JOL Season 2: casting, filming & broadcast/air dates discussion

 Raczne Magdi:

Who will Yan Bing Yun be instead of Xiao Zhan?

Tbh idk why but I want xu Kai to play as antagonist type role maybe he should take it if yan Bing Yun is a major character in the story later on 

This is the summary about Yan BingYun character if anyone interested.

https://nutty1005.wordpress.com/2020/03/16/yan-bingyun-an-analysis-on-wang-juans-adaptation/

 darkstar:

Why the 40-episodes limit?  Is there a political reason for it? 

Have you ever seen Chinese being logical in these cases regarding ban nd censoring? 🤔 😂 

 darkstar:

Why the 40-episodes limit?  Is there a political reason for it? 

Most likely viewers complaint on too many episodes.  

 darkstar:

I guess that's what happens when bureaucrats take over.  They manage to screw up anything they touch. 

On a side note.  How is the filming going?  Anything interesting, photos, etc. from the sets?  Is there a website that posts updates?

I also don't have information about this I usually don't follow sites that update regarding production phase sadly hope someone else here can answer the questions asked by our fellow JOL watcher 

Thanks for all the updates over the years SJ... just got the news from a friend I introduced to JOL season 1 during Christmas 2019 as it was airing, I came to confirm

 sjadvocate:

JOL2 & JOL3 each has "30 planned episodes" but interestingly enough JOL1 also had "30 planned episodes" but the final episode count was 46. It is common for the "planned episodes" to not reflect the actual amount of episodes released for a series. The only concern I have is since JOL1 was released, China created a policy that NO DRAMA can have more than 40 episodes!! Thus, I'm guessing for JOL2 & JOL3 they'll most likely do 40 episodes each. This is concerning cause JOL2 and JOL3 actually has a lot more content to cover than JOL1 which already has 46 episodes. I really hope they consider releasing JOL2 and JOL3 in parts (like JOL2 part 1, JOL2 part 2, JOL 3 part 1, JOL3 part 2) so they can get more episodes to cover everything but not sure if this will happen or not. 

I wouldn't mind having that

 omonaijaJ:

Holy shit you're a genius. Though I will say, the only 'serious' role I've seen him play is in Story of Yanxi Palace, so I can't even imagine what him as YBY would look like. I also really like him as an actor and a person, so I'm a bit worried of how critical XZ fans and JOL Fans alike would be toward him.

XZ fans have nothing to do with this anymore tbh but I know they will still butt in no way matter who's Casted but xu Kai is no newbie he has a huge Fandom himself also nd i don't think JOL fans would be toxic towards xu Kai getting casted. I like both Zhang ruoyun nd xu Kai so I am in favor of it