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My rear end. Huawei didn't change their smafo name when they released Mate 40 nor P40.

Also, Douban lists this drama official title as "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty IV".

"Four" is more a superstition in Cantonese/HK Chinese (and even Japanese) than Mainland Chinese!

This drama is NOT a spin-off. It's an official season.

Proof: Douban calls it "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty IV"

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36700715/

Actually I take it back: https://mydramalist.com/790936-strange-chronicles-of-tang

But the MDL name is inconsistent with the previous seasons and will likely not show up in a search for "strange tales of tang".

(Why resort to the smart arse naming? Douban still calls it "Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty IV")

Season 4 has aired (21 EPs @ 20mins each). Sadly there is no dedicated page on MDL for it yet:

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36700715/

Is it just me or I find myself falling asleep half way thru each episode. It's never happened to me before during S1/S2. Either S3 is less engaging than before, or maybe I'm watching S3 too late into the night...

I honestly don't know which is better S2 or S3. BUT...

Random weird dream sequence: S2 only had a female ghost spirit visit her husband in a fabric/tailor shop to pull pieces of yellow paper out of his body. S3 had a guy climb into a water pot then suddenly it begins to fly into the sky Harry Potter style with a woman sitting on top of it.

The third and fourth murderer/kidnapper. S2 only went up to the 2nd or 3rd layer, but the S3 went even further (three or four people one after another kidnapped the same woman).

The One... more like The ZERO. Come to think of it, I never enjoyed Leo Wu's works very much. Fights Break Sphere was shiet, complete departure from the original storyline (XunEr is a scumbag that wanted to destroy Xiao Yan not like the lovable XunEr of the dongua). Love like the Galaxy, I got tired of the melodrama 3/4th into the series. I did plan on dropping that but said to myself, I already invested my time into 3/4th of the series, might as well finish the last 1/4th.

Now, I don't even look at The ZERO. Li Wanda == suck!

(BTW, whoever knew a simple one-liner "hmph, pian ren!" could make a (C-grade) kid actor so rich and coveted by the c-ent industry when he grew up...)

Actually, I stand corrected:

Mr. PuZhu = a goody goody two shoes

Tang Lici = an even BIGGER goody goody two shoes

PuZhu's good intention towards his lover caused the deaths and suffering of countless ppl,

BUT Tang Lici's good intentions towards Fang Zhou had ultimately caused hundred times more casualties!

The ROAD to HELL is LITTERED with GOOD INTENTIONS!

I just wanna say Tang Lici got what he deserved, a just ending in the end. If Tang Lici had just let Fang Zhou die instead of attempting to suck out all the evil energies out of Fang Zhou into his own self-healing body, he wouldn't have created an evil Liu Yang and NONE of what happened afterwards would have happened. Hell, with the other 2 "brothers" still around, A Shui would have found her way to meet Tang Lici at her brother's residence, and he would have married her with the other 2 "brothers" as witness to their marriage.

Tang Lici tried to save Fang Zhou out of his GOOD INTENTIONS, but actually OPENED a ROAD to HELL that caused all subsequent killings in the drama from EP1 onwards fall unto unsuspecting ppl like a dominoes effect!

(Anyways, enough of my ramblings, drama started out OK but I got tired of seeing characters like PuZhu play an imbecilic goody goody two shoes. I ultimately rank this drama the worst out of all I have watched this year...)

Actually I only watched this drama d/t the popularity of the donghua. I actually hate them for casting Yang Yang. If it were another work I would have easily turned down the drama based on the casting of the ML alone. Yang Yang is too "pretty" for this role. Donghua Han Li was more crude and "ugly" looking (just an average looking person that got acquainted to a bunch of beauties on his journey) not this refined pretty boy like Yang Yang.

Neither does yours. If you got nothing constructive to say, don't. At least I made some criticisms of the drama. BUT you, what has your reply added to the discussion? None! Zilch!

BTW, welcome to my permanent ignore list buddy (I actually blocked loser posters like these instead of put them on mental ignore).

BL dramas are retarded. I went into WoF not knowing jack about it. I never gonna watch another China drama which such strong male bonds. (Everyone's only doing BL to rope in the gullible female viewers to drive the drama's popularity to make some money. They know even though women mostly watch romance dramas, pure bisexual romance dramas won't ever be as popular to the ladies as the BLs. As a male viewer, I find the BL drama rather disgusting). Liu Yan looks retarded playing that string instrument meant mostly for women.

Complicated my rear end. This drama borders on the BL genre which is blacklisted in China. I always hated this kind of gay male love/affection genre. Plus the last 5 episodes were a disaster in both plot and pacing (ie. Mr PuZhu made the retarded decision to allow his lover to kill the heads/important members of his own faction).

LYX hater my arse. This is the first drama I've seen of him. I don't care who or what a LYX is, he's just some random actor I stumble across. If he gets cast in the next random drama I watch, so be it... Not like I specifically go out to like or hate his dramas!

Plus most of you comments don't make sense. If WoF didn't pay for protection fees on Douban, that explains the low score but NOT the number of votes, which means WoF is only ever popular in the mind of (crazed) viewers on MDL not in the actual real life whose numbers (number of people even bothered to rate WoF at all on Douban) speak for themselves.

BTW, plenty of ppl in this thread make it on my ignore list (I actually blocked these users not make a mental note to ignore them like they said). I simply don't have the time to read responses from losers like these...

I just have a question, if WoF is such a huge hit, then why it only shows 60K votes on Douban while something like The Untamed has 1.8million votes?

https://movie.douban.com/subject/27195020/

For consideration Three Body S1 (drama by Tencent) is considered your typical success story. Even that drama has a least 500K votes:

https://movie.douban.com/subject/26647087/


Are we as viewers to believe WoF is super-popular for a mere 60K votes?

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36372332/

It's not just the score but the number of votes (S3 will be lucky to break 120K votes ultimately) while S1 had like close to 400K votes. It means S3 is only less than 1/3 as well received as S1.

I suspect this franchise is nearing its end run. There will be at most a Season 5 before:

1. Ying Tao actress approaches 40. Women actresses tend not to look beautiful anymore past their prime of 33.
2. The number of votes continue to dwindle down to 5-15% of the S1. No sane investor will want to fork money for a franchise that continues to see significant reductions in votes count.

Why would S2 have or feel the need to recast Nangong Wan? I've watched up to EP124 of the donghua. From 64 to 124 is almost the length of the amount of episodes they adapted for S1. Nangong Wan never re-appeared once in EP64-124.

Unless they want to take advantage of the new rule where a drama can have over 40 episodes again.

Anyone have any idea when the supposedly already filmed S4 will release?

I'm confused. S1 had like 400K ratings on Douban but the S3 only 80K so far. That's like only 20% of those who bothered to rate the S1 on Douban stuck around to rate the S3. Did that many ppl lose interest in the series between the airing of S1 and S3?

https://movie.douban.com/subject/35235151/

Ep1 of S3 was easily the best first episode of all the previous seasons. I was hooked right away by the clever plot of transporting a hidden map (S2 made it seem like they were transporting nothing peaches but turned out ain't so). The very first line spoken was also outright too funny (someone wanted Xi Jun to take the blame for taking a break).