Legend started really good and plateau-d midway and then totally tanked towards the end. The ending was VERY choppy and there were legit ep and scenes that frankly just didn’t line up to whatever happened before. You can definitely tell they didn’t know what kinda ending to go for, and included a happy ending, open ending, and a bad ending, ALL without explaining, logic, or any continuity. But the first third is very good and cracky and even up to the 3/5 mark it was decent.

Honestly the thing I’m most grateful for with this drama is the really awesome wuxia vibe (despite being xianxia), recognizing BaiLu’s awesomeness (along with XuKai in this role), and inciting my interest enough to go listen to the audiobook of the source novel which was very very good.

Here Bai Lu does look handsome, but something about her hairstyle, Idk if they subtle-y tailored her uniform, or just her body language but she “acts” obviously like a…female? (I don’t wanna compare but just as an example, Ni Ni’s face is very female and we know she’s very female but her body language in Phoenix was convincingly “male”). I almost prefer Bai Lu’s uniform-stills/looks with the small ponytail (I think at this point it seems like she’s discovered and still attending as a girl?) because she just looks more natural in those stills and more…. something about the looser, confident positions vs her kinda stiff “stick up her butt…lmao” feel when she’s “a guy”??? NOT being negative bc I still kinda wanna watch and still anticipating, but this is just what I’m getting off the stills…
Anyone feel me?