1000 Autumns
Mar. 19th, 2022 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
x_losWatched all of 1000 Autumns during the last flare up of my exciting new chronic illness thing (haven't gotten into it here, it's a long story and not one I find interesting).
As a season, I found this weirdly balanced. A new magic ring McGuffin was introduced and then destroyed almost before we knew what it did.
The male lead Sect Leader Yan's whole Deal, in his present actions and backstory, is still fairly unclear. That probably aims at building suspense, but with only a 3D model of a book character and SQQ's voice actor to go on, I do need more. A full reveal is unnecessary at this juncture, but I'd like and expect, by the end of a whole series, to know more than I do about who this character is for the purposes of the present story. Without a firm working idea of that the plot, let alone the romance, isn't going to emotionally interest me sufficiently.
The stakes on political and personal levels are kind of muddy. The story feels like a Vibes affair, but I'm not getting VIBES a la WoH (perhaps in part because it's harder to generate chemistry with 3-d models). 1000 Autumns is perhaps at its most interesting when we're dealing with side character plots, like the cultivator killing himself because his vengeance is pointless now that the person he's spent 20 years furious with died young out of guilt.
As a season, I found this weirdly balanced. A new magic ring McGuffin was introduced and then destroyed almost before we knew what it did.
The male lead Sect Leader Yan's whole Deal, in his present actions and backstory, is still fairly unclear. That probably aims at building suspense, but with only a 3D model of a book character and SQQ's voice actor to go on, I do need more. A full reveal is unnecessary at this juncture, but I'd like and expect, by the end of a whole series, to know more than I do about who this character is for the purposes of the present story. Without a firm working idea of that the plot, let alone the romance, isn't going to emotionally interest me sufficiently.
The stakes on political and personal levels are kind of muddy. The story feels like a Vibes affair, but I'm not getting VIBES a la WoH (perhaps in part because it's harder to generate chemistry with 3-d models). 1000 Autumns is perhaps at its most interesting when we're dealing with side character plots, like the cultivator killing himself because his vengeance is pointless now that the person he's spent 20 years furious with died young out of guilt.
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