Skibbies

The romance doesn't last long (the few ep you see are the only bits), but Lao Ai does, so buckle up.

yes i think? ying zheng apparently just had 3000 people hidden and ambushed them and it was all done. I think the drama is trying to play it as "using lao ai to kick lv buwei off" but it just came off dumb. I just thought the entire rebellion was really over the top, and once again making li si and ying zheng more stupid than they should be. they had 'plans", and so many people died to save fu su, are you for real? they had plans and regular people had to rush to save their kings? really? ying zheng, you literally hung a bloody sword above the guy, could have spared me 5 ep of torture! also wtf was with that plot anyways???? he just backed out??????? i have so many questions.

if you google lao ai in chinese, it has the wheel thing as suggested search, I tried using bing, and it's hilariously blatant questions.

he does think too highly of himself, maybe Li Si is meant to be arrogant? I think the issue is, if you can show me your abilities/talents, i'd take arrogance, but so far it's all talk and nothing, or all talk and lot of mess, which is g r e a t.

Rumour has it Lao Ai was gifted to Zhao Ji because he had a big *ahem*. Big enough that he could put it into wheels and spin them. so u know that awkward juggling scene at his introduction, lot of people took it as euphemism for this.

Lord Long Yang is a lover of the previous Wei King, who died in 238 BC, so a couple years before he appeared in this drama. People remember him because one of the phrases/euphemism for gay (especially in historicals) is lit "long yang hobby/kink" (long yang zhi hao/long yang zhi pi), there's like two other phrases like this (duan xiu/fen tao)

Story has it that one day, Wei King and him went fishing, Lord Long Yang started crying after catching 10+ fish, he was really happy at first, but as he fished bigger fish, he'd throw away the smaller ones. He's afraid that the king will do the same to him since there's lots of pretty people in the world. In order to comfort him, the King ordered no one should talk about pretty people or they shall be executed.

Stuff the drama doesn't tell you but cnetizens might pick up (not really spoilers, just interesting trivia of sort?) re; Lao Ai (ep 20+) & Lord Long Yang (Wei, super minor character, he's usually talking to the Wei King, ep 30+?)

he got 五马分尸 so i guess he did lol.

Heian period is like 1000 years later though. The Qin hairstyle and some of the costumes are reconstructions from the terracotta armies.

He's a real person but didn't do anything of note to leave much behind, so the character is basically fictional. I was interested in him too, but couldn't find anything. (instead I found bunch of minor characters that's just casually dropped in all have wiki pages lol)

Yeah that one. if Disguiser isn't grabbing you, that's fine IMO, I liked it for everyone else + production team. MCS is def iconic role for Hu Ge, i did watch him in two Chinese Paladin, which is also fairly iconic for him.

they are definitely dragging out Lv Buwei parts, he should only be there for half the drama, especially since conquering the other kingdoms + reforms come after his exit. I feel Li Si shouldn't be that unlikeable though, he has his ideals and grand schemes, but it's just woof.

ooh that make sense. tbf mainland youngsters like western shows or even japanese/korean/old hk shows more than mainland stuff, but occasionally you get some wildly popular show that everyone watches. The dub thing i totally expect, guangdong's tv station all have dubbed dramas, it makes my brain super confused.

lol disguiser's focus is on Jin Dong anyways, all the other supporting characters excelled, Hu Ge didn't do too well, but his love interest was even worse, so much worse that he seem ok in comparison. Wild Good Lake got fair amount of praise and decent box office for a not-popcorn movie though! I passed on it because the synopsis didn't spark any interest in me. He's in that Wong Kar Wai film, well he's doing the drama version at the moment I think? (I follow the director somewhat lol, since his wife manages Ni Ni)

Oh yeah the historical figure and the character on paper is def fairly interesting. But either the way the show/character is written or the performance, Li Si comes off average to me, maybe I just expected more. I was pleasantly surprised by Lv Buwei since he's not as villain-ish as previously depicted, in fact, sometimes it feels like the narrative is purposely showing more of his achievements and glossing over his faults, but his performance is oddly comically villainous at times, which is slightly jarring. My favourite and probably only attachment is def Lv Buwei though.

Ying Zheng should honestly be shining more, but he isn't so i think that's a fail for me. Not just his performance issue, the writing is all over the pace at times. Drama you just need to show all the stuff he did on record, don't need to add your own schemes, pls.

Oh yeah compared to nyc, hk would be smaller. I guess everyone's circle is lot bigger in HK? oh, I'm aware of the sentiment, but mhmm i thought it'd be apply to live action, or very pro-China movies, not Nezha.

I could probably take him as 20 year old Ying Zheng, you are rarely going to get 20 something to play an emperor. I'm more questioning how he'd act, he totally bombed Disguiser where he was 30ish playing a 20 year old, and he was way way way over the top immature that it was jarring.

really? I found Li Si kind of uninteresting, he's technically helping Ying Zheng, but he keeps coming off as a villain to me LOL.

thanks for saving me the dilemma where to complain OMG LAO AI please die already. there's no reason your arc would take like 15ep, even if it's to set up other things. the drama split is completely arbitrary, since it's in the middle of an arc.

i wouldn't call 7mil people city small ;P omg i want to hear wild stories too!! def can't believe they didn't air Nezha, that's a good family movie right there! But i guess no one could have predicted it'd explode.

Hu Ge? oh my you have some connections! crash it crash it hahahaha. If they import the Soul in mainland, you could probably see it online a month/a month and half after it's in theatre :P

I think only Chen Xiao would work for me as a *teenager* so when he was younger, (he's actually in the previous installment as a minor supporting character lol). None of the older actors would work for me either, HXM played Han Wu Di like 20 years ago and he did a pretty good job of it, but I don't think he'd work now. I actually considered Hu Ge, because at times Zhang Luyi look a LOT like Hu Ge (not in this drama), but Hu Ge tend to look younger (and better...)

hahaha i complained about ying zheng looking too old and my mum was all "maybe people in ancient china is just old looking, they die earlier too" ok, you are right, but i still can't accept moustache 19 year old ying zheng! my grandma said the old ying zheng was better, but i have no idea what drama she was talking about, and she couldn't tell me either LOL.