Cryssi27

The problems with this drama

I won't repeat all the other reviews - I mostly agree with them - my big issues:

This is supposed to be a drama about a strong, independent female general who leads her life disguised as a man.

They have her doing all sorts of "cutesy" behaviors that are weak and dependent on the ML. Okay that isn't in itself terrible, but it is when you are supposedly portraying a female general... What the heck? And we go from wearing a mask constantly to disguise herself to no effort in disguising her female identity? Who is making these decisions and not seeing the absurdity?

Why have the Emperor who has seemed to make mostly decent decisions, decide to not only NOT allow the FL and ML to marry, but decides to marry her off to one of the villains? AND to add insult to injury, the FL hears it and blames it on the ML instantly instead of understanding that the Imperial Edict that he reads is NOT his words, but from the Emperor. That makes 0 sense. She is supposed to be strong and independent; not stupid and silly and weak. Why doesn't she IMMEDIATELY confront the ML and tell him she knows he doesn't want that - she doesn't believe it and they go together to fight for their right to be together. And how can the Emperor not think this will make his two strongest, most devoted, loyal subjects hate him now?

And the second ML is a villain and then he isn't and then he turns into the worst of the worst portrayed by a mental breakdown of evilness. Just stupid.

The last 3 episodes just ruin this drama.

I still watched it to the end and they throw us a crumb after a lot of ridiculousness in the last bit by letting our main couple be together, but it is hard to erase 3 episodes of just unnecessary, senseless dribble that didn't add anything, but make everyone dislike this drama.

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Good and Bad

This drama had a LOT of potential to be a really fun and beautiful fairy tale story. The actors were really good and did have chemistry. At times the FL's character was over the top, but I know some people like that. The problem with this drama is that they didn't allow the ML to really grow consistently. Just when it seemed like he would, they still made him an asshole treating the FL whom he supposedly was madly in love with as secondary-she was the last person he would communicate with and even after long separations, he didn't run to her like a man in love with a princess. My biggest gripe was that the FL did grow and mature in her role as the princess, but lost her agency as a woman in a relationship. She was the one constantly being hurt by the ML, waiting for the ML and begging for his attention. And what was a fairy tale story about a princess in a palace ended flat. They spent the last few episodes after the common trope of being separaed for 2 years, fighting and finally not really getting together until literally the last 5 minutes on an airplane where the FL chases after the ML. What a sour ending to this story.

Why take what this theme was - a princess in a castle and just drop it?

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