1) Yes 2) Same Love Triangle as me and Wang Chu Ran - I want her, she doesn't :( However, unlike me, the 2ML doesn't know his place and tries to mess things up a bit late in the show
I got bored in Episode 2 with their constant fighting and bickering. I also don't know half the time how she can trap him, after it was established in Episode 1 that he is clearly a better fighter.
Looks like I'm dropping it after Episode 5 - two horrible Eunuch running things and threatening to kill everyone every 5 minutes without any obstacles (with crazy Martial Arts skills on top of it), and somehow one of them is supposed to be the ML and in a Romance with the FL. Just don't see any redeeming quality to stay with it.
And that's too bad, as the FL's crossdressing is really good, putting the FL in "ROFG" to shame. The story of the female emperor in disguise is unique enough too.
There are a lot of reasons why I will never forget about the Yanxi Palace. So many great moments and quotes to re-watch, plus... music from this show is constantly re-used in Microdramas :) Is this perfect? Of course not, especially when the writers felt they had to make the FL temporarily dumber to give her opponents a chance against her. But it's hugely entertaining, and possibly the best Idol Drama ever created in Palace settings. Ying vs Yang to the "Empresses in the Palace",
For me, its quite disappointed drama. The main weakness is the plot. The drama is trying to include everything…
After a strong recommendations, I'm watching it right now, but it goes slowly (finished Episode 3 right now) and it's quite boring. I'm thinking, I would be probably dropping it, if not for Wang Chu Ran beauty,
"Is she beautiful" - ML asking in the 1st episode still rings in my head, no idea why he would ask it after seeing her.
Hello.. I’m still on ep 2, and one of the main reasons I started watching was because of the strong FML. But…
Well, it's not easy, because every time ML is strong too, he will always be stronger than FL. And because women are the main target, usually Romance is the focus, and writers feel the ML has to save the FL over and over again to show his Love. Making her look weak in the end...
From the big productions, I think "Who rules the world" was the best one, as the FL was still weaker compared to the ML, but the difference was relatively small. But you probably watched it.
"Qingchuan's Veil of Vengeance" has a very powerful FL, and because the ML was her student, writers could avoid a trope of him saving her. But they found different tropes to exploit :). "Oh my General" was a big production with the weak ML, so the FL was able to be very strong, and miraculously, didn't need to be saved. But it was very, very long with a lot of unnecessary filler.
If you watch microdramas, "Queen of the Battlefield" has an excellent and well-written female lead, with a lot of fighting skills, who is also smart and cunning. Plus, the ML, despite being strong, allows her to do stuff on her own.
There are also other microdramas, featuring badass female leads, that are written better than in bigger productions. However, microdramas come with their own limitations, so not everyone can adjust.
I just want to know one thing does chinese writers think if they wrote a drama without any misunderstanding or…
Yes,
They also think that everyone would hate if the FL would be strong/badass enough to not get saved by the ML over and over and over again, like some kind of Damsel in Distress.
I'm at the point (episode 5-6) where she is acting completely like not a human woman and trying to force herself…
It was probably a peak stupidity in this Drama, and it will end soon from what I remember. But it did already damage to the Ren Xin character (at last in eyes of the people who use their brain a bit), and there will be some other dumb things happening. Just not as dumb :)
I was very excited when I found out they made a drama from a book I read and enjoyed. I couldn't wait to watch…
I love 换亲后我顺便换了江山 ("After Changing the Marriage, It's Reasonable for Me to Change the Country") and check every week if they will make more Parts of it (Novel has 775 chapters, the 1st part of Drama finished around 140th Chapter, but with a decent Finish).
However, it's a micro/vertical drama, so you need to adjust your expectations to certain budget limitations.
Yet, Lu Songli is the most capable Female Lead I've watched or read about (at least in a non-Kung-Fu way), making former leaders in "Smart Female Lead" category like Minglan (from Story of Minlan) or Yingluo (from Yanxi Palace) look like incompetent fools :)
The Trailer looks worse IMO compared to the "ROFG", but then, the latter Trailer was a big, fat lie, so who knows how it will be in the end.
"Every time I was in danger, you showed up" - I can already see the FL switching between a badass female Lead and typical Damsel in Distress to be saved over and over again :(
2) Same Love Triangle as me and Wang Chu Ran - I want her, she doesn't :(
However, unlike me, the 2ML doesn't know his place and tries to mess things up a bit late in the show
And that's too bad, as the FL's crossdressing is really good, putting the FL in "ROFG" to shame. The story of the female emperor in disguise is unique enough too.
So many great moments and quotes to re-watch, plus... music from this show is constantly re-used in Microdramas :)
Is this perfect? Of course not, especially when the writers felt they had to make the FL temporarily dumber to give her opponents a chance against her.
But it's hugely entertaining, and possibly the best Idol Drama ever created in Palace settings.
Ying vs Yang to the "Empresses in the Palace",
Shitshow like this is rated 7.4, lol :).
It's possibly worse than "Justified: City Primaeval", compared to the original Dramas.
I'm thinking, I would be probably dropping it, if not for Wang Chu Ran beauty,
"Is she beautiful" - ML asking in the 1st episode still rings in my head, no idea why he would ask it after seeing her.
From the big productions, I think "Who rules the world" was the best one, as the FL was still weaker compared to the ML, but the difference was relatively small. But you probably watched it.
"Qingchuan's Veil of Vengeance" has a very powerful FL, and because the ML was her student, writers could avoid a trope of him saving her. But they found different tropes to exploit :).
"Oh my General" was a big production with the weak ML, so the FL was able to be very strong, and miraculously, didn't need to be saved. But it was very, very long with a lot of unnecessary filler.
If you watch microdramas, "Queen of the Battlefield" has an excellent and well-written female lead, with a lot of fighting skills, who is also smart and cunning. Plus, the ML, despite being strong, allows her to do stuff on her own.
There are also other microdramas, featuring badass female leads, that are written better than in bigger productions. However, microdramas come with their own limitations, so not everyone can adjust.
They also think that everyone would hate if the FL would be strong/badass enough to not get saved by the ML over and over and over again, like some kind of Damsel in Distress.
However, it's a micro/vertical drama, so you need to adjust your expectations to certain budget limitations.
Yet, Lu Songli is the most capable Female Lead I've watched or read about (at least in a non-Kung-Fu way), making former leaders in "Smart Female Lead" category like Minglan (from Story of Minlan) or Yingluo (from Yanxi Palace) look like incompetent fools :)
"Every time I was in danger, you showed up" - I can already see the FL switching between a badass female Lead and typical Damsel in Distress to be saved over and over again :(