Hi friend! Long time no talk and see. I hope you're doing well and staying healthy with loved ones.
I have to agree on all fronts about "Legend of the Female General"...I have a huge love for "Mulan" inspired stories, and the posters and snippets I saw before the drama released looked sooo good. Then when I watched it, I was utterly disappointed. Such a butchered job because it had source material to work off, to make even better, and yet, the drama was so lackluster. I feel this is one of Cheng Lei's worse role to date, especially when I think of how great he was in "A Familiar Stranger" and "My Journey to You." He really had no expressions here...like watching a cardboard. I love Zhou Ye too, but gosh, this was such a letdown. What a terrible script, and like you said, they really had to do the best with the cards they were given. I felt Chu Zhao had a bit more depth to his character in the drama, and then he go all weird and out of character at the end. It was like waiting for a small build up throughout, and then the drama would just tell us what's happening instead of showing anything. I skip-watched so fast, and even then, I felt I wasted so much of my time.
Now you have me curious about "Beyond the Bar" and might have to put that in my radar.
I just finished "Moonlit Reunion" and absolutely loveddd a good chunk of the drama, until the writing at the end felt incredibly lazy. I am upset now that I think of it, since the drama had so much potential, and then I felt they stole this great story from me towards the end! Ugh. But I really loved Xu Kai and Tian Xi Wei in here, and my hope is they'll actually pair up again in another period drama that has an amazing storyline.
I have to run again, but always, so lovely to stop by to see you.
Hi Kathleen. Nice of you to drop by and chat. Hope this finds you well.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn't do much more than 10 episodes of Legend of the Female General. It's really one of the worst C dramas I've ever seen. I wonder why they even bothered if the transmigration element would not pass the censor's axe. The whole story is premised on the transmigration device. Without it, nothing makes sense.
Hi friend! Long time no talk and see. I hope you're doing well and staying healthy with loved ones.
I have to agree on all fronts about "Legend of the Female General"...I have a huge love for "Mulan" inspired stories, and the posters and snippets I saw before the drama released looked sooo good. Then when I watched it, I was utterly disappointed. Such a butchered job because it had source material to work off, to make even better, and yet, the drama was so lackluster. I feel this is one of Cheng Lei's worse role to date, especially when I think of how great he was in "A Familiar Stranger" and "My Journey to You." He really had no expressions here...like watching a cardboard. I love Zhou Ye too, but gosh, this was such a letdown. What a terrible script, and like you said, they really had to do the best with the cards they were given. I felt Chu Zhao had a bit more depth to his character in the drama, and then he go all weird and out of character at the end. It was like waiting for a small build up throughout, and then the drama would just tell us what's happening instead of showing anything. I skip-watched so fast, and even then, I felt I wasted so much of my time.
Now you have me curious about "Beyond the Bar" and might have to put that in my radar.
I just finished "Moonlit Reunion" and absolutely loveddd a good chunk of the drama, until the writing at the end felt incredibly lazy. I am upset now that I think of it, since the drama had so much potential, and then I felt they stole this great story from me towards the end! Ugh. But I really loved Xu Kai and Tian Xi Wei in here, and my hope is they'll actually pair up again in another period drama that has an amazing storyline.
I have to run again, but always, so lovely to stop by to see you.
Hi Kathleen. Nice of you to drop by and chat. Hope this finds you well.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn't do much more than 10 episodes of Legend of the Female General. It's really one of the worst C dramas I've ever seen. I wonder why they even bothered if the transmigration element would not pass the censor's axe. The whole story is premised on the transmigration device. Without it, nothing makes sense.
Hope to see you on another post soon.