Historical Dramas Club

 angeliviki2022:

I did pause Destined for a bit before finishing it. I still ended up loving it.

 GelfyFaeth222:

I have destined on pause as well lol sometimes it can just be a mood thing. I'm either bored or just not in the mood for the context. If I still haven't gone back to in a few months then I LL just drop it.

Yeah, I think it's a mood thing, plus I can get bored easy if the pace goes from fast to slow and stays at slow for awhile. My mind needs to stay engaged for me to really enjoy a drama. 

 Knavery:

Sometimes I flip between genres from historical to romantic comedy to action.

Me too!

Please suggest some worth watching historical dramas, already watched mr queen , alchemy of souls 

 Far_Away:

Please suggest some worth watching historical dramas, already watched mr queen , alchemy of souls 

Here's my list, with my ratings and some comments:

https://mydramalist.com/list/1VbMWvr1

woooooah gifs now! Very cool!

For the difference between xianxia and wuxia, honestly on this site plenty of people don't care the difference. BUT 

xian means something similar to "fairy" and essentially has to do with gods and demons and often the heavenly realm or other magical clans. I believe that wuxia is more to do with martial fighting and issues of the mundane world with a flare for enhanced energy related to qi. One of the two favors taoism in its worldbuidling, but I don't remember which. 

Quick rule of thumb for me is, are there people that are considered, "monsters" "gods" "fairies" "immortals" etc.? Most likely its a xianxia. Does the story revolve around gangs or jianghu with none or minimal magic? Most likely a wuxia then. Some of the better ones are older and involve wandering fighters. Though as time goes on, I think the lines between the two genres do  blur a bit, especially with stories like Word of Honor, which both involves the ghost realm and the jianghu world. 

Xianxia Examples	Eternal Love (Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms)	Lost You Forever
Wuxia Examples	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon	My Journey to You

To the rest of this club, please feel free to make corrections to my claims or add to them. I am in no way an expert lol.

Okay @Rien I went through my list of watched (and PTW) titles and came up with these two references lists: 

• Xianxia
• Wuxia

Hopefully they help! 

I think the post is a good one

Wuxia - exaggerated fighting styles where mortal men and women seem like they're "flying" and dancing. It doesn't look like real people fighting. But otherwise it's pretty grounded. They try to mimic a historical period and the only thing exaggerated is the fighting.

Xanxia - Gods, demons, immortals, fairies, animal spirits interacting with mortals.

Of course it's not always so black and white and some people like to complain about how something is not wuxia or it's not xanxia. It seems like on MDL - Wuxia is a genre and theme while Xanxia seems to be only a theme. So a lot of Xanxia will get the Wuxia genre attached to it.

Not forgetting the xuanhuan ones coz they're like xianxia but without the Dao beliefs. I get confused the most when it comes to xianxia and xuanhuan  T___T

 Rien:

Thanks I appreciate it a lot ?.

I will post here and on the feeds when I made some ?

Sounds good and thank you!! Xoxoxo