Apparently, this series is an adaptation of some children's adventure work with historical overtones. Chinese, of course.
Many corners of the realistic picture of those times are obviously smoothed out, obscured here. Actors on the selection of model appearance, as well as costumes. It is clear that we are talking mainly about nobles - but still sometimes catches up with the feeling of artificiality. Cruelty and violence are reduced to skirmishes that end in scratches and happy faces for the most part. Chinese culture is abundantly represented in terms of rituals. There is a certain number of either stamps or traditions - that is, many of the same episodes are made as a copier, for example, inflicting a decisive wound leading to the death of the character.
The series lacks extras, many episodes with claims to large-scale events and clashes - shown conditionally in a hundred people or even less, while talking about the movements of tens of thousands of people.
There is also a feeling that many of the principles of human relations that this series fervently promotes to us do not belong to those times, it literally happens throughout the chronology. That is, it is a modern paradigm projected at that time.
Character arcs are nominally there, they try to convince us that it was and has become very different, but personally it seemed very strained to me.
If you watch it just carefree as pure adventure-entertainment, it’s fine. There is no zest like all sorts of Jack Sparrows here, but to call someone of the characters faceless - my tongue will not turn.
Well, on serious grounds to treat how everything fits together in the work - it is not clear why, this is a fairy tale. And the fairy tale is largely trying to talk about something good and creative, although quite idealistic.