Lilly1008

60 episodes for season one, 43 for season two and I bet about 40 more for season three. That will be about 140+ episodes for a story that could have been told in 60...

Hahaha! I feel your pain...

Me too! Too many veterans, I adore.

The whole season two looks as if all the interesting scenes got cut.
As I said above, there must have been fight and battle scenes, but all we get are the boring repetive ones:
- the couple in the carriage
- Long Qing riding to and fro the country
- someones walking into Xiling Temple for report
- Mo Shan Shan sitting in prison with a visitor apporaching...
*yawn*
And what angers me the most: the acting went down the drain.

P.S. For you it's the cart scenes, for me it's Dylan Wang's constant pepsodent-smile.

Good question! I think, there might be some information when the series has ended for the non-VIP watchers as well.
That's how it went after season one ended, back then, so, there might be some info in about two weeks, or so.

I expected something like:
"Dear watcher, if you want to know what happens and why we eneded it this way, wait for season three..."

Don't let me get started on ranting.
For me, this has nothing to do with season one, any more. With so many cast changes (they must have changed about 1/3 of the cast members if not more), it's not a season two, but a stand-alone series.
Season one could already have been better without wasting 25 episodes on the fanfiction about Ning Que and Mo Shan Shan, but season two is more like a sleeping pill than a high fantasy drama.
There must have fight scenes taken place with the Emperor being involved, with the Empress being involved, with General Ma being involved (how else could he have died in such a horrible way), but, instead, we get shown the endless palace drama bla bla...
I can't say how disappointed I am...
Season three will come, of course it will, as this was planned with three seasons from the very beginning...
*sarcasm mode on*
That's why it makes so much sense to change all the actors, because who'd have thought there would be three seasons they'd be needed for...
*sarcasm mode off*

Scenes that could have been dealt with within minutes dragged out over almost an episode... Scenes to get repeated and repeated over and over again...
Is that how a series that could have been finished in one season gets the money to film three seasons???
No character development, a story that moves in circles...this becomes more and more a waste of time...
And then there are those moments, where I ask myself is this is for real or if this is meant to be a satire...
Those rocket take offs Sang Sang, Fuzi and the Empress did... *facepalm*

Jin Song as the 'Gambling Demon' saved this for me, so far.
He has more on-screen presence within the few scenes, he is in, than the whole rest of the cast in the whole number of episodes, I watched, so far.

Haha, yes! But, as it seems, most of the characters, played by the veterans, won't make it to season three anyway...so, no need to worry about them, they can focus on new projects, now... ;)

Lol...
Not that perfect, but while watching, I really didn't mind when neither Dylan not Ireine made an appearance in a scene.
Their scenes were so draggy, repetitive, boring and sugar-coated, so far, that it felt like nomming on all the sweets featured in "Charlie's Chocolate Factory" - without the gorgeous J.D.

Yep! Lord of the Rings was said to be impossible to turn into a movie and Peter Jackson turned it into a masterpiece - unmatched up till today. Ok, he failed to turn the Hobbit into something equally epic, but Ever Night would rather be high fantasy like LOTR, so, yes, P.J. would be great...
But also Vaughn and Weitz. They creted magic with the "Stardust" and "Golden Compass" movies.

This sarcasm is more a kind of self-defense.
I see all those amazing actors wasted on a medicore production that could have been an outstanding high fantasy tale - if done right.

I'd know a number of directors crazy enough to be able to make this work, but none of them is from China: Tim Burton, Peter Jackson, J.J. Abrams, Matthew Vaughn, Chris Weitz, Martin Scorsese...
My fear is that they will fail to create the crazy magic of the novel. Based on what they did with season one and season two, this stands to be feared.

That new title doesn't make sense at all. I wonder, who always comes up with these weird and totally useless titles.

Halfway through season two, I'd summarise it this way:
A young couple on a camping trip in a small carriage pulled by a geriatric and more or less famished horse and a young prince and his comrades exploring the country on horseback, while everyone else is trying to either ruin or safe the country.

They can't complete the series with season two, because this got planned for with three seasons from the beginning on.

I can relate, but check out Andy On's fight scene in episode 23. He's as wow as always.

If the amazing "veterans" (what a dumb and dull term for actors being of the best age) would not keep me from doing so, I'd really grab my stuff and leave this series be.

But they are still there and they do their best to keep me entertained:

- Lee Waise as King of Yan made clear that he can easily outplay both, Liao Wang (Chong Ming) and Kris Sun (Long Qing) at the same time...

- Andy On made clear that no one in this series is as badass as he is: Hell, he's simply amazing and where Chao Xiao Shu shows up, hell breaks loose...

- Zong Feng Yan made clear why he's asked for in so many productions: He's that perfect mix of good looks and perfect acting skills - and I love to get to hear his own voice, this time (a rare thing to happen as he mostly gets dubbed due to being such a busy bee)

- Yu Ailei as Leader of Xiling: I love how cool, grounded and arrogant he plays that guy. No needless gesture, no needless, blink, no needless smirk. Mimimalism at its best.

By the way: What does it say about a production if the leading characters can vanish without even being missed???

Marco Chen and Wang Dong look a bit like brothers the way their costumes look. Had my problems, too, in the beginning.