Nepeta 22

Thanks!

OK, I missed the tea poisoning scene. Thanks.

Regarding number 2 I took it she lost a lot of blood doing this since it was a large volume of soldiers and weakened herself and died.

Regarding 1 , these soldiers are not there. But not sure about seeing them standing still. You can only see them if you look at all the murals inside the cave. This is why they don't see them in the beginning, but then see them awaken. This is due to the hallucinations from the murals. If I'm wrong, someone correct me?

But do you think ML could have saved Gao Ming? He could have taken him away with him when he took them out of the city in that cart? It is almost like the writers feel, these are mere undlings with no self worth like the other master that burnt himself up after he did his job. I found that quite hard to accept. It's almost like a two-tiered class system in place.

To save me time going back to look, I just want to know, on the night ML's family was slaughtered. I'm assuming ZBW was spying and followed ML so he knew he hid in the tunnel, but does this mean, ZLY on the night never knew?

But we now know, he wasn't that smart since his handlers were playing him all along. I felt cheated. He was just their tool. When he makes mistakes, they are there to scoop it back up and save him. It means, the ML's character was still learning. Plenty of rookie mistakes. But like usual, when it mattered, near the end, he gains more braincells and outwits his mask man mentor. That's all that matters in these types of idol style dramas.

The last 3 episodes seem to drag on a bit. Yes it was a little predictable. It also seemed to undo all of ML's scheming and planning in earlier episodes. I felt cheated. He had been played for 80% of the time. All the things I saw were mere controlled plots orchestrated not by ML but by ZBW.

Then the question of never revealing himself (wearing mask) and ML never trying to find out in those 10 years also made it worse. I still think this is a character flaw for the ML. It's just not in his nature to not question stuff like this. And then to find out it was him all along, it's too cliched.

I always said, the story was there, the emphasis had been put on the plot twist and suspense, but the areas that didn't make the experience more rounded and appealing was how little was put into some characters. Often, they change and do things that seems not consistent at times.

FL's character was used in a sexist kind of way. She had her flashy entry and then after she declared her love for him, her character changed drastically and turned into a love-brain. I get the writers tried to portray her as damaged and lonely, therefore was behaving badly to mask her insecurities but, from that to the second half of he drama, her character was not convincing.

They handled her change badly and only wanted her like that to make a point of her being in the middle for the arc involving her mother crossing paths with ML. I did not like this. Felt like dated lazy writing.

Thanks for letting me know! Yes, before the credits. I thought it was telling us he and FL lived happily ever after and had lots of children!

Thanks for the details there. I wasn't concentrating! So much happened in a short space of time. Yes, it did look like he died of shock/heart attack which was ironic since he was so confident in himself for much of his life.

I liked how ML summoned him to look at the murals on the walls. That was his way of sending him to his death!

OK, I missed that bit by the looks of it, but thanks for clarifying.

I note there is a new emperor in the end. But no mention of what happened to the old emperor and how he died. Anyone with any insight?

A question about ghost soldiers. If you snap out and don't believe they exist and graze yourself to shed blood, they vanish. But when Zhao Bin Wen dies, will he really have an open wound for those like ML to see? When he looks on at him grappling with the invisible, will he see a gaping wound with his injuries? He can see the damage but cannot see it happen?

Anyone know how to read Chinese here? In the ending bit there was a few sentences that ended with an exclamation mark. Wondered what was written. Is it about ML & FL?

I'm afraid I gave that a miss because I don't like dramas with those themes. I'm sure she was good as I heard a lot of good comments on the drama.

There is a saying: Hurt people hurt people. This is how far fandom has got to. I have seen far too many losing their central core and have gone so defensive they are offensive. This must be the downside of online activity that has mushroomed within the entertainment industry, especially China.

We're already seeing this playing out onto the real-life streets where scuffles and skirmishes happen because of online spats between fandoms. Very sad and stars are sometimes unable to say anything because their agencies tell them to look the other way. I think something is going to give soon... the toxicity is expanding to new levels.

I think the issue is this fixation with pacing. But at the cost of developing breathing space between scenes. Like Queen Dongxia's death, ZZX's scenes during battle to when he was demoted and sent away, there is very little given in the reflective moments.

The obsession is just with "surface" instant visuals and less on humanity and where ML's thoughts are. This makes it very hard to engage with him on any of his actions. From the jovial master that we know so little of to the many that are just mere collaterals in his narrow mindset of revenge. In the end, you start to feel for the villains more than his single minded need for revenge and then truth.

The FL's role is lovely for the drama, and possibly the only humanistic side to a one sided thirst for revenge, but sadly, the directors show their dated vision of utilising a female for that role. It's as if only a woman can be designated to put breaks on him or sacrifice herself for him if need be. She's written as a vulnerable person that had put on a brave hard face exterior to mask her loneliness and situation. But ML's role was never given enough of this. Only when he's with her we see the next layer of him.

I don't know what the title of this drama is in Chinese, but the English version using the word legend at this moment in time is just not fitting in my view. He's just a wounded person that has fallen into the hands of handlers and is just a tool for them. I hope the last 7 episodes prove the title right.

I'm not romance crazy but think the love line here in this drama is the best thing about it. Lifts the whole drama, otherwise it would be just another bog standard revenge drama set in whatever dynasty. She fancies him, and why not? These things happen, it doesn't need to be complex and grows etc. She was not nice to him but he just feels something for her. He can't help himself. This is natural, and there is no reason. That's not forced, that's how nature can be. Unpredictable and impossible to pin down.

OK, we'll have to agree to disagree on Wallace Chung. He looks really creepy I'm afraid! Let's see if he's a good man or a shady one 😉!

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Well it could go a lot of ways, so let's see. Yes, Cao is still instrumental so there's lots of twists and turns to go. Master Eight's father will also figure somewhere. Maybe he's the mask man...