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On what basis do you say that I have not seen everything that has been available so far? Why do some people have to attack anyone who doesn't share their taste? Did you like all the dramas you watched?

Hey, I'm from the country where The Witcher was written. Its author is my literary language master (I don't know him personally, I just appreciate him). I've been into western fantasy for thirty years (that is, I grew up on it), Japanese for 25, Korean for 10, and Chinese for 4. I absolutely don't see how this drama is related to wuxia or xianxia and I've watched enough of them to form an opinion.

I read some of the comments and WTF? What kind of idiots make a war over a simple drama? Really some *** are lowering the rating for the fact that this production is similar to Chinese ones? Where do these people have eyes? This is clearly a copy of a western fantasy and somehow I don't make an issue out of it. I don't like it because the story is too simple for me, the characters are typical, the acting is idol level, and the CGI has long since stopped impressing me anywhere. I blame the same on every c-drama whose plot is weak, acting on the level of a log and dialogues as if written by a child.
If you're downgrading a drama, have a good reason, like that it's hopeless, not that it looks too much like a c-drama in your eyes. This is not an argument for a serious person, but for a child.

I don't see how this copies xianxia. To me, this is western fantasy. Very typical western fantasy in a Korean setting.

I feel like I'm watching a children's story. I liked such dramas when I was 13. Now I'm leaning towards something with a more complicated plot and less obvious characters.
Judging by the surprisingly low rating, I guess more people have a similar opinion about this drama.

Yes, he is definitely not an actor who wants to stay in one audience. He who doesn't move forward, moves backwards, and he wants to spend many more years in his work as an actor, so he can't stay behind. He probably won't completely give up on dramas for younger audiences, but he will definitely aim for productions with more ambition.

Yes, he is definitely not an actor who wants to stay in one audience. He who doesn't move forward, moves backwards, and he wants to spend many more years in his work as an actor, so he can't stay behind. He probably won't completely give up on dramas for younger audiences, but he will definitely aim for productions with more ambition.

I watched the new trailer and I can safely say that if it wasn't for Xiao Zhan, I wouldn't have touched this drama. I would've avoided this sugary tragic and cloying cliché by a wide margin.
Hey, fans, no offense. I just can't stand these tragic romance xianxia dramas anymore. TLP is an example where the actor attracts the viewer, not the plot.
The only things I liked in this trailer were the underwater scenes and that guy dressed in black who was fighting ML.

In this new poster, the characters look like a poor version of a motorcycle gang :)
Dread to think what kind of bullies these bikers are :)
The world belongs to them, just like that :)

I feel harassed by you. What are you, a stalker? You just can't understand that forcing someone to accept your ideology is an assault on their freedom of belief. I inform you that you have been blocked by me. We will not meet again. Bye!

Episode 31 was boring to me. There were important things going on, but nothing to see.

For someone who is speechless, you talk an awful lot. However, I'm afraid I'm not going to read your idealistic tirades. People who run into peaceful company waving an idealistic banner are not someone I would feel like discussing with. so with all due respect, let everyone watch what they want, think what they want, and maybe leave the holy missions of converting to lofty ideologies for some street demonstrations. I promise that if I see you on the street I won't throw a stone :)
So have fun with your feminist/liberation movements. As long as you stay away from me. Ergo don't bother leaving me a reply. The world is wide. Let's pass each other by :)

My dear, it seems to me that your worldview, which I obviously respect, doesn't quite match the reality of c-ent. I don't know what propaganda sources you get your information from, but my little suggestion is that you also reach out to other, less slanderous sources.
I'm in my third year in the Chinese literary industry, my fifth year observing the c-dram industry, and there are too many female-centric stories out there. There are so many of them out there that people are already vomiting them up from overkill. For every male-centric text there are a dozen female-centric ones. Four goddesses have been holding the c-ent with their teeth for years. If you check which dramas have the highest viewership, the ones with FL at the center account for up to 90%.
Meanwhile, the demand is changing. I, as a woman, am sick of watching teenage girls fighting for love and equality. I'm bored out of my mind. I, as a woman, want to watch beautiful men. I don't want to watch endless wars or politics. I want to watch beautiful men and instead of identifying with the idealistically empty FL fight (revenge, love and other idiocies) I want to feast my eyes on the beauty of ML's face and personality.
If you don't like it, you have hundreds of female-centric dramas to choose from. But viewers like me also have the right to watch something we like. As a liberated woman, I have the right to watch what I want and not what some idealists want to impose on me. I guess my rights count too. Unless you are only fighting for the rights of a select few women, not all of them In that case I feel discriminated against.

I really like your last sentence :)

Let me disagree about the maturity of goddess fans. Don't you remember that year ZLY fans were nonstop at war with fans of a certain actor and even got blocked by Weibo for threatening to boycott the actress?
This year, YZ and XZ fans also clashed several times, despite the actors' previous requests and admonitions. Fortunately, nothing serious happened.
Going back to that year DLRB and YY fans, YM and William fans also made quite a ruckus online, and all these actors are old and established. Just because the actors/actresses are old doesn't mean their fans are mature.
And, of course, the endless wars over whose name comes first and whose comes second. I remember well last year's war between DLRB and YY fans.
Goddesses don't have more resources in c-ent at all, otherwise ZLY wouldn't have been forced to come back with such a weak drama and fan war. Last I checked, XZ has no less resources than any of the goddesses, and even better.
Just presenting a different point of view.

Yes, just which year?
Don't get me wrong. I've just seen too many cases where a drama was supposed to be out today, officially all announced, and suddenly instead of that drama there's another one, without a word of explanation. In c-ent, even an official release date doesn't guarantee that release. I'm used to it.

I have an idea! I know the moderators read the forum, so I turn to you, my friends. Ban modifications based on Douban. Everyone who has been dealing with c-ent for a long time knows that there is almost no reliable, trustworthy information there, that there every other information is rumor. Some idiot writes whatever he thinks of, then some kid copies the information and puts it on MDL and chaos ensues and MDL loses the rest of its credibility, if it still has any. For Douban MDL is the other side that spreads disinformation. In the English-speaking market, you are the king of rumors and unverified information. Just discard all the melons and Douban which is the world's biggest melon and maybe but just maybe you can slowly regain respect and credibility.

No one knows, not even the CEOs of Tencent :)

Wow, 0.03% of viewers have already finished watching this drama! That seems like some kind of masterpiece considering the perfect 10/10 rating. And I thought this drama was still warming the shelf.
These stats are really funny :)

I'm not hiding a grudge, I think I've said something like that before. I don't understand what the problem is all of a sudden. Vague expression of one's thoughts leads to misunderstandings. Misunderstandings can hurt someone. I don't understand why she's the one who feels offended, but well, that's her business.
Maybe let's just leave the topic and not make a show. This forum belongs to drama, not to our banter about who had what intentions when saying such and such words. And this drama is good enough for me to currently rate it a 9, maybe a 9.5, whether I continue it or not. I haven't seen something as good in a long time.