It's not enough to say that The Ravages of Time is a period piece and yet another adaptation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms ....
It's not enough to say that The Ravages of Time is a period piece and yet another adaptation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
Rather, imagine a period piece about the last days of Eastern Han and the years of the three kingdoms that, while still deviating from popularized images based on the novel and not totally conforming to historical accounts and findings, also chooses to further enrich and complicate matters by adding convoluted layers of scheming over and beyond what the background story features, by constantly including various themes for philosophizing and theorizing, by crafting the story in such a way as to lend itself to social and political commentary, and finally by heavily using texts and treatises known to have been in circulation during the period.
In addition to all this sophistication, one other feature to take note of is how Ravages incorporates more contemporary techniques and elements to the mix, in an unorthodox manner.
Of course, these characteristics that make up what I've been calling the Ravages template are not intrinsically unique to Ravages, but I hardly see any other series make use of all of them intensely and extensively.
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