Palavra de Honra (2021)

Great leads

There are many comparisons made to The Untamed, which is a shame, because this adventure is an enticing watch in its own right.
I loved the main 2 characters and their chemistry was excellent. The emotions conveyed by Gong Jun as Ke Xing, through his eyes alone, were stunning; I also loved his different smiles, from forced to genuine to smirks. My favourite actor and character in it.
Zhang Zhe Han was great too and he portrayed his calmer, slightly more mature character, really well. They complimented each other perfectly, I thought.
I found the story a little confusing at times, mainly because with all the characters and sects, I got a bit lost.
I also found some of the dialogue from supporting characters a bit drawn out in some scenes.
Lots of action scenes and the stunts were pretty good. I loved the sets too.
Some quite moving moments throughout, but it didn't make me cry.
Many of the characters were very fickle and would believe lies over people they'd known for some time, which really frustrated me!
I also felt sympathy for several, including Scorpion, who whilst responsible for his own outcome, did basically hanker after affection and approval from the wrong person, ultimately getting massively let down.
I found the outcome of the armoury a bit odd, especially after what everyone went through and the obsession around the glazed armor.
Soundtrack was mostly good, but I found a lot of the electric guitar stuff intrusive and a bad fit.
I really did enjoy the series though and will probably watch again some time.

Leia Mais

Splendid!

I rarely watch China's Dramas where they adapt from BL NOVELS (I watched addicted and a fair few tho, coz of how good they were) coz I know that they gonna make it so awkward with censorship but, this is legit the one for me!

The story, the chemistry between the casts!

You can see Wen Ke Xing's eyes dripping oil whenever he looks at Zhou Zi Shu!!!
They don't even have to go mushy with I love yous and you can tell how important they are to each other even with the slightest contact!!

The days where I've to pile it up to watch it is very, very tiring and there are times where I lost control wanting to watch all the episodes that I've piled up.

But, thank god, I managed to let it continue to pile up till the last episode before I finished from 22 till the special episode from yesterday till minutes ago!

If you guys are contemplating to watch or not, please do!

But prepare lots of tissues coz this drama is those with happiness and comedy at the start and slowly towards the end, it turns slightly tragic.

Leia Mais

Just the drama openly screamed "no to censorship!"

First of all applaud to the production team and everyone's who's involved in the making of this drama👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 *cue standing ovation
thank you for making this the best wuxia drama of the opening of 2021🙇🏻‍♀️.

[PLOT]

A tale of two broken people on a mission of healing them self's.
*that's what I thought when I watched the drama though🌼please don't kill me(• ▽ •;)

[STORY]
The first c-drama BL I've ever watched was CQL and I thought the story was so beautiful and no one can top it off but I was so wrong! Word of Honor is by far the drama that is the same top tier as CQL! From Wen Ke Xing endless flirting to Zhou Xu's loved of his disciple,this drama never fails me in every episodes.The fact that this was bolder and "youku's f***k censorship let's just give what the fans wants" attitude is so good!

[CHARACTERS]
Wen Ke Xing played by Simon Go was the perfect Lao Wen♥️I can't see anyone other than Simon playing him😍. Honestly I've seen some clips of him acting in another drama but nothing catches my except for this drama. His facial expressions,emotions,body movements are all *chef's kiss😘I like how his character openly flirting with Zhou Xu in here and just decided that whatever's Ah Xu's has it,it will become his. For example he claimed Cheng Ling as his child and just used Ah Xu's money as his. His relationship with Ah Xiang was pure cute! I don't see him as master and servant relationships all I saw was a typical sibling relationships. His story was so sad to see because of his hatred towards people's greed was heartbreaking😣but he eventually knows that he was wrong on going with revenge.

Zhou Zhi Shu played by Zhang Zhe Han was perfect in every way✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧whoever's styled his costumes in the drama I bless you to an infinite fountain of youth because I was distracted by his good looks throughout the show. I mean I have seen him played a different characters but in here his costumes compliment his feature's and whenever's his on screen I kept looking at him and ask myself "how can a man be more good looking than me?" even my mom and my sister who rarely watched drama asked "damn! why is he so good looking?!" haha,ok enough about his good looks now for his performance in here was the same as Simon Go it was *chef's kiss . His expressions and his eyes when acting was very convincing for me that he found his soulmate. His life as the prince's dog in here was devastating to watch because of his loyalty towards him he willingly kills his junior disciple's and after that he lives his life wrecked but after meeting Lao Wen and Cheng Ling he became aware of it.

Lao Wen and Ah Xu complete each other and never separate them! EVER!

[PRODUCTION]

The costumes in here was magnificent and beautiful, it's liked the person that designs them understand their characters well enough that it compliments their feature's perfectly! I saw the clip that they were producing it on summer and you could totally tell they were really hot when wearing those thick costumes but nevertheless all of them nailed it!

[OST]

The ost was perfect even though Simon can hardly sing on beat he actually pulled it off.

[LAST WORDS]

Word of Honor is a drama that you unknowingly grinning from ear to ear when watching it and loving every characters and story they showed. Totally recommend for fans of CQL(~‾▿‾)~

Leia Mais

A Pleasure To Watch...!

The reason I feel that Gong Jun and Zhang ZheHan’s acting skills are really really very good in this drama:-

I recently read in a tweet where Priest’s WoH novel readers were discussing that who amongst ZZH and GJ was more dominant in the (Supposed) relationship...

This is when I noticed...

When they are in the drama as A-Xu and Lao Wen, then Wen KeXing seems to be the dominant force...

But when they are together in normal attire in interviews and all, it surely feels like ZZH is going to dominate over this bubbly n cute little shidi of his....! Coz Gong Jun in real life is much more shy than Zhang Zhe Han..... WELL ACTED! Indeed Great Acting Skills!

The casting decisions despite being totally revised due to COVID remained so accurate and to a certain extent even better than the previous choices!

This proves that the casting team & producers, script writers, director and especially the actors were reallllyyyyyyy good in the drama and the script was very well written so as to bring out the characters from within the actors....!

I look forward to WORD OF HONOR winning many many awards this year!

Leia Mais

It is a masterpeice

After THE UNTAMED its a must watch drama..In this drama you will see a cute bromance and a lot of mystery and a most handsome male male leads..so you should watch this drama to overcome the sickness of THE UNTAMED....So if you want to have something different...Its a must watch drama...I just like the Wen kexings cheekiness.....In this drama we can notice a very sweet interaction between the main leads...and you will also enjoy side cherectars ....I have never thought I would like any other drama except THE UNTAMED but it has totally wronged my thinking..Now it is getting more and more interesting.....The casts have given full of their efforts in this drama..So it is a masterpeice...

Leia Mais

PRESS PLAY! DON'T HESITATE!

Firstly, I've only recently gotten into the whole wuxia/xianxia genre and this is honestly one of the best i have seen. I've read both the book and watched the live adaptation and can positively say without a doubt that the live adaptation gives you everything you would expect and so much more. From a personal pov, this is the only live adaptation in which i prefer the series instead of the book.

Don't get me wrong - the book is definitely worth the read but, for me, shl provided a much smoother execution of the story line and better character development. firstly, wen kexing's revenge was given a lot more attention from the beginning and the sequence of events leading towards him finally avenging his parents deaths was much smoother than in the book and given more importance. Secondly, the order in which word of honor gave us the details of the past and its effect on the present was carried out way better than in tian ya ke. The bromance between zzs and wkx was the highlight of the show, even with the censorship - the actions, glances, blatant flirting were more than enough to have even the stoniest of hearts swooning in their seats. The OSTs are extremely catchy and are still played on repeat even though i finished shl weeks ago. The actors and actresses did a spectacular job portraying their characters leaving me hooked from the first episode. I'll definitely be rewatching this in the near future.

Leia Mais

Worst editing,, jumping scene cutting scene,, different duration check

Episode :36 + 1 extra 1++ minute (ep37)
Duration : not stabil, some have special version,
Extra scene special
Ep6, 25:27-25:57
Ep12,, 21:35 - 24:16
Ep17,, 39:39 - ?




before watching this drama, I felt 36 episodes were too few, especially when I know a lot of characters, but I feel grateful for only 36 episodes because it was enough!, with very bad editing it made me tired to continue, not bored while watching it ,, but very disappointed with the editing




hmm yaah, my conclusion for this drama is, a drama with a mix of various wuxia dramas ,, with very bad editing for viewers who are concerned with good details ,, jumping scenes, cutting scenes, scenes that are messy until the editor is also confused ,, a lot cast names, conspicuous or inconspicuous , ending that was too pushy to be a happy ending, and
but for couples who should or can have happy endings they ruins it (yu&liu,,, gu&cao),, It is unfortunate



the first impression of this drama is, this drama is like a mix of various kinds of wuxia and wulin dramas(untamed, jinyong's novels)

There were too many names and characters for 36 episodes, so it was very confusing, especially in Episode 1, there were many cast names, and many cast names were only mentioned, if the name is ignored, sometimes it is even discussed again in the next episode
And the name is similar

From the half of the drama, i getting boring, hmm maybe cant said boring, i just hate watching dramas with really bad editing ,,, jumping scenes, scenes that are not clear and don't fit the plot, scenes are unnecessary


#EDITING #

Very bad editing,, worse cutting scene, jumping scene, its better in beginning but worst in the middle until the last, all incident happpen suddenly,, and use using same scene for different episode and condition,
# Ep 1, sound when the subordinate , fengpengju (viceleader of tianchuang) , reporting the remaining stubborn generals who has been dealt, same as ep2 16:33
# Ep13, when caowenning go out and chasing a xiang, sama with ep 8 08:42



#DIALOGUE THAT KEEPS(spoil) CHANGING AND SCENE WAS PUT IN FHE WRONG EPISODE

# Ep19, i replay N Times and why i really confused! First longque say rongxuan ask his wife to give the key to his master (yebaiyi),but his wife give the key to fairy healer couple? ,then later longque say again he very apologize because cannot give the key to yebaiyi? SO WHO ASK WHO?!

#Ep21, 19:23 ,, yuqiufeng meets zhaojing and encodes xishanggui gossip, and zhaojing mutters "the person who was sent to kidnap Luofumeng (xishanggui) all died in yueyangsect, don't be in yuqiufeng's hands", EP 17 32:00 ISNT ZHAOJING ALREADY KNOWING THAT YUQIUFENG IS WHO HELPED XISHANGGUI? AND HE ASKING WHAT THE CONNECTION OF BOTH?AND ASKING 1 MORE GIRLS IS WHO?And now he's panicking on his own?

#Ep22 ,, 4:36, axiang also said that gao xiao lian being kidnapped! But zhouxu and wen already know when just escaping from heroes assembly and go to cave ,but wen and zhou seem didnt know about it


#ABSURD # (SPOIL)
1. When chengling is rescued from scorpions and returns to Yueyang Sect, and meets Axiang, talks and calls Zhouxu as "Teacher" Axiang seems to know immediately that Chengling has become Zhouxu disciple , even though previously Chengling also liked to call him with that call.
2. ‎ep 12,, when wen and zhou Take Chengling back to Yueyang Sect, the guard outside the gate just realized Chengling who was they're looking for when chengling walk to them , even though Chengling, Wen, and Zhou were talking in front of the gate.
3. ‎When zhaojin found zhen couple and want the key, zhen wife give him a poison, and give him an antidote for a month, but why zhaojing still alive when zhen couple being killed?
4. ‎Aren't the ghosts no longer cooperating with scorpiom king? Why still work with him? And being poisoned?

Leia Mais

A nice drama that suffers from a weak storyline

So, before anyone comes at me, this is my complete unbiased review of the drama.

Story:
The story started out slow and a bit dull on the first episode, but I decided to stick through it and I fell in love with it by the second episode, it was fun, flirty and made me pause several times in other to squeal at the scenes lmao, but after the 8th episode the show got kind of boring, story wise, and never really picked up again, it's like they focused so much on the flirty scenes and left everything else as secondary, we'd literally go entire episodes with nothing really going, and the story was just stuck at certain points.
But one thing it did have going for it was that the actors made their characters work well together.

Acting:
Both actors did really good with their characters, but there was just the one little thing about Simon, it was like at times he didn't know what facial expression to make and his face and mouth did this awkward put like things especially when he was laughing and like it didn't follow the voice acting and looked off.

Costume:
Costume looked kinda cheap, but hey, I've seen way worse.

Rewatch Value
Can't say I'd watch it completely again, but I'd definitely watch compilations of the cute, flirty moments on YT.

All in all, it was ok, I was hoping it would be better but still, it was ok. Give it a try, everyone is different and has different taste and you might like a lot more.

Leia Mais

A disappointing watch

I have tried hard to watch this drama but it's a real challenge. The script is exceedingly talky and most episodes drag by as the characters just rehash the same things over and over. There are some good performances but not from the lead actors. Zhang Zhe Han in particular is very wooden and his character lacks any kind of organic emotions. He stares off into the distance like a piece of wood until the script says 'smile here' or 'cry here' and then goes back to staring off into the distance.

From the Priest drama adaptions I have watched (this being the third) I know she has a lot of tropes that form the basis of her stories and one of the worse seems to be messing around with the true identity and nature of the characters. But when you find the characters difficult to invest in, and their emotions are more 'say' than 'show', it becomes a real challenge to stick around to episode 20 to start finding out their sad back story.

There are so many missed opportunities here that it a frustrating watch. There is little tension in scenes where things should be at stake, the story flow is often confusing, and this is partly because what should be big emotional turning points for characters just don't have any impact. The character actions don't seem to mesh with what they are saying in the dialogue. I know nothing about the director but it is a pity that so much of the dialogue is not dialogue between characters but lines recited to the scenery like a stage recitation.

This is also definitely the first BL adaption I've seen that does not give feelings of a deeper connection past 'bromance'. These two lead characters are just lonely mixed up boys who need a friend, certainly not capable of deeper emotional bonds.

And as a viewer I'm just as mixed up as they are - and that's such a disappointment.

Leia Mais

I've rewatched this on both youku and youtube...

TBH I didn't have much expectations for any Live Action adaptation ...but since I had some time to spare one day, I decided to casually watch this series on youtube. A few episodes later, I'm subscribed to youku and spent (a decent amount of) money unlocking the super advance episodes and even the 7 minute long extra (which consists of 3minutes+ music video collage). The thing that draws me in is the acting and fight choreography. It has been a very very long while since I last watch any wuxia, and I have pretty high expectations when it comes to fight scenes (growing up with the genre...and all)
Word of Honor actually has pretty good fight scenes with good pacing. The chemistry between characters are good, like you can tell that both main characters have some background in acting (and upon some searches, I was right)
All in all, for a show that made me obsessed to the point of whining every time I have to wait (cuz I will unlock 3 episodes in advance, and the next update would be three days later T__T I had to find BTS / put OST on loop, read the original novel, listen to AD...etc just to pass time) even though there are definitely some visual issues and plot issues...but for that budget, I would say I'm very impressed. Hence the rating~

Leia Mais

Best Period Series side by side with The Untamed

This series is exceptionally good. The entire production is great. Love the progression of the story. Not boring. Well balanced. Each characters have their own story that connects to the plot. Very well made series.
36 episodes and they added 37th episode for 11 minutes. Sadly, due to the controversy involving Zhang Zhehan, I am unable to find it in Youku anymore. It can be found in YT with commentary.
This is exceptional just like The Untamed, there is no boring scenes. Viewers payed attention for every small detail that helps enlighten the viewers.
The actors are exceptional in portraying their characters. All artists involved worked harmoniously together and fit the role they are playing. Wardrobe is exceptional. I noticed the pattern in the wardrobe during lead actors first meeting and their last shot in episode 37. Nice touch!

Additional Note:
Watched this series for the 3rd time and it felt like I am watching again for the first time. As concentrated i was in previous times i watched, I still found things i missed or forgotten. I still enjoyed watching this in Netflix (7/12/2023)

Enjoyed this a lot.

Leia Mais

What a Gem

After watching The Untamed, I decided to give this series a try. I had very low expectations to start because I really liked The Untamed and didn't think any other BL drama could come close. Was I wrong...

To be honest, I started watching this criticizing everything because I was comparing it to The Untamed which I had just watched. Then I started to slowly love the characters, their chemistry, and the series on their own. There is no comparison. Both The Untamed and Word of Honor are wonderful dramas, but what makes them special is that they are both unique in their own ways. Once I stopped comparing them did I truly enjoy Word of Honor.

I can't say enough about the two main leads GJ and ZZH. Their chemistry was off the charts and this is due in part to the wonderful script writing and the portrayal of their characters. It is unfortunate this drama didn't get sufficient funding to boost the production, but perhaps this is what makes this drama a real gem. It is able to stand strong even with so little funding because the team put their heart and soul into the production despite all the obstacles during the making of this drama. I think this makes this drama even more beautiful.

The supporting characters were also wonderful, the costumes (though not lavish compared to well-funded dramas) were beautiful and of high quality, the music paired wonderfully to the scenes, and the directing was outstanding.

After watching each new C-Drama, I keep getting drawn to re-watching this...it's just so beautiful. I'm so happy I gave this drama a chance because it is truly a gem.

Leia Mais