周杰 饰 黄楚明
孙菲菲 饰 柳一夕
徐筠 饰 慕容砚
孙伟 饰 丁凯
狄龙 饰 王羲之
桥本丽香 饰 苏瞳
李庆祥 饰 曹安
谭俊彦 饰 曹骏
李雪松 饰 上官绝
李菲 饰 上官剑侍
宁静 饰 庾太后
于承惠 饰 赤松道长
计春华 饰 石空尘

Allrighty, another show off the blocks. Actually this is a rather old drama, in the late 04 and early 05 period I think. Due to certain circumstances, I wasn’t able to catch this drama, and didn’t noticed its existence even.

Well, its a bit of a historical period, a bit of a fantasy-ish story (revolving around the legendary couple swords 干将 莫邪), thrown in a bit of political scheming in a wuxia backdrop. Overall, even though its a bit of everything, this show is actually quite decent. I only have a few qualms that I wanted to nag about. (Lets come to that later)

Plot wise, its quite brilliant. Several twists along the way gave you the “omg I didn’t think of that” feeling. Some of it was easily anticipated, as enough foreshadowing and hints were dropped. Probably it was meant as a way to make the others more obscure and unpredictable. Oh, there are also some respectable fighting scenes.

Onto the bit of bad parts. First and foremost, the final battle was a total letdown… I was looking forward to an epic showdown which ended as soon as it started… Secondly, there seems to be a chrono-spatial mismatch in certain ways. For instance, the teleporting ability of a person to appear in another far away place in a short space of time. Then also the superb efficiency in tailing and tracking down people that puts our modern intelligence agencies to shame. Add to that the way they miraculously know about news of something which should never have been leaked (kudos also to their pigeons for transporting messages). Ignore these links, and its actually a great drama to spend some time on.