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Personal enjoyment with 2X speed
Is it possible ? yeah it is possible.
It is a drama some parts are really addicting,whereas others are frustrating to the degree you wanna pull your hair out.
Xanxia genre itself is the melodramatic one in the setting of Chinese Olympian Gods. (Pain , Betrayal and Reincarnation are essential ingredients)
I have already seen a lot of famous Xiaxias ( Eternal Love , Ashes of Love , Untamed , Love and Redemption )
Out of all the Xanxias I have seen, 'Ancient Love Poetry' has the most tortuous melodramatic Plot .
( Please note that I am emotional while writing this review
For your information , I watched it on Tencent Youtube)
***First ,on a positive note, the series is visually pleasing when you watch it in 1080 P and there is no eye rolling directing or editing moment when you are reminded of the fact, you are in a drama and not in a story.
Another positive point is the Actors can Act .
I won't say their performances here as Award Worthy , but they are decent enough to create the mood.
***For the Plot
As per my viewing experience , and as everyone is saying , the story can be divided into two arcs :
The Arc Four of them are in the God Realm
The Arc after that .
? For me, the first arc was really boring .
I watched almost all of it with 2X speed.
I don't think Zhou Dong Yu fits the image of an adolescent Goddess who is giddy with everything .
XuKai plays well as the cold & handsome Male God character (as acting wise) , but whether it is the writing or interpretation of actor , the character comes out as 'Bland & Boring' .
So I was not really interested in their love story of First Arc.
The Only thing that pushed me to go through the first Arc was ( well ) the Devil Overlord , Xuan Yi & his grand plan.
Especially, the last 3 or 4 episodes of first Arc have series of dumb events that lead to My Favorite Character's Death.
? The infamous Second Arc
This is the part that is frustrating while I am writing this review.
For the first part , it was really boring, so I didn't care about any of it & causally fast forwarded almost everything.
But this part, it really has the potential to be great. However,unnecessary long arcs of melodramatic plots ruined my enjoyment for the story.
ZDY is lovely as the adventurous Princess with an attitude .
XuKai's Qian Mu is colorful as the awkward lord who meets his first love.
This time, he is the pursuer and she is the one being pursued.
And the dynamics of these two characters come out as 'Lovable Couple'.
But in the middle, they have to kill this lovable mood with unnecessarily long Palace Politics created by Evil Phoenix (I wanna pull out her Feathers)
and her Obsessive daughter.
[Every makjang worthy moments of
Forced Marriage ,
Forcing yourself upon the one who refuses you ( in modern drama, it may be virginity ,but it is Xanxia,so Dragon core)
Unbelievable tortuous punishments ]
All you can think about melodramatic 101 happen in those episodes.
For this second Arc, the chemistry of the two main characters is really palpable and it is the strength of the drama.
But , these two rarely have peaceful moments together.
After a moment of their union , these two return to their Original beings in the first Arc where the unnecessarily Long Angst comes again.
( ML pretends to have Amnesia .
Misunderstanding
Noble idiocy ( ML floating in that bubble with the home wrecking third wheeler))
( I said in one of my posted feed was that one of the positive things in early part of the drama was 'There are no hypocrite elders in God Realm. The Four characters are ' True Gods' themselves and they make decisions on their own')
But later in the Second Arc, that positive thing in first arc became irritating to me.
They have the strength of True Gods ,but the story is written in the way they become weaker that Male lead has to do every angst things possible to hurt the female lead , not to draw the suspicion of The Evil Phoenix.
( I know, similar thing happened in the first part of 'Eternal Love' but
here it happens in Second part,which makes me more annoyed )
Overall, I loved the couple in second Arc , but I did have to go through all those tortuous episodes to see them and I seriously hated that.
At the end, I felt like I had to take lots of bitter medicine just to have a moment of happiness.
*****
So you may love this if you are either fans of both leads or fans of highly tortuous melodramatic plot.
This drama may not be bad if you watch it slowly and have a happy drama to watch in between.
At the end,you can't really expect high scores from me when I said I watched almost 2/3 of show with 2X speed for various reasons.
I only give this high because I did love the main couple in Second Arc
It is a drama some parts are really addicting,whereas others are frustrating to the degree you wanna pull your hair out.
Xanxia genre itself is the melodramatic one in the setting of Chinese Olympian Gods. (Pain , Betrayal and Reincarnation are essential ingredients)
I have already seen a lot of famous Xiaxias ( Eternal Love , Ashes of Love , Untamed , Love and Redemption )
Out of all the Xanxias I have seen, 'Ancient Love Poetry' has the most tortuous melodramatic Plot .
( Please note that I am emotional while writing this review
For your information , I watched it on Tencent Youtube)
***First ,on a positive note, the series is visually pleasing when you watch it in 1080 P and there is no eye rolling directing or editing moment when you are reminded of the fact, you are in a drama and not in a story.
Another positive point is the Actors can Act .
I won't say their performances here as Award Worthy , but they are decent enough to create the mood.
***For the Plot
As per my viewing experience , and as everyone is saying , the story can be divided into two arcs :
The Arc Four of them are in the God Realm
The Arc after that .
? For me, the first arc was really boring .
I watched almost all of it with 2X speed.
I don't think Zhou Dong Yu fits the image of an adolescent Goddess who is giddy with everything .
XuKai plays well as the cold & handsome Male God character (as acting wise) , but whether it is the writing or interpretation of actor , the character comes out as 'Bland & Boring' .
So I was not really interested in their love story of First Arc.
The Only thing that pushed me to go through the first Arc was ( well ) the Devil Overlord , Xuan Yi & his grand plan.
Especially, the last 3 or 4 episodes of first Arc have series of dumb events that lead to My Favorite Character's Death.
? The infamous Second Arc
This is the part that is frustrating while I am writing this review.
For the first part , it was really boring, so I didn't care about any of it & causally fast forwarded almost everything.
But this part, it really has the potential to be great. However,unnecessary long arcs of melodramatic plots ruined my enjoyment for the story.
ZDY is lovely as the adventurous Princess with an attitude .
XuKai's Qian Mu is colorful as the awkward lord who meets his first love.
This time, he is the pursuer and she is the one being pursued.
And the dynamics of these two characters come out as 'Lovable Couple'.
But in the middle, they have to kill this lovable mood with unnecessarily long Palace Politics created by Evil Phoenix (I wanna pull out her Feathers)
and her Obsessive daughter.
[Every makjang worthy moments of
Forced Marriage ,
Forcing yourself upon the one who refuses you ( in modern drama, it may be virginity ,but it is Xanxia,so Dragon core)
Unbelievable tortuous punishments ]
All you can think about melodramatic 101 happen in those episodes.
For this second Arc, the chemistry of the two main characters is really palpable and it is the strength of the drama.
But , these two rarely have peaceful moments together.
After a moment of their union , these two return to their Original beings in the first Arc where the unnecessarily Long Angst comes again.
( ML pretends to have Amnesia .
Misunderstanding
Noble idiocy ( ML floating in that bubble with the home wrecking third wheeler))
( I said in one of my posted feed was that one of the positive things in early part of the drama was 'There are no hypocrite elders in God Realm. The Four characters are ' True Gods' themselves and they make decisions on their own')
But later in the Second Arc, that positive thing in first arc became irritating to me.
They have the strength of True Gods ,but the story is written in the way they become weaker that Male lead has to do every angst things possible to hurt the female lead , not to draw the suspicion of The Evil Phoenix.
( I know, similar thing happened in the first part of 'Eternal Love' but
here it happens in Second part,which makes me more annoyed )
Overall, I loved the couple in second Arc , but I did have to go through all those tortuous episodes to see them and I seriously hated that.
At the end, I felt like I had to take lots of bitter medicine just to have a moment of happiness.
*****
So you may love this if you are either fans of both leads or fans of highly tortuous melodramatic plot.
This drama may not be bad if you watch it slowly and have a happy drama to watch in between.
At the end,you can't really expect high scores from me when I said I watched almost 2/3 of show with 2X speed for various reasons.
I only give this high because I did love the main couple in Second Arc
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