Light, Silly and Forgettable - Gao Wei Guang Deserves Better
A confident heroine and a sweet, silly romance, blending martial arts with lighthearted moments, make Love and Sword an easy, breezy watch for some viewers. However, for me, it felt far too light—offering little substance in its script and story, with mindless entertainment and cheap humor at its core. I greatly admire the male lead, Gao Wei Guang, whose acting here is a solid 10, but considering the rest of the cast’s performances, my overall acting score for the drama drops to a 6. I could only push through the first six episodes before stopping. The plot felt silly, characters lacked depth, and the tone came across more like unintentional satire than purposeful light drama. Gao Wei Guang is a seasoned, versatile actor, but this role felt too childish for his talent—a script not worthy of his abilities.Was this review helpful to you?
Bad Woman Lin Show
I liked the series in general. It started off well. It was interesting. It seemed different to me. It seemed different from the dramas we are used to. However, the casting was not good, the story was not settled, it was scattered, a bad woman was created, a semi-unhealthy, constantly coughing, such a familiar type and a sneaky woman hiding under it. The actor was surprising. Although I said it did not suit her at first, later on it was a portrayal that I could say okay, especially our actor did the sickly state well. I leave the rest to everyone's discretion. In my opinion, he was not a suitable actor for the role. I liked some of the cast. I did not like some. They included too many bogeyman actors. You can't have just anyone play a bandit. The cast was not good in this respect. But generally the prominent characters were good.The second thing that caught my eye was that the bad woman Lin was not noticed, whether she was noticed or not, and even though she was known among the bad ones, she was treated badly but was still held in high esteem. Yan Shao protects and looks after this character whom he has suspected from the beginning, and in the end he is convinced that she will harm him. He doesn't tell anyone. What can he say to his brother? She is supposedly a sick woman. They tell her not to leave the house. They lock her in a room. She appears wherever they go. No one asks you if you are sick and what are you doing here. They just ask why you came. They don't ask how you came. You know that you are sick and since you came all the way here and came out of everywhere, you are not sick. One would be suspicious. The brothers don't hear. Only Yan Shao hears. The father doesn't know anyway. When they realize that she is bad, they don't even intervene. He poisons one person at a time. He throws dust at one and smokes at the other. He spreads poison and so on, but nothing happens to the woman. No one even asks why he is doing it. Can such a character exist? Is there such a story? Make it up and move it. Just write it down and it won't happen. Please be a little more convincing. Screenwriters. Please. Gao Wei Guang and Xuan Lu played well as the leads. I especially liked the male actor's stance and the female actor's liveliness. Jia Nai Na was very good as the sick woman in my opinion. She was weak in the other bad woman case. There was no body language. She speaks with her face but cannot adjust her body accordingly. She looks very sloppy. Martin Zeng, Ren Hao, Peng Bo, Yuan Yu Xuan were the standouts.
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Uma gracinha
Uma série com enredo bom, leve, um romance sem contratempos e sem mal entendidos as pontas se fecham e o final é bom! É um final feliz!!!! Existe bastante química entre os protagonistas, foi bom assistir, me tirou de uma crise de ansiedade!!!! A vilã era uma falsa, cobra cascavel, o vilão tive um caso de amor e ódio com ele.Was this review helpful to you?
Uma grata surpresa que virou confusão:
Tinha a faca e o queijo na mão, poderiam ter feito o maior dos mousse... e até conseguiram nos primeiros eps (eles no deserto foi INCRÍVEL E EMOCIONANTE). Bom, a partir do ep12 a evolução de personagem (FL) que era negativada começa a ser "interessante" mas FL é dificil de lidar e o ML um verdadeiro cavalheiro faz tudo prota perfeito de filme da disney mas que ESCONDE TUDO da fl, o que me irritou muito. O final foi ????? e nem tenho vontade de sintetizar pois claramente não conseguiram fazer a historia inteira em 24 eps (eu até pensei que precisava de mais eps para desenvolver varios pontos que foram apressados mas claramente foi dificuldade na coesão no roteiro). No final um dorama de comédia romantica marcial com incrivel potencial de ser maduro e encantador virou uma bagunça dramatica sem pé ou cabeça, deixando diversas dúvidas (o que é impressionante pois esse drama é um verdadeiro clichêzão),No final o c-drama é bom e tem qualidade, nitidamente foi muito bem feito mas infelizmente o enredo foi decaindo ao decorrer do c-drama e isso prejudicou minha experiência. Mais um dorama com maravilhoso gatissimo do Gao Weiguang que eu fico receosa no final.
obs: tem a MELHOR "abertura" Ending OST de todos, juntando o melhor da ost com a cinematografia do drama em uma edição genial.
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