Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 36
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Great finale! Love that the final battle was both tangible and intangible. The scale was dramatic and also romantic. Beautiful visuals, especially in Dongfang Qingcang's Heart Sea. Kudos to the two leads, Esther and Dylan, for really great performances throughout this series. The two of them really carried this story with each taking the lead at different moments and always having great chemistry.I'm glad they stopped spending so much screen time trying to make Ronghao a sympathetic character in the finale. They had wasted so much time on him in recent episodes and it just didn't work. He was despicable all the way through and I felt not single tear of sympathy for the creep so all the flute playing and sad memorial flashbacks just felt contrived and manipulative without succeeding. And boy did that slow down those episodes. Thankfully, they left that behind for the finale.I was a little disappointed that the SML, Changheng, started to backtrack on his character growth in the middle of the battle, but he seemed to have recouped in the denouement. They left it hanging whether he will truly grow past where he's been stuck but it was at least looking promising.Most of the other side characters seemed to move toward positive directions that made sense.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 35
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A slow-moving episode that finished strong. This episode spent way too much time on Ronghao's story and moved at a glacial pace for much of it. But the last 3rd of the episode made up for it with some actual useful plot reveals and of course, very moving performances by the two leads.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 33
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Not the best episode. While obviously important things happened in this episode, it really felt like it was dragging out. And it was frustrating to watch the writers make Dongfang Qingcang act so foolishly stupid all of a sudden. He's emotionally immature, but he's never been stupid and should have figured things out much faster. That whole stretch felt like plot-contrived-stupidity. Which seems to have been a trope used far too much already in this series. I did like the growth in the relationship between Danyin and Jie Li. Danyin continues to be one of the best characters in this drama. She's suffered sadness and unrequited love for so long but has remained strong and not selfishly obsessed.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 29
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Mostly a good episode, though it ends heading towards bad times ahead.I don't like how the writers keep relying on characters suddenly acting incredibly stupid in order to make plot advancements. This has happened a lot in this series and in this one, Changheng is a particularly egregious example. Failing to challenge the false testimony of Ronghao and then the whole course of his subsequent conversation with the latter make him look like an absolute moron.Is anyone in the Fairy Realm NOT a totally awful person? Maybe Danyin? The rest seem like total evil scumbags.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 28
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Orchid / Xiao Lanhua just owned this episode. Some fantastic monologues and bravery to show she deserves what she wants most in the world.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 21
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The episode description is misleading. Orchid/Xiao Lanhua does not disrupt the Lantern Festival meetup between Xiao Run and Xie Wanqing. Xiao Run ran right past her place all on his own with the gambling house goons chasing him and that had nothing to do with Orchid.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 18
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Reached probably a near term high point. This episode took Dongfeng Qian Cing most of the rest of the way in his emotional redemption arc and ended in a very good place. Xiao Lan Hua also showed tremendous growth in character as she helps him take every step. The whole episode is very emotional and both actors deliver compelling performances.I fully expect the next few episodes to carry us dramatically away from this blissful point as the main characters still have many challenges to face.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 16
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Another episode with real growth in both main characters.Already more than tired of the "Jie Li" character though. Totally could do without her getting anymore screen time. Just an annoying character.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 15
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Real, actual character growth on the part of both leads in this episode made it one of the best yet. It also started to reveal to the FL & ML more about who their true enemy is.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 14
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Annoying how stupid they had to make Shangque seem in this episode and how everyone overlooks how obviously Jie Li is a spy. This show usually has avoided cheap plot contrivances but this episode was a let down in that respect.On the positive side, the plot does advance in small ways. Orchid learns that Dongfang Qing Cian had his emotional roots ripped away and why, but she also knows from having seen his Heart Tree that it is not without life. That she can repair it. And she becomes interested in doing so.
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Love between Fairy and Devil Episode 4
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The comedic chemistry is really good between the two leads.There are stretches of this episode that feel like a Saturday Night Live sketch, including a moment when you can see Dylan barely able to avoid breaking character as Esther delivers a sequence of funny moments.This series started off a little awkward for folks who were looking for something more traditional in a period fantasy c-drama and from the comments and reviews, Esther's deliberate choice on how to portray the FL definitely took some folks aback. But as the story progresses, it is all starting to make sense and is setting up both the humor and the romantic potential between the main leads.
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They need to wrap up some of the side plots that have just stalled. Feels like filler time stretching out the series.
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This series is losing points with me because of how stupid they are suddenly writing the female lead.
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A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College Episode 18
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Zhou When Yuan, upon receiving his graduation honors, literally and verbally announces in front of everyone that he is willing to do evil in order to get what he wants?What a loser creep he is. But shouldn't his words have sent alarm bells in the heads of everyone at the ceremony? Or do we assume they were said so softly that only the Vice Principal could hear him?Smart enough to be the 'top scholar', but not smart enough to know he can't really ever get what he wants?.
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A Female Student Arrives at the Imperial College Episode 5
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Yan Yun Zhi finally started acting like a decent human in Episode 4 (though he still continued to have his jerk moments) just in time for Zhou Wen Yuan to evolve from simply nice guy standing in unrequited 'friend zone' territory into suddenly being a malicious manipulator of people. What was the rumor snippet in Ep 4 about him coveting Sang Qi's father's position? If true, then he is suddenly a prime suspect to have been involved with the assassination of Sang Yu.Most of the male characters in this series have been pretty awful people. It was nice for Sang Qi to finally get at least some straight answers about her brother's life at the college.
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