Game of Thrones" in Chinese I have very little experience of watching Chinese TV shows, so I compared what I saw with Western models. I can say for sure that the same super-popular 'Game of Thrones' 'Lanya List' inferior slightly, and in some respects it even surpasses it. Why am I talking specifically about 'Game of Thrones'? Well, of course, if blood and eroticism are especially important for the viewer in this title, then in this respect there is nothing in common between ' Thrones' and ' List'. But the actual game of reason, the battle for power, ingenious intrigues are present there and there, and the third such series - precisely by the level of intrigue - I do not know yet!
I want to say right away that even in 'IP' there are moments extremely inconclusive when a burned rogue suddenly makes a childish mistake and is exposed by much more naive and inexperienced people. In 'Lanya's List' I didn't notice such moments. Yes, the villains fall into the holes they dug, but the mistakes of these people are not stupid. However, unfortunately, sometimes an accident plays a role or the main character turns out to be almost a prophet. I personally did not like this obvious superiority of GG from the very beginning - alas, in terms of the unexpected development of the plot ' IP' still ten goals higher! If in the Western series you can never guess who will be ' on horseback ' by the end of the season, who will fail and who will die (even betting on it), then in 'Lanya List' everything is clear from the beginning. The game is complex, exciting, but in one gate. All plans ' genius Cilin' just doomed to success! So if the hero, despite the refined beauty and cunning, you do not like, ' cheer ' for his opponents (also very colorful) You will have to be in a masochistic mood. And if you like, joy will also come out a little - for other reasons (it will not be a spoiler to say that GG is mortally ill and suffers from frequent attacks, this is known from the first series).
In general, with the right attitude, of course, you can get a lot of pleasure from watching bright, worked-out characters and from their truly intelligent dialogue. You can not say that ' Waters' there is not absolutely, but separately it is difficult to decide what kind of dialogue was superfluous - they are all interesting and meaningful in their own way, in their own way reveal the facets of characters.
The problem, if you pick on it, is not the existing episodes, but what the series lacks. There is a lack of love romance: in some storylines it is even difficult to say whether there was a hint of some ' weekly' relationship or not - so sterile. Almost no kisses (however, for China this gesture is too intimate, so in ' decent' it is rarely shown in movies)! There is a lack of well-made battle scenes - warriors fly when there is no special need for this, but at the climax there are no fights of the main characters. Was it difficult to find stuntmen for princes? There is a lack of adventures in the style of action, even when they are supposed (interesting scenes remain behind the scenes), there is a lack of fiction (how soon it is claimed), there is a lack of dramatic scenes of deaths (again, mostly off-screen). . .
But there are strong emotions associated with human ambitions, fear, strong male friendship, love for relatives. And that outweighs the flaws! And no series can meet all expectations.
P.S. I would like to thank the costume designer. The headdresses of the imperial wives are just works of art!
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