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It didn't reach Hwansu
I feel cheated. I was promised a badass heroine and it wasn't delivered.
She started as a puppet, ordered around by dark powers that lied to her, and ended as a puppet. In the middle, we had to watch her be tamed and subservient.
In the end, we find out it wasn't her body that was too weak, after all. She never tried to retrieve her energy, she never trained her body or abilities. She accepted her it was her fate, somehow. She didn't even try to find out who that body belonged to, even if she knew it reacted weirdly when inside the sorceresses place and even knowing the soul she met inside was blind and she knew the sorceress who disappeared was also blind. She's so smart and yet can't figure that out or be curious about that? She was a secondary character used to advance the path of her 도련님. They tamed her, destroyed her story and even turned her into another plot device. She didn't even get the ice stone.
I would have preferred this story without the main romance. The lore is great and interesting, the characters are fun and funny, the production and special effects were great. I was expecting more. I didn't even mind the slow pace and the episodes where it didn't seem like anything happened. It was fun to watch, I just wished it made sense as a story of a couple and not as a story of one chosen one.
The main romance didn't make sense. They had so much time, yet they didn't develop the connection between the two. The whole time we see FL trying to get ML get killed with no second thought and then with a second thought. There wasn't a true connection between both of them. There was a more thoughtful and present connection with both the other love interests. It also baffles me that she had so many love interests. What's the point? Does she only exist if she's valuable in the eyes of men?
It seemed like a very misogynistic take. We started with a powerful woman, who was certainly bad but had her reasons and could be turned to the other side, and ended up with a trad wife, about to marry her young lord. Why is it that in a made up world that looks a lot like Joseon we get the traditional contemporary wedding experience?
Anyway, it was good but it was also disappointing. Let's see what part 2 brings.
She started as a puppet, ordered around by dark powers that lied to her, and ended as a puppet. In the middle, we had to watch her be tamed and subservient.
In the end, we find out it wasn't her body that was too weak, after all. She never tried to retrieve her energy, she never trained her body or abilities. She accepted her it was her fate, somehow. She didn't even try to find out who that body belonged to, even if she knew it reacted weirdly when inside the sorceresses place and even knowing the soul she met inside was blind and she knew the sorceress who disappeared was also blind. She's so smart and yet can't figure that out or be curious about that? She was a secondary character used to advance the path of her 도련님. They tamed her, destroyed her story and even turned her into another plot device. She didn't even get the ice stone.
I would have preferred this story without the main romance. The lore is great and interesting, the characters are fun and funny, the production and special effects were great. I was expecting more. I didn't even mind the slow pace and the episodes where it didn't seem like anything happened. It was fun to watch, I just wished it made sense as a story of a couple and not as a story of one chosen one.
The main romance didn't make sense. They had so much time, yet they didn't develop the connection between the two. The whole time we see FL trying to get ML get killed with no second thought and then with a second thought. There wasn't a true connection between both of them. There was a more thoughtful and present connection with both the other love interests. It also baffles me that she had so many love interests. What's the point? Does she only exist if she's valuable in the eyes of men?
It seemed like a very misogynistic take. We started with a powerful woman, who was certainly bad but had her reasons and could be turned to the other side, and ended up with a trad wife, about to marry her young lord. Why is it that in a made up world that looks a lot like Joseon we get the traditional contemporary wedding experience?
Anyway, it was good but it was also disappointing. Let's see what part 2 brings.
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