Nepeta 22

First melons: Lin Yun & Zhang Kangle.

No wrong assumptions, she was very lucky to be chosen to be on MJTY and it's really uplifted her and brought her to the wider audience. She is part of the same agency as ZLH so it might be the agency has clout and managed to get her on there too. Either way, it's one of her better productions.

Sometimes, the first main lead roles they take on can be smaller productions, and that can also mean not very good direction & dodgy plotlines. It's actually quite hard to get onto decent productions, even for some established actors!

I haven't started on this drama, and to be honest, the comments and storyline is putting me off. I have seen her in Romance in the Alley, Parallel World & Blossom in Adversity. The latter was one of her better performances but all are quite similar roles. Playing meek, shy and confused. This may suit her temperament, and very similar to her role in My Journey to You, but in MJTY, the twist was, she had a wicked streak which I think made her character stand out because she's so sweet on the outside.

But truth is, she's playing that type of role in all her other dramas. I would like to see if she could play a more assertive & dominant role, that would be more challenging for her in my opinion. I feel she got lucky because her character was cool in MJTY, and sometimes, in show-biz you do require a bit of luck.

On MDL, they always put high support under main roles. I will say something controversial. Apart from Cheng Lei who probably showcased his range in My Journey to You, the director made sure the FL and SFL spoke extremely slow, keeping them still as possible. This is his way of creating mystery, but also avoiding them exposing their weak or high pitched voice. The audience fell in love with her character rather (sweet yet cold demeanor) than her as an actress. This happens a lot in c-dramaland.

I have seen her in numerous roles and she seems average to me. Not bad, but just about adequate. Some of her fans are in love with her character in that drama and they have that filter on her.

In My Journey to You she was not classed as main role, just like Cheng Lei. In fact GJM put in a lot of relatively new-comers in the main cast. Apart from ZLH and ER, the rest were relatively unknown at the time. Their roles there made them an overnight success.

This actress was at that time doing support roles. Nobody noticed her much in Parallel World which was effectively airing similar time to My Journey to You. Her agency has not changed. These are some of her earliest main roles and it's quite normal to see that they are not often high production ones.

This is MDL. The ratings are always ropey and not reliable. Many on here tend to prefer court intrigue or costume romance like Xianxias instead of stuff like this. Also, I suspect many would not be rating until it's all aired.

OK. Let's see.

When you say it's none of the speculated names what do you mean? So far all I have been seeing is Sandra Ma. So according to you, she's not in the high running?

A bit, but I personally think a bit more light hearted but brutal at the same time.

Happy Birthday!

From what I can see so far it's the story of a Chinese gang that resided on the current area that is today Singapore, called Lion City around the 1940s. It tells the story of their past and the present mixing past colonial power that was Malaya at the time, and focuses on their lives, past struggles and how old worlds collide with the current set up and administration.

A bit of context, many of the Indian and Chinese that came to live there were introduced around 1900 or a little earlier mainly from former British colonies or Europeans living in China near port areas like Fujian & Guangzhou. The Indians came mainly from India & Hong Kong.

I just want to point out a bit of mis-information that has been repeated again and again regards to The Demon Hunter's Romance. It is the screen writer that has given the interviews but the 'original novel' was not written by her. The original novel was un-finished. Therefore the screen writer was making the ending up regardless. But it was not her original creation. Whether the ending was AI or motivated by (I don't believe this reasoning about budget, makes no sense) budgets, it was very respectful to the drama's beginning and middle parts, making it very coherent rather than force something just to please audiences.

In my opinion, the ending is the correct one, and in the spirit of the original story. If it had been a happy ending, it would not make sense with many of the stories and cases that were presented in a way with a very strong message about relationships between demons and humans. The ending is very fitting.

Yes, it's a bit slow with the new episodes and I have to wait for the subbing and being it is shortish in length, it's over so quickly. I loved the director's past work with The Journey Across the Night, so that's why I'm here to see if this is just as good. So far so good.

I saw it with English Subs and thought it was fine. So maybe I'm oblivious to poor translation since I am near zero with Mandarin! Melodramatic is the word. It's very addictive...

I'm taking a break from Xianxias for now. I was only nosing around for people's feedback because I always look at Liu Xueyi's projects. Anyway, enjoy...

I know what you mean. I see this as the writers' perspective are possibly singing to the youth and to some extent, they may have their biases because they feel they represent the new generation. Sometimes, when they do that at the expense of pitting it against past generations.

This is often seen in modern dramas or even dramas set in the last 30 years. Parents are painted as over-bearing, backwards and generally ignorant and nosey individuals. It's a shame because one of the best romance dramas I have seen was Romance In In The Alley which spent the majority of the time focusing on the older generation and their love.

For Xianxias and Wuxia/historic dramas the heroes are often young and unfortunately, the elders are background baddies most of the time except for the odd mentor/shifu. The older the wiser is not often seen in drama-land I'm afraid!

I noticed that a while back too, and I come to the conclusion that Xianxias are mainly aimed at a younger audience and there seems to be a childish element of ageism in them. In China I'm told, Xianxias are not normally viewed or respected by the older audiences.

It's more the web novels they literally take off the peg from. The insane amounts of dramas that's reeled off from these sub-par novels that a large portion are not even finished because the authors ask the readers how (normally) she wants it to end.

If you look back the last year, the ones able to make a splash are original scripts. And truth is, the productions are lazy because they think if they just "stick" a traffic star in front, the borrowed fandom will do the work. Literally in regards to promotion work. This is where the industry has got up to. The motivation is now, make dramas to make money first and foremost, and it's showing.

Yes, I have worked it out now, thanks for letting me know. All really sad either way.

Yes I saw that. Personally this type of ending makes the drama more in tuned with both of their characters. Quiet respect for one another. Not at all out of character.

She knows he has to fulfil his duties in the end and he knows it's too much to ask her to go with him because he's seen her attachment to her family, especially her father.

There is also a glimmer of something in the conversation between ML and his father where he gets out the "Taofu" which he says it's broken and the father asks if that's the only one in the final episode.

This scene to me could be the clue that his father may be able to help or look into getting between realms within the 12 year gaps. Only 2 characters know the truth, so that is the hope. My belief is this scene was inserted in there should they consider a second season or for viewers to know hope is still there.