This ending really is perfect.I tell you why.. You see from his childhood, he is thought that his life goal is…
This........... nah. I blame the writers.
He was happy chilling in Ep13 painting lanterns and chatting with townsfolk, and even wishing on the lantern that ep, it wasn't "May I be able to save everyone," but "May I be allowed to finally retire." He would easily have found stuff to live for, since he was the kind of guy who genuinely liked living and was capable of emotionally bonding with a cricket. He likes people and he enjoyed life.
If he'd lived he woulda been fine, he'd have joined Fox Prince telling stories around the tree base and probably been a beloved tender of plants and maker of lanterns, with his own little greenhouse where he welcomed spiders. Slaying demons + saving the world from the Black Fox was just something he did because like he told Rumu, those who are more capable should shoulder more burdens and there just didn't happen to be anyone in the world capable of doing it except him, it wasn't the purpose of his existence.
They did everyone so dirty in that last arc.
I'm still not over how killing every demon ever can be done without hate but the moment you kill a human who deserves to die as much as all those demons (in fact wayyy more) it's suddenly a problem. I don't even see why they made him get semi-possessed in the first place by her, his inner fire should have sub-consciously purified him like it did in Ep13, that whole ending arc made no sense to me though the visuals were good.
This really confuses me, why do Cheng Yi’s drama ratings on kisskh always drop so drastically? Hmm.There…
The short, short, shoooooort answer?
He tends to get around 5 people 1-starring all eps of his work before it's aired (actual numbers observed by me for this one), and picks up more when airing. The number's tiny, but it skews the ratings since 1000 8-stars and 5 1-stars = 7.9, for example.
CY does not have that many fans here on MDL blindly voting 10; he has some (I base this statistically on observing TJOL's unaired ep ratings climbing from 1 star to around ~5.2) but the majority of viewers here are not super fans of any one actor, they just want to watch a good show and enjoy it, and will just score on how much they enjoyed the show once it ends, which solely depends on how good it is, or how much fun they felt they had with it by the end.
Thus, his shows on MDL will typically end up scoring slightly lower than how much everyone actually watching it ended up enjoying it. You need either a lot of fans who love you enough to 10-star your work just because you're in it or else you need zero haters in order to not have your work disproportionately skewed by the haters.
It's just how statistics work unfortunately.
Plus side is that he himself did really well in this show. The score would be very different if scores could be allocated marks for acting vs plot and writing!
why the rating suddenly dropped?? I thought I should watch this drama after it's finish airing
Don’t be swayed by the ratings and watch if you were planning to🥰 Ratings is just as the plot jumps the shark post 18 so there’s some disappointment given how good the start was but it’s still a good show and well acted, just not a masterpiece.
why you always give Cheng yi 7,9 why 🥹🥹🥹he’s a good actor cheng yi always giving his best to do so…
In this instance tho, the rating is fair. Even as a CY fan, I can't give this show more than 8.5, and if I was objective and not a biased fan, this would be a 7.5 or a 7.
Music's lovely, acting is good, visuals are lovely, but the character consistency in everyone except Fugui plus the plot are a mess.
Lol the rating keep going down just like the journey of legend 😭Poor Cheng yi 😭
The Journey of Legend I feel bad for its 7.9 because it’s actually good, but this one I can’t say I’m surprised, given the way the writing went in the second half.
The drama started off really well — the first twelve episodes were engaging and full of energy. But then, it…
Honestly I think he’s safe. He’s not typecast beyond that he tends to play principled leads who suffer a lot and end up dead or with bittersweet open endings and who slay in long hair and hanfu.
But the characters are basically all so different aside from that when it comes to personality and motivations and feelings that they’re differentiated completely in my head, there’s no way I’d mix up Sifeng with Fugui or with Qi Yan or with LLH or XQS.
I think he’s also safe from his career being affected by this. At the end of the day, investors invest for a reason, if it’s CY as the lead I can’t be the only person who will definitely check out at least 1 episode to see if it’s good and that’s usually as long as he needs to hook me and keep me around to the end.
Just hope he never works with this team of writers ever again, and I certainly won’t be touching anything done by this producer either.
I think someone said it was possibly due to a google translate-esque job, and that the Chinese title is actually…
Yup. It wouldn’t be so bad if the side leads were given actual plot or character development in their screen time, but since they’re only given fluff and filler they drag a lot, lol. They do their best but the writer of eps 18+ should be banned 😂😂
This is supposed to be “sword and beloved” implying some dilemma between duty and love but where’s that…
I think someone said it was possibly due to a google translate-esque job, and that the Chinese title is actually Heart of Sword, which is indeed a lot more fitting for this arc.
Why the hell he had to kill her. !! I wish romance bloomed with main cp. And both of their characters developed…
Right? At the least if the writers were going to stick in some silly seed she didn't even have in canon and kill off someone who didn't even die in canon, they should have made her rip it out and send it to him with a letter about how she trusted him in the fight and knew he wouldn't have the heart to kill her/didn't want to make him live with doing it, and she'd always be waiting for him in their next lives or smth. And she even picked his parent's special Pavilion to make him kill her in too. At this point I don't know what the writers were thinking either lol.
The reason behind the low rating of TJOL is anti's ratings.In that time they had rated one stars even unaired…
Agree, TJOL was fast-paced and an engaging run the whole way through for me despite its flaws, unlike poor old S&B where I was FFWDing bits in the second half.
As you say, QC is to blame. After a certain point, the number of times QC held an unconscious QT and monologued about how she was his alone while Black Fox complimented him for being so clever/horrible/handsome/ruthless was just so draining and annoying, lol, especially when QT's response when she found out about his lies and murders was basically always just "I'm telling you in a very firm voice for the nth time to stop being evil now, QC," while doing nothing to enforce, discipline, or check that she was being listened to, despite this having not worked every previous time she said it. And then the Bangle Episode, where she was like "Must hide that I'm meeting ML and lie about it/pretend not to know him, because I wouldn't want to hurt QC's feelings." Lol. So lacking in IQ and agency, poor QT.
Ah well. At least the bashing The Journey of Legend got resulted in CY getting one extra fan outta it, which is me. The way he went through all that and handled it was such a gentlemen. Hope he gets more projects, he's a brilliant actor 🥰
We don't know why these scenes were changed, or even if they were changed. To my knowledge, all filming was completed before the first FSMM title even aired. To speculate that the ML would be responsible for the editing choices and writing choices and not the studio is no more fair to him than the speculation that it's the studio's fault is to the studio.
At the end of the day, the producer, editor, and director chose to output the final product like this. We will never know why.
But it's slightly ironic that you are promoting objectivity to the studio, saying they may not have reshot or changed the script at all, while at the same time pinning the editing choices (that you don't even agree happened) on the actor. Blocked.
is it worth to watch? i've heard many people are disappointed because the screenwriter, honestly i've been put…
It is, as long as you keep your expectations nice and low.
Expect gorgeous aesthetics, beautiful music, and a principled lead who can fight well and doesn't waver from his determination to first find and then be true to his reason for cultivating and drawing his sword, and is willing to rebel against what he's told is right if his common sense is telling him otherwise. (For eps 1-17 also expect a beautiful, plucky spider who supports her person all the way and-- as the more vivacious of the two-- truly sells the romance between them, making you feel her devotion and love for him.)
Despite the above, however: Do not expect an epic, swoon-worthy romance between the male and female lead, fleshed out bad guys with nuanced reasons to be evil, or character consistency in anyone but the lead. Also do not expect a plot that makes sense.
Run with the vibe and appreciate the aesthetics, embrace the power of the FF button when side-arcs (or main arcs, depending who you're watching for) get too draggy is the way to appreciate this drama from start to end. Whichever of the couples you are watching for, they all get plenty of eps and screentime, so while that's a double-edged sword if you're not enjoying any, it also gives you multiple options for favorites and picking who in the show you want to watch.
I thought Red Moon Pact was bad, but in the end, this one surpassed it. It's a shame, because it was one of my…
I think there’s a bunch of alternative realities and timelines established at the end of RMP as I remember reading something about how “in an alternate universe some version of us got a happy ending” happened. Maybe in this one Fugui beat the black fox so the couple in RMP will get their happy ending in this timeline, while Fugui and canon!QT will get their 50 years of happiness in RMP’s timeline. 👀
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Eps 13+, depends on your tolerance for filler.
I blame the writers.
He was happy chilling in Ep13 painting lanterns and chatting with townsfolk, and even wishing on the lantern that ep, it wasn't "May I be able to save everyone," but "May I be allowed to finally retire." He would easily have found stuff to live for, since he was the kind of guy who genuinely liked living and was capable of emotionally bonding with a cricket. He likes people and he enjoyed life.
If he'd lived he woulda been fine, he'd have joined Fox Prince telling stories around the tree base and probably been a beloved tender of plants and maker of lanterns, with his own little greenhouse where he welcomed spiders. Slaying demons + saving the world from the Black Fox was just something he did because like he told Rumu, those who are more capable should shoulder more burdens and there just didn't happen to be anyone in the world capable of doing it except him, it wasn't the purpose of his existence.
They did everyone so dirty in that last arc.
I'm still not over how killing every demon ever can be done without hate but the moment you kill a human who deserves to die as much as all those demons (in fact wayyy more) it's suddenly a problem. I don't even see why they made him get semi-possessed in the first place by her, his inner fire should have sub-consciously purified him like it did in Ep13, that whole ending arc made no sense to me though the visuals were good.
He tends to get around 5 people 1-starring all eps of his work before it's aired (actual numbers observed by me for this one), and picks up more when airing. The number's tiny, but it skews the ratings since 1000 8-stars and 5 1-stars = 7.9, for example.
CY does not have that many fans here on MDL blindly voting 10; he has some (I base this statistically on observing TJOL's unaired ep ratings climbing from 1 star to around ~5.2) but the majority of viewers here are not super fans of any one actor, they just want to watch a good show and enjoy it, and will just score on how much they enjoyed the show once it ends, which solely depends on how good it is, or how much fun they felt they had with it by the end.
Thus, his shows on MDL will typically end up scoring slightly lower than how much everyone actually watching it ended up enjoying it. You need either a lot of fans who love you enough to 10-star your work just because you're in it or else you need zero haters in order to not have your work disproportionately skewed by the haters.
It's just how statistics work unfortunately.
Plus side is that he himself did really well in this show. The score would be very different if scores could be allocated marks for acting vs plot and writing!
Music's lovely, acting is good, visuals are lovely, but the character consistency in everyone except Fugui plus the plot are a mess.
Yup. He’ll become a main character again at ep31.
But the characters are basically all so different aside from that when it comes to personality and motivations and feelings that they’re differentiated completely in my head, there’s no way I’d mix up Sifeng with Fugui or with Qi Yan or with LLH or XQS.
I think he’s also safe from his career being affected by this. At the end of the day, investors invest for a reason, if it’s CY as the lead I can’t be the only person who will definitely check out at least 1 episode to see if it’s good and that’s usually as long as he needs to hook me and keep me around to the end.
Just hope he never works with this team of writers ever again, and I certainly won’t be touching anything done by this producer either.
As you say, QC is to blame. After a certain point, the number of times QC held an unconscious QT and monologued about how she was his alone while Black Fox complimented him for being so clever/horrible/handsome/ruthless was just so draining and annoying, lol, especially when QT's response when she found out about his lies and murders was basically always just "I'm telling you in a very firm voice for the nth time to stop being evil now, QC," while doing nothing to enforce, discipline, or check that she was being listened to, despite this having not worked every previous time she said it. And then the Bangle Episode, where she was like "Must hide that I'm meeting ML and lie about it/pretend not to know him, because I wouldn't want to hurt QC's feelings." Lol. So lacking in IQ and agency, poor QT.
Ah well. At least the bashing The Journey of Legend got resulted in CY getting one extra fan outta it, which is me. The way he went through all that and handled it was such a gentlemen. Hope he gets more projects, he's a brilliant actor 🥰
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We don't know why these scenes were changed, or even if they were changed. To my knowledge, all filming was completed before the first FSMM title even aired. To speculate that the ML would be responsible for the editing choices and writing choices and not the studio is no more fair to him than the speculation that it's the studio's fault is to the studio.
At the end of the day, the producer, editor, and director chose to output the final product like this. We will never know why.
But it's slightly ironic that you are promoting objectivity to the studio, saying they may not have reshot or changed the script at all, while at the same time pinning the editing choices (that you don't even agree happened) on the actor. Blocked.
Expect gorgeous aesthetics, beautiful music, and a principled lead who can fight well and doesn't waver from his determination to first find and then be true to his reason for cultivating and drawing his sword, and is willing to rebel against what he's told is right if his common sense is telling him otherwise. (For eps 1-17 also expect a beautiful, plucky spider who supports her person all the way and-- as the more vivacious of the two-- truly sells the romance between them, making you feel her devotion and love for him.)
Despite the above, however: Do not expect an epic, swoon-worthy romance between the male and female lead, fleshed out bad guys with nuanced reasons to be evil, or character consistency in anyone but the lead. Also do not expect a plot that makes sense.
Run with the vibe and appreciate the aesthetics, embrace the power of the FF button when side-arcs (or main arcs, depending who you're watching for) get too draggy is the way to appreciate this drama from start to end. Whichever of the couples you are watching for, they all get plenty of eps and screentime, so while that's a double-edged sword if you're not enjoying any, it also gives you multiple options for favorites and picking who in the show you want to watch.
2) Side romance only. (No kisses and stuff between main leads.)
Only trouble would be I would be cheering for the villain, lol.