Oh my god, this show moves like a snail
I think I'm going to drop it here because I'm so bored and according to the reviews here it's only going to get worse? Which, I don't even understand how cause as it is, nothing is happening. Everything resets anytime theres any development. Like they throw up a villain of the week, who says something mean about the main character in the market, and then the main character snaps back and then everyone clapped. And the same villain comes back two episodes later to do the exact same shit, to the exact same result. I thought the show had a lot of promise in the first few episodes but it's getting to the point of being a bit of a hate watch. I feel like the show kind of insults your intelligence, by constantly pretending things are in motion when its just the same conflicts on repeat, never going anywhere.
And that's not even the most egregious issue. The literal premise of the show, what they put in the description to get people to watch it, you know, they fall in love and she follows him to war. I read and I thought, hey that sounds interesting. Do you wanna know when the literal *premise* of the story takes hold? When we get to them doing what it said they would do literally on the cover. Here, I'll give you a hint, it hasn't happened yet. I'm 10 hours into this show, and they haven't even delivered the premise. This would be like if harry potter arrived at Hogwarts for the first time in the fourth book. It's absolutely ridiculous. Reading ahead in the episode descriptions, I think its supposed to happen in the 17th episode, but just think about that. That's like halfway through the show when they fulfill the most basic of promises they made. I cannot. How is this show so highly rated?
Oh the other thing, not nearly as important, but the soundtrack in this show is straight cheeks, its so bad. I've always found it a little corny when c-dramas start playing very loud c-pop during their dramatic scenes, but normally the songs are pretty good. Here there's only one song and it plays like every episode and its not good.
As for why I gave this a four (not a one), the cinematography is probably the nicest I've ever seen for a c-drama, the lighting for once doesn't look like it was shot in a doctors office. This is also the first C-drama where the wigs look genuinely good. I think the actors do a pretty good job, and the chemistry between the leads is legit. But that really can't fix the fact that this show is paced like a car with a flat tire on a road that's actually just a circle.
And that's not even the most egregious issue. The literal premise of the show, what they put in the description to get people to watch it, you know, they fall in love and she follows him to war. I read and I thought, hey that sounds interesting. Do you wanna know when the literal *premise* of the story takes hold? When we get to them doing what it said they would do literally on the cover. Here, I'll give you a hint, it hasn't happened yet. I'm 10 hours into this show, and they haven't even delivered the premise. This would be like if harry potter arrived at Hogwarts for the first time in the fourth book. It's absolutely ridiculous. Reading ahead in the episode descriptions, I think its supposed to happen in the 17th episode, but just think about that. That's like halfway through the show when they fulfill the most basic of promises they made. I cannot. How is this show so highly rated?
Oh the other thing, not nearly as important, but the soundtrack in this show is straight cheeks, its so bad. I've always found it a little corny when c-dramas start playing very loud c-pop during their dramatic scenes, but normally the songs are pretty good. Here there's only one song and it plays like every episode and its not good.
As for why I gave this a four (not a one), the cinematography is probably the nicest I've ever seen for a c-drama, the lighting for once doesn't look like it was shot in a doctors office. This is also the first C-drama where the wigs look genuinely good. I think the actors do a pretty good job, and the chemistry between the leads is legit. But that really can't fix the fact that this show is paced like a car with a flat tire on a road that's actually just a circle.
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