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The disappoint the Emperor bit really sent me.😂

In defence of ZZT who plays Yi Wuyou, actors do have to start somewhere and he’s going about it the way it used to be done by working his way up with smaller roles. I believe this was his first bigger role and tbh with all the cuts and lack of screen time, it’s hard for me to really judge him. His scene with Yezi and the seal seemed okay. The emotions and reactions were in place and his confrontation with Qi Hailan over Yezi’s execution had an interesting intensity. Plus he’s up against FSF who has been acting for years and PXR who while is still improving, is still thought of as promising in terms of acting skills within her cohort. The experience seemed to help him as I’ve heard he was quite good as the lead of hockey drama that came out this year.
And sometimes directors cast to capture other skills. While he may have been brought on for his looks, I think ZZT was brought on because of his dance skills. While I’m not sure if Yi Wuyou is a warrior, he’s a bird like princely character and his key scenes seem to be fight scenes. This suggests his character needs to have an air of delicacy and grace to portray the birdlike characteristics while also displaying the fluidity of movement key to martial arts. There seems to be few young actors who can do martial arts like in the past so dancers are often used to at least keep the fluidity and grace. ZZT is known as a good dancer. I’ve seen his ice skating and even as a novice, he’s quite graceful so I can see his skills translating to other areas. In his tidbits, his fight scenes looked pretty good.

People are telling FSF to never lead these types of dramas again. They’re telling the FML to quit the industry and ridiculing her choice to star against the best acting opponent she’s had so far. It’s just really maddening as someone who actually likes acting. Even if the plots not always good, the acting skills can be seen in this show so it’s a bit like a plea to people to please not drive the talent out of this genre. 😩Like mentioned earlier, even young actors will sometimes not take on fantasy or historical romance because it’s looked down upon.
I love Mimi. She gave me two of my favourite FML, Bai Qian and Fuyao. She and Her Perfect Husband’s criticism is just wild. Isn’t Yang Mi actually younger than the character she plays. I stopped listening to the criticism when they said she didn’t look enough like a lawyer.

I don’t think they’re talking about the review on Dramalist. It’s actually pretty decent. It’s probably more geared towards Douban and it’s toxic rating culture. People are literally giving the drama 1 star reviews just because of FSF and while people are entitled to their opinions to trash the show, people are also entitled to their opinions to defend the show.
This drama does have problems but there have been plenty of other quality fantasy dramas trashed because of the age of the leads. Especially if they’re a respected actor ( and sometimes it doesn’t even have to do with age) they can get ridiculed for doing fantasy which keeps them away from these roles entirely. As a fan who likes fantasy and historical romance and good acting, it’s annoying to keep seeing this pattern.
For example, the picture of the poster’s avatar is from a drama that suffered some of the same ageist complaints. It basically hit the streets domestically because of this and yet it went on to be nominated for an Emmy.

I laughed so hard at this.😂

Haha, I know an actor who for a fact looks 10 years older than his age and some of his crew are dissing FSF to gain popularity and it’s annoying af. I think it’s just FSF they don’t like tbh or the fact that he was chubby for some scenes because I saw a comparison video of him with other older men and they still looked old too. I still say if they gave him a beard, we wouldn’t be having this convo at all. Bearded emperor FSF is like Ningyi with the good weave levels looking good. And while people trash him, not many people can come with a actor of his level that would agree to do this. And that’s what really annoys me is that when good actors come to the TV fantasy genre as main leads they get ridiculed so we end with poor or mediocre main leads most of the time.
Also people need to read the synopsis. They can tell the exact diameter of the mole a character is supposed to have on their left cheek in other dramas but on this drama they suddenly don’t know the male leads age.

Lol, it got a hot search so Youku must be happy too. At least it’s number 2 on Youku. And the shot the show put up to celebrate is super cute too. It’s the scene of Yu Xiuming telling Yezi to seize her own destiny.

I started fast-forwarding too. Altho there’s some fans of them, even the Chinese fans are complaining. I think it’s there cause it’s the only storyline that got left intact.😂

Apparently on the Chinese version of Youku, you can see how much screen time the actors get. Qi Hailan got like 16 minutes, I think Yezi and Wu Yiyou got around 12, FSF got 4.

I feel like the dub for this series may have had to do with the cuts/editing and oftentimes unless the actor has a lot of clout, they have to go with what production says. FSF could have definitely have dubbed himself and I think PXR probably could have done Yezi. Some voice actors are good and enhance the character but I find it often takes away some of the nuance of emotions. A lot more dramas are starting to use real voices though which is good.
I feel like these scenes might not make it though. The young Yezi and A’Rui scene was already cut which provides insight to Yezi’s attachment to A’Rui and detachment from Yebei. Possibly also gives a backstory as to why she just seems to roll with everything. I feel like almost getting burned at the stake as a kid has got to do something to you.
The director posted in the thread in a way that seemed to suggest these scenes won’t make it tho and it was low-key sad.

I posted a link to a recent tidbit video and there’s quite a few romantic shots in it.

There will be romance. I think most of the romance happens in the later episodes. I know I definitely saw kiss and marriage icons in the latter part of the schedule.

Sorry I should have mentioned I don’t use the app. I access Weibo through the website using the Google Chrome app.

Congrats to Shining Just For You breaking 8000 on Youku’s popularity index! It’s usually not a high achievement but for such a beleaguered drama even small things are a success!!!🎊🎊🎊

From the trailers, it looks like the clouds of angst are coming Yezi’s way. The crying scenes will be on point but I’m really sad to see the cute and rather carefree Official Bai Lu go😭.

Yeah, the FML goes back in time to try to save her friend.
Most of the clips are on Weibo or Douyin. YouTube is uploading too be they’re way too slow. If you go to Weibo and type in 星河长明, search results should come up. Click the box with the orange diamond that should say super talk and then select latest post once it takes you to the page. If you scroll long enough, you’ll find videos there. If you use your mobile in the Google app it should auto translate for you.

Apparently they had never done video editing before but were determined to do this. They even went back and did a smoother edit.😂

They are really beating us to death with this eldest princess storyline that nobody asked for and starving us to death with everything else.💀

They do!!! I’m not sure when they’d happen but these tidbits look so good. With all the cuts, it’s really the emotional line that’s saving this show. It’s a shame the romantic tidbits may not make it into the main drama.

It’s still set to finish airing on the 23rd I believe . One episode tonight. Then two episodes on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Then one episode on Friday and Saturday until it’s run ends.