JustAnotherFan

As I read so far, chapter 276, Feng Nian is using one of the saber from Pangong Pu Ye on his journey. He also have 12 swords gifted to him by Deng Taia. These swords are special in the sense that the owner needs to drop their blood to materialized and control the swords. He can't control all 12 yet, but he is learning to as he go.

Li Chun Gang probably warmed up to Feng Nian and wanted to continue his legacy. I think before parting ways, he also imparted some swords knowledge to Feng Nian.

I think they would have to cut alot of parts from the novel if they are going to fit it in less than 3 seasons. With the pacing right now, I think it'll stop at chapter 200ish. The novel is about 1000 chapters lol.

I'd say Chen Ping Ping, mainly due to his status. In here, Xu Xiao holds 300.000 military might and so even if he schemes, as an opponent you are always thinking about his military might and would not be confident to retaliate. Also, it seems like he has more leeway with the Emperor, in short, he hold real power.

Whereas Chen Ping Ping is a subject of the King. He has to put on an act with the King for decades to make his plans turn into fruition. One mistake that is discovered by the King would end his life, so he has to be more meticulous. His mentality is one of the best, if not the best, for enduring shame for so many years. When I was reading the novel, my mouth shaped was like :O. lol

It might be hard to compare since in JOL, there's are a bunch of great schemers, the Elder Princess, Northern King, etc and the Emperor is incredibility smart. So it takes alot to fool him. Whereas in SSS, I hadn't seen anyone that could be on equal footing with Xu Xiao, he lacks real opponent as of now.

But both are scary either way, I'd rather face Chu Lusan, atleast that fatty can kill me faster.

Yeah, there's no real translation for the novel yet. I read it through an machine translation website, it's about 80% understandability. Only thing that's hard to read is pronouns (she, he, her etc), meaning of names and some sentence structures, but I got the gist of it, haha.

I think she might be his love interest in the long run, I hope she is, Feng Nian viewed her as important as his family.

She has the ability of Drax from Guardian of the Galaxy, if she stays perfectly still, you cannot see her. :D

In the novel, she's actually knew Feng Nian when they were small. His mother brought her to him. You can say that she's loyal to his mother and thus loyal to him. I THINK, I think, she's the granddaughter of some spear expert that was famous back in Jiang Hu. That's how she got the spear. She's formidable with it.

She might not make anymore appearances until season 2. So I think there should be an edit to her role as Main to Support. Sword God should be moved to Main cast, he's with the MC for their remainder of the journey. Although minimal dialogue, Qing Niao and Ning E Mei are also with the MC throughout his journey too.

I think it's the Phoenix Battalion by Ning E Mei. Feng should be Phoenix in Mandarin? Sometimes military battalion are named after spiritual beings. Tiger, Dragon, Phoenix, then you also have the Eagle, Hawk, Wolf etc haha

Since the show is probably expanding to s2 and s3, I think her character will developed slowly if anything. Which to the general audience will not be received well. Even now, they do not find any chemistry between the two. Ironically enough the interaction they had here had more chemistry than the novel (I read up to when Feng Nian enters Jing'an, so episode 17-21).

People wants (even I at the beginning) Pangong Pu She to be the FL because of their chemistry. But I realized that is due to Zhang Tian Ai who had a previous drama with ZRY, so their chemistry is proven. However, as Pangong Pu She in the novel, her appearances are as little as the screen time she had in the drama, that part is true (again, only catching up to the drama from novel). I think Jiang Ni is fine right now, fits well with the ML. One lost her kingdom, one who will be shouldering his kingdom. He loves to tease, She wants to kill. She's crazy about money, He doesn't lack money. Both are children of unfortunate event. Funny pair.

They might explore more depth of each character in later seasons, in which I am feeling unsure about. Possibly due to the wait time and competition from other drama later on. People might potentially forget about this. Lol

Yeah unfortunately the social status of women are league below men. That's why we don't see many female heirs in dramas, if any. Even by today standard there are still people looking down on women, it sucks, but its reality.

You're a stud if you sleep with many women, you're a sl*t if you sleep with many men.

If you liked it, then maybe you might also like similar filmed scenes produced by Zhang Ji Zhong. I am not sure if you heard of him, but he did produced dramas like Return of the Condor Heroes 2006, Dragon Sword Sabre 2009, etc. His work also have some slow mo scenes and some are artistic, filming in real places and such, however the slow mo scenes are not as extensive like SSS.

I liked that producer, so you might want to check him out if you hadn't already. Fight scenes are pretty great in his films IMO.

21 episodes in; if this was the director first experimenting an artistic fight scenes or different methods to film it, please let it be his last. In the beginning with the slow motion scenes from Pangong Pu She, I just assumed it was a choice. And then forward to Lu Qian Tang fights under the Sect's mountain and I thought, Ok, I guess the fights are more normal now. However, after episode 21, it reverted back to how it was. Slow motion.

I thought the foreshadow leading to episode 21 where the fights are, will be interesting, but the whole episode of 30 or so minutes, are full of slow mo. I am watching the Matrix bullet time in action essentially. I do not mind if this is a wuxia, xuanhuan or just pure political story, because at least the political sides are interesting. They don't even need to include fight scenes. But if they were to, IMO, they made it the least enjoyable as possible. Maybe they were trying to be poetic. Throughout 21, I did not feel any excitement for any fights at all.

I thought it's a big contradicting that Feng Nian's character is written as 'I will not let people be sacrificed' but I guess it was OK for soldiers to died while he stands there. Maybe because they are soldiers, that is their duty to protect the Lord? I don't know. I mean I do still enjoyed the show very much, but everytime there's a fight scene coming up, I am praying real hard it is not slow mo. Either have it normal or don't at all. The story itself is interesting without the fights anyhow.

Fighting the urge real bad not to watch anything and have it saved up for Christmas, and then that'll be my Christmas gift, 4 episodes. Q_Q, it's definitely a torture...

Yeah its understandable as a book has more luxury to be descriptive. While in drama they have to show it via their facial expressions, certain events, circumstances and what not, and sometimes if you blinked you might missed it. The personality is alot more matured in the drama, probably easier to setup all other things, I like it this way better haha.

He reminds me of Wei Xiaobao >.>

Might be desperate enough to read the novel using machine translate D:. Desperate time call for desperate measure!!

Although the first 10 chapters were VERY different from drama adaptation. I am glad the drama is written the way it did, though. It is much better to digest.

Xu Xiao was right, Feng Nian is much alike Xu Xiao. I mean they are father and son afterall. But both had the arrogant and carefree attitude. One walked into the Palace and hit a third ranking officer under the steps, one walked into enemy territory closed door without bodyguards. Truly fearless.

Of course one has power and the other has master protecting, but those two things won't be fast enough to help you when you're 2 feet away from a sword. The audacity! truly daring!

:o is that why. Cause when I saw the scene in ep 15/16, I was like hey, they filmed it pretty well, why didn't they do this in the beginning? So I just chalked it up as artistic choice lol

No you didn't, maybe I misinterpret that part. Since they did said she was severely injured when she birthed him. So I just assumed she KO'ed D:

Mysterio was wrong, Peter Parker isn't Spiderman, Xu Xiao is. Holycrap the amount of web this guy spun- it's crazy. He got intel on everyone and dark agents located everywhere. Which land has his web not been touched?? Xu Xiao is truly scary.

On another note, ep15/16, now that was a proper wuxia fight. Question for those that read the book, Feng Nian brother and sisters are his step-brother/sisters right? Because his aunt mentioned in ep15 that Feng Nian's mother ignored her Sect and went with Xu Xiao in Liaodong and that's how Feng Nian was conceived. I know he has 2 elder sisters, so IF they were of the same Mother, wouldn't the aunt say "and that's how you and your elder sisters..." be making more sense? Instead of just singling out Feng Nian, sounding like they did not have the same Mother? Or is it because only Feng Nian is there and so she only stated as such, as it was already a given fact that his elder sisters were from the same Mother?

Also if the mother dies shortly after Feng Nian, then who birthed Xu Long Xiang? We did see a flashback of Feng Nian when he was very young, crying during his mother's funeral, so maybe Xu Long Xiang was already born then?