Kokuto:
That town set was amazing! But then they tore it down! Unbelievable! And so sad. :(
It was torn down? Why? Argh! It was still available 7 months ago when AvenueX visited.
And yes, they changed the battle scenes from aerial fights with their winged rides, to be predominantly on foot. Nonetheless, it did not bother me as much because Xiang Liu's fight sequences are breathtaking.
However, I will say the CGI for Plum Forest assassination was very well done. I have just past the narration of the Plum Forest assassination in the audiobook, and the drama recreated the scene from the novel very faithfully and effectively - in both instances leaving me with such dread as each brutal attack unfolded.
H19279:
They also robbed us hundred of air-passing when the two of them had an excursion under the sea for 10 hours after transplanting for lovers' bug. LOL
Kokuto:
I did like the undersea flight from Haolin, though. That was fantasy gorgeous.
The excursion after planting the Lovers bug is indeed gorgeous and very in line with the novel, even though they replaced the air-passing with a giant bubble. I love that the scene when he guides her hand to touch the underwater flowers that lit up across the ocean, was used in the official MV for Favouring Mortal Fireworks.
And watching the moon over Gourd Lake will never not be perfection.
H19279:
They delibrately made the claim shell very big thus distancing XL and XY in 37 years under the sea
Kokuto:
Well, I'm sure the censors would have had something to say if it was a cozy and 'rocking' clamshell. lol
To be fair, I think the sea shell needed to be upsized, because in the novel, Xiao Yao's consciousness was not floating around in the seashell throughout the 37 years, but inside her physical body, merely gradually regaining cognition over the years.
Here, she is a literal, separate entity that was "physically" interacting with Xiang Liu, which would have been difficult to portray within a seashell with no place to move around.