But my personal favorite character would be Zhuge Liang. His laugh, wit, insight and dominance were what sold his character for me. The actor has a unique air about him that makes the character memorable. I quite enjoy Cao Cao's portrayal in this series. They can be naïve, arrogant, stubborn, light-hearted, witty, funny, etc and evolve as episodes progresses. Overall the characters have different aspects to their personalities. Okay sometimes they can be a bit over-dramatic, but that's Asian drama for ya. They are more natural and realistic and easily relatable. Another aspect that really drew my attention was the portrayals of the characters. Since people will wonder how in the world are there thousands of men but no woman to raise the children that grew into soldiers? Take care of the household? Guide their husbands? Have their role in the political scheming, or marriage alliances? Men might write the history books but you can't tell me that woman never had a part in them. I'm just sad that they couldn't put even more in there, since my nit pick was that there was too few woman shown. I appreciate that we can see a small side of the woman perspective on things. Of course there are still male dominance overtones throughout the story but that's how things were back then. I for one I'm glad that they expanded woman's roles in the story however big or small, to help make the times that they lived in better-rounded. Another thing that I see other reviewers complain about is that there is too much woman in the story, since the original novel never mentions much about woman.
#SECRET OF THE THREE KINGDOMS SERIES#
Sometimes TV series will give you perhaps 1-2 battle scenes with a handful of extras to make it look "epic" (ahem *cough, cough* Game of Thrones, I'm looking at you) but with Three Kingdoms, the line of armies/calvarias in the background, whether with real extras or CGI, really makes you feel like there are 50,000 men at the general's call.
The scale of the army is a great visual feat like no other television series I've seen. Right off the bat you can tell the expense that they've put into this just by watching the first episode. This is by far the longest Asian drama I've watch to date, the production quality and storytelling edges neck and neck with another favorite of mine, K-drama's Jumong. It's a rare thing these days that a show would capture my attention from beginning to end, and with 95 episodes to boot! I thought the production was near perfection with only some minor nit picks here and there, which is almost incomprehensible since I don't often say this about a TV series.
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