Dropped it, it was too long winded.
I watched this drama with a lot of people recommending and praising it. But I did not watch this for months because I was not sold with the actors in the story. I am particular to the actors, sadly. But I still gave this a chance.
My expectations was high, and I guess people's high praise made me more keen to see which part of the story they were giving flowers for, and I admit, I was impressed.
The actors might not be the best cast for the role, but the plot and narrative more than put it's weight in lifting the story, and they atleast made a decent job.
It was a good watch for the first ten episodes. I like the pacing and the plot in general, then it started to fizzle out.
What really made me drop this was actually a petty reason. It was already episode 15 and for the love of whoevers above, why is the stepmother still walking freely? She had been making problems left and right since the start of the story but our female leads just let her. The stepmother made another scheme creating a problem for the MC, but the MC was only bark and snarls but no bite, the stepmother was still walking freely. Did she ever plan to eliminate or to atleast contend with the stepmother. She did not even retaliate even once.
It is bizarre as the MC was clearly competent and has resources to back it up. Her stepmother is a huge problem for her, if not the main source of problem, and she did not even made a move for fifteen episodes. A lot of her problems would be gone if she only dealt with her in the first place.
Which made me into thinking that this was a writer's move. The writer avoided dealing with her as she was the source of conflict and a lot of plots won't be acted if she was dealt early on. I mean I saw a lot of similar MC who dispose their stepmothers early on the show, I thought this was an easy trope, but it had become a plot device.
I think that loses my faith for the story. For fifteen episodes, it was the same cycle of problems cropping out for the two leads and then them solving it on their own, and that's it. No precautions, no retaliations, no pre-emptive strikes. They're just reacting and it was tiring to watch them on and one.
I thought they were capable but they were as hopeless a powerless person. I know that's the theme they are going, but there's really no sense of victory every battle they passed.
I just can't take another 20 episodes of this same plot.
My expectations was high, and I guess people's high praise made me more keen to see which part of the story they were giving flowers for, and I admit, I was impressed.
The actors might not be the best cast for the role, but the plot and narrative more than put it's weight in lifting the story, and they atleast made a decent job.
It was a good watch for the first ten episodes. I like the pacing and the plot in general, then it started to fizzle out.
What really made me drop this was actually a petty reason. It was already episode 15 and for the love of whoevers above, why is the stepmother still walking freely? She had been making problems left and right since the start of the story but our female leads just let her. The stepmother made another scheme creating a problem for the MC, but the MC was only bark and snarls but no bite, the stepmother was still walking freely. Did she ever plan to eliminate or to atleast contend with the stepmother. She did not even retaliate even once.
It is bizarre as the MC was clearly competent and has resources to back it up. Her stepmother is a huge problem for her, if not the main source of problem, and she did not even made a move for fifteen episodes. A lot of her problems would be gone if she only dealt with her in the first place.
Which made me into thinking that this was a writer's move. The writer avoided dealing with her as she was the source of conflict and a lot of plots won't be acted if she was dealt early on. I mean I saw a lot of similar MC who dispose their stepmothers early on the show, I thought this was an easy trope, but it had become a plot device.
I think that loses my faith for the story. For fifteen episodes, it was the same cycle of problems cropping out for the two leads and then them solving it on their own, and that's it. No precautions, no retaliations, no pre-emptive strikes. They're just reacting and it was tiring to watch them on and one.
I thought they were capable but they were as hopeless a powerless person. I know that's the theme they are going, but there's really no sense of victory every battle they passed.
I just can't take another 20 episodes of this same plot.
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