Zhou_Lu

Their mature era is even better so yes, keep watching!

I think we are disagreeing on what cliffhanger means traditionally. Chinese dramas usually end with revelations, or an accident, or a confession, leaving reactions or consequences to continue fluidly into the next episode. Whereas, what I call bad cliff hangers is when the villian is about to tell something important, or lips are about to touch ( a la today's episode) , or the sword is about to fall... It leaves you with a sense of incompleteness which you will never find satisfaction from even in the next episode.

Classic C-drama style has softer endings with chapter like pacing. They tend to focus on character realisation, scene transitions, or a resolution. So I do whole heartedly diagree that chinese dramas usually have cliff hangers, they don't.

Maybe we are watching different dramas! Conversations continuing sure, conversations revealing secrets and then next episode sure, but I am yet to see a secret being on the edge of the lips and the episode ending 😂😂😂 like many many asian dramas do. Double panning reactions and echoing dialogues...

They have been focussing on everything but the cp .. There are scenes here and there but there is more focus on other characters which I don't mind but the pacing has been really slow. When everything else is great, the pacing really needs to be addressed.

I hate watching these in Netflix, doesn't feel right. Stretching schedule of the drama to cover the entire month is ridiculous. Chinese dramas drop all episodes withing 2 weeks , and I also have never experienced exasperating cliff hangers towards end of an episode like they did in this last episode...it is always if there's a kiss then kiss and then carry the kiss as the next episode starts, or if there's a killer shot, the shot is fired but nobody is left wondering if death is coming! For regular audience these are western tactics that even Korean dramas succumbed to and largely disliked by many viewers. Not having them like this is one of the many reasons at least I watch chinese dramas.

Right! Enough good things have been spoiled in the desire to be acknowledged globally, look at bts! It's not crazy to think it might happen to chinese dramas one day! In this case i wouldn't mind some insular self preservation kicking in.

In the beginning it often looks harmless, so I am extremely wary. I will not be able bear having another one of my favourite things going down the drain because of this.

The more Chinese dramas I am seeing on Netflix the more it feels like they DO have a target international audience and adapting unfortunately.

Personally stopping the drama till the end now...hear hear we are putting our self control to the test but it is much needed...

It's not that we want only fight scenes, but the story has fallen in pace in last 4 episodes and the war will bring it back on track.

At this point I'm of a very strong opinion that C -dramas should not fall into the trap of American drama style/ format of dropping one episode here and another episode there and dragging the story, like how they have terribly influenced korean drama industry after netflix started putting its money in. Please don't fall into that pit dear Chinese drama lords!!!

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Also, if it doesn't pick up soon gonna have to update my rating

Never has a viewership waited for war quite like this 😬

Today's episodes have been mid at best...sad ffwd

A great team effort , everyone did a good job! it is the Art Director we need to specially thank! Xie Xie Wang Yi Fan!!!!

We cannot complain, ZLH is just too handsome with his aura in this one...

What! Noooo, is that not his real voice?!!!

thanks for sharing. well that clearly sucks.