PeachBlossomGoddess

Yes exactly - this audience is a bloodthirsty lot - they just want to see lots of bad guys being mowed down. But dead men tell no tales - so how do you smoke out all the main villains?

So far I have only enjoyed Yang Yang's acting in 2 dramas - this one and Immortal Ascension. He used to be a really good actor when he was kind of young and chubby in Dream of the Red Mansions. In WRTW he was too obsessed with his most flattering camera angles he looked like he had a frozen shoulder.

This should be an alternate universe to the original novel. Even the timeline doesn't match anymore. In the novel, he met and fought Yuehua in a duel and they got engaged after that. They exchanged swords as engagement gifts to each other - thus Zhan Zhao's Zhanlu sword was form her and she fights with his Juque sword.

It should be bc Zhihua allegedly has the antidote to the poison that BYT's two rat bros need.

I think Linglong's skill level is not so high that she can restrain herself in emergency situations. ZZ's problem is most of the time he can so if he kills someone, its a conscious decision to do so.

Most of the time, they are disappointing - TINY and emaciated- there is a lot of lying going on about height. Many of them look much better on camera than in real life. I am not a fan of his acting at all but Xiao Zhan actually looks much better in person, the camera doesn't flatter him. Michelle Yeoh also looks terrific but she is super petite. Yang Mi also looks very stunning in real life.

Lol - must be inspired by that real life story of a Chinese tourist that pushed his wife or girlfriend off a cliff while on holiday there... and nope, she didn't die but I wouldn't try it in real life.

This is the core moral conflict in this drama - legal justice vs vigilante justice. Zhan Zhao is righteous to a fault - he is a loyal officer of the court and his mentor is Justice Bao. It is his sworn duty to uphold the letter of the law. This entire story is about how his convictions are tested and hopefully, about how he finds a way to deliver justice WITHIN the letter of the law. Tonight's episodes already hint at how he is able make the bad guys suffer while still upholding the law. Killing someone may deliver an instant gratification kind of justice but making them suffer for the crimes is also a different kind of justice, potentially more satisfying over the longer run.

NO ONE dies falling off a cliff in a c-drama... Esp not in ep 15 out of 37....

Well Chinese actors are frequently spotted in HK and Macau. I am very hesitant about stalking them. I won't name names but there are too many that are super disappointing in person... Luckily Yang Yang looks as good IRL as he does on camera.😅

I have to confess that like a silly fan-girl I went to stalk Yang Yang at the Chow Tai Fook flagship TST store opening on Friday. He looked tall and real good in real life but I couldn't stay for the meet and greet bc I had my niece's graduation dinner to get to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtdS9AZUr8

I think in an earlier episode her brother tells ZZ its not appropriate for him to just visit her in her quarters because she has grown up into a young lady now. By implication, the last time ZZ met her, she was still a child whereas he was already a young man. Now that she is grown up of course he may not recognize her but she should recognize him.

I think the symbolism of Yaksha is that it is worshipped by the common people of Xiangzhou for protection because the local government has failed to protect them. Zhan Zhao should transform himself into Yaksha down the road as he fights for justice for the common people.

they may do something along the lines of Zhan Zhao does fall for her but she dies. So she becomes a lost love but would still not conflict with canon that Zhan Zhao eventually marries Ding Yuehua.

I don't need romance for my dramas but even if they end up hinting some romantic developments here I wouldn't mind either. I suspect

Yeah I think the body double is only for some difficult moves and its well edited in but it does cut her fight scenes into smaller moves rather than the one long continuous shots that Yang Yang is delivering. I don't mind either but this drama long on action and short on romance is attracting a different wuxia fan base that are a bit more picky about this kind of stuff.

I didn't read this novel but I read the original ages ago when I was still in my teens. I think this is an alternate timeline where he doesn't end up with Ding Yuehua. Haven't seen any fighting among c-nets. If you know the original story, you wouldn't like/agree with the casting of the 2FL. I suspect that is where most c-netizens are. They don't love the FL however bc of the heavy use of a body double for her fight scenes.

Well he is also trying to close his case. And dead men tell no tales.

In this matter he and Bai Yutang are opposite characters. Zhan Zhao represents official justice vs Bai Yutang's vigilante jianghu justice. So we are not going to see him start doing that no matter the temptation.

Yang Yang found his niche. I think his acting is only very average but he is elevated by his ability to deliver really hard action scenes. Not many in the younger generation of c-drama outside of maybe Wu Lei can pull off something in the same caliber.