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It is Gong Jun for me. Like his eyes and overall feature. He gives a vibe of both masculine and pretty in the same time. Zhang Zhe Han is also handsome, but Gong Jun is more exquisite in my opinion.

For Wang Yi Bo and Xiao Zhan, I have never attracted to them when I was watching The Untamed. They are handsome, yes, but just not my type.

Agree with you that this story actually wuxia rather than xianxia. The martial arts is quite prominent here and the "magic" here is more about inner energy. Also, there are many names of sect that you will always find in wuxia like Wudang and Ermei.

I am in the middle of reading the novel. I think the drama toned down Zhao Zi Su cold blooded action. But, the core characterization is very much a nod down toward the original material. So far so good. Just another drama that tell those producer to never use "lack of budget" as justification of their mediocre job. Audiences can feel sincerity and we know when to respect a work brought by passion and hard work.

Currently watching this. This is the first time I have ever seen Gong Jun drama. I fall in love with his acting here. His Wen Ke Xing is so fascinating. I like seeing how he switches from being gentleman to being a cold blooded murderer and vice versa.

Planning on reading the novel while chasing the drama.

I suspected that they saw how big the fandom of the donghua and then just wanted to milk it. My biggest question is why they dared to take on this project with low budget? About the scriptwriter ... we have discussed about this, hahahaha

I took any words about the author approval for this adaptation with grain of salt. Because what he said before and after drama airing were different. I think he said whatever suited for marketing this drama.

Exactly my question! Why pick Douluo Dalu? If you knew from the beginning that you would have to butcher the IP and drive majority of original fans mad, why continued in this road?

And I remembered in the beginning, before the drama released, this was marketed as "restored to original" or something like that. And then the drama was aired, lots of complain from original fans, thus the production along with the novel author sang a different tune then.

Eternal Love Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms score seems to be decreased after the scandal of plagiarism of the novel. High chance it was higher before which led to Pillow Book being made. You cannot compare it with Douluo Continent

Eh? Didn't the drama keep the fact of 7 powerful clans? Then Clear Sky clan should be inside it. Perhaps they just chose to not say anything about it in this drama and just spinning a tale that Tang Hao was related to Soul Hall to give ..... some connection for this character.

Hmmm, would you be kind to write in detail regarding this "age error"?? I am sorry, but because of my "novel" filter, I kind of giving up by episode 21 and then just watching by skipping around. So I ..... lack some detail.

Where did you see Wang Juan getting scolded? I read douban forum. The main menu today is a heated debate between "moderate"book fans vs "extreme" book fans

Even the visual cannot hold my interest. I think this drama has done disservice to Xiao Zhan. The wig looks bad and the make up makes him looks older.

If you have watched the anime, then watching this might induce you to rage. Just treat this drama as something else entirely instead of an adaptation. You can try watching at your own risk. Who knows that you will able to tolerate it.

The BGM is very atrocious. The sound director seems to have an alien taste in music.

I see, I have never read about the info that Xiao Zhan fans started to encouraging 4 stars instead of 5. From all the forum discussion I have read on douban, Xiao Zhan is very rarely talked in bad way. Yes, some of original fans criticized him for bad acting but I think that comment just made in anger and frustration because Xiao Zhan didn't depict the "correct" Tang San which mainly was the fault of script.

Yea, I also hear about The Wolf and The Legend of Fei scandal. As far as I know it was the fight between Xiao Zhan fans vs Wang Yi Bo fans. It was rather crazy in my opinion. I never understand why the fans of both actors are in each other throat since both were getting popular because acting as a "couple" in the same drama.

No no, I meant she transformed into human so that her progeny will not no longer have a soul beast trait or DNA or anything. But she, herself, still counted as soul beast.

The soul hall want her because she is still counted as soul beast. And soul beast who has transformed as human is deemed to be weaker so easier prey.

Yes, I am agree with you. Even with the spur of traffic fans and black fans, douban score is more or less still could be trusted. The amount of passer-by drama watcher in China topped those of fans. Not all passer-by in China is loving this drama. There are people who think this adaptation to be boring.

In Douluo Continent case, the IP is already very big so the evaluation from original fans will take a quite big chunk of percentage.

I think the people are banking too much on the original fans acceptance on this drama. As I see it from the war in the douban forum, the fight is not between fans and antifans. It is between actor/drama fans and original fans.

All negative review mainly come from original fans which frustration more or less the same as ours that depicted in our special thread. The actor/drama fans labelled those who give 1 star as hater while the original fans who see lots of 5 star fight back saying that all of them just actor fans (which mean their 5 star is biased and not truly reflected the drama true value).

In a way, the fight happens here in MDL more or less mirroring those in douban (the ones in douban just uglier and more brutal). I very much doubt there would be any producer want to make season 2 with this kind of situation, even more so whether Xiao Zhan still want to reprise his role as Tang San. And without Xiao Zhan, the season 2 will collapsed. As I see it, the only thing that holding this drama together is curious original fans and Xiao Zhan fans. By season 2, the disgusted original fans will not bother to check again. And the traffic brought by Xiao Zhan will also gone along with him. The pure drama fans will not be enough to support season 2.

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The slaughter city arc is quite brutal. Therefore, we predict it will never pass the censorship.

About Tang San being half and half, he was born from his mother that has transformed to human. He is 100% human thus. He will get some awakening because of his blood from his mother later on that change his appearance and his blue silver plant to emperor blue silver plant. Because his mother practically the Queen of blue silver and thus making him akin to royalty in blue plant world.

Is this really true? I mean, we will never have Sea God Trial arc in this Douluo Continent drama while the premise of UTS in banked on Tang San being a god. Are they gonna change this as well??????

Quite a lot. We have a special thread for comparison discussion. You can join us in "Novel Fans and Donghua Fans Sanctuary". You can find the link above in Recent Discussion section.