I will be tuning in! This drama will kick start all the female general historical dramas that are lined up lol I think there's at least 5 other female general dramas waiting to air.
I feel like this has potential to be a dark horse. The last IQIYI drama with a similar genre (Coroner's Diary) did very well. The previews look good. I'll be tuning in. This comment section might not be very active tho because this doesn't focus on romance.
is there a reason the clock is so big on the poster? does this have time travel element? ngl I'm trying to understand why some of the costumes look so modern lol
Don't understand why shipper saying people dropping OG or the drama getting low rating because ZLH's fans exposing…
he appeared more in promotions than he did in the drama LOL I think this is one of reasons his fans are so upset right now. If he had limited screentime, fine, but why did the production company & youku use him so much for promotions? the advertising was very misleading. This was very much a ZJM one woman show yet they promotions made it seem like it was a high school romance.
Linghe was a cameo in Fox Spirit but none of his fans complained because they didn't use him in promotions.
watched a bunch of edits of the Hong Kong scenes and skskks I NEED linghe in a HK detective series or something! kind of hope his next project after Overdo isn't another costume drama. imo chinese costume dramas are a bit repetitive plot and styling wise
the Hong Kong episodes were by far the best in terms of acting, chemistry and directing/cinematography. ngl I wish the whole drama would've been in that tone with them acting as 20 something year olds. felt like this drama was a waste of their 2nd collab because there were far too little scenes with just the two of them in the first 18 episodes.
I watched this drama mainly because I like Linghe and even if I have some rose tinted glasses towards him, I can still say he really improved acting wise. There was a lot of depth in his emotions here and he has gotten so much more natural with his micro expressions. His line reading is also a lot better compared to his earlier dramas. I think only people who understand Mandarin would know lol but he used to kind of read his lines in an emotionless way. a lot of newbie actors struggle with this and since using dubbing is so widespread in cdramas, a lot of actors never have the chance to improve. but linghe really did improve with his line reading.
the novel really isn't that famous. this drama was hyped because of the production team behind it, but tbh the director and scriptwriter also have no experience with youth dramas
no this is wrong. I'm a fan of linghe. 40 episodes is just for the preparation before filming and production companies…
they never filmed for more than 24 episodes. fans know this because they followed the entire filming process and the router that came out basically showed that they filmed 24 episodes.
24 episodes is more than enough. one of my favorite slice of life high school dramas is Reply 1988 and that only had 20 episodes. It's just the pacing of this drama is off. there's a lot of fillers where it could've been allocated to side characters' development. And I think one of the biggest failures is how poorly the childhood scenes were because you really needed to believe their connection as kids to understand just why FL was so obsessed (for lack of better word lol) with ML for so many years.
Stop being denial. They indeed cut MANY of Zhang Ling He scenes. It was reported to have 40 eps, but they cut…
no this is wrong. I'm a fan of linghe. 40 episodes is just for the preparation before filming and production companies always prepare for 40 episodes. the script was only 24 episodes long. they cut some of his scenes but it was never 16+ episodes of scenes lol
also does anyone else find SML just.. kind of pathetic at this point. he's taking the pining SML a bit too far. I don't think he was even like this in the novel. Also isn't he supposed to be ML's friend? He goes to HK and sees ML looking that crestfallen compared to his high school days and doesn't even enquire about what happened? He only cares if ML is going to go back and date FL? I feel like aside from ML, the other characters only care about love lol ML is like filming his own hardship drama elsewhere
If you told me last year that TBT would air better than OG, I'd laugh, so I can't believe it's actually happened lol TBT is a low budget romdrama with a newbie director and Linghe as the only recognizable name in the cast. OG is from a big production company and ZJM is a famous child actress. OG's director is also probably the most famous of the ones Linghe has worked with so far. I just don't understand how they got it so horribly wrong :/
there seems to be so much going on. I don't understand how they can finish filming by September lol
Linghe was a cameo in Fox Spirit but none of his fans complained because they didn't use him in promotions.
I watched this drama mainly because I like Linghe and even if I have some rose tinted glasses towards him, I can still say he really improved acting wise. There was a lot of depth in his emotions here and he has gotten so much more natural with his micro expressions. His line reading is also a lot better compared to his earlier dramas. I think only people who understand Mandarin would know lol but he used to kind of read his lines in an emotionless way. a lot of newbie actors struggle with this and since using dubbing is so widespread in cdramas, a lot of actors never have the chance to improve. but linghe really did improve with his line reading.