This is really sad. I wish they could have just released a better final product. The scene cutting is horrible!
I don't know how you are interpreting my reply... I am just sharing my observation that most Cdrama productions these days do not exceed 6 months of filming ... And naturally the drama adaptation should have been locked down in the pre-production stage... so all I am saying is, its a pity they didn't manage to finish the drama the way we all hoped for, but we should at least appreciate this was the best they could do, with that budget and that amount of time...
I know he killed his brothers but don't know about his father. Besides his brothers were all planning to kill…
Glad I could help a little! 😊 There are just so many characters in the novel and also it was confusing because the names in the drama and the novel are different ... its no wonder you cannot remember them heeheee
Exactly, when you read the novel, that scene made more sense and created an emotional stirred. I felt it’s hard…
Novel can supplement what the drama had to cut out...
For eg they removed Fenglong's already limited screen time when he was supposed to have been summoned to Haoling to keep Xiaoyao company, after Xiaoyao went there when Cangxuan got married to Xinyue.
To get to that point, King of Haoling had caught Xiaoyao sitting by herself by the lake, and he offered to snatch the 'Tushan's little fox' for her. He made this offer at an earlier chapter as well.
We didn't see those scenes in the drama but we suddenly saw the Haoling King allude to it in S2 E8... this shows that as long as the novel arc wasn't written out in S2, the events in the novel did happen and can be supplemented to the drama watching .... what a weird way for us to enjoy a piece of content though, but there you have it... haha
Seeing how they barely made the death maze scene work in S1, where the flames are already out by the time the…
CGI is expensive lol Look at where all the CG budget went in the drama... Jing didn't even get to show off his flying mount....
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The burning desert would have been a set that needed to look like Dune + Constantine ( the movies ) combined lol I really don't think they got that expertise to make it happen... and they would also need prosthetics for Ah Heng... I shuddered at what they achieved for Sang Tian'er...
Its just sad that drama Xiaoyao won't get her proper closure over her parents... I cried buckets when I read that chapter...
This is really sad. I wish they could have just released a better final product. The scene cutting is horrible!
Well since I don't know how they spent their budget...we can only speculate...
A 6 month long shoot seems to be the maximum these days... For big names like Yangzi, taking half a year from her schedule is a big deal already... I don't think production can ask for a few months more from her...
As for quality, to be honest, LYF did their best to look polished...I have seen so many other sloppy xianxia dramas just full of flashy scenes but lacking heart... LYF doesn't lack that.. In fact, they cut down so many CG scenes and made sure the ones they do execute, looks relatively good.
Its just sad that they fell in the last few laps and can't end on a high note due to production decisions..
I really love this..❤️..Agree with all those men reaction. But yep XL fans here will never accept to any negative…
Xiangliu got in, but because Xiaoyao didn't see his efforts to get in, even though he later did alot without her knowing, he will not be acknowledged. To me that is what TH wants to show.
Lmao. You make it sound like Xiang Liu was able to "enter" Xiao Yao's heart because of the bugs, when the truth,…
I am very sure that when Xiangliu took on the bugs, neither he nor Wen Xiaoliu 'loved' each other at that point at all... The old Lirong uncle already warned him, that the bugs are not well understood, and taking them on will 'lead to endless troubles' which looks like what Xiangliu is going through.
How do you know they have not turned into heartbreak bugs? I really question where Xiangliu is getting his stabbing pain from when he stood there looking at Xiaoyao being carried by Tushan Jing in S1 - is that enough to make him feel heartache over? Isn't that at most a scene that would incite some jealousy? What's that pain about?
When he let her go to Jing in S2, and he sent that stabbing pain to Xiaoyao, I still think that is the constant pain he carries with him, except most times he keeps it suppressed with his spirit power.
Its sad for Xiangliu that you all keep moaning about how tragic he is but you overlook the burden he chose to carry by taking on those bugs.
Tonghua having Sang Tian'er, Jing ye, Lirong Chang and Xiangliu all working hard to make sure yaojing is going…
I wonder if you realize what you say because its like commenting about a widow 'is not that upset over losing her husband but probably also because she will have to worry about paying her house mortgage alone now'... You don't call that belittling Xiaoyao's grief over losing Jing? Just to convince yourself that she don't love him' that much'?
Are you completely ignoring how Xiaoyao chose to remain alone for the rest of her lifespan just to remember him and refuse to forgive Cangxuan by staying with him when he offered? She went against her very plan in her life for Jing. I think the author can't make it any clearer than that, how important Jing was to Xiaoyao.
With Ep12, we have passed the halfway point for LYF S2
In the race into Xiaoyao's heart that is "so hard that a man can't get in even after 50 years" shall we summarize the current race standings in a nutshell
Cangxuan : I was already in her heart long before you guys came along... watch me as I keep doing stuff and I will still be her number 1! *confident face*
Tushan Jing: I didn't know I was already in her heart... wow its sure nice in here... just so happy to be here... *blissful face*
Xiangliu: I cheated my way in here with the bugs connection... but now Xiaoyao didn't know I actually wanted to be in her heart... guess the joke's on me now...*wry sad face*
Fenglong: Heart? What heart? I didn't get a memo from Cangxuan to get inside Xiaoyao's heart? We have no time for that now, we got wars to win! *No-time-for-this-shit face*
Seeing the preview for ep 14, I feel robbed of the scene that should have taken place between XY and her mother.…
Seeing how they barely made the death maze scene work in S1, where the flames are already out by the time the guards went in, its no wonder they written out this entire arc.
Budget wise they probably not up to creating an impressive 'Dune' kind of burning desert set...their technology can't show fire realistically and its fine they chose not to endanger their actors trying to achieve it.
Just feel very upset because in drama version, Xiaoyao would never get the emotional payoff that novel Xiaoyao got to see her parents again for the last time... She is still feeling abandoned by her mother and that is such a shame.
Well I enjoyed that... but they shouldn't have cut off XL and Jing's conversation T T
Er... force a romance? Yaojing's romance has always been constantly there since S1... The drama already removed so many sweet scenes from S2 already...including the entire pre-wedding honeymoon...
Production even steals lines from Jing to give to Xiangliu to say... Not being able to choose one's parents, that was originally said by Jing to Xiaoyao before they left Uncle Lirong's place...
As someone have said, Xiangliu plays a mentor/friend role in Xiaoyao's life, if you keep trying to hope for more you are not going to find it in the novel or the drama.
Were XY goes when she is feeling sad and lost? Oh, yes, in search for Xiang Liu.
She did not go searching for Xiangliu. He was just there, because he also 'stalks' her.
After hearing the shocking confirmation, she could only go to the one man she knew who actually knew her father, to ask about him - Old Lirong Uncle.
Looks to me like Xiaoyao will get words of comfort from Xiangliu like he is her 'therapist' but she will always go 'home' into Jing's arms for comfort.
I know he killed his brothers but don't know about his father. Besides his brothers were all planning to kill…
Yes I believe he was very guilty about killing his own father in the novel. He was incoherent and only rambled in front of Xiaoyao and Jing when they visited him so we didn't get much details. There might be more story about this in the prequel of LYF, Once Promised.
The Rebellion of the five princes was the event where his brothers had an uprising that tried to kill him and take over his throne soon after the end of the great war. After Chenrong fell, the world was in chaos, so it was a good time for the tribes to try to destabilize Haoling and take over.
That was the main reason the King decided not to bring Xiaoyao back to Haoling. He thought that it was safer for her at Mount Jade, but he didn't realize she was suffering by herself and would eventually run away.
King of Haoling did not invade other countries. He just focused on ruling his own country and improve the lives of his citizens. As Xiaoyao noted when she returned, the place was more prosperous than she remembered in her childhood. His only known 'weakness' in his rule that he admitted, was that he was uncompromising in his decision to only have one consort in his palace. He indulged himself that one thing which led to difficulty in controlling the different tribes since he couldn't gain support and connections through family but had to do it by 'force'.
This is really sad. I wish they could have just released a better final product. The scene cutting is horrible!
They just shot 60+ eps of footage at one shot over 6 months... S2 was doomed since they have opted to cut out alot of important scenes due to budget limitations so we won't get much emotional payoff that had begun in S1. Yet they want to retain the overall structure of the story... so we end up with so many disjointed scenes and dialogue that gives us whiplash because basically they are just rushing through a checklist of the shots, buffered with plenty of flashback scenes.
Tonghua having Sang Tian'er, Jing ye, Lirong Chang and Xiangliu all working hard to make sure yaojing is going…
XY fell unconscious for a few days after she tried to look for Jing... She just cried a little for Xiangliu... that was what my comparison was based on..
The first assassination attempt, XY nearly died when she was lured out to sea and she gave up fighting her assassin. She was ready to join Jing in the sea... it was clearly written in the novel.. Her grief was so raw that Xiangliu made her take an oath not to die, knowing that he was the one who have Jing in his hands... for that, I don't like the novel XL over this point.
"She lived quite ok without Jing for years" Did you skip all the parts where she kept missing and seeing Jing everywhere? Even after her second assassination attempt, the person she saw in her delirium was Jing. She was not well, every full moon especially, she kept waiting for him to return... the final straw was when she found out, Jing was killed over her.
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And naturally the drama adaptation should have been locked down in the pre-production stage... so all I am saying is, its a pity they didn't manage to finish the drama the way we all hoped for, but we should at least appreciate this was the best they could do, with that budget and that amount of time...
For eg they removed Fenglong's already limited screen time when he was supposed to have been summoned to Haoling to keep Xiaoyao company, after Xiaoyao went there when Cangxuan got married to Xinyue.
To get to that point, King of Haoling had caught Xiaoyao sitting by herself by the lake, and he offered to snatch the 'Tushan's little fox' for her.
He made this offer at an earlier chapter as well.
We didn't see those scenes in the drama but we suddenly saw the Haoling King allude to it in S2 E8... this shows that as long as the novel arc wasn't written out in S2, the events in the novel did happen and can be supplemented to the drama watching .... what a weird way for us to enjoy a piece of content though, but there you have it... haha
They actually had to walk in the burning sea of flames... no ship could have survived there... everything burns away...
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The burning desert would have been a set that needed to look like Dune + Constantine ( the movies ) combined lol I really don't think they got that expertise to make it happen... and they would also need prosthetics for Ah Heng... I shuddered at what they achieved for Sang Tian'er...
Its just sad that drama Xiaoyao won't get her proper closure over her parents... I cried buckets when I read that chapter...
A 6 month long shoot seems to be the maximum these days... For big names like Yangzi, taking half a year from her schedule is a big deal already... I don't think production can ask for a few months more from her...
As for quality, to be honest, LYF did their best to look polished...I have seen so many other sloppy xianxia dramas just full of flashy scenes but lacking heart... LYF doesn't lack that.. In fact, they cut down so many CG scenes and made sure the ones they do execute, looks relatively good.
Its just sad that they fell in the last few laps and can't end on a high note due to production decisions..
To me that is what TH wants to show.
The old Lirong uncle already warned him, that the bugs are not well understood, and taking them on will 'lead to endless troubles' which looks like what Xiangliu is going through.
How do you know they have not turned into heartbreak bugs? I really question where Xiangliu is getting his stabbing pain from when he stood there looking at Xiaoyao being carried by Tushan Jing in S1 - is that enough to make him feel heartache over? Isn't that at most a scene that would incite some jealousy? What's that pain about?
When he let her go to Jing in S2, and he sent that stabbing pain to Xiaoyao, I still think that is the constant pain he carries with him, except most times he keeps it suppressed with his spirit power.
Its sad for Xiangliu that you all keep moaning about how tragic he is but you overlook the burden he chose to carry by taking on those bugs.
You don't call that belittling Xiaoyao's grief over losing Jing?
Just to convince yourself that she don't love him' that much'?
Are you completely ignoring how Xiaoyao chose to remain alone for the rest of her lifespan just to remember him and refuse to forgive Cangxuan by staying with him when he offered? She went against her very plan in her life for Jing. I think the author can't make it any clearer than that, how important Jing was to Xiaoyao.
In the race into Xiaoyao's heart that is "so hard that a man can't get in even after 50 years"
shall we summarize the current race standings in a nutshell
Cangxuan :
I was already in her heart long before you guys came along... watch me as I keep doing stuff and I will still be her number 1! *confident face*
Tushan Jing:
I didn't know I was already in her heart... wow its sure nice in here... just so happy to be here...
*blissful face*
Xiangliu:
I cheated my way in here with the bugs connection... but now Xiaoyao didn't know I actually wanted to be in her heart... guess the joke's on me now...*wry sad face*
Fenglong:
Heart? What heart? I didn't get a memo from Cangxuan to get inside Xiaoyao's heart?
We have no time for that now, we got wars to win! *No-time-for-this-shit face*
"A condition in which a patient is in a state of deep sleep and cannot be awakened."
昏迷 = coma
小夭昏迷了四日，鄞说她身体一切正常，可她却好像得了重病，昏迷不醒。即使在昏迷中，她都会痛苦地颤抖，却就是醒不来。
The novel repeats those words so many times...
Are you seriously just ignoring Xiaoyao's sufferings so you don't have to deal with what it means?
Budget wise they probably not up to creating an impressive 'Dune' kind of burning desert set...their technology can't show fire realistically and its fine they chose not to endanger their actors trying to achieve it.
Just feel very upset because in drama version, Xiaoyao would never get the emotional payoff that novel Xiaoyao got to see her parents again for the last time... She is still feeling abandoned by her mother and that is such a shame.
Production even steals lines from Jing to give to Xiangliu to say...
Not being able to choose one's parents, that was originally said by Jing to Xiaoyao before they left Uncle Lirong's place...
As someone have said, Xiangliu plays a mentor/friend role in Xiaoyao's life, if you keep trying to hope for more you are not going to find it in the novel or the drama.
After hearing the shocking confirmation, she could only go to the one man she knew who actually knew her father, to ask about him - Old Lirong Uncle.
Looks to me like Xiaoyao will get words of comfort from Xiangliu like he is her 'therapist' but she will always go 'home' into Jing's arms for comfort.
The Rebellion of the five princes was the event where his brothers had an uprising that tried to kill him and take over his throne soon after the end of the great war. After Chenrong fell, the world was in chaos, so it was a good time for the tribes to try to destabilize Haoling and take over.
That was the main reason the King decided not to bring Xiaoyao back to Haoling. He thought that it was safer for her at Mount Jade, but he didn't realize she was suffering by herself and would eventually run away.
King of Haoling did not invade other countries. He just focused on ruling his own country and improve the lives of his citizens. As Xiaoyao noted when she returned, the place was more prosperous than she remembered in her childhood.
His only known 'weakness' in his rule that he admitted, was that he was uncompromising in his decision to only have one consort in his palace.
He indulged himself that one thing which led to difficulty in controlling the different tribes since he couldn't gain support and connections through family but had to do it by 'force'.
S2 was doomed since they have opted to cut out alot of important scenes due to budget limitations so we won't get much emotional payoff that had begun in S1.
Yet they want to retain the overall structure of the story... so we end up with so many disjointed scenes and dialogue that gives us whiplash because basically they are just rushing through a checklist of the shots, buffered with plenty of flashback scenes.
In both the novel and the drama...
Maybe you should re-read the chapter... ??
The first assassination attempt, XY nearly died when she was lured out to sea and she gave up fighting her assassin. She was ready to join Jing in the sea... it was clearly written in the novel.. Her grief was so raw that Xiangliu made her take an oath not to die, knowing that he was the one who have Jing in his hands... for that, I don't like the novel XL over this point.
"She lived quite ok without Jing for years"
Did you skip all the parts where she kept missing and seeing Jing everywhere? Even after her second assassination attempt, the person she saw in her delirium was Jing.
She was not well, every full moon especially, she kept waiting for him to return... the final straw was when she found out, Jing was killed over her.