Totally agree. A season two would require the same cast to continue where season one ended. Can't help, but the…
I'm all with you in this. Even though I finished them both, I can't bring myself to go on taking screen caps, which I normally do for character edits etc. The whole thing feels incomplete (which it actually is). I remember, I cried non-stop over the last six episodes of "Water Margin" (2011) when the heroes fell one after the other, but at least did this series get a satisfiying ending without a cliffhanger or other nonsense like that. I can tell you, I'm at emotional war with the writers and producers of PA and T&E.
Totally agree. A season two would require the same cast to continue where season one ended. Can't help, but the…
That's why I'm afraid of what possibly might happen, if there should ever be a season two of "Princess Agents" or "Tribes and Empires"...better leave it with the cliffhangers than changing the cast.
what's the point in calling it a season 2 when the whole cast has completely changed, even more Da Bao is gone.....…
Totally agree. A season two would require the same cast to continue where season one ended. Can't help, but the whole thing didn't get me as hooked from the first minute on like it did in season one. There was something missing - intensity, chemistry...
Agreed! But no matter what, time-travelling is almost always able to attract the audience because humans can't…
Actually, I do not hate time-travelling. There are some amazing movies and books out there about it. What made me drop the series was, that it was so horribly overdone. It really felt as if episodes one and two were from totally different dramas. Kind of weird.
LMAO, !!! Now I have got to watch this. I just heard the ending song. Sad, but beautiful!!!! Thanks for your comment.
The show really gains speed wth every episode and I hope, the whole series will get subs soon. The chemistry amongst the cast is great and actor Ocean Jiang reminds me of German actor Tom Wlaschiha, who played Jaqen H'ghar in "Game of Thrones". I'm sure, you won't regret giving it a try.
One of those series that get better and better with every episode. Who needs overrated barbie girls in the lead, trying to play the female badass swordmaster, if there is a cast of cool guys and girls in a Mystery Case Files series with two male leads of excellent chemistry??? Keep the barbie girl - I'll stick with Zhu Yi Long and Bai Yu.
Being the prequel of "Brotherhood of Blades", my expectations were quite high when the movie got out - but the whole thing felt like a shallow and stale rip-off of the first movie, just set a few months earlier. And what I asked myself was, why, the heck, would Shen Lian get into the same trouble eight months later, if he already got into the same kind of trouble eight month before??? The first movie created that dense and thrilling atmosphere that made you inhale every second of it. You wanted to know the reasons why the three friends ended up the way they did in the end and how their superiors were involved in the whole schemes against them.
The second movie is really strained and tried to create the same dense and thrilling atmosphere, but fails except for some really well performed and choreographed fight scenes. There is nothing new in its storyline, except the fact that Wei Zhong Xian is at the peak of power - shortly before his downfall (which gets shown in the first movie). So, I'd rather rewatch the first movie again than the second.
Aside all the criticism, the cast does a great job, with some fine actors performing alonside Chang Chen once again.
The weak spot and the movie's Achilles Heel, though, is its female lead. Who ever made the decision to cast Yang Mi as the female lead, really needs glasses. She does what she uses to do best in her drama series: staring into space like a dying duck.
I know, this will offend and upset her fans, but there was not even the try of acting, just resting on the laurels she earned with some of her drama series. If not Liu Shi Shi, I'd have wished for someone else with acting skills, like Ady An or Zhao Wei, then there would have been a balance between male and female lead - this way, there was none.
5/10 for the male cast, the costumes and some good fight scenes.
I confess, when I saw the first character stills, I felt quite excited about this movie, now, two hours later, I ask myself how actors like Hu Jun, Zhao Li Xin or Tumen ended up within crap like this. Especially Tumen, whose portrait of the Great Khan in "An End to Killing" aka "Kingdom of Conquerors" was excellent.
It already started with the intro: How bored must the one have been, who did the storytelling at the beginning??? Just listening to that listless performance made me fall asleep already... Then there was the first battle: If you try to copy Brendan Fraser's "Mummy"-trilogy do it right or leave it be. We have seen skeleton armies in action before and in a far better way than here... And, of course, there was Hu Jun's first duel. I didn't know if I should laugh out loud or cry. To see him pussyfooting around like a bloody beginner was hard to bear... And this is only the recap of the first ten minutes...
Another thing that made me wonder: William Chan might be a fine actor, but a Genghis Khan he is not. No matter how, but the Great Khan is a character that needs charisma and personality, not the babyface of a handsome idol actor. Both, Hu Jun and Zhao Li Xin, would have been way more convincing in the role of Temujin. But as this is rather a fantasy satire using the name of Genghis Khan than a movie you can take halfway serious, there was obviously no need for a proper casting.
If you're a fan of William Chan, watch it, if not, spend your two hours of time with something worth it.
I hope, it will work for you. There's nothing more amazing than watching a series or a movie again and again, discovering new details and new feelings, swooning over a different chacater after having not watched for about a decade... Watching a movie/series at 20 is different than watching it at 30 or 40. It's never the same, always new. I'd rather skip a new series that doesn't convince me after 2-3 episodes and rewatch one once again that made me feel for it deeply. For me it's important that a thing touches me not how much I can consume of it. Life it too short to waste time on things half-heartedly.
I liked the setting but couldn't get into the plot or the characters. The writing doesn't get you invested in…
That was another problem for me as well: the plot. The whole thing looked like stitched together with a hot needle, carrying together as many ideas from other shows as possible.
Watched the first two episodes last night (RAW) and I've mixed feelings about it. While I really like the lad in the lead and the assassin (?) girl, I honestly asked myself what sense the addition of the timetravelling 21st century girl is supposed to make, running around with her smartphone and obviously lost in Qin Dynasty after she suffered one of the meanwhile standard accidents - car accident or drowning (boooring). Also the stupid addition of absurd comedy makes no sense at all. I wanted to follow Han Xin on his way to become a hero not a random hystrical 21st century girl. If the writers don't know which genre they want to serve it's better not to work on a project like this instead of ruining a quite captivating storyline for some cheap timetrvelling cliché and some awkward comedy. If that subplot should get more space in the episodes to come, I'll surely drop this. "Peace in the Palace" will definitely compensate for it.
Dropped after the first six episodes. I really waited impatiently for this series to start broadcast, but I actually already had enough after episode one. While it comes along with gorgeous costumes for the tribal scenes and stunning settings and landscapes, this cannot cover the poor acting by both - the leading cast and the dubbing crew! Zhang Jun Ning as the dark winged antagonist is one of the few highlights aside the costumes and the settings, while, like in "Legend of the Flying Daggers" already, I can't get rid of the feeling that Hawick Lau is not one for the costume/fantasy/ wuxia genre. Zhang Jun Ning has the looks, the skills and the drive to perform the hero of a fantasy series, but he alone does not save this series for me, not even if he'd have been the male lead. Won't waste my time on the remaining 34 episodes.
A nice guide, thank you! I just don't agree about dropping drama series with a rating lower than 7,5. A number of drama series I watched which have a great story, cast, scenery, costumes and pace are rated low here because of either not having subs (so far) or for not having any romance or because of not focussing on a love story or a OTP. If I'd have dropped them, just because the rating is low on here, I'd have missed some truly amazing series. If I'd only rely on the rating, I'd mostly get anything connected to mushy love stories or mainstream series featuring idols and high popular actors and actresses, so, I'll rather go on and rely on my personal feeling about a series.
Waited for a new adaptation of the novel for many years, but I'm utterly disappointed. This new series is no match for the movie of the same name from 1977. Fourty years old and iconic actors Tien Peng & Pai Ying still did it better - without CGI and special effects.
The whole thing feels incomplete (which it actually is).
I remember, I cried non-stop over the last six episodes of "Water Margin" (2011) when the heroes fell one after the other, but at least did this series get a satisfiying ending without a cliffhanger or other nonsense like that.
I can tell you, I'm at emotional war with the writers and producers of PA and T&E.
The chemistry amongst the cast is great and actor Ocean Jiang reminds me of German actor Tom Wlaschiha, who played Jaqen H'ghar in "Game of Thrones". I'm sure, you won't regret giving it a try.
Who needs overrated barbie girls in the lead, trying to play the female badass swordmaster, if there is a cast of cool guys and girls in a Mystery Case Files series with two male leads of excellent chemistry???
Keep the barbie girl - I'll stick with Zhu Yi Long and Bai Yu.
And what I asked myself was, why, the heck, would Shen Lian get into the same trouble eight months later, if he already got into the same kind of trouble eight month before???
The first movie created that dense and thrilling atmosphere that made you inhale every second of it. You wanted to know the reasons why the three friends ended up the way they did in the end and how their superiors were involved in the whole schemes against them.
The second movie is really strained and tried to create the same dense and thrilling atmosphere, but fails except for some really well performed and choreographed fight scenes.
There is nothing new in its storyline, except the fact that Wei Zhong Xian is at the peak of power - shortly before his downfall (which gets shown in the first movie).
So, I'd rather rewatch the first movie again than the second.
Aside all the criticism, the cast does a great job, with some fine actors performing alonside Chang Chen once again.
The weak spot and the movie's Achilles Heel, though, is its female lead.
Who ever made the decision to cast Yang Mi as the female lead, really needs glasses.
She does what she uses to do best in her drama series: staring into space like a dying duck.
I know, this will offend and upset her fans, but there was not even the try of acting, just resting on the laurels she earned with some of her drama series.
If not Liu Shi Shi, I'd have wished for someone else with acting skills, like Ady An or Zhao Wei, then there would have been a balance between male and female lead - this way, there was none.
5/10 for the male cast, the costumes and some good fight scenes.
I confess, when I saw the first character stills, I felt quite excited about this movie, now, two hours later, I ask myself how actors like Hu Jun, Zhao Li Xin or Tumen ended up within crap like this.
Especially Tumen, whose portrait of the Great Khan in "An End to Killing" aka "Kingdom of Conquerors" was excellent.
It already started with the intro: How bored must the one have been, who did the storytelling at the beginning???
Just listening to that listless performance made me fall asleep already...
Then there was the first battle: If you try to copy Brendan Fraser's "Mummy"-trilogy do it right or leave it be. We have seen skeleton armies in action before and in a far better way than here...
And, of course, there was Hu Jun's first duel. I didn't know if I should laugh out loud or cry. To see him pussyfooting around like a bloody beginner was hard to bear...
And this is only the recap of the first ten minutes...
Another thing that made me wonder:
William Chan might be a fine actor, but a Genghis Khan he is not.
No matter how, but the Great Khan is a character that needs charisma and personality, not the babyface of a handsome idol actor.
Both, Hu Jun and Zhao Li Xin, would have been way more convincing in the role of Temujin.
But as this is rather a fantasy satire using the name of Genghis Khan than a movie you can take halfway serious, there was obviously no need for a proper casting.
If you're a fan of William Chan, watch it, if not, spend your two hours of time with something worth it.
1/10 for some of the cast members...
There's nothing more amazing than watching a series or a movie again and again, discovering new details and new feelings, swooning over a different chacater after having not watched for about a decade...
Watching a movie/series at 20 is different than watching it at 30 or 40.
It's never the same, always new. I'd rather skip a new series that doesn't convince me after 2-3 episodes and rewatch one once again that made me feel for it deeply.
For me it's important that a thing touches me not how much I can consume of it.
Life it too short to waste time on things half-heartedly.
https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzY2MDI5NDM0MA.html
While I really like the lad in the lead and the assassin (?) girl, I honestly asked myself what sense the addition of the timetravelling 21st century girl is supposed to make, running around with her smartphone and obviously lost in Qin Dynasty after she suffered one of the meanwhile standard accidents - car accident or drowning (boooring).
Also the stupid addition of absurd comedy makes no sense at all.
I wanted to follow Han Xin on his way to become a hero not a random hystrical 21st century girl.
If the writers don't know which genre they want to serve it's better not to work on a project like this instead of ruining a quite captivating storyline for some cheap timetrvelling cliché and some awkward comedy.
If that subplot should get more space in the episodes to come, I'll surely drop this.
"Peace in the Palace" will definitely compensate for it.
I really waited impatiently for this series to start broadcast, but I actually already had enough after episode one.
While it comes along with gorgeous costumes for the tribal scenes and stunning settings and landscapes, this cannot cover the poor acting by both - the leading cast and the dubbing crew!
Zhang Jun Ning as the dark winged antagonist is one of the few highlights aside the costumes and the settings, while, like in "Legend of the Flying Daggers" already, I can't get rid of the feeling that Hawick Lau is not one for the costume/fantasy/ wuxia genre.
Zhang Jun Ning has the looks, the skills and the drive to perform the hero of a fantasy series, but he alone does not save this series for me, not even if he'd have been the male lead.
Won't waste my time on the remaining 34 episodes.
I just don't agree about dropping drama series with a rating lower than 7,5.
A number of drama series I watched which have a great story, cast, scenery, costumes and pace are rated low here because of either not having subs (so far) or for not having any romance or because of not focussing on a love story or a OTP.
If I'd have dropped them, just because the rating is low on here, I'd have missed some truly amazing series.
If I'd only rely on the rating, I'd mostly get anything connected to mushy love stories or mainstream series featuring idols and high popular actors and actresses, so, I'll rather go on and rely on my personal feeling about a series.
This new series is no match for the movie of the same name from 1977.
Fourty years old and iconic actors Tien Peng & Pai Ying still did it better - without CGI and special effects.