Erm……..K....Sorry I just find this extremely boring and feel that it is exactly like Love Last Two Minds that…
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 - it's boring to the core like most of the dramas made of these ingredients. My only reasons to watch this are Zou Ting Wei and Li Zong Han. What I'd highly recommend is "Love In-Between" formely known as "One Inch to Love". I was skeptical, at first, because of the random and dumb title, but that series caught me by storm. The youngsters chosen for the leading roles are excellent, the story is thrilling (I don't dare blinking, because I fear, I'm going to miss something important), the costumes and settings are gorgeous and the music is where it belongs (in the background and not killing off the voices). Another big plus: on set recording. The actors use their own voices with only a few exceptions. Finally something good to watch after "The Longest Day in Chang'an" and "Joy of Life"...
Haven't seen Zhang Xiao Chen and Liu Guan Xiang, but yes Li Zong Han is also one of my 2000s guys!
There is something about these men, what they already had when they were young and what so many young actors of today are lacking: They had charisma from the very beginning on and were/are no 'flower boys' or idols. It didn't need all of today's artificial effort to create them and to install them as a star, they convinced using their on-screen presence, they passion, their depth. Today, it's enough, if the guys look good/hot and if the girls scream loud enough when they appear somehwere on the street. Maybe I'm too old to understand all the hype about those little boys with those baby-doll faces, but I prefer to stick with the actors of my generation: 30+, 40+, 50+.
This actor although.. it seems that he is more supporting, simply intrigues me. Each historical fantasy drama…
Totally agree! He's one of the most talented actors I came across ever since I started watching c-drama. Love him to pieces. I'm currently watching "Wrath of the Sea" wherein he plays three different characters and each with a different personality, Amazing!!!
A decent wuxia series with a strong first half and a slightly weaker and draggier second half.
The cast is well chosen with only a few exceptions: One of those exceptions is Sun Fei Fei as A'Jiu/Princess Changping. The princess is supposed to be 16 years old at the time the story is set and her father, the Chongzhen Emperor, was still a young man himself aged only 32. So, while Gao Hu, having been in his early thirties when the series got filmed, is the perfect match for the Emperor, Sun Fei Fei, being six years younger than Gao Hu, looks way too old for the 16 years old princess. She looks more like one of the Emperor's concubines than his daughter, which I find kind of weird. They should have cast a younger actress for the princess to make clear that she was only a teen girl and her father still a young man.
Well, with a bit of good will, I can overlook the age problem as the performances are good. What really turns me off, once again, is the horrible, boring and stereotype dubbing. These worn out and listless voice actors really manage to ruin almost every drama series, because they make them all sound the same. Especially that hysterical screaming voiceover for Guo Jin as He Hongyao and the voice actor who did the dubbing for Gao Hu. He made the young Emperor sound like an old man who's always out of breath. With more and more productions using on-set recording, it's time to make those boring voice actors retire...
This sounds a lot as if the writers of this series totally twisted and turned history, again, to produce a heartwrenching…
Definitely not and it also sounds as if the two had a sound relationship based on high mutual respect and even able to overcome a severe crisis. Sadly, the writers (most probably because getting under pressure due to censorship) make all Emperors appear like heartless monsters since a couple of years. How could an Enperor be just and good or kind? Impossible if one's a communist beton-head.
not to write an essay about cao danshu but i think what hurts me the most about her is that she represents the…
This sounds a lot as if the writers of this series totally twisted and turned history, again, to produce a heartwrenching fanfiiction. The historical records known about Empress Cao sound nothing like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Cao_(Song_dynasty)
Collin Chou and Zhang Xiao Chen are by far the only reasons why I forced myself through this - the story and the way it got filmed are definitely not.
Plastic meadows, plastic trees and plastic flowers are the perfect settings for a cheesy love triangle and a whole zoological garden full of annyoing damsels in distress all drooling over the flawless Zhao Zi Long - and no one even cared to hide the fact that nothing is real in this series anyway. As fake as the settings are as wooden are the performances. Acting went underground and so did the script as the writers obviously had no clue about how to tell the story of Zhao Zi Long and went with another dumb lovestory, instead.
And Lin Gang Xin? I really like him whenever he plays in the Tsui Hark movies, but Zhao Zi Long he's not. He looks so out of place in this role that it physically hurts and it doesn't help much that he actually looks exactly the same like he does as Yuwen Yue in "Princess Agents" (2017). There is no difference to spot between these two characters neither in looks nor in performance. They are so similar that you could easily mix them up. No, Lin Geng Xin is defintiely not well chosen for Zhao Zi Long, even less if you compare his performance with Nie Yuan in "Three Kingdoms" (2010), Hu Jun in "Red Cliff" (2008/2009) or Andy Lau in "Resurrection of the Dragon" (2008)...
The only things I'll memorise about this series will be:
- the sick amount of real fur used for the costumes and the settings and for a story not a bit worth the death of those precious animals... - the heavy carriage hitting the bird-sellers shop - the loathsome scene of an asshole kicking and beating up a horse... - the ugly girl/princess stepping on a little rodent's tail...
And, no, I don't make a difference between real or animated animals - these scenes are simply disgusting!!!
I hesitated for a very long time to start watching this, because I'll definitely never warm up to Ruby Lin and her one-dimensional and boring performances, but, well, if a show stars and co-stars numerous of your fave actors, how can you resist forever...???
Ten episodes into the show, though, the whole thing turns out to be exactly what I expected: Mary Sue is the only one able to re-establish the Han Dynasty and even the men she grew up with are too dumb to recognize her when she runs around dressed up as a boy. The generals of the Liu family must have been as thick as two short planks and absolute lame ducks unable to develop any war strategy on their own...
But, stop, I forgot: Ruby Lin's production comapny, Ruby Lin as the main producer, Ruby Lin the female lead... More than enough reason to turn Empress Yin Li Hua into one of the worst and most annyoing Mary Sue's I've ever seen in a c-drama and more than necessary if you can't really act convincingly...
However, the cast has to offer more than a female lead and Yuan Hong, Zong Feng Yan and Yu Bo are definitely three good reasons to continue watching.
Arthur got confirmed as one of the male leads in "Imortality", an adaptation of BL novel "Husky and his White Cat Shizun". With all the delays the film industry suffers from due to the new Corona Virus, he won't be available for "Ever Night 3".
You mean, a remake of S2 with the full cast of S1? :D
They have so many drama series (filmed between 2013 (and earlier) and today) still waiting for release, we could survive years of Corona epidemic shutdown if they'd show them to us.
A colorful wuxia series which leaves me with mixed feelings after every new episode. The beautiful costumes, the outdoor settings and the well choreographed fight scenes are great and a pleasure to behold. Sadly, the story feels draggy and the tale is overcrowded with too many extremely annoying female characters. Are girls in Wuxia tales really THAT dumb??? I mean, it's not the first time that I watch the girls in a Wuxia series run after the men like she-dogs in heat!!! Personally, I find this extremely annoying and pathetic, especially if I think of the great wuxia heroines of the 1970s and early 1980s who were badass like hell!!! Also not for the first time: The male lead, Cui Peng, gets outplayed and outshone by the second male lead, Sun Bin Hao, as well as by co-stars Zhang Ya Kun and Dong Bo Rui.
However, I still think, this is a nice series to watch and to fill a gap after having finished one series and waiting for a new one to start broadcast. The actors are eye-candy material and nice to look at. Sadly, the leading ladies don't really leave any kind of deep impression: One is beautiful, but lacks any kind of facial expression, the second is so tried to look fierce that it makes her look ugly and the third seems to consist of her big mouth only...
Many ups and downs to talk about for this series, but, still, even if it's not the best story, it's definitely not the worst one either. Sadly, it's not subbed , but the Mandarin version is availavle on iQIYI, while the Cantonese dubbed version is available on YouTube.
It got announced as a three season drama series from the very beginning on. If they follow last year's procedure, the casting is in progress, right now and filming will start in late Spring or early Summer, so, season three will most probably air in 2021. I think, there will be more info as soon as the non-VIP broadcast is over.
What I'd highly recommend is "Love In-Between" formely known as "One Inch to Love".
I was skeptical, at first, because of the random and dumb title, but that series caught me by storm.
The youngsters chosen for the leading roles are excellent, the story is thrilling (I don't dare blinking, because I fear, I'm going to miss something important), the costumes and settings are gorgeous and the music is where it belongs (in the background and not killing off the voices).
Another big plus: on set recording. The actors use their own voices with only a few exceptions.
Finally something good to watch after "The Longest Day in Chang'an" and "Joy of Life"...
They had charisma from the very beginning on and were/are no 'flower boys' or idols.
It didn't need all of today's artificial effort to create them and to install them as a star, they convinced using their on-screen presence, they passion, their depth. Today, it's enough, if the guys look good/hot and if the girls scream loud enough when they appear somehwere on the street.
Maybe I'm too old to understand all the hype about those little boys with those baby-doll faces, but I prefer to stick with the actors of my generation: 30+, 40+, 50+.
They are amazing.
Also Li Zong Han, Zhang Xiao Chen and Liu Guan Xiang.
Love these lads to pieces.
The cast is well chosen with only a few exceptions:
One of those exceptions is Sun Fei Fei as A'Jiu/Princess Changping.
The princess is supposed to be 16 years old at the time the story is set and her father, the Chongzhen Emperor, was still a young man himself aged only 32.
So, while Gao Hu, having been in his early thirties when the series got filmed, is the perfect match for the Emperor, Sun Fei Fei, being six years younger than Gao Hu, looks way too old for the 16 years old princess. She looks more like one of the Emperor's concubines than his daughter, which I find kind of weird.
They should have cast a younger actress for the princess to make clear that she was only a teen girl and her father still a young man.
Well, with a bit of good will, I can overlook the age problem as the performances are good.
What really turns me off, once again, is the horrible, boring and stereotype dubbing.
These worn out and listless voice actors really manage to ruin almost every drama series, because they make them all sound the same.
Especially that hysterical screaming voiceover for Guo Jin as He Hongyao and the voice actor who did the dubbing for Gao Hu. He made the young Emperor sound like an old man who's always out of breath.
With more and more productions using on-set recording, it's time to make those boring voice actors retire...
Sadly, the writers (most probably because getting under pressure due to censorship) make all Emperors appear like heartless monsters since a couple of years. How could an Enperor be just and good or kind? Impossible if one's a communist beton-head.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Cao_(Song_dynasty)
Plastic meadows, plastic trees and plastic flowers are the perfect settings for a cheesy love triangle and a whole zoological garden full of annyoing damsels in distress all drooling over the flawless Zhao Zi Long - and no one even cared to hide the fact that nothing is real in this series anyway.
As fake as the settings are as wooden are the performances. Acting went underground and so did the script as the writers obviously had no clue about how to tell the story of Zhao Zi Long and went with another dumb lovestory, instead.
And Lin Gang Xin?
I really like him whenever he plays in the Tsui Hark movies, but Zhao Zi Long he's not.
He looks so out of place in this role that it physically hurts and it doesn't help much that he actually looks exactly the same like he does as Yuwen Yue in "Princess Agents" (2017).
There is no difference to spot between these two characters neither in looks nor in performance. They are so similar that you could easily mix them up.
No, Lin Geng Xin is defintiely not well chosen for Zhao Zi Long, even less if you compare his performance with Nie Yuan in "Three Kingdoms" (2010), Hu Jun in "Red Cliff" (2008/2009) or Andy Lau in "Resurrection of the Dragon" (2008)...
- the sick amount of real fur used for the costumes and the settings and for a story not a bit worth the death of those precious animals...
- the heavy carriage hitting the bird-sellers shop
- the loathsome scene of an asshole kicking and beating up a horse...
- the ugly girl/princess stepping on a little rodent's tail...
And, no, I don't make a difference between real or animated animals - these scenes are simply disgusting!!!
Ten episodes into the show, though, the whole thing turns out to be exactly what I expected:
Mary Sue is the only one able to re-establish the Han Dynasty and even the men she grew up with are too dumb to recognize her when she runs around dressed up as a boy.
The generals of the Liu family must have been as thick as two short planks and absolute lame ducks unable to develop any war strategy on their own...
But, stop, I forgot:
Ruby Lin's production comapny, Ruby Lin as the main producer, Ruby Lin the female lead...
More than enough reason to turn Empress Yin Li Hua into one of the worst and most annyoing Mary Sue's I've ever seen in a c-drama and more than necessary if you can't really act convincingly...
However, the cast has to offer more than a female lead and Yuan Hong, Zong Feng Yan and Yu Bo are definitely three good reasons to continue watching.
With all the delays the film industry suffers from due to the new Corona Virus, he won't be available for "Ever Night 3".
The beautiful costumes, the outdoor settings and the well choreographed fight scenes are great and a pleasure to behold.
Sadly, the story feels draggy and the tale is overcrowded with too many extremely annoying female characters.
Are girls in Wuxia tales really THAT dumb??? I mean, it's not the first time that I watch the girls in a Wuxia series run after the men like she-dogs in heat!!!
Personally, I find this extremely annoying and pathetic, especially if I think of the great wuxia heroines of the 1970s and early 1980s who were badass like hell!!!
Also not for the first time: The male lead, Cui Peng, gets outplayed and outshone by the second male lead, Sun Bin Hao, as well as by co-stars Zhang Ya Kun and Dong Bo Rui.
However, I still think, this is a nice series to watch and to fill a gap after having finished one series and waiting for a new one to start broadcast.
The actors are eye-candy material and nice to look at.
Sadly, the leading ladies don't really leave any kind of deep impression:
One is beautiful, but lacks any kind of facial expression, the second is so tried to look fierce that it makes her look ugly and the third seems to consist of her big mouth only...
Many ups and downs to talk about for this series, but, still, even if it's not the best story, it's definitely not the worst one either.
Sadly, it's not subbed , but the Mandarin version is availavle on iQIYI, while the Cantonese dubbed version is available on YouTube.
If they follow last year's procedure, the casting is in progress, right now and filming will start in late Spring or early Summer, so, season three will most probably air in 2021.
I think, there will be more info as soon as the non-VIP broadcast is over.