Overall, I liked the drama as an inspiration to read and search for interesting facts from Chinese history. Lots of names, lots of events that I was trying to understand and confirm. Yes, the show wasn't always factually correct, but it is a drama. Artistic vision. The educational role of the film in this case even suits me. Acting works fine for me too. Finally, I can see wrinkles, dirt, the toil of warriors, facial expressions. In this context, casting a mature man as a teenager did not bother me at all. The more that the actors in their forties did not try to play the youth, as is the case in other dramas, where 30-year-olds, some singers taken from the round-up, jump up excessively, scream, do not close their mouths. Ah, Lu Buwei, Lu Buwei. You were great. A whole range of feelings on your face, an extraordinary personality. Li Si, where is this cruel chancellor? Actually, this guy is the one I'd like to drink wine with, just not poisoned. And finally Him. A tyrant or a man determined by upbringing or maybe by events? He did a gigantic job for China. Not alone. He knew how to choose a staff of people. Cruel? Hm? A fascinating figure for sure. Sima Qian, so reluctant to the First Emperor, would not objectively answer this question, but the First Emperor was certainly not a lamb. Yes, the actors were brilliant in their roles.
However, as an artistic work, it lingers in the excessive dragging of scenes, which is common in Chinese dramas. And here, at the end, I didn't like the pace, very slow, with endless conversations, basically the same. Nevertheless, I was interested in the fabula itself until episode 35, and then the sine wave.
I missed good battle scenes. The scene where two armies oppose each other and attack each other with spears rather amused me.
The music is pretty average too. I liked the instrumental part, but the vocal part made me nervous.
Maybe someday I will see this vision of the unification of China, but I think I'd better read it.