RilikesWux

Welcome! 🤗

Here's a short clip on bilibili
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1o78seYEno/?spm_id_from=333.337

I'm not watching Dashing Youth right now. Just Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty II. I watchedThe Blood of Youth up to episode 30 and dropped it. I watched until episode 10, then dropped it, picked it up till ep. 20, and dropped it. The last, I managed to watch untill ep. 30 and dropped it again. I think it's just a matter of taste. It's too animesque for me. I prefer old school wuxia 😁

In SToTD 1, first case, they had one character showing more cleavage. I guess this is not the first time 😁

I like it when they add these small details to flesh out characters. It shows they really cared about what they were making.

Definitely rewatchable.

My pleasure! I check SToTD weibo post from time to time. I remember seeing a post about him. He also sang the ending song of SToTD season 1.

I decided to drop The Legend of Heroes. It's a pity cos I liked the look and the style but not the narration. Now watching SToTD 2.

I only watched two wuxia by Wen Ruian. The Four and Heroes (2022). I never read the books. But I think JY is much better than WR in terms of world building and creating solid, flesh and blood characters. I had difficulty completing Heroes 2022 and I still don't know what the story was about 🤔

I liked The Four 2008. If they'd had more budget, it would have been great. The Four 2015 produced in mainland was terrible.

The romance is just an extra. That's why there's no FL. And romantic scenes are very minimum. So if anyone doesn't like PXJ, they can skip her scenes especially in the early episodes. In later episodes, her role is more important than just LLF's love interest. She helps the squad in solving cases.

There's no FL. This is a drama led by 2 males. There's only 2 ML. The female characters are supporting characters. Those who mentioned "FL" obviously didn't read the cast & credit section. It's clearly said "support role" so there's no FL.

I believe it's the actor who plays the painter Qin Xiao Bai.

Both are quick tempered 😅

I don't get MDL rating. Why are people rating a drama that has just started? Are they even watching it?

The choreography is not the best, yes. But I seldom see hand-to-hand combat in recent wuxia dramas so I don't complain about this.

The fight scenes are not terrible, I agree.

I didn't know that. That's very interesting. I've always assumed that all Chinese know and understand the genre. It makes sense now that I somehow can't get into many wuxia dramas produced in mainland. Especially in recent years, I've lost count of how many wuxia dramas I dropped even the popular ones. The mainland ones seem to be mostly plot driven while HK manage to include both character driven and plot driven. I may be wrong though.

The Chinese diaspora in my country kind of helped spread this genre. LOCH is very much loved by all wuxia lovers there including me even though I'm not Chinese.

Ok. Thanks! Hopefully they are better ones.

I completely agree with the pacing thing. It's way to fast. As for actor, Yang Xuwen did a very good interpretation of Guo Jing. Guo Jing's personality is very plain. An actor who plays Guo Jing should be able to pull off a more interesting Guo Jing without changing his traits. Ci Sha is not a bad choice as Guo Jing because of his body shape and his ability to ride a horse and archery. But he can't pull off a more interesting Guo Jing unfortunately. There's no character growth and depth making GJ much duller.