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Exactly. Dramas and animes with plots of instant success is a big trigger for me to drop them. Even second place is hugely generous. Can live with it though.

The funny thing is that way more people have issues with Esther and find her voice annoying. Maybe it is, but at least it's always in sync and fits her face - after all, she's either dubbing herself or not even being dubbed in what I've seen of her. I still remember how many people dropped Love Between Fairy and Devil only because of Esther. It seems she's really hated by a lot of people, which is a shame. And that drama had one of the best dubbing jobs I've ever heard for Dylan Wang. Usually I find dubbing automatically worse than hearing the actor's voice and can't even begin to imagine watching English based dramas by this standard. The production efforts are just often so lazy, especially from the sound engineers and editors in syncing actor and voice together. But LBFAD was the one rare example I've heard where I felt the combination of an actor and a voice actor can actually be as good or superior to leaving all the work to one person.

I forgot about SAHPH. The performance is much better connected there... because it's him. The role suited him really well too.

Knight Flower is airing right now - might scratch an itch.

Do you need it.

Theme song is reminiscent of that for CP1, though it's less musically explorative. Like both songs a lot, though.

Yep there appears to be less romance in it. Bad acting is a baffling opinion to me though, especially in contrast to watching this drama and having to stomach the voice actor pairing for Xu Kai's first character. Learning to deal with it but it's a real taint. The pairing for his second character is far better. It's not really a Xu Kai issue... he plays his role so well in Falling Into Your Smile. It's about pairing him with appropriate VAs who can match his relatively unanimated face.

There have been more evil characters in dramas than Jung Soo Min, but I've NEVER hated one more than her. HATRED. Absolute HATRED for what's just a freakin' character in a drama that isn't real. Pure LOATHING.

Now you can go ahead and watch Sword and Fairy 4.

I never care for such a myopic view. Each can be treated as its standalone entity. Reminds me of OG book gatekeepers. As for the drama itself, I enjoyed it - 6/10.

"That is a relief." ROFLMAO

Nice poster.

16 is too long? I prefer at least 50 lol.

Lot of references and parody in this huh... not that I recognise all of them. The Queen Seondeok parody in episode 4 though eh, with Lady Mishil's iconic theme.

The trailer is godlike. It's so artistic and picturesque.

Because she's the most talented young actress going in China of those like younger than 22.

Leo Wu speaking English = the next James Bond.

Is Leo Wu more or less the same dude in every drama?

Ditto for Zhao Jinmai 🔥 🔥 🔥

FINALLY I get to watch Zhao Jinmai again.

Alright then - let's go.

I watched episode 1 again just to remind myself just how superior the OST is for this over the other CPs. Hot dayum it opens with some BANGERS. Surf that sword BROTHER.