This cast took a story that had very little to work with and made it something.
Full disclosure:I like Gong Jun. Infact some would say LOVE HIM DOWN...and when i heard of his character setting in this drama i was PSYCHED!
ASSASIN....Girl....nothing hotter than a professional murderer.....😂😂😂
I was quite impatient for this so i searched for the donghua first to watch before it released...and then i remembered why i didn't really like Blood of Youth that much and why i didn't bother with the other one....
This entire story series has very little plot.
Blood of youth felt like i was watching mortal kombat, with people introducing themselves, fighting, admiring one another's skill, then moving on to level up and fight someone else.
This makes it a cute visually appealing drama but not really one I'd ever rewatch or think about much after its finished.
When i watched the donghua i realized that Blood of Youth even had the advantage of Integrating every storyline in the series and giving all of them endings...so it generally had more going on.
That's why i believe even the last installment didn't do as well, Blood of Youth seems to have said all that needed to be said and it left the already very low overall plot of the series dwindled.
Tales of Dark River donghua proved that. It was exciting to watch....but if anyone asked me what happened ....i could explain it in 4 sentences and leave nothing of relevance out.
It's got that one storyline, and that storyline is basically an elaborate tug of war between a bunch of assasin families and a lot of talking.
Like....a lot of these characters have to tell us about their pasts or generally narrate a lot of things since this is solely about the fight...and that can get tiring.
I didn't even see a need to see the last episode of the donghua....I just didn't care at that point....but from that disappointment came worry.....how will Gong Jun, the rest of the cast and the writers pull this off?
How would ANYONE pull of such a story that's both shallow and complicated?
Luckily they somehow did.🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
They fleshed out the plot enough to give it meat and more substance but still maintained the original content and general parameters of the donghua. The cast was well chosen, though there is some excessive use of makeup.
The production quality is good....Maybe too good at times cause i felt my eyes burn and blur at some of the dark accent.
I like the music and the pace is fast....thank lawd it's fast, so much that although the original story is a drag....its a fast moving drag.
The line delivery from the actors is also Ok....I'm not seeing any excessive signs of dubbing.
Overall this is an 8/10...but that's cause the story its cant be anything above that no matter who acts in it.....but I'll give it a 9.78 cause being able to make something of this is an achievement .....maybe my rating will change later on.
ASSASIN....Girl....nothing hotter than a professional murderer.....😂😂😂
I was quite impatient for this so i searched for the donghua first to watch before it released...and then i remembered why i didn't really like Blood of Youth that much and why i didn't bother with the other one....
This entire story series has very little plot.
Blood of youth felt like i was watching mortal kombat, with people introducing themselves, fighting, admiring one another's skill, then moving on to level up and fight someone else.
This makes it a cute visually appealing drama but not really one I'd ever rewatch or think about much after its finished.
When i watched the donghua i realized that Blood of Youth even had the advantage of Integrating every storyline in the series and giving all of them endings...so it generally had more going on.
That's why i believe even the last installment didn't do as well, Blood of Youth seems to have said all that needed to be said and it left the already very low overall plot of the series dwindled.
Tales of Dark River donghua proved that. It was exciting to watch....but if anyone asked me what happened ....i could explain it in 4 sentences and leave nothing of relevance out.
It's got that one storyline, and that storyline is basically an elaborate tug of war between a bunch of assasin families and a lot of talking.
Like....a lot of these characters have to tell us about their pasts or generally narrate a lot of things since this is solely about the fight...and that can get tiring.
I didn't even see a need to see the last episode of the donghua....I just didn't care at that point....but from that disappointment came worry.....how will Gong Jun, the rest of the cast and the writers pull this off?
How would ANYONE pull of such a story that's both shallow and complicated?
Luckily they somehow did.🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
They fleshed out the plot enough to give it meat and more substance but still maintained the original content and general parameters of the donghua. The cast was well chosen, though there is some excessive use of makeup.
The production quality is good....Maybe too good at times cause i felt my eyes burn and blur at some of the dark accent.
I like the music and the pace is fast....thank lawd it's fast, so much that although the original story is a drag....its a fast moving drag.
The line delivery from the actors is also Ok....I'm not seeing any excessive signs of dubbing.
Overall this is an 8/10...but that's cause the story its cant be anything above that no matter who acts in it.....but I'll give it a 9.78 cause being able to make something of this is an achievement .....maybe my rating will change later on.
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