Masterpiece my rear end. Drama only scored 6.9/10 on Douban. That's not how you would expect a top tier drama…
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.
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.
Guys, WHEN YOU WATCH THE FANREN DONGHUA (on their official YT channel for FREE), DON'T BE LIKE THAT DAVID-WHATEVER…
Moral of the story, the producers and animation companies involved in creating Fanren donghua want to be seen as the Gods of Money that can create miracles and wealth out of thin air.
David-whatsoever hit them where it hurts the most. He took them for hobos that needed his cash injections to keep the show running. How much more insults can a man hurl towards one of China's top entertainment platforms?
I just finished watching Pegasus 1-3. I watched each movie twice before going on to the next. Pegasus 1, I had…
I didn't really get into ANY Pegasus movies until just a couple of months ago. I heard about its earlier success (from a few years ago), but didn't care for any of that. To me racing movies were STUPID and a WASTE of TIME. You already know who wins the race in the END.
It wasn't until I saw that this CNY's lineup sucked that I "forced" myself to swallow the Pegasus pill, and boy what a ride it had been! The journey was rife with difficulties, I nearly gave up on the first part (which means I was also on the verge of giving up its sequels). It wasn't until I fully uninstalled Kodi player then reinstalled the latest version that the old format video for part 1 that's being circulated in sharing communities began to play flawlessly. So yeah, if any of you having trouble playing movies from 2019, which were mostly FHD and also remasters of very old Hollywood movies, just do what I did wipe Kodi clean from your drive then reinstall.
But that's how the entertainment industry works. No one ever gonna invest more or same amount of money for a sequel,…
What planet you live on? Li Qin is now a megastar. To reprise the role of Chun'er would actually damage her reputation and career at this point. When she took on that role 10 years ago, her stardom was not yet lit... so it was OK back then to play the deranged girl who had be humiliated...
Guys, WHEN YOU WATCH THE FANREN DONGHUA (on their official YT channel for FREE), DON'T BE LIKE THAT DAVID-WHATEVER POSTER BELOW!!
Don't turn the comments section into some TRASH influencer channel, where the higher you pay, the more glorious they make your comments stand out from among the crowd.
They got *MAD* when this DAVID-WHATEVER POSTER FROM BELOW did that, they cut off all access to ENG subs to their special series becoz guess what, this poster made his PAID comment in English.
I REPEAT PRODUCTION COMPANY IS NEITHER A MONEY LAUNDERER NOR BEGGING FOR YOUR DONATIONS!! (How can anyone who worked on the megahit Nezha 2 even act this way? It's against the rules!). Keep that kind of TRASHY BEHAVIOR limited to those trashy influencer channels you often hear about in the news!!
(Scroll down to the bottom of this video where Mr. DAVID-WHATEVER turned their channel into a TRASH influencer-type. Then they punished all Eng viewers with no ENG sub for the rest of this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4wf-CBHhY
If you truly love Faren donghua, follow the lead of the Chinese commenters that post all in Chinese and keep it clean. Do NOT follow the lead from English commenters like David-whatsoever [he's probably Asian just that he can't or don't know how to type Chinese comments]. These guys are at best 1-star Neophytes to donghua animations and at worst complete noobs...)
Yang Yang lost his pretty boy look in the currently airing Zhan Zhao Adventures (I never seen the man look more "commoner" or "average" than this drama). So I'm a little hopeful for S2 of Immortal Ascension.
Han Li is NOT supposed to be the pretty boy as portrayed in the S1 by Yang Yang. Crossing fingers Yang Yang became a little uglier between the filming of S1 and S2...
I just finished watching Pegasus 1-3. I watched each movie twice before going on to the next. Pegasus 1, I had to manually source ENG subs. And the video was only 1080p. Pegasus 2+3 had ENG and Chinese subs harcoded into the movie. This made sense for 3 as they are participating in an international race. So maybe they want people from all over the world to watch this movie. Pegasus 2+3 I watched in 4K.
My only two gripes with Pegasus trilogy... The guy who impersonated Sun Wukong in Part 2, did he even come back for Part 3? They recycled the same soundtrack, except part 3 now has vocals added into the same original soundtrack. Not that this same soundtrack wasn't good, it's a signature of the series. But I wish they got a female vocal instead for the next movie!
Anyways the movie trilogy definitely deserves their high box office undertakings. I'm gonna pirate Blades of the Guardians in 4K. But you'll be hard-pressed to get me to glimpse even 5 minutes of it. Some movies I pirate and keep them just so I don't ever have to watch them!
Oh yeah, I forgot one last gripe of Pegasus trilogy. In the end credits of Part 2, there were sections where the animated car path diverged (split into two), but then recombined later in into one path again. This gave away the plot of Part 3. But I don't see anything in the end credits of Part 3 that gave away the plot of a future Part 4...
And this is how you ruin a sequel. They used exactly this process for “Ever Night 2,” and they will probably…
Nothing was ruined. This is just how the entertainment industry operates, backed by investment money. You're given a set budget and try your best to produce results based on that budget. Replacement of the FL and ML alone tell you budget for S2 wasn't too high to begin with.
Rewatched Princess Agents to prepare for watching this. Even though PA is 10 years older and feels like an old…
But that's how the entertainment industry works. No one ever gonna invest more or same amount of money for a sequel, because statistics show most dramas lose viewership retention beyond the first season.
Plus can you imagine bringing Li Qin back to play the role of someone who had been raped and became mentally deranged? That was Ok when she was just starting out, but this kind of role no longer suits her career or she's outgrown that kind of role.
Since this CNY champ was Pegasus 3 and NOT a Wu Jing movie, let's talk about that.
When you think about it Pegasus 1/2/3 defied all odds. Most racing car movies flop becoz you know from the get go the protagonist always wins the race at the end. Since you know how it ends, why even bother watch it?
Pegasus 1/2/3 made so much box office despite this genre traditionally having a predictable ending. That's nothing short of a miracle!
Nah mate. Legend of Shenli sux. It's done under Tencent label. Those guys/that company writes terrible scripts. Their SFX sux, looks like they trying to cut corners at every turn.
You can tell right away most of Tencent drama scenes were green screened. But in Rebirth, it was done so naturally you really believe they did it in front of real sceneries.
Whenever you see a bird flapping its wings while flying in a Tencent drama. It looked so bad like they got a kid to animate it's wing movements.
The only thing I liked from Shen Li was at the end how they tricked that guy to confess his love for the girl...
In the last episode on the battle field, Zhao Che saw Huan Huan kill some guys with her double blades before disappearing into the back drop. At that point Huan Huan was already dead, so Zhao Che either saw her ghost or it was all in his mind.
I think the director made that scene so you would connect it forward to the scene where Zhuge Yue rushes on a horse to save Chu Qiao, but it was too late for her. That scene, she may we witnessing Zhuge Yue's ghost or it was all in her mind.
So, Zhuge Yue and Chu Qiao are both dead in the official tragic ending.
(But then, Zhuge Yue's grandfather's body was not found in his coffin when Zhuge Yue opened it, so there is that possibility...)
I just finished Rebirth and think it is severely underrated here. I liked all but the last episode ending.Luckily,…
The last episode is just like Season 1. You were tricked into thinking Zhuge Yue died in season 1, now they are using Chu Qiao's "death" to trick you in Season 2 to keep you in suspense mode for a possible Season 3.
I read ending of the book somewhere years ago, should be HE. They got married & kids. The alternative ending…
No I meant they were intending to follow the novel in Season 3, but they decided to come up with a plot twist where Chu Qiao supposed "died" at the end of Season 2 so they could hook viewers into watching Season 3. Of course this gimmick only works on people who never read the books.
To make their plot twist almost fool proof, they added the what-if scenes for a bunch of secondary characters to trick you into thinking the scene with Chu Qiao's kids ain't real because all other characters happy ending (or any happy ending for that matter) were only what-if reimaginings!
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/
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.
David-whatsoever hit them where it hurts the most. He took them for hobos that needed his cash injections to keep the show running. How much more insults can a man hurl towards one of China's top entertainment platforms?
It wasn't until I saw that this CNY's lineup sucked that I "forced" myself to swallow the Pegasus pill, and boy what a ride it had been! The journey was rife with difficulties, I nearly gave up on the first part (which means I was also on the verge of giving up its sequels). It wasn't until I fully uninstalled Kodi player then reinstalled the latest version that the old format video for part 1 that's being circulated in sharing communities began to play flawlessly. So yeah, if any of you having trouble playing movies from 2019, which were mostly FHD and also remasters of very old Hollywood movies, just do what I did wipe Kodi clean from your drive then reinstall.
Don't turn the comments section into some TRASH influencer channel, where the higher you pay, the more glorious they make your comments stand out from among the crowd.
They got *MAD* when this DAVID-WHATEVER POSTER FROM BELOW did that, they cut off all access to ENG subs to their special series becoz guess what, this poster made his PAID comment in English.
I REPEAT PRODUCTION COMPANY IS NEITHER A MONEY LAUNDERER NOR BEGGING FOR YOUR DONATIONS!! (How can anyone who worked on the megahit Nezha 2 even act this way? It's against the rules!). Keep that kind of TRASHY BEHAVIOR limited to those trashy influencer channels you often hear about in the news!!
(Scroll down to the bottom of this video where Mr. DAVID-WHATEVER turned their channel into a TRASH influencer-type. Then they punished all Eng viewers with no ENG sub for the rest of this series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV4wf-CBHhY
If you truly love Faren donghua, follow the lead of the Chinese commenters that post all in Chinese and keep it clean. Do NOT follow the lead from English commenters like David-whatsoever [he's probably Asian just that he can't or don't know how to type Chinese comments]. These guys are at best 1-star Neophytes to donghua animations and at worst complete noobs...)
Han Li is NOT supposed to be the pretty boy as portrayed in the S1 by Yang Yang. Crossing fingers Yang Yang became a little uglier between the filming of S1 and S2...
My only two gripes with Pegasus trilogy... The guy who impersonated Sun Wukong in Part 2, did he even come back for Part 3? They recycled the same soundtrack, except part 3 now has vocals added into the same original soundtrack. Not that this same soundtrack wasn't good, it's a signature of the series. But I wish they got a female vocal instead for the next movie!
Anyways the movie trilogy definitely deserves their high box office undertakings. I'm gonna pirate Blades of the Guardians in 4K. But you'll be hard-pressed to get me to glimpse even 5 minutes of it. Some movies I pirate and keep them just so I don't ever have to watch them!
Oh yeah, I forgot one last gripe of Pegasus trilogy. In the end credits of Part 2, there were sections where the animated car path diverged (split into two), but then recombined later in into one path again. This gave away the plot of Part 3. But I don't see anything in the end credits of Part 3 that gave away the plot of a future Part 4...
Plus can you imagine bringing Li Qin back to play the role of someone who had been raped and became mentally deranged? That was Ok when she was just starting out, but this kind of role no longer suits her career or she's outgrown that kind of role.
When you think about it Pegasus 1/2/3 defied all odds. Most racing car movies flop becoz you know from the get go the protagonist always wins the race at the end. Since you know how it ends, why even bother watch it?
Pegasus 1/2/3 made so much box office despite this genre traditionally having a predictable ending. That's nothing short of a miracle!
You can tell right away most of Tencent drama scenes were green screened. But in Rebirth, it was done so naturally you really believe they did it in front of real sceneries.
Whenever you see a bird flapping its wings while flying in a Tencent drama. It looked so bad like they got a kid to animate it's wing movements.
The only thing I liked from Shen Li was at the end how they tricked that guy to confess his love for the girl...
I think the director made that scene so you would connect it forward to the scene where Zhuge Yue rushes on a horse to save Chu Qiao, but it was too late for her. That scene, she may we witnessing Zhuge Yue's ghost or it was all in her mind.
So, Zhuge Yue and Chu Qiao are both dead in the official tragic ending.
(But then, Zhuge Yue's grandfather's body was not found in his coffin when Zhuge Yue opened it, so there is that possibility...)
To make their plot twist almost fool proof, they added the what-if scenes for a bunch of secondary characters to trick you into thinking the scene with Chu Qiao's kids ain't real because all other characters happy ending (or any happy ending for that matter) were only what-if reimaginings!