The Story of Mystics (2024)

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Tenho muitos elogios para este drama, que logo no primeiro episódio eu já era fã de tão cativada que estava, e meu interesse só foi aumento a cada episódio que se passava.

A trilha sonora era linda demais, canções maravilhosas ,lindas e tristes ao mesmo tempo; os efeitos especias me trasnportava para dentro da cena em questão , parecia uma produção de filme, o que ajudaram a dar mais fantasia ainda nas cenas de luta, senti que minha televisão virou uma tela de cinamema.

Gostei dos atores eles estavam ok para mim, mas tenho que enaltecer especialmente o protagonista masculino o "demonio` , para mim ele foi o grande destaque da serie, muito perfeito. Gostei muito das histórias dos demonios no decorrer da série.

Sei que nem tudo neste show foi flores teve sim algumas coisas que não gostei como a protagonista feminina apesar de ser boazinha era completamente inutil só sabia chorar no chão, estava sempre esperendo que alguem fizesse algo por ela , isso realmente me chateou. Outra coisa que aconteceu que apesar de gostar muito deste drama , foi chegando no final eu já estava um pouco cansada, podiam ter colocado menos episódios e ir direto ao ponto em determinadas situações;mas essa enrolação é bem tipica da maioria dos dramas.

Porém mesmo tendo situações que me chatearam com certeza não tirou o brilho deste drama tão bom, eu ainda sim tive uma ótima experiencia em assisti-lo.

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Hermoso OST!!

Me gustaron muchas cosas de esta serie, como su vestuario y los detalles en ellos, desde los peinados hasta los accesorios en cada personaje, se sentían como que, con cada caracterización del vestuario en cada personaje estaba la intencionalidad de dejar una impronta de su personificación o características que lo hacía único a cada uno.
La escenografía de la Oficina de caza de Demonios un sueño, con mucho surrealismo. Como la ciudad bajo agua, en la fuente, quizás un detalle no muy relevante aunque se uso en varias escenas, pero realmente se tomaron el tiempo para contemplar la idea.
La actuación de los actores con esa dinámica de complicidad, sarcasmo y humor, elementos que creo, fueron realmente necesarios y útiles para que aliviaran la carga emocional de los distintos arcos de la historia, aunque no me gusto escuchar gritar a Bai Jiu jaja entiendo la intención...

Para mi un gran puntazo de esta serie fue la parte del sonido, es decir el OST, que iba al pie de la trama acompañándola para complementarla. Inclusive las partes de humor tenia su sonido característico indicando que se estaba de puertas a una broma. Creo no haber escuchado un OST similar desde la serie Evernight. Como suena instrumentalmente el OST de Fangs Of Fortune, realmente es una caricia al alma, que probablemente volveré a escuchar en algún otro momento.

Ahora en cuanto a la historia explicare el porque del 8.5, porque si bien me entretuvo por un montón de cosas el viaje de la serie, aun así siento que hubo ciertas cositas con inconsistencia que me dejaban un poquito desorientada o preguntándome que paso acá?:
- Como por ejemplo cortes abruptos de escena o pocos sutiles de un capitulo a otro, o que al menos yo percibí como si faltara una parte, quizás por una cuestión de tiempos muy probablemente. También recuerdo notar un actor de reparto secundario que aparece en el capitulo 1 y 2 y pareciera ser asistente del padre de Wen Xiao o de Wen Xiao, que luego no se lo ve mas en toda la serie....
- Otra cosa fue un poco, como construyeron en el guion al personaje de Wen Xiao porque se la ve bastante hábil cuando arranca la serie en el capitulo 1 en cuanto artes marciales, pero luego eso no se ve mas en el resto de la serie. Pues se va a todo lo contrario, aunque esta clara que su habilidad era la empatía y la voluntad ademas de un titulo que poco le servia, pero es que no entiendo porque si le dan esa introducción al personaje en el capitulo 1 luego hacen esto otro mmm..... cuando pasan estas cosas me pregunto porque?? Había necesidad de eso???....
- Algo que me pareció que estaba descarrilándose eran los últimos capítulos (con eso del doctor loco y las mutaciones).... el paso de poderes de unos a otros.... Algo raro que tenia esta serie que me causa hasta un poco de humor, es que todo tenia otra vuelta, los personajes cuando llegaban a una encrucijada siempre preguntaban hay otra manera? y siempre la había aunque el medio justificara o no el fin... Me gusta porque es distinto, pero que tenga sentido, para que se mantenga el argumento.

Para mi es una de las mejores series que vi en el 2024, ojala mucha gente disfrute viéndola, ya que fuera de algunas pequeñas cosas que se pueden compensar con otras, es una serie muy completa tanto en sonido, como actores, vestuario, escenografía, etc.

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Amazingly beautiful and very well directed

I waited a long long time for this drama to be out. OMG WOW! It was definitely worth the wait!

Everyone has played their roles very well and the little details in the acting and story was very well designed. All the intricate details were amazing. This drama is definitely different from the spoiled princess dramas out there and all the palace power struggles....all same story line. This drama is definitely different and it's a good different.

Neo Huo has played his role extremely well and the chemistry between all of them are in synchrony which makes puts the drama in a different class of its own.

Very well played 👍

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Great concept, poorly executed

This genre of dramas is one my favourites and I was super excited to watch Fangs of Fortune after seeing the trailer for but unfortunately this show just did not live up to what I had thought it was going to be. The first few episodes were great, meeting the characters, and getting into their first case - great right up my alley! But it all started going down hill for me from ep 5.
The storyline! It felt as though there were too many side stories that kept competing for the main story line where they just felt like a distraction / filler for the show. None of the stories meshed well together nor did they feel like they had any conclusion. It got boring for me and I started tuning out cos of all the side stories and distraction made me lose interest in what they were trying to achieve. Some of the episodes were drawn out by so much dialogue and flashbacks it felt really unnecessary. I found myself at times saying 'OK I get it can we move on from this now' so I had to skip alot of the scenes of talking.
The romance of the leads felt forced and was unecessary. I really enjoyed the friendship of the whole group and wish the writers had just left it as a friendship rather than throwing in a romantic relationship with the leads it wasnt needed.
I thoroughly enjoyed the visuals, costumes, acting, the comedy (the comedy was awesome), and the premise of demons I just felt the storyline let this down for me and the potential just decreased. A bit disappointing but thats OK will hopefully see more from these actors in future as they were great!

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Crappie and illogical storyline

I'm giving this drama 7 star 🌟
First of all let me highlight what I love about this drama.

1) The OST: I'm in awe with the amazing OST which left me mesmerizing, I can say that this drama has the best OST this 2024

2)The Visuals: I love the visual effects of this drama which makes each an every character extremely beautiful and gave them a wonderful visual on the screen. I applaud it for that. And all the characters did a great job.

Here are my dislike and dissatisfaction of this drama.

1) The ml: I feel like the way the ml who was portrayed of being the most powerful celestial creature in this show was overly over hyped.

Reason being because i couldn't feel the aura of a supreme being in him in the screen.
His fight potential as a powerful demon was totally inferior compared to other characters in the show. Like I was rooting to see him unleash that powerful force as he was portrayed to be but was disappointed. Some may come and justify it with many backstory reasons but that doesn't change the fact. We just didn't feel his majestic power in the screen.

Secondly, the ml efforts to cracks jokes when things are getting serious Offs me, like that will just make me lose my appetite of watching for a while or just fast-forward such ridiculous parts.

Thirdly, the ml who is obviously a demon lord being portrayed as a benevolent like Devine-God isn't my cup of tea,
like I'm not into such type of a demon character unless he was portrayed as a devine God.
I only accept a gray demon character and not some sort of God-like character who will be a sacrificial lamb to save the world.
Even if he wants to do so is fine but his character should always maintain gray vibe and not always act all time Holy like a Catholic priest hahaha.

2) The storyline: I think the storyline fails to differentiate the difference between mortal and immortal being. Like I will just get confused when a lowly humans can easily subdue demons who has a supernatural power.

This drama Over hyped humans abilities and limitations against a celestial being.

Secondary the parallel world in this drama sucks, I was expecting the Wilderness to be a distinct realm of demons which is different from human realm and also a place where living human can't go while still alive.

Overall, this drama fails to separate the difference between men and immortal being by giving a mare mortal the ability to subdue and precide over immortal being which is totally ridiculous and illogical to me.

I know I should accept the plot as it is but such an illogical stories are meant to entertain kids and insult Adult IQ and I'm not passive about that.

In this drama, human and demon were just mixed that you will now wonder which is immortal being lol.

I know this is xianxia genre drama but the drama direction was obviously defining Xuanhuan genre which is why everything was contradicted.

In most xianxia genre, only human who was possessed by celestial power can come in contact or challenge demon. And most type of demon in xianxia are human who are possessed by demon. Or some sort demonic Godly weapons and sword.

Unlike in Xuanhuan that portrays direct demon or god.

This whole theory was why this drama fail woefully in this aspect.

Chinese dramas in category of "Wuxia, xianxia or Xuanhuan" revolves around chinese culture and traditions and if any Director or writers who change this definition to something scientifical theories and logic with morden norms, then is no longer a Chinese drama but a Western style drama.

That's my take I hope that helps.

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Worth a watch

*Cinematography*:
Spectacular rich, sombre set design. This is the thing I loved most about GJM's works, whatever other criticisms I have for his directing. If you're kind of not into the light airy colours lots of period dramas use and loved the dark tones of My Journey to You's aesthetic, then this is for you. Colours aside, GJM seems to really know what kind of shots and scenes he's going for. Nothing is tonally out of place. Everything could be a wallpaper. I'm not kidding when I say this drama is worth a watch based on cinematography alone.

*Music*: absolutely amazing, almost every song is playlist-worthy. Liu yuning's been deployed once again and producing masterpieces as usual.

*Story*:
Well right off the bat the casting is amazing. You won't EVER catch an actor slipping in their acting, not even when they're the background of a shot. If they act off, it's because their character is up to something. That's how good they are.

As for the actual writing, it's too early to judge them on character arcs yet. What I'll say is that these characters are written as organic human beings with understandable motivations. So no awkward dialogue, caricatures, etc. On the other hand, the 'elite team' that the main cast is supposed to be feature some people who just. can't. fight. So you need to stretch your imagination a bit there. The good of this is that the show generally lets every character be useful, even if you're sometimes left to wonder if they should be running around fighting demons at all.

Thematically, the show does a great job giving it's antagonists understandable philosophical perspectives that conflict with the heroes'. However, it does 'cop-out' too many times by giving them convenient resolutions instead of letting the clash of ideas run its course. So while the heroes have been challenges ideologically pretty much every arc, they've not changed much. Another thing is, while the show is very good at show not telling for establishing personalities, lore, backstories, you name it, it kind of drops the ball on thematic content and prefers to deliver them through long, rambling monologues copiously inserted between climactic fight scenes.

Some very minor points: this show delivers it's lore in bits and pieces (no intro infodump here). This can be fun or confusing depending on how you see it. Next, I really like how demon characters get demon names. Like not titles but mythological names. It isn't something I see often and suits them way more than 'The ___ king of demons'.

Also, even though the plot is technically 'investigations' of demon crimes, it's not really a crime solving show so don't go into it with that expectation. It has the crime show aesthetic of morbid atmosphere and corpses and running into creepy places, but it delivers them to the bad guy's lair without much piecing together clues because that's not what this show is about. Most twists (and there are plenty) are delivered via dialogue, not figured out by the main 'detectives'.

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One Of The Best If 2024

I am all in with this drama. I see some people are disappointed because it has humor and wanted it to be dark the entire show. You HAVE to have the relief from the darkness to enjoy it when you are traveling through it. Genius director and script writer(s). Episode 9 had me so enthralled that I got irritated at my dog for wanting to go outside to relieve herself. Thankfully I can push pause and miss nothing. The title is misleading because I thought this was about vampires and almost didn't watch it. I can't rave about this drama too much. The guest actors are so great to watch. The leads and 2nd leads including the young boy, make this drama worth your time. I have laughed, I have cried and I want more episodes than just 2 per day. Don't miss this one.

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Too depressing for me

I am probably 1 out of 100 people, but Fangs of Fortune didn’t work for me. And I really wanted to like it - I had been looking forward to it for several months - but unfortunately I couldn’t.

The main reason FoF didn’t work for me is that I could not handle its everyone-and-everything-is-doomed vibe - the story is packed with heartbraking events with very few comedic moments that interrupt all the pain and that give the viewer time to breath. If you are into emotional pain, heartbreak, angst and desperation, FoF will be a feast for you and my following complaints regarding storytelling (pacing and character development) will merely be a little nuisance. But for me this drama was simply too depressing to enjoy.

Storytelling-wise my biggest complaint is about the pacing of this story because something about it was off. There simply wasn’t a rhythm I could flow with - I perceived the whole drama as a mere succession of more or less connected events without narrative arcs to guide a viewer through it.

Apart from that, I also had issues with the character development or better the lack of it. At some point I felt that the lead characters had morphed into a collective of more or less interchangeable units that were all willing to sacrifice themselves for the whole entity. I assume the story provided the moments where those characters reached the emotional turning points where they formed a deep bond of love but for me these moments where either so fleeting that they never stuck with me or they drowned in an ocean of heartbreak. Therefore, the bonding of the lead characters was something that I just had to accept eventually without emotionally understanding it from a storytelling perspective. FoF relies heavily on the self sacrificing trope and the majority of the characters have martyr syndrome. However, I felt that for very few of them their martyrism is based in the narrative.

So, why did I torture myself and hate-watched all 34 and 1/2 episodes instead of dropping FoF eventually? The answer is Hou Ming Hao. He‘s magnetic. I have no better explanation. He pulled my gaze to the screen and locked it there, so I had to watch every single episode of FoF, no matter if I wanted to or not.

And there is one thing that I loved about FoF - the closing credits. This madness of letting the actors, fully in costume but NOT in character, break the fourth wall while performing a happy group dance appeals to my taste.

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