El dragón: Le retour d'un guerrier

El dragón is a TV serie that will keep you engaged until the end, it is so incredibly well done that it was long time that I didn't see something good like this. It is a mix of action, spy, adventure, romance and HiTech really well balanced and delivered in the best way possible. Congratulation to all the actors, they are amazing!

I saw the rating at 7 and thought it would be good, first episode was good, filled with action, good locations and scenary and looked promising. However, on the second episode when the 3 main plots are revealed the whole series make no sense at all, and this lack of realism make it a waste of time to watch it.

As other users point out, it is very much like a soapopera and not an action tv show at all. But the bad thing is that it is a soapopera without sense.

I liked Luis Miguel TV show and not this one.

Pro:

• The casting suits perfect on each character, well done.
• The production is pretty good, lot of scenarios, cities and countries to discover.
• Only 2 seasons. (I don't like those kind of series with 225 episodes)
• Around 45 mins each episode.
• You will find action, drama, romance, treason and touches of light humour.
• There are some learnings and wise talking where you can learn a lot.
• No explicit sex scenes (I'm tired of 'modern' series that unnecessarily show more than they should)

Cons:

• I expected much more of the martial art fighting scenes, they look pretty bland, light, and unrealistic, not much effort in achieving a very good fight.

-Season 1 was good, season 2 is pretty long (44 episodes), it started good, but then all the episodes were very similar to each other, a kind of much more of the same, and became quite boring and wanted the show goes by quickly to switch to anything else, I would clearly cut around 10 episodes around the middle, but then more at the end the show becomes more interesting. I would have kept only 33 episodes as per Season 1.

• I didn't like the ending, the writer could have managed the ending a better.

In sum, it is a good show, but it is not for all audience but a more reduced and selective ones, you won't find here a Pablo Escobar, but a kind of high class 007 very smart mafia boss.

Sign that it's a soap opera: 1. crappy acting 2. anytime something happens, loud music starts 3. improbably stories. always family backstabbing, innuendo's and lies that everyone falls though. 4. innocent girl or boy who gets mixed up in crap 5. super hero who has to be the bad guy, yet comes off as a good guy

All in all... acting was very stereotypical of Mexican cartels... If the main guy is so smart,. then why almost everyone around him is so insecure and jealous in 1 way or the other.

They also say 30 words when 4 would be enough... i.e building to a dramatic part and then dramatize it. 37 or so ep in s1 could be done in 16 or so, if they were cut out the "miguel, i have to tell you something, blah blah blah for 2 minutes.... darth vader in luke's father..." if you know what I mean...

After s1, I really had enough...

Normally I would give a show like this 6, to max 7 stars, if I would even watch it, because 6-7 stars means boring. This show isn't boring at all though. To me it's worth 8 stars because it does keep me hooked on (despite some very annoying characters like 'the female chauffeur' (omg: shut up singing and 'being innocent', we get the point) but also the 'strange IT girl' (heavy over the top, if that's what 'strange' means in Mexico: wow... ). The brother is like 'rain man' - almost every character is "over the top" and being a persiflage of someone.

Another annoying thing: every scene lasts abt 2 till 3 minutes, and there are about 10 story-lines crossing eachother and of course connecting with eachother.

Yet .....

It keeps me absolutely hooked on!! The conversations are appearing quite natural to me, constantly there are intriges going on an danger - the drugscriminals look and behave authentic to me as how I immagine these people would behave/ look, without becoming an annoying cliché. Yes, every evening we watch abt 3 shows and loving it!

Yesterday my husband and I said to eachother: when missing one episode, it's almost impossible to reproduce all the events happend during that episode.