For the ones curious about what happen in the original novel "Offering salted fish to master" it's short…
It's like Back From The Brink's adaptation then: adding an unnecessary lusty SML that nobody needed, adding an extra big bad (which in BFTB also kind of kills the "point" of the story quite a bit).
Hi did wdbtd reach billion views in china. I heard if it is popular in china they are high chances it will be…
On Netflix you would always have a lacking translation anyway. There's already a lot of harder to comprehend details in this one with the regular English subs.
I also didn’t mind the amnesia plots as much in this one because of how well they were handled. The FL on some…
It's actually like 3 hours, but at least it's not painful to watch.
Y'know, several hours of a second lead tricking a main lead into thinking that they've been the other main lead all along. That stuff. You don't have that here.
So many things are left unexplained,how did the villain even fall in love with her, and how on earth did the general…
Since she "lost her cultivation/power" during confinement, she presumably wasn't able to. And he was shown as fully aware that he was a "scoundrel", and desiring the FL for her being extraordinary and having unbending will.
I suspect that this show either had an incredibly low budget for their ambitions, or some parts of the production were very lazy or rushed. From all major dramas I've watched, this is the one with the worst production levels.
There are continuity errors, marks disappearing from shot to shot. Not only is the dubbing quality on the lower end, but there's little care put into lip syncing. Wildly inconsistent audio levels, with the viewer sometimes having to adjust their volume several times per episode. In one scene crew walks around in the background.
That's beyond issues with the plot, censorship, different magic colors by character/group not really making sense, etc.
YunXi x MuSheng question:I didn't find it explained what happened between Yun Xi and Lu Mu Sheng.
The show does not clearly explain if she is a villainous man-eater or an innocent wife of a humble scholar.
In EP09, sect leader Su Ying vaguely accuses Yun Xi of going after Mu Sheng for "revenge", while he credits Yun Xi for "saving him", and that they spent "twenty years" together.
EP11, 28 minutes, and EP16, 26 minutes, there are sequence of her & his memories respectively, but neither shine light onto that.
EP38, 11 minutes in, we learn what happened for Mu Sheng to "need" dragon armor / heart-guarding scale, but nothing of what came after.
Ye Gods, the cast is amazing but the acting in this is terrible, and the dubbing is even worse.Throw in the script…
Some of the production quality (camera work, CGI) is so low it feels like they filmed it in 2014 and found it in a bin ten years later. We discussed dropping it in ep 1 due to the horribly misaligned audio & super-obvious dubbing that makes the acting look off. Maybe the acting isn't even that bad, but the dubbing prevents immersion. ML's acting also gets better I suppose (though nowhere near his best).
And the 1970s Star Wars/Star Trek costume aliens, like what is up with those.
Someone recommanded me this drama on reddit. Tell me HONESTLY, does this drama fit what I'm looking for?- A wuxia…
Especially in the first episodes the dubbing is so awful and intrusive I have no words for it. A lot of questionable CGI, but also peculiar creature head costumes. Otherwise I could imagine people saying it checks those boxes. Not really "steamy" though, and the acting's in the eye of the beholder.
(But Gao Han is really cute here.)
https://mydramalist.com/discussions/693413-xian-yu/144800-scripts-posted-by-official-wdbtd-accounts-but-is-not-in-the-drama gives you some more post-ending content, and some extra pictures and even a video of the silly second extra bit.
Y'know, several hours of a second lead tricking a main lead into thinking that they've been the other main lead all along. That stuff. You don't have that here.
And he was shown as fully aware that he was a "scoundrel", and desiring the FL for her being extraordinary and having unbending will.
There are continuity errors, marks disappearing from shot to shot. Not only is the dubbing quality on the lower end, but there's little care put into lip syncing. Wildly inconsistent audio levels, with the viewer sometimes having to adjust their volume several times per episode. In one scene crew walks around in the background.
That's beyond issues with the plot, censorship, different magic colors by character/group not really making sense, etc.
The CGI issues and flawed production you mention stay issues til the end.
In EP09, sect leader Su Ying vaguely accuses Yun Xi of going after Mu Sheng for "revenge", while he credits Yun Xi for "saving him", and that they spent "twenty years" together.
EP11, 28 minutes, and EP16, 26 minutes, there are sequence of her & his memories respectively, but neither shine light onto that.
EP38, 11 minutes in, we learn what happened for Mu Sheng to "need" dragon armor / heart-guarding scale, but nothing of what came after.
Does the novel have anything more?: I guess https://mydramalist.com/discussions/hu-xin/98829-spoilers-ask-questions-and-find-answers?pid=2570487&page=1#p2570487 answers it.
I didn't find it explained what happened between Yun Xi and Lu Mu Sheng.
More like the well-established school of dead fish kissing.
We discussed dropping it in ep 1 due to the horribly misaligned audio & super-obvious dubbing that makes the acting look off. Maybe the acting isn't even that bad, but the dubbing prevents immersion.
ML's acting also gets better I suppose (though nowhere near his best).
And the 1970s Star Wars/Star Trek costume aliens, like what is up with those.
A lot of questionable CGI, but also peculiar creature head costumes.
Otherwise I could imagine people saying it checks those boxes. Not really "steamy" though, and the acting's in the eye of the beholder.