Just sitting here refreshing my YOUKU app and mydramalist page 🤣 Everytime anyone comes near me I’m like ‘I’m busy! 😠’ And I am! Busy waiting for TZ and YD.
Just thinking, I remember people thinking YY should have been braver at the beginning and defied the heavenly emperor. But I think being brave and dying together is only something two people who truly understand each other can do.
I don’t think YY realised until after the forgetting river (when she refused to cross) how much she loved him. He always knew the depth of his love for YD (that’s why he took the love punishment) - but you don’t truly know anyone else’s, and he thought that there was a possibility she could forget him and live happily - which if it were most people could probably be the case. Even lamp gave him up at the end and wanted to consume him instead.
In the first arc, when YY didn’t understand YD, to make YD suffer the love punishment (where most gods die) was not an option when he truly believed she could move on and forget him. So he took the love punishment alone because he can only be confident in his own love for her. But in the third arc, they will suffer it together because they now know that neither wants to live without the other.
Every time they release new episodes I finish and then I’m like ‘was that it?? 😭😭😭?’ I just can’t seem to get enough. I just want to see them happy together 🥺
It’s making me so sad seeing TZ getting so weak. I can see how YD has no choice but to restore him since he’s dying but my god it’s going to kill me when TZ dies 😭
I wish YD would be honest with him. She wanted honesty from YY in the heavens but now she’s the one not being honest. Now TZ feels unloved and is in pain. She should tell him she loves him but he’s dying, that’s better than pretending she doesn’t!
Although, maybe that’s what she does in the next few episodes because it looks like she softens a lot and he’s sad because he’s not the first one she loved.
I think I love this more than TMoPB (or I might be swept up in the emotion, we shall see how often I rewatch it!).
But that is not something I say lightly as that’s my benchmark for emotional and epic xian xia. But IS is just heartwrenching and so many of the scenes, even when I jump in and out of them make me feel so much emotion. In TMoPB the most import thing for me was how excellent Mark Chao was at delivering the emotional scenes and the CP feel of the main couple, they were really well matched in emotions and looks. Your heart ached for Ye Hua. I feel like Cheng Yi really pushes IS up to that level, as does Yang Zi. The focus is really on the actors in IS and their expressions and emotions. I go full on ugly sobbing mode in the ep 39 scene when she rejects TZ.
I have seen many xian xia and costume drama since TMoPB and a lot of them felt like they were just box ticking for the audience, like yes to up and coming leads, yes to bickering and the suffering, the CGI and the misunderstanding. It’s easy to make a big budget xian xia, but not easy to make one that stays with you for so long.
One of the other highlights is the lack of episode upon episode of filler. Despite there being some filler (which is debatable since it depends how much you like the side characters) it has far less filler than other xian xia, and each arc is really exciting. (I’m looking at you Pillowbook!!! And your 15 episodes of Feng Jiu being dijun’s cleaner and then pet fox 😅)
During my daily 24 hours of watching IS videos on YouTube I think saw a clip of YD holding the hair pin after she has her memories back and looking sad. She didn’t destroy it. yay! So happy. She must have just done the same disappearing trick as YY.
This video is hilarious. I’m not sure how much can be understood without translating, but it’s a short of the differences between Xuan Ye and YY (The title says ‘The difference between green tea (used to mean someone sly who pretends to be innocent to get an advantage) and the sweet naive boy.
Scenario 1 - when you break things. XY - immediately apologise, gain sympathy YY - blame someone else
Scenario 2 - in the presence of heavenly emperor XY - keeps looking at RQ YY - pretending he can’t see YD 🤣
Scenario 3 - confessing XY - brave and upfront YY - I don’t feel love, I only have responsibilities
Scenario 4 - when getting hurt for love XY - ‘Argh! I don’t think I got hurt enough. I’ll hit myself to get more sympathy.’ YY - wait until YD has left, then goes to take punishment. Suffer in silence. 🤣
Scenario 5 - when you discover you want to be with them XY - immediately gets married YY - gets married in a dream 🤣
One of the fan videos (of the hundreds I watch 🤣) predicts that in the final battle YY will sacrifice himself to protect everyone. But YD manages to save a part of his celestial spirit. His celestial spirit then takes a hundred years to become a person and then they are free to be together again and live in the mortal realm 🥹 That would be nice because I can’t see them getting out of the battle unscathed. I hope he’s not a mortal though, I want them to live forever.
There’s a clip of a new-ish kiss scene at the beginning of this. At least a different shot (full length) of one I’ve seen before. I think it’s probably the ending scene. YY/YD look so in love 🥹🥰 Nobody is standing like a block of wood 😌
I have to admit I don’t understand the rotating in Chinese drama kissing 😅 This one is ok, but sometimes it spins so much it takes me out of the moment because it’s so weird! I understand different angles, but spinning in a circle? Do kdrama do revolving kisses?? 🤔 can’t think of one.
Does that mean YZ did this drama because she liked the script and Cheng Yi? 😍 Shipper mode activated, haha.…
Shipper mode deactivated. Sad now 😢
In my opinion this is a real highlight of YZ’s career. I loved her in GGS, but it didn’t test her acting ability and her modern drama scripts are so so. She really grew up in this drama for me.
😭😢
I can’t believe he’s leaving us 😢
Wish they’d left in the scene with her protecting him
I don’t think YY realised until after the forgetting river (when she refused to cross) how much she loved him. He always knew the depth of his love for YD (that’s why he took the love punishment) - but you don’t truly know anyone else’s, and he thought that there was a possibility she could forget him and live happily - which if it were most people could probably be the case. Even lamp gave him up at the end and wanted to consume him instead.
In the first arc, when YY didn’t understand YD, to make YD suffer the love punishment (where most gods die) was not an option when he truly believed she could move on and forget him. So he took the love punishment alone because he can only be confident in his own love for her. But in the third arc, they will suffer it together because they now know that neither wants to live without the other.
It’s making me so sad seeing TZ getting so weak. I can see how YD has no choice but to restore him since he’s dying but my god it’s going to kill me when TZ dies 😭
I wish YD would be honest with him. She wanted honesty from YY in the heavens but now she’s the one not being honest. Now TZ feels unloved and is in pain. She should tell him she loves him but he’s dying, that’s better than pretending she doesn’t!
Although, maybe that’s what she does in the next few episodes because it looks like she softens a lot and he’s sad because he’s not the first one she loved.
New snippets I haven’t seen. I’m SO ready for new IS!!!!
I think I love this more than TMoPB (or I might be swept up in the emotion, we shall see how often I rewatch it!).
But that is not something I say lightly as that’s my benchmark for emotional and epic xian xia. But IS is just heartwrenching and so many of the scenes, even when I jump in and out of them make me feel so much emotion. In TMoPB the most import thing for me was how excellent Mark Chao was at delivering the emotional scenes and the CP feel of the main couple, they were really well matched in emotions and looks. Your heart ached for Ye Hua. I feel like Cheng Yi really pushes IS up to that level, as does Yang Zi. The focus is really on the actors in IS and their expressions and emotions. I go full on ugly sobbing mode in the ep 39 scene when she rejects TZ.
I have seen many xian xia and costume drama since TMoPB and a lot of them felt like they were just box ticking for the audience, like yes to up and coming leads, yes to bickering and the suffering, the CGI and the misunderstanding. It’s easy to make a big budget xian xia, but not easy to make one that stays with you for so long.
One of the other highlights is the lack of episode upon episode of filler. Despite there being some filler (which is debatable since it depends how much you like the side characters) it has far less filler than other xian xia, and each arc is really exciting. (I’m looking at you Pillowbook!!! And your 15 episodes of Feng Jiu being dijun’s cleaner and then pet fox 😅)
This video is hilarious. I’m not sure how much can be understood without translating, but it’s a short of the differences between Xuan Ye and YY (The title says ‘The difference between green tea (used to mean someone sly who pretends to be innocent to get an advantage) and the sweet naive boy.
Scenario 1 - when you break things.
XY - immediately apologise, gain sympathy
YY - blame someone else
Scenario 2 - in the presence of heavenly emperor
XY - keeps looking at RQ
YY - pretending he can’t see YD 🤣
Scenario 3 - confessing
XY - brave and upfront
YY - I don’t feel love, I only have responsibilities
Scenario 4 - when getting hurt for love
XY - ‘Argh! I don’t think I got hurt enough. I’ll hit myself to get more sympathy.’
YY - wait until YD has left, then goes to take punishment. Suffer in silence. 🤣
Scenario 5 - when you discover you want to be with them
XY - immediately gets married
YY - gets married in a dream 🤣
There’s a clip of a new-ish kiss scene at the beginning of this. At least a different shot (full length) of one I’ve seen before. I think it’s probably the ending scene. YY/YD look so in love 🥹🥰 Nobody is standing like a block of wood 😌
I have to admit I don’t understand the rotating in Chinese drama kissing 😅 This one is ok, but sometimes it spins so much it takes me out of the moment because it’s so weird! I understand different angles, but spinning in a circle? Do kdrama do revolving kisses?? 🤔 can’t think of one.
In my opinion this is a real highlight of YZ’s career. I loved her in GGS, but it didn’t test her acting ability and her modern drama scripts are so so. She really grew up in this drama for me.