The only good thing about that pile of shit is that Dilraba Dilmurat plays chang ge. Had to drop it in 5 eps cuz it gave me high blood pressure and almost got me hospitalised.
That's surprising because I kept seeing praise whenever I ran into reviews and discussions about the drama. But again, the drama was created when Xia Da couldn't have any say on her creation so it's funny to me how fans of the series were supposedly all fine with it. As for Dilraba, I though it was odd that she was casted because I thought Chang Ge was supposed to look more Han chinese than Uygher.
If you gonna watch it because you liked chang ge xing manhua, dont. They deviated from a lot of important stuffs especially surrounding chang ge's characters. They removed the plot about her mother being uyghur, put mimi guli in a love triangle with she'er and mujin, which is a DISRESPECT to my poor mimi. They switched up chang ge and Ashina sun's personality, making chang ge dumber and more naive than she is in manhua. AND THEY PUT A FUCKING OC THAT RUINED NOT JUST THE PLOT BUT A CHUNK OF CHANG'GE'S CHARACTER. Li shimin was fucking cheesy too, they made him a girl dad for change and zhao lusi's oc of a character(i love zhao lusi, this is not a shade towards her). I also think Raba is lowkey given like you said she's supposed to look han AND CUZ THEY FUCKASS REMOVED HER UYGHUR MOTHER PLOT ALREADY, still love raba tho.
I second this ╥﹏╥
As a drama, it's not bad per se but, as a loyal adaptation it felt more like a Hollywood version of OG works like (Odyssey, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, Vampire Diaries, World War Z, Golden Compass, Percy Jackson...). As a story of their own, they're good. Great even. But as adaptation...NOPE. it's like saying Butter and Cheese are the same. Same base ingredients (milk) yes, but final product is completely different.
In Chang ge Xing cdrama adaptation you can tell they REALLY made it soap opera / cdrama romance coded and change stuff to for that sake ^^;
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The cdrama is all right. But, yeah don't expect it to a be a proper adaptation or an adaptation with "some" small changes. Chang ge is very different. My theory is that the production team or writers wanted to make her more "relatable", emotional or something. That said Dilraba Dilmurat was performed well imo and i do love the casting choice of picking a mixed blood actress, given Chang ge is one ^^
It's unsettling for me that Xia Da's rights over her own work were taken so since I can, I don't want to consume the product of industry manipulation and greed. This means both the cdrama and donghua.
long story short, Xia Da lost the rights to this webtoon because she was against the continuous exploitation by her company at the time. Xia Da went to court with the company over the rights of her works. During this time, the story hasn't continued and the company sat with this webtoon but was able to bank with adaptations but without Xia Da's blessing and consideration. Finally nearly a decade later now, Xia Da won the rights back. I hope this story will see its end by Xia Da's pen who created this amazing work in the first place. If it never does though, I don't blame her.
i heard the cdrama adaptation was "good", but i didn't watch it because xia da didn't have the rights to her creation....but hearing she won finally, looking forward to the story's continuation one day~