Memory of those characters.
I thought I have totally forgotten.
They just all came back.
It's not friendly to new commers
so weird that in real life,
you're not a couple
Shuang Shi Chong Fei, The Eternal Love 3 is here
the first series happened back in 2017 summer,
then we got the second series in the following year.
Then this year, 2021 summer,
this drama just dropped
helicoptered in without announcing beforehand.
And I clicked open the drama,
I thought I wouldn't really be interested in it anymore.
After that many years.
And after two seasons of quite crazy story telling,
well, what do you know?
I watched through the first 8 episodes
in one go
at the time i'm making this video.
I've watched 10 episodes of this drama.
So this would be a first impression of the third series of the eternal love,
not to be confused with Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms
This drama is 30 episodes long.
And as its previous two series,
it still belongs to Tencent.
It is still produced by the same producer,
written by the same writer,
pretty much still the entire old crew.
From the main creatives to the main actors
for everyone who has watched the first two series,
everything about this drama will be very familiar.
Before I go into talk about the details.
I'll first give you my rating
Based on the first 10 episodes,
i'll give it a one gold mine.
Now let me briefly introduce you to the story.
In case you actually haven't heard about the first two series.
And it started with a contemporary girl who is a real estate agent,
who just happened to travel into a magical, fantastical, ancient world,
setting world,
and entering a body of a girl who looks exactly like her.
So the first series' main story is about this girl trying
to figure out what is going on with her contemporary
mind that's ending up in a fantasy land ancient body,
and how to personality switch and how they deal with their love affairs
in their life that also works into some kind of court conspiracy.
And then they realize at the end of that,
both leads the male and the female lead are actually
coming from a more magical land, more fantastical land
than they previously thought of.
So the second series is an extension of the first series
when the two main lead characters ended up in another
version of the ancient world,
another kind of setup.
And they have to figure out how to survive in that world.
And that created a problem of the male lead actually
exist at the same time with two different versions.
One is that world's version
One is the person who has experienced the first series version.
There's a lot of really funny moments of that drama
happening due to the guy basically being jealous of himself
and a lot of the second series dramatic tension rides on
him trying to make the girl remember that who is the real him and stuff
like yeah~
third series came along and you're like... ok
you're playing that.
So the third series starts with.
They being pulled into another version of the world
that they haven't experienced before.
It is very much like tiger and rose world,
where it's a matriarchal society, and the women,
are the people who are in control of the world.
And this time it is the female lead who remembers everything.
So it reverses that who is trying to make who
remembering stuff as they've done it in second series.
Is that confusing enough?
So before I go into talk about the good things
and the bad things about this drama,
I wanna first say a lot of people when they first saw this drama,
the third series they would think wow
It's so much like Tiger and Rose.
It really is just coincidental
because this series
existed for years before Tiger and Rose happened.
The third series is filmed last year from June to August
and before that they've already got the script
whereas Chen Qian Qian, Tiger and Rose aired in May last year
So the third series is unfortunate in terms of it runs
into very similar set up as a drama that's popular last year.
And it makes it look like it's trying to rubbing off that drama's heat
but it's not the case at all.
Now, as usual, let me talk about the things that I appreciate about this drama.
First thing, nostalgia.
I never expected.
I would be saying that reviewing a chinese period idol fantasy drama, this is,
I think the only franchise really in chinese dramaland of this genre that had this
history over 4 years and it's very rare if you watch chinese drama, same crew,
same characters continuous storyline
people coming back working together again and again and again.
This just doesn't happen in chinese dramaland
You can hardly find anything apart from like
standard like sitcom that kind of drama.
For this type of genre.
This is the only one.
And just when I thought i've already had enough about this entire thing,
when I started to watch the third series,
so much memory came back,
the memory of my 2017 summer or 2018 summer and memory of those characters,
I thought I have totally forgotten.
They just all came back such as the maid of the female character jing xing,
such as the guard character,
Yu Hao of the male lead,
such as prince 14, the emperor,
the kind of god like guy liu qian shui
this time turning into liu bai shui anyway,
all those characters, right?
When they show up,
I was like...
somehow that works,
it really feels good.
I was so happy to see these faces.
Also, if you've watched the first two series and loved them or liked them,
this drama will continue that.
It really is written by the same team,
same person produced by the same crew.
Immediately you get the same vibe
the same pacing, the same style of jokes,
the same style of everything,
and so many old famous moments and scenes get hold back in their new versions.
So when you're watching you're like,
yeah, I see that moment is coming up.
and I wanna see what's the third version of it.
And I understand this would not work on people
who haven't watched the first two series.
Honestly, if you haven't,
you will be very confused because it didn't bother to explain anything really.
It goes straight into the third time world setting.
But if you are one of those people who still remembers,
it's really enjoyable.
It maintains the same flavor from years ago.
If you love the songs from the two series previously,
they show up again at places that will make you just that song coming up,
so that nostalgia value is a rare thing in the entirety of chinese drama.
The second thing about this drama that I really love is it is still very funny,
even if you haven't watch the first two,
if you just like let go don't think too much about why
this person is doing this and that just go with it.
It's still as fun.
As the first series,
my impression of the first two series is the first one is hilarious,
second one because it was longer at places.
It's a little bit ... falling off slightly draggy
but overall still quite enjoyable
in the first 10 episodes of the third series
really keeps it up
keeps up the first series' energy of comedy,
so kind of even funnier than the second series.
And every episode they kiss and they set up the
story as such that every time the two leads kiss,
you are screaming, "Stop kissing!" , go and watch.
You'll understand why
story is still pretty nonsensical as it always has been.
But it's enjoyable,
turn off your brain and it's super enjoyable.
Plus this drama has gotten more and more money from series one.
When you can tell they really have no money,
everything is so dirt poor to the second series.
When they start to have a little bit money,
things start to look prettier.
And to now the third series,
they really did have much more money.
So visually speaking,
the third series definitely is the prettiest one among the three.
Then let's talk about the obvious shortcomings of this drama
And I see people rant about this drama on internet and I understand why.
So the first big thing is,
it's not friendly to new commers
If you came into this drama straight away
without watching the first two series,
it's just not gonna make sense to you.
So that inccurs a big cost at the audiences side that you have to kind of
have invested your time previously to be able to get into the new one.
And for the people who wouldn't wanna do that,
this drama will just look ridiculous.
The second thing is this drama is very nonsensical and some really,
seemingly super tropy moments,
but because it has been here,
like I said for so long,
as long as you know, what it is referencing to,
to its previous stuff is start to take an extra
layer of meaning and fun for you to watch.
And this drama has by no means the best acting in the idol fantasy world.
The two leads are still doing that job that
you expect them to do from series one.
If you've enjoyed the previous 2, you'll enjoy this one.
If you don't like,
there's a particular style or if particular character annoys you,
they'll continue annoying you.
There really is no stunning.
element of this drama that will heavily
distinguish it from other things in its similar genre
The third thing is by this stage,
even for someone like me who really loved the first series,
who liked the second series.
And now i'm watching the third and i'm being very entertained by it.
But I admit there is a level of tiredness.
You've had quite a lot about their stories,
and you've had pretty much everything that
can happen to these two happening already.
So I pretty much don't even expect i'm gonna get
anything new from this particular coupling or the plot.
And particularly for these two leading actor and actress,
they have worked together.
on four different dramas now,
including this one, 3 from this ip one from
last year's remake of Fated to Love You
Xing Zhaolin and Liang jie
They've worked 4 times as a couple.
So for people who actually dig their cp you're so lucky.
You get the only unique treatment,
special deal that does not exist for any anyone else in chinese dramaland
They've had 4? 3? screen children already and
yet these two are not a couple in real life.
It really is the first time when that happened in chinese dramaland
when I look at an actor and actress in real life and thinking
it's so weird that in real life you're not a couple.
Shouldn't you be already married?
Because in my head,
you two are and you've married so many times and
you two already have like many children together.
I cannot call it a negative thing about this drama,
but about my experience of watching this drama.
While I enjoy their interactions,
some of the sweet, romantic moments happening in this drama,
that's ridiculously fun.
Back of my mind,
they're not a real couple, but they are.
And this is weird.
Reality starts to work on the dramatic world
and making things feel really off.
I don't know what's the better way to explain that.
Only to my fellow eternal love watchers in this world
who have gone through the first two seasons.
You probably understand what it feels like.
So at the end of this first impression of the third series of the eternal love,
shuang shi chong fei
I would say this drama is pretty much made
for old fans of the first two series,
not saying you can't get into this one now,
but you have to do your homework of the first two series and it's not
the best drama out there and I don't see it can reach the same kind of
popularity as its first series has done back in 2017,
the world has moved down things change very quickly in the drama land but.
personally, to me,
I am really appreciative that they made the third series.
And when I see Ba Wang Ye and Xiao Tan showing up on screen,
I see my years of making this channel and sitting in
front of this camera
week after week, day, after day.
And it brings back my memories of a lot of things.
To me, it has a lot of personal value.
I'll definitely stick through till the end of this drama,
and I hope it wouldn't crash in any
significant way in the last 2/3 of the drama.
I hope this one hasn't disappointed.
My viewers who have been a fan of the first two series.
Thank you for watching AvenueX
In my next video.
Meanwhile, live long and happy.
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