Was excited to watch this thinking the martial arts lady in white was the FL but dropped it in the 2nd episode…
Martial arts lady in white…… is really captivating on-screen. That’s for sure. Lol. I agree wrt the FL but I don’t think she’s bad in acting per se…. Just regardless of how well she can act it will be superb difficult for her to pull off this role.
To begin with she is really too petite, which would have been fine if she had different facial features…. Her face is really very angelic though… not cute but like her features are so clean…. So to me she doesn’t resemble a servant neither does she resemble a fallen princess….. she reminds me of a high school student here 🤣 I can’t quite relate to her relationship with the ML. It would have been fine if she purely just had a weird relationship with the ML which is never explored until the end…. But she’s the FL…
So more than anything I think it’s the on-screen visuals which is something K-dramas shine at, they focus on the most minute details….. Maybe if the FL here had a different wardrobe, make-up etc… I don’t know…
Give this drama a chance, it’s really very good. I personally think it still isn’t as good as Joy of Life but it totally deserved the 8.7 score.
Exactly my thoughts. Should have casted someone else. She just does not fit in the drama.
Yea. It’s nothing to do with her acting skills or anything like that. She isn’t exactly annoying either (luckily her voice isn’t like superbly girly or high-pitched)…… just she neither suits the role nor does she have amazing chemistry with the ML.
I don’t know if you’ve watched Ever Night…. the FL there has the same issue, but I felt the FL there was way worse…. Like just on-screen she looked superb wrong paired with the ML unless she was purely just a servant. Here it’s still a pass…. Just not great, which is kinda a waste coz nearly the entire cast was amazing.
There are so many significant female roles in this series and they played it perfectly, even Qing Niao… and the annoying girl with the cat (I can totally imagine her like that in real-life 🤣)
This series should be closer to scoring 8… I’m surprised that it scored so high, 8.4 is relatively high for a C-drama… I think the cases are defo logical and interesting but I found the chemistry of the trio so-so for me….. think it’s partially contributed by the fact that they naturally look a bit odd on screen due to their physical traits.
I found it difficult to focus on the Cambridge guy because he didn’t say any of his English lines in English and there were quite a bit of them…. Lol…. Only Leon Zhang really got the vibe, the gaze and the demeanour of his role accurately. The girl also didn’t portray the role of growing up in a gangster fam…. 😔 I can believe that she is rebellious but that was about it….
I’m defo struggling to finish the series although I really want to….
Can’t wait for this mostly due to Viann Zhang. Hoping trio would have better chemistry… I had a hard time working through the entire MRIAD… cases were interesting but…. Somehow something was off… I didn’t find the bond between the trio enjoyable…
As much as the drama is too long with many flaws… I do think some of their fights and some of their dialogues are very realistic….. it’s really applicable to modern couples nowadays esp when the FL commented that there wasn’t really much of a courtship. And the chemistry between the leads is amazing, really super natural as always for Dilraba.
Yes, the product placements in this series is really ridiculous… it’s crazy, was so in-your-face… 😒
Liang Wan here really really really annoyed me. Shitz… and she is quite crucial to the plot…. I cringe almost…
Lol. Yeap. We do. Kinda funny… but oh wells. I just hope that the writer will close and end all the arcs properly at some point… IF he can’t control or envision the development of the plot….
Liang Wan here really really really annoyed me. Shitz… and she is quite crucial to the plot…. I cringe almost…
Yea, the whole Daomu Biji universe is rather complicated because chronologically it is confusing too. I had to read the summaries below to understand them so this might help (if you are interested):
I hope this will be a hit, Jeremy Tsui’s historical dramas have been mediocre/miss rather than hits….. he was really good in Trace, that was a good series…
They pick him up at the end, think it’s literally the last chapter of this volume.. then he becomes a main role again in the subsequent volumes “Reunion” or “Restart”…
Agree but plot wise it was…… super duper uber convoluted….. to the extent that I think they overdid it and…
Yea was super crazy and there were 130 roles casted……….. I was legit confused at the end on the numerous characters. It’s sad though because this drama could have been so much more in terms of plot and execution…
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To begin with she is really too petite, which would have been fine if she had different facial features…. Her face is really very angelic though… not cute but like her features are so clean…. So to me she doesn’t resemble a servant neither does she resemble a fallen princess….. she reminds me of a high school student here 🤣 I can’t quite relate to her relationship with the ML. It would have been fine if she purely just had a weird relationship with the ML which is never explored until the end…. But she’s the FL…
So more than anything I think it’s the on-screen visuals which is something K-dramas shine at, they focus on the most minute details….. Maybe if the FL here had a different wardrobe, make-up etc… I don’t know…
Give this drama a chance, it’s really very good. I personally think it still isn’t as good as Joy of Life but it totally deserved the 8.7 score.
I don’t know if you’ve watched Ever Night…. the FL there has the same issue, but I felt the FL there was way worse…. Like just on-screen she looked superb wrong paired with the ML unless she was purely just a servant. Here it’s still a pass…. Just not great, which is kinda a waste coz nearly the entire cast was amazing.
There are so many significant female roles in this series and they played it perfectly, even Qing Niao… and the annoying girl with the cat (I can totally imagine her like that in real-life 🤣)
I found it difficult to focus on the Cambridge guy because he didn’t say any of his English lines in English and there were quite a bit of them…. Lol…. Only Leon Zhang really got the vibe, the gaze and the demeanour of his role accurately. The girl also didn’t portray the role of growing up in a gangster fam…. 😔 I can believe that she is rebellious but that was about it….
I’m defo struggling to finish the series although I really want to….
Yes, the product placements in this series is really ridiculous… it’s crazy, was so in-your-face… 😒
Summaries per volume —> https://strictlybromance.com/category/grave-robbers-chronicles/
Explanation between novels and TV adaptations —> https://strictlybromance.com/which-order-to-read-and-watch-dao-mu-bi-ji/
Can’t wait for this to be out!
https://merebear474765851.wordpress.com/daomu-biji-vol-11/
They pick him up at the end, think it’s literally the last chapter of this volume.. then he becomes a main role again in the subsequent volumes “Reunion” or “Restart”…