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Motifs - revenge, deception, exploitation, power grab, cruelty, forgetfulness, ...
What stood out for me in this drama was its cruelty. I have seen many war and crime movies in my life but nothing compared to the cruelty exercised in this drama. Revenge, deception, exploitation, power grab, cruelty, forgetfulness, ... these are some of the motifs. In my view, everything started going south the moment a scheme was conceived to use a 16 year old free spirited and loving girl as a tool to infiltrate and destroy her people. As if that was not enough, throughout the series, she would go on to lose all the people she loved and cared for. In truth, I felt traumatized watching this drama, and felt that the storyline had nothing going for it other than the constant cruelty exhibited on this one female lead. Then, when one wonders as to how anyone who had gone through such a traumatic experience, and at such a young age at that, could ever come out of it without losing their mind, ... then memory loss was introduced, which not only did it not resolve the problem, but it ended up compounding the problem by creating more confusion and conflict which then resulted in more pain. So, problems never really got resolved in this series, nor was there any discernible character development in any of the leads. Tragedy from beginning to end. Series unnecessarily made long. 35 or 40 episodes could have been enough. The cast was great just the storyline did not do it for me.
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