Remake of interesting scenes from the condor trilogy

In case you didn't know, this is just a summary of the condor trilogy, its not only LOCH which is about Yang Gou. It's kind of pointless to watch this as it is right now and I have no idea why they even made this.

Not to mention that they casted old and popular actors, paid for VFX and stuff.. Surely there must be other dramas that can be made with the money invested into this instead.

This is basically 2 full stories combined into one, with a LOT of content missing.

It is a trilogy, because The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber (倚天屠龍記) is a part of the condor heroes story and takes places after LOCH, and YG is basically the reason why the sword and the saber exists.

However it doesn't seem like the final story will be adapted at all

Edit: rumour has it that the 2nd half of the show has been pulled due to low ratings. Looks like my review is right after all.

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A Medical Web Novel Adaptation Ruined By Censorship

If you're watching medical dramas for the heart breaking stories of patients and the drama between doctors, you might like this drama but for everyone else who watches medical drama for the medical scenes (surgeries), this drama is a complete waste of time.

This is adapted from a web novel where the MC has a system. The system give him his godlike knowledge and skills which allows him to amaze everyone and cure everyone.

In the drama however, the system doesn't exist. Nothing replaces it. He just has the knowledge and skills after waking up suddenly one day. No need to have the training that everyone needs to go through to become a skilled surgeon, just sleep and wake up and you have the hands of god!

If you want to watch doctors doing surgeries, just go back to Korean, Japanese or American dramas. Majority of the scenes during the operation is centered around the expressions of the surgeons, or the viewers talking, or the medical machinery and the few shots you have of the operating area is completely blurred.

What's worse is that novel actually has explanations of many of the medical terminologies or descriptions of the surgical areas to help viewers understand what's going on.

In the drama however, all of this is absent. So unless you're going to pause and google every thing or is a doctor/medical student yourself, you probably won't enjoy this show much.

Similar to every other system novel that is adapted, it's trashed, but the drama and medical cases are still good to watch as they're taken straight from a very successful novel so if you like a drama like that without all the things that make a medical drama a medical drama, you'll like it.

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Made by 3 directors, and it shows that there's 3 directions in every aspect of the drama.

This is an adaption of a novel that already has a fanbase, hence you'll see many good things about this but objectively it's not a good drama.

It tells you they have a star studded cast, and 3 famous directors however it seems like none of the directors actually worked together and instead just shot their own parts on their own, and used glue to stick it together.

The result is a very confusing show and makes no sense unless you watch it repeatedly and force yourself to make sense of it. you might even want to bring a notebook along to take notes.

If you enjoy doing this while watching a show, you might like this but the majority of people, watching a drama is about kicking back and relax, letting it bring you into it's world.

This show does none of that, and the show airtime was speedrun too. 24 episodes released quickly and they moved on unlike burning flames, which took a break and released lesser episodes a week to get more viewers.

This being a small slice of the novel too, means that most people wont be able to enjoy the drama unless they've read it in it's other forms (novel,manga,anime..ect)

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The Best Parallel World Drama

The Best Parallel World Drama

The ending is a left open ended on purpose, but this drama keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire show.

You're not left wondering about loose ends as it's one of the few korean dramas that ends well and has good pacing.

While it's not explained why he is able to travel between the two worlds, you're not really left wondering why either he is able to due to the way it ends either.

Rain acting here is stunning as well. The only frustrating thing perhaps, is as the FMC which is more of a trope and not really a flaw. As there needs to be a hot headed policewoman who ignores police protocol and dives headfirst into danger without a partner backing her up.

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Fans of Xianxia will really like this !

Plot is a typical popcorn xianxia webnovel. If you like it, you'll love this, if not you'll hate this.

It's good, engaging and really fun to watch.

The makeup and costumes are great, similar and not straying much from the manhwa. The plot has not been changed much from the source material either, so again if you really like popcorn xianxia novel, you'll love this.

The editing/cutting is very aggressive, similar to that of a manhwa. There are very few boring parts as mentioned earlier, the editing cuts out everything that isn't central to the plot. You can just turn off your brain, grab some popcorn and enjoy this manga that has come to life.

There are almost zero creative "changes" done for the sake of adapting it to a tv show, so again if you dislike such genres, you'll hate this otherwise it's really good. The CG is colorful and spectacular, more or less a straight copy of the manga.

There's a reason why there was a boom of WN in china with kids and adults.
Not many people who are overworked to death, tired after a day's work like to watch/read a serious drama, but often are happy watching face-slapping novels.

People already have so many problems that we dun wanna read, watch or hear of 3 more body problems.

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An Okay Movie

Almost all the CNY movies are popcorn movies are it's a time for families to go out and spend time together. hence the box office for CNY movies are usually really good and it's a great time for comedies and sadly, mediocre movies.

This is one of the better movies among the mediocre movies and as usual with most CN media, brings a positive vibe throughout the entire movie. Not surprising, This movie topped the charts as it was a safe and good choice for families during CNY.

My only complaint is that the racing wasn't done well, and you were left with a cliffhanger at the end, altho the sequel cleared it all up. (The sequel just came out in 2024 CNY and just like this movie, topped the charts being in the top3).

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A Boring RomCom That Glorifies The Medical Profession

If you know any doctors, or know anyone in the medical profession in Korea, than you'd know that this show is completely unrealistic. The majority of doctors in korea are elites or well off, and what awaits them is a life thats far better than the majority of the population after the first few years of training.

Back to the show, this show is a romcom that uses the hope that doctors sacrifices themselves to do the best for their patients and creates 2 characters that have some kind of trauma., and have them bond through the trauma.

The show has it's moments with the romance, but the majority of the show is a slump and it's very slow. Many of the highlights of the show are emotional as you're emotionally blackmailed to feel like you can understand what the MC is going through.

The drama is a really slow burn and nothing can really make it better unless you really like the genre, and sadly most of the korean drama watchers adore the melodrama.

I guess the rich can cry in a Ferrari and make you feel sad for them, instead of using that money to go to therapy.

Also don't forget that right now, doctors are on strike against Korea accepting more medical students, letting patients and emergency patients die or get worse as they strike.
This isn't a strike against low pay or long hours, but that they want the numbers of doctors graduating from university in Korea to not increase. This just shows how elitist the profession itself is despite the grueling first few years.

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Mainly a arama about ordinary people's slice of life with a tiny bit of ninja slashing

A Drama about ordinary people is boring, but what if we make them retired ninjas and make the show about them wanting to be ordinary people?

I think everyone who made this show knew that ordinary life is boring, so they added some ninja elements to make it more exciting.

But while filming and writing the script, they forgot that ordinary life is boring, and made the entire show mostly about ordinary life with a tiny bit of ninja action, which gets you this show.

It's incredibly boring and unless you ignore 80% of the entire show, what you're gonna be watching is a slice of daily life. If you like that, then you'll probably like this otherwise just watch something else.

I think the trailer drills it in pretty hard too about what you should expect, which is again, ordinary slice of life mostly with a tiny bit of ninja action.

Oh also guns still exist in the drama so...yeah...

Honestly this show deserves less than a 1.

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Skip the first 2 episodes out of 8 for a good time?

Another netflix drama that topped the charts with an incredibly boring first few episodes.

what makes this even worse is that this only has 8 episodes.

How do you actually review a drama that bores you to death the first 2 episodes and only gets good after a third of a show?

Always remember with netflix shows that netflix and chill is a very real thing, as people get so bored with the show they're watching that they do something else while the show is running. Netflix collects this data and thinks that people are watching the show when clearly, they're already busy making the next generation of humans or have left to do something else.

It's disappointing that korean dramas, especially those that are adapted from the best korean webcomics are portrayed with so many pacing issues, when in actual fact, the manhwa hits hard with every chapter or else they'd fall off the list.

Even more disappointing, is that this show is marked as a comedy, when the comedy is the misunderstandings that aren't really funny.

If you're looking to a show that's actually much better but very similar, perhaps A Psychopath's Diary is a much better watch ( https://mydramalist.com/37255-psychopath-diary )

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Rare Old School Wuxia Drama

You thought that China forgot how to make action wuxia dramas ever since they discovered CGI but out of no where, this appears.

The only disappointing part of this show is perhaps how Hou Yan Jia is a tragedy and he's made popular by fighting for his rights during the events right before WW2/Japanese occupation occurred. Alot of events in the show are also fiction that pretends to be non-fiction and a biography.

Unlike the other dramas or movies about him, this drama portrays a longer period of his life, while not historically accurate for the purposes of entertainment, still reminds you about the tragedies of war and how the West and the Japanese who viewed themselves as superior to everyone else acted in weaker countries.

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An amazing show that's marred by the side kicks

You thought that China forgot how to make action wuxia dramas ever since they discovered CGI but out of no where, this appears.

This is a old school Wuxia action drama that is so good, despite Di Ren Jie not looking as handsome as the other actors who have played him.

No finger pointing and hand seal that pretends to be a live action naruto drama here.

Di Ren Jie/Detective Dee is China's version of Sherlock Homes and people who love chinese dramas should be no stranger to him as there's already numerous dramas and movies about his adventures.

In 2024, This drama is a refreshing blast as we don't have over the top CGI and finger pointing fight scenes here. The drama is more reminiscence of old wuxia dramas and Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen movies.

The cases so far are well reasoned and interesting to watch as the people often cry of supernatural happening which is typical of the ancient people and there are enough action scenes to leave you on the edge of your seat. Sadly in the later half, the cases are not as good and the emotions of the characters take focus as they become personally involved.

One issue is perhaps the music could be better, as it is a little dull and obviously as mentioned above, very little romance if you really like the romance in your dramas.

While the first half of the drama is stunning, the latter half is sadly marred by the magistrate sidekicks. One was even gender-changed from male to female to bring some romantic-tension

After finishing the show, I can't help but feel that the show started amazingly. the first half of the show was superb. The sidekicks was tolerable but sadly, it all falls apart due to a disappointing second half. You can't help but feel sad when you read about the rumors regarding one of the sidekicks.

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Comedy that has geographical lines

This is a comedy that nobody outside china can appreciate.

As such, the movie can become a completely waste of time to a laughing good time (depending on your sense of comedy again).

This is basically a low budget comedy that nobody outside china can appreciate due to the context of the jokes, as it's often a spoof or parody on events that has happened. And since comedy itself is subjective and everyone has a different funny bone, even people in china do not find this movie funny.

To be honest, just skip this movie unless you are dying for some wuxia, but even then there are much better movies to watch if you're okay with older movies.

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