This was hands down the best Female Badass x Warlord general drama I've ever seen in a long time. I actually completed…
Saaaammmee!!!! This was such a great show! And I can’t think of another show I’ve watched where we got awesome choreographed fight sequences with the lead couple side by side! 😍 What did you think of the episodes with the Storm Alliance?
Princess learnt life's lesson the hard way. She apologized to her brother for hurting him. She regretted everything…
Unlike many others, I never hated the princess. She was naive and sheltered, made an impulsive decision based on romanticized ideals of love… and then got trapped in an enemy state with a psychotic royal family. She did what she had to do to survive in that situation, mainly kiss up to the crazy emperor. Her actions made sense to me, and I felt sorry for her.
I’ve been talking to my partner about this, and just reflecting on how different some of these Asian cultures…
Yes exactly. I like how you phrased this. A lot of people have criticized this show for the “shallow” villains, but given these principles, it makes sense why the villains acted the way they did.
what a vicious cycle of the older generation passing on their sins to their children and vice versa
I’ve been talking to my partner about this, and just reflecting on how different some of these Asian cultures seem to be than our Western values. A person doesn’t exist on an island; children pay for the sins of their parents, adults hold grudges from events that happened when they were children. Your behavior affects your family, etc. It’s very much a culture of shame.
genuinely could not guess what would happen next the plot is crazy lmaowe could've got such a good TPOB style…
No kidding. I was disappointed that they didn’t go that route. Such a wasted opportunity 🤦🏼♀️ HOWEVER… XJS owned the death camps, so I don’t think going that route was feesible anyway.
So I realized that I’m almost done with this one and don’t have another show lined up to watch 🙇🏼♀️What should I watch? I dropped LITC cause I hated the deceit and not communicating. Maybe I’ll rewatch Shadow Love or LotFG. I’m looking for a show with a similar vibe as this one - with a mature romance, good intrigue, some fight scenes, and a happy ending. Sadly I think I have probably watched all of the comparable ones to Fated Hearts that are good 🤦🏼♀️
That's a pretty good way to look at it. Honestly, when the ML had her waterboarded and whipped, I saw that as…
Yeah it didn’t bother me when he captured her and beat her - that made sense to me because she cost him a war and almost killed him. I wrestled a bit more with her retaliation until looked at how it would have looked if she did NOT beat him back in the woods. When I recognized that it was because of the power differential, it all changed for me.
Your explanation made me want to watch it. Thank you!
Sure! It’s rough the first three episodes or so, but there is a mutual respect between the leads that develops fairly quickly. I would even say that the respect is there even in the midst of the violence. They did become one of my favorite TV couples.