FL is an acquired taste
So, I’ve loved the premise. A parody with characters that are controlled to do stuff according to a shitty script? Seems fun!
It started off ok… but I dropped it around ep 4 because I hated ML. I decided to come back just after I’ve watched the worst drama ever, so in my mind I had nothing else to lose.
I began enjoying it, but FL here is difficult… I get her motives(surviving the awful iconic moments that HAD to happen), but they don’t make up for cruelty. She was CRUEL multiple times. It’s ok if you hate someone, it’s ok if you don’t want anything with them. It’s not ok to be deliberately hurtful and cruel, like poke and kick a dying dog.
Even when ML changed she was extremely stupid and unnecessarily cruel. She started getting on my nerves for real around episode 23-25. It was very difficult to watch up until she finally stops harassing him on 31(or was it 32). And it was sudden, and not emotional at all. You know those beautiful slow burn dramas where the character makes a heartfelt apology and say they love etc?? Nope. Nothing. She just accepts him and that’s it. Before that I wonder why he kept coming back to her like a wounded dog, and it made me annoyed with him also. At least he wasn’t suffering due to her anymore. Again, I’m not saying she should’ve accepted he was great and love him or whatever, cuz I get her reasons of not wanting to be with him. My issue with her is the cruelty, the way she made him suffer even more, everytime he tried getting closer to her.
ML was too much of a martyr for my taste. He accepted everything without explaining himself, no defenses, nothing. Max he’d say was “trust me!” and nothing more. Sure, sometimes his actions would speak louder (should, but FL as I’ve mentioned was difficult to say the least, always misunderstanding and wanting to hurt him until he bled), but even so it was very hard for me to watch him do nothing. He reminded me of Audrey(the girl not the plant) from Little Shop of Horrors with her “yes doctor, sorry doctor!!” personality. Sure he was probably broken due to his difficult childhood. But something still felt off about it, specially with FL that did nothing to make him like her (quite the contrary) and he’d still go after her to beg attention.
All the other characters grew on me really fast (except the Emperor and 2ML). Love ML brother, he was super sweet. FL sister was great too.
Side romances didn’t catch me but it’s a me problem as I never care much about them. Alas, I had a difficult time trying to care about the main romance on this one!
BG music here is awesome! Every moment had music that fit it really well.
Costumes were beautiful too!
All in all, if the developments of the characters were more linear, instead of mostly sudden (apart from ML and 2ML), and if FL wasn’t such a villainess for the most part, I’d have enjoyed this a lot more.
Final episode was a fun one, but the ending was disappointing. I’ve watched the scene post credit, and it was just ok. I probably won’t rewatch but I don’t quite regret watching this.
It started off ok… but I dropped it around ep 4 because I hated ML. I decided to come back just after I’ve watched the worst drama ever, so in my mind I had nothing else to lose.
I began enjoying it, but FL here is difficult… I get her motives(surviving the awful iconic moments that HAD to happen), but they don’t make up for cruelty. She was CRUEL multiple times. It’s ok if you hate someone, it’s ok if you don’t want anything with them. It’s not ok to be deliberately hurtful and cruel, like poke and kick a dying dog.
Even when ML changed she was extremely stupid and unnecessarily cruel. She started getting on my nerves for real around episode 23-25. It was very difficult to watch up until she finally stops harassing him on 31(or was it 32). And it was sudden, and not emotional at all. You know those beautiful slow burn dramas where the character makes a heartfelt apology and say they love etc?? Nope. Nothing. She just accepts him and that’s it. Before that I wonder why he kept coming back to her like a wounded dog, and it made me annoyed with him also. At least he wasn’t suffering due to her anymore. Again, I’m not saying she should’ve accepted he was great and love him or whatever, cuz I get her reasons of not wanting to be with him. My issue with her is the cruelty, the way she made him suffer even more, everytime he tried getting closer to her.
ML was too much of a martyr for my taste. He accepted everything without explaining himself, no defenses, nothing. Max he’d say was “trust me!” and nothing more. Sure, sometimes his actions would speak louder (should, but FL as I’ve mentioned was difficult to say the least, always misunderstanding and wanting to hurt him until he bled), but even so it was very hard for me to watch him do nothing. He reminded me of Audrey(the girl not the plant) from Little Shop of Horrors with her “yes doctor, sorry doctor!!” personality. Sure he was probably broken due to his difficult childhood. But something still felt off about it, specially with FL that did nothing to make him like her (quite the contrary) and he’d still go after her to beg attention.
All the other characters grew on me really fast (except the Emperor and 2ML). Love ML brother, he was super sweet. FL sister was great too.
Side romances didn’t catch me but it’s a me problem as I never care much about them. Alas, I had a difficult time trying to care about the main romance on this one!
BG music here is awesome! Every moment had music that fit it really well.
Costumes were beautiful too!
All in all, if the developments of the characters were more linear, instead of mostly sudden (apart from ML and 2ML), and if FL wasn’t such a villainess for the most part, I’d have enjoyed this a lot more.
Final episode was a fun one, but the ending was disappointing. I’ve watched the scene post credit, and it was just ok. I probably won’t rewatch but I don’t quite regret watching this.
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