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I already can accept the second movie to differ from the first one. But, the third movie is even more differ. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but as a trilogy, your movies need to have a visual handsign to make them have red string to one another. These trilogy in another hand, feel disconnected.

As for this trilogy, the 2nd movie is better than the 3rd movie. This statement coming from someone who still think Donnie Yen's first installment as the best.

I don't understand what happened to the downgrade. Is it so hard for the director to make his production consistent?

I heard the 2nd movie had the same CGI studio of Lord of The Ring and The Hobbit to worked on the project. I think this movie couldn't get that studio back and it ended up in lesser quality.

The tonal shift of somber, but humorous 2nd film to this full on soap opera comedy blew my mind in the bad way.

I thought this was good, but after episode 3 I already feel to drop this show. Before I decided to watch this, I gave myself challenge to watch every JJTW adaptations ever exist. 1996 JJTW (by TVB with Dicky Cheung) was part of my childhood, decade later I totally forgot about it until one day I got a new-found interest on Journey to The West.

Dominic Noble's channel praise this adaptation as "unique modern retelling of Journey to The West", so I watch it. But, BOY! Does everyone are drunk??

As a note, I'm aware of my own bias: 1. This story is romance focuss and totally not my taste.

2. This is not a perfect show to obsessed fan of JJTW who wanted respectable retelling, because it's deviated too much.

But, doesn't mean I catn judge it on objective lense.

Plot: The plot was like Philippine's traffic jam; NOT MOVING! It feel dragged for the sake of romance. The romance that I couldn't even grasp where the chemistry is??

The show was too reluctant to be in episodic format, but too reluctant to move the plot forward. So, it was like watching a subplot instead of main plot. Is there even a main plot??

The only plot I like was Mawang's and it's the only thing that keeping me to watch this until eps 12, although I already want to drop it long since 5th ep.

Characters: Too many character that just going around without arc. They have nothing to do and just there because original JJTW had them.

Son O Gong have no real characterization. You said he had? Okay, try to watch him as someone who never familiar with JJTW. Separating him from JJTW make him just a shallow character with not actual depth.

"You can't separate a character from the work they was based on!" For a retelling, you have obligation to make your own spin from the source you based on. And, you have obligation to show what yours. So by that, your story could stand on it's own, instead by their Papa's shadow. In this show, there's none. We never actually "see" WHO this Wukong is from the original. The show just expect us to think, "You know JJTW right? Here is he!".

For fudge sake, the only character I like is Mawang and Richie, because they both at least original.

And why the hell I even watch this in 2024?!