BEST DRAMA OF THE YEAR
Honestly, no words needed.I love the ML for the versitale acting, FL for EVERY emotional scene. Chemistry between them - one of the best that I've seen.
Princess Agents and Eternal Love are my favs and I'm still missing them and watching them on repeat. This drama gave me a subtle vibe of both. Everything was thoughtful and done with the taste. Tempo was amazing, not too fast and not too slow, enough to catch attention.
This drama finally gave me the fresh air. I highly doubt that I'll watch something better this year(and I'm quite happy about it).
Love Cheng Li in this drama. I hope he'll take more projects like this.
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I CAN HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS DRAMA when you are bored with standard scenarios! :)
This is definitely not the best one that you can watch, but still worth your time. especially when you don't have anything else to watch.+ The story is unique. Every character has the reason to be who they are. No one is only on the right or bad side. This fact makes everything stick to the whole point of this drama - no one is born evil or good - we re making our own path, thanks to our words and actions.
+ It is really touching and funny. It is always subjective - you will like it or hate it.
+ I adore the simple ending. I personally think, that we are left with something unspoken and in the same time everything was said. Some people in reviews said, that they wish, that the ending was longer, but it will be to cheesy and unnecessary. During the drama, characters said lots of the things about their future together, and you can simply imagine what could happen, if the story was continued.
- Sometimes I couldn't stand the LMD. At the beginning everything was fine, he was helpful and funny, but later it became creepy.
- I felt that in some parts the story were too fast, and in some episodes it was going slow. Especially in the end, when she was having those dragon powers again. Where did it came from? Why she realised it so fast? Why did she died? I remember one hint about "good" power coming to her unexpectedly, but for me it wasn't enough. When the final battle is happening you should have those breathtaking moments, tears, empowerment, joy or sadness. I was feeling that this drama, has many emotional moments, so I understand that is really hard to make better and better scenes, but the beginning and ending should be the cheery on top. They should add something more unexpected.
In conclusion: Good drama. Good chemistry. Nice CGI. Amazing actors.
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The second part is WAY better
Love the acting, the effects, music - both parts were equal there.What made the difference was the tempo - there was no part that I tried to miss. During the first 22 episodes I was really trying not to drop. This was my first time when I endured for so long and it was worth the wait. My patience gave me the best emotional rollercoaster in this year so far.
I fell that I need to explain tho 9's that I've gave.
The one for the story - there were some plot holes that they've unfortunately missed. For example, there was this "miracle, magical, mystical" mushroom, that they've spent centuries to obtain and later they've just trow it somewhere. I do understand that they needed that mushroom to complete parts of the story for many characters, but when you put each and every episode together and see this part something fells off.
That was the plot that I remember, I hope they've made a soup with it at least (this was one of the parts that where watched in 1,5x times speed and it was still hard to watch).
Rewatch value - there're some dramas like Eternal Love, Princess Agents, Nirvana in Fire, that are moving, loving, splendid, full of emotional rollercoasters and you just can't help to watch it again, despite knowledge what will come. There should be option to put score of the 100 near these dramas.
With these three dramas above, you cannot know each and every detail, unless you watch them milion times. Even if you think that you know everything, you do not. There's this strange feeling that you want to watch them again and again. Unfortunately I didn't feel that emotion here.
I really love the effort in The Blue Whisperer and the actors that are one of my favourites, but I can't help to overcome my mixed emotions when watching first part. I still would love to see new projects of each and every person that created this drama. Maybe it's just boredom, because everything was settled at the end (love open endings), or because I'm a bit mad after watching lots of episodes and still having hope for a better ones, like the reviews said.
Anyway, it's worth watching, even with some small flaws.
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