Word: hullabaloos
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...hullabaloo about housing it might be worth remembering that the gripes arising now are the same ones I have heard for the past two years. With more room, often you get increased numbers of people who must be left behind. Several groups I know are based on gender or sometimes ethnicity. The problems don't seem to be new ones arising from the new limits: they seem like the perennial problems of choosing housemates given a new form...
...equation somehow fails to add up. The complexity and tension inherent to the characters aren't played out to their full potential, resulting in a certain degree of dramatic sag. Without strong characterizations, the plot founders, and the focal trio is all too easily eclipsed by the bombastic military hullabaloo around them. The biggest problem is that Li Xuejian, for better or worse, gives a truly confused portrait of the emperor, alternating between unabashed cruelty and childish buffoonery. His emperor is conflicted and multifaceted, for sure --but lacking the visible development from ambitious commoner to dangerously monomaniacal ruler, he also...