Another great drama I'm dropping not to waste my time and then get a stupid ending.
It just doesn't make sense to establish characters that are so strong they have had numerous situations they could have died but didn't and finally are killed by some random canon-fodders?... Can't get over it.
All these stupid tragic endings are as if the writers are saying to the audience "you don't deserve nice things".
I loved Park Shin Hye in this role, while looking cute and harmless, her acting showed - she was indeed a demon and not once was I taken out of the story. Her soul was of a demon and what she looked like didn't matter (as some people are saying she didn't 'look' the part of a demon). Acting of the whole cast was impeccable. Hope more dramas learn from this, FL's changes of character and emotions were well substantiated, action didn't falter and while the ending was left open (maybe for season 2, maybe just not to say what will happen) it can stand on its own and makes sense for the characters. And finally she didn't turn from a "demon setting" to a "generic girlfriend/wife/woman trope". GREAT SHOW!
bruh the outfits she wore were all sponsored..it was all free ur to dumb to understand that.
Also, show itself showed how her excessive spending left her to live in almost foreclosed apartment, while she is still a successful judge. Her overspending on clothes is her major vice and she even says the car is rented. So in this aspect the show is quite realistic - she is not "poor" (while wearing major brands) and not buying clothes/shoes worth thousands, while living in centre of New York and basically not making money.
The beginning when they are falling in love is interesting but the lie lasted too long (17 episodes - 1/3 of the…
Just finished. The acting of the whole cast was amazing, and the chemistry of the main couple was great to watch. Should have had more fight scenes of them together, the whole action happened in 3 episodes out of 40 so very disappointing - the beginning was strong and established an interesting start of the plot but can't help but say it was wasted. Never showed how FL expected making business with the Western regions to help her get revenge and didn't show her killing the adapted daughter of the Prince or him. She used to be a rebel "king" but in the end most of the drama was showing her as a homemaker and housewife - completely wasting her "settings". She herself said she is not the little bird in a cage her fake husband made her out to be and for this reason ran away from her 1st marriage... but in the end she became just that. So the conclusion is if as a woman you want something different that domestic life, etc. you have just not met the right man - super condescending. For the amount of times the ML says, 'one of the reasons he loves her is that she is Lu Wen who is his equal in both strategy (and martial arts?), this plot line is incredibly underutilized. Basically another drama showing men want accomplished/smart women whom they can make housewives and homemakers, instead of finding a woman who wants just that. The plot could have been 'a "normal" woman is attacked in the woods and the ML mistakes her for the enemy, and she cooks crab roe rice....', no need for her to be a rebel/statistician/assassin. Liked the drama overall if I don't delve into the destruction of the FL's character too much. Even the support FL Miss He got 'stronger', learning to fight for herself, etc. My good rating is basically for the banter and interactions of the main couple, the acting of main leads and other actors.
Loved the drama but some changes diminished the story: 1st, him teaching her archery was stupid! One of the moments in the novel that peak his interest is when she almost kills the Princess with someone else's arrow during the academy exam. And she plays a war song for the exam. The fact that she is also a warrior is almost completely removed, and he has to protect her excessively. He is cruel and decisive and what makes her interesting to him is she is the same, but without the power he has (his army, etc.), and her schemes still succeed (sometimes with his assistance), while in the drama she is much more "palatable as a woman". It is annoying when female characters are diminished so ML has to save them or whatever, the nature of affection is even if someone is equally/more powerful you would still want to protect/help/take care of them, so it was not necessary to make her less; especially when the reason in the story they are intrigued by each other is they are both "more".
watch the extra ep, the ML doesn't die, he lives happily with the FML, though his subordinates do die
The problem is not even the sad ending but that they die for nothing! His martial arts are beyond anybody else's, his army is unbeatable but in the last 4 minutes everyone dies???? The problem is that it is STUPID!
The trailer from Shadow Love look more interesting than this..beside the ML face can barely seen in trailer..…
Story is the struggle of the FL to survive, reclaim her military honours and get revenge on her family - she is the protagonist. ML is a main character but the story is from her point of view (as a narrator) I think (around 60% of the novel read and stopped reading it several months ago to wait for the drama, so don't remember exactly)...
The beginning when they are falling in love is interesting but the lie lasted too long (17 episodes - 1/3 of the show) - more interesting would have been, if she remembered earlier and they 'played' against each other; then they were apart for a needlessly long time - the story didn't show why it had to be that long, then she moved to his estate and became the generic daughter-in-law; so far haven't seen too many scenes of FL being a warrior/assassin/strategist, almost like this is her setting but is not utilised enough... Continuing to watch last 5 episodes, hope there is more action!
I don't know... (finished ep 12) but relationship of new Baise goddess and Zhu Yan seems more like a older brother/father so far, while the romantic relationships are with ZYC and Lu Lin? Well he is flirting with everyone. How old was she when he and the previous goddess were raising her???... And why do Chinese/Korean dramas go crazy on the chemistry and interactions between the men...? But love that WX despite being weak is not some wallflower - after all in that world the weaker one is the craftier and stronger mentally they have to be, and her being sassy back in the interactions - I love it - tired of female characters that are basically a child in an adult's body - creepy.
Y'all act like you don't know this director is full of controversy whether it's real or imaginary. If you drop…
Yes but to "make an informed choice" the 'controversy' should be explained/linked. "There is a controversy so I will not be watching" is not informing anyone of anything...
Amazing acting from the whole cast!!! Loved the drama - the action never stopped. Even the ending despite being ambiguous didn't feel unfinished even if this will be the only season. Only issue is the FL became too good - she was the only one who had to sacrifice (because she is 'bad' and have to prove she's good?) And how can she become a human by killing people - that seems completely in line with a demon but the "good" characters wouldn't be in line with it. Also, why did the original human judge end up in hell and where is she now? So could the ML also go to hell, after all wasn't she the only one who changed to be with him? Gets annoying when in Korean dramas no matter what kind of woman the FL lead is, including a 400-year old demon, by falling in love she becomes a generic-phantasy of a woman? Finally, something that came to mind in the retrospection of the last episode the lesson was supposed to be "killing is not the answer, better to be punished by the law" but especially in countries like Korea, stalking, domestic abuse, rape, etc. are not that heavily punished (as per my understanding) so if the perpetrator is dead, even if there is nothingness after death, no hell/heaven, at least they wouldn't come out of prison and abuse their victims again. Women are primarily killed by current/ex partners and other men they know so that 'theme' of the story come out as quite tone-deaf - the first victim would have been beaten to death by her boyfriend or driven by suicide as shown in the episode, the stalker said himself - "she is not dead YET"... I think the FL chose to start killing the sinners again - because she is indeed the best court and human law doesn't protect, especially women, enough; and not just to become human.
Again with the disappointing and weird ending! Was she there to make him a good person again (but he was pretending so even not that) and then just dies...? These stupid endings make Chinese dramas unwatchable - only the first batch of viewers will watch it...I don't get the obsession of "everyone has to die in the last 30 min/1-2episodes". I was waiting at ep 16 to finish airing but after seeing the discussions and watching the last episode, I cannot invest 20 more hours to invest in the characters just to get this!
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It just doesn't make sense to establish characters that are so strong they have had numerous situations they could have died but didn't and finally are killed by some random canon-fodders?... Can't get over it.
All these stupid tragic endings are as if the writers are saying to the audience "you don't deserve nice things".
Hope more dramas learn from this, FL's changes of character and emotions were well substantiated, action didn't falter and while the ending was left open (maybe for season 2, maybe just not to say what will happen) it can stand on its own and makes sense for the characters. And finally she didn't turn from a "demon setting" to a "generic girlfriend/wife/woman trope". GREAT SHOW!
Should have had more fight scenes of them together, the whole action happened in 3 episodes out of 40 so very disappointing - the beginning was strong and established an interesting start of the plot but can't help but say it was wasted. Never showed how FL expected making business with the Western regions to help her get revenge and didn't show her killing the adapted daughter of the Prince or him. She used to be a rebel "king" but in the end most of the drama was showing her as a homemaker and housewife - completely wasting her "settings". She herself said she is not the little bird in a cage her fake husband made her out to be and for this reason ran away from her 1st marriage... but in the end she became just that.
So the conclusion is if as a woman you want something different that domestic life, etc. you have just not met the right man - super condescending. For the amount of times the ML says, 'one of the reasons he loves her is that she is Lu Wen who is his equal in both strategy (and martial arts?), this plot line is incredibly underutilized. Basically another drama showing men want accomplished/smart women whom they can make housewives and homemakers, instead of finding a woman who wants just that. The plot could have been 'a "normal" woman is attacked in the woods and the ML mistakes her for the enemy, and she cooks crab roe rice....', no need for her to be a rebel/statistician/assassin.
Liked the drama overall if I don't delve into the destruction of the FL's character too much. Even the support FL Miss He got 'stronger', learning to fight for herself, etc.
My good rating is basically for the banter and interactions of the main couple, the acting of main leads and other actors.
He is cruel and decisive and what makes her interesting to him is she is the same, but without the power he has (his army, etc.), and her schemes still succeed (sometimes with his assistance), while in the drama she is much more "palatable as a woman".
It is annoying when female characters are diminished so ML has to save them or whatever, the nature of affection is even if someone is equally/more powerful you would still want to protect/help/take care of them, so it was not necessary to make her less; especially when the reason in the story they are intrigued by each other is they are both "more".
Continuing to watch last 5 episodes, hope there is more action!
How old was she when he and the previous goddess were raising her???... And why do Chinese/Korean dramas go crazy on the chemistry and interactions between the men...?
But love that WX despite being weak is not some wallflower - after all in that world the weaker one is the craftier and stronger mentally they have to be, and her being sassy back in the interactions - I love it - tired of female characters that are basically a child in an adult's body - creepy.
Loved the drama - the action never stopped. Even the ending despite being ambiguous didn't feel unfinished even if this will be the only season.
Only issue is the FL became too good - she was the only one who had to sacrifice (because she is 'bad' and have to prove she's good?) And how can she become a human by killing people - that seems completely in line with a demon but the "good" characters wouldn't be in line with it.
Also, why did the original human judge end up in hell and where is she now? So could the ML also go to hell, after all wasn't she the only one who changed to be with him?
Gets annoying when in Korean dramas no matter what kind of woman the FL lead is, including a 400-year old demon, by falling in love she becomes a generic-phantasy of a woman?
Finally, something that came to mind in the retrospection of the last episode the lesson was supposed to be "killing is not the answer, better to be punished by the law" but especially in countries like Korea, stalking, domestic abuse, rape, etc. are not that heavily punished (as per my understanding) so if the perpetrator is dead, even if there is nothingness after death, no hell/heaven, at least they wouldn't come out of prison and abuse their victims again. Women are primarily killed by current/ex partners and other men they know so that 'theme' of the story come out as quite tone-deaf - the first victim would have been beaten to death by her boyfriend or driven by suicide as shown in the episode, the stalker said himself - "she is not dead YET"...
I think the FL chose to start killing the sinners again - because she is indeed the best court and human law doesn't protect, especially women, enough; and not just to become human.
I was waiting at ep 16 to finish airing but after seeing the discussions and watching the last episode, I cannot invest 20 more hours to invest in the characters just to get this!