I didn't know the average xianxia is rated so low (in the 5s). What was Ashes to Love's Douban opening rating?…
Yes. AoL and TMoPB were something! I have not been able to feel the same with other ones later, except .....almost.... with LBFAD, The Starry Love and TTEOTM.
btw do you remember the DB for LBFAD and the Starry Love?
Laughing. Btw, do you know where this drama was filmed? Red brick old apartment house with no elevator, but a…
Sure could (must) be for interiors. Even the exterior of house could be a studio construct like the Sang family house in Hidden Love. But i suppose the studio needs to stand somewhere and some exterior scenes were in a real place? and Studio China is a vast place, so which one? I doubt it is Hengdian. Usually there are "signature clues" with cityscape shots.
Laughing. Btw, do you know where this drama was filmed? Red brick old apartment house with no elevator, but a…
Yes it looks like a CBD but there are many... Baidu has no clue to inform over "China mainland" and i was not specially waiting for drama or part of leads fandom to explore Reuters and drama Douyin (did try the latter, but it did not yield more info except filming dates and some crew.) Waiting for some recognizable cityscape glimpses. Or someome else who followed production history ?
Learning some info on marriage law. That’s helpful!
Laughing. Btw, do you know where this drama was filmed? Red brick old apartment house with no elevator, but a terrace under slanting rooftop and lots of rain...
You also computed Heat index for iQiyi, I think ; ah yes : https://mydramalist.com/list/4a6Q6n01 Thanks for your informative work !! All the best for 2024 :-)
I finished episode 1. My toxic trait is finding this ML's personality extremely attractive... But seriously I…
Noticed him first as Yang Kang in Legend of the Condor Heroes 2017 (Yang Kang was the antagonist Jin prince's adoptive son, rival of Guo Jing ), and later happened to watch more in Good Bye My Princess 2019, Fall in Love 2021, The Starry Love 2023 where he was the Empyrean "world savior" in love with the demon realm destined princess who got on the wrong carriage. Entertaining dramas. Good and handsome young actor (only 28 years old on March 31, 2024) 💕
There is a bit of a wuxia drought on as the year nears its end, so I just binged 10 episodes of this 2017 version…
Have you tried A Thought of Guanshan (misleadingly translated to A Journey To Love) ? I liked it a lot. Darker than The Legend of Condor Heroes, which is on my best wuxia list too. Especially this version.
Lordy why did they have to make the FL so airheaded. She's a lawyer for goodness' sake, but being portrayed like…
傻白甜 ? shabaitian = beautiful and sweetly simple (praise) but gullible girl who gets easily fooled (critic). Yes, fits the description of our young "lawyer".
bf with insomnia x gf who can fall asleep anywhere >>>
There was a fairy tale / scifi similar drama last year where both had insomnia and needed to touch to sleep anywhere: Mr Insomnia waiting for love, with nice fluff and pictures. But not with a cold CEO lawyer twist and Cinderella making do with storage room floor to get her shuteye. Have been watching Zhang Ruonan before, she's got a nice "innocent" face, so I'm watching that one too. What did she get herself into here? Looking for variations on tropes: we got the puking on pants already lol ; the packing/delivering drunk female was new to me. The beginning with the dramatic mother mistaken for a cougar promises entertainment.
Do you like to watch always same things. Condor Heroes are classic of course. Lots of dead heroes too in those novels. Anyway, i love those stories too, it is not contradictory. But I was not watching Condor Heroes for the romance first, either. It was just icing on the cake for me. I do like to watch fluff too. No pb. As long as stories are not following same stereotypes (or then. I may look more closely at something like ads festival, outrageous obsessive characters, loved LYX better than boring Xu Feng hah! Or note variations on known tropes: fun! Or explore the delights of OST).
Come on, come on! It's wuxia. Lots end like that, and everybody did not end up being sent to other plane of existence…
No one is forced to stay if that's not their cup of tea. I am not into "consoling" anybody. Life is hard sometimes : that drama was not meant to be soft, rather a homeopathic cure to stay aware that everything does not come for granted, and that promises can and often will be broken. It's a beautiful drama, well played, nonetheless. One of my favorites, now. Not as tough as "One and Only", but close. Colors, cinematography, martial arts, and supporting music : wow.
What I'm saying is that I was not looking for ROMANCE as my first need in wuxia (xianxia is different). If that's what you looked for, of course you were disappointed. Can you respect my opinion too, even if it is diametrically opposed to yours ? Yours reflect those who wanted to gun down the drama because it was not the wuxia to their taste, mine is reflecting those who liked it for theirs or reasons like mine. No wonder it is still polarizing.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I agree the title was misleading, although we know the conventions for translating titles to English. If they wanted to start with "A Journey" they should better have continued with "of heroes". And you should have been aware that the original title was "Yi nian Guanshan" (a thought about the Guan mountain". A threatening one, a cold one, in the north, with wild enemies in hordes there.)
You say you fell in love with LYN? Here's what a trueblue pengfei (not me, I just trawl through various fandom threads and Weibo to better understand what I am looking at), wrote, translated from her Weibo in Chinese :
Liu Yuning and Ning Yuanzhou have merged into one. Like a sinking ship, he tenderly bids farewell to the sea; This time, he was like a collapsed mountain. After the boulders and smoke cleared away, He still stands silent. @ Modern Brothers Liu Yuning
"The sea" refers to the currents of time, as an answer to the drama Weibo epigraph. 一舟之远在于宁，一念关山起，远舟归何处 / "Introduction: A boat is far away from Ning. A thought of Guanshan rising : where will the boat go?"
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btw do you remember the DB for LBFAD and the Starry Love?
Have been watching Zhang Ruonan before, she's got a nice "innocent" face, so I'm watching that one too. What did she get herself into here?
Looking for variations on tropes: we got the puking on pants already lol ; the packing/delivering drunk female was new to me.
The beginning with the dramatic mother mistaken for a cougar promises entertainment.
Anyway, i love those stories too, it is not contradictory. But I was not watching Condor Heroes for the romance first, either. It was just icing on the cake for me.
I do like to watch fluff too. No pb. As long as stories are not following same stereotypes (or then. I may look more closely at something like ads festival, outrageous obsessive characters, loved LYX better than boring Xu Feng hah! Or note variations on known tropes: fun! Or explore the delights of OST).
I am not producer or marketer. Just gave my opinion.
Life is hard sometimes : that drama was not meant to be soft, rather a homeopathic cure to stay aware that everything does not come for granted, and that promises can and often will be broken.
It's a beautiful drama, well played, nonetheless. One of my favorites, now. Not as tough as "One and Only", but close. Colors, cinematography, martial arts, and supporting music : wow.
Can you respect my opinion too, even if it is diametrically opposed to yours ? Yours reflect those who wanted to gun down the drama because it was not the wuxia to their taste, mine is reflecting those who liked it for theirs or reasons like mine. No wonder it is still polarizing.
As I mentioned elsewhere, I agree the title was misleading, although we know the conventions for translating titles to English. If they wanted to start with "A Journey" they should better have continued with "of heroes". And you should have been aware that the original title was "Yi nian Guanshan" (a thought about the Guan mountain". A threatening one, a cold one, in the north, with wild enemies in hordes there.)
You say you fell in love with LYN? Here's what a trueblue pengfei (not me, I just trawl through various fandom threads and Weibo to better understand what I am looking at), wrote, translated from her Weibo in Chinese :
Liu Yuning and Ning Yuanzhou have merged into one.
Like a sinking ship, he tenderly bids farewell to the sea;
This time, he was like a collapsed mountain. After the boulders and smoke cleared away,
He still stands silent.
@ Modern Brothers Liu Yuning
"The sea" refers to the currents of time, as an answer to the drama Weibo epigraph. 一舟之远在于宁，一念关山起，远舟归何处 / "Introduction: A boat is far away from Ning. A thought of Guanshan rising : where will the boat go?"