I share the same sentiments about Liu Xue Yi‘s acting skills vs A-listers. Most of them work in comfort zones with a lot of aid for commercial reasons.
Indeed, and that’s because they relied on the 2nd season and forgot that anything is possible.
If you look at the ending of JOL first season, although you would desire a 2nd season, you wouldn’t have much complaints if the 2nd season didn’t happen.
For it to meet that expectation it had to have season 2.
They wasted too much time on the SML and delayed showing FL’s super skills. So her greatness was left to be something to be desired for.
Also, the fact that managed to super market a plagiarised body of work tells you that skills of actors were not the priority but making money and fame was the focus.
However, if we look at the success of The Double with the ML who’s also an “underdog” Liu is too, her argument doesn’t hold water.
This product company is capable of turning things around and giving underdogs golden characters.
It’s just that with this things got lost in translation while trying to rewrite the whole novel.
They should have just put it in credits that the project was inspired by the novel but not necessarily taking it’s direction.
The problem is that, people who read the novel have high expectations.
With that said, the four writers inconsistencies that are too visible including the editing.
They chose ML to turn things around for them with his great acting skills of turning mediocre characters into golden one.
No super famous actor can do what he’s able to do, because super famous actors get easy planned out characters with a lot of assistance and big marketing budget.
You can look at highly hyped dramas that after the hype you see that it wasn’t that great but, it had too marketing budget.
E.g Princess Agent, kdrama King the land etc…
Princess agent wasn’t great as made up to be when you watch it with a critical eye, but it had marketing budget and super famous actors.
Nudity???? And does this drama have that? And I watched every episode of Kill me love me.(One thing they know…
Not a problem, at least you were not responding with insults and disrespect.
What I meant was that, partnering with Netflix will slowly destroy this production company’s quality of work. And I mentioned what Netflix thrives on.
I then mentioned also the inconsistencies in this drama, insinuating that they did the work under pressure for various reasons of course which might include Netflix.
I also made reference to the bath scene which is something you hardly find on the first episode of historical dramas.
This drama has inconsistencies in writing and editing. Although I do love it for the leads. I’m just worried that, this production company doesn’t fall into the trap of the likes of Netflix.
Seems like this production company is in good terms with Netflix, I’m afraid that after The Double their quality work is gonna be ruined for quantity, sex scenes, nudity, and so on to keep having their work on Netflix.
It now makes sense why this was rushed, also the bathtub scene in episode one. Having 4 writers who rushed the work incoherently.
Netflix thrives on mediocre, nudity and sex dramas to sell their network.
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Liu Xue Yi is an A-lister to me.
I stopped watching at ep 16, waiting for all episodes to come out for a similar reason.
If you look at the ending of JOL first season, although you would desire a 2nd season, you wouldn’t have much complaints if the 2nd season didn’t happen.
For it to meet that expectation it had to have season 2.
They wasted too much time on the SML and delayed showing FL’s super skills. So her greatness was left to be something to be desired for.
Also, the fact that managed to super market a plagiarised body of work tells you that skills of actors were not the priority but making money and fame was the focus.
However, if we look at the success of The Double with the ML who’s also an “underdog” Liu is too, her argument doesn’t hold water.
This product company is capable of turning things around and giving underdogs golden characters.
It’s just that with this things got lost in translation while trying to rewrite the whole novel.
They should have just put it in credits that the project was inspired by the novel but not necessarily taking it’s direction.
The problem is that, people who read the novel have high expectations.
With that said, the four writers inconsistencies that are too visible including the editing.
They chose ML to turn things around for them with his great acting skills of turning mediocre characters into golden one.
No super famous actor can do what he’s able to do, because super famous actors get easy planned out characters with a lot of assistance and big marketing budget.
You can look at highly hyped dramas that after the hype you see that it wasn’t that great but, it had too marketing budget.
E.g Princess Agent, kdrama King the land etc…
Princess agent wasn’t great as made up to be when you watch it with a critical eye, but it had marketing budget and super famous actors.
Thanks for the insights.
However I do feel that they should have kept part of that persona a little longer only towards his enemies.
Now the confusion between writers on how to rewrite to redeem him is visible.
If they had enough time to sit and playing out amongst each other it would have been better.
Do you feel they should have stuck to
that a bit or?
What I meant was that, partnering with Netflix will slowly destroy this production company’s quality of work. And I mentioned what Netflix thrives on.
I then mentioned also the inconsistencies in this drama, insinuating that they did the work under pressure for various reasons of course which might include Netflix.
I also made reference to the bath scene which is something you hardly find on the first episode of historical dramas.
This drama has inconsistencies in writing and editing. Although I do love it for the leads. I’m just worried that, this production company doesn’t fall into the trap of the likes of Netflix.
I hope this makes sense now.
You are intelligent enough to not read to reply.
It now makes sense why this was rushed, also the bathtub scene in episode one. Having 4 writers who rushed the work incoherently.
Netflix thrives on mediocre, nudity and sex dramas to sell their network.
I must say, the ML is blessed with choosing the best scripts in the industry.