

The Ravages of Time 2nd Season
火凤燎原 贰
After Dong Zhuo burned down the city of Luoyang, the Guandong Rebel Army and the Xiliang Army meet at Hulao Pass. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei help Liu Bei fight Lu Bu, making Liu Bei rise to fame. Lu Bu secretly threatens Handicapped Warriors into helping him assassinate Dong Zhuo. They encounter Yuan Shao's army on their way to Chang'an. Fortunately they're assisted by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Liu Bei mistakes Zhao Huo for Zilong. Inside the city of Chang'an, Handicapped Warriors and Lu Bu together fight Xiliang Army headed by Li Ru. The two sides fight a battle of wits and courage, and finally both Li Ru and Dong Zhuo die in the fight. Outside the city of Chang'an, with the help of Mr. Shuijing's adviser Jia Xu, Niu Fu takes a successful revenge using the Dark Arts of War. Lu Bu flees out of Chang'an in complete discomfiture. The Dark Arts of War is completely unveiled, and Lu Bu is forced into a desperate situation. (Source: Bilibili Youtube)
After Dong Zhuo burned down the city of Luoyang, the Guandong Rebel Army and the Xiliang Army meet at Hulao Pass. Guan Yu and Zhang Fei help Liu Bei fight Lu Bu, making Liu Bei rise to fame. Lu Bu secretly threatens Handicapped Warriors into helping him assassinate Dong Zhuo. They encounter Yuan Shao's army on their way to Chang'an. Fortunately they're assisted by Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei. Liu Bei mistakes Zhao Huo for Zilong. Inside the city of Chang'an, Handicapped Warriors and Lu Bu together fight Xiliang Army headed by Li Ru. The two sides fight a battle of wits and courage, and finally both Li Ru and Dong Zhuo die in the fight. Outside the city of Chang'an, with the help of Mr. Shuijing's adviser Jia Xu, Niu Fu takes a successful revenge using the Dark Arts of War. Lu Bu flees out of Chang'an in complete discomfiture. The Dark Arts of War is completely unveiled, and Lu Bu is forced into a desperate situation. (Source: Bilibili Youtube)
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CaptainKenshiro
April 27, 2025
Well looks like every show that I was wondering when they’d have a sequel got it in just one or two years, gone are the days where you’d have to wait half a decade for the news of a continuation of that one series you liked, it seems. The second season of The Ravages of Time comes off with a slight improvement on the visuals. Although the overall looks are still rather plastic, there are more motions everywhere on the action scenes and facial expressions. The backgrounds look a bit better but on the downside they are still almost completely static, minus some falling leafshere and there. The directing allows itself to experiment a little more with the special effects and it keeps having a cool battle choreography and now it’s not as frantic, so it’s better and more clear to follow. The character models are slightly better by differentiating their faces a bit more. With that said, the main ones have been a bit prettified, while the other older generals have a rougher and more semi-realistic look to them. The good side is the distinction amongst them like I already said, the bad part is the combination looking a bit odd. The audio department was also slightly improved thanks to a more standardized level of the sound effects, which no longer range between good and mediocre, and now are solidly decent. The voice acting and the music remain about the same though, so no important changes in there, the opening has slightly different visuals, and the previous ballad ending was replaced with a more epic sounding one, but other than that, this aspect remains the same. As for the writing, there are still rule of cool and dick measuring moments, but are now more present in the form of close cool fights than only some characters doing impossible things, although Huo is still kinda more overpowered than the rest. There are also moments where the cast comes off as imposing, controlling or scaring away others through some speeches and feats, by bluffing, basically. As for what the story covers in this season, it focuses on Liu Bei saving Gongsun Zan from Yuan Shao, and the main characters conspiring with Lu Bu to take down Dong Zhuo. Characters still scheme and try to outplay each other, but now with more actual buildup and pre-planning so it doesn’t seem like it’s coming out of nowhere, the resolutions still feel a bit like HAHA GOTCHA moments, but nowhere near as bad as before. I wish more details about Lu Bu’s schemes were shown beforehand, but even as it is, it’s fine. Basically, the dick measuring is slowly giving space to the actual good writing. There are moments and battles that are explained through narration and/or text, which made me think that maybe some content was skipped, but maybe that’s just me misremembering the source material. The story is there and although it would be fine to have those battles and their strategies given more screen time, it doesn’t really feel like the season is missing stuff. With that said the last few episodes are noticeably more rushed, so the season does not end as well as it begins. Characterization gets a little bit sidelined this entry, as it focuses more on plot progression than anything else. Still, one could say that Huo, Sima Yi and Lu Bu get more fleshed out through their schemes and the action, and other characters are built up from this season, like the Eight Geniuses, particularly Jia Xu, who is willing to even sacrifice his masters in order to win, making him a fierce opponent to Lu Bu because of that. Oh, and Cao Cao appears, but very briefly as he still does nothing. Despite the drop in quality of the last few episodes, this season is overall an improvement over the first. It reached a better and more interesting point in the story, it started to improve the writing, it began to setup the cast by introducing other interesting characters, and even its presentation is not as weak as it was before, leaving me hopeful to see a better level of quality on the next entries.
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