THANKS TO RUNYU.
To cut the chase:This was likened to Romeo and Juliet and although I hold no expertise in literature, I'd say it was overstated. If anything, the affection between Jinmi and Xufeng was a depiction of 'crush' gone full-throttle. They were tied by feeble faith but strong attachment. In the absence of constant affirmation (mainly on Xufeng's part), it will fall apart and so their relationship is fragile and rather volatile in a sense. These two also appeared to be devoid of sense of reality - it was understandable considering Jinmi's situation, however as for Xufeng; who have gone to wars (and a General/Commander on top of it) and supposedly had real social interactions to boot, he was imprudent and sometimes struck as holier-than-thou character. Which was a máfan since he's allegedly male protagonist with sound mind.
Overall, the seemingly 'green' sentiment, their lack of depths and bearings made it a lot difficult to sympathize and eventually to root for. I found greater enjoyment indulging in Runyu's character arc, Moon Immortal and Immortal Yuan's banter and Liuying and Muci's love story. 8/10 because Jinmi and Xufeng are lucky to have great condiments to spice up their trifles.
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Reason(s) to watch:
1/ Runyu, the second male lead. Fated to be alone, predestined to suffer and serve as scapegoat for literally everything that happens in the realms, he is no doubt, the most tragic character I've ever encountered in drama-land and is the most befitting/entitled to -fighting against the odds- term among the main roles. Luo Yunxi's portrayal of deeply-layered Runyu was engrossing and compensated most flaws and disengagement I felt towards the story to the extent, he was the sole reason of me continuing this drama. Even in his most subtlety, he managed to capture the essence of Runyu, evoked empathy and carried his character arc spectacularly.
2/ Tu Yao, the Heavenly Empress. Tu Yao was downright despicable and the embodiment of evil. The sight of her red lips and eye squints made my stomach lurches. In nutshell, Kathy Chow is the bomb.
3/ Needless to say the OST.
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Minha maior paixão de todos os tempos
Ashes of Love é cativante. Não é atoa que assisti esse dorama mais de 20 vezes, e em todas as vezes me emociono como se fosse a primeira, me acabando por chorar. Em principal, o casal Xu Fen e Jin Mi são os meus amores e o amor mais intenso e puro que já vi em doramas. O esforço para ficarem juntos, em qual quer que seja a vida, é capaz de deixar até o mais duro dos corações amolecido. Xu Feng...que protagonista. Lindo, másculo, maravilhoso e disposto a fazer tudo para ter sua amada em seus braços. Para que ela seja sua esposa em todas as vidas que se encontrarem. Espetacular. Não consigo colocar em palavras o quão a atuação deles me deixou encantada, tanto que quando assisti esse dorama pela primeira vez, no ano de lançamento, fiquei totalmente obcecada por Deng Lu e Yang Zi. Passei a acompaha-lós em outros projetos, e espero que em breve tenham outro dorama de fantansia juntos, como casal principal. Ashes of Love não decepciona, mas é capaz de te empurrar para o abismo com tanta tristeza dilacerando seu coração. Para SEMPRE, meu dorama favorito.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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MUST WATCH!
When ever we think about Fairy and magic we got a typical image like love, prince charming come to rescue etc. same as when we think about heavan and demon we got a typical image like it's Peaceful and painfull respectivelyThis story tell us that everyone and every realm has it's Good and bad sides,
Heaven is not totally Good
And Demons are not TOTALY bad
This story has a different story and plot twists than the typical fairy tale
If you love romance and magic then this story is definitely for you!
It's worth watching
I'm not gonna say more because rather than reading my review you should watch it by your self, I'm pretty sure if you don't like the story still you'll love the Magic!
Happy watching everyone ✌
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Story: the story is great it has great story love triangle, little friendship, betrayal, revengeActing: all the actor and actress did really great especially Yang Zi and Deng Lun their chemistry in here are great
Music: I didn’t really pay attention to the music but the music are good
Rewatch I will definitely rewatch this when I have free time
Overall: this is a much watch Yang Zi and Deng Lun will have to though a lot of obstacles but at the end they will end up together
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GUARDA COME DIVENTO CATTIVO
Se si vuole vedere un fantasy pieno di intrighi, complotti, colpi di scena e buoni effetti speciali consiglio la visione perché questi aspetti meritano un bel 10 pieno, sarebbe una sorta di game of thrones asiatico casto , privo di passione, sensualità e sesso (che penso lo avrebbero reso più interessante).Se invece sperate in una storia d'amore strappa lacrime, vi dico che c'è, c'è anche il triangolo amoroso e ce ne è più di una ma di amore in 60 puntate c'è più un'idea , attraverso dialoghi e struggimenti, le scene d'amore reali in una serie così lunga sono davvero poche, molto poche (in proporzione).
Pertanto consiglio per la storia ma non per la storia d'amore. Finale non deludente (questo conta tanto) .
Interpretazione magistrale del Dio della Notte, che secondo me ha convinto proprio attraverso questo drama e la sua figura del demone di till end of moon prende spunto da qui.
Luo Yunxi è stato in grado di trasmettere le complesse motivazioni di Runyu, facendoti empatizzare con lui, ma anche sentirti sempre più a disagio con ciò che fa. Triste è la sua fine nonostante è ovvio che sia un tentativo di redenzione.
Ho letto nelle recensioni che l'eccezionalità di questo drama sono gli effetti speciali e vi dico sì, ha una bellissima fotografia ma certi effetti sono stati migliorati nel 2024 , e ne decantano il fatto che non annoia mai. Invece su questo devo dissentire, molte scene le troverete inutili, cioè dei riempitivi che nulla aggiungono e tolgono alla storia e in una serie così lunga potevano alleggerire o essere utilizzati per creare qualche momento in più nella relazione amorosa tra i personaggi, specialmente gli episodi dal 22 al 33 io li ho trovati molto più lenti e ho rallentato il binge , passando alla visione di soli 3 episodi al giorno, perché ho trovato tutto troppo trascinato , senza slanci romantici che mi potessero aiutare ad apprezzarne la visione.
La storia d'amore tra i due attori principali mi ha convinto solo in parte, bei dialoghi ma in certi momenti poco credibili, sia lui che lei.
COLONNA SONORA WOW, c'è anche la cantante Sa ding ding nel cast, e ho apprezzato molto la sua presenza perché devo dire è stata brava, una o due canzoni invece son cantate dalla protagonista,
DO 9 PER LA RECITAZIONE e gli EFFETTI SPECIALI, LA FOTOGRAFIA E LA SCENOGRAFIA. Come drama complessivamente dovrei dare 8.
COSA NON E' ANDATO: Lunghezza del drama, se c'è qualcosa da dire e da rappresentare ben vengano i 60 episodi, anche 70 ma qui è stato un trascinarsi con scene che nulla aggiungevano anzi rallentavano e appesantivano.
La protagonista può risultare fastidiosa all'inizio, molti hanno droppato e anche a me all'inizio è riuscito difficile seguirla perché non è solo ingenua ma anche stupidissima e molto egocentrica. Compirà un interessante evoluzione.
La storia d'amore tra Jinmi e Xufeng mi ha quasi fatto venire voglia di sbattere la testa contro il muro per porvi fine. La loro storia d'amore è fondamentalmente un corri-scappa e rincorri per circa 60 episodi! TOO MUCH! Molte scene avrebbero potuto essere tagliate, molti dei mini archi narrativi avrebbero potuto essere più succinti. Molti personaggi hanno archi narrativi ripetitivi.
NOTA DOLENTISSIMA: LA traduzione è automatica e molto confusa, non vorrei sembrare ingrata dato che è un lavoro fatto da volontari ma penalizza troppo la visione (errori grammaticali, discorsi senza senso o sgrammaticati per almeno il 40% della serie), motivo per cui non vedrò altri lavori tradotti da questo team, scusate , avete rovinato un capolavoro .
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This may hopefully help the psychology geeks like myself to digest the show
This is not going to be a typical review and I might get boring by focusing on the psychological processes of the characters since this is the only thing that keeps me busy in the love dramas like this one (and I am not by far a love story person, tbh, but rather a xianxia lover and you can hardly split those two categories apart).Ok, so what I understood the legend is:
A young mother to be, as a result of all the mess she went through and her being completely lonely and no one to share with (which is strange since she’s got her great teacher, a Lord Dou Mu), and needing to protect her loved ones makes a totally wrong decision about her daughter by blocking some of her essential abilities. And that is how she creates the future events she wanted to prevent from. Hadn’t she given her the pill, nothing of the crazy mess would have happened, her daughter would be raised with her perfect gender awareness. She would probably fall in love with our brilliant Xu Feng like all the rest of the girls of the 6 realms and by this sole fact she would be “just another girl” for him.
Xu Feng is a guy who had been loved and spoiled by giving him everything he wanted and much more than that. As a son of a pushy and controlling mother (in her own ways), he had been obviously overwhelmed by female attention and perceived all the love signals of women as another way to control him (hello, mother). Jin Mi seems to be the first and the only one (Liu Ying doesn’t count since she is busy with her own romance) who shows no interest in him as a man and this is exactly what allowed him to include her into his close circle, as his servant in the first place. She was the only woman he felt safe with, the only one who doesn’t need anything from him, doesn’t push him, doesn’t make him feel suffocated. Since she is not aware of her gender and wasn’t trained the eternal love routine of flirting and getting a guy’s attention, she admits touches and words that don’t look really appropriate but still excite our heavily counterdependant Xu Feng and he later interprets it as “her innocence” (not the case). And guess what! Of course he falls in love with her. And now he’s inverted roles with his “inner mother” (always the case) and starts been pushy and controlling towards Jin Mi up until the 40ish episodes where the story culminates in its heaviest twists (you can see (and be freaked out by) some of that in the intro and it looks so messy when you just start the show and believe this is an innocent comedy). This whole process is poorly portrayed and Xu Feng is predictably interpreted by scrupulous viewers as an obsessed underdeveloped character. This contrasts to his beautifully elaborated older brother, The Night Immortal, who’s been given a lot of screen time to unfold his life story and his processes, who is just as much obsessed with Jin Mi but it looks OK because we know the nature of his obsession. No wonder I (and a good half if not the majority of viewers) stayed emotionally connected to and supportive of this guy even in his worst shadow times. The role of Night Immortal is a blessing for every actor to get and Leo Luo used it to the max capacity and showed his great acting skills.
I didn’t see any particular chemistry between the main couple. Even Xu Feng and Sui He looked much better together in those few episodes when they had a nice romantic interaction.
I don’t like the Pill thing as a major plot device since it looks artificial, thus reducing the value of the show for me. The creators catch up with almost everything else though, making the show still exciting to watch and throwing in some precious gems like amazing pieces of dialogues with beautiful (if not sacred) formulae and good comic vignettes.
The music is poor. I’ll leave the three tracks to the matter of individual tastes but having just three of them for such a bright and epic show is a pity. Mu Ci and Liu Ying deserved their own love theme, to say the least. I don’t want to name other similar shows with superb collection of OST but the obvious comparison comes to mind.
I did rewatch a number of scenes to unfold the taste and get a better sense of the details. The show is quite complex and you might need that.
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Best Historical C-Drama Ever
This is honestly the best historical xianxia show I've ever watched. The acting, the plot, the songs, the edits/background are so good. Nothing is bad about this show, absolutely nothing. I rewatched this show for idek how many times now but so many that I know basically all the lines and when a certain clip occurs. It was also this show that made me love Yang Zi because of her spectacular acting.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
Simply the best drama to watch
The most original acting and voice acting drama...I'm shocked this drama had no voice actors at all and story was the best that can't be better than it is it's simply the most enjoyable XianXia drama to me that I have ever watched especially the last episode was very vibing lol no spoilers...and I enjoyed the specific actor's story (Luo Yun Xi) who was the main reason why I wanted to watch it when I didVond je deze recentie nuttig?
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Worth the time spent watching this masterfully written and depicted story!
To begin with, I read some reviews and didn't want to see Luo Yun Xi portray an antagonist character, however, it's a good thing that I changed my mind. He did a wonderful job in that character, a character that you like in the beginning. But as time goes by, you see how it changes and not for the better. He is one of the few characters that I didn't mind having a redemption arc.Jin Mi/ The Frost Flower/ The Water Immortal:
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Jin Mi was also one of the best character Yang Zi has portrayed, another was her Yan Dan in Immortal Samsara. When I saw her in Go Go Squid, I didn't think much of her acting skills, but these historical romances changed my mind. She has shown such range of emotions, reminding me of Korean actress Gong Hyo-jin. Coming to her character, we have to consider her handicap, the unfeeling pill, the elixir that stunted her development and ability to discern things. Everyone in the floral realm appeared very weak, beginning from the ladies who raised her. They relied blindly on the pill, not preparing Jim Mi for what was coming in the future. For a 4000 year old, she had barely the understanding of teenager. And the Yun Elixir (the unfeeling pill) plotline left some loose ends. I mean did the elixir only cut of romantic love and not familial love? Because she loved her newfound father and auntie so much that she wanted revenge, those are some strong feelings. Phoenix was the first to fall in love with her, but it wasn't until later, a few months before entering the mortal realm that Jin Mi started reciprocating the feelings. Even in the mortal realm she hid things from him, she could have told him that she was poisoned and going to die, especially since she accepted his feelings. Her character was written beautifully, this was a coming of age story that made you hate her at times and love her at others. I'm glad she had to face the consequences of killing the phoenix, even once she was reincarnated. It was fair because she didn't love him as much as he loved her. She was so easily tricked into believing that he killed her parents, had little faith in him. Even once she found out that he didn't do it, the first thing she thought of was that she killed him mistakenly. Not how she could make up for it or bring him back. She wanted to bring him back to be with him, not only to atone for her sins. So, I wasn't really surprised with the way he treated her when he came back to life.
Xu Feng / Phoenix / Fire Deity
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This drama introduced me to Deng Lun, he and Yang Zi were well-matched in their acting prowess. Xu Feng was one of the greenest flags in Cdramas you'll ever get to see, much similar to Sifeng from Love & Redemption. Even when he tried to hate the FL for what she had done, he found it unpalatable. But he did hate her, you have to when the person you are trying to protect stabs you in the back. The worst part of it was not that she stabbed him, it was heartbreaking for sure, but she stabbed him in the back. Even when she did that, all he did was ask her if she ever loved him. She denied it and that was the last thing he ever heard. Even when he came back from the dead, he didn't for a moment think about getting revenge against her. He only wanted to live his life and not bother with others. Apart from Run Yu, he was the one who suffered the most throughout the series, at the hands of the Jin Mi, his parents, and let's not forget Su Hi. The worst character Tai Wei, the heavenly emperor, who raped the woman he claimed to love and just wanted people to forgive and forget. What's worse, he still claimed to love her. Him along with his crazy wife were the reason Xu Feng suffered so much. Had they left it alone and minded their actual responsibilities, they wouldn't have meddled in their son's life so much, causing him untold grief. Let's not forget Su Hi, this trio went out of its way to make others miserable. The one flaw that Xu Feng had was he overlooked his parents crimes and tried to get them pardoned at every opportunity when he should have been disgusted by them. Even when he thought that his mother could have killed Jin Mi's father, he wanted to find a way to save her. His mother did kill Run Yu's mother, for that, he could only apologize, which was fine and reasonable, but what wasn't was not calling his mother out on it. He enabled her in that way. He also knew how his mother treated Run Yu and while he called her out on it, they were still living same toxic cycle where she continuously put Run Yu down.
Just a phenomenal groups of actors that worked together on a well-written story.
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Visually stunning with some great performances
Dragged on a little too long. However memorable performances by Allen Deng as Xu Feng the Phoenix and Leo Luo as Run Yu the Night Immortal . Leo Luo really should win an award for his incredible performance. He was very convincing in his heartbreak and sadness not winning the affections of the flower princess. Yukee Chen is always a favorite of mine. She is good in anything she does. The costume designs should also win awards. This cdrama is visually stunning in its special effects. I could have done without the Carrot Fairy. He was completely irritating. .Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
