cdrama: Paladins in Troubled Times (end)

[meganbmoore]

I am deeply saddened to report that there was no resolution to whether or not wuxia medicine can actually make you regrow bodyparts.  But at least you get to see someone bite off their own finger to get the emperor to listen to them?  (If I were to trust wuxia on this front, I would be forced to believe that China has never had even a semi-competent ruler.)

Anyay, the climax included this scene:

MAN:  I shall be strong and manly and lift this giant rock door with my bare hands!  I've managed 6 inches.  Quick, grab a rock to hold it open for me!
WOMAN:  How about I bring you this thick wooden pole I conveniently found over there, and we use it as lever.  That way, we don't risk losing our fingers and it'll go way faster and take a lot less effort.
MAN:  I am glad we had the discussion about how you have all the brains in this operation a few episodes ago.

I only have one serious problem with this series, and it's under the cut.
 

 

Sigh. WHY did Zhi Fen have to literally Die For The Ship?  I was expecting it as soon as she and Mo Le got engaged, but then nothing like that happened for about 20 episodes and she was all "Well, I love him, but it would be a bit pathetic to cling to him when in love with someone else, so it'd be smarter for me to bow out and just catch a few glimpses when Yan Yu and I go shopping."  I mean, all the other people who wanted them to get married were dead anyway!
 

Sigh.

Also, I'll bet Yan Yu's actress was thrilled when she got the script and saw that she'd spend a episode and a half sitting there with a creepy empty smile on her face.
 

I should find a series where Victor Huang is playing a more age appropriate character.  Also, Yan Yu's actress is to this director (name escapes me at the moment and i'm to la to look it up) what Liu Shi Shi is to Guo Li, because it looks like almost every series she's in is from him.