Eternal Love (2017)

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Unico nel suo genere

Eternal love, o meglio 三生三世十里桃花 - tre vite, tre mondi e un'infinita distesa di fiori di pesco (che in Cina simboleggiano appunto l'amore), è un drama fantastico!
Fantastico perché la storia è molto complessa e fa innumerevoli richiami al mondo di immortali della tradizione cinese, e fantastico perché è davvero bello!
Poco dopo aver visto il drama ho cominciato la lettura del romanzo di Tang Qi, e devo dire che mentre leggo mi immagino i vari attori, le loro voci, le loro battute. Ho più tempo per immergermi con la fantasia in quel mondo stupendo fatto di Verdi colline e Nove cieli. Ho la possibilità di conoscere meglio Zhe Yan, o Migu, o la stessa Bai Qian.
Ma non critico l'interpretazione di questo o quell'attore perché non mi aspetto mai totale fedeltà tra un romanzo e il suo drama.
L'unica curiosità è che il romanzo comincia da metà, ha uno sviluppo temporale della storia molto diverso dal drama e la cosa mi incuriosisce.
Il cast scelto secondo me è stato eccezionale! Yang Mi ha una bellezza così dolce e delicata nei panni di Bai Qian, ma ha anche un portamento ed una fierezza nello sguardo che la rendono a tutti gli effetti una Alta Dea. Mark Chao interpreta il protagonista maschile Ye Hua in maniera così amabile che riesce perfino a mettere in secondo piano il suo rivale Zhang Binbin (per me il sorriso più bello di Cina).
Io ho amato Delireba perchè è una ragazza fantastica e i panni di Feng Jiu le vestono a pennello, credo anche che la sua interpretazione così sbarazzina abbia saputo far risaltare maggiormente la figura di Dong Hua. Non che Gao Vengao non sia un grande attore, ma il suo personaggio all'inizio l'ho trovato piuttosto apatico, e penso che l'ingresso in scena di Feng Jiu lo abbia rilanciato.
Insieme a Feng Jiu non si può non amare la coppia più pazza del drama formata da Si Ming e il Terzo principe, adorabili entrambe.
Scriverei per ore di questo drama che rimane il mio preferito tra i drama Fantasy che ho finora visto, e sarà molto difficile eguagliarlo. Impossibile superarlo!

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favorite xianxia

There was a time where I was so obsessed with this drama, I read the whole novel (finding the translated version was like finding a needle in a haystack but I still managed to find it after searching for days haha) and in addition to that I read manyyyy fan fictions.

Did I also watch the sequel just to see if the main leads had a mini role in it?

Probably.

But yeah, let's not talk about this awkward phase I was going trough. I need to start with the review. And if I'm going to be able to explain the whole story (more or less), then I'm gonna raise a toast to myself. Let's try. But this drama is kinda complicated because it's a xianxia.

So many things happened. But to make it short, I'll only refer to the lives of the main leads. Yeah "lives" because they had more then one. To be exact, they had three. And all of them played a very important role in the drama. Starting with the first life, our main male lead wasn't even born yet. Just for you to know, there is a 90.000 year difference between the female and the male lead. But nobody really cares about it so we just pretend there isn't this big age gap. Funny how the male lead was still the dominant and more responsible figure in the relationship, but more to that later. So the female lead became a disciple of a guy called Mo Yuan, who's also the twin of our male lead, but the male lead was in a lotus flower the whole time. (I know, xianxia dramas are kinda weird.) Because only males were allowed to be one of this disciples, she disguised herself as one. But MY knew this. And he did not kick her out. Till today I'm pretty sure he had feelings for her, I don't care what everyone else says. For me, that wasn't a master-student relationship.

But let me tell you something, the first episodes I really thought MY was the male lead and was really confused, then the second male lead showed up and because of that I thought he was the main lead and was even more confused. They didn't even bother to show us who the main lead was till episode 11 if I don't remember wrong.

Our female lead is actually a deity who then fought with a monster (I don't remember what it exactly was but that's not important.) and because of this fight she 'fell down' to earth and lost all her powers and memories. This is where the second life (my favorite one hehe) starts. BQ (female lead) started to live as a human without a name or anything. The male lead was finally born as the crown prince of the heavenly realm and of course had this cold attitude literally every male lead has. One day, he went to earth and then got injured, that's why he had to stay in his snake form, so he could recover. BQ loved to treat animals and then saw the little snake. And because she's such a kind-hearted and lovely person, she just took that snake to her house, without knowing it it's even poisonous. Yeah, we love our female leads.

While she was starting to treat him, he started to fell in love with her. When he fully recovered, he didn't return but changed into his human form at night so he could sleep next to the female lead. Don't get me wrong, I know that sounds creepy, but he really didn't do anything but just lay down to watch her sleeping. Okay, that sounds even more creepy. Even I can't defend him anymore... I'm really sorry, but he's still one of my favorite male leads haha.

Let's keep going, he then wanted to know her as a 'human' and disguised himself as an injured warrior, who apparently needed her help. Long story short, they fell in love, she got pregnant and our male lead suddenly remembered who he actually was. Leaving her alone for a very long time, he went to the heavenly realm. But he couldn't bare to let her on earth forever, that's why he just took her with him. A human woman. Pregnant with his child. He's the crown prince and there's another woman who tries everything to win his heart. So we all know what happens next, second female lead is just an evil being who tries everything to get rid of BQ. And she actually really get rid of her by making it look like BQ was the reason she lost her eyes. YH (male lead) believed the second female lead and took the eyes from the female lead, so she got blind. Feeling betrayed she first gave birth and then jumped from where the second female lead lost her eyes. Everyone in the heavenly realm thought she was a human, so they assumed that she was dead. But she wasn't of course, as a deity you can't die from there. BQ woke up in her true form and remembered everything, including the betrayal of the male lead. She wanted to forget everything and drank an elixir erasing all her memories. And here's where the third life starts. I'm not gonna summarize this life because it would take me way too long. And it's also my least favorite life from all of them. There's also a second couple who had a lot of scenes, but they even got an own drama, so I'm just focusing on the main leads.

Talking about the characters, they were sometimes really annoying. Especially the female lead in the third life. But one thing got really on my nerves: the mother-son bond.

Oh wait, there wasn't even one.

I'm sorry but I never saw such an awful mother in any drama. These writers really just make it seem like everything was based on romance. THEY HAD A FREAKIN CHILD. Argh, it annoyed me so much. Poor AL, never got the love of his mother which he actually deserved. I'm glad YH was a good father, or I would probably really go crazy.

And then people still be asking why I only liked the second life. First one didn't even show the main lead but made it look like it was a MY-BQ-LJ (second lead) love triangle and last one completely failed for me after making the female lead such an irresponsible person. At least her character was okay, some people would even say she was a 'badass'. Not gonna lie, I loved how she took revenge after regaining her memory.

But like I said before, this drama is one of my favorites. With its flaws. As the most watched drama in China with over 50 billion views, it really is something special. I rewatched it (especially the second life) so many times and never got bored, even when the female lead was such an annoying mother. And don't forget, there's so much more happening in the drama, I only talked about the romantic relationship about the leads and this review is my longest one now.

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Well this is the first Chinese drama I've watched in a while. The last Asian dramas I watched were the TVB series in the late 90's and some Chinese ones in the early 2000s to this series. About a 17 year gap in total. After the crap ending of Game of Thrones, I decided to research and give some Chinese dramas a try. My expectations were raised after I saw that this series had 58 billion viewers and a rating of 9.8/10. So I gave it a try and was blown away from episode 1. The movie like feel of the drama, the colors, the costumes, the scenery, the special effects, and the music. All this had me going 'WOW'. So the series didn't disappoint me and lived up to hype, which is rare. I have watched many other Chinese dramas since thanks to the positive experience from watching Ten Miles of Peach Blossom. The ending song by Zhang Bichen and some guy is something to behold. It's become a regular song on my playlist. Now to the cast. The last time I saw Zhang Mi, the main female lead, was when she played Guo Xiang in the Return of the Condor Heroes. In this series she's grown as an actress. I loved her as Si Yin the most where she did come across as fox like. Then naive and vulnerable as Su Su. Yang Mi also transitioned well to the high powered high goddess of Bai Qian . Mark Chao was perfect as Mo Yuan and Ye Hua. He has a heroic and noble feel about him. I think he's played Detective Dee in the movies. I liked Mark as Mo Yuan more though and I did feel for the character of Mo Yuan at the end. Poor dude without giving away any spoilers... I was rooting for you. As for the character of Yue Hua, I didn't really like him much. I thought he was a bit too aggressive with Bai Qian, but that's just me. I also hated the character of Yue Hua during the period where Bai Qian was Su Su and they were at the Celestial Tribe. But maybe its because I was rooting for Mo Yuan that I didn't like Yue Hau much, even though they look the same... I also enjoyed the bromance between Bai Zhen and Zhe Yan. Two people who did nothing but good during the series. The Star Lord, Si Meng, the kid Ah Li, and the Lian Song also deserves special mention. I loved their characters. There were head scratching moments in the series though. Like how no one could work out that Su Su was Ba Qian going through a mortal trial. Even her niece!! Especially as immortals go through trials in the human realm. Anyway, gripe over. I heard the sequel is solely based on the romance between the characters of Dong Hua Di Jin and Bai Feng Jiu... Oh god forbid, LOL. I just found Bai Feng Jiu to be too clingy and annoying... I'm also not found of young girls chasing grandpa like figures either. So I found them to be rather uninteresting and had to put up with them for a large part of the 58 episodes. Their own story is 56 episodes alone. Count me out of watching that sequel!!! But as for Ten Miles of Peach Blossom its a must watch. 10/10 period!

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My first Chinese drama series that I watched and I love it （╹◡╹）

Eternal Love is a story that opened my eyes to a whole different world of Chinese drama series that I have never experienced before. Now, I just look forward to discover more stories and enjoy watching and reading them.

Eternal Love music is lovely, the acting of the cast is amazing, and the story is astonishing.

Three lives, Three Worlds and Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms perfect name for the story.

The story is intriguing, it would keep you on your toes, and would make you experience a lot of emotions.

I do like that the story has a balance of the lead actors characters. It shows different aspects of their personalities, and in whichever environment they are put in, they seem to master the role very well.

The cast from the main role to the support role actors did an outstanding job. Of course, Yang Mi, Mark Chao are one of my favourite couples in the story as Bai Qian and Ye Hua, I also liked Si Yin with Li Jin as a couple. Moreover, I did like Lord Dong Hua and Bai Feng Jiu Love story as well. The two most scheming characters were Su Sin and Xuan Nu, they played their role well. I liked Bai Zhen the fourth brother of Bai Qian, he cared a lot about his sister and was friends with Zhe Yan (the healer). Si Ming character was interesting where he liked to tell stories, and works for Lord Dong Hua. Zi Lan and Yang Zi were interesting characters and their story felt it could have had a different path. Die Feng the second princess loved his role as the senior disciple of Mo Yuan. As for Mo Yuan, I felt bad that things did not work out for him the way he wished for.

The music was well balanced with effect that it would give you while watching the story. The most critical moments in the story gave a gut-wrenching feeling because the music was in alignment with that moment in the story.

The re-watch value for me is on-going and I am enjoying it,

Overall, this drama series is outstanding with an outstanding cast performance. The director and screenwriter did a wonderful job.

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Just my two cents

Story:

I have to commend that the series indeed gave justice to the manhua/novel of Three Lives Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms. Of course there were changes that is inevitable, but nonetheless, It was inclined with the original story.

Acting/Cast:

Yang Mi indeed showcased her excellent acting skills on her 3 characters in 3 different lifetimes. I love the badass High Goddess Fox Empress Bai Qian. I still find it amusing that Yang Mi always ended up portraying a dense female lead when it comes to love. She is very good at it! I love Si Yin too. I kind of banging my head when it comes to Su Su. I was cringing the whole time thinking of how weak Su Su is. Bai Qian is the ace character to die for.

Mark Chao is up to par on the strong line of characters and is actually good at keeping up with Yang Mi. I pity Mo Yuan for no getting Bai Qian but.. well.. He was bound for someone else. Ye Hua is a strong character that matches Bai Qian in terms of the domineering aura of a ruler of the Heavenly Realm.

It was worth to re-watch, I myself repeated it countless times that I can't even remember how many it was. I am a sucker for Xian xia series especially if this is being done by Yang Mi. The story would go so well! I love how all the characters compliment the storyline because of their superb acting skills.

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Best c-drama ever!

This is by far my most favorite c-drama ever! I have no idea how many times I have seen this at all!
I really like the storyline, how the FL is somehow very popular yet very mysterious at the same time, that nobody knows what she actually looks like. They did a great job at keeping it not too obvious plot, as they keep you anticipating what's going to happen next. The chemistry between ML & FL are so strong, I guess it helped that they are good friends in real life, that it exudes beyond the lens. Also, the other casts have great chemistry too. Perfect Casts! Their acting was on point. I mean it's Yang Mi and Mark Chao we're talking about here!
The part which I didn't like was the story between Yang Mi and Vin Zhang, it felt like they focused on their mini storyline way too much than necessary on the earlier part (a little bit further on too). But yes I get that he was too hung up on her and all.
I really wish they would do more seasons with the same cast, if not keep ML & FL the same. I wanna know their story after being married (officially), and see baby Ali with siblings!!

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Compared to all the other c-dramas I started watching but dropped before the 3rd episode this drama is very decent. I loved it for the most part though there were a few things I found pretty annoying. For example, constant cliffhangers but not proper ones, instead it were just scenes cut in the middle. I guess it worked because I couldn't stop watching the drama and clicked the next episode as quickly as I could but it was way too... artificial and forced. Not a good way to create suspense.
I also noticed that all antagonists were women who were plotting to get the attention of a man and that annoyed me. Not that I expect it to be much different in a chinese drama as I am somewhat familiar with the cultural background and I know that our values and mentality are different but still I wanted there to be at least one female antagonist who had another goal and more ambition. On the other hand considering the genre and the focus on romance their absence is understandable. Male characters played a much more passive role so I had no other choice but hate female antagonists which I don't like to do. But despite the fact that I disliked female antagonists' fixation on men I like that they were at least smart and cunning.
Some plotlines seemed to be there for no reason other than laying a foundation for a sequel (the relationship between Bai Feng Jiu and Dong Hua Di Jun with a female being too forceful and obsessive). It definitely felt like forcefulness was romanticized many times in different relationships here (another instance - Bai Qian and Ye Hua). That's why my overall rating is lower even though I devoured this drama and couldn't stop thinking about it even when I wasn't watching it... but of course, it's just a personal preference

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I this drama very much

After I watch this drama i came to write this review immediately.

In my opinion, not only does the plot of this drama carch my attention, but their costume are all great.

In addition, they has their bgm at the exact spot that really fit with the situation.

For the cast, I love Yang Mi the most. Not only in this drama, in every of her drama, she has had great performance.

To sum it up, the plots are great, the casts are also great and their costume are also great. Even after watching this drama for 5 times, I still have the emotion as when i first watched it.

Really recommend for watching.
It's one of the best drama with the best cast.

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