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The Demon World suits Xu Feng so much more that the Heaven Realm. Darker clothes better match his pale skin. Deng Lun has always looked like a hot big-eared goblin to me. No wonder I couldn't stand him in that glam white marble and gold heavenly place. My compliments to the team of costume designers, who managed to portray his transition by making his underrobe in top-black-and-red to down-white gradient with black upper robe in the scenes where he was making the decision. It feels like the heavenly world is draining down from his personality. And it was a beautiful scene (in the previous episode, but the whole meaning only becomes apparent now) when he cut off the white piece of his robe in front of his once fellow-soldiers. Unlike the appearance, the character is still dissapointing. Revenging for his parents is not what the son of war criminals is supposed to do. The Moon's Immortal cries look like a poor quality drama. It is hard to percieve him when he is not funny and playful.
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Can they just stop going around in circles saving one another in every single episode? Honestly! She killed him to save him later by killing herself and Run Yu half killed himself to save her. It is perfectly fine to be grieving about his parents, but, again, it cannot be compared with what Run Yu went through. Phoenix is still a spoiled and privileged boy for me.
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(1) How Tu Yao could fly straight to his room if the spiritual powers are restricted in the area and these three had to crawl all the way up? (2) If the Light of Xuan Qiong burns down the one who carries it, why Tu Yao wasn't hurt when she carried away the first dose? This circle of dying and saving one another is getting exhausting for me.
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Would love to know the snakes' love stories, after they have been tied in bunches by the Moon Immortal. Must be quite a time on the mount :-)
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So many people on the show have been poisoned that it makes me shiver each time anyone is offered a drink
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The irony of the situation is that Run Yu had never felt so lonely as now, when he defeated everyone who stood in the way. I love his flashbacks. Jin Mi has been dissapointing. In the similar situation, when Xu Feng came back to learn she was dead, he did a very simple thing: he killed himself. She is not capable of even that. Let her live with the pain then.
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Guys, never pursue a woman, mistaking her heartlessness for innocence. You'll be stabbed in your back when you least expect it. Poor silly self reliant Phoenix! He had been so sure that everyone was supposed to love him that never bothered to really see what was there in Jin Mi's heart (Run Yu did bother, and was able to see the pill). She had her reasons to do what she did though, as well as Run Yu had his. I was dissapointed with Xu Feng and Moon Immortal: they obviously knew that the Emperor did evil things and still wanted to protect him. If Jin Mi didn't stop Phoenix, he would kill his brother. This stupid local tradition of remaining loyal to your evil family (and, as a reverse side, killing everybody in the family because younger generations will revenge). I've been seeing this in each and every cdrama. So sorry to lose our gorgeous Liao Yuan. And now a bright side of the story: the spellwork or whatever Phoenix and Run Yu did at the very beginning of the episode was magic. This is very close to how it senses when I do mine ;-) My 10 out of 10 goes for that and not for the bloody mess that happened afterwards.
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While some characters are depressed and others are busy with plotting, I've been thinking about how contrasting Liu Ying and Jin Mi are. One never doubts her lover even witnessing his attempts to kill good people. The other is so easily confused. What exactly does this thing in her heart does to the owner? Is it "only with the heart that one can see rightly"? (c)
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Run Yu is the most elaborated character of the drama (which gives Leo Luo plenty of opportunities to show his acting skills, and he's done it masterfully). I love his self reflection in the dialog with Kuang Lu: "have I really changed?" However, Xu Feng's moral dilemma around his mother is something that doesn't cross my cultural barrier. How does his mother crimes deal with HIS conscience?
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When Xu Feng's saying that he should share half of his mother's punishment, he is little aware that he is being already punished with this whole situation. A bright case how the next generations have to sort out all the mess, created by the previous ones. The episode in which the Emperor reveals his true identity as a weak and adaptive ruler. I totally trust the Empress when she's saying that she was the one who did all the dirty job to make him seem good and strong. And she is getting a more complex and human like character, by the way (possibly, part of the reason is that she is not wearing this ugly lipstik color any more).
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The episode in which the Empress attempts to explain, why she became such a cruel person. A nice try, but I would prefer to witness her controversies as the story unfolds. Having it all said within one followup scene is kinda too late for me to humanize her. Still a flat cardboard carachter. But the actress did a tremendous job!
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It is interesting, how, only when her heart is sealed again, she is able to think soberly and comprehend all the consequences of her relationship with Phoenix. I wonder if it also helped her figure out about the Empress' plan. Jin Mi in love doesn't seem to be so bright minded.
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It's funny how the relationship had sensed too slowly developing and the sex scene was still kinda rush :-) I hope she didn't ruin her back against that tree since it was explicitly shaking :-) I don't know where it leads to, but if the charachters of the show didn't sleep with one another before they get married, most of the problems just didn't exist, neither did some of the charachters ;-) I know I'm a drama killer. I wish everyone had happy and boring life.
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Even though he's just passed his (optional) mortal redemption, Xu Feng's preoccupation with his love story looks like a kids playground if compared with what Run Yu is going through.
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Xianxia lovers are familiar with this technique of sending immortals for the redemption. We've been seeing a lot of this, with all sorts of things happening in mortal realm. But this is a rare and absolutely powerful scene of coming back as immortals. I lost count of the numbers I rewatched that one minute of him resurrecting from the tomb and having this small dialog with Jin Mi , when they are fresh with their mortal experience and integrating it in their heavenly lives. The clinical psychologist in me fights with and the astrologer who knows a little about karma. On the one hand, this is totally sick to end one's life in such a miserable way. People should not be so much stuck on the loved ones. They should look for new meanings and so on and so forth. On the other hand it gets quite obvious sometimes that the Soul's only purpose of coming to the world is being with someone. And once someone is gone - no point living on. Would this ever have occurred to us as a group of tourists on a guided tour to the king's tomb, that the real story behind this sad love story of two mortals is something bigger and multifold?
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