It (like Hunger Games) is a knockoff of Battle Royale. Not worth standing up to a firing squad for, but the content must flow.

East Asia getting medieval on one anothers' asses: big yawn.

At history's end, however, these ancient dynasties and their hereditary shenanigans come into their own, to emerge as role models planned all along for governing everywhere.

Meanwhile, of course, scientists remain baffled.