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I am 12 episodes in and it certainly looks like a reboot (of the original). This covers main adventure in the 1st lost tomb series (with Yang Yang as xiaoge) and the first part of lost tomb 2 (with cheng yi as xiaoge).

So far, pacing is very good and they bridge the two adventures well. It helped that I'm prepared for an ending where things remains unresolved. That is like a given for a lost tomb show. But I think I have a good idea where this series will end (given the number of episodes left). And if I am right, that is a pretty good place for a series break.

I noticed that this series is with tencent now. Tencent did great with candle in the tomb - releasing multiple series with the same cast till the full story is completed. I really hope they'd do that with Lost tomb too.

I have watched the new generation x-sister stage too. It's a bit disappointing. Lee is great, but she completely overshadowed the rappers.

I think I have now seen all the stages I care to watch in the 5th round. Since I have no intention of watching a finale with TOP in it, I am officially dropping the show and have rated it.

I felt like a 6 is being generous, given the ridiculously obvious TOP bias and that most of the stages this season are good but nothing new/fresh. But I do like all the teams except TOP (thank you mango for making me dislike them intensely because of the unfairness), so I can't bring myself to rate it lower.

Wow!! Just watched 0713 x-sister stage. It is so good. Very touching and artistic. The singing, dancing, and acting are all top notch. This is one of my favorite stages of the season so far.

I found the x-brothers x-sister stage too. It is pretty. But as a Cantonese speaker, except for Max Zhang, the singing is a bit off. Also, the two brothers don’t look at each other like rivals in their "dance-off" to get the girl's attention. Because of that, the character relationships are not as clear as it should be.

I just found the GBA x-sister stage. It is so creepy!! I personally do not like it at all, but I think it was very well acted (and thus super creepy).

I only watch the first x-men stage so far. I thought it was very good and touching, but I got so angry with the scores I had to take a break. Hotdog is the creative leader of the song. The performance would not exist without him. Yet, he scored lower than TOP kid by 20 point for the song. It is basically an FU to what matters most in an artistic performance.

I knew I should have just watched the stages but I was lazy and thought it should be ok if I fast-forward through the episode. But no, it was not ok. I'll just wait for the individual stages to be uploaded.

I just watched the 3rd performance. How in the world fif Boa Lian score so low? It's so artistic and has great energy. It was my 2nd favorite after Ching Fai.

To make it worse, TOP was out of breath and out of tune on their PK dance stage and still got first in the PK. I mean, seriously?! I've seen trainees do better on idol competition shows.

0713 and INTO1 were both better by a lot. 0713 performance was touching and the harmony was so good. INTO1 performance was energetic with powerful vocals.

They never bothered hiding their bias for TOP. But this is just too bady rigged. I wonder how much TOP's company paid Mango. I wished they would just make a ahow for them instead of ruin call me by fire. I think I will just go watch one of the previous season or 0713 in go for happiness

OMG! Seriously?! I have been a fan since S1 but this season is not the same show anymore. It is clear that the production team has decided that TOP is untouchable and will just manipulate the competition rules or fake the scores so that they can eliminate the more experienced groups that kept pushing themselves and giving refreshing and better performances. I took a break after the 2nd performance; and from everything I've heard, I don’t think this show deserves my time anymore. I will probably not watch any other mango music competition shows again either. It is clear that fairness meant nothing to their production teams.

I am on episode two. I love costume mysteries in general. But the casting of this show is really throwing me off. The FL looks oldest among the leads and far older than 18. She did not play her character like a teenage girl either. The magistrate ML looks too fresh-faced relative to her. Only the traveler ML looks the right age for the character.

I'm old and like mature leads. But if they were going to go that route with FL, they should not make the character 18! It's just not believable, which is a big minus for a detective drama.

I took a break after ep 20 and finally finished. I thought the pace picked up a lot in the latter episodes; and the storytelling from there through the resolution of the Haiya mystery was great.

Then came the big reveal that I had kind of guessed. I know I am the minority but I actually found the episodes after the reveal not believable. Aside from the ML getting way with speaking to the emperor the way he did, it's like they made the ML stupid so that the big bad can be smug and all-knowing.

Even I know what the big bad is planning when he turned himself in. How can ML fall for it and not see it as a ploy to enter the prison? If ML had even half the brain he normally had, big bad would have been stopped before the 2nd "holy beast" case. It is like the writers decided that making sense is less important than building big bad up as worthy adversary to ML.

The whole back-and-forth cycle of plan/counter in the last arc defies logic at multiple points. And then, everything conveniently culminated in a situation that justified a previous plot element that I (and others) had disliked and complained about. I like happy endings where everything is wrapped up, but this one just felt too convenient and forced to me.

Still, it is a fun and engaging watch. I gave it an 8.5 overall. It would have been 9+ if not for the beginning and the end (neither of which I liked).

I love the show and thought the chemistry is great. But I can kind of see what you mean by the romance. I am an introvert by nature. I think the ML is introverted too. To be honest, as an introvert, I would run the other way instead of fall for FL.

But the ML sold me on the romance somehow. I can see the look in his eyes change when he watches her. At first, it was just curiosity about someone he can't really comprehend. It changed to amusement by her antics pretty quickly; and it slowly got more pensive like he is wondering if being more open with his emotions like her is the 'better way' (despite the inevitable pain).

Li Lun is involved but he did not do the killing. I think it’s worth watching a bit more to finish the ML's back-story. There are more pacing issues in the latter episodes but that's what the fast forward button is for :P

I took a break after 30 because it was starting to feel repetitive (with the plague again). I just restarted and am less than one episode further and it's the dream/fantasy life again.

I love the early episodes. But like I posted before, I think the plot/pacing really went downhill after the failed ceremony, when they sidelined the ML and promoted SML to main driver of the story. It's not so much that the SML is less engaging. It's more like the story just kind of repeats, like they ran out of ideas. They even "kill" the same characters twice....

The show started going downhill around 20. I had to take a break when the kid got snatched from someone's hold at the scene of a car crash. That was so unbelievable and unrealistic, like the case with the girl with the heart disease and the "aftermath". I just couldn't continue. I re-started a month later and I finally finished it.

I did not have high hopes anymore but I must say the ending still manages to be extremely disappointing. They have time to show flashbacks and an awards ceremony. They certainly have time to show a reunion between RanRan and her mom. They chose not to do it. It almost felt like an insult to the audience who were invested in the story.

I still gave the show an 8 because the first part is one of the most gripping and touching drama I've seen in a while. I just wished they hadn't ruined it towards the end *sigh*

Yes, I know what you mean. I love a "come back" or second chance type story. I just finished episode 4. I thought it is funny they decided not to eliminate a team because TOP was on the bottom. As if they can be any less obvious how biased they are.

Still, all the performances were good and refreshing, except TOP which did yet another "idol" stage. Why aren't Mango making them do something different? I would not be complaining so much if they at least show some growth. They can learn so much from the older brothers but they just all hang out by themselves and keep doing the same thing. I fast-forward whenever they are on screen now.

I don’t think they ever tried to hide it. The screen time and resources given to TOP made it clear to me from episode 1 that they want the show to be a platform for them. I am too old to find kids attractive. I want to see people my age, which is one of the reasons I used to love call me by fire. That said, I took a break last week and am watching episode 3. The silly song selection game was fun as is the xbrothers segment. I'm a little less inclined to drop the show now than I was (after episode 2) despite the clear TOP bias.

I finally finished the show too. I also binged the last 6 episodes in a day. I agree with you that something changed midway through the show. I absolutely adore the first half. But the 2nd half felt both rushed and slow at the same time.

The first half was slow, but the pacing felt perfect. It takes time for relationships to develop, and the ML's hesitation and inner struggle around his feelings towards FL really resonated with me. His quiet slow journey towards love is such a great contrast to the FL's determined (at times exaggerated) positive energy.

But in the 2nd half, there are more happening story-wise. There are scenes that felt unfinished and a little disconnected. I felt that the bittersweet emotional core, which is what I love about the show, wasn't given enough time to shine.

Yet, at the same time, because the plot itself isn't that novel or interesting, some of the scenes that were needed to move the plot but weren't directly linked to the central love story (and SML's character journey because of it) felt long and dragged out.

The 1st half was a 10 for me even though I don't usually watch romance. As much as the 2nd half is less good by comparison, it is probably still a 9 since I cried twice for ML in that half (instead of 'just' almost crying in the 1st half).

I finished one more "episode" with a lot fast forwarding. It's clear they want the show to be a platform for TOP. I agree comments that the show has run its course. I am seriously thinking about dropping and just catching the 0713 and xbrothers performances later on the pure stage videos

Me too. The best part of the show was the friendship and different artists working together to give surprisingly great performances. I love 0713, but some of the best parts of season 3 stemmed from Choi Kwok Hing breaking up the four of them.

I also don't like including TOP. Can't they let viewers who don't want to watch teeny boppers have 1 show to watch? Sure, they dance well, but all 3 performances I've seen is just dancing.

I'd honestly prefer to watch some of the older non-experts learn new skills. That was always what impressed me the most since season 1. Established artists jumping out of their comfort zone. Champion dancers learning to sing, Terry Lin rapping, Chen Chu Sheng and Gem dancing.

I've only seen the 1st "episode" and I needed the liberal use of the fast forward button to do that. I will probably not drop as long as 0713 and xbrothers and the HK team are there but I'm honestly not enjoying this season at all.

I stopped mid-20 so that I can accumulate episodes and binge. I am excited that I can finally watch again this weekend.

I think this is a much better show when binged than watched a few episodes at a time. There are plot points and actions that comes off as annoying and stupid at the time that later on become important and made sense.

I love the show now, but I would probably have dropped at episode 2 or 3 if I didn’t have the first 10 on hand when I started. It took a few episodes for the show to hit its stride, so I suspect a lot of the low ratings came from those who didn't get past the start.