till the end of the misunderstandings
I’ll try to review without spoilers.It started really well. But after a few episodes I realized that the sense of moral of the writers is distorted. ML is immoral. FL is immoral. Why? They both do immoral things to each other and others(mostly ML, FL just do shitty things to him). But the writers makes it seems like not their fault at all, just the fault of more immoral characters or the poor circumstances, misunderstandings etc.
But here’s the thing: if a godly moral person misunderstands or have poor circumstances over something, they don’t do bad things, they don’t do vengeance or “make them pay” with whatever.
FL tends to forget her mission all the time mostly due to misunderstandings. And makes ML suffer, says stupid things to him, which is unnecessary, and makes the mission go back and forth A LOT. If she really cared and focused on mission their life would be so much better (until the very end when she’d finish it). She would at least try harder to be nice to him and ASK things directly instead of assuming or through hearsay.
ML even if misunderstood IS a killer, he IS bad. Doesn’t matter why he killed, he did and did it with cruelty. But as soon as the FL knows the truth she forgives him as if it’s ok to kill or make people suffer for this or that reason. It’s not.
But suddenly the writers makes ML a saint, simply misunderstood and a scapegoat. Makes most of the audience hate on FL for things she does for the mission. As if the mission should be aborted because ML is hot or something.
There was also a dream arc that was awful. Instead of 1 episode it dragged through 7-8. I did not skip completely due to chat saying it would be confusing if so. But I skipped a lot. And could get the plot afterwards so there it is, you can get away with a good amount of skipping. There was also a scene that I and most of the chat thought it was the bad girl impersonating FL because she does something very morally bad to ML and it was later seen in the show as romantic and glossed over. WTH. More reasons to see the writers as morally distorted. Anyway, the dream just added a bit of info to the plot and could’ve been way less time spent. Specially because neither of the characters learned anything from it really. The romance there was full of misunderstandings due to lack of communication, but once they woke up they proceeded with no communication, lying, omitting.
And yeah, what made me roll my eyes the most on these almost 20 years of watching Asian dramas was the amount of misunderstandings that made this show 40 episodes instead of 20. The draaaaag! Everytime something gave us a glimpse of hope for a good ending, it was crushed a million times. If you want to watch this for some sweet moments with a splash of angst, be warned: I think the screen time for good things for the main couple, heck even if I add the secondary couple on this, is ONE episode. ALL the rest is suffering through misunderstandings and cruelty towards each other. Add to that a sick obsession ML developed and suddenly disappeared when he became the oh so saint poor thing.
I dare say none of them loved each other, it was just a trauma bond and that’s it. It’s not something I’d like to watch to escape my day to day stresses. Heck it stressed me even more!
What I also didn’t like but it’s a genre/cultural issue is that heaven/devil folks are just gray. They are not purely good or evil(save for some ALMOST purely evil devils and the even more rare ALMOST purely good heavenly person). Just humans with superpowers and longevity/immortality, dressed in white or black. It is ridiculous.
The ending? Bitterweet. But after so much suffering the payment should be happiness through and through. Not some bittersweet shit. Sometimes I don’t mind bittersweet ok? But for THIS shitfest I do.
Real life can already have sad, bitter, bittersweet and happy endings, and we will never know. But I don’t want a shit ending on a tv show most of the times.
I’d give this 1 star but the actors and costumes were awesome! It’s not their fault the story is shit.
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multiple amnesia
This drama was great up until half of it. Then it started with the amnesia and it became ok. But after a few episodes, it was clear they have lost the plot, seemed they were just making things up as the go. Almost dying and sob fest multiple times. Finally… Death. Another amnesia. Another death. Perhaps another amnesia? They’ve left for the viewers to have a conclusion by the end. It was really tiring and frustrating, as I liked the main couple a lot. So since I liked only the first half, just half the stars for this.Was this review helpful to you?
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.
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