more disappointing than the princess gambit
Hou Ming Hao is devastatingly handsome and gorgeous and a fantastic actor, but this drama has more scenes with the support characters than it does with our main leads. This is a problem because I am here mainly to see him act.
Concerning the sets and scenes: it just feels like there are not very many and that they are really small. There doesn't seem to be a lot of money put into this aspect which is extremely necessary to make the world seem real and very big. They are relying too much on CGI.
The storyboarding causes scenes to feel harshly cut together and really makes the story as it is unfolding feel cut and paste, cut and paste.
Ming Yi solo scenes just feel so disconnected. Her dishonesty is obviously a plot point for climatic moments with the ML, but it just never stops. Then we aren't getting real connections, this is actually how toxic relationships begin.
I see people describe her as playful and silly and witty but actually her behavior is annoying and fake. It's cute once or twice. They could have toned it down a little so that we could see some real interactions and conversations between her and the ML. All the 'cute' moments that the show wants us to believe have endeared the FL to the ML are surface level and fake. Thus, as a viewer I don't like our FL very much and her behavior gives me the ick. And then the story wants us to see her as being righteous because her lying is meant to be a kindness to ML??? No. Just no. I don't want to dislike the FL in a drama. So, FL lead not very well written. The acting actually isn't that great either. I didn't believe any of the emotional moments.
Within the first 21 episodes our main leads hardly spend much time together. I am here to watch them and see their relationship develop. But that's not what we are getting. So it just makes all the affection and connection that is expressed when they are together so unnatural. All the encounters and play has felt so fake.
I am more disappointed than when I watched the princess gambit. Sorry to cast and crew to have to say this. I do appreciate so much all your hard work. I will finish this drama. I hope it resolves some of these issues btu I doubt it. Ugh, this is just the worst ML FL relationship I have ever seen. On episode 28 and would rather be stabbed than finish this...but I've come this far.
I finished it. Thank goodness it's over. The only saving grace about this drama, the only thing I really liked is that they didn't write this so that the FL saves the ML in the end. Which is just so overdone. The two actually worked together when they had to fight the hardest and it wasn't just one person saving the other. I would have rated this drama lower if they hadn't done this.
Concerning the sets and scenes: it just feels like there are not very many and that they are really small. There doesn't seem to be a lot of money put into this aspect which is extremely necessary to make the world seem real and very big. They are relying too much on CGI.
The storyboarding causes scenes to feel harshly cut together and really makes the story as it is unfolding feel cut and paste, cut and paste.
Ming Yi solo scenes just feel so disconnected. Her dishonesty is obviously a plot point for climatic moments with the ML, but it just never stops. Then we aren't getting real connections, this is actually how toxic relationships begin.
I see people describe her as playful and silly and witty but actually her behavior is annoying and fake. It's cute once or twice. They could have toned it down a little so that we could see some real interactions and conversations between her and the ML. All the 'cute' moments that the show wants us to believe have endeared the FL to the ML are surface level and fake. Thus, as a viewer I don't like our FL very much and her behavior gives me the ick. And then the story wants us to see her as being righteous because her lying is meant to be a kindness to ML??? No. Just no. I don't want to dislike the FL in a drama. So, FL lead not very well written. The acting actually isn't that great either. I didn't believe any of the emotional moments.
Within the first 21 episodes our main leads hardly spend much time together. I am here to watch them and see their relationship develop. But that's not what we are getting. So it just makes all the affection and connection that is expressed when they are together so unnatural. All the encounters and play has felt so fake.
I am more disappointed than when I watched the princess gambit. Sorry to cast and crew to have to say this. I do appreciate so much all your hard work. I will finish this drama. I hope it resolves some of these issues btu I doubt it. Ugh, this is just the worst ML FL relationship I have ever seen. On episode 28 and would rather be stabbed than finish this...but I've come this far.
I finished it. Thank goodness it's over. The only saving grace about this drama, the only thing I really liked is that they didn't write this so that the FL saves the ML in the end. Which is just so overdone. The two actually worked together when they had to fight the hardest and it wasn't just one person saving the other. I would have rated this drama lower if they hadn't done this.
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