For those who have read the novel, could someone tell me what Feng Yue's character is like? Does she know martial…
She acts flirtatious but she has a goal - to avenge her family and to find out the truth. In the novel, she was severely injured and could no longer fight by the time we meet her in the beginning of the novel. Definitely a smart character. She comes from a general’s family and was able to fight before.
For the drama, I think a lot of the details have been changed (except her family being exterminated/killed, I think that’s in there based on the director’s interview last month).
Deng Wei suffered heatstroke and needed emergency treatment. Working in 40degree heat wearing think layer clothing.I…
I agree - every actor or extra should be afforded the same safety and health precautions on any production. It's one thing to strive for things to look good or authentic on screen (i.e. costumes), but I think anyone can agree things can be worked out in advance to minimize people from overheating or freezing.
While the last several episodes in particular strayed into weird melodrama territory, this has been a solid modern police/detective series and nice to see Dilraba play a different kind of character/role.
May I ask what actually is donghua and its difference from a novel?Also, does he have an endgame here? Just curious,…
The Donghua or anime is actually quite faithful to the book. The drama also I would say carries the same essence- even some scenes are almost the same, but there are definitely changes made for the drama.
The drama covers only a few hundred chapters of the novel and up to about episode 63 of the anime (which is now up to episode 154 or something like that). So in the drama, it really is too early to explore in full his romantic relationships, which are developed way down the road. For example, his main wife is to be Nangong Wan, but she doesn’t appear much in the first several hundred chapters and only reappears in the narrative in the novel around chapter 710+.
This is the interview with the head scriptwriter / the director & writer of donghua version, Wang Yuren.I…
Great read and I appreciate the efforts to bring a level of simplicity and being down-to-earth to a xianxia type story. Some of the themes mentioned could have been brought out more in the drama, but I think it’s going to take multiple seasons to really develop those. I think we get just enough (like an appetizer) by the end of the drama, particularly with a certain master’s death. That part really resonated and brought together a lot of the earlier parts of the drama.
The seven sects had some deep issues that were exposed in this first season. Their holier than thou and insufferable self-justifying ways at the expense of innocent, powerless people/cultivators is at odds with values such as honesty, compassion and friendship. But there are those such as Han Li, Master Li, Hongfu, Nangong wan and others who question what the so called leaders are doing. If future seasons come out, which I really do hope, I hope all those terrible sect leaders and such get their just desserts.
For the drama, I think a lot of the details have been changed (except her family being exterminated/killed, I think that’s in there based on the director’s interview last month).
https://x.com/Remedy_WeiD/status/1957385307642315068
The drama covers only a few hundred chapters of the novel and up to about episode 63 of the anime (which is now up to episode 154 or something like that). So in the drama, it really is too early to explore in full his romantic relationships, which are developed way down the road. For example, his main wife is to be Nangong Wan, but she doesn’t appear much in the first several hundred chapters and only reappears in the narrative in the novel around chapter 710+.
The seven sects had some deep issues that were exposed in this first season. Their holier than thou and insufferable self-justifying ways at the expense of innocent, powerless people/cultivators is at odds with values such as honesty, compassion and friendship. But there are those such as Han Li, Master Li, Hongfu, Nangong wan and others who question what the so called leaders are doing. If future seasons come out, which I really do hope, I hope all those terrible sect leaders and such get their just desserts.