Story of Yanxi Palace - Basically... (ep. 1 run-down)
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BTW, I'm on the Emperor-Empress ship for now.
I feel like the Empress deserved better but I get what you mean :)
Set your sails for the open sea.
I know Yanxi palace is over the top but I love this drama in all its glorious soapy extravagance. It's visually stunning and I loved all the cast, they played their characters so well! I also loved seeing a predominantly woman-lead ensemble drama.
Consort Gao is like a Disney villain you love to hate, right down to her annoying voice 😆 so the fact that I found her death scene so genuinely moving impressed me.
I've watched this drama multiple times and still love seeing clips & reviews. Thanks for the video!
Yes, Consort Gao is so entertaining to watch :D
This drama should’ve been called - The Smartest Woman in the World Outsmarting Everyone that Crossed Her Path.
@@manga626 right? I tried watching it because I thought we have a smart, capable female lead but couldn’t finish it because it was just too unbelievable. She wasn’t very likable to me at all. She was arrogant, cringy and look wise she’s low in the harem.
@@manga626 my thoughts exactly. I also can’t stand how every time she beat one of her opponents they will just lay out the whole plan and she will always have that smug look on her face lol
Yanxi palace is the drama that got me into C dramas. Yingluo is just a fun character to me and out of all the concubines, Gao Guifei was my favorite just cause she’s such a bitch and I love her for it.
Yes, she seems to have a funny side too😂
“how attractive is the emperor in this drama? incredibly, no offense” LMAO fr tho nie yuan in this drama is so much more likeable than wallance huo in ruyi… hes so much more human feeling, like he can be an ass and kinda childish sometimes but we can see that its just different sides of one person. the other one is just generally an ass all the time
Yes, this drama has a completely different take on this emperor. I believe Wallace Huo's emperor is also very human, but true, he's not written to be a likeable character at all :DD
@@quippequest thats true! but also i think nie yuan has better acting than wallance tbh.. he nails the haughty yet flawed and when it comes to it emotional personality of the emperor. in ruyi wh is completely overshadowed by his costars (i mean zhou xun, xin zhilei, did he ever stand a chance? not really) and his portrayal seems kinda like hes overcompensating a bit, but thats just me. ruyi is enjoyable too if you focus on the harem members only.
@@yeppeogeu2828 Sorry for the very late respond. Sometimes CZcams sends no notifications at all. Agreed about Wallace Huo's costars, especially Zhou Xun, she gave too strong a performance for anyone to match :DD
"If you have trouble remembering which name belong to which actor. Xukai is usually the one who is more prettier than his co stars"
Noted maam.
not a fan of xu kai but I concur. he can be prettier than his female co-stars.
He is very pretty. Very, very pretty, lol.
I think when I first saw him in "Zhao yao" I called him the pretty boy.
I only realized that YanXi purposely put that flower thing on the consorts leg to put her in trouble now, before I thought it was a mistake that she did but did not take responsibility 😅
I think it can be interpreted both ways :DD
Hua Fei would have eaten Gao Gui Fei for a midnight snack, Chun Gui Fei as breakfast and maybe even Yin Luo for dinner. She might have some trouble with the Second Empress since the latter played a long game and Hua Fei was all about the moment!
Yanxi Palace is very entertaining, but I was disappointed by the lack of character development the FL goes through.
There have been times (specifically Princess Silver) where writers walking that line between historical accuracy-ish and modern sensibility just seems to confuse either the story or certain characters or both.😄😄 🤷🏾♀️
I've been saying this for a long time but Nie Yuan suits the qing dynasty emperor get up wayyyy more than Wallace Huo. He's definitely the more handsome (and enjoyable) portrayal of Qianlong
Yes. I believe they're equally good in terms of acting, but Wallace Huo's emperor is just determined to be the world's worst husband or something😂
Nah, Wallace was way more handsome and fucking cold though Nie Yuan showed a more cunning trecherous natura
I loved this drama. I wouldn't recommend watching it for historical accuracy or realistic scenarios but if you want a good entertaining watch, this is it. Also enjoyed the character of the Emperor, although he was quite lenient in comparison to other portrayals, he commanded respect without being a tyrant. He was very sexy IMO. Looking forward to your review on this one.
Yes, and he has a great sense of humor :D
@@quippequestindeed
I had the pleasure of watching Ruyis love in the palace first and that drama made me hate ling fei for a long long time. So, when I heard about yanxi palace who had Ling fei as the protagonist, I steered far away from it.
This drama is such a guilty pleasure for me :DDD Like I'm aware that it's no high quality but it was just so damn enjoyable and over the top and funny? :DDD I think that if they somehow released the longer version with the additional plotlines they had to drop (and it really shows in the final episodes) I would maybe watch the whole thing again
It is kind of addicting. It makes you want to know what crazy thing will happen next XDD
Baldie Nie Yuan is the ideal dilf. 😌👌🏽
Haha, yes, he can play so many types of roles.
I know everyone thinks Xu Kai is super pretty and like. He IS. But Nie Yuan is just... PAINFULLY attractive to me
Ruyis royal love in the palace is one of my favorite dramas, I saw one episode of Yanxi and that was enough to make me stop watching XD
Same
The modern take is probably why this is the drama I always go back to watch, because it's refreshing to see a female protagonist stand up against those to antagonize her so many times, and most of time, it's based on her wit and not pure luck.
But I also watched Princess Weiyoung for the second time after this, and the villainesses, especially Chiyun Rou, incredibly blind obsession of making Weiyoung's life a living hell and Weiyoung escaping it through luck made it so insufferable. The Legend of Haolan had this problem multiplied to 50.
No no no Quippe….Xu Kia is where I draw a line. Who is even confusing Xu Kia and the other guy, they look nothing alike
I think it's the names people get mixed up, when you look at them though, yep, nothing alike :D
The part about xu kai🤭🤭🤭
No offense to anyone... I have a love and hate relationship with this drama, so much so that I left it unfinished 4 episodes before the end (and it's quite a long drama).
After everything that happened, I didn't care how it all ended. Without spoilers, I can't go deeper into the reasoning.
Empress is gorgeous and so well acted! I adored her! I watched this right after Ruyi and then rewatched both again! They are probably two of my favourite harem dramas for completely different reasons!
I agree with you on Noble Consort Gao. Hehe the voice really doesn’t help her cause! Ironically the character is REALLY into theatre (actual performance theatre) which is hilarious.
Wait until they introduce the equivalent of Ruyi’s character! I just love the contrast between the two shows.
Please do legend of mi Yue please
Also i see you've did legend of xiao chuo, please continue it it's AMAZING . The starting is so shitty cuz of the filler but it gets a lot better. It's based on the life of the khitan warrior empress xiao yanyan who was so formidable and weilded power openly unlike ethnic Han empresses
Both of these dramas are quite interesting in a way because unlike dramas like yanxi or ruyi(great in their own way) these drama Fls don't have to constantly fight concubines and stuff, they actually do politics and hold court and a large part of the dramas constitute that
It's ny favorite drama and it's well written. It has its funny moments and sad moments.
I like how she is a well written ad a true stronh.female.lead. she is mentally strong and smart.
As an art history student focused on this period I’m absolutely floored by the production despite its many anachronisms
Yes, they did invest a lot in that department :D
There is an actual reason she is very dramatic surprisingly. Or am I remembering a different drama she is in.
Someone here said her character is into stage plays.
Also, idk how but I've been watching your vids for a while and just realized you read! If you haven't read it yet, I simply have to recommend the Poppy War Trilogy!
Thank you for the recommendation! The synopsis sounds very interesting :D
I haven't seen this drama but feng jumping and the Xu Kai comment lol 😅😅😅
Finally ❤️
That's an interest take on her not wanting children at that time. I thought it was about all the children killing that was attempted in the harem. Then again, my modern eyes do look for the children killing.
I didn’t know you can make a villain look so funny!!
Either way, the empress is the best for the emperor. Yanxi is better off with the general. Yanxi was willing to fight beside him but just sadly, the general had more to lose than Yanxi. He cannot just forsake his entire family despite his sister encouragement to follow his heart desire.
I shall praise the emperor for being black belly but he, who is already married with an amazing wife, should be a shame for separating a pair of love bird. I really don’t like him. Yanxi is stupid for walking right into his cage . She should have taken beef up with him.
ahh, sounds sad. Yes, I would've liked the empress and emperor to be endgame :(
I enjoyed this drama on the whole though yea it was historically unrealistic 😅 I was also wondering have you watched nirvana in fire, if you did could you do a video on it?😆
I think a lot of these reviews on Story of Yanxi Palace are scenes taken out of context. Wei Ying Luo had fears of becoming a mother because her own mother died while giving birth to her and it showed in many ways such as when the empress was trying to get pregnant and she was upset that the empress would put her health at risk to have a child. When the empress gave birth , she was so scared because she thought the empress would die and that birth was so bloody. Her fears were valid and not from a place of modernity. Or is it that having fear of something because you've witnessed it going horribly wrong can only be a modern phenomenon? Let's not forget that Ying Luo was not even born in a noble family, how could she have been raised to want children with the emperor when she was raised only by her big sister who left for the palace yearsss ago? She was not groomed to be selected for the emperor's harem because she was never eligible in the first place.
Thanks for commenting.
I know all the context. I'm not criticizing what Yingluo says, I'm just using what she says and HOW she says it (and how the emperor responds) as an example to explain the style of the drama.
All women, no matter the time period, are nervous about childbirth, that is true. But HOW they express this concern and how the people around them respond varies, depending on the time period.
Also, I think I've already explained right before the example that I understand the drama is not a historical account.
@@quippequest so why is it it took her nearly 15 years after marriage to Qianlong to have her first child? I’m talking in real historical context here. Nobel lady Wei was from a low background and wasn’t trained as a child to become a concubine, she was trained by The Empress Fuca again that is from Historical documents, also women were using contraception medicines in almost all imperial societies, as it’s been recorded in almost all historical documents with even the methods used.
@@Winter74575 I'm not sure I understand your question.
I only explained above that while the concerns about childbirth are real in any period of time, the dialogues are too modern.
It's been a long time so I don't remember who is who in this drama anymore. But if you can provide some sources for this account (that's not Wikipedia), I'll go read and maybe have an answer later.
@@quippequest hi, ok so in this video, The female lead Wei Yinglou spoke about her fears of becoming pregnant after the emperor found out she was taking contraceptives.
You then said These women were trained from a young age and with the knowledge that bearing children was there primary purpose. I agree except it wasn’t in all cases for all concubines because Historical records show that some of these women were in the Harem for many years before having a child, if you search 17th century Contraceptions , you will find that they used herbs with contraceptive properties, it was used in ancient Egypt and many other places., back to the Harem dramas and reality, If a concubine was favoured by an emperor, they generally received more of a understanding and empathy from the Emperor and in the case of Wei Yinglou , she was a favoured concubine of Qianlong, she went in the palace as a teenager and had her first of six children when she was in her 30s so that in itself is a testament that she had to be using birth control to prevent getting pregnant all those years, it’s the same for the Step Empress that was also married to the Emperor Qianlong for many years before bearing him children again she must’ve been using some preventive medicine.
Again I agree that Yanxi’s palace and Every Harem ( Imperial) drama series are heavily dramatised, however almost all Emperor’s and even normal men in those times would sometimes overlook the general expectations of women depending on their emotions towards her.
I was merely explaining that Wei Yinglou did not come from a high ranking family and wasn’t necessarily trained from very young ( childhood) to become a concubine, most likely more of becoming a palace maid but ended up being selected as a concubine as there’s no historical records of The exact circumstances she entered into the Harem, she wasn’t recorded as a maid but her father was working in one of the servant departments ( i can’t remember exactly what department).
@@Winter74575 Thank you.
Whether or not Yingluo comes from a high ranking family in this drama, her reasoning for not wanting children is too modern to be taken seriously, that's what I was getting at.
Thanks for the info, I'll read up on it.
This was probably the most unserious dramas I've ever watched. No touch of realism at all. Female lead is smarter than God lol. They should have added some 2 or three smart character but they had to make everyone else sooo dumb including the emperor and then other than wei yingluo, the emperor and fu heng the rest have the poorest acting skills I've seen in any drama
Xian and Yingluo are equally smart. Fuheng said explicitly that the emperor is smarter than Yingluo, but he just finds Yingluo interesting and novel so he does not always expose her.
Do you think ruyi is a good written female lead? Is she a strong female lead? If yes can you make a video about it?
Yes, I think she's a pretty well-written female lead, not the usual girlboss kind of strong, but more nuanced and traditional :D
I had to lol at your comment about Xu Kai. May or may not have watched a mediocre drama just so I could feast my sore eyes on his pretty face.
Will it be enough to tempt me to watch this? Dunno. I think this would be a great drama to half watch while doing ironing, alas, my mandarin so not good enough for that.
Xu Kai's face alone might not be enough reason to sign up for 70 eps😂
硬生是把梦幻严肃性 剧看出好笑的。
I feel like this one got lucky by coming out before Ruyi. This was however my first drama so on one hand I enjoyed the clips I saw but after seeing ruyi I can't help but see it as the lesser series. This story felt like everyone was acting around the main character and the main character had plot armor so thick I don't think Superman could damage her with a punch
I loved the story of yanxi palace 🥰❤️ even though I disliked how they ruined many characters in the end to make the drama longer and to make us love yingluo and the emperor more but there's other stuff I liked the scheming the first empress storyline the emperor character and the female lead character development and the comedy of course 👍 and other things and even though there was many cliches its was fun to watch 👏👏👏
That first scene is just the lady Uya being incredibly stupid. I didn't know she had mutilated feet, but Yingluo obviously did, as does Uya herself. So why is she pleased with the pattern from the powder? It's advertising her parents' crime of binding her feet when Machus forbade it. Even I as a non-Chinese know "lotus feet" is a term for foot binding. I was shocked when she was dragged off with bloody socks. Why is she even wearing shoes with that carving? So stupid. Yingluo does a lot of smart things but the first scene is just stupid people around her handing her a freebie.
Thanks for the info. Yes, I always thought that the writers didn't do a lot of research for this drama.
1:39 that's because her mom died in labour. or som
many people recommend this drama but palace dramas just never really appeal to me.
Agree the end goal is not worth the drama they go through ..
I'm the opposite i eat up palace dramas like anything
Was it just me who kinda shipped the empress and Ying Luo?