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Right, except none of his plot were his own. Both visual direction and story direction.
Yu Zheng is well known to steal material from other sources without giving credits, I despise him enough knowing that, but I still gave this series a chance in hoping that the changes would at least be consistent within itself, it wasn't.
LHC flip-flop from being carefree to being an emo hypocrite...At least try to stay consistent to what was established prior. Yu Zheng pretty much took the original story and throw in ideas from other sources not of his own and than drive the whole thing into the ground. That's basically what he did. And some of the new audiences ate it up. I mean it's not their fault they hadn't read the original novel, nor bother to if they're in love with this take.
Here's some example on the plot points.
-LHC and DFBB relationship- this is straight up Bride with White Hair romantic arc...Nothing new here. Boy like girl, girl like boy, boy from good side, girl from evil side, boy uncertain which side to choose, boy gets confuse and wrongfully blame girl for evil act, etc, we've seen it all before. Boy ends up living with some regrets...
-DFBB sacrifice heart for LHC sake- this is pretty much their take on the heart exchange plot from Painted Skin 2.
-DFBB being a female- well, this is pretty much been done, perhaps not to the extent of full gender, but rather using female actor to have a take on the role.
-DFBB causes LHC to be kick out of his sect- this is taken from SOD 96 where RYY causes LHC to confront his master and be expelled. In fact, DFBB took all the good plot points of RYY and become the main heroine in her place, leaving RYY no reason to even be in the show at all.
-YLS almost gets killed by LPZ- LHC rescue YLS from being kill by LPZ, and LHC ends up taking care of the broken heart YLS, who then later meets her demise by LPZ a second time, this is done in SOD 96 as well.
-DFBB falling off cliff- After her fight with LHC, she falls off a cliff and LHC tried to save her, only to watch her fall, this is pretty much taken from Swordsman 2 with Jet Li.
Again, these are just some of the plot points that YZ uses, which is not original, nor are they new to this specific story. Also, this is not even counting all the elements he stole from the MMO/game.
Visually talking, he stole what he found from the game and turn into into live-action, he even goes as far as keeping the same camera angle, etc. It's just plain uninspired on his own part. Even the clothing colors of his actors matches those of the games. DFBB being the most obvious.
Maybe Yu Zheng shouldn't make false promises during interviews then, examples being,
"This is the most faithful adaptation to date"
"This has the best fight scenes of them all"
"Fans of both RYY and DFBB will be happy with the results"
All promises claim by the producer himself, all end up proving to be false.
Switching genre don't excuse poor writing.
As stated above, "elements" he stole from the game, to justify his lack of original vision.
Of course it was "exactly", it was a rip-off of it.
And yes, there is a difference between inspiration and imitation.
Except instead of letting the drama grow naturally, they decided to let the drama happen for drama sake, all driven by angst, one in which the original story tried to mock. Carefree is the theme, to live without worry in a world of pain. This is the whole point of the story, there is no point in adapting something if the essence is lost. One can change or alter any characters, plots, or events, but one cannot lose the source material essence.
This is why many fans hated this series. However some who like this series give the haters so little credit, claiming haters does not like changes. This is not all true, it is not the changes of story that causes the hate, but rather the butchering of the story essence, the inconsistent flow of the story and character, etc.
Here's another quick example of inconsistency, LHC practices hard with the zither, than later end up using a flute...What? What was the point of practicing the zither throughout the story if he ends up using a flute instead anyway? Why even bother learning the zither? One small detail sure, but still inconsistent none the less.
In final, most of what I have said here is hard to deny as they are not just opinions but rather facts displayed by the show itself. Yes, if anyone enjoy or like this series, by all mean do so. Just don't think the haters only hate because they hate. There's more reasoning behind the logic for some of us.
To anyone reading this, sorry for the essay, just sharing my thoughts.