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Or at least strong, obvious hints that it's annoying that they (Fu Ling & Bai Shuo) have to be stupid to not realize. So at least a little progress on that thread. Kinda seems stupid that Bai Shuo was running alone through the woods at night without someone like Tian Huo or Cang Shan to protect her. And are they really going to drag Chong Zhao's sad sack pathetic self around the whole show? Twenty episodes in and we are still getting repeats of Chong Zhao showing up, looking sad and pathetic, trying to force his way into Bai Shuo's life, only to get rejected. Rinse. Repeat. His kind of character is just pure annoyance and a total plot drag because it just goes nowhere and we _know_ it will go nowhere. Please, writers. Let him grow up and move on. It makes for a better story when characters like his show actual real growth to maturity instead of staying stuck as lovesick 14 year olds.
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Not a bad episode, but the story feels like it really has gotten bogged down and is taking forever to get through this Fox Clan chapter. Lots of different plot threads needed to play out for this one and that took a lot of time.
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Bon Appetit, Your Majesty Episode 12
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The fact that all villains (even 'lesser' ones) got their just desserts is a plus. And it's nice to get a happy romantic ending. Still, the participation of Yeon and the cooks in the battle in the woods was a silly stretch and the final sequence felt a little off and contrived. It would have felt more consistent if the book had stayed with him after she vanished because it has to age through the centuries before it gets in her hands in the future. It also would have been perhaps interesting if he had held onto her and been sucked in along with her to the future. But this is quibbling.
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Bon Appetit, Your Majesty Episode 11
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as, in the penultimate episode, the bad guys win at almost every turn. And in brutal fashion. A little frustrated at how stupidly Yi Heon walks into the trap that was baited with Song Jae and then just falls to pieces emotionally. I guess it's just consistent with him being a very high-strung emotional character who is always just barely holding it together. But it's still frustrating to watch. The number of 'good' characters killed in this episode is brutal and depressing and we can only hope that somehow, someway, justice is served in the finale.
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I really dislike cheap drama plot trope tricks such as the 'caught-being-one-sided-hugged by the unrequited SML' crap. It's such a cheap contrived means to create 'jealousy drama' out of nothing. It's laziness on the part of the writers. Love triangles in general are just lazy crap inserted into romances by writers who can't think of better ways to add drama to a romance. I really hope the writers don't lean into this sort of crap too much. There is a lot going on in the plot already that they should focus the story around.
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So in the last episode, Qiangliu showed some signs of finally growing up into a normal, empathic human being ..and in this episode has reverted to this weird, clueless and emotionally disconnected jerk again? He's the most broken character in this drama full of broken characters. Halfway through the series and it's still hard to find him likable. On the other hand, to this point no one has yet to tell him that his grandparents tried to murder his ex-wife (or that his Grandpa murdered his father .. & possibly his mother) so he still cluelessly doesn't see them for the murderers that they are.
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As Fan Yue hides how hurt he is (from his exertions in the resentful illusion) from Bai Shu. Then, after that gets discovered he wakes up from being administered to with memory loss. Hope they don't drag this out. On the other hand, I like the way Bai Shu and Tian Huo work together instead of breaking down with misunderstandings. They are on the same side and both care about Fan Yue and if anything their bond quickly becomes stronger.
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The tragedy of the Rong Xian & Ling Long story is so typical of so many of these c-dramas where the key cause of so much evil is the stupid elders of the immortal / eternal clans.
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Like most all of the other Eternals, he's pretty annoying and pathetic and seems like a broken record because he keeps saying the same things that are at odds with reality and to no real effect. I really hope the show doesn't devote too much screen time to him moping around like a lovesick puppy and being pathetic. Please let him move on to his own arc - maybe make something interesting between him and her sister, Fu Ling?
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It's clearly a running joke in Xianxia dramas now that in most portrayals the supposedly enlightened 'immortal realm' is just a bunch of foolish, jealous, envious and petulant children with super-powers. They are often portrayed as more 'evil' in their actions (or inactions) than the demons they accuse of being evil. This show is no different as the Lanling Sect seems like just a pathetic gang of bullies and losers. Feng Yu is literally the only one who seems to have a lick of sense and she keeps getting shouted down. And their senior member, Jing Lei is basically a violent sociopath.
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I'm really enjoying how fast-paced-without-feeling-rushed this show has been. The story so far has not dragged on any annoying plot contrivances. My one negative about it would be I"m getting tired of how often Fan Yue keeps grabbing Bai Shu by the throat and threatening to kill her. That seems to be happening about twice each episode and is on one hand still kinda disgusting imagery and from a story perspective getting old and tired. Please stop doing that. It's the one thing that's negative in an otherwise great show. Please come up with a different way to express his anger issues.
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as some events - such as Yeo Jeoung's mom showing up on the roof top at just the right moment - felt a little contrived. But I guess we can give the nod for those to "heaven's" contribution. And obviously the switchover to pursuing Yeo Jeoung's revenge left things open ended. Still overall a good finish as pretty much all major plot threads were tied up neatly. The joy and excitement on Mrs. Kang's face as she put on the lipstick was pretty cool. I do wish we'd gotten some sort of reunion with her daughter, though. Even a phone call would have been awesome.
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Great balance of both exposition as well as an actual start to the story. Loved both the animation and the children segments - wonder if we'll get more of those in the future? The balance of comedy with the drama is also very good. Not too much and not forced and stupid. Just simple, light humor kept within the flow of the story. Bai Lu is immediately her usual wonderful self in a similar role to one she's played before but that's not a knock at all. I'm not a big fan of Ao Rui Peng but so far he seems well cast and I'll see how it plays out.
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Oh my god! When the Shaman said that to Yeon-Jin, that was so killer! And wow. Finally Kang Hyun Nam is free of that awful piece of crap husband! The emotional release from that must have been so intense.
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That was a pretty cold line to deliver byHDT to PYJ and another sign of the walls crumbling in on Park Yeon-Jin. Overall, another great episode, but I'm not really getting the necessity of the side story about Joo Yeo Jung and the murderer of his father. That plot feels kind of like a disconnected distraction that they added to pad out the series.
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