ASmith

well deserved first place 🥰

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Ahh. Yup, 5 is a hard price point to beat, it’s probably still the cheapest option vs DVDs and stuff. Hopefully, they’ll do another free period next year again like they did earlier this year for MLC for US users on the anniversary!

That makes sense on both counts, ouch 🥶🥶 Yeah I definitely waited for the iQIYI day promotion they give in my region to subscribe 🥶

How expensive is it for a month of subscription in India?

I relate to there being a shortage of sites to watch this one. The only reason I subscribed to iQIYI was for this drama, they were smart not to share this one 😂 Before I bit the billet and went for the year long membership though, they were pretty nice about giving a cheap month long VIP trial period for 1.99 for every new email 👀 What goes wrong with iQIYI for you, or just mainly looking for free sites?

I have not seen that one but if it does I’ll have to check it out! 😀

He is so charismatic and his relationship with his wife is so beautiful 🥰

ep49 he dies of poison, but he dies beautifully while passing the throne on. You can probably stop around mid way through ep49 where they’re attending the lantern festival and he spins her around with slow romantic music as your happy ending, stop after the first two cuts of the spin as he faints at the end of it, and the rest of ep is basically him dying and passing on the throne and the kingdom now being a happier place thanks to his hard work throughout 😂😆

for me, I don’t know that it’s badly written quite; In the previous ep, XQS chatted with his friend who remembers the novel plot, and they say “at this hero conference what originally happened was LCZ and you became allies and eight masters gave you their power which is how you don’t instantly die fighting LCZ.” And XQS theorizes the plot may be changed by R.

XQS follows them down the cliff because he is aware of this plot point, and upon seeing him all simultaneously are triggered for this quest and rush to give him their power. (He gives a token protest since he’s aware they’ll die doing it and he doesn’t like people dying, but doesn’t fight it too much because they are all dying anyway due to their wounds from fighting each other and also it’s the plot and definitely the only way to beat the Power Gang, which they want him to do to.)

It’s a scene both hilarious for me (cuz it’s like when you play an RPG and you go near a town and an NPC rushes up and says “you must save the world random stranger!” *journal update: new quest added*) but also an unsettling reminder that our lead is imersively LARPing a plot that is still following the original novel; he has more free will now he’s destroyed the System and has “become” the MC rather than the player (memory-wise), but he still hasn’t changed a key plot point yet; he is still living the protagonist’s journey rather than changing the protagonist’s journey.)

But yeah it certainly is a scene that breaks the third wall 😂

They have strongly different theological beliefs, basically, due to the different martial arts they practice and so the orthodox trainers want to prove orthodox methods are better while unorthodox want to prove unorthodox are stronger.

I like it 🥰

It starts out light and then goes suuuuper serious 😆😅

There's something very addictive about his acting, right? When I see photos of him still it's a completely different experience to watching him in a show, I think because he's so good at sinking into the role and emoting what the character would actually feel in the scenes. I'm slowly working my way through his other series too on this same logic 😂 >> [cannot miss him]

(I love his outfits in this show, so for me they worked, luckily for my viewing enjoyment vs yours for the first few eps🤭But I gotta say, my bar's not super high, I don't think I really detected the production values a lot of viewers were complaining about. The only thing I noticed was everyone's makeup was quite heavy in some scenes, but I think that was more to do with the weather being very hot when filming and needing to stop the sweat from washing it straight off, so I could understand it. There's one scene where one of the actors' chests is just slightly visible under his neckline and he was dripping sweat, it made me think the weather must have been so hot. Everyone did so well with their fight scenes despite the heat! I think I read it got up as high as 45, I wilt even at 30.)

Good luck with the rest of this one!

Their rating is 10 now and they said the drama is good 😅 I don’t think they hate it.

so true 😂

A non expert so take my answer with a grain of salt:

Yunhe = what all viewers on online platforms are watching (number + %)

Kuyan = what viewers in online plus TV are watching (number and %)

Maoyan = More a popularity index (it monitors Weibo and Douyin too along with episode views, so more of a measure of how viewer engagement is going.)

A show only aired online may have 40% Yunhe, but 20% Kuyun if 50% of people were also on their TV doing something. If no one posted about it after their Maoyan score would be lower vs one everyone was talking about or making gifs/clips of, which would have a high engagement index.

Is my understanding of the difference!

Feel for you. I mean I loved the show despite its flaws, but still. Maybe try Stand By Me for a stronger supporting cast and a less live action anime type wardrobe CY historical?

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such an apt metaphor for those two 🤣😂

This is fair and valid, he totally did ;-;