For those trying to decide whether to start or continue after the first few eps.
If you like those saga wuxia from 30+ years ago, this will feel familiar. Lots of unsolved mysteries. Lots of different sects. There’s a lot of baggage from the previous gen. Who’s good? Who’s bad? You cannot tell but it gives you bits of clues and hints through flashbacks, subtle interactions and conv. So we get to piece things together slowly. Even our main leads’ motives are not all so simple and clear. So if you’re into that, you’ll enjoy it.
I myself cannot wait for each released ep. Loving the acting, how the costumes & hair tries to by historically accurate, the incorporation of real nature into the setting, the attempt at quality cgi. It feels ambitious. Dramas like this tend to run many eps long. The fact that they condensed it to 37 eps means that some elements will like be cut. In this case, I think they chose to spend less time on developing the backgrounds of the various sects. I’m gonna guess this may explain the seemingly choppy editing at the beginning eps. We literally dived right into the plot. However, the backgrounds do eventually get revealed w/ the plot.
My brain must be weird, i'm following everything just fine nor have any problems with editting, I dont even know…
Yup. Maybe it’s because most cdramas today are directed differently? More talking/narrating and less action packed leaving the audience to do some detective work? Maye more ppl will get used to it as they continue.
Kuddos that they tried incorporating onsite mountains and other natural backdrops and not just studio and green screen. Looks like they actually were trudging through real snow.
Not all of them but some of the costumes are hit and miss. What is with those pillow case looking things? Like…
That was what was in back in the days of the Wei/Jin dynasties. We are so used to tang, song, Qin , ming, and Han dynasties or fantasies. I think this is the first time I’ve watched Wei/jin dynasty myself.
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If you like those saga wuxia from 30+ years ago, this will feel familiar. Lots of unsolved mysteries. Lots of different sects. There’s a lot of baggage from the previous gen. Who’s good? Who’s bad? You cannot tell but it gives you bits of clues and hints through flashbacks, subtle interactions and conv. So we get to piece things together slowly. Even our main leads’ motives are not all so simple and clear. So if you’re into that, you’ll enjoy it.
I myself cannot wait for each released ep. Loving the acting, how the costumes & hair tries to by historically accurate, the incorporation of real nature into the setting, the attempt at quality cgi. It feels ambitious. Dramas like this tend to run many eps long. The fact that they condensed it to 37 eps means that some elements will like be cut. In this case, I think they chose to spend less time on developing the backgrounds of the various sects. I’m gonna guess this may explain the seemingly choppy editing at the beginning eps. We literally dived right into the plot. However, the backgrounds do eventually get revealed w/ the plot.
What’s considered fashionable is very different