TheMoonEmpress

Haha you replied while I was editing my comment. Some great novels actually had such disappointing adaptations too, like A Girl Like Me. *sigh* you were right, sometimes it's frustrating to be a cdrama fan.

True, I mostly only watch historical dramas and I end up dropping most of the chinese historical dramas I've started. The only historical drama I finished this year was The Long Ballad and that seems like ages ago lol. And the whole drama based around a star thing is so true and so unfortunate. Many great dramas with lesser known actors don't even get proper promotion and are missed under the radar even though they turn out to be really good, both plot and acting wise. Whereas, many dramas with popular traffic actors, with mediocre script and mediocre acting get so much promotion and views that they become the top dramas on that platform. Most recent example I can think of is A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College. Another drama I dropped after 2 episodes.

Can you tell me which episodes have fight scenes in it?

ZLS has three dramas out this yearsl and 3 more high profile dramas in the pipeline. I think her dramas next year would be more interesting because everything she has put put this year, except TLB, has been mediocre at best. I hope this is not the final cast for this drama because I don't know if this is the perfect cast for the characters in the novel.

So I read the synopsis of this novel and I think Hu Yi Xuan would've been perfect for this role....sigh...

Right, and her acting is such that she looks great in every frame, even in cases where she should not look her 100% best (like her father's funeral or when she's kidnapped) there's not even one hair out of place and her makeup is always flawless, even when she is in a life or death situation. Not believable at all.

You're right, they will definitely make complete use of her great acting skills. I read some parts of the novel and she even has a brush with death, so I guess her storyline is also filled with dramatic tension, like the leads. Can't wait to see it

True, there is no hooking quality to her acting, like nothing pulls me in or gets me interested in her character. I've been noticing this since Legend of Yunxi, I at least watched that one for around 30 or so episodes before dropping it. All her dramas since then, I have dropped after the first couple of episodes. I can't get invested in her character nor her chemistry with the ML.

Yes, same. I trust her choices in terms of the scripts she has picked recently. Hopefully, we'll get to see more of her soon

Can you tell me which episodes have ML's fighting scenes? I just want to watch those....

Yes, her posture and mannerisms are not that of a princess. She is still acting like her character in legend of yunxi, just with more headgears, better clothes and redder lips.

Ju Jing Yi's acting leaves much to be desired. I gave this one a peak because I like JZ in the ultimate note. But I don't think I can handle JJY's bland acting for 40 episodes.

I will watch the blue whisper only for HYX. She doesn't have any other projects lined up for 2022 so this will be the only drama to watch her in.

Yes, I actually like how different her character in ARRTI is... It helped us to see her amazing acting skills in the emotional moments. I hope she takes on a wide variety of roles because she definitely has the range. A badass role would definitely help her, since her role in The Mysterious world is kinda like that and she was convincing in some parts but she needed some more work on her acting in others. And she was very much a newbie then. Hence, I think, a badass or conniving role would really expand her range even more. I guess she is not filming anything right now. I like that she is selective about her scripts now, everything she has chosen since 2019-20 has been pretty successful.

Yes, me too. Tall, broad and well built men give me the butterflies. Quite rare in asian dramas too.

I am a viewer and consumer of her drama, just like any other consumer. I too have some knowledge about mass media and what is required for an actor and actress to be called versatile. ZLS and JJY are okay in the roles they're comfortable in (although I really don't think that JJY can act, her face is not emotive at all) but they're not what I'll call versatile. What happens to Xiao Wu is supposed to be one of the most painful moment in TLB, but that pain didn't reach me because ZLS crying scenes were not natural at all. You could clearly see that she was "acting" And hence , one of the most painful moments lost its momentum for me. Nothing against ZLS, i did like her in TROTAR and TLB, but her emotional acting and crying scenes does need work.

And his physical stature is also quite broad.

I think so too since it has already received its airing license... It wrapped filming almost in 2019 or 2020....but nothing can be said when it comes to the Chinese dramaland

I hope the airing of this drama does not clash with Mirror Twin Cities. That's also another highly anticipated drama based on the merfolk theme...and rumours are circulating that it is also set to begin its promotion, likely even airing by the end of this year.

The chemistry between the main leads more than made up for the flaws of this drama for me.