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THE LAST OOOOHH
Yes, please watch the aftercredits of the finale.
Quick summary. The Last Oath is a s story of 2 survivors meeting together and finding love in each other in a post-apocalytic zombie world. The end.
Before anything else, It is worth mentioning that I really really liked the series for its entirity and its pretty obvious that the makers and all the actors really put their heart to it.
First the things that i didnt like:
1. Excessive AI usage. The opening credits alone screams I am AI generated. Most of the drone shots/ aerial shots/ nature and environmental stills are clearly made with AI. Why though?
2. The limited budget is extremely obvious considering the span of world building that they were aiming for.
3. Zombies are not scary and the makeup is one of the worst zombie makeup in a series or a movie, I wouldnt give this drama an award for makeup and special effects, but that could also be blamed on the limited budget.
4. Midway in the series they realized they didnt really have a budget anymore so they devised a story arc where they reach a settlement where the need for special effects, makeup and production design has literally gone down to almost 0. From that moment the zombie drama became, well, a regular drama. And i have to be honest that i hated the almost always tantrumning Lin Zai.
5. I loved that this is a story of survival and that the BL part is only part of the story. However, without any discussion or acknowledgement of same sex partnership you can easily change the Li Zai character into a woman and it wont change the story, so i end up wondering why does it have to be BL? Was the BL theme used to click bait watchers?
6. For a zombie show, there were actually very little zombie in it.
7. THe last episode felt rushed. We are led to believe that ALie is working for a big company and from the start we are building up for a major scary standoff/fight climax. What we get in the final fight are cheap pyrotechnics with 11 or 12 masked soldiers and 1 not-so-scary female leader. The finale fight took exactly 5 minutes. Very anticlimatic.
The things that i liked:
1. I loved loved loved that this is not just your regular BL. The story is well thought out and almost all episodes are important. This show is very reminiscent of the first few seasons of the Walking Dead. However, i think episode 14 to 24 could have been squeezed to 4 to 6 episodes to make the story more compact.
2. I did mentioned above that the expansive world exposed the show's limited budget - BUT - if one can overlook the shortcomings and excessive usage of AI imagery, id say they were at least successful in creating a post apocalyptic world that is believable and enjoyable.
3. There are no annoying side characters,
4. At the beginning i hated the Avengers style choreography of the fight scenes complete with the camera going full circle a-la Avengers Age of Ultron and complete with signature superhero poses. However, since Chen Ming Hao has done a terrific job with it as a male Natasha Romanoff copycat anyway, i decided id consider it a good thing. He must have been a superhero of somesort because that man is like superman - faster thana speeding bullet.
5. It is worth mentioning that all the disappointment i felt after watching the finale was all erased when i saw the after credits. At least at the end theyrealized that they are still, after all the drama, a BL series.
SOOOO, will i recommend? YES definitely. Entertaining and watcheable. Will i rewatch? NO, the show is way too long and there is not a lot of re-watcheable parts. Im giving it a very strong 8.5 for the valiant effort of all the involved.
Quick summary. The Last Oath is a s story of 2 survivors meeting together and finding love in each other in a post-apocalytic zombie world. The end.
Before anything else, It is worth mentioning that I really really liked the series for its entirity and its pretty obvious that the makers and all the actors really put their heart to it.
First the things that i didnt like:
1. Excessive AI usage. The opening credits alone screams I am AI generated. Most of the drone shots/ aerial shots/ nature and environmental stills are clearly made with AI. Why though?
2. The limited budget is extremely obvious considering the span of world building that they were aiming for.
3. Zombies are not scary and the makeup is one of the worst zombie makeup in a series or a movie, I wouldnt give this drama an award for makeup and special effects, but that could also be blamed on the limited budget.
4. Midway in the series they realized they didnt really have a budget anymore so they devised a story arc where they reach a settlement where the need for special effects, makeup and production design has literally gone down to almost 0. From that moment the zombie drama became, well, a regular drama. And i have to be honest that i hated the almost always tantrumning Lin Zai.
5. I loved that this is a story of survival and that the BL part is only part of the story. However, without any discussion or acknowledgement of same sex partnership you can easily change the Li Zai character into a woman and it wont change the story, so i end up wondering why does it have to be BL? Was the BL theme used to click bait watchers?
6. For a zombie show, there were actually very little zombie in it.
7. THe last episode felt rushed. We are led to believe that ALie is working for a big company and from the start we are building up for a major scary standoff/fight climax. What we get in the final fight are cheap pyrotechnics with 11 or 12 masked soldiers and 1 not-so-scary female leader. The finale fight took exactly 5 minutes. Very anticlimatic.
The things that i liked:
1. I loved loved loved that this is not just your regular BL. The story is well thought out and almost all episodes are important. This show is very reminiscent of the first few seasons of the Walking Dead. However, i think episode 14 to 24 could have been squeezed to 4 to 6 episodes to make the story more compact.
2. I did mentioned above that the expansive world exposed the show's limited budget - BUT - if one can overlook the shortcomings and excessive usage of AI imagery, id say they were at least successful in creating a post apocalyptic world that is believable and enjoyable.
3. There are no annoying side characters,
4. At the beginning i hated the Avengers style choreography of the fight scenes complete with the camera going full circle a-la Avengers Age of Ultron and complete with signature superhero poses. However, since Chen Ming Hao has done a terrific job with it as a male Natasha Romanoff copycat anyway, i decided id consider it a good thing. He must have been a superhero of somesort because that man is like superman - faster thana speeding bullet.
5. It is worth mentioning that all the disappointment i felt after watching the finale was all erased when i saw the after credits. At least at the end theyrealized that they are still, after all the drama, a BL series.
SOOOO, will i recommend? YES definitely. Entertaining and watcheable. Will i rewatch? NO, the show is way too long and there is not a lot of re-watcheable parts. Im giving it a very strong 8.5 for the valiant effort of all the involved.
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