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I want to start Big Mouth! Lee Jong Suk is always excellent.

I know right??!! I’m just rewatching the same trailers and BTS over and over again in slightly different edits 😭

This was before the bridge but after he sentenced her. But the scene where he goes to visit her after he wakes up and she denies it was her who saved her, I thought that scene was full of tenderness. But maybe it’s because we can see how hard it is for YY to see yd putting her sister above herself.

I’m watching out of sequence, so I may have it wrong. But lamp lady is so obvious. Can’t work out if she’s truly in love with YY or just wants him because he’s powerful.

There’s an interview with Cheng Yi and he says that exactly. That the circumstances in which TZ was raised means he is much freer in the way he speaks and acts.

Came for Wallace Huo. Left immediately upon seeing his hair in the promo. What have they done to him???

I’m watching from clips (cannot do angst in real time) and I was pleased with how YD’s character was very resolute and forward about her feelings for YY. (Because YD is similar to jin mi I think the comparisons are inevitable. Jin mi was always so helpless and gormless in love)

But I’m disappointed with how easily manipulated she is here. There’s a scene where the lamp lady is making yd believe YY is kicking her out of yan xu palace, and with everything lamp lady has done, why believe her? YY may not openly show he loves yd but he has always been caring, so she should at least know he wouldn’t say horrible things about her. I just…. Argh! I understand YD is young and innocent, but she’s a scriptwriter! She has to know some people are just vindictive.

On a lighter note, in one of the new clips where TZ is in bed and YD is sitting beside him he says ‘屁股起来’ to YD which translates as move your butt, haha. It’s definitely a very casual way of speaking that YY doesn’t have.

In the clip he says he hasn’t worked out in months :o

The way TZ looked at YD when he’s going to accept the Taoist bracelet which means he is forsaking earthly bonds and love made me so sad. He is so conflicted, he doesn’t know what he has with YD yet, but it already pains him to give it up :(

Someone said the last two episodes had no YD/TZ. Think we have hit the draggy bit :(

Xianxia has the same themes, but so does every genre, e.g romcom/fantasy. It all depends on the actors and the scripts and how well the story is told. Immortal Samsara is much better than others in terms of pacing, story and acting at the moment.

I’ve seen lots of xianxia where the story/characters/acting is subpar. It’s not easy to land a hit with xianxia. But a popular xianxia can weave really intricate storytelling and make you experience emotions you just can’t with modern drama, there’s a reason why it’s one of the most popular novel genres in China.

The caption says ‘I don’t mind where, when or what kind of love, but was there ever a moment where you felt love for me?
My heart has chosen this path, I will love no one else but you.’

It sounds like the line YD says when she’s on the cliff top. But I suspect this is the full line from the novel? (Sorry, I’ve only watched the clips. I can’t watch in real time. Too stressful!)

CY has a detectable accent, and they’re very strict in historical dramas. Both because the lines are more demanding and the accent has to be neutral in a xianxia setting. Whatever you think of YZ’s voice, she doesn’t have an accent and she has perfect enunciation when she speaks her lines.

That said, I was watching a Chinese drama segment about the push towards actors dubbing themselves which suggested CY will use his own voice when playing his father Xuan Ye. The voice is much deeper and his lines are fewer than when he is YY or TZ. But since it hasn’t been broadcast yet we will see!

This photo of YY and YD is so beautiful! https://scontent-lhr8-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/296247994_617995289842000_6431226654132932148_n.jpg?_nc_cat=104&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=973b4a&_nc_ohc=Q8c4DojjnAgAX-urrXx&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-2.xx&oh=00_AT_zw1TkIn7uNmHd_SnC5LaOYSV4pSA9mmEtzoDuc9SL1w&oe=62ED36FB

I thought it sounded different too, so I think the trailers were probably released before the voice actors had done their work, as voice acting is post production work. Baidu gives the same voice actor for both yy and tz.

Ikr?!! I just saw a clip of Yang Yang from Who rules the world with white hair, and even though I think Yang Yang is pretty much perfect looking, he doesn’t hold a candle to Cheng Yi with white hair!

I’m waiting for more romance or way more Cheng Yi before I watch. I like to be able to FF through the misery!

My continuous rewatching of the clips leads me to conclude Cheng Yi is not dubbed when he is Tang Zhou. Yeah!

I feel like he suffers a lot. She doesn’t think of the consequences, whereas he has to. So he has to keep himself in check all the time, he can’t just propose to her and whisk her away, so his next wish is for her to forget about love.

Cheng Yi is the main reason to watch. I watch Yang Zi dramas but she does play the same innocent playful character all the time. She is JinMi in this. I also find her bad at kissing scenes. She doesn’t move her lips, I’m surprised nobody complains. It’s so wooden. But Cheng Yi, he’s good, and he’s such an expressive actor.