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A very gorgeous FAIL.
There is blame to be assigned for the various huge problems this drama has. I don't know how to assign that blame, so I won't even try this time.
I started this, and finished this for He Yu. And as far as his contribution to this drama, he did not disappoint! He looks so hottttt ---> as usual! He has never let me down. I love his vibe and his acting and his devastating mischievous stare.
Yes the 2ML and 2FL were utterly PHENOMENAL, and if the story had been about them - and written well - this drama would have been a total blockbuster.
Costumes are incredible. Production value is high. All these things, yes they were good, it's true. BUT....
Now that that's been said, it's time to rip this drama a new a**hole like it deserves.
1) Let's talk about the first thing you'll notice when you start this drama, which is that He Yu's voice isn't actually He Yu's voice. It's a dark, dramatic, and wholly DISTRACTING voice that's basically the voice actor trying to steal the show from He Yu. In fact is ANYBODY'S voice their real voice?
Maybe you can pull this sh*t with lesser known actors. But this is HE YU, we all know his voice. We're used to it by now. This is current year, you can't just bag out on the dubbing anymore, this isn't the 90's, this isn't some lo-budget-whatever.
So I had to watch the entire thing on MUTE to even stomach watching it at all. If I had to watch with sound on, I wouldn't have made it 5 minutes before dropping.
2) It's like it was written by a college educated child. The vocaublary is there, the comprehension is there, but despite this, the writing is SO CRINGE especially during confessions. I feel nothing I'm supposed to feel. I just feel cringe at the terrible dialogue. It's like... soulless, Hallmark-ey, explicit without any poetry or nuance, artless. Honestly it sounds like AI had a hand in it, but really idk.
3) Plot holes like swiss cheese, jerky strange ways of doing plot twists that are distinctly anticlimactic.
4) FL as written is insurmountably difficult to empathize with. In fact I don't empathize with her at all, even after completing the entirety of the drama. She's cold, doesn't have a past we understand and know, and is - frankly - an ingrate.
5) The FL as acted was-- yknow I want to like this actress. I really tried. But this is the last straw for me with her. She has no microexpression game. She pastes this wide-eyed look on her face, and it's weird lookin, it just is. Her emotions are not convincing. She refuses to do a proper kiss scene, she in fact straight up RUINS kiss scenes, and I was disappointed but not surprised that she ruined every kiss scene in this show, AS USUAL. She can't cry right, she can't look in love, she can't look surprised, she can't convey genuine warmth, fear, confusion, none of it. Will legit never watch anything she stars in again, there's nothing raw or vulnerable or real about her acting at all.
6) The story is BORING. There are very few actual moving parts to the plot, and many middle episodes are like "the city flooded and now the refugees need food", episodic and resolved quickly, not moving forward the main plot at all, but only diverting from it. Getting to the end was such a slog, I lost all true enthusiasm for this show by about the one third mark and everything after that was just me hoping against hope that it would redeem itself. Which it didn't.
Do not let it's pretty packaging fool you. This drama was very pretty yes... and it was soulless. The only people I'd recc this to are He Yu fans, who want to watch "literally everything he's ever been in". I don't see anyone else actually enjoying this extremely gorgeous piece of crap.
I started this, and finished this for He Yu. And as far as his contribution to this drama, he did not disappoint! He looks so hottttt ---> as usual! He has never let me down. I love his vibe and his acting and his devastating mischievous stare.
Yes the 2ML and 2FL were utterly PHENOMENAL, and if the story had been about them - and written well - this drama would have been a total blockbuster.
Costumes are incredible. Production value is high. All these things, yes they were good, it's true. BUT....
Now that that's been said, it's time to rip this drama a new a**hole like it deserves.
1) Let's talk about the first thing you'll notice when you start this drama, which is that He Yu's voice isn't actually He Yu's voice. It's a dark, dramatic, and wholly DISTRACTING voice that's basically the voice actor trying to steal the show from He Yu. In fact is ANYBODY'S voice their real voice?
Maybe you can pull this sh*t with lesser known actors. But this is HE YU, we all know his voice. We're used to it by now. This is current year, you can't just bag out on the dubbing anymore, this isn't the 90's, this isn't some lo-budget-whatever.
So I had to watch the entire thing on MUTE to even stomach watching it at all. If I had to watch with sound on, I wouldn't have made it 5 minutes before dropping.
2) It's like it was written by a college educated child. The vocaublary is there, the comprehension is there, but despite this, the writing is SO CRINGE especially during confessions. I feel nothing I'm supposed to feel. I just feel cringe at the terrible dialogue. It's like... soulless, Hallmark-ey, explicit without any poetry or nuance, artless. Honestly it sounds like AI had a hand in it, but really idk.
3) Plot holes like swiss cheese, jerky strange ways of doing plot twists that are distinctly anticlimactic.
4) FL as written is insurmountably difficult to empathize with. In fact I don't empathize with her at all, even after completing the entirety of the drama. She's cold, doesn't have a past we understand and know, and is - frankly - an ingrate.
5) The FL as acted was-- yknow I want to like this actress. I really tried. But this is the last straw for me with her. She has no microexpression game. She pastes this wide-eyed look on her face, and it's weird lookin, it just is. Her emotions are not convincing. She refuses to do a proper kiss scene, she in fact straight up RUINS kiss scenes, and I was disappointed but not surprised that she ruined every kiss scene in this show, AS USUAL. She can't cry right, she can't look in love, she can't look surprised, she can't convey genuine warmth, fear, confusion, none of it. Will legit never watch anything she stars in again, there's nothing raw or vulnerable or real about her acting at all.
6) The story is BORING. There are very few actual moving parts to the plot, and many middle episodes are like "the city flooded and now the refugees need food", episodic and resolved quickly, not moving forward the main plot at all, but only diverting from it. Getting to the end was such a slog, I lost all true enthusiasm for this show by about the one third mark and everything after that was just me hoping against hope that it would redeem itself. Which it didn't.
Do not let it's pretty packaging fool you. This drama was very pretty yes... and it was soulless. The only people I'd recc this to are He Yu fans, who want to watch "literally everything he's ever been in". I don't see anyone else actually enjoying this extremely gorgeous piece of crap.
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