While very far from perfect (Ten Miles it’s alas not) what actually did hit me here is some kind of similarity between the leading men of both shows. I was so pleasantly surprised by this show that I decided to join the thread here. Seems like cdramas have been killing it lately, compared to kdramas. I also didn’t realize that the majority of cdramas use voice actor dubbing, and that’s kind of odd to me. And somehow, that makes it more binge-able than the kdrama clifffhanger! Cut!” Even if it’s right in the middle of a scene. I haven’t watched many Chinese dramas, but based on the handful I’ve watched, it amuses me that kdramas are carefully planned to the pitch perfect cliffhanger ending, whereas in the cdramas that I’ve watched, it seems like they go, “Okay, that’s 45 minutes. It felt like the writers were making it up as they went along, but maybe it just felt that way because this is my first drama in this genre. For example, he puts the bone orchid on her to protect her, but then it just so happens that it’s exactly what the baddies need to carry out their plan, and then it just so happens that if she takes it off, she’ll die. I binged this show pretty quickly thanks to the great acting and chemistry between the two leads, but I found a lot of the magical elements confusing and/or awfully convenient. His emotional range is definitely more impressive here, but in both, he has the perfect intense scowl that somehow makes you want to pat him like a puppy instead of fear him. The only other drama with Dylan Wang that I’ve seen is Meteor Garden, but I thought he had a similar vibe in both shows. If he had not graces this series, I don’t think I’d have watched it as I am very picky about cast selection. From the clothes, sets, make-up, special effects, and even DFQC’s deeply conflicted, dimensional character-Dylan rose to the challenge and proved he can become one of the Greats. I’m so thankful he had this opportunity to seize such a high budget film with amazing crew and director. Also, Dylan is a spectacle sight to behold. So, while I enjoyed it thoroughly, I was in a foul mood for nearly a week afterwards. It needed 30 more minutes and would have been perfect. It doesn’t need another season or another episode. It was happy ending, but it was an unfulfilled ending. Then show gave us a 1 minute ending? What?! I threw something at the TV. We never really got a chance to see these two happy, I felt robbed of that. It stripped away everything it worked toward, robbed viewers of their time, energy, and emotional investment. I gotta say though, I did not enjoy that ending at all. The ending was tough and all over the place, yet still effective enough to tie the entire story together. I felt the script was tighter and better put together in the beginning. I’m glad that the prospect of never seeing him again, after he leaves for Cangyan Sea, and her own impending death that she believes will happen soon, when she faces off with Tai Sui, breaks Orchid’s resolve just enough, that she would reach out and push the corners of Qingcang’s lips into a smile, just like she’s done many times in the past.īinged watched this twice and second time around was even better. His regret and brokenness, at how Orchid had continued to love him, despite his best efforts to make her stop loving him, is very affecting, and I can understand why Goddess Orchid, who hears everything, wouldn’t be able to stop her tears from leaking out. That scene on the bridge, where Qingcang breaks down and tells Orchid, whom he believes is gone forever, why he’d been so mean and horrible to her that it had been the only way to save her life, is so poignant. And, even though it’s a bummer that Orchid pretends that she doesn’t remember him, the bittersweetness of watching Qingcang choose to love Orchid for all time, even though he believes that there are no traces left of her, in the world, is quite lovely, in its own poignant way.
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