Ep. 24 ... I can only laugh, absolutely inconceivable. Getting the message across that she becomes a vengeance-obsessed…
I thought the concubine's face full of blood was quite explicit enough; though the scene itself was nonsense with the tunnel between mansions suddenly branching in a hundred directions for him to hallucinate his own demons.
What I found very weak was that you never saw how the leads allegedly convinced the emperor of all kinds of things. With all the things that went their way, he's quite the off-screen santa claus character.
I think there's a plot hole here somewhere, because the horse was still in the stable when she needed it (towards…
I think the horse was teleported in (now under someone else's control) just OUTSIDE the duke's residence.
Basically she released the horse at her home, and some random guy caught it, and it fought away from his control just when she needed a horse to escape at the Qi mansion.
I feel like she loved and cared for Han Yan so much and in the end was just abandoned. There was so much potential…
For me Chai Jing is an SML / first boyfriend character with a one-sided romantic interest in FL. At other times, it's a master-servant relationship (– as a noble lady and an uneducated pirate orphan, maybe being a female male concubine is the best CJ could hope for).
FL only sees CJ as a (not blood related) sibling, but (selfishly) does not make it clear.
Beyond the minor hints or teasing of it in things like Fangs of Fortune I haven't watched any Chinese GL, or any other GL really, so I dunno what those are typically like, but the CJ character doesn't seem very female to me.
my source (ahem) does not have this in 4K, is this due to how the show is/was released? => 4K comes with CN hardsubs and advert interruptions, ok; Tencent exclusive
- all Rong family members besides for the cousin and Wanwan do some horrible stuff, and there's no comeuppance…
It can probably be said to work as "she needs to stay alive to care for her child so that ML doesn't have to stay in that household for that kid" kind of plotting logic, but yeah, while he sure wasn't nice to two specific women he was still more redeemable than some of FL's family members. And he was killed the moment he seemed to be turning onto a better path. Yet all those years, nobody made an attempt to shorten the life of the duke himself, as the source of all issues.
Ah sorry, I misread it and thought you meant the breakup.
Yeah, this whole "because of no reason whatsoever, I can't possibly contact you for two years, and then I will just pop out in front of you with some flowers" thing so many dramas do is just WTF.
He wasn't gone that long anyway, so it wasn't an unnecessary timeskip added on but more an excuse to have that fun video call scene.
8/10 for me....Both actors were good yet I couldn't feel the chemistry between them...even some kissing scenes…
For me, initially not being able to tell if they have any chemistry at all made the latter stuff feel far more impactful/natural/real. (Agree that story could have been done better and VR was underused though.)
- show was best in the first third or so, where the FL's two maids were amplifying the leads' scenes- interesting…
- all Rong family members besides for the cousin and Wanwan do some horrible stuff, and there's no comeuppance at all
- no legal punishment for FL for staging a play in the courtroom, faking a murder, etc (she just says the resulting justice is a gift for the imperial family lol)
- in the finale, FL aids someone with getting away with murder
- at the end of the show, tea-related plotline (sourcing replacements for counterfeit tea), is completely forgotten, so is the hostile takeover one (controlling ML to control FL to control Rong family; you could argue it's defeated by the founding emperor's seal but that's not given as an explicit end for it)
- show was best in the first third or so, where the FL's two maids were amplifying the leads' scenes
- interesting parade of short drama MLs, but their performances aren't necessarily as good as in those short dramas (there are flashes of them impressing). they're both used obviously (as suitors for FL), as well as ones I never would have guessed, like ML's sidekick Lang or the Rong's steward Cheng.
- compared to other similar dramas I've seen, Glory always has a generous number of extras on screen (servants, guards, plantation workers, etc) to make the world look believable
- the many female villains aren't played by captivating actresses and they have boundless screentime, so people who easily get bored and start skipping may do just that
- in these writers' morality, there's almost no punishment for women whatsoever (so much attempted murder etc) ...dropped Perfect Match too early to say if it's the same there.
- the majority of characters are at least somewhat evil, so much that it's hard to list ten morally decent characters of each gender [I tried in the spoiler post below]
- some plotlines are forgotten I suppose
- based on other comments, it sounded like it was a "super weak ML crawling at the feet of the FL & getting beaten up by her" show, but that didn't happen. seems this isn't Perfect Match after all.
On my scale it's a happy end, but someone else might mind that the FL essentially treats the ML as a (crucial) chess piece non-stop, even if she loves him and all.
but still when he (Hou Minghao) needs to deliver powerful speech, his diction trouble him; otherwise, his micro…
From what I've seen, he was in pain during a lot of the filming of this show ( https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTuE0zBEe7i/ ). In that context, the filmed material isn't bad at all. Or rather, his performance is the best of the cast in my book.
What I found very weak was that you never saw how the leads allegedly convinced the emperor of all kinds of things. With all the things that went their way, he's quite the off-screen santa claus character.
Basically she released the horse at her home, and some random guy caught it, and it fought away from his control just when she needed a horse to escape at the Qi mansion.
FL only sees CJ as a (not blood related) sibling, but (selfishly) does not make it clear.
Beyond the minor hints or teasing of it in things like Fangs of Fortune I haven't watched any Chinese GL, or any other GL really, so I dunno what those are typically like, but the CJ character doesn't seem very female to me.
=> 4K comes with CN hardsubs and advert interruptions, ok; Tencent exclusive
Production values are a lot lower though. Feels like sloppy TV by comparison.
Yeah, this whole "because of no reason whatsoever, I can't possibly contact you for two years, and then I will just pop out in front of you with some flowers" thing so many dramas do is just WTF.
He wasn't gone that long anyway, so it wasn't an unnecessary timeskip added on but more an excuse to have that fun video call scene.
(Agree that story could have been done better and VR was underused though.)
Name in Your Anticipation (名为你的期待)
Yan Ren Zhong
Ending theme song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l95eIWRRvaI
there:
Still Waiting
Yan Ren Zhong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB8B7-2mOQE
more: https://wiki.d-addicts.com/Yan_Ren_Zhong
E01, E02, E03, E06, E08, E10, E11, E12, E13, E14, E16, E17, E18, E19, E20, E21, E24, E25, E26, E27, E28, E29, E30, E31, E34, E35.
- no legal punishment for FL for staging a play in the courtroom, faking a murder, etc (she just says the resulting justice is a gift for the imperial family lol)
- in the finale, FL aids someone with getting away with murder
- at the end of the show, tea-related plotline (sourcing replacements for counterfeit tea), is completely forgotten, so is the hostile takeover one (controlling ML to control FL to control Rong family; you could argue it's defeated by the founding emperor's seal but that's not given as an explicit end for it)
7+ non-evil females:
FL's second maid Xiu Qiong, FL's godmother, FL's cousin, FL's 6th sister YunWan, ML's mentor's daughter, FL's plantation girl Yi, grandmother's attendant Yan
7+ non-evil males:
ML, scholar Bai, ML's sidekick Lang, ML's FL-assigned helper Jun Dai, FL's second sister's hubby An Cha, imperial inspector Luo, ML's mentor, various doctors and coroners
- interesting parade of short drama MLs, but their performances aren't necessarily as good as in those short dramas (there are flashes of them impressing).
they're both used obviously (as suitors for FL), as well as ones I never would have guessed, like ML's sidekick Lang or the Rong's steward Cheng.
- HMH's acting carries the show
more impressive given he was in pain for so much of the time: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTuE0zBEe7i/
- compared to other similar dramas I've seen, Glory always has a generous number of extras on screen (servants, guards, plantation workers, etc) to make the world look believable
- the many female villains aren't played by captivating actresses and they have boundless screentime, so people who easily get bored and start skipping may do just that
- in these writers' morality, there's almost no punishment for women whatsoever (so much attempted murder etc)
...dropped Perfect Match too early to say if it's the same there.
- the majority of characters are at least somewhat evil, so much that it's hard to list ten morally decent characters of each gender [I tried in the spoiler post below]
- some plotlines are forgotten I suppose
- based on other comments, it sounded like it was a "super weak ML crawling at the feet of the FL & getting beaten up by her" show, but that didn't happen.
seems this isn't Perfect Match after all.
In that context, the filmed material isn't bad at all. Or rather, his performance is the best of the cast in my book.