Nepeta 22

I never said it's all HMH's fault. But I said it could be possible some dropped it due to the poor pacing and HMH's portrayal of BLDJ. These are my opinions and what I think may have caused a drop from mid-way. Not because he was barely in it after that.

I dropped it around ep 18 and could not take it anymore. Many of the characters were cardboard cut-outs. The direction offered no real twists. Then HMH tries to play a larking happy-go-lucky young man unconvincingly. He was lethargic had no strong screen presence, and most of the time his eyes looked spaced out rather than convey any emotions.

I get this is an adaptation, but it looks like with even the writer on-board, they could not get the pacing right. I was overwhelmed with so many characters and the strong emphasis on trying to be witty but often ended up looking dated and childish. With all this, I'm not surprised audiences dropped it at midway. You of course can have your opinion on why. I just disagree with it.

Also, not all actors' motivation or directors' motivation are geared towards current data to work out the ranking and whether the next job will be better or worse. Some actually are more interested in the storylines over data and ranking. Those few in the industry will pick up talent regardless of just numbers.

Sorry but, you posted a foot-long post just to conclude that data is the most important thing and all the noise outside of the drama seems to be "the drama", and not the drama itself.

In a round-about way, you are saying the drama has a lot of shortcomings like what I wrote earlier, but whatever HMH does, his fandom would blindly say it's great when to the average passerby, it's just mediocre. That goes back to what I said about fandoms. The Doyin hustle and Olympics are just more excusing the dodgy performance, and HMH (outside of the drama) is a hero for salvaging a below par drama.

High ratings at the beginning of a drama is normal for "anticipated" dramas. If they don't engage the audience, only the hard-core fandoms stick around no matter what, which is why certain drama makers hire them. It's not like slow burn barely promoted dramas that go by word-of-mouth.

What "fandoms" say are predictable because they're already blinkered. They all seem to be obsessed with data, so they're not the ones dropping it. To me, that means it's the passer-bys dropping it. Like me. Just another opinion.

BTW, I have no issue with him swigging the stuff. There's no hidden message. He just look too boyish to even look convincing.

I read it. An alternative viewpoint is the drop in ratings might be due to the fact that some people got tired of the poor story pacing and HMH's version of an alcohol swigging boy that barely looks legal to even drink the stuff. Your opinions are just your opinions.

I'm only on ep 4. So far it's so bad it's actually good. But we'll see. Slow mo for the ML just glancing and turning his head. His top lip has more deep plum lip stick than the FL. What more can I ask for.

What do you mean? I noticed his wig is different from others. He's has side-burns?

Has it occured to you that the drop in figures could be due to people losing patience and interest because of HMH? Just a thought? I was one. I couldn't go beyond ep 18 because of his acting. The support cast also did not live up to their roles either. Only Qiu Xin Zhi and Bai Shu temporarily lifted the drama performances here and there.

OK, I must have missed that bit, thanks.

Maybe I missed it. There didn't seem to be much about what happened to Gao Hu. Did he leave the job?

I have put her through 3 days ago, but might need to wait a bit as they are always saying they are busy.

Some can't see they have been conditioned to it due to years of badly written roles more or less make women into damsel in distress characters that are only there to serve as decoration or even supporting roles MLs. Often they start off with some revenge type plot but very soon they abandon that due to blind love for him.

There are numerous scenarios, mainly written by male writers simply using women to push the narrative of the gallant ML blinded by his love. Willing to make big sacrifices whilst she only exists for his story to show she can bring down a kingdom and kill others indirectly through her just being the apple of his eye.

Set against times when women have less rights and in a system where their parents and the whole social structure is not considerate for women, but the modern audiences prefer to call her a bitch because they think they are better than her within those confines. Let's be honest, they have got carried away with their faves and really only acting out their hormones.

Don't worry, this is the reason I dropped this way back along with poor direction, poor pacing, and tropey storylines.

I came back here for the end and can see exactly as I expected. Drama watchers have fallen right into the classic blame the woman line. This is not the first time and sadly not the last time of some male writers glamourising men's behaviour and turning women into classic plots of causing destruction by simply being there.

Her behaviour is also not average for a woman, but of course, when written by men, no one questions that instead resort to calling her a bitch.

Interesting you rate it 10. I found Neo Hou ruined the role. His acting is quite basic and surface. There is no depth causing his character to be very unlikeable and unrelatable. An actor like Yu Shi will have handled it far more naturally. There is a difference to being carefree and idealistic to being dense and ignorant to which is what has happened to Neo's take. The role is difficult to play, but unfortunately he is the reason I dropped it followed by the draggy pace and low quality fight scenes and poor directing.

You can dislike her based on your modern-day way of thinking. Your comments are a classic case of enforcing current standards to a drama based loosely on a time where women from certain social backgrounds were not even in a position for centuries to have a say on their marriages.

I suggest you watch Imperfect victim, a modern day Chinese drama to see, even today, under the control of a patriarchal society, women, particularly young women are still unable to speak or fight back against a male led society. Women are not always just "weak", they are not supported or feel they might not get support which leads to what you have seen here in this drama.

Well I know that, looking at your review...This jobsworth here has asked MDL to sort this out. Ensuring in future, reviews cannot be ticked as completed until the clock counter has ended for dramas. This is so others know that in the future, reviews like yours are not done after the drama has finished.

OK, if this is a problem only on the app this can be flagged up with MDL. I will let them know. Thanks for getting back.

Why have you hit the watched in full button? As I type we are only 23 episodes in a 40 episode drama. This is misleading to others and future readers. MDL should also fix this issue to stop reviewers from mistakenly or deliberately misleading drama watchers.

Why have you hit the completed button? As I type only 23 episodes of a 40 episode drama has aired. This is misleading and MDL needs to fix this glitch to avoid misinformation of some reviewers who hoodwink others into thinking they have seen the "full" drama.

Lol, yes thanks.

Thanks. That's interesting, I can't remember what sect he was from.