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Mediator is just some buzzword one site has attached to INFP. My gf is INFP and she ain't no freakin' mediator rofl. Anyway, after watching interviews with him I can see it, though I'm not sure of course. As for Wu Jinyan, her type is as I guessed, but I'd already seen a lot of her previously. What would you suggest for Wang Tao?

No no no no. Not every tale can be told in 25 hours. The Story of Minglan and Story of Yanxi palace would not have been the same with such limits, and not for the better. A drama should be as long as it needs to be, be it 8 episodes or 80. It just depends on the scope of the story and the quality of the storytelling and direction. Even Season 1 of Joy of Life which you've called a masterpiece is more than 40 eps, and in the end the whole show will be 100+ eps... because the story needs that time to be told. If anything, this current limit of 40 is worsening the quality of dramas because productions are being compressed and many endings are seemingly becoming rushed or truncated. My final point on this is my fave Asian series ever, Jewel in the Palace (~50 hours), and my fave Western series ever, Breaking Bad (~50h). Both are wildly longer than 25 hours, and thank goodness they were, otherwise their stories couldn't have been told and they almost certainly wouldn't be my favourites.

Today I learned that Wang Xinghue is INFP and Wu Jinyan is ENFJ, for anyone interested in MBTI types.

Who voices Xiao Heng? The actor himself?

Well yeh I get you decided like this - I was asking why basically. But OK. Nice article for sure.

What is the point exactly of an arbitrary cutoff of 5 entries each? It's not like the article is that long or can't have two parts, no?

So from what I can gather, there won't be a second season. This clearly feels like just one arc of a larger tale and the storytelling also sets it up that way to the viewer, so that's disappointing.

Very well crafted... clever direction. I was always intrigued, but rarely emotionally invested. Somehow I failed to empathise with this show in general despite enjoying it. Breaking Bad was similar that way.

I only watched 2 eps but it was shocking to me how out of sync the dubbing was with Dilraba's mouth movements.

I don't really feel enough or see enough to suggest that Shangguan Qian would really be falling in love with Gong Shangjue.

Noted. I'll check out the original, then.

You don't think Zhao Pan'er is well-written?

Edit: Also Sheng Minglan.

Also it's not a crime to be helped. Nobody does everything by themselves.

The Story of Minglan
Story of Yanxi Palace

(Korean)

Empress Ki
Queen Seondeok

(Obviously these aren't wuxia but they are strong FLs)

She's fine in Blue Whisper but I agree that Long Ballad blows.

Also there are different kinds of strength and resolve. Fairy from Fairy Devil clearly strong - doesn't matter if she's dainty and girly. Zhao Pan'er clearly extremely tough and resourceful.

Of course Double FL was strong. Just because she was cocky as hell and gambling doesn't mean she wasn't. FL and ML both helped each other out it was a collaboration of strong personalities, and without the FLs smarts and wits the ML wouldn't have achieved half of what he wanted. Don't need 100% independence and to be some absurd megalomaniac to be "strong".

Wait Fairy Devil is a wuxia????

Yeh I'd say the leads were very well matched and that their dialogues mostly lived up to (and created) their chemistry. One of the best couples I can think of from any drama, and for me there was a well-balanced volume of interactions. Don't need excessive romance to get in the way of this string of various plot lines. The drama wasn't built for it.

Obviously 40. 40.5 isn't an ending it's some half-baked work of placation for the weakhearted with a strange production value as well as being a sort of future memoir.