Johanna Linnea Karlsson

War scenes are never fully cgi, but built around cgi. They had set restrictions, limited number of on set personel. They were limited to set amount of horse handlers, and numerous other issues as they started filming in March, during height of pandemic. Dramas that were stating to not film big battle scenes and keep to very strict covid rules, were allowed to start filming. Because of the strict rules March-october, China's industry recovered first and boomed. They only reported in western media in april, that China was tentatively resuming filming, with small sets and limited people.

TLB was shot during pandemic summer 2020. They were not allowed big crowd, and battle scenes.

I made silly mistake of READING blue whisper first.
It ruined the drama for me.
I'm an Allen Ren fan, but he wasn't ''it'', not after the novel.
Don't read the novel first.

The only drama I had zero expectations for, yet the only one that truly delivered.
You don't understand my hopes for Pearl Eclipse, Mirror Twin Cities and Blue Whisper.

Maybe no expectations broke the 2022 drama curse.
The war scenes were pretty, the final fight wasn't cheesy.
Main couple is well balanced, and no - no really, no weirdo backstabbing second female leads to be found.

I wasn't 'swept away', awestruck or anything, but I wasn't disappointed or underwhelmed.

I'm trying to go into Agarwood with no expectations, but truly?
I wan't to be swept away!
Romanced, and crying every 5 episodes.
I want a complete journey, an oddyssey.

Take me for a ride, drama gods!

Not getting the subs really ruined the viewing experience.
I'm sad it's difficult for us to influence the company, for choosing not to sub in a timely manner.
I have faith fan sub groups will not trust the company to sub the next big drama, and be on standby, and not be 'surprised' as they were this time.
I mean, we were all surprised.
There's a charm to viewing eps weekly, to yearn for subs for a good drama.
Our wonderous subteam has pulled together and crafted skillful subs, even when caught so off guard - nobody saw this drama not getting official subs coming!
Hats off to the sub team! I will revisit some monologues once it's completed.

Where is Mouse?

I wonder how they can afford these dramas.
Do they piggyback off other drama sets filming at the time?
It'd make sense to film 2-3 webdramas piggybacking bigger drama sets, save a fortune and put it all into script, editing and directing.
Editing is everything, when you tell a story in 10min format.

I feel the kissing is hotter bc it's a webdrama, they suffer no watershed, no decency by such a time of day etc. Webdramas always had better stuff.
I remember when Go Princess Go really pushed boundaries.

Why are little gems always short

Too many corpses between them.

History is full of women who loved ruthless men.

She realises she isn't capable of living with all the ghosts between herself and Ning Yi.
Her sense of conscience was her strongest character trait, she never compromised on her conscience and as she wasn't a sociopath -in the drama, she is in the book- she took her own life for her own dignity.
The act itself wasn't about her love for him, but her final stance on the issue.

No.
This is too far, Ning Yi, you'll have to do this alone from here on.
There was no leaving, because they'd gravitate towards each other again and again.
She had to write the final punctuation to their story.

I'm curious to see.. how far into the rabbit hole you've fallen?

It's complicated. It's not from the end of the novel.

Google translate, so they miss points altogether to ep eight.
Comment under yours has 3eps subbed by fans.

She collects creatures, Changyi bring the crown jewel.
The indomitable Jiaoren.

He hasn't begun to grow into his own boots yet. YET.

No official subs, for another couple of weeks.

I would.
The subs ruined Mirror Twin Cities, long before the editing.
This drama is better raw, than with terribly nuanced subs.

Hide in spoiler or delete comment, please.
We don't know if they will go with book canon yet, but please don't reveal plot twists in comments here.
You can edit to spoiler and give people a chance to choose.

In the novel, as of ep nine, it hasn't taken off yet.
It does with a BANG, soon.

Think I still have PP on facebook. I'll try requesting there.