Alex Mcca

Douluo Continent is not worth mentioning here, what's more, many people just continued watching for Xiao Zhan. I abandoned before episode 10 because the directing is uninspiring and they should really stop making female actresses childish and annoying.

WOH jumped from no. 18 to no. 6 spot in World's top trending TV shows last week. TU can still be in the list 2 years after release, and very impressive!

https://www.sohu.com/a/456070789_260998

Didn't the screen sizzle when all these four handsome men are on screen together? The make up and costume artist did a great job to make them look naturally beautiful and yet not feminine.

I forgot to mention Ancient Detective is another great example of a budget drama making the best of it with beautiful BGM and stunning cinematography.

Watch Ancient Detective in Viki as timed comments could make it more fun.

I have not finished watching many Taiwanese dramas because I cannot stand the acting, cinematography and accent although the accent is cute and pleasant to hear in real life. As a Chinese Malaysian, I prefer the standard Mandarin spoken in China, :-P

Furthermore, Taiwan does not have the budget (small market base) and filming location for period dramas like the Hengdian World Studios in China.

There are hundreds of uncensored BL dramas from Thailand, Taiwan and Philippines for those who want to see at least a kiss or physical intimacy, China dramas just offer different vibes and styles although we do hope they will become more and more open to BL theme. No communist countries including Russia and Vietnam I have visited have allowed BL acceptance in their society yet.

Simon Gong has secured the number 1 spot in one of the chinese star chart. Congratulations! I hope he stays for a few weeks. It's a long time anyone could unseat Xiao Zhan in the chart, haha.
https://www.163.com/dy/article/G5AJ4SN1054450X5.html

Love is More Than A Word is really a BL drama but the clamp down during that time made the series seem incomplete and rushed like Advance bravely. It is easy watching as it is web drama with low budget production and unknown actors.

Men of Sword 1 & 2 have a few future stars there but the story is not strong. It's so obviously BL but the script writer didn't know how to play with censorship like WOH.

This drama OUATLM may not be for everyone cos the FL is crazy as hell; you either find her funny or OTT. Xu Kai keeps flirting with the second ML for fun but it's so sweet and funny. The ending makes some people angry cos the FL suddenly fell in love with the ML to close the drama which I think they just want to pass censorship. Watch the following trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiVXW7ClSLY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpuDMfC0Wpk (Avenue X's review)

I didn't say it was bad that they use plain stir fry vege and roast chicken (cheapest meat) but funnily frugal. Many big productions do indeed use real expensive dishes (chinese can tell) and the actors never actually eat them.

I like Ancient Detective, it's a proper bromance and Once Upon A Time at Linying Mountain where the bromance is almost gay, haha. They only have FL romance toward the end of the series, so you have plenty bromance throughout.

Any link I can see the word fight?

I applaud the cost saving measure taken by WOH team. In two scenes at the dining table, they used the same 5 plain stir fry vegetable and one roast chicken dishes and Simon Gong said "I've ordered a table of great dishes for you", haha!
Also first time hearing a prodcution team waiting for actual rain to shoot the scene cos artificial rain is more costly, :-P

It's better to have a perfectly paced drama than one that drags and disappoint towards the end. Don't worries about feeling void after WOH ends, there is Immortality, The Society of 4 Leaves (Jing Boran!) and The Winner is King all hopefully to be released consecutively by summer!

Yes, the songs in WOH does not sound melodic enough and more like songs for modern drama, haha!

While I enjoy WOH more than TU, one thing the latter did it right was paying enough for the creation of Wu Ji, the theme song, which when performed with flute or erhu, is the instant classic and a masterpiece. Word of Honor has decent OST but they lack the perpetual melocholy of Wuji or the goosebump inducing song of the Ashes of Love, Upward To The Moon.

Many TU fans will cry whenever they hear that music score of Wuji! It shows how powerful music score could be and worth investing to create instant classic!

Is it insane this drama has been rated 9.7 in imdb which usually has low rating for cdrama?
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14169656/

Yes, I love the kid who played little Zhi Qui in Go Ahead. He has such a pinch-able face with big round eyes.
Gong Jun is super gorgeous in this drama. You will continue to see a wide range of emotions from him up to current airing episodes, he is really viral now.

More Easter eggs from this Chinese Youtuber whom I think is funny. You can turn on the English subtitle, albeit it's messed up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_eSNiV2OWA&t=328s

Yes, I was surprised to see 4 episodes tonight.