PeachBlossomGoddess

I don't love the poison trope but I think it was done to give the FL a role in the ensemble team. She is the muscle and he is the brains. Otherwise she is going to be completely useless and he is going to do everything.

Every case - I was rolling my eyes. But the final switch out was completely mustahil!!!

I will have to pause the next time I want to rant about platforms or dramas not respecting audience intelligence.

The bots are now romantic rivals!!! Heheheheh!!!

Hello kawan -
CD also boleh-la! The mustahil "crime solving" was hilarious. But I think funny was not what the writers were going for... CD did have a great cast.

I think a lot of us are fine with Julia Xiang's performance. Its just the same voices whining about the same stuff about her over and over and over again.

I am not a gamer myself but I wouldn't be surprise if there is a game licensing in progress. It could be however that Youku is not the owner of the IP, they just licensed it for the drama. Tencent on the other hand owns a ton of IP via China Literature,

I think this is a much better mystery series than CD, where the FL was pulling conclusions out of thin air. Its just that Li Landi is a very good actress (much better than Julia Xiang who is a rookie by comparison) she can sell absurd lines and ridiculous actions and make the audience nod approvingly. More power to her for that but CD was also a FL led story so she got all the best lines and was the main spotlight. This drama is squarely male lead led. And with not one, but two super smart male leads, there is just not much scope for the FL to shine. Her role is to be the spunky girl who can fight (and she pulls that off well) and bring the two massive battling egos together. Its a completely different character set up. Clearly iQiyi felt the audience was smart enough to be discerning and understand and appreciate the differences. Sadly they may have over estimated us. As for all the thirsty romance watchers who haunt every comment section, we get inundated with romances all year round. There is more than enough to satisfy their thirst elsewhere so the violins play very softly when this one is not doing it for them.

Yeah. Quite sure they didn't already shoot multiple seasons for this. But the drama is not over yet and they should still be selling ad slots. If it ends up profitable enough then its possible they continue with it but I wouldn't put high hopes. Youku has deep pockets but their new CEO has put a profits first KPI on all departments including digital media.

Yeah it will make them obsolete - even if they get royalties they don't agree. Bc maybe the bots can even act better than they can.

Yes but actors worldwide don’t consent to this and I understand why.

MDL ratings are very consistent in one area - if there is romance it’s rated super high and if not the rating is punished. It’s unfortunately the overwhelming user bias of this site. Half the comments are thirsting over romance, not just here but on practically every thread.

They can already do that from what I have seen but in China it is illegal without the actors consent.

I think it makes sense. The journey to immortality is long and difficult. Attachments are inconvenient as most of your friends will die and can be dangerous if you have to try to save them. But once the journey is complete, life is long and super boring. That brings you to the romance part of xianxias where they form mushy, absurd, obsessive eternal attachments with other immortals.

If the rumored budget of CNY300 mm is true, Youku at best broke even on this. It is doubtful we will get more seasons as that is a very big budget in the current environment.

Sounds terrible omg! Similar to Anne Rice's Interview With A Vampire novels. Immortality makes them go bat shit crazy with loneliness and boredom to the point many of them commit suicide. Not at all what its cracked up to be!

Well frying a bad guy or two with those magic artefacts looks quite fun but could definitely get old!

Of course. I was just kidding around.😂 The whole immortality thing seems to me quite... pointless.

Thank Buddha Jin Yong is already dead bc otherwise, this atrocity would surely kill him dead.

What is 5 years when you can live for all eternity? Productivity is for humans. Immortals got to drag things out to make life less boring...