The way it showed the current emperor/dowager was that weak. My interest in it has declined way too much; it just…
Current political power is chaotic because Emperor was sick for a long time. All Prince wanted to take over. Empress Dowager can't hold an important power because she is woman. Hence why Dowager planned Xiao Wu Yi and Prince war each other.
I'm in the second episode, and honestly I'm pretty bored, does it improve in the next few episodes? I thought…
It is vibe you are going to see for the rest of the episodes. If you are expect a serious plot with full of twist and angsty, you will not see any of that here.
It was good but pacing is all over the place. Start very fast. get unnecessary slow than get fast again.
They need spread out the pacing , cutting slow middle part to flesh out an early episode. Early episodes are extremely fast to the point you can get dizzy from it. Act three is fine. Still the story is easy to understand, all emotion is there. Political play is not too crazy but still makes sense.
Cinematography and visual were amazing tho. So many beautiful shoot. Chen Du Ling and Yi Ran are gorgeous.
Unfortunately, this show has a lot of cuts due to copyright issues
Lol what? A mysterious figure literally pouring entire poison powder to the jug of wine. It is just we don't have follow up with that jug of wine. But Fanyun poisoned though. I feels they just left that as foreshadow or future plot device. Prolly something to do with Zheng Shi because he is the only one knew.
Unfortunately, this show has a lot of cuts due to copyright issues
If they wanted to cut it, why not cut the whole thing? Instead teasing and nothing happen. Than why poison is something that can get copyrighted? Isn't it just common thing like water?
Overall ep1 is was pretty similar to anime. FL send to palace, meeting on library, FL and ML meet on the flower garden. FL is smart but also clumsy and airheaded. It was trope of heroine in anime.
They need spread out the pacing , cutting slow middle part to flesh out an early episode. Early episodes are extremely fast to the point you can get dizzy from it. Act three is fine. Still the story is easy to understand, all emotion is there. Political play is not too crazy but still makes sense.
Cinematography and visual were amazing tho. So many beautiful shoot. Chen Du Ling and Yi Ran are gorgeous.