TTR - The Truth Review

This is a new story and you would be confused if you hadn’t watched the original at some points

This is a really strange one because I quite enjoyed go-go squid but this story is kind of baffling.

Firstly, it’s not a sequel. It’s not a continuation of the story. It’s not even the same story from a different perspective of Appledog and DT.

It’s a totally new story and though the players are mostly the same, it’s like we’re in a parallel universe from the original go-go squid.

Secondly,, this is all about combat robots. At least I understood what game they were playing because I still don’t have a clue what they were doing in the original..

Finally, they recast Appledog which was a terrible choice.

I don’t know what it is about this female lead, but I saw her in ‘warm on a cold night’ and she was completely outshone by the second female lead and I feel she was outshone by her sister in this and not to mention the stunning original Appledog from the first one. Such a shame they didn’t keep her and recast DT like they did for grunt, which elevated his role in my opinion.

I just don’t think she has main character energy.

Anyway, the story was quite boring and I didn’t feel the chemistry between the leads. It annoyed me that she joined team SP when DT set up the whole K&K team for her in the first place.

Anyway, easily forgettable.

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Consistently lie and deceive the person you love and it will all work out for you in the end

Stupid, ridiculous, petulant, stupid and naive stupid female lead.

The whole drama was a frustrating watch and seemed to go on and on even though there were only 24 episodes at just over 30 minutes each.

I won’t get into too much because it was a few years ago and I’ve only just watched it but it is absolute rubbish from beginning to end.

Best friend and assistant were very annoying. Evil secondary couple were just ridiculous and evil twin was just weird.

Even with eight minutes to go of the 24th episode she was still pushing our male lead away after he pathetically and like a loser turned up to apologise and beg for her to take him back even though she was the one who had been lying and deceiving him throughout the whole flipping drama.

TOTAL AND UTTER USELESS NONSENSE!

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Team Big Brother all the way

At the beginning, I thought this was going to be a strong 7 and then as it progressed it went down to a 2 but I’ll settle with a 4.5 because it wasn’t a complete disaster but it was problematic.

Firstly, I am team big brother. All this righteousness and moralistic viewpoint actually stopped anybody doing anything.

The villains can plot and scheme and try and murder, rape and do what they like with impunity. Because all they say is let bygones be bygones..

I have to talk about the young Masters boyfriend. He plotted and schemed and murdered innocent people and actually date raped his love, even deceived the old master to get married to her daughter and put her into a coma (which she died from, not his fault by the way) but they were all crying for him when he died. The music was all sentimental and were we supposed to feel sorry for him at this point?? because he was a despicable character.

Big brother was the only decent character who tried to right the wrongs of his past for his family being slaughtered where his brother, our male lead was serving the people who ordered his family‘s execution without any grievance whatsoever.

The ending was totally useless.

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Just about watchable

At the start, I thought this is going to be at least 4 1/2 out of 10 because even though the FL lead was annoying, immature and a spoilt brat she seemed to have a good heart and apologised when she was clearly overmatched. I like this kind of stoic male lead and he didn’t have to do too much but still had main character energy and presence.

I like the gay twin brother (even though he didn’t realise it yet) and the introduction of the gay doctor was quite amusing.

2ML started off decent but quickly became murderous and psychotic and was forgiven every single time which was annoying highlighted through episode 15 to 17 which brought the score down because the sequence of episodes were a complete mess. The crazy Mum the crazy uncle and our heroes just constantly gave them the benefit of the doubt every time they showed you who they were..

Even in the end by episode 20 when psychotic 2ml turned up, it was clear he had no good intentions yet they still entertained him.

And the worst for me was right at the end when everybody seemed to be taking evil uncles kill shots, fl was was standing next to 2ml, allowing him to embrace her and when he took evil uncles kill shot for her (his dad btw) and died, she looked like she was in mourning and was actually crying for him.

Blew my mind!

Music was atrocious and was not appropriate for the scenes in many instances.

20 episodes about 25mins each but if you’re like me, you’ll get through in half the time.

At least we got a happy ending

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It’s just Meh!

I’m giving this drama a two, which I know is quite a high score that’s because I have seen much worse but it is still really rubbish.

The story isn’t too bad and for the first 15 episodes the acting wasn’t terrible, even though the FL lead is a bit bratty and the ML lead is simping after her constantly..

I am confused at what message it is trying to say because ultimately the female lead stole the body of a prostitute. Yes, she was a prostitute who tried to kill herself because the one she loved wouldn’t marry her.

I’m surprised the Chinese drama would allow this morally questionable story to play out.

There are 24 episodes each less than 10 minutes long so if like me if you really push, you could get the whole series done in less than two hours.

After episode 16, it becomes a total mess and I don’t know if they run out of budget but the acting just got worse and make up on things like blood, we’re laughably woeful.

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There is no way real people would’ve scored this drama higher than a one

So the female lead is torn between the vampire villain and the righteous and caring Simp of a male lead.
She excuses every single murderous act the murdering villain vampire does. She is emotionally damaging the male lead at every opportunity, she’s immature, she shows no growth from beginning to end and the ambiguous ending appears as though she’s alone.
There is nothing good about her indecisiveness and the way she plays with the feelings of the men with no self reflection or realisation by the end. In fact, all she wants to do is blame the male lead and scream at him how much she hates him even though she’s responsible for most of the mess.. it is complete trash and a total waste of time

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I hate the female lead. Hate hate hate hate hate.

I hate the female lead. she’s spoilt, selfish, self absorbed and completely stupid. The male lead was a complete doormat, yes he was a little domineering but it was clear he was a decent fellow. The second male lead was abusive, a liar and manipulator and a total scumbag yet the female lead was with him for the majority of the show and she loved him.. so in the beginning she loved the male lead then for most of the drama she loved the second male lead and then by the end she loved the male lead again. The whole thing was a complete mess and ludacrous and I hated it from beginning to end. The only decent thing the ml did was leave her at the end and then she realised how much she actually loved him and told him like that was meant to be some cathartic emotional release for the audience when she’d been telling the second male lead how much she loved him throughout even though he was coercing and manipulating her. The whole thing was just total rubbish and I hated it.

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What was the point?

So this one episode was 24 minutes long and I wasn’t expecting much and it truly delivered on that.

We got a little bit of resolution from a couple of the couples and the other side characters who are all planning to do their best and work hard, et cetera, et cetera.

However…………

FL still hasn’t bothered to tell the ML that she’s got a job in her hometown and is utterly burying her head in the sand when he’s given her ample opportunity to tell him herself.

When she eventually does, we get this weird, poetic monologue from both of them that doesn’t make any sense and they’re standing at the top of the Lighthouse watching the sea as the credits role.

What a waste of time.

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Why is every female character ridiculously stupid in this show?

This is quite fluffy and has some nice moments, but the infuriating parts have left a bitter taste in my mouth.

Firstly, every single female character is a spoiled, childish, immature brat without a single brain cell between them.

This kind of show puts women back 50 years because if they can’t get their way they throw tantrums like spoil brats.

The female lead, though gorgeous and clearly a great actress was done so wrong.
None of the women in this show are strong or capable but whiny, pathetic and ridiculous.

I could go on for ages, but I’ll highlight one of the bigger things that’s wrong with this show.

1. FLs actress rival set her up to appear that she’s being bullied by female lead to ruin FLs career and gets a warning from ml doctor to stop messing with her.

2. FLs actress rival films female lead talking with her agent and decides to post it online to ruin fls career. Gets away with it for now.

3. FLs actress rival post private conversation she had with. 2ml to ruin FLs reputation and gets another warning.

4. FLs actress rival tries to humiliate female lead on set of a movie and gets fired. female lead then goes to comfort the same actress rival and all is forgiven.
Even the agent at this point has to ask why would she go and comfort somebody who’s been so despicable to her and asks if she’s just stupid or naive.

So……the moral of the story is do as many despicable and disgusting things to your rival as you can and as long as you give a half hearted apology all will be forgiven and you will have to take no accountability for your actions.

Just rubbish

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Really boring for most of it and a ridiculous ending

36 episodes at approximately 45 minutes each of a total bore fest.

Firstly, I was annoyed with the female lead for most of the show because she was whiny, very annoying and what made it worse was every time general Chilan appeared, she totally stole the scene and I couldn’t get it out of my head that she should’ve been our female lead.

I usually watch these shows in isolation but I had to look her up about 10 episodes in and realised she was a female lead in such shows as ‘skip a beat’ and although I gave it a poor review, I couldn’t deny the star power she brought in that show.

I didn’t like the forced skinship of our fl and ml because she had some weird cold disease. It was a lazy way to create chemistry between our male and female leads rather than an organically grown connection.

The young prince (2ml) following her around like a bad smell got very annoying, very quickly.

I really liked OG crown prince and he seems to have a lot of charisma and star power but was underused as much as general Chilan even though she appeared a lot more in the later episodes.

OG Crown Prince exit to move the plot forward felt flat and empty because he was a strong character and having long lost Qi bro being disguised as him for 10 years felt messy and nonsensical.

The story dragged on and had quite a lot of threads from the in fighting with the Qi people and the political intrigue within the Qian people. Problem is, by the end, none of these were resolved and were in fact, just totally ignored.

The main villain seemed to get away scot-free, which I actually didn’t mind because I didn’t really care about a happy ending for our leads to be honest.

Even the ridiculous ending where she was dead, but he used his Qi power to keep her alive was really flat and disappointing and rushed.

Bit of a shambles in the end. She had all his power and they lived happily ever fighting crime within the inspection bureau.

Easily forgettable.

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An incredible story that probably deserved a 10

I really really really really really like this show. The acting was fantastic. I enjoyed the music and the story was excellent. The female lead was interesting looking… I liked her… and she reminded me of Cate Blanchett. (If you know, you know). I really liked how she evolved from a timid and shy girl to quite a bold and confident and assertive character.

There were a few reasons why I couldn’t give this a 10 but this is a must watch and at 36 episodes and approximately 45 minutes each you will enjoy it.

The reasons I marked it down:

1. The time at the Reunion Inn seemed to go on and on and it was definitely a few episodes overkill. I enjoyed the story with the weird, psycho, puppet girl, but it did seem to drag on.

2. If I thought the reunion inn stuff dragged on then it wasn’t nearly as bad as the underworld city painting world. I get it was Groundhog Day but once you’d seen the same thing three or four times, I needed it to wrap up.

3. And probably the biggest crime was with the bullied girl Xinging who was not only beaten and abused by her husband but from the story, she was repeatedly raped by the local scumbag and they just seemed to brush the whole thing under the carpet like it wasn’t a big deal and it really left a bitter taste in my mouth.

4. I’m a romantic so though the ending was good I was still disappointed for the tragic duo.

Overall, it was really excellent, and I will remember it for a long time and I probably would’ve marked it higher if there was, let’s say…. 30 episodes.

It was a shame we didn’t see more of commissioner Sima because I really liked her character being so strong confident and powerful but I didn’t really like the fact that she kept on chasing the chief constable because she was much better than him even though he was a decent bloke.

The other side characters we’re all really interesting and I enjoyed their parts as much as our leads.

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A complete disaster from beginning to end

There were 24 episodes at approximately 25 minutes each of this complete and utter mess.

We started with this ridiculous quirky comedy and it ended up being this dark, malevolent fight between good versus evil. Romantic comedy it ain’t.

What the hell happened to the casting here because our female lead looked about 15 and if you would’ve told me she was younger I wouldn’t have argued with you. The old man (our male lead) could’ve easily passed for 30. it was a weird dynamic to say the least.

For the first 15 episodes we had to endure the most annoying, childlike, stupid, immature, self absorbed and totally useless female lead.

She went against our male lead at every opportunity and I was shouting at the TV for him to tell her to get lost. (I wasn’t using the words get lost by the way)
She entertained 2ml all the time and the moment another woman even blinked at our male lead. She was throwing a tantrum.
By the time she found some growth and realised her feelings I checked out.
From episode 16 onwards she almost became a bit part character and barely said two words. It was very strange.

Then the story had its dark phase and I thought it was picking up until at the end they decided to let all the villains go even though they killed both of our male and female leads parents and had plotted and schemed to undermine the martial arts world for 13 years.

They just let them go, Scott free.

By the way, what was going on with matey boys teeth in episode 21? I must’ve missed something because he was clearly from the gold teeth sect. That can’t be right because his daughter, our female lead didn’t have gold teeth… Yeah… Weird!

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This is definitely not a romance

I can’t work out whether this is really good or not. So I gave it a 4.5.

The main reason for this is because our hero Li Wu lies all the time and though they play up to this, it really doesn’t serve the story that well. Both our male leads get stabbed, beaten and tortured way too much for any payoff to be really meaningful and you don’t get a clear understanding of why they’re doing what they’re doing.

I get it is based on historical events where no one is wholly righteous and the complicated political intrigued becomes nonsensical to the point of boring at points.

My favourite character is definitely Shu Tang (female lead of sorts) but we just don’t see enough of her.

The sisters redemption Arc is a bit weird because we don’t spend enough time understanding her relationships to care about her.

The Bromance is strong at the end, but I don’t see any reason why they don’t hate each other.

It’s not total rubbish, but I feel no satisfaction with any of it.

This will be easily forgotten.

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The way the female lead is written is ridiculous

So I understand the script is a complete disaster and I also understand why the female lead was written as she was.

However you’ve made her a pilot and yes, she’s immature but why make her so childish, reckless, impulsive and annoying.

I am not rooting for her, and I hope she gets fired. I will eventually get through it, but I have a feeling it’s gonna take me a long time..

I got she’s talented, but her attitude and temperament stinks and I hate that she’s being constantly protected where she shows absolutely no gratitude or understanding for what is happening in her own selfish and absorbed existence.

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Sister is a nightmare and female lead is annoying, but I actually really enjoyed it

I’ve given this a 7, but it should’ve been much higher because it was actually a really good show from beginning to end. 30 episode approximately 45 minutes each.

The male lead really carries the show and I’m sure he is a very popular actor.

The things that annoyed me were the spoilt and entitled female lead who the minute somebody said something about our male lead she immediately switched up on him and doubted him. I didn’t mind this in the beginning because she didn’t know him but halfway through the drama when the chancellor was filling her head with rubbish about the prince she once again doubted him and for me, she surely should’ve known his intentions by now to trust him.

The other annoying trait she had was immediately becoming spoilt and entitled. The moment he spoke to another woman when it seemed to be fine for her to be receiving the attention of several different men without any accountability.

The sister was too much and the fact that she was a willing accomplice in trying to get her sister RAPED made it ridiculous that they kept forgiving her and gave her this weird redemption arc after all of the demented schemes that she did.

Anyway, the story was excellent. The acting was really good. I even enjoyed the side characters and their couples,, including her annoying cousin.

There were a couple of unnecessary time jumps throughout the show, which really didn’t add anything.

The villains were good and we didn’t labour too much on our heroes having their necks stood on for the entirety of the drama. They had some successes and the demise of all the villains was generally satisfying and a good payoff.

I enjoyed the ending because the last episode was completely devoted to happy times after all the villains have been defeated so it wrapped up the drama quite beautifully I think.

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