In this video, I will let you know what are my
3 gold mine dramas from the year 2015
to the year 2020
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ever since I started this
seven level scale thing from last year,
a lot of people have been asking me,
so what are the three gold mind dramas
In your opinion?
As a lot of my viewers know,
I started this channel back in 2017,
but I didn't utilize this system until last year.
So there are many dramas that I never rated.
and today.
This is the catching up video on that.
And I was thinking, how should I decide what is the
pool of selection from which I would pick the dramas?
And then I resolved to the very arbitrary 5 years.
Because any time further back,
I wasn't very much focused on dramas.
I was doing other things such as trying to get a degree
and that definitely takes away most of my energy.
So I wasn't watching that much drama back then
from 2015, reasonably,
I started to watch a bit more,
but honestly it wasn't until 17 that I really started to look at
what are the things that are coming out of the dramaland consistently.
And the reason that I didn't put 2021 in is
because this year we only have seen half of it.
We're still waiting for the second half.
So there could be more dramas that i'll give it a three gold mine rating.
Let's start chronologically from the year 2015
that year I wasn't watching that many chinese dramas anyway,
but there's one drama I think pretty commonly accepted as one of
the most successful television drama and it propelled the
leading actors career onto a new level and that would be
none other than the daylight entertainment production drama,
Nirvana in Fire, Lang Ya Bang
and this drama using the strictest criteria there are is by no means
the perfect drama
I don't think that exists to start with.
But because of how well accepted this drama was back then and
it's one of the first very successful Web novel ip that got
adapted by a very reputable and high quality,
high standard,
great director,
great writing team in general production company
and cutting a lot of more popular,
slightly veering towards bl element out of the original text and
making it more serious and more proper as an exciting, fictional,
but implicating on a lot of historical characters and things drama.
Anyway, it's very unique.
There wasn't one that's in any way similar to
this before and many dramas that came after it
are trying to hit the same level and not really quite getting there
so for all kinds of reasons this drama deserves a three gold mine
and it's definitely one of my favorite dramas of all times
and it has created some classic characters
Mei Changsu, Jing Wang (Prince Jing), Fei Liu
lovely characters
Then moving on to the 2016,
I actually didn't pick any drama out of that year
head into 2017
the first year of AvenueX as a channel and that year had some of
the most popular dramas that we've seen on the web.
In recent years.
I would consider that is the year that's started crazy rush of internet,
ip adaptation,
TMOPB
Princess Agent, Tianjin mystic.
In the name of the people,
some are personally very important to me.
Some are very,
very well known of the year,
but for the three gold mind drama candidate,
very boringly,
I still leave it.
to the franchise of Nirvana in Fire
This time, NIF 2
Feng Qi Chang Lin
I know this drama's popularity doesn't compare to the first one.
And a lot of people in china refused to watch this drama because
it features Huang Xiaoming in the first half of the drama.
And a lot of people just do not like him.
I didn't have a problem with him acting and because I love the
first one so much and I have so much trust in the writer in the
director's ability I went in without hesitation
and I came out sobbing like a mess
at the early months of 2018,
because this drama aired in december 2017.
So I counted as 2017 drama.
Pretty much 80% of the time,
I feel like i'm having a cold because I was crying too much.
You can smell your own tears in your nose that kind of swollen and almost
like you have a cold kind of feeling
purely coming from crying too much.
My january and february 2018 was like that.
and in my opinion,
the script and the concept and the bigger ideas of this drama is one level up,
one step up from the original NIF series.
If you look at your the original NIF
it's very much like The Count of the Monte Cristo type of story,
revenge story.
And its novel is even more about that,
whereas the drama kind of try to open it up a little bit
on some bigger level concept.
Whereas when it gets to the second series,
it's written by the same author.
But now, because of the first success,
the second one is hundred percent written for the purpose of screen
and then building upon the bigger concept of ancient,
fictional type of patriotism,
but also the right and wrongs and about the political
powers and the dilemma of people with power,
military power.
What does your loyalty really means?
Is it to the imperial power that you're serving?
Or is it to the people who are under the reign of this particular power?
And it goes quite deep into that concept,
at least in recent couple of years in a fictional setting period drama,
this one just gets to the deepest level
and plus really good casting and brilliant acting
So NIF 2 also gets a 3 gold mine from me.
And I think it fully deserves it
with or without the first nirvana in fire in place
heading into 2018 in the special year for AvenueX
I ran into Guardian, Zhen Hun, and my life kind of was
forever changed from then on to now
definitely opened my eyes
to some previous existing worlds that I totally have no idea of.
There are many interesting dramas,
exciting dramas,
popular dramas
dramas I would watch and re watch,
but then I wouldn't give them three gold mine.
Then 2019 is a year that is also very special to a lot of people.
This is a quite fruitful
Year of chinese dramaland
web drama-wise, popularity-wise.
We have The Untamed that is even till today still having its sort of after shock.
In a lot of places outside of china,
we also have dramas that has blown us away with its beautiful,
high cinematic level quality production such
Chang'An Shi Er Shi Chen, The Longest Day in Chang'An
And this also happens to be the year counting back in the last 5
years that has the most amount of 3 gold mine drama
from AvenueX's point of view
first one being Qing Yu Nian, Joy of Life
In a way I think this drama production quality-wise, particularly
props and costume does not deserve a three gold mine
but it's one of those adaptations from a
really popular ip that is very shaky
wobbly and it's kind of screaming ok, this
is probably gonna be a really unsuccessful.
big IP adaptation
that turned out to be holy moly really
well adapted
literally pushes Wang Juan as the script writer
into the top tier writers,
not saying he wasn't good before,
but this one made him the name of one of the most
successful adaptation script writer working today in china.
Within this particular genre,
a drama based on a web novel that's from a male orient novel site,
well known high profile then very well adapted.
This also is a flagship drama.
You really cannot think of another similar
ip that has achieved as much as this one,
although it's vvip thing really destroyed its
popularity in the later stage of this drama airing
into 2020,
but this year also actually had two dramas.
that are produced in taiwan that are in my opinion,
3 goldmine dramas
That's why when you think about mainland dramas,
you almost wanna cry
look at their script quality and
the story they tell that would be The World Between Us
Wo Men Yu E de Ju Li, and
you know what it is
Someday or One Day, Xiang Jian Ni
i've made separate videos about these two dramas.
They're good,
very, very good in their own genre in their own category just overall.
Good.
I don't know what else I can say.
And so they both deserve three gold mines, 2019,
the big winning year,
all based on the start airing date,
because there are two that aired into the next year.
Then 2020, last year
you probably already know.
If you've been watching my videos,
what are the dramas that got 3 very goldmines
There are many dramas I really, really enjoyed,
even though I wouldn't give them sort of three gold mines really.
But they are good.
Okay, they're good, like crossfire, Hikaru No Go
a lot of other things.
And i've made videos about looking at all the most
successful dramas of the year in my opinion,
but the 2
3 good mine dramas both happen to be based on Zi Jin Chen
the writer's novel,
Chen Mo de Zhen Xiang, The Long Night
Yin Mi de Jiao Luo
The Bad Kids
I have made videos on both dramas quite specifically talking
about why they're so good and why I think they are,
the best that has come out of chinese dramaland last year.
So those are the dramas from 2015 to 2020
2020, in my opinion,
top notch chinese drama productions.
And I have to emphasize I didn't really start to look
deeply into chinese drama from 2017 and probably only
from 19 to now that I really managed to stick
to a schedule of making videos very regularly.
So the further back in time,
less dramas i've watched average out on an annual base,
there might be very very good dramas that I totally missed
and that definitely deserves positions on this list.
The closer it is to 2021 today i've watched more dramas,
I have stronger impression of the dramas and I probably was more
aware of what was going on during that year in the dramaland,
very limited numbers.
When you think about how many i've picked out
out of the last couple of years.
And this is likely to continue in the future for quite some years to come.
Just because the average production quality
in chinese drama land is very far from ideal,
but sometimes also not all the three good mine dramas are the
dramas that I tend to rewatch or want to rewatch
the dramas I've rewatched most.
That's within this three gold mine category
are probably still the nirvana in fire series.
So it does beg the question often when I think should I give this drama,
a two gold mine rating or three gold mine rating?
I almost feel like once you put it into a three gold mine category,
it is in the place that you recognize it is so good,
but then you kind of just leave it there
and often what gives you
the most amount of fun or the real watch value very high
projects tend to be the less than perfect ones
Often around 1~2 gold mine rating are the biggest categories of dramas
that having the highest possibility of me actually rewatching them.
I wonder why, I really do wonder why that is the case.
Maybe the three gold mine dramas are just too good
after taste it once you kind of have had enough.
Don't know if that's you as well,
rationally recognizing something is of the highest sort of level of quality,
but then experiential wise and personally you don't
actually enjoy the repeated experience of that thing.
Anyway, if you think this is worth discussing,
share your opinion in the comment section.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
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Meanwhile, live long and happy drama watching.