I think it really depends on the type of drama you prefer. I prefer romance and politics drama like this one so…
Two of the youngsters - Shi Yun Peng and Sean Zheng - played the young Muru Hanjiang and Muyun Sheng in "Tribes and Empires". Both are really talented. And, of course, I'd not miss out on Zou Ting Wei.
I think it really depends on the type of drama you prefer. I prefer romance and politics drama like this one so…
As I said, I'm always open for something new. So, a crime thriller is welcomed with open arms. The title is noted down. Thank you for the tip!
"Love Inbetween" caught me by surprise. As I'm absolutely not into romance, I wasn't sure if I should give it a try. Normally, for me, romance is only something to catch screencaps of some of my fave actors, if they are part of the cast, so, I was hesitant about. "Love Inbetween". As it turned out, it's a captivating story told in fantastic images and settings by a young, but highly enganged cast flanked by some very good veterans. The acting is superb and for the first time in ages the girl crossdressing as a boy was 100% convincing. So far, I can say, I want more.
A lot of good actors cannot realize their potential if the director is mediocre. As many times as I roll my eyes,…
Stumbled upon it, yesterday, and I couldn't stop watching - regretting it, now, because it only airs three episodes every weekend. Ahhrgh! I want more!
A lot of good actors cannot realize their potential if the director is mediocre. As many times as I roll my eyes,…
Hehe, I know what you mean. :) To bridge the time between the "Love Inbetween" episodes and to shoerten the wait for the subs, I started watching "Missing Persons". Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller. 12 episodes. Perfect to fill up the gap. It's still ongoing. The first six episodes are subbed and I'm already sitting on hot coal for the next to pop up. It's so good.
A lot of good actors cannot realize their potential if the director is mediocre. As many times as I roll my eyes,…
That's a sad truth, indeed. Either they work with medicore directors again and again or they stay with a medicore management/talent agency. That's also a main reason for talents wasted. Well, I'm out of here, there's more than enough waiting for to get checked out. After all, I managed to hold out for 20 episodes... ;)
What I heard, the subs for "Love Inbetween" will come soon. Can't wait for the new episodes. Finally something to look forward to.
I think it really depends on the type of drama you prefer. I prefer romance and politics drama like this one so…
It's definitely not my genre, but I'm someone, who likes to check what else is going on in dramaland. In addidtion, this one had two of my fave actors to co- and gueststar - Li Zong Han and Xia Tian.
As for my preferences: Firstly: A story needs to convince me. It doesn't matter if it's romance, historical, political, war, wuxia or detective. The story has to drag me in - this one does not. Secondly: The actors have to convince me - and the two leads don't. Thirdly: The writing has to convince me -and it does not. What for do they have other characters here as they focus on the leads only, anyway? Fourthly: The cinematography and the choreography of a series need to drag me in - but this one is static, totally static. There is no choreography at all and I wonder why it's tagged martial arts.
However, I dropped it...20 episodes are enough for me. End of line...
How boring can a drama be??? This (like way too many others filmed over the bygone two or three years) is so static, with motion only taking place during the rare number of fight scenes. What happened to the the directors and on-set-coordinators??? Don't they know anymore how to film people in motion and how to choreograph a scene??? Even a ten-years-old can film people if they don't do anything else but sitting and standing around and then the boring camera angles used: left, right, left right... These people all work in a job that needs creativity, imagination and they deliver nothing more but exchangable images, sentences and sterotypes. Same goes for the acting!!! Why would an actor/actress have to visit a stage-school, if he or she can film dramas like this, where no great challenges are required???
20 episodes are enough. Not even my beloved Li Zong Han, Xia Tian and Zou Ting Wei are able to save this... Dropped.
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
Yep! You nailed it! The most important question, you'll find in the comment section of almost every drama: Is there any romance? Is there a happy ending?
My first interest when I watch my usual 6-10 episode is: Are the actors able to convince me and does the story drag me in. Of course, I also like happy endings (who not), but it must be plausible and happy endings can also be bittersweet. If I think of "Ivanhoe", the Knight's movie from the 1950s, I see one of the most bittersweet/sad happy endings ever. And it works. Or "Gone with the Wind" - best final sentence ever.
Sadly, most of the new c-drama rom-coms remind me more of some medicore fanfictions than of anything creative or even innovative...
Truth! Because I previously saw black Sabre 1989, I thought couples were fixed and would remain the same. I wouldn't…
Wow! I love Zhu Yi Long even more after knowing now what he said about Fu Hong Xue and Cui Nong. I still stick with it: Zhu Yi Long and Chai Bi Yun made clear that Fu Hong Xue and Cui Nong were the real OTP. The two had an incredible chemistry and I'd so love to see them together in a series again, but, alas, nothing planned for them, so far.
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
Let's say, I'm curious. Most of the phrases and words get repeated in almost every series, so, all I do is guessing what the term might say and looking it up. In nine of ten cases I'm right. Of course, I can't do that when I'm busy reading subs.
As for the "pale faced guys looking more and more European": I should have said, they look more and more as if they get chosen to please the Western taste in men as more and more people from non-Asian countries, especially from Europe and the States, discover c-drama.
Personally, I find it sad that looks are vauled higher than acting skills and I really miss the days, where actors actually knew how to ride a horse, how to lead a sword and how to perform martial arts.
Today, all they know is how to perform a choreography and how to make some weird "magical" moves with their hands. No one would take the risk anymore and get those little flowerboys in danger of breaking a bone, losing a tooth or anything similar as they have a photoshooting for their brands the next day.
The days of the great wuxia stars are gone with CGI and wire-work doing their job, now. But if I see the ratings, these things are not asked for anymore. A drama gets an eight or nine or ten rating if the boy kisses the girl, if he gets her laid and if a drama has a happy ending. Why even care about anything else...
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
Sadly, I'm not a native speaker, but as most of the series I love are not subbed, I have to watch them RAW, which taught me many phrases and a lot of vocabulary over the years. This way, I understand a lot - especially, if the acting is good. Makes it easy to follow a story without subs.
I'm from Germany and normally all movies and series from outside the country get dubbed in German. Therefore, it wasn't a problem to follow all those Tien Peng, Jackie Chan etc. movies when they aired.
Finally something worth watching!!! Waited for a gem like this ever since "The Longest Day in Chang'an" finished broadcat last year and since "Joy of Life" ended its first season.
How is it possible that we get only one or two series like this and of this quality over a year's time, while one rom-com, romance or romance-xianxia crap series after the other is allowed to air???
There are so many promissing possible treasures waiting in line for years, meanwhile, which could give us a break from all the mushy and pink-coloured Barbie & Ken or Mary Sue & Gary Stu series they feed us, but, no, instead of high quality, we get just another sugarcoated rom-com nonsense every week...
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
You know, I grew up in the 1970s and was a teen in the 1980s, means, I grew up with the badass females King Hu and Joseph Kuo created for their wuxia movies. True badass females, independent and on the same level, eye-to-eye with their male co-stars. Hsu Feng, Polly Shangguan etc. were the actresses that made me fall in love with stong girls in wuxia tales. My fave female character was and is Hu Sanniang from "Water Margin": Even though she agrees to an arranged marriage with Wang Ying, she stays totally badass till the end. Today, all we get served are misses-knoweth-alls, who are better in everything: These women are not badass, they are mostly freakin' dumb Mary Sues. Hell, I loved to see Reyizha in "Tribes and Empires" and in "The Longest Day in Chang'an"...her roles were women with brains, guts and taste in men without losing her badassness.
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
Yes, I watched, "Nirvana in Fire", but I wasn't as much impressed by it as many others were. I'm more the one for stories that are less about talking or romance and more about acting in the meaning of "let's get things done, we can talk later"...: Water Margin, Heores of Sui and Tang, Patirot Yue Fei, Longest Day in Chang'an, Tribes and Empires, Guardian, Princess Agents, Legend of Qin...etc.
It is the same old stew like we got fed in about a felt 1000 drama series over the bygone two or three years and…
I think, it's absolutely ok to have different tastes in dramas, movies and actors. The world would be pretty boring, if we'd all be the same or if we'd all like the same.
I just noticed that we got fed all this romance, rom-com and romance-xianxia stuff with the same storylines over and over again over the bygone years. All those series with all those pale-faced guys, who look less and less Asian and more and more European; guys, who are totally exchangable. All those series with all those actresses, who obviously forgot everything about acting, but who are pretty enough to make every common girl wish to be in their place when they play in a drama... All those series with those annyoing female characters, who know everything better and who are soooo self-confident, until a guy comes along, kisses them and gets them laid. What a pathetic role-model they sell with such characters... Ugh... Personally, I definitely prefer a story that has more to offer than that...
And, of course, I'd not miss out on Zou Ting Wei.
"Love Inbetween" caught me by surprise. As I'm absolutely not into romance, I wasn't sure if I should give it a try.
Normally, for me, romance is only something to catch screencaps of some of my fave actors, if they are part of the cast, so, I was hesitant about. "Love Inbetween".
As it turned out, it's a captivating story told in fantastic images and settings by a young, but highly enganged cast flanked by some very good veterans.
The acting is superb and for the first time in ages the girl crossdressing as a boy was 100% convincing.
So far, I can say, I want more.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q8oB1ogLnY
To bridge the time between the "Love Inbetween" episodes and to shoerten the wait for the subs, I started watching "Missing Persons". Sci-Fi, Mystery, Thriller. 12 episodes. Perfect to fill up the gap. It's still ongoing. The first six episodes are subbed and I'm already sitting on hot coal for the next to pop up. It's so good.
Well, I'm out of here, there's more than enough waiting for to get checked out. After all, I managed to hold out for 20 episodes... ;)
What I heard, the subs for "Love Inbetween" will come soon. Can't wait for the new episodes. Finally something to look forward to.
As for my preferences:
Firstly: A story needs to convince me. It doesn't matter if it's romance, historical, political, war, wuxia or detective. The story has to drag me in - this one does not.
Secondly: The actors have to convince me - and the two leads don't.
Thirdly: The writing has to convince me -and it does not. What for do they have other characters here as they focus on the leads only, anyway?
Fourthly: The cinematography and the choreography of a series need to drag me in - but this one is static, totally static. There is no choreography at all and I wonder why it's tagged martial arts.
However, I dropped it...20 episodes are enough for me. End of line...
This (like way too many others filmed over the bygone two or three years) is so static, with motion only taking place during the rare number of fight scenes.
What happened to the the directors and on-set-coordinators???
Don't they know anymore how to film people in motion and how to choreograph a scene???
Even a ten-years-old can film people if they don't do anything else but sitting and standing around and then the boring camera angles used: left, right, left right...
These people all work in a job that needs creativity, imagination and they deliver nothing more but exchangable images, sentences and sterotypes.
Same goes for the acting!!!
Why would an actor/actress have to visit a stage-school, if he or she can film dramas like this, where no great challenges are required???
20 episodes are enough. Not even my beloved Li Zong Han, Xia Tian and Zou Ting Wei are able to save this...
Dropped.
Is there any romance?
Is there a happy ending?
My first interest when I watch my usual 6-10 episode is:
Are the actors able to convince me and does the story drag me in.
Of course, I also like happy endings (who not), but it must be plausible and happy endings can also be bittersweet.
If I think of "Ivanhoe", the Knight's movie from the 1950s, I see one of the most bittersweet/sad happy endings ever. And it works. Or "Gone with the Wind" - best final sentence ever.
Sadly, most of the new c-drama rom-coms remind me more of some medicore fanfictions than of anything creative or even innovative...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_Shi_Huang
I still stick with it: Zhu Yi Long and Chai Bi Yun made clear that Fu Hong Xue and Cui Nong were the real OTP.
The two had an incredible chemistry and I'd so love to see them together in a series again, but, alas, nothing planned for them, so far.
Of course, I can't do that when I'm busy reading subs.
As for the "pale faced guys looking more and more European":
I should have said, they look more and more as if they get chosen to please the Western taste in men as more and more people from non-Asian countries, especially from Europe and the States, discover c-drama.
Personally, I find it sad that looks are vauled higher than acting skills and I really miss the days, where actors actually knew how to ride a horse, how to lead a sword and how to perform martial arts.
Today, all they know is how to perform a choreography and how to make some weird "magical" moves with their hands.
No one would take the risk anymore and get those little flowerboys in danger of breaking a bone, losing a tooth or anything similar as they have a photoshooting for their brands the next day.
The days of the great wuxia stars are gone with CGI and wire-work doing their job, now. But if I see the ratings, these things are not asked for anymore. A drama gets an eight or nine or ten rating if the boy kisses the girl, if he gets her laid and if a drama has a happy ending.
Why even care about anything else...
I'm from Germany and normally all movies and series from outside the country get dubbed in German. Therefore, it wasn't a problem to follow all those Tien Peng, Jackie Chan etc. movies when they aired.
Waited for a gem like this ever since "The Longest Day in Chang'an" finished broadcat last year and since "Joy of Life" ended its first season.
How is it possible that we get only one or two series like this and of this quality over a year's time, while one rom-com, romance or romance-xianxia crap series after the other is allowed to air???
There are so many promissing possible treasures waiting in line for years, meanwhile, which could give us a break from all the mushy and pink-coloured Barbie & Ken or Mary Sue & Gary Stu series they feed us, but, no, instead of high quality, we get just another sugarcoated rom-com nonsense every week...
True badass females, independent and on the same level, eye-to-eye with their male co-stars.
Hsu Feng, Polly Shangguan etc. were the actresses that made me fall in love with stong girls in wuxia tales.
My fave female character was and is Hu Sanniang from "Water Margin": Even though she agrees to an arranged marriage with Wang Ying, she stays totally badass till the end.
Today, all we get served are misses-knoweth-alls, who are better in everything: These women are not badass, they are mostly freakin' dumb Mary Sues.
Hell, I loved to see Reyizha in "Tribes and Empires" and in "The Longest Day in Chang'an"...her roles were women with brains, guts and taste in men without losing her badassness.
I'm more the one for stories that are less about talking or romance and more about acting in the meaning of "let's get things done, we can talk later"...:
Water Margin, Heores of Sui and Tang, Patirot Yue Fei, Longest Day in Chang'an, Tribes and Empires, Guardian, Princess Agents, Legend of Qin...etc.
I just noticed that we got fed all this romance, rom-com and romance-xianxia stuff with the same storylines over and over again over the bygone years.
All those series with all those pale-faced guys, who look less and less Asian and more and more European; guys, who are totally exchangable.
All those series with all those actresses, who obviously forgot everything about acting, but who are pretty enough to make every common girl wish to be in their place when they play in a drama...
All those series with those annyoing female characters, who know everything better and who are soooo self-confident, until a guy comes along, kisses them and gets them laid.
What a pathetic role-model they sell with such characters...
Ugh...
Personally, I definitely prefer a story that has more to offer than that...