Big_Red_1011

The writers easily could have made him 100% evil or 100% not-very-evil but they are doing a 50/50 split here (maybe that will be justified by the ending?). I didn’t see Flourished Peony on your list (or its second season - In the Name of Blossom) but — for all its missteps with writing — it had a truly impressive evil bad guy (despite his sad story) and an unhinged bad girl (who also had a sad story, lol). They were more interesting characters than 2ML and 2FL here 🙄

I agree with you. Novel readers mentioned that 2ML wasn’t as horrible of a person in the book, so maybe this backstory came from that. But, ahem, seems like the writers forgot a lot of bad things he has done or planned to do 🙄🤨😳

Oh, I think I remember Horizon Towers from your recommendations. I’m halfway through watching Mobius on Netflix and it’s very interesting so far. Very different feel from a typical modern C-drama.

Oh, which one? The Resurrected? Is it good?

Ah, I see. I know they’ve changed a lot (based on comments here) but have no way of assessing popularity of source novel.

LOL… Maybe I shouldn’t watch this at the same time as a more fantastical “Love in the Clouds”. Speaking of which, have you started it? It’s not amazing but the interactions between leads are funny (for now).

Ohhh… interesting. Maybe the book is more explicit about historical references 📕

Pretty much what I thought originally. It beining connected to FL’s mom makes it seem slightly less evil (probably?), but it’s intriguing anyway :)

By “this” do you mean this drama?

Thank you! Your explanations are always very meaningful :) Actually, that Storm Alliance is probably the thing that intrigues me the most at this point in the story. Very curious to find out what’s going on there and how they can heal so well 🤨

Maybe the local audience is tolerant of questionable writing choices but it’s strange seeing many C- and K-dramas make similar mistakes time and time again.
Makes me really appreciate the quality of screenwriting in “Are You the One” where everything was logical and/or understandable.

Apparently, he was a nicer person in the novel. Maybe the sad backstory is from there.

Yes, in many (most?) dramas that family would be executed or stripped of titles & banished to the North Pole. It’s hard to feel bad for MY given he’s still a member of a prominent family and living a good life.
Honestly, at this point I am not even very interested in the conspiracies/court intrigues or whatever happens in that other kingdom with the second couple. I’d be perfectly fine with ML cleaning house (Prime Minuster, MY, etc.), becoming emperor and then marching to “pacify” his sister’s country 😁

I think in subtitles they translated it as Storm ⛈️. We will find out soon enough though :)

But he has a sad backstory so we are supposed to care about him and forgive his atrocities 🙄🙄🙄

I’m usually understanding of dramas showing us storylines of secondary characters, but in this drama the only people we truly care about are FL & ML. Other characters haven’t been presented well enough for us to care. Introducing their sad backstories doesn’t excuse anything if a person is truly evil, for example.

It’s interesting to hear someone feels sad for those characters. Personally, I don’t think bad characters here have been presented as fully as in some other dramas, so it’s hard to care about them anymore.

It’s kind of hard to care much about her (or what’s going on in that country period). Writers made her so unlikable, why would we start caring now? 🙄

At least, that’s realistic. She wanted to be the main woman in his life. But I bet she won’t have a good ending here.

To add to the above, I believe ML+FL also have a kid in the novel.