Oh they swapped love my voice and ripe town's premiere date around then i guess? (love my voice airs when faithful vip ends, and ripe town airs when this drama's vip ends)
I like this show a lot but I think it suffers from a lot of the problems that beset C dramas. It's not just the…
I agree with you, this novel is pretty much carbon copy of the novel, INCLUDING pacing. I've been told the novel have more atmosphere building (suspense/spookiness/folklore stuff), but the drama sort of failed it, esp in the beginning? To my knowledge, all the secrets and cool bits that book fans adore and our antagonists are in the last 1/3.
The goal initially for FL was "figure out who she is and what's going on" and ML is essentially getting closure, you wouldn't know about other world if well, the english name didn't tell you (the chinese name does not indicate another world at all). But that's the bit a lot of people were excited to get to, so it can feels slow in the beginning. They actually did hint some stuff that happens near the end, but it's just glimpses here and there.
I'm actually ambivalent towards the romance and still think there are some parts that's unnecessary. That said, the romance is kinda vital for the story since it's meant to be strong bond that cause the antagonist's plan to fail? I don't think this production team is particularly good at world building, there are lots of stuff you can expand on but they didn't?
The female painter and the story teller are there because of censorship. Basically they exist to tell the audiences…
it's sort of stricter? you can kinda tell if you watch the candle in the tomb series? the earliest one manage to get the vibe and more of the novel content across. You can tell very clearly from the cuts in worm valley and kunlun tomb. (it messes with the pacing of the story too)
there was rumour new candle in the tomb couldn't drop when this aired (this is a replacement drama for that for some, so a lot of cnetizens complain about all the romances); but i've seen rumours that candle in the tomb might drop after all, not sure how intact it would be though.
I think the main production crew (director and scriptwriter) being from taiwan didn't really help? it's the team's first drama, and you tend to have to know pretty clearly where the invisible line NRTA might set. It's very arbitary at times, and you can get around it and still tell decent story at times, but it's very rough to do so, so I get why it's like this.
I’ve noticed, very little discussion in this section. Others go into the tens of thousands. Here it’s mostly…
Being non historical/xianxia and no high traffic/young popular actors and actress is like this. This have more comments than a lot of modern and mystery dramas I watch lol, I think it's cos of the romance? (lot of people skip dramas that's low on romance)
I think its not doing that well even in China mainly bc of the airing schedule. There is a fair amount of world…
that number is relative to other dramas on the weekly chart, it hasn't reached the yearly chart yet (it really should soon though), which is another sign of it doing so so.
I think its not doing that well even in China mainly bc of the airing schedule. There is a fair amount of world…
oh yeah the humour is bit juvenile at times, I largely really like the setup, and lot of the cast, they are fairly unusual. Anyways, you have lot of dramas on your plate already!
I think its not doing that well even in China mainly bc of the airing schedule. There is a fair amount of world…
oh yeah i get that, tencent's marketing have been pretty weak this year (esp compared to before). From production/tencent's pov, it's probably better to just do minimal promotion.
I am nobody's plot does unfold as it goes on, but its initial setup is somewhat similar to shounen anime, and it gives answers much faster. I'm so sad the drama wasn't engaging you sob, it's one of my favs.
As for parallel world, yeah I think it's better binged, but I do have fair amount of issues with pacing/directing for this series, it feels more sluggish than it should be. Last time I felt this was Young Blood s2's director?
I think its not doing that well even in China mainly bc of the airing schedule. There is a fair amount of world…
it's so so in China, not just due to the airing schedule, I get the impression they didn't allocate much budget for marketing/promotion. (I have no real evidence but maybe they spent it all on doing multiple rounds of special effects. the sand people originally didn't have sand all over their face, they had proper zombie makeup. that psychedelic entrance sequence doesn't just look like a personal choice from production team but could be hastily produced effort?)
Tencent's S+ do generally air like this though, but I think it could learn from youku's scheduling, I am nobody/outcast was mostly doing 1 ep a day (with occasional 2 ep when the show calls for it), which would still drag out the schedule, the same way this is. There are a lot of book readers and fair bit of misinformation flung around douyin/xiaohongshu that's kinda annoying too. I think it enticed some of candle in the tomb audience over, but with first 10 ep gathering the team, and good amount of content is literally otp interaction, a lot of those think it's "drama adding in useless romance" when it's actually a) straight from the book (including the pacing, but the directing does make it worse) b) vital for latter plot development.
Reminds me of the Tomb Notes series. This show also has a "Fatty".
tomb notes' fatty is from candle in the tomb series, as it started out as a fanfic of it. wei yu, the author of this show is a fan of candle in the tomb, thus this character, the actor have also previously played wang pang zi in candle in the tomb dramas.
I’ve just started and what is up with that frikkin chicken or rooster? 🤣🤣🤣
they are fan fav, and I've run into lot of book fans asking if they are in the drama and get excited for their poster and wait for their appearance. XD
They could have aired ten episodes weekly for three weeks, and the last eight episodes, the fourth week, instead…
i'm pretty sure it's doing fast track on that fourth week :P it has to drop more ep in the first week to draw in people, esp when this drama have a relatively slow beginning (for those looking for adventure/action)
they changed all the real location names, but the novel's route goes Xi'an at the start -> Dunhuang (where they go to Yumen pass) and then into edge of Xinjiang. The drama was filmed in Gansu pronvince and Xinjiang. The gobi desert with the funky rocks/yardan are at edge of Gansu and Xinjiang, people usually go there as a addon when visitng Dunhuang.
FL was driving, the sand people hit, she switched driver seats with ML, she goes to fight with one of them (there are photos/behind of the scene with actor playing sand person, their make up are kinda zombie-like too). You sort of get the idea from the drama, but since it's not clear FL did the fighting, it doesn't quite explain Ding Liu's sudden respect/compliance towards Ye Liuxi.
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The goal initially for FL was "figure out who she is and what's going on" and ML is essentially getting closure, you wouldn't know about other world if well, the english name didn't tell you (the chinese name does not indicate another world at all). But that's the bit a lot of people were excited to get to, so it can feels slow in the beginning. They actually did hint some stuff that happens near the end, but it's just glimpses here and there.
I'm actually ambivalent towards the romance and still think there are some parts that's unnecessary. That said, the romance is kinda vital for the story since it's meant to be strong bond that cause the antagonist's plan to fail? I don't think this production team is particularly good at world building, there are lots of stuff you can expand on but they didn't?
there was rumour new candle in the tomb couldn't drop when this aired (this is a replacement drama for that for some, so a lot of cnetizens complain about all the romances); but i've seen rumours that candle in the tomb might drop after all, not sure how intact it would be though.
I think the main production crew (director and scriptwriter) being from taiwan didn't really help? it's the team's first drama, and you tend to have to know pretty clearly where the invisible line NRTA might set. It's very arbitary at times, and you can get around it and still tell decent story at times, but it's very rough to do so, so I get why it's like this.
I am nobody's plot does unfold as it goes on, but its initial setup is somewhat similar to shounen anime, and it gives answers much faster. I'm so sad the drama wasn't engaging you sob, it's one of my favs.
As for parallel world, yeah I think it's better binged, but I do have fair amount of issues with pacing/directing for this series, it feels more sluggish than it should be. Last time I felt this was Young Blood s2's director?
Tencent's S+ do generally air like this though, but I think it could learn from youku's scheduling, I am nobody/outcast was mostly doing 1 ep a day (with occasional 2 ep when the show calls for it), which would still drag out the schedule, the same way this is. There are a lot of book readers and fair bit of misinformation flung around douyin/xiaohongshu that's kinda annoying too. I think it enticed some of candle in the tomb audience over, but with first 10 ep gathering the team, and good amount of content is literally otp interaction, a lot of those think it's "drama adding in useless romance" when it's actually a) straight from the book (including the pacing, but the directing does make it worse) b) vital for latter plot development.