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Losing throne, fading charm
Usual disclaimer, i'm not rewatcher type so my rewatch score tend to be low.
Imma say it out at front, Kdrama should stop being greedy with tropes and tags if they're going to do 12 episodes max. It's bound to have disaster plot.
Initially, i didn't know what was i expecting when i came for this drama, until they put abolish the monarchy on my plate. Dang, i could handle any shortcoming until they brought it up. It was the breaking point for me. Modern monarchy was the appeal for me in this drama, i didn't really care whether it's romcom, melo, political or whatsoever. I mean, who are they trying to fool claimed a romcom while delivering that dark tone poster? It was obvious the romcom won't romcom-ing, at least by my standard. Another thing, personally, for fake marriage and/or marriage of convenience trope, the marriage needs to happen as early as possible because the longer it drags, it sorta lost the meaning of "fake" since the couple already catching feeling. It safe to say when they hadn't get married by the first half i was like nah, not credible, no more.
At some point, i realize everything about this drama isn't enough. Not romcom enough, not political enough. The villains are half-baked, even our leads aren't OP enough. Totally script issue. I'm not against political aspect since it's bound to happen with constitutional monarchy and 2nd ML is literally PM. Surely he's not there only for romance rivalry, right? Oh, he did. I know anyone can go to the dark side for love but damn our PM was too hot for that. Forgive me but he was annoyingly handsome in all black after fully embraced his dark side. Idk, i found it shallow to write his character like that. Lord Inpyeong ending as villain also just soso. The downfall isn't enough. However, i love Yirang ending coz her greatest punishment was her son fully aware of her deeds. That's a hard slap to a mother.
Our leads, hmm, i actually understand from Ian's POV why he should abolish the monarchy, but from viewer POV. Me, myself, and I POV, I'm against it. Although it would cost us Huiju's career as businesswoman but damn we don't even get the glimpse of her working as queen??? CRIME!! What do i expect from half an episode reign? Huh.
Another disappointment is cinematography or just the whole directing thing. There were some scenes that made me like, huh? Fr?
I think at the end, acting are the only thing i like. It's not the best but certainly not as bad as what people say at the beginning. I don't find the comedy aspect as awkward acting. They have done their best with what was given, with that script and that directing, yup, exactly. It was obvious they rely a lot on our leads popularity. I'll say, our actors and actresses hard carry the drama.
Imma say it out at front, Kdrama should stop being greedy with tropes and tags if they're going to do 12 episodes max. It's bound to have disaster plot.
Initially, i didn't know what was i expecting when i came for this drama, until they put abolish the monarchy on my plate. Dang, i could handle any shortcoming until they brought it up. It was the breaking point for me. Modern monarchy was the appeal for me in this drama, i didn't really care whether it's romcom, melo, political or whatsoever. I mean, who are they trying to fool claimed a romcom while delivering that dark tone poster? It was obvious the romcom won't romcom-ing, at least by my standard. Another thing, personally, for fake marriage and/or marriage of convenience trope, the marriage needs to happen as early as possible because the longer it drags, it sorta lost the meaning of "fake" since the couple already catching feeling. It safe to say when they hadn't get married by the first half i was like nah, not credible, no more.
At some point, i realize everything about this drama isn't enough. Not romcom enough, not political enough. The villains are half-baked, even our leads aren't OP enough. Totally script issue. I'm not against political aspect since it's bound to happen with constitutional monarchy and 2nd ML is literally PM. Surely he's not there only for romance rivalry, right? Oh, he did. I know anyone can go to the dark side for love but damn our PM was too hot for that. Forgive me but he was annoyingly handsome in all black after fully embraced his dark side. Idk, i found it shallow to write his character like that. Lord Inpyeong ending as villain also just soso. The downfall isn't enough. However, i love Yirang ending coz her greatest punishment was her son fully aware of her deeds. That's a hard slap to a mother.
Our leads, hmm, i actually understand from Ian's POV why he should abolish the monarchy, but from viewer POV. Me, myself, and I POV, I'm against it. Although it would cost us Huiju's career as businesswoman but damn we don't even get the glimpse of her working as queen??? CRIME!! What do i expect from half an episode reign? Huh.
Another disappointment is cinematography or just the whole directing thing. There were some scenes that made me like, huh? Fr?
I think at the end, acting are the only thing i like. It's not the best but certainly not as bad as what people say at the beginning. I don't find the comedy aspect as awkward acting. They have done their best with what was given, with that script and that directing, yup, exactly. It was obvious they rely a lot on our leads popularity. I'll say, our actors and actresses hard carry the drama.
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