Deirdre19

Yes, the "old people" are indeed watching it as well. 👵🏻 Why should we let the youngsters have all the fun???

Why?

The police guy following the suspect made so many mistakes which are probably also violations of proper procedure that it was obvious from the start that this would go wrong:
- When following the suspect (on his own) he shouldn't have engaged until there was back-up.
- There was no need to follow the suspect into that tunnel. He could' ve just closed/guarded the door to that tunnel.
- When pointing a gun at the suspect why would he get so close that the suspect could knock it out of his hands?
And his chief was no better. When finding an injured colleague the first action should have been a call to the ambulance. Where was his gun and why didn't he use it to incapacitate the suspect (rather than having a roll in the mud).
I have absolutely no problem with the fact that the writers wanted to kill off a character in this drama, but please, give us a half-way intelligent storyline!

As much as I love this series, I found episode 10 rather annoying and extremely unrealistic...
Yes, this is fiction, but that does not mean the writers have carte blanche to disregard common sense and standard police prodedures (which I'm sure aren't that much different in China).

Awh, she's daddy's girl!

I'm not sure how open Chinese directors are towards the actors' input. I know it is a frequent occurrence for Western actors to bring their own ideas to the director. For instance Viggo Mortensen usually brings his some of his own props or things that he reckons his character would like to own or wear.
However, given the hierarchical culture in China, I would expect film directors to be a lot less accommodating. Otherwise, would any actress behave in the usual childish way if she had a say in it?

This is the difference between the average actor and a great actor. The average actors can only shine in roles that are variations of themselves whereas a great actor can play roles that have absolutely nothing in common with their real personality.
I've seen quite a few of the goofy clips that show LYX cooking or playing games and I'm always surprised by the level of silliness that is so unlike any of his roles.

It's definitely not a comedy. There is some situational comedy due to the banter between the main leads and some other characters, but overall it is rather serious stuff. Despite sometimes bizarre sometimes tragic events it isn't overly dark though.
For me, it hits just the right balance between entertainment and suspense.

Yes, if you read a few of my posts you will see that I'm endlessly deploring the fact that even on MDL good dramas with real actors get a mediocre rating while truely average dramas filled with pretty boys who cannot act get a high rating no matter what.

You wouldn't believe the number of men being intimidated by this kind of woman, especially if she is good-looking on top of everything else.

Ohohoh, whereas I usually don't care much about actors' private life it explains why there are so many people attacking her right now. Seems like all these people need to get a life (or get la*d) quite badly.

Quite franckly, I couldn't give a FF about what those crazy C-netizens are getting worked up today, tomorrow or any time in the future. Their default setting seems to be outraged + hateful, so I'd prefer they keep all this negativity to themselves on their Chinese platforms.

I'm glad that here we have a forum where different opinions can exist without hateful personal attacks, so repeating all this slander isn't helpful. Let's keep this a place where people who are actually interested in the drama (not in bashing people or making waves) can discuss.

The initially planned 58 episodes have been condensed into the 40 episodes that we have now (longer episodes of approx 51 min and some cuts).
I think when the cap of the no. of episodes was announced they had originally planned to do 2 parts and air them back-to-back (as was done with Love Like the Galaxy), but then another rule was introduced that if there are two parts, there has to be a gap of a few months between them. So eventually it ended up being 40 episodes and no 2nd part.

It's clearly a machine translation, but even for that it's really bad. I don't know what kind of crappy software they used to get these results. I just MTLed the first chapter of the book and other than a few minor issues it came out fine.
As this is a modern setting, the translation is a lot easier than for a historical or xianxia setting with all those flowery concubine titles, formal greetings and everyone referring to themselves in the third person.

Interesting read. Thanks for sharing this! It explains quite nicely why there is so much organised negativity towards TTEOTM. As always, it's all about money in the end.

Here's the link to the book - all in Chinese, so you will have to machine translate it.
https://www.99csw.com/book/5044/index.htm
On the upside, can't be worse than the Mango subtitles...😂

In case anyone was wondering what this is about:
The young upstart Lu Chenyuan voluntarily proposed to marry Jiang Yurou, the daughter of the Hushi General, and the news caused a sensation in the entire capital, because Jiang Yurou's reputation for stubbornness was well known to everyone. And Jiang Yurou tried her best to make Lu Chenyuan regret the marriage. But Lu Chenyuan saw the tricks, and never left Jiang Yurou, and finally moved her, and the two finally got married.
(MTL translation from Douban)

WTF was episode 22??? Did the writers run out of steam or did they go on holiday and left the trainee in charge?
The whole episode felt like a series of lame "romantic" clichés (the market, the soup, the fireflies). The few things that happened could have been told in 10 min.

TMOPB = Ten Miles of Peach Blossom (aka Eternal Love).

Yes, the stoic ML is always a thankless role. It's quite hard to portray for any actor, as they still have to somehow convey emotions/inner turmoil without too many gestures which requires a lot more acting skill than playing a normal or goofy character. And even if they get it right, half of the audience don't get the subtleties of their acting and will still complain.
I think Xin Yun Lai is doing quite a good job here. The added difficulty for him is that he is facing off against Zheng Ye Cheng who I find really impressive in this one. I've only seen him in costume dramas so far (where he can shine with superb martial arts skills) so didn't expect too much from him in this modern setting, but now I'm truly impressed by the way he can show us a character who is cocky one moment and needy/vulnerable in the next.