Episode 40, i have questions to novel readers please SPOIL ME.1. What's the deal with the emperor after all? I…
The Emperor and his younger brother (Duke Zhenbei) let power get to their heads and started looking at people as if they're ants. It's implied the whole massacre thing is actually orchestrated by the Emperor, and not his brother, though the brother would get to 2nd rank if he can break through. The sage is the second master of Dafeng, IIRC, and his pen is filled with qi. And it might be an allusion to that saying - the pen is mightier than the sword. Who knows. It's not that he's afraid of it, he's afraid of what it means - the scholars let Wei Yuan take the pen and bring it to the Imperial Study, so he's about to lose their support TOO. Because everybody else is already asking him to recognise a personal error - something no other Emperor ever did. (The Emperor is flawless.)
The nation's fortune / the royal luck belongs to the Dafeng but it should stay with the bloodline of the Emperors. Half of it was stolen by XQA's father (""the Superviser") and put inside XQA before his father used the "mystify" spell to erase himself from written history and all memory, as he later does with XQA. Because the treasure is hidden in XQA's body, the dragon and the sword take him as part of the royal bloodline.
bro this king is crazy but I like the actor playing the role. He makes me hate the character so much 🤣
Myself, I LOVE the part where he's unshod. A LOT. It makes him SO "him".
The Emperor in JoL also used to stay barefoot, and there's the initial intro of the evil princess in The Blue Whisper where she steps out barefoot onto a path of rose petals - WOW. Amazing visuals. There's just something about people going barefoot in costume cdramas that touches a spot, LOL.
Like everyone else, I look forward to second season but I hope Wei Gong didn't really die. Wei gong too good and…
His father the supervisor said it was an equivalent exchange and he had given him back the body in exchange for the removal of XQA from the Dafeng. AND XQA gave Song the alchemy book with a note about piecing back a soul...
Aaaah, the best ones start in laughter and end in heartbreak and heroism. This is one of them.
It got so serious by the end, I was actually tearing up a lot with the story of Mr. Zheng.
I am not certain what his dad said - did he just retrieve Wei Yuan's body OR did he retrieve the soul, too, in exchange for XQA'a presence in the world? Because I don't think he was talking about Mr. Zheng, even though XQA sees him happy with his family.
BUT IT WAS AMAZING. And it ended satisfactorily enough if they never make a second season, though I BET they will. That is, outside the spin-off LOL. Though it was so funny that everything was real to him and the rest were playing Chinese DnD LOL. (And now I remember Scooby and the Gang roleplaying how they went north only to go south and end up back where they started, LOL).
Also, and this is a big point. I move to depose the freaking Emperor. All in favour? Done.
Ah, it hurt seeing how nobody remembered him but STILL remembered being with him. Especially the mom - even placing food in his bowl while there's nobody there and she doesn't even realise she's doing it. I'm telling you, she's a mama duck and he's her stolen duckling.
And in the end, LOL, they HAD to have the "Luke, I am your father" scene - I bet they fought to keep it in no matter what hahaha~
Ahh. That was so good.
... Second season when?
PS Wang HeDi KILLED this role. He killed it so badly there's nothing left to even send a shadow, done, toast, totally destroyed. I loved it. I hope to see him in many more great roles.
... And I seriously hope Shen Shu is still alive somewhere inside XQA and will help him escape the Supervisor, dad or no dad.
What's wrong with Peng YuChang's face? He looks a lot younger than before, LOL.
So... this is going to be kind of like an interlude, just a mission in a larger game, sort of? I don't care - I just hoped the OP song would sound better, LOL, it sounded like a Bollywood singer trying rap.
Anyway, it's still IAN, even if diluted. I'll take it.
ETA And I actually like ZiZai, LOL, he's like a supernaturally-powered T1000 hahaha~
This was a decent almost-8 until the last two eps, where too much whattafuckery went on to even enjoy the makjang…
Because 1. WHY IN FREAKING EARTH does he suddenly care enough about his father/formerly believed to be his grandfather arranging for her little brother to die? So okay, it turned into her mom being completely crazy and forcing her to stop speaking and thus all the problems in her life - but again, HOW WAS THAT HIS FREAKING FAULT?! Waterworks and hearbroken look and all, as if he got a deadly wound. WHY?!
2. He leaves her because HE NEEDS TO PUNISH HIMSELF?! What the heck is he, a monk doing penitence?! WHY would he do that?! It makes ZERO sense. Eat a lemon or two, there's enough punishment.
And then there are the other reasons - like 3. the mother going hard on revenge herself, when we haven't seen her for the past 10 eps enough to recognise her from Adam. Why do I need to care for her mom's love and mom's tears when I don't even know who this woman is? Whenever she was on before, for like 10 minutes all added up, she was all about the presidential campaign.
Which leads to me to 4 - was that the most ineffectual, stupid, completely devolved from his life, totally IGNORANT first-place-runner for president EVER or what? LOL. If this is how he's written in the novel... wow. But if the script writer wanted to draw a parallel to Yoon... Okay, still LOL.
All in all... I don't really see the hype. The ML went from cold-stone abuser to self-flagellating monk in about three eps, but even before, he was leaking tears like nobody's business all of the sudden... I mean, YES he loves her, YES she loves him, they're happy to realise that at the same time, bla bla bla... but his WHOLE personality is that he's a calculated and mean sonovabitch, did someone throw and nuclear bomb in the script and they couldn't find their tags from before the sea-change, LOL?? That was... kind of random. The FL went from mute to chit-chatter but at least she DID have progress, so she's good on that. Why couldn't they do the same for the ML?
ALL the support cast was under-used (particularly the veteran actors playing fathers, mothers, grandfathers etc.) (Also, +60 is the phone prefix for Malaysia, so at least they got the tropical forest-like growth part well, but then everybody in the country was white (from terrorists to hostages and children made deaf by war, though the brochure she got pictured mainly African kids, so that was confusing LOL).
Okay so now I'm done. I just want to repeat it for the rows in the back - I could care less about the mis-translation and the ep was already on 2x speed (which was funny especially in the sex scene, where it STILL was slo-mo in 2x LOL) so I blinked and I missed it LOL. So there's that.
PS See the Light is a good song, but it's annoyingly reminding me of Heize's Round and Round from Goblin SO MUCH.
This was a decent almost-8 until the last two eps, where too much whattafuckery went on to even enjoy the makjang any more. (And the mis-translated part that caused the dramageddon these past weeks didn't even register because TBH I had already checked out by then.)
TBH, I started LBFAD and couldn't stand the FL's voice. Because she couldn't be the only one, they should relax…
IF I were to try again, I'd do it for Wang HeDi, but sadly, interim I DID force myself through Love Game in Eastern Fantasy and her voice is SCRATCHING MY EARDRUMS. I get it, she can't help what nature gave her... but OMG. I managed it because Ding YuXi and the support cast were great... but I wished I had never started. I thought her voice in LBFAD was some VA that was supposed to make the character childish and naive and girlish and whatnot... but then to find out the hard way that no, this is how she actually sounds...
*sigh*
I don't blame her, the poor woman, she probably gets some flack for it from actual Chinese people too, but for me, even though I did think I was somewhat inured to scratchy-girly voices for women charas (having watched a lot of xianxia/wuxia dramas), her voice is my hard limit. Can't help it.
I managed 4 eps of LBFAD before I gave up, just because of WHD, but the story wasn't catchy enough to merit all the earache.
Guys after GOTD, check out Wang Hedi’s next drama “Light to the Night” will air around Mar / Apr. This is…
TBH, I started LBFAD and couldn't stand the FL's voice. Because she couldn't be the only one, they should relax the no VA rule... I think I'll just try to give Ever Night 2 another shot, though it's so focused on Sang Sang I couldn't make it through the first time...
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The nation's fortune / the royal luck belongs to the Dafeng but it should stay with the bloodline of the Emperors. Half of it was stolen by XQA's father (""the Superviser") and put inside XQA before his father used the "mystify" spell to erase himself from written history and all memory, as he later does with XQA. Because the treasure is hidden in XQA's body, the dragon and the sword take him as part of the royal bloodline.
The Emperor in JoL also used to stay barefoot, and there's the initial intro of the evil princess in The Blue Whisper where she steps out barefoot onto a path of rose petals - WOW. Amazing visuals. There's just something about people going barefoot in costume cdramas that touches a spot, LOL.
And if you want a really-heavy hitter, Nirvana in Fire it is.
Oh and the love song, the one with "thousands of words", it's SO cute!
I am not certain what his dad said - did he just retrieve Wei Yuan's body OR did he retrieve the soul, too, in exchange for XQA'a presence in the world? Because I don't think he was talking about Mr. Zheng, even though XQA sees him happy with his family.
BUT IT WAS AMAZING. And it ended satisfactorily enough if they never make a second season, though I BET they will. That is, outside the spin-off LOL. Though it was so funny that everything was real to him and the rest were playing Chinese DnD LOL. (And now I remember Scooby and the Gang roleplaying how they went north only to go south and end up back where they started, LOL).
Also, and this is a big point. I move to depose the freaking Emperor. All in favour? Done.
Ah, it hurt seeing how nobody remembered him but STILL remembered being with him. Especially the mom - even placing food in his bowl while there's nobody there and she doesn't even realise she's doing it. I'm telling you, she's a mama duck and he's her stolen duckling.
And in the end, LOL, they HAD to have the "Luke, I am your father" scene - I bet they fought to keep it in no matter what hahaha~
Ahh. That was so good.
... Second season when?
PS Wang HeDi KILLED this role. He killed it so badly there's nothing left to even send a shadow, done, toast, totally destroyed. I loved it. I hope to see him in many more great roles.
... And I seriously hope Shen Shu is still alive somewhere inside XQA and will help him escape the Supervisor, dad or no dad.
This is one of them.
That was THE most dramatic entrance EVER in any kind or type or genre of drama I've watched.
Poor book though, and poor Shen Shu. But that was cool asf.
So... this is going to be kind of like an interlude, just a mission in a larger game, sort of? I don't care - I just hoped the OP song would sound better, LOL, it sounded like a Bollywood singer trying rap.
Anyway, it's still IAN, even if diluted. I'll take it.
ETA And I actually like ZiZai, LOL, he's like a supernaturally-powered T1000 hahaha~
2. He leaves her because HE NEEDS TO PUNISH HIMSELF?! What the heck is he, a monk doing penitence?! WHY would he do that?! It makes ZERO sense. Eat a lemon or two, there's enough punishment.
And then there are the other reasons - like 3. the mother going hard on revenge herself, when we haven't seen her for the past 10 eps enough to recognise her from Adam. Why do I need to care for her mom's love and mom's tears when I don't even know who this woman is? Whenever she was on before, for like 10 minutes all added up, she was all about the presidential campaign.
Which leads to me to 4 - was that the most ineffectual, stupid, completely devolved from his life, totally IGNORANT first-place-runner for president EVER or what? LOL. If this is how he's written in the novel... wow. But if the script writer wanted to draw a parallel to Yoon... Okay, still LOL.
All in all... I don't really see the hype. The ML went from cold-stone abuser to self-flagellating monk in about three eps, but even before, he was leaking tears like nobody's business all of the sudden... I mean, YES he loves her, YES she loves him, they're happy to realise that at the same time, bla bla bla... but his WHOLE personality is that he's a calculated and mean sonovabitch, did someone throw and nuclear bomb in the script and they couldn't find their tags from before the sea-change, LOL?? That was... kind of random. The FL went from mute to chit-chatter but at least she DID have progress, so she's good on that. Why couldn't they do the same for the ML?
ALL the support cast was under-used (particularly the veteran actors playing fathers, mothers, grandfathers etc.) (Also, +60 is the phone prefix for Malaysia, so at least they got the tropical forest-like growth part well, but then everybody in the country was white (from terrorists to hostages and children made deaf by war, though the brochure she got pictured mainly African kids, so that was confusing LOL).
Okay so now I'm done. I just want to repeat it for the rows in the back - I could care less about the mis-translation and the ep was already on 2x speed (which was funny especially in the sex scene, where it STILL was slo-mo in 2x LOL) so I blinked and I missed it LOL. So there's that.
PS See the Light is a good song, but it's annoyingly reminding me of Heize's Round and Round from Goblin SO MUCH.
*sigh*
I don't blame her, the poor woman, she probably gets some flack for it from actual Chinese people too, but for me, even though I did think I was somewhat inured to scratchy-girly voices for women charas (having watched a lot of xianxia/wuxia dramas), her voice is my hard limit. Can't help it.
I managed 4 eps of LBFAD before I gave up, just because of WHD, but the story wasn't catchy enough to merit all the earache.