a lot of people complain that the season 2 is v disappointing but honestly in my opinion, s2 is also very impactful.
I belive that the direction of both the season is very different. One is navigating through as a person and his motivation and when he realizes that he has to solidify his position, he starts to act on it the other season.
Season one was a introduction , an introduction where he's thrown into capital city life that comes out of nowhere, he is confused as to why someone would want to kill him and later getting acquainted with many important characters like emperor, princes, CPP etc that obviously have some unusual personality. The direction of s1 revolves around the underlying secrets, the mysteries with his identity, his mother and the world. He slowly unfolds the secret and the he is sent to beiqi as envoy and learns about his real identity and realized that people around him might be hiding things and manipulating him. He realizes that he needs power, authority and he has to build the network himself, in short finding out the cause, the motivation that he wants to pursue the whole season. In s2 we see that he quite literally blurts out and accuses the 2nd prince and princess Royale for treason when then the emperor quite literally throws his token into the water, dismissing his accusations. I think that was the moment he actually realise on more deeper level that he actually needed to be on the same foothold as other influential people to overthrow the 2nd prince and princess royale. So in my opinion the S2 is journey of FX solidifying his foothold into capital city as an powerful official. there is a lack of action scenes as I believe the storyline focuses more on the officialdom of FX and taking over neiku. Only throughout the end, we can see the direction for the S3 storyline will be much more focused on uncovering secrets about divine temple, true intentions of the CPP and emperor, wuzhu and other things. (Just my thoughts because i saw people absolutely trashing on s2) (Also someone who has read the novel, can you tell me how true the adaptation is to original novel especially in S2? )
Istg this better not end like those crappy dream /script writing/coma or one one of them just writing a story ending (yk all those ending, which just basically flips everything in the end lol)
Chinese writers have wrote so many beautiful bl novels like TGCF and more. I really hope directors get hefty budget…
IKR it's now high time we get some historical bls like I've been dying for a while. I hope more and more danmei can get the chance to have live action, obviously and precisely out of china.
So I've been thinking alot about this one. The first season has a special place in my heart and i was so excited about the s2 but but ive been seeing a lot of disappointed comments and reviews on how they flattened the comedic essence and now im kinda scared that if it's really true im also going to be disappointed by s2 and i dont want to ruin that special feeling that s1 had created for me. Im really confused if i should just watch it or not. Someone help 😭 is s2 worth watching or not
The only complaint i have for this bl is that it should've been longer!!!! never thought I'd say this but this felt too short 😭😭 the duration should've been 1 hour each epi, to build the depth and electrifying chemistry 😭
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I belive that the direction of both the season is very different. One is navigating through as a person and his motivation and when he realizes that he has to solidify his position, he starts to act on it the other season.
Season one was a introduction , an introduction where he's thrown into capital city life that comes out of nowhere, he is confused as to why someone would want to kill him and later getting acquainted with many important characters like emperor, princes, CPP etc that obviously have some unusual
personality. The direction of s1 revolves around the underlying secrets, the mysteries with his identity, his mother and the world. He slowly unfolds the secret and the he is sent to beiqi as envoy and learns about his real identity and realized that people around him might be hiding things and manipulating him. He realizes that he needs power, authority and he has to build the network himself, in short finding out the cause, the motivation that he wants to pursue the whole season.
In s2 we see that he quite literally blurts out and accuses the 2nd prince and princess Royale for treason when then the emperor quite literally throws his token into the water, dismissing his accusations. I think that was the moment he actually realise on more deeper level that he actually needed to be on the same foothold as other influential people to overthrow the 2nd prince and princess royale. So in my opinion the S2 is journey of FX solidifying his foothold into capital city as an powerful official. there is a lack of action scenes as I believe the storyline focuses more on the officialdom of FX and taking over neiku. Only throughout the end, we can see the direction for the S3 storyline will be much more focused on uncovering secrets about divine temple, true intentions of the CPP and emperor, wuzhu and other things.
(Just my thoughts because i saw people absolutely trashing on s2)
(Also someone who has read the novel, can you tell me how true the adaptation is to original novel especially in S2? )