First, it's about HISTORY. It's an epic drama/history of a Chinese dynasty and how a dynasty failed and rise again. How the people interact in this movie made for TV is simply better be the witness and watch it for yourself. Can you blame the Emperor? Or you can blame the many liars, deceivers, and people around its empire who keep lying and deceiving each other. How a noble family is being followed by the subordinates of the Emperor and how war begins and ends. It is also a story of courage, family's loyalty, bravery, and sacrifices. How an older brother sacrificed himself to save his younger brother (Prince Xiao Pinjin) and how he saved the empire from being occupied by another enemy forces. It also deals with ancient pharmacists using ancient medicine and using herbal medicines to cure epidemic and venom from snake bites. How they found and discovered antidotes for snake bites but unable to cure the emperor's ailment. Was he being fed with poison or he was being spoon-fed with just plain soup or water without any nutrients for him to stand up. How obedient, very respectful and kind those slaves and helpers in the empire but too late to have known that too many human snakes (spies) acting to be closer to the emperor's family. Could it be that conspiracy in the many wives and concubines that embodied the empire. And the WAR scene is tragic. Anyway, all wars are actually tragic because it involves death in massive proportion. Is there LOVE involve in this television drama/action series? Of course there is a love story: Love of the family, love of the father to his children, love of the children to their parents, the kind of love of sons for their father, the kind of love by son to his mother, the love of the people for the emperor, the love between the doctor and the warrior, love between husband and wife and the loyalty love for brotherhood and sisterhood.
I haven't seen the first sequel of NIRVANA IN FIRE. However, the Shifu, the villain who was once a good guy but due to the first epidemic that ravaged and infected their whole clan and community led him to avenge the death of his entire clan blaming the rest of those people surrounding the emperor's closest family and clan. The shifu died when he was stabbed at his back by sharp sword , killed by the marquis (whose mother died by hanging and was mistakenly accused of being a witch).
Blaming the EPIDEMIC as caused by rodents there is truth to that as in the plague that caused the BUBONIC PLAGUE in Medieval Period. Black Death. There is no known antibiotic that period of time. Antibiotic (penicillin) was discovered only after World War II.
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