The visual artistry of this drama is very good, it has a feeling of a Slavic magical epic, the picture is vast and magnificent, the appearance is also online, the plot is compact, the multi-line narrative, it should be regarded as a very good fantasy drama after the Game of Thrones...
But it's all evil.
The biggest failure of this play is the childhood sweetheart. It took a lot of memories, monologues..., the director tried very hard to force sales to everyone: look! They are childhood sweethearts, and they have deep feelings! However, everyone still can't get it.
I don't know if the actors are chosen incorrectly or not. It's not a question of whether they are handsome or not, or they can't feel the spark of the love between men and women. If you describe them as brothers and sisters, it would be more credible. Good casting directors really have to look vicious. For example, Jiaoxue and the female savage are almost equivalent to the old matchmaker.
The dark master is actually the core of the play. Yingyuan started because of him, and he was the one who seduced and manipulated the heroine. The suspense mystery surrounded him, but I felt that the screenwriter was a bit too wasteful of this biggest burden, so I just exposed it casually. Dramatic conflict is greatly reduced.
I haven't read the original work. It is said that the original work is not perfect, and several rewritings are reasonable at present. In this case, I hope that the screenwriters can break through the limitations of the original work and write them boldly.
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