I'm currently twenty episodes into this drama and I love what I'm seeing. Yang Mi and William has amazing chemistry which they manage to deeply communicate to the audience WITHOUT actually communicating same. Seems like Mi has a way of developing deep chemistry which shines through with her on-screen pairings. Furthermore, the actors are all very expressive, the storyline is solid, though some of the love tropes (woman pining over the love of a man she won't get) has become tiring. All in all, very addictive.
I'm so happy seeing Gong Jun come out on top from his days of Advance Bravely. I still love him from that series. It's amazing seeing how big he's getting and the humongous international recognition coming his way. I hope to see more of him in series like Word of Honor. He did amazingly well in that series.
This should've gone to Taiwan because I just can't see how this is going to be 19 Days if they censor the gay
Exactly. I agree with this. And since Ms. Jidan hasn't had good Going with the Chinese authorities banning both her earlier series Addicted and Advance Bravely, I feel she should of just moved production and cast to more accepting Taiwan so we get the full details.
Is this the type of Chinese BL where it's super easy to ignore the weird/bad ending???Like for Word of Honor,…
Oh my goodness. Word of Honor has TWO endings. One, the main one, because of fear of chinese government censorship. And then the second ending which is just about 3 minutes long... That's the real ending of the drama. You should totally check it out, see it, makes sense.
This movie is beautiful, from beginning to end. I felt the pain Chen's character felt, the love, the sorrow...it was vibrant and he depicted it well. I really did rewatch some scenes, because of how beautiful they were. Must confess that the ending... I didn't really connect with them as much older men, perhaps because of the huge time gap they were separated. But, this movie? BEAUTIFUL all through.
Dai Si is a stunning young woman with a very expressive face which helps her carry her characters and bring them to life. Surprised to learn she's not getting FL roles. She deserves it.
Seems so. But, I think dabbling in movies and series will give him more widespread international exposure with international fans. I mean, after he did Advance Bravely, he got many fans, myself included, even though the drama was sort of below par. People loved him. I keep hoping to see him in more dramas, the way we see Simon Gong Jun in many dramas now.
I am beginning to really love this actor. He's very good at playing evil, high ranking officials of the Imperial Court. Legend of Fuyao and Nirvana in Fire has cemented his prowess in playing notable villains.
I first saw Yang Mi in Legend of Fuyao earlier thus year. Since then, I became hooked on her. I've followed Storm Eye and some of her movies. Now, I eagerly await seeing Eternal Love and the much anticipated Novoland: Pearl Eclipse.
This story started out so promising, VERY promising, if I may add. And that promise continued into the first 23 episodes or thereabout, then the original plot line declined from there and the story went downhill. Fortunately, toward the later episodes, it did pick up, even made me quite emotional.
On the characters, I must confess that even though Kahn is a very handsome man, he seemed OFF to me, as the romantic ML. His acting felt bland and off and he seemed to lack genuine chemistry with the FL Rong Le which failed to make their acting towards each other very convincing. I tried to see the chemistry but couldn't.
The guy that played Fu Chou did EXCELLENTLY well in his interpretation as a cold, tortured, calculating, and also utterly devoted man to his woman. It was much easier to fall into his role emotions-wise than with the ML.
Lastly, Leo Luo is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous! But unfortunately he got too little screen time through the 58 episodes of this drama. However, he did come off as highly capable in his role interpretation. Well done, man! Well done!
Her way of speaking is not "exaggerated" it's just the way her voice is. I'm not Chinese, it's not important to…
In some cases, they use their own voice. In the spy drama series Storm Eye Yang Mi used her own voice, for which netizens severely criticized her. I got to know what her voice sounds like. She used same in A Writer's Odessey. But it's general practice in c-dramas for the actors to be dubbed so that they'd get to speak "Understandable" Mandarin without the northern or southern China accents that many international viewers don't fully grasp. So yes, they're dubbed. Sometimes, the actors use their own voices. It seems that in this drama, Yang Mi used her actual voice and wasn't dubbed.
On the characters, I must confess that even though Kahn is a very handsome man, he seemed OFF to me, as the romantic ML. His acting felt bland and off and he seemed to lack genuine chemistry with the FL Rong Le which failed to make their acting towards each other very convincing. I tried to see the chemistry but couldn't.
The guy that played Fu Chou did EXCELLENTLY well in his interpretation as a cold, tortured, calculating, and also utterly devoted man to his woman. It was much easier to fall into his role emotions-wise than with the ML.
Lastly, Leo Luo is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous! But unfortunately he got too little screen time through the 58 episodes of this drama. However, he did come off as highly capable in his role interpretation. Well done, man! Well done!