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pretty damn good

very good tension, yearning, intensity. good acting, this is a pleasant surprise

yeah some of us notice good acting and for others the bar is incredibly low so “good” is everywhere

this is cute, quite enjoyable! as many short kbl, its underdeveloped but if you can see past that you’re golden

i saw the ep count and ep duration and knew what to expect, so i enjoyed it enough but yeah its rating is accurate. its ok, brief and undercooked but thats what i expected

aside from the shitty ai in the opening, this is quite good so far. im at ep 6

lool

yeah my love for fantasy books is how it all started

oh mine is very cgi heavy lol. to me as a fantasy lover in general id rather cgi be at 80% and get more of it than at 100% and barely get a sprinkle like in western fantasy so i REALLLY appreciate cdramas for this 😆

well i also was disappointed with all 3 you mentioned and dropped blossom at ep 14. i loved fated hearts and prisoner of beauty. its not certain but our tastes seems to overlap somewhat.

id say cdramas have better everything in historicals and fantasy, and kdramas master modern ones. you might feel differently idk

but i think mo li is worth a shot. not if you expect it to be flawless, but what is? mo li isnt romance first tho, so thats something to keep in mind.

the most swoony one ive ever seen was Moonlight Mystique. again, its not flawless, but its my favorite cdrama because it tapped into something very subjective in my heart. there are better ones among my favorites but MM i could rewatch endlessly. (i prefer fantasy to pure historical but love both)

the last jasmine doesnt fall off the same way for instance pursuit of jade does in its latter half.
there are flaws to the last jasmine but if you love a complex plot with complex well crafted characters i do recommend it. it has a low-key approach so it takes a while to notice things arent what they seem generally. its flawed but great.

do you like historicals with mystery and revenge that are extremely well acted and quite well written?

this was truly great! some flaws that will bother some more than others.

i dinged it a bit for what seems like some AI use.

(all i can do is sigh to that, i wonder where such things will take us. i cannot guarantee if i knew they’d used Ai i wouldve eveb started this. my feelings on this are extremely conflicted because otherwise this was great)

that helps a bit, but modern techniques are obvious to my eye and a struggle. perhaps its just me

the worst thing about this is that they allow actresses to wear big long clearly modern fake nails

well we have to disagree because i feel kissing should be a sync activity inherently to come across believably, because it is so irl, no matter how mature or mild or restrained the solve is. i dont need them to get closer, or have deep kisses, or do anything extra. i just think their tiny movements during the kiss shouldnt seem so disjointed.

but id better off if i didnt notice or cared about such things, after all they arent paramount to enjoying the story.

this helps me understand why there’s such a discrepancy, thank you so much

i agree, its hard. and i in no way meant steamy kisses. i meant just rythm sync. they dont have it so it comes across more pretendy than ideal

no you misunderstood. i dont want steamy kisses. i want the actors to have the same rythim tho. unfortunately here they dont so it looks more like pretending than if they did kiss in the same rythm. you know, modest kissing but in sync

well did you notice at least that it doesnt have the rhythm sync, cos i also think they are sweet and dont expect anything steamy dont get me wrong but they dont have the same rythm when they kiss so it looks a but well, like they are pretending

ohhh is that it? did moonlight mystique not air on tv then? is this what always happens when something is meant for tv there?

i dont have an issue on that regard. i think bai lu has had better chemistry with people but its not bad by any means here. just it doesnt translate to the kisses for some reason