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Great show, definitely worth watching!
Haven’t done many reviews on MDL, so be warned, there are spoilers!!!This was such a wonderful show! it currently ranks top 2 for me so far this year. I loved the acting from both leads, they were phenomenal. The angst is the story felt real and justified. The dilemma between Cai Zhao picking her family over Mu Chingyan was so well done, and the fact she may still pick MCY in a life or death situation was very apparent. Even if it seemed like Cai Zhao was never chasing Mu Chingyan, I like the fact they made her say it herself. She admits that she could not do as much for MCY as he has done for her. But at the end of the day, both their love runs deep.
Maybe I’m just stupid, but I didn’t quite catch why Mu Chingyan persisted to practice the Ziwei method? I mean, I just think that he gave up because of Cai Zhao, but I guess he was so persistent because he wanted the Li Sect to unify with the others without facing prejudice?
oh my days, the last episode was a rollercoaster. I fully believed TWICE that Mu Chingyan was dead for. I was throwing my laptop and everything, but I’m glad it ended the way it did. Even though something felt missing by the end. Maybe it’s just the way c-dramas are, but all the blood spitting and being throw around, all of that just for them to recover fully felt a teeny bit unrealistic. For a good minute I thought the happy ending was just a dream, or the afterlife after MCY died and maybe Cai Zhao ended her life too...
but I prefer happy endings so let’s not go there!
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Could not feel connected with the characters emotions at all. Felt so dead and soulless.
This was one of my most anticipated dramas, but turned out to be such a let down...?.The overall vibe: mildest c-drama plot I’ve ever seen, especially for this genre. It was really hard to continue watching, so I dropped it. I was pushing through with my willpower to watch 5 more episodes b/c I kept gas lighting myself that it would get better based on some other review, but it didn’t. And I just decided not to waste my time, since it got so boring and slow.
Story: the only somewhat decent plot at the beginning was the story with Bing Zhu and his sister, Tan’er. Hong Ye’s backstory is so overdone. I didn’t complete the drama so I never got to confirm if Ning an really was Xiao Yao. But I’ve never truly appreciated reincarnation plot lines.
I never felt the spark between the ML and FL. I’m not sure if it was the acting, but there was no chemistry. Honestly the acting was off for both leads. Since I know that Tan Song Sun and Hou Ming Hao are good actors based off the others dramas I watched, I was surprised. Firstly, Hong Ye seems to always have the same expression and his demeanor is always neutral. Which made it s hard to connect with the characters. I Never felt excited during the fight scenes or blushing in the “romantic” ones. Tan Song Yun’s character is meant to be childish but witty. She is both, and does both. But some people found her acting was not good enough or that she isn’t a good fit for historical/wuxia/xianxia c-dramas; I honestly blame this on the production team and the director. Whoever was the director probably made the final cut and was clearly okay with how Hou and Song Yun acted, even if it wasn’t the best.
There was nothing to root for. Everything felt cliche. The cliff fall scene ?. 10 episodes in, they haven’t done a good job at creating the central problem/villian. I can see that the emperor is an antagonist and that the hatred between the demons and humans is a problem. But idk, the way the plot was carried out wasn’t it. There were no stakes. No one was actively trying to bring the two sides together. If they’re setting up this plot that Xiao Yao will bring calamity bc of her identity, they didn’t do it well enough. How would she even do that?
and then there’s that self claimed immortal fairy too. will they involve the immortal world into the plot too? I think they should have chosen one strong plot line and developed it in depth.
Xiao Yao is supposed to be both demon and human. She has minimal talent for demonic arts, her fire technique can be a distraction at most. How would the world turn upside down for her?
They made her sound so special but didn’t create her character intricate enough.
Hong Ye’s character is honestly boring.
I could not connect with any of the characters on an emotional level, couldn’t feel their sadness or happiness.
Idk what they were trying with this drama, but it felt like a bunch of loose plots thrown into a pot, bad character building. Trying so hard to be complex but failing to focus in.
My review may have sounded vague, but I think they didn’t give us enough to review. Sry if what I wrote is just as half-a**ed as the drama. I’m dropping this drama b/c I feel no excitement in continuing, and honestly I wouldn’t even persevere for the actors ( I do love them though✌️).
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