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there is surely some big conspiracy behind the rating ;-D

soooooooooooooo cool, the show has 40 eps, but we are already over 44,000 comments!

cheers!! lets take out the cheerleader pompoms and celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hahah thanks to them, i just realized, MDL has a block function!!!

i didnt know that prior!

you can block all those ähh how to call them, water armies?
are these trolls even real oeople?
they dont sound like , you know, real people?

fighting and bashing and mobbing with real people might be fun, but if they are just... kinda artifically created bots, why bother to engage.

aww how cute, are you real or are you a bot, created by chatGPT ?
LOLOLOLOLOL!

I am telling you, in half of all c-dramas, at least the fantasy ones, the so called "good" celestial immortal beings , whether fairies or gods or whatever`?
their deeds and thoughts and vibes are somewhat at least 5x times more evil than the demons and devils XD

i was away for like 10 days, and have a lot to catch on, but went straight ahead to the eps of today.
damn, I wonder how the rest of you are able to lead some coherent intellectual discussion and raised intelligent questions about logic and storyline here.

gods, I have watched the latest two eps twice today, and I am just...
loosing all my braincells on how pretty the ML , SML and FL are, and I am like hmmmmowahhhh, fights and F/X are sooooooooooooo pretty, and I might never need Hollywood and marvel universe anymore..

its just SO PRETTY! The landscape, the costumes, the actors, the fights...

i don't care, what story, or what logic, or if anything is coherently written by now, I could just sit, and stare at those beautifully composed scenes and sceneries for like hours.

in fact, I am going now, and spend the rest of my braincells for a third rewatch of eps 31 / 32.
an empty brain sounds wonderful!

hmm, the very different comments and assessment of the drama, really makes me curious!
off to download and give this a try.

wow, i am very surprised, usually i am giving a pass at short dramas, but the trailer for this one was looking cool, so I gave it a try.
not disappointed, I did know either ML or FL, but they were great together!

plus, the settings didn't look too shabby, cant go much wrong with that beautiful shanghai era setting and the cheaong sams! (I am sure, I spelled that wrong, I am talking about the dresses of the women! )

overall certainly an 8!

if you have , like money, you could also simply use the official youku app, and buy a subscription.

or if you dont have money or dont want to pay, you can also use the youku app or go to youtube.
the episodes WITH english subtitles are also aired there. only with much slower updates than if you were a paying app member.

hahah you know, being evil minion and so on, REALLY REQUIRES LONG AND ETERNAL STAMINA! evil bend on world domination or destruction isnt easily achieved like in our shitty real life reality.

right, that was really like some weird plothole?

gosh...good its sleeping time here coz me!
*faints he is literally too hot , all my brain cells melted*

i am kind of baffled. nearly any site, that announces and provides summaries of chinese , korean and japanese dramas IN english, usually has those dramas with english subtitles.

they are , what i thought, the norm, and not the exception.

are you from a country with internet surveillance ? or limited access to certain domains?
a simple google search will literally spill out hundreds of sites with English subtitles of c-dramas, j-dramas and k-drams.

that site has english subtitles.

nearly all sites, whether legal or illegal, have english subtitles, if their sites are having summaries in English.

arent those hundreds of illegal streaming sites not working for you, or why would you need avistaz?

well if after two years, you still want to give it a try.

https://dramacool.cy/drama-detail/once-upon-an-ordinary-girl-1984

"But don’t pressure yourself if you can’t take it just stop. I also dropped a lot of highly rated cdrama because It’s just not for me."

thats one of the wisest phrases one can probably repeatedly repeating here.

if - as portrayed by Esther Yu- the FL characterization (and considering her background story, that she has no memory of her past, in nearly 80% of the story/eps) of innocent and somewhat naivity (and yet in my opinion showing lots of mature and compassionate scenes and situation) is not one's cup of tea, then drop it.

no sense in forcing to watch something if you dont have the mindset for it.

just like you, i have tried to get into high profile dramas like ashes of love, or this three worlds or something. if the pairing, or the actor or actress just didnt click, then it simply doesnt. i rarely ever encountered something, where i could say, like 3 years later, wow why was i so stupid and didnt see that?

for example everyone and their dog was raving for Mark Chao. i find him utterly unappealing.
Zhao Lusi , i find her utterly boring and average looking , no matter what drama. just not my cup of tea.
i might like the story of the drama, and watch, but well, you know what the old saying is: beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

actually , have you followed the news about America the last 30 years? ok, its pretty much a very specific niche, but i guess, from all 200 nations on earth, USA is the one, with the most incarcerated people in prison. and , statistically, i have read somewhere, its the country, where lots of women, who have a saviour complex, go intentionally into prisons with serial killers, murdereres, terrorists or similar, and fall in love with them, in the hope " to save them", or psychologically speaking, they think, if they can save psychopaths, that makes them feel special and unique themselves. like sort of modern female jesus.

(i am from germany, here, there were some cases as well, though not as much as in USA).

hmm psychopath?? that actually makes the novel more appealing! is there some proper readable english translated version available? hmm i will need to look into this tomorrow....

someone said:
" the effects are excessive.."

i totally get that sentiment, honestly, and that every person is watching stuff due to their own reasons.

the funny thing with that remark is, that the stuff about excessive effects or F/X is what a youtube female reviewer called AvenueX was also sort of? criticising.
she was really honest, she clearly spelled out in the vid title, that her review was a "rant", so actually , i did not watch it ( I am usually not interested in rants, especially not negative ones), but in the title she also said something , like the drama is...like a video game.

and reading that vid title, i had to laugh, coz well, its been nearly 30 years, since I played Video games such as on the Nintendo NES or SuperNES (most of you are probably much younger than me, so I am not sure, if you still know those game consoles from the 80s and 90s) , but the point is, even if I did not love the drama before? I used to loved video games.
just her saying, its like a video game, would have been the totally reason for me, to just run off, and give this drama a try ;D
TTEOTM is like hitting every button and kink, that I might ever have.

and one person's poison is another person's addicted food?
i absolutely adore the surreal , unrealistic overly excessive effects , it feels like animes and video games are coming to life! i like that mostly chinese dramas choose to be surreal , and
unrealistic levels of heavenly and hellish realms.


coz honestly , after decades of watching US TV dramas (or German and Scandinavian television shows), where they spend all the money making everything dark, gritty, ugly, in other words "looking real as our shitty reality or even more ugly and dark, and gritty than our shitty reality?" (game of thrones and so on)
i am SO Happy, to use chinese dramas to get away from all shitty reality :D

i want unrealistic beautiful , photoshopped and filtered actors and actresses, knowing that real human beings are never that beautiful unless they are genetically engineered like the dolly sheep, LOL.
real humans have skin with pores, and sweat and have acne, and are too thin or too fat, too tall or too short, and generally are well, flawed humans with flawed bodies. (and even more flawed characters. The divorce rate in Germany is still around 40%)

in chinese dramas, especially the fantasy ones, as a watcher i never need to bother with all the reality of either reality or humanity.
coz the characters are either deities, immortals, or cultivators and so on.

this is about my "rant" lol.

sorry for the excessive text.