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Hope Falters
The premise is admirable, but the plot fails it.
What started as something intriguing and engaging seemed to undercut by the bad pacing of the plot and the lack of any real sense of competition, leaving the antagonist/villain First Vice-Premier with nobody even close to his level to compete against. These types of royal court dramas are always best when we can see someone match wits. 100 Days My Prince offers a buffet of incompetence by each mainline character. The Crown Prince suffers from a prolonged memory crisis and zero sense of danger; Hong Sim basically has to be beat over the head and told that the man she marries is the Crown Prince; Jung Jae Yun as the capital bureau suffers from face blindness so remembers people from their idiosyncrasies yet repeatedly stands right in front of the Crown Prince without identifying him. The King is a feeble and inept person who was a puppet well before he became King. The Queen? Sadly, she couldn't hide her emotions if it killed her. Just a mess of character development.
We were told the Crown Princess was pregnant without any backstory or buildup. This all left me with a central question as the viewer: Why should I care about any of them? To not have an answer to that two-thirds of the way through is a travesty.
What started as something intriguing and engaging seemed to undercut by the bad pacing of the plot and the lack of any real sense of competition, leaving the antagonist/villain First Vice-Premier with nobody even close to his level to compete against. These types of royal court dramas are always best when we can see someone match wits. 100 Days My Prince offers a buffet of incompetence by each mainline character. The Crown Prince suffers from a prolonged memory crisis and zero sense of danger; Hong Sim basically has to be beat over the head and told that the man she marries is the Crown Prince; Jung Jae Yun as the capital bureau suffers from face blindness so remembers people from their idiosyncrasies yet repeatedly stands right in front of the Crown Prince without identifying him. The King is a feeble and inept person who was a puppet well before he became King. The Queen? Sadly, she couldn't hide her emotions if it killed her. Just a mess of character development.
We were told the Crown Princess was pregnant without any backstory or buildup. This all left me with a central question as the viewer: Why should I care about any of them? To not have an answer to that two-thirds of the way through is a travesty.
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