PeachBlossomGoddess

Ep 17: I think Ban'er just made a big boo boo

I think this is set at the tail end of the Song dynasty - it quite clear from the cases and how even Inspector Gu thinks he is better off summarily executing people that screams the system has failed. One of the previous emperors implemented a disastrous set of widely opposed reforms that divided the court and ultimately failed. Maybe it was during the fallout from that.

I couldn't believe it... I barely saw him. What a waste of a good villain!!!

Its true but if a murderous, powerful and corrupt family is coming for me, I would want to know. And in any case he is going to have to tell them or they have to find out for the plot to advance.

Yang Yang, Luo Yunxi and Liu Shishi are the ballet school of fight scenes. It’s so bad I can’t watch them. Wu Lei, Zheng Yeche g, Qin Junjie are the ones trained in martial arts who IMHO do really good fight scenes with good long takes.

Tbh Wu Lei looks too young. MZY is lovely but she looks very mature for her age. I didn’t like her styling it made her look old and I think she already looks much older than LYR. I don’t really ship them as it is so Wu Lei would be much worse.

It just seems a stretch to think that Ding Dan/Song Qiyu could have killed Zou Yongjin by himself, disembowel him, stuff books into his abdomen and sew him all back up and then move his corpse to his own rooms all by himself. And then kill of Zhang and hang up all the words written in his blood like that as well. I guess I will just have to suspend disbelief. Maybe I am just in denial that Zhang Tianyang got turned into a corpse with barely any screen time!

So is the case of the Ghost Examiner closed?

All the more reason to tell them so that they are careful. Knowledge is power.

I think Buyou should just tell his siblings the truth. They are old enough and deserve to know.

A nosey neighbour probably.

Good to see you here!

He is Fortunato.

That was a Cask of Amontillado end.

Prince Qing would be dead if they had better guns... or if Dou Zhao were a better shot.

I think we all tend to have selective memory but I remember that the final arc of LLTG was so bad that the director said he would to go back and re-edit it to make it better but of course he never did. It also had unsatisfying and boring villain arcs and many, many, many shrill and super annoying women. Similarly, The Double crashed and burned towards the end with a baffling ending. I think in the grand scheme of things, Blossom did sag in some places but so did the other favorites we are all just indulging in a moment of selective memory here.

If the Chinese had more guns, the Western colonists and the Japanese would not have occupied and humiliated them for 100 years. They never had enough guns to arm an army sadly even in later history. Guns were especially rare at the point this was set in Ming dynasty.

I think LYR was pretty good in this role and it really fit him I am not sure Wu Lei could have done better. His fight scenes showed off his natural athleticism and are very respectable for a new actor but there were still quite a few stitched together short takes that are a dead giveaway for whether someone had years of proper training. Wu Lei has been trained in martial arts since he was a kid. His fight scenes are really top tier and a step above everyone else's so its not a really fair comparison. In any case, for this kind of narrative, top tier fight scenes are not really make or break.

Yups, this is the way it works for newbie actors - just as many of them never succeed and their agencies eat all the cost of their development with no return. Both actors can't even dub themselves so someone also had to pay for the VA salaries and they had fantastic VAs that really carried them to the next level. In any case, in China, what they make is still a massive windfall compared to ordinary people's salaries, well above average. They should both get a few endorsements out of this which should mostly go to them and that is a big chunk of actor incomes.

I had a few drinks I may have dozed off!!!😅😂