I’m currently watching two dramas, *Pull Strings* and *Remnants of Gold*.
Before they aired, I expected *Pull Strings* to be better because it had a much higher budget, while *Remnants of Gold* looked like it would stray heavily from the original novel. But after actually watching them, *Pull Strings* was decent for the first two episodes, only for the storytelling quality to drop continuously - I ended up skipping through a lot, and now around episode 20, I really want to drop it (though I’ve already paid for a Youku subscription). On the other hand, *Remnants of Gold*, despite straying from the novel, turned out to be surprisingly engaging and way exceeded my expectations. The producer seems to have a background in filmmaking, as the drama has that distinct cinematic shoot style.
The titles and works of Zhou Munan are indeed too many, i feel like we are being bombarded in various media, and this hasn't even been 10 years, I don't know what it will be like after 30-40 years from now.
There is also a work titled 剑与花与剑 [Jian Yu Hua Yu Jian], I asked AI and it said the genre is xianxia and it doesn't seem related to The Youth series, but somehow Youku often considers it still part of the Shao Nian world?
Then I also saw there is a donghua titled 少年歌行番外篇之桃花烙 , but the story content is not important, it's just about the daily life of the characters from The Blood of Youth.
As for the manhua adaptation, is there any new project?
Came here to say this. Did they realize they made a mistake?
I don't know either. I watched until minute 30, then went to dinner, then watched a little more until Zhang Zhao talked to Huo Xiaodi. After that, an alert popped up saying, "Youku blocked this drama, please watch another drama."
i have watched the Physical 100 Asian, Physical 100 korean version, iQiyi version, Japanese version, US version, this is the worst from all of them. so bad production quality, it's like you want to record the activity of someone and upload on youtube, but you dont cut anything at all, you upload all 24 hours activity including sleep. the one thing that i like is the camp.
1. Why do some people/sources call the crown prince Li Chengyu? (for example wiki addict). 2. You forgot some characters: - Empress Dowager of Qing (mother of the emperor) - appear in season 1 - The Empress (mother of crown prince) - appear in season 2 there are still some spaces in the table below the emperor, you can put there i think.
3. Characters that were Mentioned, but have never showed up yet: - Ye Zhong, the father of Ye Ling'er - Ku He, one of the 4 grandmasters, uncle of Bei Qi emperor - Si Gujian, one of the 4 grandmaster, from Dong Yin - Prince Jing, emperor's little brother who stay out of politics - Director of Division 2, 5, and 7 . let's hope all of them will appear in season 3.
4. Characters that were never mentioned at all: - Fan Ruoruo's mother - Mother of Lin Dabao dan Lin Gong, wife of prime minister, never mentioned - Sisi (This novel character was removed from the drama adaptation)
Is this more of a fan-made spin-off thing? I don't believe the writer was involved in this? At least I've finally…
yes, it is original script, not adapted from Zhou Munan's novel.
As for Jin Xuan, we didn't actually see him get killed, so we can only assume he is still alive regardless. just take it like Han in the Fast & Furious series, somehow they brought him back to life, even though there were scenes that seemed to confirm his death.
Questions .. so many question:1. I'm assuming WuXin retired as Sect Leader of TWT, but did he have to let YeZhiXin…
There are too many plot holes. For example, the Tianzhan sword can only be wielded by candidates for the future emperor, but Wei Gui can wield it even though he doesn't have royal blood.
Btw, the Tang Sect Elder's face looks familiar. Has he appeared in other TBOY series before?
I checked Wikipedia and saw that Hu Jinsi died in 948, but in the drama, he died around 959. That’s a pretty big gap, I’m not sure why the producers decided to extend his life like that
the most shocking person still alive is = Demon Qin (male)
the real hero of this drama = coroner chi
so X Theater drama is basically a short drama by tencent that only has around 10+ episodes?
As the Gold Guardian, why didn't *Bana kill Xiao Fang and Yu Hou in the early episodes, given that he usually kills anyone looking for the gold?
Before they aired, I expected *Pull Strings* to be better because it had a much higher budget, while *Remnants of Gold* looked like it would stray heavily from the original novel. But after actually watching them, *Pull Strings* was decent for the first two episodes, only for the storytelling quality to drop continuously - I ended up skipping through a lot, and now around episode 20, I really want to drop it (though I’ve already paid for a Youku subscription). On the other hand, *Remnants of Gold*, despite straying from the novel, turned out to be surprisingly engaging and way exceeded my expectations. The producer seems to have a background in filmmaking, as the drama has that distinct cinematic shoot style.
The titles and works of Zhou Munan are indeed too many, i feel like we are being bombarded in various media, and this hasn't even been 10 years, I don't know what it will be like after 30-40 years from now.
There is also a work titled 剑与花与剑 [Jian Yu Hua Yu Jian], I asked AI and it said the genre is xianxia and it doesn't seem related to The Youth series, but somehow Youku often considers it still part of the Shao Nian world?
Then I also saw there is a donghua titled 少年歌行番外篇之桃花烙 , but the story content is not important, it's just about the daily life of the characters from The Blood of Youth.
As for the manhua adaptation, is there any new project?
the one thing that i like is the camp.
2. You forgot some characters:
- Empress Dowager of Qing (mother of the emperor) - appear in season 1
- The Empress (mother of crown prince) - appear in season 2
there are still some spaces in the table below the emperor, you can put there i think.
3. Characters that were Mentioned, but have never showed up yet:
- Ye Zhong, the father of Ye Ling'er
- Ku He, one of the 4 grandmasters, uncle of Bei Qi emperor
- Si Gujian, one of the 4 grandmaster, from Dong Yin
- Prince Jing, emperor's little brother who stay out of politics
- Director of Division 2, 5, and 7 .
let's hope all of them will appear in season 3.
4. Characters that were never mentioned at all:
- Fan Ruoruo's mother
- Mother of Lin Dabao dan Lin Gong, wife of prime minister, never mentioned
- Sisi (This novel character was removed from the drama adaptation)
As for Jin Xuan, we didn't actually see him get killed, so we can only assume he is still alive regardless. just take it like Han in the Fast & Furious series, somehow they brought him back to life, even though there were scenes that seemed to confirm his death.
Btw, the Tang Sect Elder's face looks familiar. Has he appeared in other TBOY series before?