Legend of Anle started out as such a fun drama and I loved Dilraba and Gong Jun together. It was my first historical cdrama where I didn't find ep 1 or 2 boring. Gave it a solid 7.0 because this drama storyline could have been more !! AND I MEAN IT BECAUSE it had lots of great moments, and the plot overall was trying to maintain that "legend" quality to the storytelling. There were some seriously perfect characters in this drama. The main leads and even some of the lesser characters could do no wrong, and got away with stuff other people would literally have died for. Also people were just too self-sacrificing at some points. I know they're all supposed to be nobles, but still....
The plot got draggy at some points. The whole second quarter of the drama, where they focused on the Princess competition and the bogus Di Chengen, could have been reduced to a 3-4 episodes. Whenever they kept to the Anle storyline, it was much better. I feel like they should give more scenes to LengBei/MoBei and AnNing rather than Di ChengEn. Their storyline has a lot of potential but they make it so shallow and meh. AnNing's death outcome is also so messy that I don't even see the Emperor's reaction.
The only thing I really hated about this drama was the way they wrote the story for the character Lin Lang. I feel like they turned her into a plot device instead of a character, a thing instead of a person. She never got credit for all the things she did to make the leads' plans work. The fact that her feelings were never acknowledged by anyone, in particular the 2ML, was just wrong, but I especially dislike the way they just "disposed" of her as a way to ensure that the bad guy was quickly caught. Even at the end, when the 2ML reminisces, he quickly glosses over her loss to concentrate on Ren Anle . So sad.
Overall the first half of the drama is actually really good and even the middle episodes however the ending of all other characters is very disappointing..I also think that the drama really slowed the romance down at the end when they should have given us more sweet moments. You should watch the extra scenes (I think they’re on YouTube) because they give us some of what was missing. Overall a fun drama that just falls off in the second half
The plot got draggy at some points. The whole second quarter of the drama, where they focused on the Princess competition and the bogus Di Chengen, could have been reduced to a 3-4 episodes. Whenever they kept to the Anle storyline, it was much better. I feel like they should give more scenes to LengBei/MoBei and AnNing rather than Di ChengEn. Their storyline has a lot of potential but they make it so shallow and meh. AnNing's death outcome is also so messy that I don't even see the Emperor's reaction.
The only thing I really hated about this drama was the way they wrote the story for the character Lin Lang. I feel like they turned her into a plot device instead of a character, a thing instead of a person. She never got credit for all the things she did to make the leads' plans work. The fact that her feelings were never acknowledged by anyone, in particular the 2ML, was just wrong, but I especially dislike the way they just "disposed" of her as a way to ensure that the bad guy was quickly caught. Even at the end, when the 2ML reminisces, he quickly glosses over her loss to concentrate on Ren Anle . So sad.
Overall the first half of the drama is actually really good and even the middle episodes however the ending of all other characters is very disappointing..I also think that the drama really slowed the romance down at the end when they should have given us more sweet moments. You should watch the extra scenes (I think they’re on YouTube) because they give us some of what was missing. Overall a fun drama that just falls off in the second half
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