They are so beautiful šā¤ļø I love how you used the same shade of the colour for evey character. It must…
Thank you so much! You are too sweet! It has indeed been more time consuming than expected, but I really love making moodboards and matching colours and pictures, so I had fun (thank you for noticing btw). Plus, you guys are liking them, so all the more worth it
Great idea!! I should do some edits too but will have to find the time. You can also post it on global feeds.Click…
Thank you so much for the infos I'm trying to be more active on this site, but there are many things I still don't know (what you just explained being one of them)
Me? I don't, unfortunately. I would like to try, sooner or later, but I wouldn't even know where to begin with Gif makers have all my respect, it looks quite time consuming
If I were to make moodboards/aesthetics about FoF characters and post them on this page, should I leave them in the comment section or create a discussion? Or don't post them at all because it's not something you do on MDL?
Most persons definitely donāt have the same standard when watching dramas. I donāt mind watching āidolā…
If you already know how it ends and continuing it would feel like a duty, I'd say drop it. The last episodes are emotional (if you are emphatic and cry when others cry), but plot and character wise they have completely lost track and if you really care about a plot being grounded and making sense, then you'd only feel very frustrated.
You perfectly put into words what I felt watching this drama (and especially the very last episodes). FoF lacked essence since episode one, it never had this feeling of being grounded, and always focused more on the beauty and aesthetic of a shot rather than its substance, but those last episodes... this director always has a problem with them. I don't know whether you watched My Journey To You or one of his costume movies, but they all have the exact same issue when it comes to wrapping it up: flow, pacing and focus are all over the place and characters and situations just don't make sense anymore. I was really more frustrated than sad, watching the finale, because why, WHY, was everyone just standing there and forgetting they could fight (or even move at all) when something bad was about to happen? Even the villain simply stood and watched Li Lun passing his demonic power to ZYC and ZYZ (even worse when he grabbed Zhuo Yi Chen by the throat and just... remained like that while Zhao Yuan Zhou was powering up to destroy the barrier - that really came out of nowhere, but lets not go there). And, as you said, characters just disappear without reason. It's like the director and writer wanted that one particular character to die and that one particular thing to happen at all costs, but couldn't find a sensible way to do that and did it anyway. Who cares if it just doesn't make sense and it's out of character, right? I found the lack of urgency and threat rather jarring, especially when they had to save the whole town from turning into mindless demons. That storyline was forgotten two minutes after being introduced and brought nothing to the plot, except for an excuse for ZYZ to sacrifice himself. I liked this drama, but my god its flaws!
I'm sure Wen Zongyu must have fundamentally changed Zhen Mei in some way with his experiments and he's very likely…
Zhen Mei was most likely "demonized" and we will probably see a very cool battle scene with his enhanced version (very curious to see it). I think they all noticed it - Zhu Yan, at least. Would be very weird if he didn't, given how that whole thing was shot, with his shadow very nitid against the wall and everything. We will probably get some plot twist reveal in the next episodes where they tricked Zhen Mei by openly discussing that out loud with him right behind them. Otherwise it would be indeed a weird scene.
I swear, this comment section is a mess. I don't know whether this is the norm on MDL, but I (perhaps naively) thought comments were meant for sharing and discussing about a show you are watching and enjoying. Instead, 90% of this section is people fighting about trivial stuff as if their lives depend on it. This should be a safe space to disconnect from the real world problems for a while and meet people with same interests. Waging wars about fictional characters and actors who don't even know you exist really isn't it, guys.
Ahh, this is the first time Iāve felt so torn while watching a drama. I'm absolutely obsessed with and in love…
I perfectly get what you mean, but since nobody had pointed it out so far, I was starting to wondering whether it was just me imagining (or, rather, missing) things. I wrote a review after finishing episode 5 about this feeling of something lacking and my concerns about it and... problem still persists at episode 21, unfortunately. And I doubt it'll get any better, so far into the story. It's really hard to explain with words, but probably "disjointed" is the best way to put it. The cinematography and atmospheres are remarkable and costumes, wigs and CGI are of a quality a lot above your usual drama, but when it comes to substance, to the actual story and the actual characters... pretty cover, empty pages. I don't know if you watched My Journey To You (same director, same aesthetic and nearly same cast), but when I compare it to Fangs of Fortune, it feels more grounded and the characters have depth, the plot takes its time building and developing. It all crumbled with the ridiculously rushed last two/three episodes, but that's beside the point. It had SUBSTANCE, a direction. With FoF it's as if episodes don't connect to each other or as if they cut scenes from the ending of episode a and the start of episode b. To make an example without going too much into details, something rather sad happens during the very last minutes of an episode, but in the next they are all together again, almost acting as if nothing happened and I had to replay it from the beginning to make sure I didn't miss a scene or something. The pace can be, indeed, a bit jumpy at times, but I don't believe that's the reason of this feeling of āmissing somethingā we have. Rather, it's the way they jump straight to an answer or a solution (often behind the scenes, so that the audience doesn't actually see it happening) after building such climax around finding an answer or a solution to the problem. Example with spoilers: the way they put it, I was expecting this epic journey into the Wilderness looking for the two things they need to repair the Goddess Token, but there was zero journey and they were back in the mortal world after one (two-ish?) episode, with the pure water polluted by Li Lun (and then miraculously purified once again off screen). Nearly the same thing happened when they were investigating cases and in many other occasions as the plot moved forward. It's more of a tell instead of showing even when it comes to the squad friendship and found family vibe. I never saw them actually bonding and they are very very rarely in the same place together. One way or another, they always get separated and their interactions mainly revolve around the āmissionā of the day. I know they are friends, but that's because they keep SAYING it. In my opinion, FoF is superficially beautiful and it's refreshing seeing such colour palette and cinematography in a c-drama, but it focuses too much on said beauty, sometimes quite literally putting a whole scene to a stop to show us how gorgeous that certain shot or character is. (And it's really unnatural how characters just turn into statues to let one of the protagonists say their line or do their cool thing). I like this drama, but, yeah, I would have loved it a lot more if it had more depth.
It has indeed been more time consuming than expected, but I really love making moodboards and matching colours and pictures, so I had fun (thank you for noticing btw).
Plus, you guys are liking them, so all the more worth it
Thank you!
I didn't make one for all the characters, but if you are interested in seeing a character/demon in particular, I can give it a try
Meanwhile, I'll leave the link to the finished ones:
https://kisskh.at/discussions/the-story-of-mystics/132830-fangs-of-fortune-characters-aesthetics
I'm trying to be more active on this site, but there are many things I still don't know (what you just explained being one of them)
Gif makers have all my respect, it looks quite time consuming
Thank you for the fast reply!
Or don't post them at all because it's not something you do on MDL?
The last episodes are emotional (if you are emphatic and cry when others cry), but plot and character wise they have completely lost track and if you really care about a plot being grounded and making sense, then you'd only feel very frustrated.
FoF lacked essence since episode one, it never had this feeling of being grounded, and always focused more on the beauty and aesthetic of a shot rather than its substance, but those last episodes... this director always has a problem with them. I don't know whether you watched My Journey To You or one of his costume movies, but they all have the exact same issue when it comes to wrapping it up: flow, pacing and focus are all over the place and characters and situations just don't make sense anymore.
I was really more frustrated than sad, watching the finale, because why, WHY, was everyone just standing there and forgetting they could fight (or even move at all) when something bad was about to happen? Even the villain simply stood and watched Li Lun passing his demonic power to ZYC and ZYZ (even worse when he grabbed Zhuo Yi Chen by the throat and just... remained like that while Zhao Yuan Zhou was powering up to destroy the barrier - that really came out of nowhere, but lets not go there).
And, as you said, characters just disappear without reason.
It's like the director and writer wanted that one particular character to die and that one particular thing to happen at all costs, but couldn't find a sensible way to do that and did it anyway. Who cares if it just doesn't make sense and it's out of character, right?
I found the lack of urgency and threat rather jarring, especially when they had to save the whole town from turning into mindless demons. That storyline was forgotten two minutes after being introduced and brought nothing to the plot, except for an excuse for ZYZ to sacrifice himself.
I liked this drama, but my god its flaws!
I think they all noticed it - Zhu Yan, at least. Would be very weird if he didn't, given how that whole thing was shot, with his shadow very nitid against the wall and everything.
We will probably get some plot twist reveal in the next episodes where they tricked Zhen Mei by openly discussing that out loud with him right behind them.
Otherwise it would be indeed a weird scene.
I don't know whether this is the norm on MDL, but I (perhaps naively) thought comments were meant for sharing and discussing about a show you are watching and enjoying.
Instead, 90% of this section is people fighting about trivial stuff as if their lives depend on it.
This should be a safe space to disconnect from the real world problems for a while and meet people with same interests. Waging wars about fictional characters and actors who don't even know you exist really isn't it, guys.
I wrote a review after finishing episode 5 about this feeling of something lacking and my concerns about it and... problem still persists at episode 21, unfortunately. And I doubt it'll get any better, so far into the story.
It's really hard to explain with words, but probably "disjointed" is the best way to put it.
The cinematography and atmospheres are remarkable and costumes, wigs and CGI are of a quality a lot above your usual drama, but when it comes to substance, to the actual story and the actual characters... pretty cover, empty pages.
I don't know if you watched My Journey To You (same director, same aesthetic and nearly same cast), but when I compare it to Fangs of Fortune, it feels more grounded and the characters have depth, the plot takes its time building and developing. It all crumbled with the ridiculously rushed last two/three episodes, but that's beside the point. It had SUBSTANCE, a direction.
With FoF it's as if episodes don't connect to each other or as if they cut scenes from the ending of episode a and the start of episode b. To make an example without going too much into details, something rather sad happens during the very last minutes of an episode, but in the next they are all together again, almost acting as if nothing happened and I had to replay it from the beginning to make sure I didn't miss a scene or something.
The pace can be, indeed, a bit jumpy at times, but I don't believe that's the reason of this feeling of āmissing somethingā we have. Rather, it's the way they jump straight to an answer or a solution (often behind the scenes, so that the audience doesn't actually see it happening) after building such climax around finding an answer or a solution to the problem.
Example with spoilers: the way they put it, I was expecting this epic journey into the Wilderness looking for the two things they need to repair the Goddess Token, but there was zero journey and they were back in the mortal world after one (two-ish?) episode, with the pure water polluted by Li Lun (and then miraculously purified once again off screen).
Nearly the same thing happened when they were investigating cases and in many other occasions as the plot moved forward.
It's more of a tell instead of showing even when it comes to the squad friendship and found family vibe. I never saw them actually bonding and they are very very rarely in the same place together. One way or another, they always get separated and their interactions mainly revolve around the āmissionā of the day. I know they are friends, but that's because they keep SAYING it.
In my opinion, FoF is superficially beautiful and it's refreshing seeing such colour palette and cinematography in a c-drama, but it focuses too much on said beauty, sometimes quite literally putting a whole scene to a stop to show us how gorgeous that certain shot or character is.
(And it's really unnatural how characters just turn into statues to let one of the protagonists say their line or do their cool thing).
I like this drama, but, yeah, I would have loved it a lot more if it had more depth.