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Great review!!

Thank you for your words! I´m glad that you´ve enjoyed the reviews

Really well written review! Im Mahayana school, but the basics remains. Agree with the storytelling and pacing, and some directing/editing decisión cater to new douyin audiences that reduced the dramatic impact for some scenes, but the flaws were minor compared to meanings this drama brough.
I found episodres 1-2, 31-32 and 39-40 the pillar points of the story: the beginning, the turning point, the realization and ending.
For me he reached englightment, and as so, he isn´t attached to timelines, spaces or óther constrictions. He´s an awaken one, and that´s why he can still exits in this new world (but I like that the drama only implies it ; it gives room for viewers to reflect but also to choose their conclusion without estrictly corseted to Buddhism.

Thank you for your words! I tried to write an extra review adding the erased one but the platform didn't allow me. So I decided to keep this one as it's the core of the story.

For western viewers with secular or Judeo-Christian mindset and without any phylosophy background or knowledge, the show is really difficult to grasp completely.

Add pay attention to everything, having to read translations that aren't always accurate and don't be able to understand the lyrics playing in the sequences that might have help as act as complementary information, all leave to only really on the surface level of things or a more intuitive and open disposition.

Here I add the links to the full reviews with pictures:
ACT 1 - ARTAS https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/comments/1otxoaf/whisper_of_fate_an_analysis_in_three_acts_act_1/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ACT 2 - DAOISM
https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/comments/1p40wwp/whisper_of_fate_an_analysis_in_three_acts_act_2/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

ACT 3 - BUDDHISM
https://www.reddit.com/r/CDrama/comments/1pbchek/whispers_of_fate_an_analysis_in_three_acts_act_3/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

They did tell this in the drama; during the second part, don´t remeber which ep but they did. I didn´t read the novel nor new the story, the drama was my only source. The problem is the drama has so many things happens in the surface and in the back, that it´s easy to loose track - plus subs

As all the drama, the explanations were given by pieces, and we - at least international viewers - had to pay attention to many things PLUS reading subs. It´s easy to get lost. I remeber the scene where T1 and T2 were explained, but I should needed a replay as I was paying attention to many things and this just kept resonanting in the back - Thenm it totally escape to my that both YM and TLC can reversed time :) and that´s exactly what they both did :) - had to go back and rewatched it.

Also the show has a lot of chinese philosophy in it that international audiences can´t grap. I´m in an international platform and there, all the metrics they share and the douban rating are for stating that the drama perfom ok or average in China - I´m really lost with this controversy.