【OFFICIAL TRAILER】Ashes to Crown is officially coming your way! Premiering June 2 at 12 PM (GMT+8) !
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The opening for this bog-standard Chinese historical drama is pretty cool, and very unusual. Our girl is smitten with a charming scoundrel and is about to marry him when a giant bell falls from it's support. When it hits the ground it makes a resounding gong, as you would expect. While this sound is reverberating, our girl experiences a vision of what her life will be with this man and realizes he is a downright evil son-of-a-bitch. By the time the sound has faded she has decided to destroy her fiancé by any means possible. Kind of funny that she was able to experience months of life in those few seconds, but dream time is like that.
After that, it's a pretty bog-standard feminist fantasy. Pretty boys and girls, fabulous clothes, ridiculously elaborate jewelry on the girls and super-silly headgear on the boys, plenty of secret plots and court intrigue, fantastical sword fights and large scale battles. Oh yeah, there is a love story front and center and naturally they have to overcome all kinds of obstacles, at least half of which are conjured up by our girl.
We've watched the first ten episodes and now it is being released like, one episode every day or so. I've seen so many of these that I no longer pay close attention. Shoot, I can even take a nap while it's playing and when I wake up I don't feel like I've missed anything. I think the part I like best about these shows is the amount of detail they show. Very rarely do I spot anything out of place. The girls are pretty cute, too.
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