Snow Fall - Well don!

I feel the storyline was wonderful. And I am unsure whether these are your typical vampires. I don't think so. I think they are different, since they can reproduce, so there must be a human element to them. I found the cinematography, plot and majority of the acting to be refreshing. The costumes, music and special effects were all well done.

Unlike some, I love the chemistry between Gao Wei Guang and Ouyang Nana. However, I feel that that they needed to step it up a notch and they didn't got far enough cinematically, as well as in the storyline. I have a feeling that has to do with the May/December romance and the inability of the production to handle it well. Lest we forget that these people mentally and emotionally were aging whether their bodies were or not. Honestly it is hard not to feel a romantic anything when we are talking about Gao Wei Guang. I think those of you who didn't feel the attraction between the characters are a bit repressed, but that's just me. I do think however, it would have helped if they had allowed Mi Lan to mature a bit more in her role.

I found a few were miscast. Like Wei Lian was too young to play that role. It should have been played by someone who was in their early 30's and looked it. While his acting was very well done, Visually, I found it difficult to believe him. Ryan Ren who played a role younger than him looked older than him. If Shen Zhi Heng had aged to around 40 in 100 years and was not a pure blood hybrid of whatever these people turned into, than Wei Lian his younger purebread brother should have been around 32 in looks.I also thought that Liang (Ryan Ren) acting was a bit over the top at parts.

All that said, I cannot give this a 10 because I think the characters should have been more developed, and gone to the next level. But all is all it was great and interesting.

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Definitely worth watching...

This was beautifully done. I would recommend it to anyone. I gave the series a 9.5 overall, because of two factors. I needed to confirm whether I got the ending correct and the explanation that I read in My Drama List coincided with what I thought, but quite frankly it was not believable. So I would love to see how they explain it in a sequel. There were two possibilities. One was that Chu Yue killed herself at the end or that Ruyi and Ning faked their own deaths and had children. I wanted to believe the later (but frankly they were both so badly injured, there is no way, not eve through willing suspension of disbelief), because I wanted them to live and have that child. In addition, I would have liked to have seen way more passion between Ren Ru Yi and Ning Yuan Zhou. So took off .5 because of the lack of passion, and the ending was a bit squirrely.

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So far, okay!

They truly went only halfway with this and the story is redundant. I'll continue to watch because its occupying time until the next really good drama comes out. In other words I can tolerate it. But one thing that is driving me crazy is the voice of the lead actress, Miaoyi Zhang. Her acting is second rate, and her voice is like chalk on a chalkboard. She talks through her nose and can't deliver a line. She is lovely to look at, but someone needs to send her to speech classes to learn how to talk properly. The acting is okay. But because of the script and directing, it is hard to tell if it is the acting that is bad, or the directing.

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