1. Jittery cutting when they zoom into someone's face. That detracts a lot from the viewing experience. 2. The story is a bit unsophisticated like being presented to a 10 year old.
I stopped caring for/watching Tencent drama series. Tencent only excels in donghua anime series. Most of their dramas are a let down with poor scores on Douban. I find more delight in Youku/iQiyi series now. Three Body S2 is the only one and other Tencent series left on my to watch list.
I think this S2 will run into lots of problems. Like there are now three protagonists BUT only one of them is Chinese. It will look weird when they show a Chinese-made drama series in the Mainland China where a Japanese woman and White man make up for 2/3 of the screen time with the other 1/3rd allocated to a Chinese male leading role.
Those who haven't read the books will think C-ent being hijacked by Japan and USA... (BUT then again, Tencent will find a clever workable solution to this dilemma becoz their S1 scored very highly on Douban)
These execs are dumb. They never seem to learn from history. Based on Jade Dynasty the movie performance that tanked at the box office, they still recruited Xiao Zhan for Condor Heroes that also tanked. Seems they don't care that an actor should prove himself first at the box office before he gets another movie leading role.
Same with Li Wanda. Her recent movie generated the most flak for her bad portrayal of the FL in Under One Person, yet here we are again...
Jelly Lin with Leo Wu for Fights Breaks Sphere was good pairing. Zhao Lusi with Leo Wu for Love Like the Galaxy was excellent pairing. Li Wanda with Leo Wu.... You're lookin for/at disaster!
It's like a MAJOR downgrade from Leo Wu's past series.
Seems like a downgrade. Leo Wu got paired with Jelly Lin (The Mermaid) in Fights Break Sphere that's now hot trending (the actress I mean) in Whispers of Fate (currently airing).
Li Wanda is a jinx. Really bad box office for Under One Person (the movie). I will personally sit this drama out.
BTW, the anime (S1) sucked. It felt like they spent 26 episodes just filming (King) Arthur (aka Chen Ping An) pull the sword out of the stone. Each episode they only had like 2-3 seconds of that scene of Arthur attempting to pull the sword out of the stone. The rest was filled with useless flashbacks and flash forwards and (un-)related side characters that made Arthur arrive at the sword pulling scene in the first place. I never seen a more stupider anime!
Go watch Renegade Immortal (the donghua becoz nobody made a live action yet) if you want a parallel story where the ML got married with the FL 44 episodes in.
We're at Episode 168 of Immortal Ascension the donghua and prob the ML hadn't made his move with the FL yet...
Low expectation for the show. The donghua was confusing as hell. The gimmick of only showing you bits and pieces…
This IP da suck. The anime was so stupid. They tried to stretch a stupid insignificant scene of the hero crossing a bridge to grab a sword (spirit) over what the whole friggin season 1. But they only give you bits and pieces of that ONE scene in each episode. The rest of each episode was essentially a filler with no purpose. LMAO, I never seen a stupider IP.
To hell with your opinion.No one is obviously asking. Mtcheeewww!!!
Quit polluting other ppl's threads with one liners dumb fuk. (As least if you're gonna do it write something more intelligent. Don't make it sound like a 10 y/o wrote it.)
1. I DON'T like Vanda Margraf. Thanks for ruining Under One Person (movie) by stealing the FL role!
2. Wu Jing read the script and thought it was good??? I normally would defer to Wu Jing's good judgement to star in a project, but on this one I'm a little skeptical.
3. I didn't like the anime, I thought it sucked, the weakest of Tencent 2D anime releases.
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BTW, I think this movie will do extremely well at the box office becoz of Wu Jing's mega star power, just this kind of IP means I may have to sit it out...
its been quite a while since there was a good wuxia, recent condor heroes from tsui hark was a let down, last…
Sour that Hark Tsui's latest wuxia movie sucked much? They even cooked the pre-sales numbers to get suckers to watch it, even then their scheme failed!
Low expectation for the show. The donghua was confusing as hell. The gimmick of only showing you bits and pieces of the whole story at a time only worked with Three Body (Tencent Drama). I don't work with Sword of Coming donghua.
I think this kind of IP is best suited for trilogy movie. I wouldn't want to slog thru 24+ episodes of dramatic confusion when a 6 hours trilogy could save me all the torture!
I am a fan of Yang² but.....this one missed the mark for me especially after all the hype. The cinematography…
It's not the adaptation itself but the source story.
Deepseek seems to agree that Fanren Xiu Xian Chuan (the novel) is inferior to another work:
"The Final Tally
If you measure popularity by "cultural impact and reverence within the hardcore novel reader community," Renegade Immortal often has the edge. It's the story you recommend to someone who wants to see how deep and tragic the genre can be. It's a masterpiece of dark xianxia.
If you measure popularity by "mainstream success, accessibility, and the quality of its multimedia adaptation," Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality wins. Its donghua is a gateway for countless new fans into the genre and is a benchmark for production quality. It presents a more "complete" and polished package to a wider audience."
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In otherwords, Deepseek says Record of a Mortal's Journey is more popular becoz of the high quality donghua (and lesser extent this live action drama), but readers around the world like the Renegade Immortal novel story more.
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Oh, how I wish they put the same budget of Ancient Love Poetry to make a Renegade Immortal live action drama!
My other lamentation is Fanren got such a top studio to animate the donghua, but Renegade donghua leaves much to be desired. Myanimelist says the 1st season of Renegade only goes up to EP 128. I wish they fired this studio and hire another to animate EP129 and beyond!
Just watched up to EP 40 of Renegade Immortal donghua. The story is too similar to Fanren almost like both authors…
The Ending: Wang Lin spends millennia searching for her (Li Muwan) reincarnation across countless worlds. He eventually finds her, and they are finally reunited for good, transcending life and death together. (Paragraph provided by Deepseek)
This is what I meant by Renegade Immortal has superior romance. That is almost the classical level of White Snake but reverse (girl looks for guy reincarnation) .
BTW, I hope they animate this ending. I would be disappointed after watching over 250 episodes of Renegade Immortal donghua to find out they stopped the series half way ( ran out of budget or lack of viewer interest to continue to the end)
I watch this on a wall projected image (probably 100 inches or larger and in 4K). I don't feel the vastness of scale of the place, nothing! Darn second rate studio got to animate this donghua.
Compare this to the scene (in the donghua) where Han Li and CQQ had a private meeting on a daisy field in Yellow Maple Valley, I felt that was a real place and I was really there. That's what a first rate studio looks like/produces!
Just watched up to EP 40 of Renegade Immortal donghua. The story is too similar to Fanren almost like both authors were copying from each other.
I always felt Renegade Immortal is a superior story to Fanren, and the first 40 episodes proved I was right. In fact the part I like the most is the ML + FL pairing. In Fanren, Nangong Wan is almost an old hag compared to Han Li. Not in Renegade, I haven't read the novel, but the FL appears to be slightly younger than the ML. In fact the FL had an older brother that helped with her appearing younger. Romance is also more pronounced in Renegade.
I'm not talking about the sex scene like in Fanren (under seductive gas influence between Han Li and Nangong Wan). I'm talking about touchy feely show of affection type.
HOWEVER, I hated that Tencent hired a second rate studio to animate Renegade. I felt if they recruited the same studio as Fanren, Renegade Immortal can easily be my #1 rated Xianxia donghua! This donghua Renegade Immortal can be so much better in the hands of an expert studio what a waste of an IP to let another studio animate it...
Just about the only thing Renegade got right was the appearance of the ML and FL CGI 3D models, and I felt they were templates provided by Tencent's in house CGI departments not something modeled by the animation studio they hired.
BASICALLY: Fanren donghua -- superior visuals becoz being animated by prob the top studio from China. Renegade Immortal -- superior story superior romance, but very crappy looking visuals.
https://movie.douban.com/subject/36372332/
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Things I found annoying:
1. Jittery cutting when they zoom into someone's face. That detracts a lot from the viewing experience.
2. The story is a bit unsophisticated like being presented to a 10 year old.
I stopped caring for/watching Tencent drama series. Tencent only excels in donghua anime series. Most of their dramas are a let down with poor scores on Douban. I find more delight in Youku/iQiyi series now. Three Body S2 is the only one and other Tencent series left on my to watch list.
I think this S2 will run into lots of problems. Like there are now three protagonists BUT only one of them is Chinese. It will look weird when they show a Chinese-made drama series in the Mainland China where a Japanese woman and White man make up for 2/3 of the screen time with the other 1/3rd allocated to a Chinese male leading role.
Those who haven't read the books will think C-ent being hijacked by Japan and USA... (BUT then again, Tencent will find a clever workable solution to this dilemma becoz their S1 scored very highly on Douban)
Same with Li Wanda. Her recent movie generated the most flak for her bad portrayal of the FL in Under One Person, yet here we are again...
Jelly Lin with Leo Wu for Fights Breaks Sphere was good pairing.
Zhao Lusi with Leo Wu for Love Like the Galaxy was excellent pairing.
Li Wanda with Leo Wu.... You're lookin for/at disaster!
It's like a MAJOR downgrade from Leo Wu's past series.
Li Wanda is a jinx. Really bad box office for Under One Person (the movie). I will personally sit this drama out.
BTW, the anime (S1) sucked. It felt like they spent 26 episodes just filming (King) Arthur (aka Chen Ping An) pull the sword out of the stone. Each episode they only had like 2-3 seconds of that scene of Arthur attempting to pull the sword out of the stone. The rest was filled with useless flashbacks and flash forwards and (un-)related side characters that made Arthur arrive at the sword pulling scene in the first place. I never seen a more stupider anime!
We're at Episode 168 of Immortal Ascension the donghua and prob the ML hadn't made his move with the FL yet...
Youku on the other hand must tread carefully. Like if they cannot recruit Yang Yang for S2, that would probably hurt their pockets a lot.
When Han Li uses the nickname Li Feiyu in Fanren (the donghua), I'm like OKAY... So?
1. I DON'T like Vanda Margraf. Thanks for ruining Under One Person (movie) by stealing the FL role!
2. Wu Jing read the script and thought it was good??? I normally would defer to Wu Jing's good judgement to star in a project, but on this one I'm a little skeptical.
3. I didn't like the anime, I thought it sucked, the weakest of Tencent 2D anime releases.
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BTW, I think this movie will do extremely well at the box office becoz of Wu Jing's mega star power, just this kind of IP means I may have to sit it out...
Also time travel. I seen too many instances of that in Chinese dramas and thought time travel was banned, but how come this part wasn't left out?
Also thought BL was banned, but how come so many recent "brotherhood" themed or named dramas came out of China?
I think this kind of IP is best suited for trilogy movie. I wouldn't want to slog thru 24+ episodes of dramatic confusion when a 6 hours trilogy could save me all the torture!
Deepseek seems to agree that Fanren Xiu Xian Chuan (the novel) is inferior to another work:
"The Final Tally
If you measure popularity by "cultural impact and reverence within the hardcore novel reader community," Renegade Immortal often has the edge. It's the story you recommend to someone who wants to see how deep and tragic the genre can be. It's a masterpiece of dark xianxia.
If you measure popularity by "mainstream success, accessibility, and the quality of its multimedia adaptation," Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality wins. Its donghua is a gateway for countless new fans into the genre and is a benchmark for production quality. It presents a more "complete" and polished package to a wider audience."
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In otherwords, Deepseek says Record of a Mortal's Journey is more popular becoz of the high quality donghua (and lesser extent this live action drama), but readers around the world like the Renegade Immortal novel story more.
-------
Oh, how I wish they put the same budget of Ancient Love Poetry to make a Renegade Immortal live action drama!
My other lamentation is Fanren got such a top studio to animate the donghua, but Renegade donghua leaves much to be desired. Myanimelist says the 1st season of Renegade only goes up to EP 128. I wish they fired this studio and hire another to animate EP129 and beyond!
This is what I meant by Renegade Immortal has superior romance. That is almost the classical level of White Snake but reverse (girl looks for guy reincarnation) .
BTW, I hope they animate this ending. I would be disappointed after watching over 250 episodes of Renegade Immortal donghua to find out they stopped the series half way ( ran out of budget or lack of viewer interest to continue to the end)
https://kisskh.at/755725-shui-long-yin
Immortal Ascension gotten old. People still comment here becoz the donghua still airing.
https://youtu.be/Kff0VzBXj7s?si=zxh3ZDlf2TJ9OjdF&t=41690
I watch this on a wall projected image (probably 100 inches or larger and in 4K). I don't feel the vastness of scale of the place, nothing! Darn second rate studio got to animate this donghua.
Compare this to the scene (in the donghua) where Han Li and CQQ had a private meeting on a daisy field in Yellow Maple Valley, I felt that was a real place and I was really there. That's what a first rate studio looks like/produces!
I always felt Renegade Immortal is a superior story to Fanren, and the first 40 episodes proved I was right. In fact the part I like the most is the ML + FL pairing. In Fanren, Nangong Wan is almost an old hag compared to Han Li. Not in Renegade, I haven't read the novel, but the FL appears to be slightly younger than the ML. In fact the FL had an older brother that helped with her appearing younger. Romance is also more pronounced in Renegade.
I'm not talking about the sex scene like in Fanren (under seductive gas influence between Han Li and Nangong Wan). I'm talking about touchy feely show of affection type.
HOWEVER, I hated that Tencent hired a second rate studio to animate Renegade. I felt if they recruited the same studio as Fanren, Renegade Immortal can easily be my #1 rated Xianxia donghua! This donghua Renegade Immortal can be so much better in the hands of an expert studio what a waste of an IP to let another studio animate it...
Just about the only thing Renegade got right was the appearance of the ML and FL CGI 3D models, and I felt they were templates provided by Tencent's in house CGI departments not something modeled by the animation studio they hired.
BASICALLY: Fanren donghua -- superior visuals becoz being animated by prob the top studio from China. Renegade Immortal -- superior story superior romance, but very crappy looking visuals.