Reviews

So glad they didn't forget the Star Formation!

The unfinished star formation was a loose end that was just hanging around unresolved for the longest time! Credit to the show for addressing that. I have to feel that maybe the return of Bai Jiu's mom will come into play in saving him, maybe? This episode had less 'action', but in a way it moved better than recent episodes, with fewer long drawn out pauses. The bond between the two male leads, ZYZ & ZYC, is pretty cool to watch grow. That 'bromance' is almost the main relationship of this drama so far, even more so than the romance between ZYZ & Wen Xiao. And now they will be stuck together forever! LOL!

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suppressed emotions and wet dreams

They say wet dreams are manifestations of our innermost desires…suppressed feelings trying to crawl out of our skin like devils from Dante’s inferno. And like any emotion we keep locked away, the harder we suppress it, the more the Hyde begins to surface.They may both be young, but one is clearly more emotionally mature while the other is only beginning to discover and embrace his true self. It is a classic coming-of-age trope, but Summertime presents it with tenderness, heat, and just enough uncertainty to make it feel real. Because it is never easy when the person awakening all those feelings is also your best friend.And then there is the way they kiss…what is it about these two? The chemistry is not simply visual. It carries all the longing, fear, and unspoken history between them. This summer is becoming far more than a first love story…it is about finally admitting what the heart has known all along.

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Again, great story, almost ruined by awful pacing

This episode's storyline is a very powerful chapter in Zhou Yichang's continued character growth arc as he has to endure much of the feelings of shame and helpless despair that Zhao Yuanshou has had to experience. While this episode features some bad things happening, as a consequence, the bond between these two grows. Overall, this episode features a great story ... but again, so many awful long pauses when nothing is happening are just killing the pace of this show. So many 'dramatic pauses' have no weight because they are so commonplace. And as one criticism of the story, it seemed incredibly stupid of the heroes to bring Zhou Yicheng out of prison with them on their investigations, especially into a crowded place such as the nightclub. That was just so dumb. I get it that the writers wanted to have an event showing how the citizens have so easily turned on ZYC. But it just seemed too stupid to have brought him along at this point. Oh, and man, I'm really sick of the stupid dialog that the Li Lun character keeps spewing. He just sounds so over-the-top I can't take him seriously. But we only have to endure a little bit of him in this episode so that was good.

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You killed me. I am dead

this final episode, as Ilya Rosenov would say: "You killed me. I am dead". this was the best episode of all of them. for the life of me, i have no idea how anyone could rate this episode below a 9.0 for me the music, acting, and emotions brought out by the story sunk into my heart and soul. each character went through their own personal hell and was changed forever. all except Krailert's wife Dhevi and the General. they were evil beyond words and stayed that way. Dhevi will most certainly reap her own awful karma. So wonderful that our main actors MileApo (la creme de la creme) gave the spotlight and so many scenes to the 2nd couple SonEuro. as someone else said...this was a masterpiece. as a rewatch "reheat" for me, i was pulled in yet again. bravo!

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Definitely one of, if not the best episode so far.

So much happens and all the characters play significant roles - especially, finally, Wen Xiao who finally starts to live up to her role as the Baizhi Goddess. I'm guessing that since she became the Goddess she must no longer age or she could not have endured the 300 years in the Time Valley. What did she eat & drink? The fight scenes in this episode are a lot of fun, and mostly good,, though it's getting tiring just how OP the show has made Ao Yin. She's ridiculously impossible for anyone to catch or score a hit on. Would like to see our supposedly elite archer Pei finally tag her with a shot! Also, given that (a) Li Lun used the very last dregs of his former power just to leave his soul fragment behind in Jiu, and didn't have enough power to even possess Jiu if the latter were awake AND claimed to have put half his soul's power into forging the soul-trapping needle ... just why was he so powerful still in his fight with ZYC? The latter was just shown to be at least able to hold his own against a super-malicious-energy-charged Zhu Yan! But now we have a fragment of Li Lun's former power able to break the Cloud Light Sword with a punch and just rag-doll ZYC? That doesn't really make sense except for the show wanting to have ZYC & LL in a big fight scene. The other quibble with this episode is that, as has often been the case in this show, the director has the characters just stopping, pausing and dragging out so many 'dramatic moments' constantly that it's gotten silly. This is fine once in a while for dramatic emphasis, but becomes a bit of a joke when it keeps happening multiple times within the same overall battle episode. It makes it hard to take the urgency seriously when the characters do not have any urgency. And it drags the pacing of the show way down. So many moments are just stretched way out, way too long.

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