The directing seems like it's trying to be like The Double, but with half the budget. Great cast, bad production.
They use too much face close ups with unspecific intentions. In The Double, they use it to heighten the intensity of line delivery and the emotion being conveyed, meanwhile in this drama they're using it everywhere that it just fell bland as the episodes go. The beginning arc in Shazhou was done well, but as the drama progressed, quality goes downhill especially the script and editing. They didn't make me sympathize when something happened to Fuzhi, and I don't feel excited for the romance. Even Chancellor Xu ended up so bland and flat in the last 10 episodes, his character reduced to a simple 'Anti-Meng Ting Hui' plot device. He has so much potential that I genuinely hate him at the beginning and wish for his downfall. But after the Flood arc, I don't even care since he become so 1-Dimentional.
I mourn for the lost of potential that the first 10 episodes promised to us 😔 now I'll just wait for CYZ and WJY other upcoming projects.
They use too much face close ups with unspecific intentions. In The Double, they use it to heighten the intensity of line delivery and the emotion being conveyed, meanwhile in this drama they're using it everywhere that it just fell bland as the episodes go. The beginning arc in Shazhou was done well, but as the drama progressed, quality goes downhill especially the script and editing. They didn't make me sympathize when something happened to Fuzhi, and I don't feel excited for the romance. Even Chancellor Xu ended up so bland and flat in the last 10 episodes, his character reduced to a simple 'Anti-Meng Ting Hui' plot device. He has so much potential that I genuinely hate him at the beginning and wish for his downfall. But after the Flood arc, I don't even care since he become so 1-Dimentional.
I mourn for the lost of potential that the first 10 episodes promised to us 😔 now I'll just wait for CYZ and WJY other upcoming projects.