I have nothing against Empress Hang. But she is not respected due to her own doing but more of her husband's and how people compare her to Empress Wang. Empress Wang stood up for Zhu Qizhen's son when no one else would because it was the honourable thing to do. She saw that it was wrong to mistreat the son of the previous Emperor whose mum had cried herself blind yet even worse, depose him of his position as the Crown Prince when Zhu QiYu ascended the throne promising to not take that away from his nephew. She saw that it was not only morally wrong, but would also enrage the people against her husband's whose popularity was on shaky ground with the common people. People were suspicious of Zhu QiYu's claim to the throne but did not voice opposition until Zhu Qiyu replaced the Crown Prince with his own son by Lady Hang.
But Zhi QiYu deposed of her and confined her in the Cold Palace, and made Lady Hang his Empress instead. Empress Hang was not accepted by the Ming royal family as a true empress even though Zhi Qiyu gave her the title. It was Zhu Qizhen's way of repaying Empress Wang for her support when he was down and acknowledging her as the only first wife of Prince Cheng (Zhu Qiyu after being deposed). It was also a political point he was trying to make that he was the one and only true Mandate of Heaven.
I have nothing against Empress Hang personally, which I only see as a background character who is probably helpless in her own fate. I am fine with Tan YunXian and Empress Hang being two different characters but when they get rolled into one, then I get
. Tan YunXian is a strong woman with principles and integrity. First of all, would she really not speak up for Zhu Qizhen's son when he is supposed to be her friend in the series? Secondly, would a person of her integrity accept the role of Empress knowingly that it was taken away from a good woman who was trying to do the right thing?
The actions of LSS's TYX in the trailer is contradictive. Its like the screenwriter just used the name of the famous female doctor then just butchered her life story by making her stuck between the two Emperors and just totally ignored her husband in real-life. And if the screenwriter makes TYX the damsel-in-distress by making the righteous Empress Wang a bad woman, then that's even worse!
And to top it off, TXY is not even an adult (cos she served under Zhu JianShen's reign right?) at the time of the Tumu Fortress Saga!
It like how they made the legendary Huang DaoPo annoying in that Weaver Girl series. It is OK like BBJX when they managed to develop the historical characters with some fiction whilst following the real chain of events. But TangRen should have just left Tan Yunxian alone and made up a fictitious character for them to write about! I just hate it when TV series mess with history!