I'm enjoying the show so far but the excessive glamour shots are getting distracting. I really don't need them to just be standing there with their hair/clothes fluttering prettily when it's already ep 6 and we've already established the characters. Move the story along please. The director needs more restraint
Halfway through the series and I'm still intrigued and entertained. Just came from Can This Love Be Translated?, and after CHANEL and its logo being blatantly thrown around in every episode there, this show feels like its antithesis, which I appreciate on an anti-product placement and anti-consumerist level.
I was about to post a breakdown of why I thought the Mr Sima adaptation of the system was actually really smart - in light of Chinese censorship rules and the live action nature of this show (with a stellar lead no less) - but then I went meh,, I'm enjoying it thoroughly and that's enough for me. Also with today's ep 19, the slight reveal that Mr Sima is kinda doing this to groom his successor, the show's internal logic remains coherent
Even in 'male form' the actor for Bei Zhou holds himself in a slightly feminine way, like he really is too used to being in female form - I appreciate that a lot
Ep 14 - that whole part about corporate spiel and efficiencies applied in the most unnecessary ways is relatable and unfortunately too common irl. Is there a tag for satirical comedy? Because this show is 100% one
iQIYI really needs to stop cutting off subtitles just to add lyrics or the names/locations. The dialogues are…
Wait you can download the srt? How do you do that, if you don't mind sharing please? I watch dramas to buff up my Chinese and I'd love to have both the Eng and Chi subtitles shown concurrently instead of manually switching back and forth all the time
The synopsis says the ML has been in the novel for a decade, but in episode one, he claims he’s only been there…
That reveal was the highlight of the animation's season 1 for me (season 2 is ongoing if you'd like to check it out). It really did give his character more depth and strengthened the audience's support for their relationship since as @Ti02 said she really became his light. Unfortunately for me knowing this meant that I was slightly let down by Cheng Lei's acting for that scene ):
As a fan of the animation, I think Wang Chu Ran was a great casting choice! In fact all the court ladies look gorgeous - kudos to the aesthetics department. Cheng Lei looks too æ£æ´¾ for Xiahou Dan that I wish they were bolder with his makeup to make him look more menacing.
The acting from both leads is not as expressive as I would have liked (I get that they don't usually do comedy), but is generally serviceable for this sort of show. Plus the cute animations make up for it.
Overall a strong start, though I'm preemptively worried that we're gonna get too draggy midway into the show - imo 32 eps are too much based on the current pacing and what I know of the source material.
The synopsis says the ML has been in the novel for a decade, but in episode one, he claims he’s only been there…
He wasn't being truthful to the FL when he said that; ML really did spend a decade in the novel but put up a pretense in front of the FL. It was quite an emotional moment when this was revealed to the audiences in the animation
Starting on another historical drama and I had to come here to say that comparatively, the action scenes for this show are on point and so much more satisfying
It's slated to be a cinema release during Chinese New Year, so might not hit intl streaming platforms (if it does) for a while. But Victoria and Dylan have good pull with overseas audiences, and the trailer looks like a lot of fun, so fingers crossed!
https://www.bilibili.com/bangumi/play/ss43344?spm_id_from=333.337.0.0
How do we get him added on here?
The acting from both leads is not as expressive as I would have liked (I get that they don't usually do comedy), but is generally serviceable for this sort of show. Plus the cute animations make up for it.
Overall a strong start, though I'm preemptively worried that we're gonna get too draggy midway into the show - imo 32 eps are too much based on the current pacing and what I know of the source material.