absurd

The more I hear about the anime, the less I want to watch it. The perfect Tang San, strong and confident from the get go, smart, always composed, never looses. What is he a robot? So boring. I would probably fall asleep halfway through the first episode.

Oh, they finally added English sub. Thanks for the link.

I'm really curious. When people say that SFX here is bad, just what kind of budget do you think c-dramas have? Don't get me wrong, if you compare this with... idk, Avengers? Game of thrones? then, yes, special effects here look pretty cheap most places. But Avengers also had a budget of more than 300 mln USD for each 3 hour movie and GOT had an average 10 mln USD for each episode. This drama has SFX in almost every episode, there are 40 of those. Do you really think anyone would invest that kind of money into a TV series, in a country where said TV series might not be released at all, might be release years later (like it happened here) or might be chopped up so much before release (due to censoring), that they won't be able to get any return of investment?
Compared to most of the other fantasy TV I've seen (even a lot American ones), SFX here is actually pretty decent. But, like someone said, they got a lot of their budget later on and when you add SFX without planning ahead, they would look worse. You want to see what really cheap SFX look like? Try Fights break sphere. That poor drama definitely had no budget at all.
Sorry, about this rant :) Just kind of bugs me :)

Agree. To me it's also the fact that she's actually smart and capable, that makes he childish behavior not annoying at all

Yes, yes. Exactly that genre. If done well it's a really good light watch. And, so far, they are doing a good job with it.
I only recently started to watch dramas, so this is the first Chinese version of it that I see (well, no, LOF attempted to do it, but not very well). And it really is so nostalgic, like you said.

What really surprises me about this drama is that I literally don't have a single character I dislike or find boring. I'm up to episode 9 and sure some of the new characters are more of background now, but I think we'll get their back stories with plot progression.
Really like the FL. She is my favorite type of character: acts silly, but actually very smart and strong.
I really missed this type of story: a bit cliché, but in a good way. Weirdly it reminds me of Bleach (anime), not with anything specific, just the general impression.
It's kind of scary that, so far, the only things I could complain about would sound like nitpicking.

Have to agree about Xiao Zhan's "surprised" acting, but I think it's purposely comical... maybe. Not sure why they do it that way, but it seems intentionally overexaggerated.

I have a wetv vip and I don't use the app. I use the website (there is a link up on this page). It's kind of finicky sometimes - suddenly says "not available in your region", but closing and opening the page again usually fixes that.

I just can't. This is hilarious. Tang San the Pikachu generating machine. A bit spoilery, because it's based on the sequence from episodes 6-7, but it's short and there are a lot of sfx, so it won't spoil much.
https://weibo.com/tv/show/1034:4601957927550985?from=old_pc_videoshow

Honestly, Joswald522 is right. Please stop. No one has to like it and sometimes dislike is subjective (just as the opposite). You leaving accusations on every negative comment, makes this comment section uncomfortable.

I think there's no need to be rude. Even if you're right (which, I don't think you are), you're just giving them the reaction they want. And if you're wrong, you're only giving a bad impression of yourself. Lets keep the comment section civil.

I don't think I would bet on that. This is the same screenwriter that wrote the Joy of life and the first season of that ended on a massive cliffhanger.

I think it's the general problem with ratings on this website (at least for Chinese dramas, I don't watch Korean ones, so I don't know). I only recently started watching dramas in general and before that watched a lot of anime. So I was used to myanimelist where 7.5 usually means something is pretty good. And then I came here and was sooo confused by the ratings. It's just that people tend to give ether 10 or 1, rarely in between, so if there are a lot of good ratings you get results like 9.
I'd say it's too early to judge. I'd give it an 8-8.5 now, but things can go downhill (hope not).

Now I'm really confused :) because I usually drop something if I dislike it that much, why torture yourself? :))

It might be a good idea, because if you'll find it interesting you won't have to wait for the episodes :))

Don't take this the wrong way, please. I am actually curious. Are you watching it or did you drop it after the first episode because it was to different from the anime/novel, like you said earlier?

To me this is a really good drama. This is of course an opinion and everyone is different. But I think that this drama so far (I've seen 7 episodes) is very interesting, has a nice pacing and feels like a lot of work went into production. It's also very funny :) give it a try

That's a good way of looking at it :) that way you get multiple versions of your favorite characters ^_^

I guess, to me it didn't feel like fillers because I don't know anything about this universe and I actually like that they went for this type of organic world building, instead of just dumping a bunch of information onto me, which my selective memory would just erase right afterwards. But I can understand the frustration if you already know all of this and just want them to get on with the main storyline :)
Sorry, I don't get what you mean by parallel worlds. Like this being
an Alternative Universe for the anime or something?

I have to disagree about TS being a coward here. Sure he wasn't all calm and collected, like he supposedly is in the anime (I haven't seen the anime, going from the comments), but his reaction is perfectly normal for someone who've never seen a giant spider and never fought with anyone or anything in his life. To me it looked like he was shocked, but still tried to fight it, which is far from cowardly. And in the next episodes he gets more confident and cheeky (I still can't get over his "maybe he thought I'm cute" reply to how he got his recommendation, it was really funny).
To each their own of course, but I actually prefer flawed heroes, to the flawless ones, they seem more relatable. Which, I feel, is important when you're watching something as unrelatable as fantasy.