warning: this post may be both humorous and spoiler-iffic. You have been WARNED…muhahaha!
I have said that the biggest problem with General and I is Angelbaby. This is her second rather passionless performance when paired up with men who really can bring the house down.
Where she frustrated me first was Love Yunggye from the Desert - aka A Song in the Clouds, the sequel supposedly to Sound of the Desert - Da Mo Yo. Let’s just say she was NO threat to Liu Shi Shi in that follow up. Worse than that? Lu Yi is burdened with Angelbaby’s less than helpful performance. Does that stop him? Uh no. He puts in HIS work, oh yes. Lu Yi is worth watching, in that misery of poor writing (and spoiler…when he goes…well…YEAH.). It’s not a mystery why in Legend of Qin he then upstages the cast as well. (laughing) - paired up with Michelle Chen easily the best of that series
I rewatch their romance… Yeah I love that guy…Anyway - Angelbaby is very fairylike but not very good at acting. Not the worst.
SO what do we get here with General and I? Oh we get another story starting IN THE DESERT so…somebody brightly casts HER again. And we get the same lack of passion. This time? paired up with TWO men who clearly yes, can bring the heat. (shaking head). And she does the same thing she did in Song in the Clouds - pretty much take up space. Give us Ruby Lin and this becomes amazing. Ariel Lin in her prime. Does NOT have to be ravingly beautiful - MICHELLE CHEN! What it takes is some intelligence, some passion, to bring this role as a female Kongming to any meaning at all. Dress Angelbaby in white - so what. We go into mourning for what MIGHT HAVE BEEN in this drama.
The surprise IS Wallace Chung. Seriously. What happened, he can ACT! AND wow. He can also KISS. HE is worth watching. I mean…I have Demigods here, working on that as the CM. So far - he’s interesting but not the man is has BECOME in General and I. CLEARLY come through as an actor.
I have seen the whole thing BUT I admit to scanning through 3 episodes in the 50’s because I can’t take Angelbaby’s er, avoidance of HIM any more. It is an interesting story in several places - and there are some interesting performances - the other jilted beau, the Impossible-beau as I term the second lead, does a VERY nice job… We also get back our Da Ge Killing KING from Chang Ge Xing as another dubious and fatuous monarch…that guy is getting typecast.
Anyway - the bottom line about General and I? 9.0. Because Wallace Chung is worth the look. With a better actress, this story gets more interesting - AND this plot is better over 62 eps than Princess WY’s was… And what on earth is wrong with Angelbaby’s lips? the last 10 eps something seemed well, ODD there. Who knows (throwing up hands).
This one goes into my stack of “for want of help on the distaff, the men go crying”. Worst one of those recently was…Chronicle of Life, where Lau Hawick LABORS with the albatross that is ZS. BEAUTIFULLY FILMED. Men give great lead performances, ALL the other performances are yes, THERE…our Emperor has YOU crying…but she gives us the usual ZS hapless block of stone and there we are, coal in our stocking…
she can destroy even Lau Hawick…from uh 9.5 range to 8.0. You actually hope they will not stop hitting her for destroying the drama! (okay NOT REALLY but you know what I mean. You don’t cry, laugh, nothing with her.
) Ice Fantasy, with Victoria Song’s FLINCH (gasp!) when the HIGHLY kissable and kissing Ka Suo comes in…yeah. AND the editing job that screwed up and did NOT somehow fix that for us…(shaking head). Talk about BUZZ KILL! And then the monument to despair and destruction, Zhao Yun, or rather, ZY’s Dysfunctional Doubly-dreadful Girlfriend. It was NEVER about LGX. The CGI tiger had it better.
My wish list runs heavy this year - I would LOVE to run Glory of Tang Dynasty and see it, it is a bit of fluff but fun from all reports - trailer looks very inviting. The Advisors Alliance, I HAVE to see. I want to run it too! Tribes, yes, I MUST see that one too…Princess Agent - maybe. Ru Yi iF Huo Wallace is having a usual HUO day…oh very yes. Because he’s paired with another lady who can ACT… ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6)
All I REALLY lack on that list is HU GE in a historical. Okay. Lu YI also. I mean. LGX. A second incarnation of SH with all the best men in it AND someone who can hold her own with the whole pack. ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6)
Good topic.
I HOPE we get the best ones, and enjoy this year. the buffet may be OPEN! ![:slight_smile: :slight_smile:](/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6)
GeNie of the Lamp cooough…gasp! SIGH POOF! tissues drifting on the breeze trailing…