GrumpyNana
Canada
Surprisingly not horrible!
As a rule I'm not a fan of C-anything because of crap dubbing, horrible scripts, cliche everything and some really poor acting, but this series only left me mildly annoyed. I will watch it until the end, on purpose.
Zhou Yi Wei: I'm watching this on Netflix, Netflix doesn't let you leave reviews so I went hunting for a place to start leaving them, so here I am. I read some reviews because they were there. After a reasonably enjoyable 9 episodes I'm surprised at how many people were displeased with Zhou Yi Wei being the ML. His acting in this is spot on, even his fight scenes are believable...when does that ever happen??? I didn't once role my eyes or groan at him for any reason thus far...if you know me, you know that it's a rare thing for me to be so not critical of anything. It seems he isn't pretty enough for a lot of the reviewers...that's a bit shallow isn't it kids? One of the things I love about British productions, the person that can do the job best gets the job...whether they fit into the ridiculous 'pretty' box or not.
Writing: Well, for the most part, not too shabby. I'm a lot disappointed with the female sidekick, full on annoying cliche character. Di's love interest...wow...I've had better dialog with cardboard cutouts. The empress, seriously! After all those episodes of Di doing his job for her and doing it well, she sends him a note saying he has a month to solve a case or he will be as guilty as the perpetrators....whaaaat? Who wrote that crap?
Production: The close up scenes were well done, the ones at a distance were obviously CGI with the same clips used over and over again throughout. Dubbing for the most part was good, there were a few places where it was very cringy, but not as bad as the typical C-anything.
Acting: All actors did well, even the annoying cliche because I will never make an actor shoulder the weight for poor writing.
Music: Honestly had a hard time deciding how to grade it. I'm sitting here trying to remember any of it, I can't, it's like there was no music. So either there wasn't any, or it was calm enough to stay under my radar. I'm a musician, this rarely happens, I am confused. I opted for 8/10 to show respect for the stealth of tunes.
Story: Generally, so far, so good.
Watch again: Yes. I can't give any production higher respect than my will to watch it again...I don't do it often.
Zhou Yi Wei: I'm watching this on Netflix, Netflix doesn't let you leave reviews so I went hunting for a place to start leaving them, so here I am. I read some reviews because they were there. After a reasonably enjoyable 9 episodes I'm surprised at how many people were displeased with Zhou Yi Wei being the ML. His acting in this is spot on, even his fight scenes are believable...when does that ever happen??? I didn't once role my eyes or groan at him for any reason thus far...if you know me, you know that it's a rare thing for me to be so not critical of anything. It seems he isn't pretty enough for a lot of the reviewers...that's a bit shallow isn't it kids? One of the things I love about British productions, the person that can do the job best gets the job...whether they fit into the ridiculous 'pretty' box or not.
Writing: Well, for the most part, not too shabby. I'm a lot disappointed with the female sidekick, full on annoying cliche character. Di's love interest...wow...I've had better dialog with cardboard cutouts. The empress, seriously! After all those episodes of Di doing his job for her and doing it well, she sends him a note saying he has a month to solve a case or he will be as guilty as the perpetrators....whaaaat? Who wrote that crap?
Production: The close up scenes were well done, the ones at a distance were obviously CGI with the same clips used over and over again throughout. Dubbing for the most part was good, there were a few places where it was very cringy, but not as bad as the typical C-anything.
Acting: All actors did well, even the annoying cliche because I will never make an actor shoulder the weight for poor writing.
Music: Honestly had a hard time deciding how to grade it. I'm sitting here trying to remember any of it, I can't, it's like there was no music. So either there wasn't any, or it was calm enough to stay under my radar. I'm a musician, this rarely happens, I am confused. I opted for 8/10 to show respect for the stealth of tunes.
Story: Generally, so far, so good.
Watch again: Yes. I can't give any production higher respect than my will to watch it again...I don't do it often.
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