Chinese Republican Era - Wuxia edition

When I see people dressed like a mix of Indiana jones and wuxia cultivators, doing wuxia moves... how I should feel about it? So what the first episode presents? Typical exposition with some questionable production quality.The plot seems interesting. It's going to be a full adventure if they will mix the tomb riding and wuxia elements correctly. It will be a whole mess if they won't. Still, messy plot can be saved by interesting characters and great chemistry from the cast so I'm hoping for that. As of now they introduced 3 distinctive groups - Ding Yun Qi, the Penta sect and the police, al having the same goal, finding male lead's father. Random thought, but I can't stop myself from thinking how similar Wu Shuang's styling is to The Untamed's Wuxian. So, how is the action? The fighting scenes were fun - you now - over the top unnecessarily complicated fancy moves and borderline flying. We all love them. As for the production quality, I will never understand trying to add so many special effects when you know you can't make them good. Some motion and lighting was just painfully bad. The green screen bothered me a lot. And the way they filmed some sequences felt like it was meant to be a 3D show, and we are all watching it without the 3D glasses. At the same time, episode one had a lot of beautiful and amazing scenery shots - I took quite a few screenshots! So, what's the verdict? The whole first episode felt rather silly, but Xu Kai does look fine, so they get points for that.

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