Time Raiders (2025)

Mon grand favori...

Comme souvent avec cette licence, une fois le premier épisode lancé, impossible de s'arrêter. Pour moi, cette version est la meilleure de toutes. Moins longue, elle accentue la tension avec un humour solide. La narration est fluide. La mise en scène est dynamique et les effets spéciaux sont magnifiques (les meilleurs de l'univers The Lost Tomb).

Bien que j'aime sincèrement cet univers, je ne suis pas aussi assidue que d'autres sur les détails. Après tout, le premier drame de la licence est sorti en 2015. Cela dit, c'est également un point qui me plaît. Celui de m'asseoir, découvrir un nouveau casting et une nouvelle identité, le tout dans des aventures palpitantes.

Le casting est remarquable, sans aucun doute mon préféré. J'adore particulièrement Wu Xie (Xu Zhen Xuan), Xu San Xing (Francis Ng), Pan Zi (Cao Lei), Xiao Ge (Cheng Xiang) et Da Kui (Ma Jing Jing). Seuls Pang Zi (Sun Ge Chuan Ye) et A Ning (Li Mu Chen) ne m'ont pas totalement convaincue. Le premier manque de subtilité, la seconde n'a aucune intensité.

Time Raiders possède un excellent rythme avec son format de 18 épisodes qui s'enchaînent entre questions, action, découvertes et révélations. J'adore son parfait équilibre des genres : aventure, mystère, action et une touche d'horreur, le tout porté par une bande-son entraînante.

En bref, Time Raiders est une nouvelle aventure captivante, portée par un excellent casting, une mise en scène dynamique et des effets spéciaux exceptionnels.

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Awesome, Entertaining, Hope This is the Set Cast for ALL Future Adaptations.

This is the 2nd series in this universe I've seen, the first being Ultimate Note which I loved. I saw one film in the Mystic 9 universe but it was very rushed and short so didn't give all the details you wanted. But now with the possible news that the iron triangle from this show may be the set cast in future remakes and adaptations, it made me happy because after Joseph Zeng and Xiao Yu Liang played Wu Xie and Xiao Ge respectively there which I really loved, the two actors here are definitely close second as favorites and even though this was the first of all books, you could already tell that Xiao Ge was slowly forming a bond with Wu Xie and these two actors coming off a costume drama where they didn't interact at all in their scenes to also be in this one was cool. Unlike XYL who's more of an introvert until you get to know him, CZ is giggles all around so made for some hilarious BTS' and just great connection. So I hope this iron triangle cast will be the set cast for ALL future remakes and adaptations.

Pros: What I really loved was that they connected a lot of obvious and not so obvious things to ultimate note, like the uncle swap and when that happened plus showing both uncles one with a face mask towards the end. The bloody writing on the wall and how Wu Xie read it wrong until he rewrote it in UN and finally started to understand things. His uncle having two fumbles in what he said referring to the Wu's in third person like he wasn't one and Wu Xie catching him. Or how he hired ZQL; first version on the recommendation from a friend and then in the very next episode he's now XG and he's proficient at everything, knows everything and is basically super human, etc. That was not a very skilled switch there, ma dude lol. Also Wu Xie remembering his almost bipolar personalities like one would be ready to kill someone over a fight, while the other was very chill all in a span of maybe a day. All things XG pointed out when his uncle told him things that XG did to throw his nephew off the scent. The tie ins were pretty good and I liked the connection. At first I didn't understand the connection to the first one being Legend of Zang Hai which aired earlier this year but then it had those three bronze fish and some sort of treasure no one found as well as some mountain with ghost soldiers and weird mechanisms, so you can sort of see it. I wonder with the iron triangle gang, where the 3rd fish went? Iron triangle created themselves whether they wanted to see it or not; even if they went their separate ways for now.

What blew me away were the actual world building; not everything was CGI but actually built massive sets and you could tell the budget for this one was way larger than UN which was a dark horse. Some of those sets just made you gasp at the size and intricacies of them like the tree. All the adventures and creepy crawlies were also perfect for this time of year (autumn, Halloween). Though the mutated sea monkey looked like a mutated lycan or some weird cryptid and the white furred thing like a leprechaun so many things around in our current paranormal world. Costumes, music, all of that on point.

Cons: Though glad we got express, one episode a day for a while was hard. I also didn't think Daisy played a good Ah Ning as Hani did in UN. Daisy just didn't have that ruthlessness about her like Hani was able to portray so that's a casting choice that's questionable as well as both Pan Zi and Pang Zi; just felt the other two actors from the other show really did their characters much more convincingly. But I guess that's in the eye of the beholder.

Given how much extra information we were already given, I do wish we weren't left with a cliff hanger. Also should have introduced the Xie kid as it seemed he and Wu Xie knew each other well enough because when reading the bloody handwriting, WX acted like he didn't know who XLC was and that was a disconnect. As much as the disconnections with UN when he met Wenjun who he apparently knew then but for some reason not here, all the theories XG left him seemed to not exist. So while this series connects a lot of dots, that series disconnects others and it becomes a bit confusing. Needed to remember what other series did and try not to mix things for an observant viewer.

Also how did whichever uncle get a hold off the map and whatever else that XG said he then swapped out for fakes? Some of these things needed to be explained further and not just left hanging.

Would I recommend it? I absolutely would. I like this for the most part understandable and very well told story with creatures and dangerous and cool characters (human or not). I hope thy continue with this trend of the two actors as their chemistry pops and they only met for the first time; bring fatty a bit closer to what he should do and be and we've got the perfect iron triangle with the best friends primarily being WX and XG.

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