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Good Story
At first, I began this drama because of BinBin (I like him a lot because he is a versatile actor and I know his acting never disappoints me unless I drop the drama because of the storyline). Even though there are a lot of dramas that I drop midway or they become pretty annoying and long, Song of the Moon is not lengthy compared to other XianXia/Wuxia dramas. It is not very unique but it has some unique features to itself. If you are a fan of this genre and fantasy series it can be satisfying. The same as every other series it has its pros and cons which I will mention here.
Pros:
1. Capable actors all around this series. All five main actors were very capable and matched with their respective characters. There is a lot of chemistry between all the couples and friends in this drama (honestly all the actors were matched perfectly with their characters, I was wondering how all of these actors gather together).
2. The main story and side stories are moving forward together and they become intertwined with each other.
3. In this story there were a lot of gray characters among both immortals and demons. Almost nobody was evil from the beginning to the end. It showed how desires and actions can mix together and create good or bad results. This part of this drama was so realistic and unique among the Xianxia dramas. I like this feature to the point that I like to rewatch this drama only because of this feature.
4. I like the ML (Zhang BinBin) as 3 very different characters. He nailed all the characters pretty well. While he portrayed all the differences between them and the instance changes between Lu Ge and Dark Moonlight, he also showed the intertwined moments of Lu Li and Lu Ge with each other. So I never become tired of his acting and roles.
5. The costume was pretty good, especially for the Demon King (He Na). We always see demons in darker shades of colour but for me, it is the first time to see a demon in white and it was absolutely matched with his perfect personality.
6. The music was very good and it was not disturbing.
Okay, it is time for the Cons:
1. Between episodes 22 to 30 it becomes a little bit annoying and dragging with despicable acts from those gray characters which can make some viewer desire to drop it in this part (*Warning*: there are a lot of important events in this part which answer a lot of questions, so if you fast forward this part you will miss a lot and make you confused at the end. I noticed this from some of the comments).
2. The childish voice of the female actresses (both Luo Ning and Liu Shao). Honestly, who created this thought that if a fully grown woman has the voice of a 5-year-old kid make her cute? I almost become allergic to it.
3. Well, I think the biggest disadvantage of this drama was its ending. I will explain the ending in the next paragraph please be aware of the spoil alert.
The Ending:
Since the ending is very important to me I checked its ending before I began to watch it. So I found out, it has 2 types of endings. I don't like to watch more than one ending, so I always pick one ending in both novels and movies with more than one ending (because it can mess with my feelings towards that story). I picked the one with the happier ending (episode 40). So, I can't talk about the other ending because I will never watch that episode. The reason that I picked this episode is because Lu Ge and Liu Shao get together at the end. It also has some other good points like the fate of He Na and the action of A Fu because I couldn't see any other way for him to redeem himself after 37 episodes of wrongdoings.
But there were a lot of cons to this ending all of them were because of the rushed ending:
1. First there were some confusing moments like the wedding. It was all of a sudden without any opening and explanation of why this happened only the voice of God of Moonlight which didn't have any mention of a wedding.
2. Second I could understand how the seal of Liu Shao's ascension to God was broken but how she went back in time was not clear at all. The last episode was a very rushed episode to finish the story.
3. The third aspect, I didn't like about the ending was too little screen time for Dark Moonlight. From the beginning to the end, we heard about that evil character while we saw all types of evil actions from others or mixing of this evil being with other characters but the moment that the Dark Moonlight came to life we couldn't see a lot. The screen time for him is too short to show anything. So the only thing that I saw was a gorgeous devilish guy with a lot of charm who did what bad thing exactly? Ah, he killed only 2 characters who caused a lot of destruction through the drama. So anyway it was too hard to hate that character and the only reason was short screen time.
Based on all of it together I could ignore the disadvantages in the last episode and even watch it for the second time. So I suggest this drama to those who like a fantasy with some realistic characters, an interesting story, and a big group of talented cast.
Pros:
1. Capable actors all around this series. All five main actors were very capable and matched with their respective characters. There is a lot of chemistry between all the couples and friends in this drama (honestly all the actors were matched perfectly with their characters, I was wondering how all of these actors gather together).
2. The main story and side stories are moving forward together and they become intertwined with each other.
3. In this story there were a lot of gray characters among both immortals and demons. Almost nobody was evil from the beginning to the end. It showed how desires and actions can mix together and create good or bad results. This part of this drama was so realistic and unique among the Xianxia dramas. I like this feature to the point that I like to rewatch this drama only because of this feature.
4. I like the ML (Zhang BinBin) as 3 very different characters. He nailed all the characters pretty well. While he portrayed all the differences between them and the instance changes between Lu Ge and Dark Moonlight, he also showed the intertwined moments of Lu Li and Lu Ge with each other. So I never become tired of his acting and roles.
5. The costume was pretty good, especially for the Demon King (He Na). We always see demons in darker shades of colour but for me, it is the first time to see a demon in white and it was absolutely matched with his perfect personality.
6. The music was very good and it was not disturbing.
Okay, it is time for the Cons:
1. Between episodes 22 to 30 it becomes a little bit annoying and dragging with despicable acts from those gray characters which can make some viewer desire to drop it in this part (*Warning*: there are a lot of important events in this part which answer a lot of questions, so if you fast forward this part you will miss a lot and make you confused at the end. I noticed this from some of the comments).
2. The childish voice of the female actresses (both Luo Ning and Liu Shao). Honestly, who created this thought that if a fully grown woman has the voice of a 5-year-old kid make her cute? I almost become allergic to it.
3. Well, I think the biggest disadvantage of this drama was its ending. I will explain the ending in the next paragraph please be aware of the spoil alert.
The Ending:
Since the ending is very important to me I checked its ending before I began to watch it. So I found out, it has 2 types of endings. I don't like to watch more than one ending, so I always pick one ending in both novels and movies with more than one ending (because it can mess with my feelings towards that story). I picked the one with the happier ending (episode 40). So, I can't talk about the other ending because I will never watch that episode. The reason that I picked this episode is because Lu Ge and Liu Shao get together at the end. It also has some other good points like the fate of He Na and the action of A Fu because I couldn't see any other way for him to redeem himself after 37 episodes of wrongdoings.
But there were a lot of cons to this ending all of them were because of the rushed ending:
1. First there were some confusing moments like the wedding. It was all of a sudden without any opening and explanation of why this happened only the voice of God of Moonlight which didn't have any mention of a wedding.
2. Second I could understand how the seal of Liu Shao's ascension to God was broken but how she went back in time was not clear at all. The last episode was a very rushed episode to finish the story.
3. The third aspect, I didn't like about the ending was too little screen time for Dark Moonlight. From the beginning to the end, we heard about that evil character while we saw all types of evil actions from others or mixing of this evil being with other characters but the moment that the Dark Moonlight came to life we couldn't see a lot. The screen time for him is too short to show anything. So the only thing that I saw was a gorgeous devilish guy with a lot of charm who did what bad thing exactly? Ah, he killed only 2 characters who caused a lot of destruction through the drama. So anyway it was too hard to hate that character and the only reason was short screen time.
Based on all of it together I could ignore the disadvantages in the last episode and even watch it for the second time. So I suggest this drama to those who like a fantasy with some realistic characters, an interesting story, and a big group of talented cast.
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