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The Long Ballad
22 Jul 2022 08:45 pmFinished watching The Long Ballad. Overall enjoyed it a lot.
The premise is: Li Changge is a princess of the early Tang dynasty whose parents and whole family get killed in a palace counter-coup. At first she swears vengeance and goes on the run; along the way of her journey she meets a general of the not!Goturk (because of censorship >_>;) who falls in love with her.
The thing is enjoyed the most was the music. Both the OP and the ED are kickass and the soundtrack overall was great which helped immensely the epic feel of the story. The characters are overall very charismatic. Li Changge is adequately badass, her LI is stoic in an endearing way. There are also some very adorable secondary characters in a timid princess who end up having an awesome character arc of growth, and the sinister warrior originally tasked with capturing and killing Li Changge who also has an awesome character arc of growth where he falls in love with the timid princess and is adorably confused about it. One of the thing i liked is that there's entirely evil people (asides from a few bit characters), there's a lot of sympathy for the antagonists as well as some switching along the way. The main theme is one of renouncing vengeance as not worth it.
Sometimes I found the show lacked a little bit direction though. The main antagonist is properly introduced a bit too late to be a real thrust of the story (and frankly, their plan seem to far fetched to be worth worrying seriously about). Li Changge doesn't have enough plans after the very beginning either to provide that impetus.
However it's really a small criticism. I liked that series a lot overall.
The premise is: Li Changge is a princess of the early Tang dynasty whose parents and whole family get killed in a palace counter-coup. At first she swears vengeance and goes on the run; along the way of her journey she meets a general of the not!Goturk (because of censorship >_>;) who falls in love with her.
The thing is enjoyed the most was the music. Both the OP and the ED are kickass and the soundtrack overall was great which helped immensely the epic feel of the story. The characters are overall very charismatic. Li Changge is adequately badass, her LI is stoic in an endearing way. There are also some very adorable secondary characters in a timid princess who end up having an awesome character arc of growth, and the sinister warrior originally tasked with capturing and killing Li Changge who also has an awesome character arc of growth where he falls in love with the timid princess and is adorably confused about it. One of the thing i liked is that there's entirely evil people (asides from a few bit characters), there's a lot of sympathy for the antagonists as well as some switching along the way. The main theme is one of renouncing vengeance as not worth it.
Sometimes I found the show lacked a little bit direction though. The main antagonist is properly introduced a bit too late to be a real thrust of the story (and frankly, their plan seem to far fetched to be worth worrying seriously about). Li Changge doesn't have enough plans after the very beginning either to provide that impetus.
However it's really a small criticism. I liked that series a lot overall.
