This drama can be seen as a litmus test for reviewers on this site. It has a very popular and trendy enough actor with one of his best performances yet, but the rating isn't that different from other dramas in the related genre on this site.
You could say even someone like Wang Hedi isn't enough to give a high 8 rating to a drama like this.
I’m Didi big fan. So sad to see this drama not that popular 😩
At least in China people are watching it heavily to where even Universities are screening it. But people on this site only like pretty man-woman dramas or costume dramas.
as a thriller and detective fan, this feels more like slice of life (of a police) ft. some thrillers. First ep…
Honestly if you only look at a mystery drama for the 'plot' that's more of a problem with your personal problem.
As someone who just started episode 14, I would say that besides the overarching mystery; some of the best parts of this story are the downtimes and the character building moments, especially the scenes with Ran Fangxu and He Yuanhang.
And yes, Wang Hedi's acting has been great, same with Pan Yueming, but those are just a few reasons and nowhere near the only ones.
as a thriller and detective fan, this feels more like slice of life (of a police) ft. some thrillers. First ep…
Honestly if you only look at a mystery drama for the 'plot' that's more of a problem with your personal problem.
As someone who just started episode 14, I would say that besides the overarching mystery; some of the best parts of this story are the downtimes and the character building moments, especially the scenes with Ran Fangxu and He Yuanhang.
and i love whd, i've watched almost everything he's in, but him in this is very... irritating? his voice/delivery…
His voice perfectly fits the character. In the 90s, Ran Fangxu is supposed to be an introverted, nerdy yet righteous and brave young man. Nothing is ever as simple as 'serious' or 'funny' (it's kind of disrespectful to reduce a character to either of those things anyways).
I don't what people will think of this, but I think Xu Qi An should have relationships with other women in Season 2 (and maybe after as well). It's one of the good things about people forgetting about him at the end of Season 1.
As people know already, Xu Qi An had a large harem in the novel (all with women older than him lol, he has that in common with Wang He Di), with multiple wives. The main purpose of this probably was to show that he is a flawed person and not a normal good hero. But this degrades women a lot and never could have made it past censorship.
But having multiple love lines can still do things for his character. He is supposed to be a flawed person who chooses justice no matter what. People may mistake that as him just being a brave hero, but he's more so a guy who chooses to do righteous things out of instinct to do justice.
Having actual traits that are largely disliked can help show that. Xu Qi An having interest in other women besides Lin An but not taking them all as wives, maybe breaking up with each one of them; can show his flaws without degrading women. I think that in Season 1 they didn't show enough severe flaws about his character. The flaws you can point out aren't disliked by most.
It also doesn't make any sense for him to have a true love for someone at this point, he didn't actually meet with Lin An that much. And honestly she hasn't done that much for him to make him wholly devoted to her either. By making people forget about Xu Qi An, it gives him a reason to consider relationships with other women because he thinks Lin An has forgotten him (even though she hasn't completely, but still).
I really think Tian Xi Wei should start focusing more on female-centric roles after this, because in this drama…
Even though you're criticisms of the character are common (and justified) I haven't seen that much hate towards her herself for it. Could be that on Weibo there is a lot of hate but it's probably more lukewarm compared to hate I've seen for other actresses. I've seen more hate towards the character and not her herself.
Part of this hate towards the character is also stemmed from false expectations; they definitely market it like she is the female lead but in actuality she is not even the 2nd or 3rd most important character in the story. Definitely sours expectations if you expect her to be anywhere close to the male lead in importance, but that's the fault of the marketing team.
As lily said; Lin'an isn't that major in the original novel, she actually got relatively more screen time in the drama. But she was Xu Qi'an's main wife in the novel, so they probably thought they could make her the central love interest. The novel version of Xu Qi'an is has multiple wives which obviously doesn't make past censorship in the drama. If they wanted him to have a main love interest they would choose his actual wife I guess.
Though the problem is; it doesn't feel right for Xu Qi'an to have a true love, at least at the point where the drama is. It just doesn't make sense with his character. This is one of the good things about everyone forgetting about him, it's how he can have multiple love lines, show genuine flaws without doing obvious polygamy.
This isn't to demean Lin'an though, I trust that the drama team does have a plan for her, at least I hope so. I trust that they can figure out how to make her play a more major role (the og author should help with this, I hope he did).
Why do I feel like ran fang xu is no more in 2015 timeline. It seems like officer he is talking with his illusion…
A lot of people are saying this. At this point, if it is true then it would be too obvious. You can't make a big twist like this too obvious at the beginning.
Because Guardians of Dafeng season 1 is my best chinese drama
You could say even someone like Wang Hedi isn't enough to give a high 8 rating to a drama like this.
As someone who just started episode 14, I would say that besides the overarching mystery; some of the best parts of this story are the downtimes and the character building moments, especially the scenes with Ran Fangxu and He Yuanhang.
And yes, Wang Hedi's acting has been great, same with Pan Yueming, but those are just a few reasons and nowhere near the only ones.
As someone who just started episode 14, I would say that besides the overarching mystery; some of the best parts of this story are the downtimes and the character building moments, especially the scenes with Ran Fangxu and He Yuanhang.
As people know already, Xu Qi An had a large harem in the novel (all with women older than him lol, he has that in common with Wang He Di), with multiple wives. The main purpose of this probably was to show that he is a flawed person and not a normal good hero. But this degrades women a lot and never could have made it past censorship.
But having multiple love lines can still do things for his character. He is supposed to be a flawed person who chooses justice no matter what. People may mistake that as him just being a brave hero, but he's more so a guy who chooses to do righteous things out of instinct to do justice.
Having actual traits that are largely disliked can help show that. Xu Qi An having interest in other women besides Lin An but not taking them all as wives, maybe breaking up with each one of them; can show his flaws without degrading women. I think that in Season 1 they didn't show enough severe flaws about his character. The flaws you can point out aren't disliked by most.
It also doesn't make any sense for him to have a true love for someone at this point, he didn't actually meet with Lin An that much. And honestly she hasn't done that much for him to make him wholly devoted to her either. By making people forget about Xu Qi An, it gives him a reason to consider relationships with other women because he thinks Lin An has forgotten him (even though she hasn't completely, but still).
That's just my opinion.
Part of this hate towards the character is also stemmed from false expectations; they definitely market it like she is the female lead but in actuality she is not even the 2nd or 3rd most important character in the story. Definitely sours expectations if you expect her to be anywhere close to the male lead in importance, but that's the fault of the marketing team.
As lily said; Lin'an isn't that major in the original novel, she actually got relatively more screen time in the drama. But she was Xu Qi'an's main wife in the novel, so they probably thought they could make her the central love interest. The novel version of Xu Qi'an is has multiple wives which obviously doesn't make past censorship in the drama. If they wanted him to have a main love interest they would choose his actual wife I guess.
Though the problem is; it doesn't feel right for Xu Qi'an to have a true love, at least at the point where the drama is. It just doesn't make sense with his character. This is one of the good things about everyone forgetting about him, it's how he can have multiple love lines, show genuine flaws without doing obvious polygamy.
This isn't to demean Lin'an though, I trust that the drama team does have a plan for her, at least I hope so. I trust that they can figure out how to make her play a more major role (the og author should help with this, I hope he did).
It would be a bigger surprise if he wasn't dead.