The CG is completely unnecessary and confusing. I cannot make heads or tails of the characters nor decipher which belongs to whom. The game being explored is not some MMORPG that I would care about the CG overtime, as there is no story or continuity.
I do not agree that all of them are good looking. Aside from the two teams, rarely anyone is good looking. The audience are especially ugly, even the reporters are ugly. Most of the players of other teams are also ugly. Frankly everyone is overly ugly other than the main and some support cast. It is just another way of glorifying the beauty aspect as is natural in Chinese dramas.
The best part is after all the couple. Even the support cast is fun.
The first episodes are unbearably stupid. The FL is a complete dork this time around, does not act at all as if she misses her kid and has no sense of actually knowing the world and then trying to change it. She resembles a kid playing in a park without a care in the world.
I think they thought they would replicate some of the liveliness of S1 but frankly, this being her 6th timeline, the stupidity has no plausible reason.
On the other hand the empress is such a formidable personality, I always look forward for her scenes.
I read some spoilers in the comments and they didn't liked the ending, Can you tell me if it is a happy ending…
Well for this series it was an extremely easy thing to exclude. I simply cut out the parts from first and last episodes. This way I never got to experience them! Fortunately I had not seen the end that I did this so it was doubly effective...
I do this to any odd one out couples I come to love in dramas. However insignificant the couple screen time had been, I combine them so I can watch them in my spare time, whenever I want, without the trash.
It is so odd of a sequel. It should have been intimated that it is essentially a remake, packaged as a reset of the timeline with one of the leads retaining his memories so it has some sequel like story.
Every time I start to like the drama, it becomes boring. I literally couldn't tolerate the long long emotionless conversations.
The main couple is the only saving grace of this season, nothing else really matters.
The drama till the 23rd episode is spectacular so the fact that it really starred in China isn't a fluke. Just the ending was total flop, the complete episode was a joke. I didn't feel it as low budget either, the costumes and locations were intricately detailed.
Also there are other nuances like the FL second personality is not portrayed faithfully throughout the drama. And the plots are made on the fly and sometimes change already defined rules to progress plot.
Still overall the drama is good. The switch of worlds in the last episodes may be jarring for some but its quite common in Wuxia, so I didn't feel it out of place. It was just extremely rushed, things do not happen so fast in a cultivation world.
I read some spoilers in the comments and they didn't liked the ending, Can you tell me if it is a happy ending…
Overall it is a happy ending.
There is a major problem obviously which subjectively makes people uncomfortable or outright furious. When I first hit it, I belonged in the outright furious group. Essentially, there is a story reset in the last few minutes of the series.
it is both. Asian dramas are often re-cut to change episode length which then changes episode numbers for a variety…
Wow such great laws! If only Taiwan was same, this show has so many breaks with loud music which completely shatter immersion multiple times in an episode.
It is an awesome show, even the bickering is awesome. The lead couple gets together at the usual mark and has ample time on screen.
Just that forced breakups were out of character and extremely jarring. The writers could have made it better, but no, they went with plots that relied on already discussed and resolved matters. They forget that the leads are grown, not young adults, throwing tantrums and foiling relationships with irresponsible words whenever they get frustrated. Really can't rate this over 8.
There is also another oddity, there is almost no cellphone use in the drama. No one intimates anyone with anything before hand, they always meet and do the talk... Was Taiwan really that backward just 7 years ago? I don't think so.
When they do get together later, the fish kiss galore starts. Why kiss when you can't deliver the feeling at all. As usual its the FL, the inept one, the poor ML tries his best, animating on the straight rock wall.
The second couple is much much better, but the FL refuses to learn. This drama even features the direction doing all that camera work to make the disastrous fish kisses, a bit better. I pity the crew.
It did get interesting after 6-7 episodes, though the workplace angle remains the same with short lived twists and turns. The falling rating definitely justifies this slump as I don't think many would endure it. I just don't have anything else to watch.
And then there is the subtitles arrangement, not even the worst fan subs get it wrong. Especially when a song is playing, they start playing the roulette. The song phrase starts and overlaps the every damn time. I don't care about the shit song man, get your priorities straight IQiyi. Sometimes the subs remain stuck on screen till the next line is spoken, many seconds afterwards.
Damn, its too boring! I am literally dozing off watching E11...
It has been like this for some episodes already. The same old routine of the characters just goes on repeat, no progression whatsoever. The same toxic work environment for the FL, the same jealousy/obsession/immaturity of the ML and the same plot lines of the support casts.
Its not to say that there is nothing new in an episode but its too little to have significant impact in immersion.
Even though FL's workspace is central to the plot, everything just works out for her, there is no tension or trouble that lasts 1-2 scenes.
It was an OK ride. Considering how the world was put up to be, it had a plethora of weak plots and pointless protagonist glorification. When you make such an awesome entry point, you have to live up to it thoroughly but no the writers show their incompetence in the many high points of the show.
Things become part of the characters when they are needed to support the current twist. Things get resolved in favour of the protagonist without any effort or evidence but just because he said so!
Not to mention how the intelligence agencies are portrayed as dorks for comic relief! It is supposed to be a dark thriller, stick to it! With all this comic relief, I could not take this show seriously or feel the thrill.
For me, the main character was the future protagonist, not the past one. All the setup the drama went through…
The whole future timeline has been wiped. The past timeline is the new cannon, the future now will be rewritten anew. All previous set plots and personalities are no more.
That's the thing that irked me the most, as now the viewers are expected to follow the past self rather than the future. The plot was not saving the past self at the cost of everybody in the future, it became like that because the characters refused to think outside of a narrow view of their world.
The cassette could have been dealt with differently like encasing it in concrete and throwing it down to the ocean floor, bury it in a landfill or even perhaps store it in your bank locker. But I guess, the typical destruction mechanism was thrown in as a means to an end.
Though the drama did lose steam for the main couple till the end, it had its highs. Aside from the main couple, I loved the secondary couples and Yu Yan's stories more towards the end. Especially Wei and Jiang's unrequited romances aroused the most emotions in me. I consider that notes scene in the restaurant, the most romantic but also most saddening scene in the whole series.
K-Drama 
The CG is completely unnecessary and confusing. I cannot make heads or tails of the characters nor decipher which belongs to whom. The game being explored is not some MMORPG that I would care about the CG overtime, as there is no story or continuity.
I do not agree that all of them are good looking. Aside from the two teams, rarely anyone is good looking. The audience are especially ugly, even the reporters are ugly. Most of the players of other teams are also ugly. Frankly everyone is overly ugly other than the main and some support cast. It is just another way of glorifying the beauty aspect as is natural in Chinese dramas.
The best part is after all the couple. Even the support cast is fun.
I think they thought they would replicate some of the liveliness of S1 but frankly, this being her 6th timeline, the stupidity has no plausible reason.
On the other hand the empress is such a formidable personality, I always look forward for her scenes.
Benefits of having some skills with video editing.
I do this to any odd one out couples I come to love in dramas. However insignificant the couple screen time had been, I combine them so I can watch them in my spare time, whenever I want, without the trash.
Every time I start to like the drama, it becomes boring. I literally couldn't tolerate the long long emotionless conversations.
The main couple is the only saving grace of this season, nothing else really matters.
Also there are other nuances like the FL second personality is not portrayed faithfully throughout the drama. And the plots are made on the fly and sometimes change already defined rules to progress plot.
Still overall the drama is good. The switch of worlds in the last episodes may be jarring for some but its quite common in Wuxia, so I didn't feel it out of place. It was just extremely rushed, things do not happen so fast in a cultivation world.
8.5/10
There is a major problem obviously which subjectively makes people uncomfortable or outright furious. When I first hit it, I belonged in the outright furious group. Essentially, there is a story reset in the last few minutes of the series.
Just that forced breakups were out of character and extremely jarring. The writers could have made it better, but no, they went with plots that relied on already discussed and resolved matters. They forget that the leads are grown, not young adults, throwing tantrums and foiling relationships with irresponsible words whenever they get frustrated. Really can't rate this over 8.
There is also another oddity, there is almost no cellphone use in the drama. No one intimates anyone with anything before hand, they always meet and do the talk... Was Taiwan really that backward just 7 years ago? I don't think so.
The second couple is much much better, but the FL refuses to learn. This drama even features the direction doing all that camera work to make the disastrous fish kisses, a bit better. I pity the crew.
And then there is the subtitles arrangement, not even the worst fan subs get it wrong. Especially when a song is playing, they start playing the roulette. The song phrase starts and overlaps the every damn time. I don't care about the shit song man, get your priorities straight IQiyi. Sometimes the subs remain stuck on screen till the next line is spoken, many seconds afterwards.
It has been like this for some episodes already. The same old routine of the characters just goes on repeat, no progression whatsoever. The same toxic work environment for the FL, the same jealousy/obsession/immaturity of the ML and the same plot lines of the support casts.
Its not to say that there is nothing new in an episode but its too little to have significant impact in immersion.
Even though FL's workspace is central to the plot, everything just works out for her, there is no tension or trouble that lasts 1-2 scenes.
Things become part of the characters when they are needed to support the current twist. Things get resolved in favour of the protagonist without any effort or evidence but just because he said so!
Not to mention how the intelligence agencies are portrayed as dorks for comic relief! It is supposed to be a dark thriller, stick to it! With all this comic relief, I could not take this show seriously or feel the thrill.
That's the thing that irked me the most, as now the viewers are expected to follow the past self rather than the future. The plot was not saving the past self at the cost of everybody in the future, it became like that because the characters refused to think outside of a narrow view of their world.
The cassette could have been dealt with differently like encasing it in concrete and throwing it down to the ocean floor, bury it in a landfill or even perhaps store it in your bank locker. But I guess, the typical destruction mechanism was thrown in as a means to an end.