Gina
The story is brilliant, undramatic and reasonable . Love & Destiny will blow you away (even if you're not a fantasy/xianxia/historical genre kind of person) Also, If you like The Journey of Flower, you will love this without a doubt.
Everything is so stunning from the costumes, to the set and the cinematography. I'm especially fond of the open song. Particularly their love story. The different clans coming together and all the magical elements and all are very interesting.
The acting was spectacular. Ni Ni & Chang Chen did a fantastic job as always. Although it was my first time watching Chang Chen, his character as Jiu Chen is so easily to fall in love with because he is that good at acting. Chemistry was flawless, but kind of slow at the beginning. Their love is not quite as transparent as other fantasy drama but they portrayed spectacular; you could feel their love and pain and share their happiness. Their love is very settle , you have to watch each facial expression to tell.
Every other character was very likeable having their own unique personalities. The other side characters and love stories are also super sweet especially Qing Yao & Yun Feng.
The only problem I have (not with the drama) itself, but the two villain. I feel they have not being punished enough.The ending feel a little rush to me.
Rewatch it? Definitely. No qualms about it.
This is truly a masterpiece and I can safely say Eternal Love is my favourite C-Drama.
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Plot: You know how most shows are pretty boring in the beginning and only gets interesting around halfway or more, you will hook right from the 1st ep. it’s very comical. Then you 'll need your tissues ready for all of the emotional scenes will be brought out you’ll get happy, sad/heartbroken, frustrated, anxious and last of all it’ll make you crave for more on what’s happening next. I love how they developed all characters from beginning to the end, everyone changed significantly for the better or worse. The cgi and costumes were so well done that I’m just so amazed. In my personal opinion, this is the best love story I have ever seen portrayed! I did not, due to the side characters' stories got a little bit too draggy. The production devoted a lot of time to the side characters' background and love story - which, although interesting, takes the focus away from the main couple who were undeniably THE most attractive factor of the drama. Hence, it was a little frustrating. I've read the book for Heavy Sweetness Ash Like Frost (HSAF) so I could still understand what was going on, but I think that even non-book readers can still easily grasp the plot without sitting through all of the draggy scenes. For me though, the best part of the drama was the hilarious beginning, the adorable mortal arc, and the epic finale (I initially doubted this could live up to my expectations because there were only a few episodes left for the final arc, but the drama did a phenomenon job!). These were moments that will forever be embedded into my memories!
Acting: Hmmm what’s the word... ahhh it’s phenomenally amazing! If you watch it like seriously the acting will blow you away. I was skeptical if the casts in here can bring the characters to life since it's not easy task to do all the facial expressions and feelings in here. The leads had such an out of the world chemistry they’re literally the Perfect for each other. The acting here is so natural nothing felt forced or off. The cast was just perfect I’m sure some people will say that others can do better but like seriously who can other than this amazing cast from this amazing show?
Deng Lun is the BEST Phoenix we can ever ask for! Appearance-wise, he straight up walked up of the novel! His Phoenix eyes are honestly just what I imagined the character to have! Acting-wise, he completely sold the character to me! I actually love how his Phoenix is a lot softer than the novel's, who was more arrogant and proud. Deng Lun's Phoenix, on the other hand, was kind of dense (which earned him the nickname of bird-brain, ) but he was devoted and gallantry and the God of War in the sense that he fights his battle head-on. Deng Lun's eyes were so emotive and everytime Phoenix looked at Jin Mi I could feel myself melting into a thousand puddles. Deng Lun and Yang Zi have the best chemistry ever and their every moment on screen was electrifying! Yang Zi was also amazing in this. First of all, she is beautiful and I've never doubted her as the daughter of the Flower Goddess. It is actually amazing to watch her transformation from a naive girl into a mature woman throughout the drama, and I thought that Yang Zi did a phenomenal job on portraying both Jin Mi's humour and maturity. I think she is one of the best actresses of her generation. This drama has made me a fan of both Deng Lun and Yang Zi. I will for sure watch out for their future projects.
Costumes:I really enjoyed seeing how each realm had their own distinct style and how each were shown so beautifully. Little things like hairstyle, accessories, makeup, clothing composition, etc really add to the drama in a good way. they used different colours to represent each main leads’ nature, for example, JinMi is pink; XuFeng became the Demon God in the end, he is black; LiuYing is the princess of the Demon World, she has purple; RunYu is Night God from Heaven World, therefore bit of black mixed with his white colour; SuiHe is the princess of the Bird Kingdom, her colour is red with bit of yellow.
Music: it’s gooood, especially Sa Ding Ding’s version it was just so emotional to just listen to it. Oh boy when it was played in the show I literally got goosebumps. All the other ost were so good that I had to search them all up and added it to my playlist. Also it’s so cool that one of the version the song were sung by the leads Yang Zi and Deng Lun.
Animations/CGI/Production: As with every fantasy drama especially, a lot of animation and cgi needs to go into the production since the setting includes places like Heaven, Hell, and various other "realms". The realms were all animated so well. he cgi just gives it the right magical feeling. Another commenter mentioned this as well, but the dream beast that stayed by RY's side throughout the drama was animated so well. You could see all the details and the colors and everything was just so real.
Heck yea I’m definitely rewatching this amazingly true masterpiece many times. I don’t even know what am I supposed to do after it ends like it’s so so so hard to find a show that’s this perfect and I’m just going to say that this show is the best show ever to me it tops anything and it’s my #1 show. Totally, totally recommend everyone and anyone to watch this if they can but no pressure..
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