KiKo Tsukino

I love your review!

And I also love the bromance between Bai Jue and Tian Qi, like when you watch how they were like in the first arc, and compared to the second arc, you can tell how far these two have come, and it's so nice to see this brotherhood in them (Personally, I view Bai Jue, Tian Qi and Zhi Yang as brothers). I love how Tian Qi is there to give Bai Jue the emotional support that he needs, because even if he is being misunderstood, but Tian Qi knows what he's planning and he is the link to Bai Jue and Yuan Qi, when Bai Jue wanted to give Yuan Qi those toys, he asked Tian Qi to give this to Yuan Qi on his behalf.

Episode 48 between the father and son moment was so emotional, that it brought me to tears every time, especially the part when Yuan Qi finally calls him "Father" T^T

I love the romance between Bai Jue and Shang Gu as well, these two really have come a long way to be together in the end. I still wish that their happy ending is longer, and extended, because in the end, it left me with an unsatisfied/unfulfilled feeling of wanting more, but that all aside, this was a great drama, and I will always go back and watch the beginning again, because the beginning build up to the characters/stories, and the time in God Realm is my favourite. It's their happy times before the tragedy occur. Not to mention I love Bai Jue, Tian Qi and Zhi Yang interactions too <3

ALP >>>>>> AOL for me (LOL). I am not a fan to AOL.

TMOPB have a more fulfilling ending when compared to ALP if I have to say. If ALP have an ending similar with an extended moment between Bai Jue and Shang Gu, like TMOPB ending for Ye Hua and Bai Qian, I would have been content 😭

TMOPB also have a more satisfying punishment when compared to ALP. But in terms of pacing and story goes, ALP is more on point and not draggy when compared to TMOPB. I actually love ALP a lot, I said it's on par with TMOPB and ELOD when I advertised this to my friend to get him to watch it is because I don't want to push it so high up to give him that high expectations, and then later, when he watch it, he have high expectations LOL 😅 I think in terms of ALP, TMOPB and ELOD, each have their pros and cons. As far as story/pacing goes, the beginning for ALP is more enjoyable for me, when compared to TMOPB and ELOD 😅

Omg, hahaha, good to have met a fan to The Untamed. It took me a while to move on from The Untamed, but I am still a fan despite I have moved on from it XD. For me, I am not so happy with the ending to the Untamed too 😂😅 So where that is concerned, I prefer the novel ending heaps better hahahaha. But I will take Lan Zhan calling out "Wei Ying" over nothing at all 😭

Let's hope for the best then 😭

If I reveal it, it's going to contain a huge amount of spoilers. In the later parts, there are certain things that happened, as like most Xianxia genres, where it happened because of a misunderstanding. It hurts, because our hearts feels for the characters that we came to love. But when you're watching it, don't just try to see things in Hou Chi/Shang Gu perspective, but also try to see/understand things from Bai Jue's perspectives. If you watch it now, and pay attention to the details as you watch on, then you will know/understand why it played out that way. Characters that we come to love do suffer, because, well, that's Xianxia for you, but it isn't only Hou Chi/Shang Gu suffering but Bai Jue is too(if not, more IMO).

But I will tell you this spoiler, what Bai Jue wanted was for Hou Chi/Shang Gu to be away from the danger, and not find out what he is planning to do on his end, what he wanted to do is to protect Hou Chi/Shang Gu from her destiny. I don't want to directly spoil this for you, but that's a hint for you on what he is planning. I think you should just watch it, because you will get your answer as you watch on.

Yeah, sometimes it doesn't translate exactly and when you read the english subs, you know it doesn't and it just irks you 😅

Exactly! Jing Zhao punishment, and the unsatisfying ending of not having an extended moment between Bai Jue and Shang Gu, will always be unfulfilling and unsatisfying to me 😭😭 All I can do is let my imagination do it's work 😅😂😭

This is a link my friend shared me which is an explanation that explains what happened in episode 55: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXgQ2ds5AUw

^ After watching that video, it somewhat explains a few things, originally, I too thought it was a flashback, but then after watching it, I don't think it's a flashback anymore.

As for that scar on her forehead, I always thought it was the scar, when she fell and hurt herself (after her grandfather was killed by the Gold Diety bastard), because her forehead was bleeding back then. Never did I thought it was related to her powers, but then it's been a while since I've watched 'The Legends', so don't remember the details.

Yeah, I know about the whole culture and how one dresses when grieving for someone, but isn't that usually displayed over someone's death? She knows Mo Qing is not dead, only in seclusion, so she don't need to wear it?? But honestly for me, I do prefer her being back to how she used to wearing red, even with the mark/scar on her forehead is more "Zhao Yao" to me, so all good. Thanks for trying your best to explain hahahaha. For me, I am someone who likes to pay attention to these details, so when it does confuses me, through some of these details, it can't help but made me questioned when it happened. But all good, The Legends is still a good drama, ignoring these faults, since like I said I do like the drama on my end.

The 2nd arc starts towards the end of episode 16. Only Shang Gu was reborn as Hou Chi. Shang Gu original being is sleeping inside Hou Chi. Basically Hou Chi is Shang Gu, if that makes sense. But Hou Chi do not have the memories of her past as Shang Gu. She will get this back later.

ML (Bai Jue) didn't die, so he didn't got reincarnated. Bo Xuan is actually Bai Jue, behind a mask. He uses a different identity, to take care of Hou Chi for 10,000 years, before he proceed with his plan. I won't spoil the details of his plans.

Qing Mu.... Well, I won't spoil that either, you will get your answer when you watch on.

Yeah, I compared the subs between Dramacool and WeTv, definitely the subs, well for the last 3 episodes I've checked is better in Dramacool.

Hahaha, I meant stab her 1000 times but she don't die. It's just a reflection on how much I hate her 😂 Yes, we can let our imagination do it's work, although I prefer to get this scene canon then letting our imagination do it's work LOL 😅

I was rewatching that scene again today 😍😍 Bai Jue swordsmanship was really cool indeed. Love the way how Shang Gu looks at Bai Jue in that scene haha

I think another thing, aside from editing that I don't quite like, is how they made Zhao Yao and Mo Qing (FL and ML) weaker than they were in the beginning, but ignoring that, I still love the Legends. But if I were to choose between The Legends and ALP, I personally love ALP better.

At first, I thought it was the 'flashback' too, after Mo Qing and Zhao Yao defeated the Gold Bastard (evil guy), because it shows Zhao Yao was fighting with Mo Qing's demon self, but then, someone pointed out that it was not a flashback scene, but it was a scene that took place in the actual present time, when the necklace was dropped (the same necklace that Mo Qing gave to Zhao Yao back then, which was said that it can look into the subconscious/the person's heart), so in that scene when Zhao Yao wanted to calm Mo Qing down since he was fighting against his inner demon to remain control, he pushed Zhao Yao away and told her to not touch him, because he didn't want to hurt her, and that's when the necklace dropped, and "that scene" where you thought it was a flashback, someone pointed out it isn't, and it was Zhao Yao entering into Mo Qing's subconscious, which is his inner demon, to fight against his inner demon. The one Zhao Yao killed then, where you saw her put her sword through him which the real Mo Qing let her do it, was inside his subconscious, and when he fell into the Abyss, that's all inside Mo Qing's subconscious.

And then the whole thing ended, and return to the present time, where Mo Qing, was in that state, and then they returned back to their sect, which lead to all the events that played out later in that ending.

I get the whole sealing the sword part, because it needed to happen, but another confusing moment was when one of the sequence that shows "5 years later"(the writer sure have a thing for doing a "5" year time skip lol, since this is the third time), Zhao Yao retired from being the sect leader because she want to wait for Mo Qing to come out from seclusion, at that time, she wears white and changed her hair style and her scar on her forehead is gone.....And she was travelling around to see how the others was doing, that was when she changed her hair-style and the scar was gone, but then when its shown that Mo Qing sealed the sword and came out of seclusion, after he dropped the sword down the water, when he came out, she's back to wearing red and her original hair style AND the scar is back, and I am like "????????? What happened????" That part was confusing, so how was her scar gone in one of the scene, while she was waiting for him, and then later when he comes out of seclusion after totally ridding the demons inside him, the scar is back???

I understand 'The Legends', but the second half of the story, there's quite a few plot holes, like the part, where it never explained how Zhao Yao got her sword back, when the whip girl took it to begin with, and when Mo Qing, first lost control to his demon after he locked himself up to try to keep in control, Zhao Yao came and was going to fight him, in that moment, it shows they both disappeared, and then the fight was completely skipped, the next moment we saw Mo Qing in bed and his demons was sealed, that was never explained. Honestly, towards the end, I was very confused with the story some parts, I was forced to accept it, since that's how it played out, but even so, it never really explained how it happened so it's confusing. I get why fans are confused, because I am the same. Some scenes also felt like it was placed in that doesn't sequenced properly.

I do love 'The Legends', don't get me wrong, but the editing on the second half, especially the ending is really bad, and confusing for me to understand. Although with that all said, it is good to know there are those people who understood it and what happened.

Got my friend to watch 'The Legends', and he just finished it, and told me how the second half of the story, especially towards the ending was so confusing 😂😂😂 I can totally relate to that LOL 😂 Because the scenes is not sequenced properly 😅 And now I am getting him to watch ALP on my end, I told him between the two, ALP, is better, because it's on par with TMOPB and ELOD level(which he loves). I honestly hope he starts soon, because I am looking forward to hearing what he thinks, I hope he feels positive about ALP😅😅 (not sure if it was a wise choice to raise his expectations up for ALP like that to be the same level of master-piece as TMOPB and ELOD XDD. Well I guess I will see eventually how he feels about ALP story, characters and pairing).

One of the best moments in the drama, the part when Yuan Qi finally called him father hits home. Love that touching moment T^T

The last 3 episodes felt short to me. And I'm not very happy with how the ending ended. Wanted to be extended with more scenes than what we were given :(

But overall I still love it.

Glad you liked the fight, because I did too! I think the fight is good, we already ran out of time with that brief happy ending so dragging the fight longer will make some of the later scenes be cut out and I don't want that (lol).

Mu Guang is a lost cause, I don't like him and he's useless indeed. He knows some of those things Wu Huan did but he turned a blind eye and can still forgive her. I hated how at the end of all this, he can still forgive her and beg Shang Gu to not kill Wu Huan 😒😑 so honestly, I don't pity his death/sacrifice at all. Just like Shang Gu said, he have disappointed them(and me too).

Jing Zhao punishment......was that she became mute where she can no longer talk, and well you can see she can't communicate verbally with her mother at the end, although how she doesn't show any remorse of what she's done..... poisoning Bai Jue, a true god, I still think she deserves a heavier punishment than that....I imagine Jing Zhao was stripped of her immortal status in the end though. I imagine her suffering to see her mother, Wu Huan like that, but she can't say any words to comfort her, nor could Wu Huan understand Jing Zhao, since Jing Zhao no longer can speak...both were deprived/stripped off their immortal powers..

Yes, if you gather the hints together, its Bai Jue.

The one who disguised as "Feng Ran" to play with Yuan Qi is Bai Jue himself. That was revealed to be true. Thats also the "Feng Ran" that Yuan Qi came to really love that day.

Tian Qi also revealed later in ep 48, that it isn't the first time Bai Jue disguised as "Feng Ran" to secretly play with Yuan Qi. So he did it several times but under the diguised as "Feng Ran" instead.

When Bai Jue was taking care of Shang Gu, that flashback scene where you see, before he changed to "Feng Ran", he told Shang Gu(while she was still in coma), that she didn't need to wake up so quickly, she can wake up after the tribulation of chaos ended(after he sacrificed himself), that time he told her, that he will come here to accompany her everyday. Even if she's still in coma, he will come see her everyday secretly.

When Bai Jue made those toy weapons, he always gives them to Tian Qi to give to Yuan Qi, because he can't do it directly, so all those toy weapons you see Yuan Qi have, they're actually from Bai Jue.

In one of the episode, after Shang Gu wakes up, Bai Jue came by because he wanted to give those gifts to Yuan Qi, but at that time Tian Qi was already annoyed, since both Shang Gu and Yuan Qi was pestering him that "he's hiding something from them", before all this, Bai Jue was told off by Tian Qi that if he comes by regularly he will get angry (lol), because it makes it so hard for him to keep this a secret for him.

So really, Bai Jue, was there at those times, but he can't do so directly. Only indirectly on his end, and secretly too.

P.S. if you're up to ep 45, then I do think you will enjoy ep 48 since it will answer some of our questions

I think we can all agree to that

TMOPB have a more fulfilling ending when compared to ALP imo.

I actually timed it...for ALP, the close up angle of their hug was only 33 seconds... which was very disappointing. This is why I wish there was an ep 50 to wrap up the story in a more fulfilling note after Bai Jue came back.

- Ok, in episode 48, Tian Qi revealed that from 'time to time', Bai Jue disguised himself as "Feng Ran" to secretly play with Yuan Qi.... So this tells us it happened more than once....

- We even saw (in our face evident) that Bai Jue changed into "Feng Ran" that one time to play with Yuan Qi. This was the "Feng Ran" where Yuan Qi came to really love that day.

- Bai Jue also made these toy weapons for Yuan Qi, and asked Tian Qi to give them to him... so all the toy weapons that Yuan Qi received are actually a gift from Bai Jue....

- It is not the first time, that Bai Jue visited Qingchi Palace to secretly watch both Yuan Qi and Shang Gu. This was revealed, in one of the episodes where Tian Qi told Bai Jue off because him coming here regularly makes it hard for Tian Qi to keep this a secret for him and he even told him that he will get angry. It was also the scene where Bai Jue said he came because he wanted to give these toy weapons to Yuan Qi.

In episode 48, when Yuan Qi spend his time with Bai Jue, this time without Bai Jue disguising as "Feng Ran", Yuan Qi already figured out that when "Feng Ran" took him to the human realm back then was his father, Bai Jue. So in the end, it was hinted Yuan Qi knew, because he can put the puzzles together. He's not dumb.

So, Bai Jue have been secretly playing with Yuan Qi and spending time with Yuan Qi back then as "Feng Ran", this was revealed that it didn't happened once but several times, because Tian Qi revealed this to us in episode 48, Bai Jue just didn't know how to use his real self to play with Yuan Qi, but thanks to Tian Qi, he finally was able to.

Yes, it is true, that Bai Jue have missed a lot of firsts..... This only makes it more sadder, because if there's a choice, I believe he would want to be there for Yuan Qi's first.For me personally, I don't see that Bai Jue was neglecting Yuan Qi, because when he got time, he will actually spend time with him secretly. If Bai Jue is neglecting Yuan Qi because it was his way to protect him, then is Shang Gu going to be put into that same category when Bai Jue was gone and she spent all those years waiting for him? She left Yuan Qi to Zhi Yang's care on her end... I am not dragging Shang Gu in to blame her, but just saying if Bai Jue is put into that category, did anyone also put Shang Gu in that category to be fair??

If you never see that about Shang Gu, then don't put that label on Bai Jue. If you can understand this from Shang Gu's perspective, try to understand Bai Jue

Anyways, in the end, take your pick. For me,
Bai Jue did love and care for Yuan Qi, this much was revealed if you understand the story. I don't and won't label either of them as negligence parents; because I don't see them as one. But ofcourse those who do, I don't expect you to agree.