I hate, I HATE, the excess of soundtrack in dramas, especially when I feel that it is not the most appropriate and only disturbs the scenes, becoming more of a noise pollution than anything else,, apart from that, it is... good. It is Edward Guo so I have a lot of faith even if the first episode was not to my liking. Neo Hou as Zhao Yuan Zhou is ✨✨✨🥂🥂
Great analysis. Esther Yu and Zhang Ling He aren't bad actors. Because they're surrounded by such a stellar supporting…
yes, totally. The kung fu scenes especially by Esther Yu were totally pleasing to the eyes, I feel that none of the actors presented are bad, especially Esther Yu, when her character needed to explicitly show emotions or act tender and naive to fool gzy were spectacularly well executed, but when it came to her assassin side which is mainly throughout the series is....
I know that her character is not the same type of assassin as Lu Yuxiao's and nor do they have the same missions, but still so I feel that Esther Yu could have explored much more to make her character known to the public, I know that she would have been able to express thousands of emotions just by moving an eyebrow, observing her many times with her static features while she only moved her mouth; at least for me it was not very enjoyable, I don't know if that had more to do with the decision of the scriptwriters/directors than with Esther Yu
The last time I watched a drama related to Guo Jingming, the main couple was boring, lacked scenes compared to the secondary couple, and had an unexciting and very superficial plot, only serving as the comic resources of the drama. While the secondary couple was attractive, eye-catching and had a well-done construction and development that practically attracted the entire audience, so I'm partly not surprised that the same thing is repeated here hahaha.
I thought I would like Esther Yu in this role but her lack of expressions is simply irritating to a certain extent in the series, I understand that it is probably due to her role as an assassin, perhaps she has seen a lot of things, and done a lot that would traumatize anyone, but when these types of characters happen, it is much more interesting to see actors who are capable of achieving micro-expressions, representing their character in any gesture, in their eyes, posture, etc. Lu YuXiao did all that beautifully✨ with her character (their performance reminds me a lot of Jiang Xin as Concubine Hua in Empresses in The Palace), it is one of the reasons why her character subconsciously became more attractive to me than Esther Yu's character.
I know that her character is not the same type of assassin as Lu Yuxiao's and nor do they have the same missions, but still so I feel that Esther Yu could have explored much more to make her character known to the public, I know that she would have been able to express thousands of emotions just by moving an eyebrow, observing her many times with her static features while she only moved her mouth; at least for me it was not very enjoyable, I don't know if that had more to do with the decision of the scriptwriters/directors than with Esther Yu
I thought I would like Esther Yu in this role but her lack of expressions is simply irritating to a certain extent in the series, I understand that it is probably due to her role as an assassin, perhaps she has seen a lot of things, and done a lot that would traumatize anyone, but when these types of characters happen, it is much more interesting to see actors who are capable of achieving micro-expressions, representing their character in any gesture, in their eyes, posture, etc. Lu YuXiao did all that beautifully✨ with her character (their performance reminds me a lot of Jiang Xin as Concubine Hua in Empresses in The Palace), it is one of the reasons why her character subconsciously became more attractive to me than Esther Yu's character.