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Started watching the 1st episode and Han Solo's "I have a bad feeling about this" came to mind. It was indeed a very tall order and it's unfair to even try to compare what this season 2 may become to season 1. Therefore, I'll treat this as a different story that has nothing to do with season 1. Expecting even a faint semblance was asking for too much. 🙄

It is already too long as it is. I cannot imagine it even longer.

This one was bad. I've seen much worse but it does not exempt this series' bad acting, boring script and left-to-be-desired production. In a few years this series' actors should perform better.

This series is entertaining. However, after watching others like Ever Night, Guardians of the Dafeng, Pursuit of Jade, and similar, it's very difficult to give this one a similar rate. Neverthless, it's a good watch.

For me this was an average series. It started well, then became really boring, and finally improved near the end. Some scenes were hard to go through whereas others were funny and well written. So, in a nutshell, watching the first three pr four episodes, then the last three gives a good gist of the whole story. The acting was all over the place, with some good and others barely passable. 7/10 is a generous rating.

FL realized it was the ML who really loved her. 2ML betrayed her and shot ML in a frozen lake. FL got into "berzerk mode". The final scene did not show what happened later (i.e. if ML died and what FL did).

It appears that the "battlefield" ratings became even bloodier than the real war ones. We can see how fan clubs rage battles that even go as low as attacking the actors' personal lives if that makes their ratings dive. It's really sad, but it is what it is. When an actor exposes him/herself to public life, it comes with the job. For me, this was an excellent drama, the actors and production did a phenomenal job and the rest is just noise. Pretty much the old saying "the dogs bark but the caravan goes on". 😉

So, the scenes showing scenes replicating season 1's are like recaps? Hopefully there won't be many. Trying to make the new actors perform like the original ones will be a very tall order.

That will be very good! Thanks!

Fated Hearts not in the list?

I did not know that. If the case, they will not be able to improve the Princess Agents' bathtub scene. Pursuit of Jade went up several notches with its bathtub scene. 😁

I would. It's an excellent series and gives a baseline for this one.

True. There some exceptions but they are very few.

Humm... not sure. That emperor was batshit crazy and, despite genuinely loving the sister, he had to go. Either going to war and dying there or killed by the half brother, he had to go. He murdered people for nothing and had no governance skills.

Weren't they talking about that village where people escaping wars moved to?

Same for me. Nirvana in Fire season 1 and Joy of Life season 1 are a solid 10 for me. Things get hazy when I consider season 2 of both series. In that case, they all are a match for me 9/10).

Based on the trailers and other info so far, it's feeling like a remake. If so, you do not need to watch that series. However, it was an excellent series with excellent actors and production. Therefore, you might enjoy it.

Yeah. I've also been wondering about that. Right now it feels more like a remake. If it ends like that, the actors and directors have a very tall order to match.

I do not expect to find anything close to reality in those dramas, but hope for some logical outcomes. Therefore, my ending: ML would go rescue sister but would find the emperor and his mother dead and he would kill the crazy half-bother as he tried to harm his sister. However, becauee his sister was pregnant with the emperor's son, she would stay and her son would be the future emperor. ML and FL would stay to protect and help the sister while monitoring ML's brother ruling their country. Yeah, big kumbayah, but isn't that what most of these dramas are? 😉

Is Edward Guo also the screenwriter?