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How do I explain it to you?
I didn't see the major difference in her characters and in good "Method acting" the actor completely change the way they talk, act, behave, eat and even think. I would like to quo Luo Yun Xi character from TOTEM here....the way he talked, acted, behaved and eat, you can see a person with no hope and deep hatred but then throughout the series, you can see a person slowly gaining confidence and all the above-mentioned attributes change along with his place in society as great conqueror.
Bai Lu played three different roles in there and she did phenomenal job cuz they were different and she did showed character development and behavioral change during these roles BUT,
Lusi here picked four roles.....changed the major/obvious things and stuck to them....I didn't see her completely morph her character, in those roles it was same old Zhao Lusi.
again I am not criticizing her or calling her shit here and I can understand bai Lu is lucky to have worked with great actors like Luo Yun Xi and Allen Ren multiple times and have that experience under her belt.
She is big shot now (at-least internationally) and she should make demands like expectational script and Legendary co-stars. Its my personal observation Zhao Lusi tends to shy away from complex and layered characters and she kinda lacks in that department. I want her to pick something like Blue Wisper and perform complex character like Dilruba did, where you have to laugh at situation, while showing pain of betrayal and being locked up.
again for the Love of God, I was not dissing her and comparing her with other actress to call her shit....so don't start WW3 here with me, these were simple observation and suggestion.

Thnx for identifying me !

You mean the one, she is producing herself and trailer looks like, it has the CGI from 2015.

I was going to say something similar to this but damnn, there is a whole firing squad ready to kill anything, that says anything against it.
First I would repeat the same thing, I am Zhao Lusi fan and member of Instagram propaganda page/club Zhaolusi.keluli BUT,
I have been saying this for very long time, Lusi got type-casted in this role and now people are complaining about it. Every actor needs a good mix of different roles and drama's to keep their fans engaged, in almost every fanbase their is a minority of hardcore fans (who will support their star, no matter what) and majority of casual interlopers.
The role Lusi is playing in this drama is very similar to the ones, she had played in her old work and unfortunately script in this one lacks the capability of older ones to show her ACE, aka Comedic timing.
Lusi acting in TLI (considering TOTEM, LLTG, SOKP, Nivarnia in Fire, Untamed and story of MingLan as standard) was mediocre and it knida felt rushed, I hold director and editor accountable for this one along with Lusi.
I personally believe its her F@cking agency fault and she should get rid of them as fast as possible, they should have picked something good for her but nope. They are using her to launch new actors, instead of doing everything possible for biggest star of their studio.

Good director, Great actress but ML is so so in my opinion. I really hope it doesn't suffer from shortcomings of this one with dominant FL and mediocre ML but Bai Lu has been known to make good choices....

I just hope people stop this non-sense everywhere cuz new members of mdl page tend to take ratings seriously and miss out on targeted masterpieces. I knew you were woman of culture, when I saw the pic of Su Zai Zai.

How do I explain it?
The ratings were stuck at 8.6 in start but recently a lot of people give it 9 cuz it picked up in the middle but instead of responding positively to good ratings, the counter is stuck cuz of minority which rated it very poorly like 1 star.
Take "Story of kunning palace" for instance, during its airing it went to 8.1 and remain at 8.4 due to 'Wonderland of love" trolls but now its at 8.8, slowly recovering the original number and over the time, it will achieve its stable rating.

Well you will be surprised by the amount of people, who do shit like this here and artificially inflate the rating of their "idiol" drama's. I didn't know about the person @Looking4secondarycouples is talking about but once I said something positive about this drama on Demon comment section (and I wasn't even talking shit about anything).
The retaliatory "Counter-attack" I received for it was mind boggling and I would give you another example of drama with said phenomena "Wonderland of Love" and insane/deranged ' there made more than 10+ accounts per person to troll people and inflate the ratings, if you don't believe me trying saying anything remotely negative at the "Hidden Love" or "The Last immortal" forum.

and they cancelled Yuan bing Yan

Now I really hate CCP for this and I will officially join western clown brigades to go after them, cancelling Yuan Bing Yan is equal to declaration of war and I know one guy don't matter that much but river and even oceans are made by drops of water........you will feel our wrath !

Yeah good Job you have compared a newbie to a seasoned actress....try comparing to her peers like Ni Ni and Tan Slngyun, leave her out of this and the SML stood no chance till the end, FL pretty much completely ignored him after initial episodes.

There is no drama and any event that drops to make the plot go forward. I mean "When I fly towards you" also had had no drama but still the characters and storyline moved forward.....but its kinda bland.

Its 32 hours of nothing with no character development and any misunderstanding or anything....

Firstly there is irrefutable evidence, she did go there and secondly its a crime.....like it or hate it, its clearly written in chinese constitution and she broke the law. While having around 100M fans on Weibo.

I love grey characters but she is pure black with no redeeming attribute to her personality.

I am saying this here cuz people have been praising it like crazy on other pages and being hit doesn't guarantee quality. Secondly bai Lu just turned 29, you are making it sound like she is 35+ or something.
You forget an important point here both actress joined the industry at same time in 2017 and Bai Lu didn't majored in "acting and theater", while Zhao Lusi did studied courses in "acting and showbiz" in Taiwan.
So this old age argument don't stand here....both started at same time with Lusi having clear advantage over the latter in terms of education and experience in acting......as crazy as it may sound, only for love actually did decent numbers in mainland (somebody told me) and you can't target bai Lu for acting cuz She was won numerous awards for her acting in same time frame as Lusi.
again I am not Lusi hater but we as her fans really need to stand together to send a clear message/ covey our feelings about recent career choices. I personally believe her agency is pure trash and pick worst scripts for her.

Now I finally understand why US government banned the export of advance Nvidia H100 and Rtx 4090 AI accelerators to China, someone is government had it enough of these A.I generated synopsises and FL characters.
I am not against technological advancement but it shouldn't be used to write screenplay and storylines........(it was Joke, please don't make it political).

Yeah FV (female villain, she is not lead in my opinion) is way too much for me, she destroyed bro's entire future yet feels no remorse....I hope leads settle down with secondary leads.

I have watched that too.....I think we have similar taste and I will probably scan your watch list to found some good shows.

First I am not a "Girl" and who told you Bai Lu didn't break through,
She is very near to breaking into Mainland top actress rankings and its not just this year releases, Bai Lu have numerous have given numerous hits and won multiple awards.
While the only thing Lusi has going for her is LLTG and even that drama doesn't belong to her, its director is world renowned for giving crazy hits.
Its my opinion and I don't think "Hidden Love" deserve the fame and hype its receiving.....bye !