I didn't dislike it at all. He was so arrogant, he should have toned it down a bit. His own brother was very careful…
Hehe, I think, Ning Que is very jealous, even if he might not be fully aware of the feeling at this very moment. That Sang Sang would start swooning over another handsome young man must have felt strange - even more because she even put make-up on when she went to see him arriving. Hehe, a little lesson about women. lol What I find interesting is, that both - Long Qing and Ning Que - actually share the same enemy with General Xie Hou being eager to prefer seeing them both rather dead than alive, He must hate them both and had good reason to also hate General Lin, who actually saved both lads from certain death, by letting one of the escape and by raising the other. I wonder, if that will be dealt with too later on. If they find out that they both have a score to settle with Xie Hou...
I didn't dislike it at all. He was so arrogant, he should have toned it down a bit. His own brother was very careful…
I agree about his arrogance, which needed a little setback as he was the one to newly arrive at the Tang court and the academy. On the other hand, what did they all expect? Long Qing would replace his elder brother as a hostage, he's not supposed to like the people around him and at least he makes this clear, while his elder brother plays the humble one, even flirting with the princess, while he already tried to kill off the King of Tang, her father. And the game Ning Que played with him to prove him to be beautiful but dumb: I don't know a single person, so far in RL who did not fall for this trick. That was surely a poor try to make the unwanted guest look stupid. I don't know, arrogant or not, Long Qing stood his ground more or less on his own (with just a little help from his teacher) while the rest of the guests at this banquet picked on him all together. I know, he's not the one who's supposed to be liked in this story, but still, I disliked the way he got treated. Today, we'd name it bullying...
I can't speak for others, so this is my personal opinion. Let me say in the beginning that I'd also still watch…
Everything we all discuss here is one reason, why I prefer the way multi seaaon series get filmed in GB, Germany or the US: If a series like GoT, Vikings, Outlander etc. gets planned over several seasons, if it requires the main cast to reprise their roles, the contracts get set up to match these needs to avoid exactly what happens with "Ever Night" right now - the main lead dropping out. The Harry Potter movies are a perfect comparision or Star Wars or Star Trek. It was essential that the actors stay. Who would have wanted Harry, Ron Hermione, Luke, Leia and Han to change? While I must say, the experiment 'Star Trek reloaded' went astonishingly well (with an extremely well chosen young cast). Let me get one thing straight: I like Chen Fei Yu as Ning Que. The problem, I have simply is: He was sixteen or seventeen when he went for the auditions. Was he really ready to devote himself to a project that would need him as the male lead for two, three or four seasons when he went to do the auditions? Did his management made it clear to him what it would require? I respect that he wants to finish school first, but then, once again, if that's the priority, it would always have gotten in the way of the multi season "Ever Night" project. So, I find it a bit unfair against the project to do the auditions, to do one season and then drop out for the resons given as there surely have been actors who'd have taken on the project as a whole from the beginning on till the end. Decisions like this - no matter whom they made by - endanger great projects like this. So, I say it again: Multi season project like "Ever Night" need their main cast and therefore, they need contracts that make this clear and happen.
Chen Feiyu can do whatever he wants. Acting or not. And I'd still watch Ever Night S1 and S2 and any drama I'm…
I agree! And I trust the production team of this series enough to be able to find a great replacement for him. They made great choices for their cast, so, why would they fail here. In addition: In my opinion it's the whole cast that makes this series such a great watch. To say, I don't watch the other seasons because one character gets changed tells me, that obviously only one character really matters, no matter if the rest of the cast acts the hell out of themselves. That sad, because all of them work hard and make this series such a great experience and it's kind of a lack of respect against the rest of the cast...especially as no one knows how the performance of the new Ning Que will look like. We might all get surprised...so, why all the whining when there's not even a single scene of the new actors yet...I don't get it.
I read Erudite's post the day it got posted and, of couse, it's plausible. The way things happened still leave a stale taste in my honest opinion. Well, no matter how, I hope, we'll soon receive news about season two and about the guests they were able to hire this time. That's thrilling. (To be honest, what actually brought me to watch Ever Night in the first place were names such as Hu Jun, Andy On, Adam Cheng, Wang Dong, Mark Du etc. and, so far, I'm totally content with what I got to see...)
I thought once again about the impact, Chen Fei Yu's backing out of season two might have on the series and I asked myself a few questions: - It was known from the very beginning that "Ever Night" would have more than one season, right? Right! - If not Arthur Chen then definitely his management was in the know about it when he went to join the auditions, right? Right! - If the management knew that there would be more than one season, why didn't they remain patient instead of making their young star accept another series that would definitely collide with filming "Ever Night"? - If finisheing school is the main reason for dropping out of the project, then I wonder why the decision to play in a different series? I mean, if the start of filming season two would not have been delayed, would he have played in "Ever Night 2" instead of the other series? Sorry to say so, but finishing school, as important as it is, same as taking on a different project just because the main project was delayed - both sounds a bit like having looked for a reason to leave a multi-season project. I for my part, will definitely watch the next season, because there are other actors that I like in this series who will return - especially the guest stars and the veteran actors, who are the real backbones of the story.
Catching up episode by episode after being back from vacation, I fall more and more in love with the series, especially while going through every episode again scene by scene for taking screen caps. But I've one question those, who read the novel might be able to answer: I love Sang Sang as portrayed by Song Yi Ren, but I wonder why they decided to make her sound so whiny-voiced and lacrymose all the time. Is she supposed to be like that in the novel too in the beginning before she discovers her own strength?
Actually, I'm all with you. It's sad that things don't go as smooth as expected. Perhaps, his team should have waited for a little longer before they made him accept another drama instead of season two. Just a bit more patience. The other series would have easily found a different lead and it was no secret that "Ever Night" would cover more than one season. I think, his management acted too rashly. I've my difficulties too, accepting different leads in different seasons, but what goes for "Bloody Romance" (that I'd drop it if they'd change the cast) doesn't go for "Ever Night" (at least not for me). For "Ever Night" there was always the chance that they'd probably change the male lead as he'd grow up more quickly in the story than Arthur Chen would grow more mature. When the "Han Solo" movie came out, I was sceptical too about the young actors portraying him and Lando Calrissian. Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams were too charismatic in the "Star Wars" trilogy, but it turned out, the young ones did a fantastic job portraying the iconic characters. If they manage to do this for "Ever Night" too, I'm really not afraid.
Ok, it's sad that Arthur Chen won't be part of "EverNight" season two. I agree about that. But why is everyone whining and complaining already? I trust in the production team's skill and feeling to cast the right actor able to transport and deliver the same chemistry for the character in the next seasons. To say 'I drop the series', 'I don't watch the new season', 'The new actor will mess it up' etc. is really childish and reminds me of a pouting 4-years-old who didn't get the lollipop at the supermarket exit. Who knows, but maybe the new actor will match the more mature and grown up Ning Que perfectly. Why, the heck, do people always complain before they even got to see the final result...??? *knocks head against wall*
It might be presumptuous of me, but I do think romance is the biggest factor for drama fans :) To be honest I…
It's based on a true story and it's really a cult movie starring actors like Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif and Anthony Quinn. The music, the settings, the filming, the performance - outstanding. For Peter O'Toole it was his debut on the big screen.
While I'm waiting for new episodes of Ever Night, need something similar and I read "good" opinions about Fights…
Didn't start watching "Oriental Odyssee", yet, but in my opinion, the only "thing" that made "Fights Break Sphere" worth watching was Bai Shan. Sadly, he only appears in the first 10 or 11 episodes.
It might be presumptuous of me, but I do think romance is the biggest factor for drama fans :) To be honest I…
Even if it sounds like this, but i'm not a romance hater. I just dislike that it gets totally overdosed and that writers think, it desperately needs one or more romance plots to make a series work. It's really going on my nerves. And I agree, some of the best series/movies work perfectly without a love story or with a love story taking place in the background. One of the most legendary movies ever filmed, also one of the most thrilling and most captivating is "Lawrence of Arabia". Four hours long, male cast only, no romance at all and thrilling from the first to the last minute. I think, our world needs more love, but not every drama necessarily needs a love story.
Romance, romance, romance! Oh man, sometimes I wonder if that's the only thing, people are interested in or care about in a drama! As if a series or a movie are less worth watching if there's no romance or if it's only a side story. Not every story focusses or needs to focus on love stories and romance. There are other ingredients too making a story a great story but romance. Pfffff....
If this show goes below Ashes of Love people dont know good shows at all.. stop rating based on how beautiful…
It's not mushy enough, it's not romantic enough, it lacks kissing and bed scenes...it's exactly my cup of tea. I love "Ever Night", so far. I rarely rate 10/10 that early, but this show simply deserves it. The way, the writers create tension, is excellent and the filming is too. It also proves that casting actors 40+ adds to the story way more than making 20 years old look like 40+. The "veteran" actors build the solid rock the young cast can rely on and it works out perfectly. If I could, I'd rate it 10 again and again.
I'm on episode21 right now, having to catch up after vacation.
That Sang Sang would start swooning over another handsome young man must have felt strange - even more because she even put make-up on when she went to see him arriving.
Hehe, a little lesson about women. lol
What I find interesting is, that both - Long Qing and Ning Que - actually share the same enemy with General Xie Hou being eager to prefer seeing them both rather dead than alive, He must hate them both and had good reason to also hate General Lin, who actually saved both lads from certain death, by letting one of the escape and by raising the other.
I wonder, if that will be dealt with too later on. If they find out that they both have a score to settle with Xie Hou...
On the other hand, what did they all expect?
Long Qing would replace his elder brother as a hostage, he's not supposed to like the people around him and at least he makes this clear, while his elder brother plays the humble one, even flirting with the princess, while he already tried to kill off the King of Tang, her father.
And the game Ning Que played with him to prove him to be beautiful but dumb: I don't know a single person, so far in RL who did not fall for this trick. That was surely a poor try to make the unwanted guest look stupid.
I don't know, arrogant or not, Long Qing stood his ground more or less on his own (with just a little help from his teacher) while the rest of the guests at this banquet picked on him all together.
I know, he's not the one who's supposed to be liked in this story, but still, I disliked the way he got treated. Today, we'd name it bullying...
If a series like GoT, Vikings, Outlander etc. gets planned over several seasons, if it requires the main cast to reprise their roles, the contracts get set up to match these needs to avoid exactly what happens with "Ever Night" right now - the main lead dropping out.
The Harry Potter movies are a perfect comparision or Star Wars or Star Trek. It was essential that the actors stay. Who would have wanted Harry, Ron Hermione, Luke, Leia and Han to change?
While I must say, the experiment 'Star Trek reloaded' went astonishingly well (with an extremely well chosen young cast).
Let me get one thing straight:
I like Chen Fei Yu as Ning Que. The problem, I have simply is:
He was sixteen or seventeen when he went for the auditions. Was he really ready to devote himself to a project that would need him as the male lead for two, three or four seasons when he went to do the auditions? Did his management made it clear to him what it would require?
I respect that he wants to finish school first, but then, once again, if that's the priority, it would always have gotten in the way of the multi season "Ever Night" project. So, I find it a bit unfair against the project to do the auditions, to do one season and then drop out for the resons given as there surely have been actors who'd have taken on the project as a whole from the beginning on till the end.
Decisions like this - no matter whom they made by - endanger great projects like this.
So, I say it again: Multi season project like "Ever Night" need their main cast and therefore, they need contracts that make this clear and happen.
In addition: In my opinion it's the whole cast that makes this series such a great watch. To say, I don't watch the other seasons because one character gets changed tells me, that obviously only one character really matters, no matter if the rest of the cast acts the hell out of themselves. That sad, because all of them work hard and make this series such a great experience and it's kind of a lack of respect against the rest of the cast...especially as no one knows how the performance of the new Ning Que will look like. We might all get surprised...so, why all the whining when there's not even a single scene of the new actors yet...I don't get it.
The way things happened still leave a stale taste in my honest opinion.
Well, no matter how, I hope, we'll soon receive news about season two and about the guests they were able to hire this time. That's thrilling.
(To be honest, what actually brought me to watch Ever Night in the first place were names such as Hu Jun, Andy On, Adam Cheng, Wang Dong, Mark Du etc. and, so far, I'm totally content with what I got to see...)
- It was known from the very beginning that "Ever Night" would have more than one season, right? Right!
- If not Arthur Chen then definitely his management was in the know about it when he went to join the auditions, right? Right!
- If the management knew that there would be more than one season, why didn't they remain patient instead of making their young star accept another series that would definitely collide with filming "Ever Night"?
- If finisheing school is the main reason for dropping out of the project, then I wonder why the decision to play in a different series? I mean, if the start of filming season two would not have been delayed, would he have played in "Ever Night 2" instead of the other series?
Sorry to say so, but finishing school, as important as it is, same as taking on a different project just because the main project was delayed - both sounds a bit like having looked for a reason to leave a multi-season project.
I for my part, will definitely watch the next season, because there are other actors that I like in this series who will return - especially the guest stars and the veteran actors, who are the real backbones of the story.
But I've one question those, who read the novel might be able to answer:
I love Sang Sang as portrayed by Song Yi Ren, but I wonder why they decided to make her sound so whiny-voiced and lacrymose all the time.
Is she supposed to be like that in the novel too in the beginning before she discovers her own strength?
I've my difficulties too, accepting different leads in different seasons, but what goes for "Bloody Romance" (that I'd drop it if they'd change the cast) doesn't go for "Ever Night" (at least not for me).
For "Ever Night" there was always the chance that they'd probably change the male lead as he'd grow up more quickly in the story than Arthur Chen would grow more mature.
When the "Han Solo" movie came out, I was sceptical too about the young actors portraying him and Lando Calrissian. Harrison Ford and Billy Dee Williams were too charismatic in the "Star Wars" trilogy, but it turned out, the young ones did a fantastic job portraying the iconic characters.
If they manage to do this for "Ever Night" too, I'm really not afraid.
I agree about that.
But why is everyone whining and complaining already?
I trust in the production team's skill and feeling to cast the right actor able to transport and deliver the same chemistry for the character in the next seasons.
To say 'I drop the series', 'I don't watch the new season', 'The new actor will mess it up' etc. is really childish and reminds me of a pouting 4-years-old who didn't get the lollipop at the supermarket exit.
Who knows, but maybe the new actor will match the more mature and grown up Ning Que perfectly. Why, the heck, do people always complain before they even got to see the final result...???
*knocks head against wall*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AznzZAlwVA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgmdcZEz_b0
The music, the settings, the filming, the performance - outstanding. For Peter O'Toole it was his debut on the big screen.
And I agree, some of the best series/movies work perfectly without a love story or with a love story taking place in the background.
One of the most legendary movies ever filmed, also one of the most thrilling and most captivating is "Lawrence of Arabia".
Four hours long, male cast only, no romance at all and thrilling from the first to the last minute.
I think, our world needs more love, but not every drama necessarily needs a love story.
Oh man, sometimes I wonder if that's the only thing, people are interested in or care about in a drama!
As if a series or a movie are less worth watching if there's no romance or if it's only a side story.
Not every story focusses or needs to focus on love stories and romance. There are other ingredients too making a story a great story but romance. Pfffff....
I love "Ever Night", so far. I rarely rate 10/10 that early, but this show simply deserves it. The way, the writers create tension, is excellent and the filming is too.
It also proves that casting actors 40+ adds to the story way more than making 20 years old look like 40+.
The "veteran" actors build the solid rock the young cast can rely on and it works out perfectly. If I could, I'd rate it 10 again and again.