![]() ![]() Yet, the show as a whole is so wonderful, you honestly forget the bad visuals and just get hooked on the wonderful odyssey. A shame since it's otherwise filmed nicely, with great in-camera vistas and diverse rural locations. ![]() The color grading is bad too, it's all over the place even within the same sequence often. How they let it out looking like this I don't know. This was an epic-budget show, but the FX work veers between 'charmingly bad in a stylised way' to 'my first After Effects class'. It's amazing how much personality Zhu Bajie squeezes from behind his static latex pig mask! Xuanzang is one-note throughout, I've seen adaptations where there's been more personality injected into him, but honestly this is how he reads in the book. This is a delightful WuKong! Charming and cheeky, despite wearing a restrictive latex mask it's an incredibly expressive performance, made through great physicality and great vocal ticks. It's certainly closest to what I imagined reading the book, and interprets the many stories with a greater attention to detail. It's much longer, and feels just as faithful, if not more. Most rightly hold the 1986 adaptation close to their hearts, with good reason, but this has replaced it for me. ![]()
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