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it's not one viewer, it's ALL the book fans lmao. people made mvs from tRoP scenes to fit this story LOL.

The action scene criticism is actually pretty vital, since they've been promoting the drama as wuxia and people expect old school Jin Yong (I honestly feel like it's more a scheming drama with xuanhuan elements), so action scenes are central. I think the most damning thing is initial pacing.

they haven't filmed s2, i think it's dependent on how s1 does (it's ok so far), JOL took a while cos there was no script, then i think it's gathering the huge veteran cast + busy director + getting investment, it's rumoured to start filming in Q1. Anyways, it's like this mostly cos they hired the same guy to do scripts for three high profile IPs that should all take about 2 or 3 seasons lol + he had his original script that had a second half.

the initial filming license was 50, it was never 60, it's unclear if they even filmed that many episodes.

they didn't film multiple seasons, there's plans for more seasons but it's probably dependent on how well received it is. my heroic husband says season 1 too and got season 2 announced several months later cos it was popular

omg idk what the director is doing, why does vengo look like that?! he looks pretty good in his currently filming drama

He lost them after his wife gave birth I think? lol. His cameo in My Heroic Husband was filmed at the same time as this, so he looks skinny there too.

in about 20mins, 2 ep non vip, 4 ep vip (6 ep in total) for tencent domestically. tomorrow till monday there's 2 ep per day, then after that it's an ep a day, wetv should follow similar schedule.

To be fair, Wu Zetian is meant to be 65+ here LOL, she looks too young to be honest, but her presence makes up for it.

Yeah I can see what they were going with with that name, but unwelcome well worked fine, so switching it to ghetto just made it extra jarring,

I didn't know either, I just heard fellow drama watchers complaining about the switch so I was like oh no why

i'm not over switching from unwelcome well to ghetto, who thought that was a good idea? Four Seasons Divine sounds like a hotel to me lol.

hey hey, bringing out Yongzheng Dynasty is just unfair, it'd destroy Nirvana in Fire easily, let alone a messily executed mystery drama like this.

I think the execution got bit better later but maybe cos they stopped spinning so much during the action scenes helped.

For historical, I think this is it. There's rumour that Chen Kun's For the Win might air on 21st though. Hunan TV have a Zhou Xun drama airing, I probably won't watch it but I'm following its stats and it's looking awesome, follow up (Jan 3rd) is either Chen Xiao & WYB's narcotics cop drama or Yu Zheng's historical about food (on the one hand Yu Zheng, on the other, historical and food drama mhm).

There aren't that many historical dramas I'm looking forward to next year actually, tencent stopped making so many expensive dramas, Youku's look...questionable, iqiyi's still look good, but I only remember like two of them so there's just not many.

I'm on ep 16, there's probably lot of time for me to watch before it ends, so I don't really actively participate in discussing since I'm always smidge behind. I should be up to date when it comes to SSS though!! There are so many big dramas coming out this month oh my god. Platforms and tv stations, if you need your kpi, consider airing your shows from october onwards!!

wow rude!! lol, I'm behind by few episodes and started Delicious Romance to tide me over till SSS release

Xuanzong would be a revered liked his great grandpa Taizong if he died earlier and all that later stuff didn't happen :P

The Wu brothers are cousins, should be first cousins, but I can't bet on it. Historically Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi were first cousins.

Historically Princess Taiping and Wu Youji were second cousins (his grandpa was Wu Zetian's uncle), her other husband was a first cousin from dad's side.

Technically you could say Li Longji is a "bad guy" since he collaborated with his aunt princess Taiping to overthrow Empress Wei + Emperor Li Xian so his dad Li Dan could ascended the throne, Li Dan abdicated 2 years later to Li Longji.

I thought Wu Shenxing was Wu Sansi lol, because there was that weird scene of Huan Xiang and Wu Shenxing together. I can't tell Wu Sansi and Wu Chengsi apart though from their achievements.

First time I saw Wu Youjue, I thought of Wu Youji 武攸暨, the guy Princess Taiping married.

it's the younger generation that likes it because they grew up with it (feature has been around for 10 years for bilibili), and it helps to make shows more interesting, if you don't so and so character or find a plot development outrageous, or just the show is boring but your bias is in it so you are giving it more of a chance.

The feature doesn't work as well in english because there's too many letters in a sentence for english, chinese (and japanese) is lot shorter. you can adjust how opaque the comments are and how much they cover the screen etc, it's generally more suitable for a lighter series, or a familiar childhood show where you feel like bunch of people are watching it with you.

Most of the sites' comments aren't that interesting, some are outright rude or annoying, bilibili's probably the best, sometimes people do mini explanation notes on adaptation choices (commonly LN -> anime) and what not. People might turn on the comments second time they watch the episodes, but fair amount of people say they can't watch stuff without the comments LOL (cnetizens are much harsher on cdramas in general)