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JoL also rumour to have filmed more than it aired but you still don't see it now lol. SSS is rumour to have gone through multiple edits, so I think it was simply cut down to make the story tighter, I believe they sent 40 ep for the license. There's filming notice floating around that indicate that they filmed more ep (the version we are seeing) than in the script too.

Probably because MHH is funny and DLDL isn't (I have no idea because I didn't watch it). He wrote DLDL s1 before SSS s1 haha, He was writing SSS when Young Blood aired mid 2019. His female characters (from both original and adapted works) are usually fairly smart and capable, even the cutesy ones aren't annoying. Maybe there's other writers, idk.

It doesn't count international views, but do watch it on wetv or other official platforms because it tells them oversea audience are interested! That means platforms are more likely to sub more dramas + faster + generate revenue so they actually pay more attention to subs.

Waiting on the script, I'm guessing.

JoL is a tencent drama, tencent pictures + china lit (tencent subsidiary) + new classics media (china lit subsidiary). It's on iqiyi because tencent also sold it to iqiyi. MHH have the same production companies, and they sold it exclusively to iqiyi, because tencent video, penguin pictures subsidiary (tencent pictures and penguin pictures are competing subsidiaries, it's little easier to distinguish in chinese) didn't offer as much resources as iqiyi. MHH s2 have since been taken back, I'm sure tencent will air the next season.

cctv actually pays measly amount, but it's good for exposure to wider audience. JoL's commercial success was much much higher, but its budget was also much higher because it was filmed at height of production cost. JoL have more chance of a sequel for SSS, at least it has a script.

That schedule was planned for the start, and I think it's so tencent have a longer broadcasting period.

MHH s2 isn't his :P It's Qin Wen's, who has a team of writers under her and they work super fast, a lot of MHH's lines were ad libbed by Guo Qilin so on set writers and director probably helped too. Young Blood s2 is suppose to start filming Q1 (per mangotv's promotion pamphlet) so he's either writing it now or half way done, there's bunch of other writers for YB2, he mostly have to oversee things. I have no idea if he's still writing s2 for DLDL or not, I hope not, he got so much hate for it.

That's a mistranslation, in Chinese the sect/clan is called Spring & Autumn, which also a historical period.

Even with all the loud complaints by chinese netizens, it's still the most watched drama at the moment and should be in top 3 for tencent with little issues, so don't worry too much about critical ratings, viewcount = money, money shouts louder.

People rating it early tend to love the show, so when others that might not care for the genre/cast/story come in, they might rate it lower, it's generally a good thing since that means more people are watching.

As for criticism, there's fair amount about the fight choreography, directing, pacing, FL's casting and acting (I'm fine with her acting, but I don't think she's the right casting choice) etc.

? gaming companies wouldn't do that, it's more likely to be fans that don't like the leads. I've watched the drama, I've read the novel before the watching drama, I followed the stats and reception from start till ending, I know the promotion tactics that it and other dramas used, I literally said it in my post, you really don't need to tell me about it.

you absolutely can :P you have to realise douban was created for movie fanatics initially, it has since expanded, but its heavy users are movie fantatics, veteran drama watchers, fandom users, so mostly pretty young. But China have a lot of people, people that don't care about issues that veteran drama watchers care (like tropey), or plagiarism issues, or scandals. Heck, some might care, but that doesn't mean they won't watch the drama, they can watch it and give it 1 star, that's their right.

The most watched drama for iqiyi by a fairly large margin is my heroic husband, sitting at 6.3 mostly due to a fantastic start. The second is My Dear Guardian with a 4.2, the score is mostly due to first two episodes that's tropey and hits a lot of douban's nope buttons. There are plenty of tv dramas with high tv ratings that make people angry as hell, and rate it 2 star (a 4), but will keep watching.

Give him a canto background should work. I don't even know what Yang Mi is filming right now, I know she has a modern drama with Xu Kai that's fighting for slot in Jan and Feb? Xu Kai's first undubbed drama lol.

I wouldn't call it incorrect to say the views are inflated, since HnK have massive amount of players (no.1 domestically by vast margin, at its peak, its daily revenue can fund a S+ drama), and by putting it into the game, it's a huge promotion tactic but tencent have always tried various methods to "inflate" views for dramas they see fit. It's just the term inflate seem to mean fake to some, when it's various promotion tactics that cause people to click on it (YAMG actually had a watch drama for 0.7 yuan at some point iirc).

LMAO, they look good together, film a modern drama please.

SSS is doing far better than Pearl Eclipse lol, viewcount wise. i think on the membership list (popular drama or whatever, I'm pretty sure it measures people watching dramas using membership or first drama they watch after subbing/resubbing), it should pass Pearl Eclipse today or tomorrow.

Youku have bunch of xianxia next year, we'll see how it fares. For SSS specifically, tv broadcast is ok for it because it still have decent viewership, it's just it doesn't pay much, but a penny is a penny.

JoL is 9.5b for tencent, it's also broadcasted on iqiyi, which is about the same size as tencent so that's 19b for a drama that's 2 years and a month old. SSS was meant to be another JoL, significant amount of its audience are from JoL. For reference, mid feb 2020, a month after JoL non vip finished broadcasting, tencent had 7.7billion, with half the drama leaked + half the drama fast tracked. Dramas get most of their viewcounts during broadcast, wildly popular dramas tend to get revisited every year.

They weren't forced to watch the video to advance the game, it's one of the daily quests you can do to potentially obtain a hero, you can skip the option. I know the players were pissed, as they normally do when 3d people invade their games lol. The daily lasted 2 weeks+. HnK as a company is one of its producers, the first half of the drama serve as a long ad for the game (that's how the novel was written cos author was obsessed with the game at the time), it's a product literally made where it'd bring new and old players back to the game, it invited real esport players and commentators to cameo the drama, so it was a given HnK would promote it.

I'd note that the drama is also produced by both tencent pictures and penguin pictures, that's two competing production subsidiary (first time i see them cooperate) + top earning gaming subsidiary for a drama, with two very popular pretty leads and the most successful modern webnovel author, tencent NEEDS it to succeed for its ip development narrative :P Just like tencent needs this to succeed too because it has pile of ip waiting to be developed.

1 star rating attacking actors and actresses have been a thing since 2015 (or before, but I didn't use the site before :P). It's true that it's influenced by fandom but it was before too, just matter of scale thing, if anything, 2019 had inflated ratings IMO, 2021 kind of deflated it back to before. Even taking into account fandoms, water armies, mismatch promotion tactics, expectation level, outside drama such as plagiarism or animal abuse (true or not), I still find it more reliable than platform ratings or MDL, it's just you have to discern what rating is good by douban (7+ for general dramas, 6+ for fluff dramas, 6+ for mystery dramas), what it likes, what has big question mark due to fandom. It doesn't really mean that a 5 drama might not be your fav, maybe the problems that bother them doesn't bother you?