Lord, have mercy; tell me you weren’t trying to hold back those tears when it was all said and done. Till The End Of The Moon was truly a remarkable story, and the journey was just an amazing experience.
Tantai Jin finally became Devil God, despite his refusal. He had no other option but to halt all the commotion and confusion. Despite being misinterpreted and despised by people around him, he tried to become an evil god intent on destroying the entire universe. Tantai Jin’s ability to put an end to everything was plainly shown in Episode 38. But he will need to give up himself in order to do so.
So let’s dive a little bit deeper into the ending of Till The End Of The Moon and find out what my final verdict is.
Till The End Of The Moon Ending Explained
With the fate of the three realms hanging in the balance, Tentai Jin, who is now also Cang Jin Min, must merge himself with the devil God. By becoming the Devil God, he overcomes the temptations of the old Devil God and succeeds in having total control of the powers. This just means that he’s a good devil God and not the bad devil, to put it simply, if you know what I mean.
Cang Jin Min’s final attempt to save the world was simple, fool everyone into believing that he is the real Devil God and have Li Su Su ascend to become a God herself because “Only a God can kill a God”.
In the final moments of the drama, Ji Wu loses himself and is consumed by greed and revenge, deciding to use a forbidden spell to gain demonic powers with the hopes of defeating Tentai Jin himself. He set up an array that would kill the devil God.
This final fight sequence between himself and Tantai Jin was truly epic. Of course, this was all part of Tantai Jin’s plan. The only way for Li Su Su to become a God is to have her face the punishment of the array.
The Phoenix God
While he defeats Ji Wi and saves him from becoming demonic in the process, Li Su Su witnesses the God-slaying crossbow has been activated by Tantai Jin.
At this very moment, Li Su Su experiences godhood and is visited by her mother along with the other gods of the past. She is reborn into the Phoenix God, just like her mother, and what happens next is truly amazing.
If you remember from the very beginning, her mother can stop or slow time. Don’t worry about the details of this power because it doesn’t matter. She stops time, preventing the God-slaying crossbow from killing everyone.
The Final Kiss
Li Su Su then takes Tantai Jin to a timeless space where they spend their last moment together. It’s a heartbreaking moment as the two share their last words and a final kiss.
At this very moment, though, Li Su Su decides to die with Tantai Jin. But hold your horses because Tantai Jin has one more trick up his sleeve. He uses the heart-guarding scale to save Su Su from that fate. The world is saved, and who the hell is this guy anyway?
500 years later, we see Su Su with their daughter, spending time in the mortal realm, and it’s safe to assume that Tantai Jin’s divine essence resides within the heart-guarding scale for all of eternity. They all live happily ever after in some sort of way.
Three Realms
Alright, so once you get past all of the puzzle piercing of these episodes that seemingly was cut throughout many more episodes that they meant this to be, this was probably going to be about 60 episodes. But because of the new rule in China, things had to be cut down to 40 episodes, and you probably found yourself watching these episodes like “When the hell did this happen?”
But it was an amazing story once you figured it out. I would have to put this up there in terms of the story time because, at the end of the day, you were very invested in this story. The story was so fantastically told. Even though you had to kind of, you know, as I mentioned earlier, just put some of those pieces together.
It’s different from the standard story of the Three Worlds 3 live story that you usually get. In this instance, we had, of course, there are three realms, but then we had different characters from the past, from the present, and from the future diverge and connect to each other.
That in itself is already something different and something very refreshing to experience when it comes to high fantasy dramas. And it’s really hard for you to predict because it’s not your standard three worlds, 3 lives type of story.
But in this case, it was done much differently where there was some sort of time travel that was involved in there in some sort of dream state where you experienced what these characters went through way back in the past. And that, to me, is already a really amazing way to kind of tell this type of story.
Till The Final Moon Review
The music was really, really one of the best that I’ve heard in a while. It was epic, it was emotional, and it kept the story going forward in a really purposeful way. I really loved it, and I felt every beat of it. The visual effects, although some of the animals were kind of a little bit, you know, not really, not really amazing. But, like the visual effects, for the most part, when the action sequences really culminated was fantastic.
The actors, especially Lou Yun Xi and Bai Lu really carried the show. I mean, Lou Yun Xi pretty much played four different characters. He played Ming Ye, Tantai Jin, Cang Jiu Min, and the Devil God. The nuances in his acting ability have really made me a fan of it. This is like my first time watching him, and I’m looking forward to all the dramas that he’s going to be coming up with.
Bai Lu is always sensational and beautiful, and she played three characters in this one too. She was fantastic, and I loved every second that they interacted with each other, and their chemistry was amazing.
As far as secondary characters, that was pretty good too. Not the best, but Pian Ran run really stood out to me because it was a character I was very invested in, and it’s just too bad that you didn’t see her in the final acts of the story. And, of course, you have to have a really good villain.
Villain And Pacing Of The Show
Apart from the devil God being a villain who is kind of pretty much out of sight, out of mind, Ye Bing Chang was one of the best villains because it made you hate her really, really bad. It made you want to come across the screen, grab her and just shake her up and just beat her. Because her villain was someone that you really wanted to hate, and you felt it throughout this story. So big props to the villain there and big props to the actress.
Now, because of the 40 episodes, this is probably about 60. As I said before, you had to deal with the story jumping forward from time to time, and it really kind of surprised you because you were like from one episode to the next, and you were like, “when did this happen?” And I was like, “OK, OK, that’s, I guess that’s what happened”.
Rating
With all that said, though, with all of the episodes that they had to cut to meet the 40-episode quota, I would have to give till the End of the Moon an A or an A+. I’m still not ready to put this in the S tier, but it’s hovering there.
Guys like this are one of the best C-dramas I have ever seen. I’m not ready to put this in the S Tier yet, like with “Every Night” and Till The End Of The Moon is probably one of the best that I’ve seen to date, it’s just amazing. If it’s not one of the best, I would say probably the best C-drama in 2023.
This might be reaching it, but I’m putting it in the A and in the A+ category. But you guys, let me know what you think. What is your final grade for “Till The End Of The Moon?
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