He didn't fool me.🤣🤣 He was manipulating everyone. When he was served his last meal, he started pleading with Hanyan. She said something cutting to him. That was the best comeback.
Did you notice the death ones and alive ones was in different sides?
It must have been a goodbye party for the actors, having worked on a very stressful drama plot. They could have ended it when Hanyan inscribed the headstone of Mother and Yuwen.
I was torn between 7.5 and 8.0, and settled for 8.0. The 2 deductions are for:Zhuang's Shi Yang's melodramatic…
Ling Zhi was very cute, but she was overacting with the dialog. Poor actress had a lot to memorize. It must have taken a lot of filming time to film her scenes, since she would not be able to retain all the dialog. Neither would I, at my current age.
I'm in a quandary about how to rate this drama. While it had a solid story of revenge well taken and there was…
I was torn between 7.5 and 8.0, and settled for 8.0.
The 2 deductions are for:
Zhuang's Shi Yang's melodramatic acting The zealous orchestral music, which was very good, btw The plot holes; missing scenes that would have benefited the plot Fu Yun Xi standing in the background like a standee No execution scene for Zhuang!
The lack of expressiveness in the acting performances can be attributed to the director's management skills. If he doesn't feel the sentiment behind the script, the director is just supervising the actors reciting the dialog on the page. Most of the time, I was admiring the costumes and the little accessories on the dresses.
It would have been more effective to have the Emperor issue the edict for Zhuang's execution, and have all his living victims line up in his range of vision, to see him beheaded. They could have been holding the memorials of their deceased loved ones who Zhuang killed.
Did the Dept of Judicial Review recover all the treasures that Zhuang hoarded? There was mention of all the loans (...that were Zhuang Hanyan's name), but that feels hollow. He should have had a vault with gold and silver and jewels in the secret tunnel.
Did you notice the death ones and alive ones was in different sides?
A conspiracy theory! ROFL I just looked at the scene. The Left have the sparkles only. It looks like the director arranged them by outfit color, and balanced the colors, left and right.
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The 2 deductions are for:
Zhuang's Shi Yang's melodramatic acting
The zealous orchestral music, which was very good, btw
The plot holes; missing scenes that would have benefited the plot
Fu Yun Xi standing in the background like a standee
No execution scene for Zhuang!
The lack of expressiveness in the acting performances can be attributed to the director's management skills. If he doesn't feel the sentiment behind the script, the director is just supervising the actors reciting the dialog on the page. Most of the time, I was admiring the costumes and the little accessories on the dresses.
It would have been more effective to have the Emperor issue the edict for Zhuang's execution, and have all his living victims line up in his range of vision, to see him beheaded. They could have been holding the memorials of their deceased loved ones who Zhuang killed.