Hunter2022

They had money to hire Yang Yang but dont have the money to promote, I find that hard to believe.

Company smells like Fan BingBing. They have a shadow company to do those "deeds".

Yang Yang is handsome? Not in this drama. His version of Zhan Zhao looks like a commoner with average looks. Maybe his hairdo or stylist or maybe his clothes. Or maybe his age, but the 2nd ML looks way more hot than him.

BTW you have to admire the company a little bit. Most of them production companies are stupid. They only pay for the 5/5 votes to inflate the score.

This company also paid for 4/5 to make the score look more legit. So they're smarter than most score fudgers. But a pig is still a pig even after put on lipsticks...

Life as a pirate is good. You get the Chinese 4K 60fps version on the same day the VIP users in China get them. Plus it's the official version that don't need to be redited after it gets exported overseas. Those overseas streamers never give you the original version that's why they need to rerelease the first EP.

This drama will go on my hall of shame list. I will watch it then delete it off my HDD.

I never liked dramas or movies that resort to foul score fudging.

Douban score is cooked:
https://m.douban.com/movie/subject/36310054/

Look at the distribution:

5/5 xxxxxxxxxxxx
4/5 xxxxxxxxxxxxx
3/5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
2/5 xxxx
1/5 xx

I never seen a more pathetic attempt to inflate/cook the score with fake 4/5 and 5/5 reviews. They still couldn't overcome the 3/5 max number of votes.

You can also see the score had almost zero haters (1/2 and 2/5). Most ppl objectively rated the drama at 3/5. Then the company flooded the score with fake 4/5 and 5/5.

(A normal score should look like this:

5/5 xxxxxxxx
4/5 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
3/5 xxxxxx
2/5 xx
1/5 x

The fact that 3/5 and 4/5 and 5/5 are almost tied in number of votes says the company paid fake accounts to put up 4/5 and 5/5 votes)

They shouldn't do this without informing the viewer like in Nezha 2 (that explicitly asks you not to leave your seat untill you've watched the post end credits scene). It's not very professional of the studio nor production company.

Lol, there is a reason why I only binge watch a drama after I have pirated all episodes (usually in 4K 60fps) along with their polished ENG subs.

The other reason I resort to pirating is it's not possible for me to stream 4K 60fps without annoying lags. So playing them offline is the only way to smooth video playback.

Technically he is not wrong. Douban score for Zhan Zhao isn't all that impressive. It means Chinese viewers didn't think that highly of Zhan Zhao compared to MDL users (they also thought the only good part were the fights not the story itself).

There was a lag in airing the last few episodes in China. If even Chinese viewers could not view new episodes for days, international ENG platforms will also get delayed so they didn't have time to do a proper human translation yet.

According to what someone else wrote, the official China airing schedule had a delay near the end. It means all third party streamers also experienced delay in getting the final episodes.

You mean there was a lapse to the final ep? That explains why I wasn't able to pirate the last few episodes recently. I only have up to ep 32 in 4K 60fps. The rest in regular 4K 24fps. Gonna be a few more days till I can get the last few in 60fps.

Lol at all drama noobs asking if there will be a S2. C-ent isn't like Hayao Miyazaki anime where he never makes a sequel. They always leave some room (hints and suggestions) for a S2. But there is never an implicit promise they will actually make one.

Or if they actually made a sequel, it will be like Princess Agents 2 after a 10 year lapse and replaced with different people and the story no longer resembles the first season. Or something like Ever Night S2, no longer recognizable from the S1. Or something like Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty that turned from a detective drama into an action-adventure by the time S3 was released... Or maybe you'll all get what you wished the S2 will turn into a wishy washy romance drama that will have fans of the S1 puking at its cheesy romantic scenes!!

Douban really needs more ppl like you to register and vote 5/5 on the drama.

Don't watch it. The official drama score is the Douban score (already a terrible one) which was (or despite being) heavily manipulated to make ppl think it's doing better than it was with fake votes and reviews written by AI. Even the script felt like it was written by AI.

Plenty of buthurt ppl continue to push the drama despite its terrible douban score. The chief complaint on douban was the script felt inorganic like it was AI slop with side characters just standing there doing nothing like they were NPCs.

Also look at the score distributions. Normally 4/5 should have the most votes. But in Zhan Zhao 3/5, 4/5, 5/5 were all evenly voted, which suggests there were even some underhanded fake voting (faked 4/5's and 5/5's) to drive the score up.

Masterpiece my rear end. Drama only scored 6.9/10 on Douban. That's not how you would expect a top tier drama to perform!!

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36310054/

By contrast, Yang Yang's most recent drama, The Immortal Ascension did significantly better at 7.5/10 on Douban:

https://movie.douban.com/subject/35861087/

Sometimes, the original author's names aren't the best ones to use. Re: The Adventures of Luke Starkiller

Tencent only ever made 1 animation series worth watching: Shrouding the Heavens. Even then they canceled the ENG release so it's only watched in the Mainland/mostly by Mainland viewers.

Renegade Immortal, Sword of Coming, etc. all garbage stories animated by garbage contract studios. The remote 2nd to Shrouding the Heavens is probably Fights Break Sphere donghua. That one I'm on the fence regarding its story and animation quality. A distant third would be Perfect World since the same author who wrote the novel for Shrouding the Heavens. But the guy like has a harem of at least three future wives/ongoing girlfriends, so in this respect it is trash compared to Shrouding the Heavens.