brother was not only using him as a borrowed knife but also never meant well for him either. Whether his brother meant for XYL to use it on himself or someone else, by the time he gives it to XYL he's already considered these possibilities and accepted them, so he clearly doesn't gaf about XYL.

yeah, how dare her dad be dying and the lives of everyone she loves is on the line, how dare she be traumatized and stressed

Oh my god I knew I recognized that big contraption in the middle, I thought I was going insane I couldn't remember where

This drama is very entertaining but you can tell they have to move through the plot at breakneck speed in order to condense everything into 24 eps. I don't know why it's so short, but as a consequence a lot of emotional benchmarks have to be in a montage sequence or glossed over to keep them brief. You get the idea from watching it, but it still sucks not to see the full execution of it for the most emotional investment and impact

Such is the life of a busy general....and a busy filming schedule where all the scenes had to be done in one shoot /j

That incident happened long before the point she time traveled back to, basically

It seems to be happening with every drama these days, so maybe it's just how the licensing or airing schedules operate

"it could be" and "appears to be" are not the same as "it is", "they are", so it's speculation

they said it as a maybe, not as a certainty
it's flippant at best and just doesn't matter at the end of the day. it's fine, i just feel like the reply was overreacting even though i disagree with the original comment

oops sorry I thought you were using just one as an example but meant both. either way the same thing goes. The quote you used feels even more like nothing remarkable. I have nothing against you or Shreya fwiw, I just disagree

You think "it could be fans", something that they aren't even saying is definitive fact, is toxic??? They left room for it to be false. Your reply to them was fine anyway but thinking it's toxic is incredible