antiherodiaries

Omgad if I was the director I'd be so pissed. Like NO ONE consulted me. But you know, directors for dramas don't get enough praise and creative power. The first half of this drama proves that if they get the creative power it would be amazing.

I studied film and animation, so I FEEL your pain. 😭

I guess I'll bee some of y'all at Love beyond the grave 😘 Im praying so hard the production team don't butcher General Duan like how POJ butchered Xie Daren.

wait the lasr half was edited by a different team? 🥴💀☠️ what kind of slop is that? Who authorize this shannegans!?

Not sure about the how the drama gonna do it but in the novel, he's an anti villian. He was framed to became a villian, and everything afterwards was doing evil things to avenge the death of his love but also to preserve her reputation.

You're not alone. I've been complaining too. Anyone who cares for good storytelling is up in arms.

Girl I forgot about that scene in LLTG. You are correct, the drama still managed to convey his credibility. And you know, the missed opportunity for one on one fight between SYQ and Xie Zhang outside the camp, I WAS so mad, I screamed. 🤣

hmmmmmm...this is also a problem. ☠️💀

I guess it's really depends on the story...sometimes it doesn't work. I've seen way to many failed attempt.

What if the novel is FL centric, but the world-building positions the male character in a space where the visual storytelling is essential to make him believable? Then, I will complain too because it breaks down the world-building and complexity of the realtionship between the FL and ML. If he was just meant to be eye candy, then just say so...why waste pages and screentime on him (because male centric stories don't even pretend that women are eye candy and unapologetically writes thier female characters as support).

The drama gave him the Yuanzhou army but he actually only controls the Xie family Military, and the 100 Blood calvary (the most elite soldiers).

They just lucky he loves her cus if it's novel Xie Daren, they would have been clutching thier pearls for dear life.

They don't film in order so this doesn't track. It's the writing and editing. A weak script will lead to weak editing. A weak director will lead to a terrible drama. Jade fortunately had a good director so it managed to get some things right.

I agree with you. I'm just saying the lack of action for Buyi worked better than for Xie Daren because of the time and place of the story. But yes, they were telling us and not showing us enough. What I did love about Buyi character is that we did get to see his revenge come to fruitation so in the end, we still leave the narrative with closure. I am doubtful we will get that with the Marquis.

No we did not need her. She shows up in the novel in the third act and had like three scenes. Her contribution to the story is that she is Gong's "spy" in the palace. They could've still kept her character as is, and it wouldn't hurt the narrative.

It's balanced...starts from the FL but jumps back and forth between both of them.

I'm halfway. It's so good. I like this writer quite a bit actually, very detailed, so makes it for a slow read. Have to pay attention.

Dear drama gods,
Please please please do not downgrade the ML. My heart can't take it again.

What or who do I need to sacrafice so we get a balance narrative and great adaptation? 🤣

You have brought up a really good point. I didn't think of it because it followed the novel very closely. The villiage life also containted alot of CP troupes for the main leads, so there's also alot of wasted time there.

The novel is set up like this which I think in terms of writing, it's actually very unique: Slice of life (first act), military intrigue (second act) and palace politics (third act). So I had anticipated it like so. the issue is the second act takes over several months, many of them could been summed up in a nice montage with voice over if they are running of space. But they chose to go back the slice of life humor found in the first act coupled with the CP shennegans, that we ended up with all the character development (which took place on the battlefield) to be less than compelling.

I don’t think my point came across clearly. In a 40-episode drama like Chasing Jade, the screenwriter spent too much time catering to CP fans and failed to craft a concise narrative within the given timeframe.

You can still include romance like your point, K-dramas have been doing this effectively for years within a 12–16 episode structure. In Chasing Jade, however, it feels like screen time was sacrificed for marketing-driven moments rather than a well-developed, cohesive story.