TheMoonEmpress

In the earlier episodes he did feel suitable to play the ruthless lord of Wei. But the way the storyteller is going, I don't know anymore, man I don't know what this drama is doing anymore. 🙈😅

At least a few scenes worth of buildup would've been good. Like how they built up the return of SEH. Even if not that many scenes but at least a couple more sprinkled throughout here and there which at least leads to their deaths being a satisfying conclusion. Now the effect was just jarring and foolish with so many logical loopholes.

Yes true. The mask of acting was visible, it looked like she was 'acting' and not actually drunk. I have struggled with this FL's acting since the beginning of this drama. Sometimes she is blank and wooden, her expressions don't communicate what is meant to be communicated in the story. She has the propensity to keep her mouth open a lot also which is distracting. I feel sad because I'd heard so much about her acting and it just didn't work for me. Her breathy dialogue delivery and weird cute acting quickly became a turn off. I do enjoy some of her moments with the ML though so at least there's that.

It's written and directed in such a choppy way that a character is introduced just to kiell her in the next 2 mins. How are we supposed to care or how is it even supposed to have have any kind of impact on us. That guy who killed them (I literally forgot his name, he was completely absent for such a large chunk of the story), even he appears out of nowhere after being missing from the story for such a long time and they give only a few dialogues worth of exposition that they're creating trouble for him , before he kills them. I mean , it's mind boggling ly bad 🙈

True, it feels like I'm watching something completely different now

True. It seems choppy, like the director and script are scrapping together things separately. Like he first focused on character establishment, then abandoned that for establishing romance and now there will be angst. Like everything should be done hand in hand, simultaneously. It's like he's fishing with 3 rods, and only fishes with one rod at a time, gives up the other two 😅

Isn't this her one and only scene? Did she appear before as well? I don't remember seeing the emperor and consort before this. They appeared only to die in the next few minutes lol

True, maybe it flows better in the novel. I don't like that this story is making me do mental gymnastics to justify a plothole and fill the blank spaces with own reasoning and interpretation. It should be coming from the story and direction.

I am watching Joy of Life. I need to cleanse my mind after seeing the faulty logic and storyline of this drama. 🙈 I will check out Zhang Hai after it finishes airing.

True there were child marriages then. It's shown in kdramas too, but in that child actors play the role of young children getting married. Since this drama is showing adult actors, I'm hoping she'll be at least 17-18. Anyway, even if she is an adult, drunk acting can be done so so much better. Hers felt like she 'acting acting', looked very obvious that she's acting, not being the character. This could also have something to do with direction.

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If he had mounted an attack against WS or Rongjun and then was killed in action, that wouldn't have needed any explanation. But if WS is arbitrarily killing his family members, without any explanation, then how can his family even trust him or follow him anymore. And in the beginning, they even mentioned that WD has considerable influence within the family, we even see it in the scenes when the whole family is gathered, WD is able to rally support for his arguments in the family, even more so than WS. None of his supporters questioned his suspicious demise? Ugh so many questions and plotholes

Eww that's giving me the creeps 😅 the ML is not only physically bigger but then older too by far right? If she is 14 in the novel, they must have changed that in the drama, right? Right? Riiiight? 😰

No I haven't read the novel. Quick death is fine as long as there is some buildup or logical reason followed by consequences or explanation or even triumph. What these deaths remind me of are actually how deaths are used as sudden twists and turns in Game of Thrones as well. But over there, there is logic or at least buildup to it, aftermath is shown, everything flows smoothly and that's what makes it believable. Although I'm not a fan of the plot device of kill-someone-to-show-a-thrilling-twist, but at least there are way to do this much much better. Here, the impact was very jarring and foolish in logic....like no one even came to stop him? How is that possible? And he didn't even stab him for a quick death, he took his sweet time strangulating him which takes some time at least, it's not a quick death like the consorts bludgeoning. So what was the consort or other attendants doing that time that their emperor was getting choked? It's so poorly executed that it's laughable. Quick deaths can be done impactful and thrilling, here it was just funny 🙈😅

Okay I'm clearly in the minority here but this drama is taking me to my wit's end. In the beginning, the storyline and clever aspects were solid, not the best but at least acceptable, with a good foundation of the conflict between them. In the 10s episodes, the logic started becoming even more questionable. And now, they've clearly thrown all logical and reason out of the window. The deaths in this drama are shot and placed within the story in such a way that it's bordering on funny instead of thrilling twists. I already had this problem with Wei Duan or Dian's death (can't remember his name, his death was that forgettable). He was literally killed out of nowhere, no buildup and then no explanation later. He was supposed to be one of the more important members of the Wei family right? No one questioned his death and never explained again, it was literally brushed under the carpet. And now, the end of ep 23 ...🤣🤣🤣. Liang is supposed to be the imperial power. Is it literally so easy to kill this emperor and his consort? Not even one guard there or outside? Most importantly, this was so out of nowhere. No buildup, again no explanation. If it were so easy to kill him, then why didn't he do it earlier?

Clearly solid logic is too much to expect so regarding the romance, now it's her turn to turn clueless. They spent so much time on that gift of mirror. Earlier I was able to suspend disbelief and at least enjoy their romance. But it's getting repetitive. At least some conflict came because of her dumb uncle and they resolved it well. But the scenes in the story that are obviously meant to have high impact romantically and emotionally fell completely flat for me. The drunk scene of the FL was so poorly acted, she literally turned into a kid running around with a toy, she already looks so young and petite. And then her childish scene was followed by a kiss, it felt so awkward imo. I am glad to see an FL who accepts her mistake and works to improve, so that was good to see. But the romantic scenes are also not up to the par anymore for me. Even their hug felt lackluster.

I agree we've barely seen her at all.

For me, Romance of Tiger and Rose was a stronger adaptation of hers compared to POB. The narrative is tighter and more exciting, with new developments almost every episode and no repetitive plots. Also, from the get go ,it is focused on romance. So there's never this whiplash effect of being promised something dark, exciting, intense and clever but being given sweet fluffy romance instead. Highly recommend TROTAR

Same. Hopefully she gets good scripts

Aah got it!! I had seen something similar on weibo as well but I didn't understand it then. Thank you for explaining.

Hope so too 🤞🏽. It's a pity, the trailer was giving such a dark and ominous vibe, I thought we're getting something complex and interesting with the enemies to lovers vibes. Now it's just a fluffy romance of sweet kids which are a dime a dozen.