China just shows it too can make a great fantasy movie

I found out that Creation of the Gods took five years to make, and their selection of young actors to play the main characters in the movie and the training they all went through .. needless to say, drew a deep curiosity to watch the movie. I am glad to say I wasn't one bit disappointed! I am so impressed with the movie. From the brilliant acting from the old cast, the familiar cast and the young cast they all excelled and made this movie superbly entertaining! The animation is just amazing 90% of it.. not to mention the high-quality production value invested in the movie, and I was totally enamoured!! It's so real, I felt like I was watching the mythology that my mum used to tell us as our bedtime story when my siblings and I were toddlers.

I have watched a few movie editions and dramas (Investiture of the Gods) and none really did the novel justice, until Creation of the Gods. This is one Chinese fantasy movie I will recommend highly for Chinese and non-Chinese alike. A word of warning though, if you are not exposed to Chinese Mythology you need to prepare yourself for a ride!

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Fairly goodl

The drama started out rather intriguing and very engaging, the build of the story was very impressive, truly in the Wuxia style (even though I think there were just too many XianXia elements). The storyline though predictable ( kind of imbued with lots and similar characters of Nirvana in Fire) but is quite entertaining. I love the friendship and camaraderie of the youths formed along the way (I assumed they were in their teens and some of them are just way too old to play the teen roles, which I am prepared to overlook as I am so used to already in C Drama and K Drama) The build-up of the characters too were great, and it went on smoothly until some 32 episodes later I realised none of the youth characters has achieved any greatness, and that is more than three-quarters of the way through.. but soon after the story just plateaued and it just went flat right to the end! So much potential for a fantastic and great drama ended with a bunch of rather unremarkable youth who only managed to stay alive because some of the villains woke up from a trance and saved the day.. and Guess what? Like Who Rules The World, again, they gave up their non-achievement and their sworn duty and travel the Jiangsu... So Love Like The Galaxy is still the Best Wuxia drama in recent years, (post Nirvana In Fire) .. Autumn Ballade, Dream of Splendour, Who Rules The World and now The Blood of Youth are the promising Dramas with some of the worst ending in recent years.

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A Surprise

There has been a slew of dramas which started out promisingly and only to end with great disappointment!BUT Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty does no such thing, its captivating, intriguing and exciting from the first episode! The character development of the character is great, especially LLF, the ML, from a hard and arrogant man to a mature and developed gentleman is quite pleasant. Though there are female interests in the drama, they never became a handicap to the drama's main storyline, which I am very grateful for, as the genre doesn't warrant romance in it. This drama is definitely about two men, the Male Leads and the strange cases they encounter. I am so looking forward to the Second Season! Meanwhile, I shall rewatch the drama this weekend.....

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Great Drama

Finally, Love Like The Galaxy has released all of its 56 episodes. I was praying that it will give me a good ending and waited with abated breath until I watched the final episodes. I am glad it hasn't disappointed! It has a good ending!!! Technically speaking the drama ended in episode 48, but because they want to play out the romance bit, they dragged the drama on for a reconciliation of ending... It may have worked really well in the novel, but it's not quite effective for a drama it should have just ended with 50 episodes. But like I said before it's still a good ending and has made the drama that much more enjoyable to watch, On the whole, it's one of the best Dramas I have seen this year so far and also in a long time.

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Alas! More than a decent drama

I can't find any glaring flaw in this drama. The storyline is really good and the script is pretty well written and its meaty. The two young leads may not be brilliant but their performance has been better than I expected! The rest of the characters plays just a s big a apart with their own stories, Love CSS parents, and the grandmother, her uncles and brothers and BFF. They are just Stella ensemble giving the drama far wider scope and more inclusive in every way.. As far as Part 1 goes, I am more than happy!!! Let's hope the Part 2 will be even better. PI am looking forward to a brilliant ending!!

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Flummoxed

After several attempts to finish this Drama, I finally made it to the last episode. For want of a better word. dazed or confused, that's how I felt. Nothing made sense and nothing seemed to flow and as if I was watching several different short stories with the same leads and setting. So who was Rhong Zhi? If the writer wanted us to guess and interpret for ourselves, then she has failed with me. Then there's the princess, who was supposed to be really smart, but then turns out....... The ending, what was that all about??? Was it a dream? I thought I have seen a lot of bad dramas but this one left me flummoxed!

I was determined to finish this drama only because I thought the two young ML and FL were great! I am looking forward to their dramas in the future. But the script just let the entire drama down. I am wondering if the script is written by a team and then put together without editing it, or written by a writer with multiple split personalities?

A time waster... if you want to watch it.. by all means, prepare to use your fast forward button....

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Is it one of the best dramas of 2022?

A dream of Splendour started out as one of the best dramas .. it was smooth sailing and very pleasant and beautiful to watch. Constantly leaving a smile on one's face, and the sweet moment shared with FL and ML was quite a scene to watch. Flurries of excitements and peppered with intrigues were gold. Not only the romance between the ML and FL were great, but so was the love-hate relationship between the father and son. The three women and their strive to survive and make a mark in the male-dominated world were admirable.

Then came Ep 30 and thereafter things gets a little too exciting and a little bizarre and not to mention a little too repetitive not to mention several trope-y misunderstandings between the ML and FL. Somehow the father and son relationship was left unresolved, and wasn't clear if the father did try to have his son killed (Perhaps someone can clarify this point for me). I felt rather like hanging in midair where their relationship which started so good and full of sparks and dynamism, giving one a feeling like it's a supporting story to the drama, ended up completely flat.

From a rating of 9 dropped to 7.5 (feeling generous),.... What started out so full of promise then takes a nosedive towards the end. What a shame, it has joined the rank of the Dramas this year which started out great and ended on a low note. None of them is the actors' fault, which they did their part brilliantly, but the scripts and sometimes directions.

1. Autumn Ballad
2. Who Rules the World
3. Cry me a river of stars
4. A Dream of Splendour

Ending for a drama is so important as how you tie the knots.... if there is any loose ends then it's just a waste of an effort of what could be a very entertaining light-hearted drama.

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One of the worst...

I usually hold Korean recent Dramas in high regard, and occasionally one or two in recent time has disappointed me.. And Young Lady and Gentleman I thought was really entertaining and actually good. Then after episode 10 or so it began to start unravelling and went downhill gradually at first and then it just accelerated to the end. Korean drama rarely goes beyond 20 episodes, but this one went on to 50 torturous episodes, and with more than an hour per episode they were clearly out of their depth! What on Earth were they thinking? It should have been 20 episodes at max and the storyline would have been tighter and more interesting, rather than bombarding the viewers with shit.

The FL lead, on my god, a 24-year-old, behaved like a retard 16 yo school girl all through the drama!!! WHY? Selling that 'Cute' girl to the boys? REALLY?

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A pretty decent Wuxia drama

As I watch this drama, I was so impressed with the storyline, the pairing of the ML and FL was surprisingly good as they are very convincing and well matched. I couldn't wait for the next coming episodes and decided to become a VIP member of WeTV... The fighting scene was fast with very very little slow motion shots, in fact hardly, made it that much more exciting than Sword Snow Stride which inundated with slow mo shots which spoilt the momentum of the drama, like many others too. That's pretty good.. Everything was going just fine and edging towards the best drama of 2022, which could have easily won.

There are a few points in the quite a good drama that fall short of being a great drama are as follows.

1. It took too long for Hei Fengxi to find out the real identity of Bai Fengxi, that is dragging on a bit, which lead to my suspicion of my final point. If they bring it earlier on there will be so much more great material...

2. The leads fuffing around too long in Yangzhou, and we hardly see anything of Qingzhou, which would have made a great balance in the drama.

3. There are 40 episodes for the drama to pace and pan out the storyline which could have helped with a lot of curiosity of Bai Fengxi background, in stead they pushed all the building up towards the ending in the last couple of episodes, reminds one of a 200 metre dash towards to the finishing line, too quick and too rush, took all the excitement of the ending away.. And the ending was just too soft, like the air finally left and ends with a flat soft ending, anti-climax no less. And visually it also looks a bit rushed too, not as refine as the previous fighting scenes.

I wonder was it because they were pacing it for a 60 episodes instead of 40? That's why they rush towards the end? Oh well...

The rush-ending does remind me of another recent very decent drama, The Autumn Ballad, which was such a let down... in so many ways....

But still Who Rules The World is still an enjoyable drama....

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What am I watching?

A modern day drama about a girl bickering and her uncouth antics in a period drama costume and settings. How wrong can the script writers get? Why bother with the period costume and setting when you don't even know what the customs and cultures of historical period? The writer really need to work harder and researched more on behaviour and culture of the period. I watch 5 episodes of it and still wish I hadn't gone that far! The actors on the other hand are quite decent, I might watch them in other drama, but this drama is beyond salvation or any redeeming quality left. It's bad from the start. I could think of a few dramas in the same category from last year...
Writer must remember China in the old days are not China it is today.

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What happened?

The drama started out brilliantly! The ML and FL were great through out and their chemistry were one of the best I have seen, though the FL voice was irritating at first but soon got used to it. The storyline and the pacing was really good, though the main scenarios were nothing new but the the twists and quirkiness made it fun and refreshing to watch. Then came to episode 28 things starts to get a bit wobbly and iffy and a lot of fast-forwarding even before that, and by the time it hit episode 30 I was struggling to keep my interest going. I carried on watching for the sake of the ML and FL as the script and scenes began to deteriorate fast, and then came to final episode, which is the biggest let down! It was just about one of the worst endings there is in Chinese Dramaland, and there are a lot of those around. From a 8.5/10 from Episode 1 to 30, plummeted to 6.5/10. Has it not been forthe great ML and FL, I would have scored it much less, or not even bother to finish it.

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Could have given it a high 9 but....

I love the story line, and the production is fairly good. I don't even mind the bleached out look. The Jiang Ni character is quirky and provide a fairly good comedy relief to the funny side of the drama. The one thing that bring my rating for the drama down to 8 is the sword fighting scene, there are too many of them shot in slow motion and that breaks the momentum of what could be an excellent sword fighting scene. The director and cinematographer is trying to show something that is done to death by other Wuxia.. its nothing new and why shot in slow motion? And also some of the fighting scene takes too long in setting up the scene, and only leaves one frustrated instead of feeling the excitement and anticipation. Why can't they do a perfect drama, they have all the right script, story, actors, and instead it let us down with the fighting scene, which is the second most important element of the drama! I hope the second season they will do something different with the fighting scene, as long as don't over do the slow mo.

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What happened?

What started out to be really good and clever with the plot and twisted. And then from episode 15 on the writer got twisted by his own twist and couldn't unravel out of it! The relationship/romantic side of the leading couple got so messy it's painful to watch. Not to mention the ongoing between the two side couples, pathetic is the word, why even bother to give them so much air time or a story when can't even handle the lead couple storyline.. It's getting so boring by now, and the FL behave like she never left high SCHOOL left alone University with a degree in Psychiatry from overseas for heaven sake! How did she manage that? So not cool, and so irritating at this point, and bet it's fizzled out in the subsequent episode.

I also just read the Writer bio, he is also responsible for Legend of Anle with Gong Jun and Dilraba, I wonder how is it going to work with those two, and with this writer? Can only spell one thing!!! Gosh, I hope I am wrong! Soooooo wrong! Please, prove me wrong!!!!

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Insufferable, is more like it

Sometimes I admire people who can tolerate being dragged through the mud pond and still be able to come out on the other side bright happy and clean, or just put on their blinker and ignorant, oops I mean innocence and watch all 90 episodes of this hilariously stupid series. This is how I felt about the epic story of Legend of the dragon pearl after 18 episodes of a stupid girl just get more and more stupid as it progresses, and by then she is still oblivious as who the Emperor was is just the last straw. All arrows point to jump-ship! And I did. But too bad, the FL is actually quite a good actress and so is the ML, but the script is just too cartoony for my taste. Sorry, this is just me and has nothing to do with you. I have been watching too many dramas with great potentials only to be let down by incredibly bad scripts, perhaps that's the reason why lay on thick with this one. A victim of my frustration.

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Its a start

What started out as quite an interesting drama, the two male leads are quite cute and the restraint affection for one another is also very nice too. The million dollars question here is how did it get from nice and interesting to hating this drama in a short span of 13 episodes, actually by the 9th Episode I kind of screaming blue murder. The script has so much potential but the writer botched it up and turned it into a shit of a drama.

I can ignore an Emperor in disguise as a commoner to do investigation himself and away from the court for a long period of time, but the scenarios that really stink up the drama when the Emperor can be powerful, greatest swordsman and an intelligent on hand, and the most useless and powerless man at the same time, who couldn't even fight against a bloody ball-less man. Isn't wuxia the hero always live a hero and die a hero? AND the other male lead is completely useless and turned into a vile and disgusting character. .

This is not the reason we want to watch and read about a wuxia drama? This is just weakly written with potentially interesting ideas for plots that actually failed to amount to anything it promised.

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