The drama was alright. It felt like a bunch of short dramas I've watched in the past combined into one. I was…
2025 is the year of the "strong female general" dramas, I'm slowly losing count of them. What they do strip away here is her body's combat training, but otherwise she's still cunning and all.
I just finished watching DY, it was the first I watched, and it took me 6 months to finish lol only the first…
DY is the only of the three that can't be said to be dragging, as it has a huge amount of plot for the 31 hours. The whole time jump in the last third or quarter felt like they had to stuff another show into there.
TBOY and Blood River have less story content they need to fit in, so they could be accused of dragging.
My watch order was DY - TBOY - BR. Since BR rewrites some of the TBOY plotline, that made more sense to me to have an 'improved' Dark/Blood River arc, but then again DY also rewrites various TBOY things.
Xiao Lingchen's story will be continued in The Blood of Youth. He didn't appear much but his character is quite…
It is not mentioned in the actual show, it's extra information provided by the subtitle translator after the episodes. So I guess it's from the novel or other external material.
TBOY's emperor MingDe, who almost is a "cute caring father"? We learn in DY that he's a disgusting rapist…
Ok so Sky Beyond Sky = Sky's Beyond = Outerheaven = Tianwaitian people are from Beiqu. Beiqu is the former country, but it was lost to Beili in a war, when Beique & Western Chu & Nanjue attacked Beili together, and now Beili owns the lands of Beiqu & Western Chu. So near the start of Dashing Youth, YueYao and her maid go on a trip to visit some lands that were previously Beiqu, to see if the common people are having a bad life. They see that it does not really matter who the ruler is, only that it is a good country, and this is a big part of YunYao turning against war with Beili. She does not want people to suffer.
The Tianwaitian snow area is far north of the previous country, so it's a new area and quite inhospitable, and it's not nice to live there.
The Blood Of Youth drama has the backstory that Baili DongJun accidentally kills YueYao in the fight against Ye DingZhi & Tianwaitian. Baili DongJun wants to kill YueQing; YueYao dresses up as her sister YueQing; =>YueYao sacrifices herself to let her sister live. In the Dashing Youth drama this does not happen; instead YueQing dies somewhere else and YueYao stays alive.
Ye DingZhi defeats the ruler of Tianwaitian (YueYao/YueQing's father) by taking his power and Baili DongJun's power*. This makes him the strongest person in Tianwaitian, so he is accepted as ruler. He then aggressively expands to absorb nearby tribes, and the whole thing becomes called the Demon Sect.
*: In Xunian Arts, you can take someone else's Xunian cultivation for yourself. This is why there is only usually one person alive who does Xunian Arts, even though in Dashing Youth there are four.
For me the voice dubbing is an issue in this show. I guess it's good to dub Lie Xue Yi when he is >30 and his character is 17, as maybe his real voice would not fit at all. But this show has dubbing crimes that you don't really see in Dashing Youth.
My own Golden List of the Ultimate Worst Voice Crimes in TBOY:
??th: Xiao Ling Chen. Unfortunately dubbed here, making him leave 20% the impression he does as Xiao Ruo Feng in Dashing Youth.
4rd: Fei Xuan. Another child actor with a 40+ years old voice actress, but it does not compare to 1st place.
3rd: Consort Xuan's maid. Every sound hurts.
2nd: Red Prince's minion Long Xie. The most horrendous voice in dramaland.
1st: Wu Shuang. 14 year old actor with 40+ years old female voice actress. Just WTF. Especially in the earlier episodes she sounds totally off; when he reappears near the end it's a tiny bit better (or the Long Xie voice actor had already eroded our sanity too far).
Unpopular opinion:The people who think DY is much worse than TBOY are the ones that watched TBOY first.If you…
TBOY's emperor MingDe, who almost is a "cute caring father"? We learn in DY that he's a disgusting rapist who drugs the woman he allegedly loves so he can put a child into her.
TBOY's heroic sword deity Li HanYi? From a harmless smart child poking fun at her father she turns into a terminally angry violent teenager who lead a crusade to kill the most abused character YDZ. I can't imagine the tutelage of Nangong ChunShui leading to that.
Instead of the classic second lead syndrome, viewers can get original FL syndrome.
Shows like https://kisskh.at/18468-bring-it-on-ghost and https://kisskh.at/749641-in-blossom are good examples of where you might root for the other actress or character to be the rightful FL.
Yes, 'seized' should be 'tried to seize'.
What they do strip away here is her body's combat training, but otherwise she's still cunning and all.
TBOY and Blood River have less story content they need to fit in, so they could be accused of dragging.
My watch order was DY - TBOY - BR.
Since BR rewrites some of the TBOY plotline, that made more sense to me to have an 'improved' Dark/Blood River arc, but then again DY also rewrites various TBOY things.
The ones I linked I did not see mentioned on MDL.
Xiao Ling Chen | Su Mu Yu | Fu Heng Xing
So unless this refers to Xiao Ling Chen as a child...
https://www.youtube.com/@dramaboxexclusive/search?query=%E5%B0%91%E5%B9%B4%E6%AD%8C%E8%A1%8C%E4%B9%8B%E9%A3%8E%E8%8A%B1%E9%9B%AA%E6%9C%88
Looks like two episodes per day.
No subtitles :c
Looks like other YT channels have it in Spanish, Thai, Arabic, Korean: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Great+Journey+Of+Teenagers&sp=EgIIBA%253D%253D
The Tianwaitian snow area is far north of the previous country, so it's a new area and quite inhospitable, and it's not nice to live there.
The Blood Of Youth drama has the backstory that Baili DongJun accidentally kills YueYao in the fight against Ye DingZhi & Tianwaitian. Baili DongJun wants to kill YueQing; YueYao dresses up as her sister YueQing; =>YueYao sacrifices herself to let her sister live.
In the Dashing Youth drama this does not happen; instead YueQing dies somewhere else and YueYao stays alive.
Ye DingZhi defeats the ruler of Tianwaitian (YueYao/YueQing's father) by taking his power and Baili DongJun's power*. This makes him the strongest person in Tianwaitian, so he is accepted as ruler. He then aggressively expands to absorb nearby tribes, and the whole thing becomes called the Demon Sect.
*: In Xunian Arts, you can take someone else's Xunian cultivation for yourself. This is why there is only usually one person alive who does Xunian Arts, even though in Dashing Youth there are four.
My own Golden List of the Ultimate Worst Voice Crimes in TBOY:
??th: Xiao Ling Chen. Unfortunately dubbed here, making him leave 20% the impression he does as Xiao Ruo Feng in Dashing Youth.
4rd: Fei Xuan. Another child actor with a 40+ years old voice actress, but it does not compare to 1st place.
3rd: Consort Xuan's maid. Every sound hurts.
2nd: Red Prince's minion Long Xie. The most horrendous voice in dramaland.
1st: Wu Shuang. 14 year old actor with 40+ years old female voice actress. Just WTF. Especially in the earlier episodes she sounds totally off; when he reappears near the end it's a tiny bit better (or the Long Xie voice actor had already eroded our sanity too far).
The Xiao Chong actor plays the future emperor (Chonghe's father Xiao Ruo Jin) in Dashing Youth. He could definitely be called a villain there.
TBOY's heroic sword deity Li HanYi? From a harmless smart child poking fun at her father she turns into a terminally angry violent teenager who lead a crusade to kill the most abused character YDZ. I can't imagine the tutelage of Nangong ChunShui leading to that.