I'm going to summarize the final episodes as a ONE ACT PLAY with pictures.

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Episode 35 of The Book and the Sword really swings between extremes of the show.

The goodThe final fight between Jialuo and Zhang Zhaozhong. Actually it felt strangely like a Western, with the two of them facing off, staring at each other with a small group farther away. They stared. And stared. I imagine a tumbleweed blew by. Then, though they ( Read more... )

Around episode 25, the show begins focusing on the various romantic subplots going on, and moving them forward.

First we (finally) see the wedding of Xu Tianhong and Zhou Qi. They're very cute together. They didn't get along at first, but facing danger together seems to have worked.


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I went through a time of not really wanting to watch dramas. I'm still not in the mood for kdramas right now. There just don't seem to be any calling to me. I've been watching cdramas again, though. Rewatching 步步惊心 (just watched the ending for the first time), sampling others here and there, and watching The Book and the Sword a.k.a "We really will ( Read more... )