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For example, the knife in the neck is a clear continuity error imo and a mistake from the people that were on the crew. And I am sure that if you ask any doctor you may know, they will say the same. It is impossible for the knife to move so much.
However, I am aware that many people didn't even notice it while the series was running. I had made a similar post below when this specific episode aired and many didn't notice it at all. Unfortunately for me, since I subtitle and watch some scenes over and over again I have become a bit sensitive to continuity errors and this was a big one to miss.
"The human body is capable of amazing feats. In fact, King Henry V of England survived an arrow in the head, and that was also before antibiotics." -> It truly is, I just found it a bit far fetched in this particular case happening twice and for a series that what seemed like main characters continuously died. But like you said this is a series and it is not like it was the first time happening.
I didn't find your responses as rude. The only thing I found rude was telling me to go watch a documentary, that I thought it was completely irrelevant with what we were discussing at the time.
I personally haven't watched that series. I get the frustration if that appeared on screen, but that is not the actor's fault. It is the crew's and specifically the editor's. It is a pretty bad mistake for a series, not that there aren't worst ones in C-dramas. I heard about ropes appearing on an episode of Kill my Sins for example.
Unfortunately, C-netizens are always looking for a fight and like always there are many people that are haters of a specific actor so they judge someone in every opportunity they get. It is very rare to have dramas with 0 continuity errors, but many times the errors are not that important to matter. For example, there is another continuity error in episode 24 of the Vendetta of An around 17 minutes in, where the Tienmo king is touching the deposed emperors shoulder, then takes his hand down and the next frame, his hand is back on his shoulder.
This one in The Journey of Legend is unfortunate to say the least, but that was the editor's and director's fault. Even if Cheng Yi was holding the script that is not really such a big deal, especially taking into consideration that many actors shoot for many hours every day (can be even 18). They can't always learn by heart every single line and they need sleep too.
I hope the story is comprehensible or at least the eps are longer.
To brand it as an attack is too much and I get that being offensive was not your goal, but by telling someone that they should watch a documentary just because they mentioned something they didn't like, is not exactly polite either. But since it wasn't your goal, then it doesn't matter. I just found it slightly offensive from my part, because I thought it was irrelevant.
About the neck wound, I have attached the pics of those two scenes in a previous comment. I think rewatching that part would be better though.
I'm not talking just about a difference in the angle. Yes, I suppose it's possible for an angle to change like you mention, but this is not the case here. If both wounds were in the same place and the angle had changed, that would be fine, but here the knife is in a completely different part of his "body". It couldn't have moved like that unless it cut his entire neck.
This is my first drama with CY. I'll need more context on what you mean there, cause I don't understand it.
I'm not disagreeing about the chest wound. I think I wasn't clear on that. I agree that it was necessary to do that, because his scheme wouldn't work otherwise and he wouldn't be able to kill the Tienmo king.
I don't mind that scene as a whole. I liked Huaians ending. Him dying on that granary after achieving his goal. Was it realistic? Not really, but I didn't mind that because it fitted the drama and his character perfectly.
What I'm bothered by is the special, where it was implied he may be alive after taking the knife off and burning the granary. To be completely honest, I personally didn't think that was him but most people seem to believe so and it would make sense since the end of the special definitely looked like there will be a S2 sometime in the future.
I'd be fine if there was no special and the series ended on ep. 28. But because of the special, the possibility of him surviving after all that is way too far fetched for my liking and I'd just prefer not to have seen the special.
But well jokes on me, cause I usually dislike specials but I always end up watching them and getting disappointed 🤷♀️
Of course we don't know what happened, how much he got burned etc
I'm just talking taking into consideration what we were shown as viewers. Maybe he had devised a plan to escape. Maybe someone else saved him. Maybe the king was burned alive and he managed to get out etc.
But what we see on screen is him setting the king and the granary on fire while he was inside. There was even an explosion. That would cause him serious burns and/or death. It would also deteriorate his situation since he was stabbed and wounded. Of course maybe it was a "scheme" of the director and the big fire happened after he was out. I'm just being bitter cause I truly disliked the special and I felt like they gave me the perfect ending and then just took it back. I'm tired of protagonists in such dramas leaving unscathed just because they are the mains like it happened recently in another popular series and just made no sense story wise.
Is it that wrong to disagree on something?
All series have flaws and for me this is the biggest one in this one. For you it's not, and that's fine...
I have favourite dramas and I still don't think they are perfect 😅
I think it's a valid complaint for a series like this one that is a serious revenge drama. I'm not gonna complain for such thing when I'm watching a xianxia, I'm not gonna complain when a character vomits blood three times per episode cause it's expected. Like I didn't complain when pigeons saved Vincenzo cause it's supposed to be a comedy after all.
Like I previously said I enjoyed the drama. However, yes I didn't like the ML having such a plot armor, especially since it could just be avoided.
It is true that all main characters do have plot armors. However, this series, for me at least, was much different that many costume dramas because of its unpredictability. In most dramas it is quite obvious who will live, who will die, who will play a major part in the series etc. Here for once we didn't have that. Characters that seemed important were introduced and then immediately killed. That's why I was bothered by the plot armor of the ML.
Of course everything depends on a lot of things and we can't know. However, they could just choose a "safer" place to wound him instead of choosing the worst possible places to do so for dramatic effect. And yes I was also bothered by the fact that they didn't pay attention to that knife having a completely different position from one scene to another, cause that is just a very cheap mistake for a series like this.
Even if toad oil is real, it's not magical to fully heal someone that has been burned seriously.
Just to be clear, I'm not looking for a fight. I just stated my only complain about the drama. It's a series that when a character makes a mistake they pay for it with their lives. I don't see that much, if not at all, in costume dramas with so many different and important characters, so Huaian surviving after all this bothered me, cause even though the drama was "fresh" in terms of plot armors, they chose to follow the same thing they tried to avoid when it came to Huaian. They chose to be super dramatic with him and that just didn't fit the general atmosphere of the drama. Again for me. It's fine to disagree. I'm glad you weren't bothered by that, I personally was and that's why I mentioned it.
The series itself is not realistic at all when it comes to injuries and generally medicine. After all, we have that doctor creating a new face for the deposed emperor. That can't even happen today that good, imagine back then...
First wound that was horizontally in his neck, maybe he could survive. But that still would cause him other problems like immense pain or problems with his voice. Even if he didn't die from the bleeding, it would be likely to die from an infection.
Second wound, he would have to be ''ML armor'' lucky to survive that after everything. It's not like he got immediate medical attention. He walked fine with a knife in his chest, that definitely hit something vital taking into consideration the place. Even if he could survive, taking off the knife in a place that would burn would cause his death unless doctor House and his team appeared.
What I am saying is that the series is quite brutal when it comes to other characters deaths. They take the ''most likely would die'' prossibility. But when it comes to Huaian, he constantly survives no matter the wound, feeling like he has a plot armor. He is just constantly way too lucky.
What bothers me is that they could just place the knife somewhere else and it would seem more realistic, but they didn't. Even in that knife wound in the first episode, the knife changed position. That shows me as a viewer that the people responsible for the script/make-up didn't give a shit about the possibility of survival. If they did, the knife wouldn't change position, but from a diagonical stab in the lower part he suddenly was horizontally stabbed in the neck...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fHZ9C_VcUfINS01Q5KFnJ2YnkjkkQ_jP/view?usp=sharing
Toad oil? Sure. But that is still a magical item. It doesn't exist and unless he got out of that fire before it happened, in reality he would be disfigured for life from the burns, not just have some minor burns like he got burned while cooking food.
I enjoyed the series, but it was very brutal when it comes to characters mistakes. When someone comitted a mistake, he died. There was no sugar coating like it happens in most historical dramas. They were wounded and dead in seconds. But with Huaian he got too lucky more than once in a series that there is not really any luck. That's what bothered me.
To be honest I am still in shock about the spider case passing censorship. Like I don't know how they managed that.
Even here censorship is a bit ''weird'' though. Like in some scenes we see dead parts of bodied being entirely blurred. In other scenes same parts of bodies are shown or at least aren't that blurred.
It is interesting people that were also part in Victim's Game did this series. Taiwan probably didnt want the script being made, cause otherwise they'd probably do a taiwanese drama and at least they wouldn't be that concerned of the censorship.
Personally I didn't think that person on the cell was Huaian but everyone seems to believe so. If it is truly him, that would be stupid af.
I loved the series, but the only thing I hated was Huaian surviving after being fatally wounded like at least two times.
In the first few eps he's stabbed on the neck and he survived miraculously somehow (I mean he's the ML it is expected). Then he was stabbed near or in the heart and he not only survived but managed to go to that granary and kill the Tienmo king for good. And okay that is also fine for me. But if they decided to make him somehow survive that fire too with no wounds and we have him as a ML in another season I'll be mad. If this was a xianxia I'd be okay, but I'm tired of him surviving time and time again when there was no way that he could. At least they could try to be realistic with some wounds. Like stab him elsewhere. Why do they wound him in places that it is impossible to survive?.
I loved the suspense of the drama and that no one was truly safe, but the writers definitely decided to make some characters survive longer than they should have after some fatal wounds while others immediately died cause script said so. I truly hope that is not Huaian in that cell and just another character, cause if it's him not only that would ruin for me a pretty great costume drama, but it also will make it look cheap and for all I know next season we may have people slashing his throat and him surviving like he's immortal or sth.
It feels like they cut out some scenes.
There are quite a few films (and maybe even series) based on that short story. It's quite popular in China.