Had lots of potential but not sure what happened.

Okay there are spoilers in this but I honestly liked this drama in the beginning. You know unique storyline for that year, great actors and the ost is really good.
But there are a few things that really bothered me.

- one thing that really bothered me is the fact that Qian gu gets punished for the smallest things. While other characters such as man tian, mao yan etc kills and does things way beyond what is seen as bad/evil, yet their doings are all justified and put on qg. QG never killed or intentially wanted to or harmed anyone. Even being controlled by the great evil force. That was so annoying.
- I mean we are talking about a righteous sect yet the co leader and student does everything they’re not allowed to. Then qg does one tiny thing that gets misunderstood and gets SEVERELY punished. (…???) apparently everything she does is wrong even if it’s for the good.

- dramas are full of lack of communication issues. But this one jeez. Everything could have been avoided if they all just you know spoke their own truths and not hide it from anyone. Yeah I know it was ancient china and people weren’t as open but still. This one takes the cake for it.

- I’m not exactly sure when BZH started to fall in love with QG. The fact is they met when she was 16 and he’s like few thousand years old but looks mid 30s is a bit eh. It reminds of of goblin with the age difference. Of course you wouldn’t even know he loved her romantically until the very end. ( but the actors are similar in age so there was def an odd child/parent chemistry then lovers)

- it’s hard to tell when BZH fell in love with QG but he did care for her a lot throughout the series. I’ve seen some complaints about him not showing any emotions. However actor does a great job showing emotions through reactions and his eyes. They’re subtle but you can see the care he has for her.

- so in the beginning the master of changliu tells them they fall in love and have emotionally attachments. Well it seems like it only applies to BZH while every other immortal can. I don’t even know.

- I did like the fact that zi xun was able to turn around in the end. I mean she’s supposed to be a few thousand years old too lol. But that’s good character development while man tian just goes all buck crazy over nothing and continues going down the wrong path.

OH YEAH EVERYTHING could have been avoided if BZH accepted that he loved QG and told her. Literally if he wasn’t trying so hard to never show emotion everything could have been avoided.

- a few plot holes but I feel like that’s all dramas.

- actors and ost were excellent in this.


- I’ve seen some people compare this to ashes of love. It’s similar in that it’s a xianxia drama and that’s about it. In AOL characters show way more emotion and remorse etc.


One more thing
The journey of flower 2015 on IQIYI is the second season. Don’t even bother watching it. I did a review and yeah it’s terrible lol. Not sure wtf they’re thinking and whoever did the translations were on crack.

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Cute funny but too repetitive

Well I had to edit my review because I forgot there were 36 episodes. Most of which are flashbacks, slow mo, slow walking…. Nothing that adds value to the story itself. Yeah ok one flashback once in awhile fine every episode…. It reminded me of ice fantasy where they showed the same flashback over and over again


Starts off typical but cute. But then the other story arcs are a bit repetitive. They prob could have pulled a Netflix and did this all in 8-10 episodes..


It’s low budget considering there’s prob less 8 actors total, one room that gets redecorated etc. M
It adds in pieces of the main story between the arcs as per all drama. Mot really any side stories it’s better to skip the constantly flashbacks and slow mo movement.


The 2nd ML and FL is actually pretty well done. Their story was unique and caught me off guard.

Then the ending just confused me I had to look on Reddit and read other peoples interpretation.

Over it’s good just takes way too long to get to the point

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Ending not really explained …

I liked season 1 but season 2 was dragging a bit…
It’s still silly and stupid funny but this season just kept on repeating the same type of humor over and over again. Then there were a lot of plots holes and characters that just never showed up again.
So the ending ok it was really cute but there’s no explanation what so ever. They showed a flashback of the FL seeing the same people in her world. But they seemed to have purposely set up what happened? I honestly have no clue how the ending even Happened. I mean otherwise it’s something to distract you.
They use a lot of puns and play on words in Chinese. I don’t think the subtitles really captured the jokes right a lot of times. The FL calls the emperor an asshole but in Chinese the literal translation is like king of eggs (sorta) then he’s like oh I’m more like a dragon so dragon egg came about.
I loved the OST. It’s great when the actors themselves sing the songs that’s playing during their scene. It’s not anything fancy but it’s a cute soundtrack.
The FL zhao lusi I’ve noticed is either a hit or miss with people. She can be really cute but I can see how it can be annoying to a lot of people. She over do it a bit in this too.
Episodes were half an hour but 6 mins wasted on credits and intro. Then literally a min of the last episodes end scenes. I guess it’s a smart way for them to make more money. Break it up Into more episodes, add in double the amount of advertisements in between, have more viewers etc. But still it was annoying.
Again low budget literally one or two outfits per character throughout the entire show.
Then
I hate when characters in fantasy shows have powers and then never use them when they actually need it… I guess bai mo ran can only foresee the future once in his life lol. Then speedy kid isn’t fast enough to escape at the end, telekinesis can do blood transfers but nothing to help with fighting. And if FL passive power is to absorb/stop others powers how come they were able to use it after finding out?? I dunno

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Uh what???

The beginning dozen episodes were excellent. The story was a good pace and each character development seems to be on point. There’s a very strong and smart FL and she worked well with the ML. Although there is the usually jealous female it did not take over the screen and affect the mains that much.

Then….
It’s as if the previous screenwriter and director were changed to another person.. the main characters somehow became so insecure and jealous. Then more jealous females and males were added to the screen time. It was basically 90% of jealousy and scheming from them. Then the leads had a personality change and became dumb and super insecure. The character development literally dropped down hill.

It def did have a rebirth of all the characters. In some of the dramas even with the evil char the story still moves and the mains get their screen time. Nope not this. I had to drop it after cringing in every episode at all the unnecessary drama. They even skipped important scenes just to be jealous rivals in. I mean when did the emporer even get married??

So if you’re into watching jealous ppl plot and ruin others lives this one’s for you.

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