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If you are talking about me, I suggest you check on which episode I dropped and read my mid-season review where I explain my problems with this drama. It's a bit sad that you are doing a half assed job. All the data is available, you just need to do a tiny investigation and actually check some information :) Good luck!

Tak, z Polski, z Polski. Więcej napiszę na PM, jeśli się nie mas znic przeciwko.

But I like to sometimes visit the topics of dramas that I dropped. Sometimes someone will write a comment that makes me consider returning to a drama. There are dramas that I have tried to watch on several approaches and one of those dramas even eventually became my favorite. I don't think I'm breaking any laws with this? Well, and I can always meet interesting people and their even more interesting view of the world, which imposes their will and taste on everyone. Such meetings are really enlightening experiences about the human mental condition. I usually read the comments and don't comment myself, but sometimes I can't help myself, so much does the other side encourage conversation. I find it very pleasant to talk with you :)

It depends on what you consider good. Warning, heavy spoiler



She wants it and he doesn't, eventually he changes his mind. Mutual senseless noble sacrifice. Lady boss with no respect for the guy she loves. Puppy infatuation called great love. Romantic scenes and infatuated glances and shrugs thrown on the screen just to make it romantic and pretty. I think a great many young girls will find this an excellent romance. I suggest you watch about 4-6 episodes, you will catch the aesthetics of romance in this drama.

I dropped this and wrote about it because people who are considering whether to watch this (or any drama) have the right to know the voice of those who like and those who don't like it. That way they can make their own decision. Superlatives about a production are very biased and often mislead viewers. There is no drama that everyone likes, and the person who doesn't like it has as much right to speak up as the one who likes it. Last time I checked, we did not live in a world of dictatorship, where there is only one opinion, that of our fuhrer. So let's respect each other, even if we have different opinions.

Sorry, my comment is as old as this drama and I don't even remember this drama, but I remember that there was a wave of dramas about evil cults back then and I didn't like any of them. They all had the same boring patterns. It was as if no one made an effort to really understand what makes these cults work. I don't see the charisma of the cult leader, I don't see the confusion of the people who join there. There is only "the cult is evil, the leaders are greedy, and the faithful are stupid." I think I'm missing the vibe of the lyrics of the Genesis song "Jesus He Knows Me." So to tell you the truth, I didn't like any of the K-dramas about cults not because I don't like the subject matter, but because, to me, they weren't well written. If I'm not mistaken in the J-drama "Crisis" there was an interesting one about cult, but I haven't seen it in a long time, so I don't remember.

In season 1 we had relationship building within the team, conflict within ML that led to its development, a clear goal that we could identify with and cheer for ML. In season 2 we have an overpowered bunch who suddenly lost their minds and turned into a pack of idiots And what is this idiotic "We can!" anyway? I feel like I've moved from a pretty decent drama in season 1 to a cheap Hollywood production with all the stupidity of 2023. In season 2 they spoiled everything that was interesting in season 1.

The review posted below contains spoilers.

I am so excited!

You're welcome. But we really have nothing to despair over. It's just a rumor. Xiao Zhan has many years of work ahead of him and can play xianxia if he finds the project interesting enough. Or maybe we'll love him in wuxia, after all, after Smiling Proudly Wanderer (promo clip for the game) everyone wanted to see him in such a role. Well, and I'm sure he'll look insane in the general's armor :)

I'm Polish too, and I wouldn't call this title a national treasure. It's just a book, you know :)

I had that a year ago, he, he, he :) I was sad because his new dramas don't interest me and I really like his acting. I had a dilemma: watch something I don't like for him, or just let it go? But you know what, Xiao Zhan doesn't just sit in one genre, he tries different things. Even if a title is not to your taste, chances are that the next production will be for you. Me, I'm waiting for the new film in the Condor Heroes series, which is 100% my style :)

I understand you perfectly.
The problem is that although there are excellent fantasy books, intelligent, well-written, interesting, filmmakers do not want to make good adaptations. The best example is Netflix's The Witcher. Henry Cavill, a Hollywood superstar left because he couldn't stand the embarrassment of the series. Xiao Zhan wants to avoid something like this. A good example of a good mainstream historical drama would be Nirvana on Fire and The Rise of Phoenixes. A lot of wuxia productions fall under the mainstream. Good police dramas, morality dramas, legal dramas. There is a chance that not everything will be boring :)

Yes.

This is not about the amount of money spent on production. TLP has a very simple plot and design filled with fantasy elements. Personally, I like fantasy, but this genre is widely disregarded (although it has plenty of fans around the world). You see, TLP is not intellectually demanding, it doesn't ask any important questions, it doesn't show serious social problems. Yes, viewers may see some wisdom in the story, but this title serves almost exclusively to please fans of the actor and the genre and to spend money on it. Marvels, Star wars is exactly the same thing. You're supposed to watch, have fun and not think too much. But Lord of the Rings is already borderline because it has become a classic. The Condor Heroes, for example, started out as a niche, entertainment work, but over the years it became important not just to a small group of readers, but to the whole nation, so it went mainstream. So maybe it's better to say that mainstream is something that appeals to most adults regardless of their interests and TLP-type dramas target a specific group, so they can be as generic as they want.

Only you see, sometimes the mainstream turns out to be so badly done that it is relegated to some niche, and sometimes something niche unexpectedly enters the mainstream. The boundaries are not carved in stone,

Douluo Dalu is an idol drama that almost went mainstream, but didn't enter it. Ace Troops was supposed to be mainstream, but they messed up the plot played by Johnny Huang because they made it a cheap idol drama.

So mainstream appeals to ludis with different tastes and idol drama targets a specific group.

I did not use the word "cheap" to offend anyone. If anyone felt offended, I apologize. It is used when creators use established tropes, make generic stories without much commitment to novelty. "Cheap" because the creators of such a drama do not cost too much effort. They don't need to invest effort and thought, because the fans will be delighted anyway. And that's why such a production doesn't appeal to the majority of the public, so it doesn't become mainstream.

A serious drama with serious issues, no fantasy elements, realism alone, contemporary or historical. A good example is WDB.

This means that Xiao Zhan will say goodbye to the so-called idol drama. He won't be doing xianxia, any bizarre isekai-style fantasy, silly romantic comedies. His dramas will be more serious, talking about something. WDB was in that genre. He can do historical dramas, but they won't be fantasy dramas about fairies, but, for example, depicting the life of some ruler or telling about important events. No more cheap entertainment where the viewer doesn't have to think, just delight in flying fairies. This is precisely how the melon should be understood.

Due to changes in the popularity of actors. FBS has always been an idol drama. The whole ML team was a popular band in those years, which attracted viewers. The band has been out of business since 2018, so who will come to watch these people? Wu Lei has not been interested in this project for years. So why try to attract the rest of the cast if at least half are being changed anyway?
And contrary to what some people think, in China this drama was not that beloved at all. To this day I remember a comment that even if all of XNine had starred in this drama it still wouldn't have saved its popularity.

Not at all.
Information on MDL is uploaded by ordinary users based on rumors on various sites. Several Chinese sites similar to MDL have this information, but there are often a lot of rumors there. Some time ago I cared that the information next to the actor's name is true and confirmed, but it's a battle with windmills, because there will always be people who think that if something is on e.g. doin or baidu, it's true. So I stopped fighting windmills. Others either don't care anymore either, or can't change this information, or don't know that they can. So all in all, it's still a rumor, it's just not worth fighting for the truth on such a trivial matter. Don't promise yourself too much from this drama.
You can be sure only when the official information appears not on MDL but on the XZ Studio's Weibo page, and there it is not.

Nothing is wrong with you. Personally, I don't like The Untamed and I don't understand how people can say it's the best drama when the styrofoam cave threatens to collapse under Xiao Zhan's touch, the CGI are a little nightmare, the acting in general is weak and the plot is childish. But I watched the drama more than 10 times because I was mesmerized by XZ's acting.
The main character of The Untamed goes through three main phases in which his behavior and approach to life is completely different. Xiao Zhan brilliantly plays each of these phases and the differences between them. I personally find the teenage protagonist annoying and these are unfortunately the first episodes. If it wasn't for the fact that XZ delighted me in the first scene, I wouldn't have watched this drama.
So if you want to watch and you don't really like it, approach this drama with a detached, relaxed attitude and focus on, say.... the fact that the costumes are pretty :) Or, since you liked XZ, just enjoy him on screen. The rest will come, or not. After all, not everyone has to like the same thing :)

I approached this drama like a hedgehog. Seriously an inverted harem, and three guys and one woman I consider something like that, is not my fable. I watched two episodes and.... generally boring. Maybe they have an idea, maybe it's something new in China, but I've grown up on fantasy and - well, it's a simple fairy tale for kids. But I'm not throwing it yet, because visually, although again there's nothing new and interesting here, it's possible to look at it. I'm also moderately interested in what the story will be. Moderately, I emphasize. However, I have to give big kudos to the little actors from episode one, because I cried along with them. The little girl is a beauty and a talent. I hope China doesn't waste her because she promises to be excellent. The boy, too. Honestly the kids so far have been acting better than the adults.