This drama is a slow burn, and they are dealing with trauma, which doesn’t just go away quickly. The pacing…
It is an overused troupe, I have seen over 8k titles as of yet. I know why she is the way she is.
Many dramas have portrayed such healing in much more engaging ways than this one.
But I love romance so I will stick around regardless. For me this is just a one night binge. At the end if it gives me good romance, I will cut it out and keep it in my archives. Otherwise I will watch a new drama tomorrow.
You should watch the Korean drama, My Mister, an incredible drama which shows healing in a different way but still one due to traumatic experiences which happen even throughout the drama. It has even more episodes than this drama and is truly a masterpiece. I though watched it for romance which never happened but I never regretted watching it. I even cried so many times watching it.
It is so torturous to watch this, I saw someone saying that even at 17th episode nothing happens, meaning over half the drama we tip toe around the obvious narrative of the girl's past mistakes out of social pressures and not taking other's feelings into consideration while making decisions.
An age old plot device, walked through by thousands of dramas.
Hopefully the end part is deserving of the rating this drama got because I certainly can't rate a drama so highly, that can't get its act together for half its duration. They are not even courting each other, there is nothing to watch at all.
But if it did, I will certainly butcher it to size for reviewing later.
the king pissed me off so badly, he could not handle a strong woman. She helped him raise up and at every chance…
It was very bad in that era. Essentially anything before the last 70 or so years life was hell compared to what we have now. More so during and before the world wars.
At the time this was the norm and you can see that the Queen perfectly portrays the realities. Even after losing her brothers she still stuck with the King. She did not want the mantle of achieving something. She was doing the duties she had herself chosen to adopt.
As you say strong woman, there were indeed many in the past but most of them found their places without being as visible or confrontational as the Queen here. The palace is a place of intrigue and vested interests. The king essentially does not hold all the power instead he uses people to achieve what he wants and people use him. Its a balance which only works where there is only one powerful person doing the king's job.
In such an environment it was understandable to be afraid of someone who he realizes is better than him. She could have remained in the shadows but not communicating with the King was her choosing, coming out in the court to make her points was also her choosing. She wanted to be that way, and thus, faced consequences for such actions.
In those times people had a very different standard for what's good and and what they wanted to achieve. Their definition of how a male and a female should interact and be responsible of was different. What happens in the drama only looks bad to us but it was the correct standard for the times.
And look those times got us to where we are nonetheless.
Quite a boring one this one. I till the end waited for the heroine to regain her memories and demeanor. Alas! It happened too late and I had lost all my interest by then.
Its a typical romcom. If they had not shown the FL in the form they did in the first few episodes, I might have enjoyed it but I couldn't get that image out of my mind and thus, didn't like the fluffy story that followed.
The only thing that I found unique or well relatively uncommon was the romance from the half-villain / childish demon side. Unexpectedly I wanted to see such happen in a drama and it was great watching it.
I liked it very much. The comments are exaggerated, the FL is indecisive but only for like 2-3 episodes, it is just a 12 episode series after all. Many Chinese dramas take the whole 9 yards of 40 episodes to get to a confession.
The FL & ML relation was cute but the FL did torture our poor teddy bear of a ML at many instances, even though he was completely and utterly dedicated to her. She really had a one track mind where herself is just so big that she ignores the elephant in the room. But it was understandable why was it so.
There were some cliches and familiar troupes like before climax breakup, a "bad" parent getting revealed as a loving and caring figure, completely innocent of crimes imposed by their child and the stale terminal illness troupe.
Still the ML being a literal pillow and support for the FL was great watching. Also the couple already being in love from the get go was a welcome scenario.
LSY looked refreshingly pretty in this one. She was able to suppress some of her usual antics and body language, showing she is growing in her acting abilities.
Its a good drama with romance in the air throughout. All 5 girls get their romance one after the other, as each culminates in a marriage. The main plot of the drama is after all for all of them to get a happy ending.
One unique recurring plot is the alliance of all the son in laws, hahaha. Well they are no more than a small army of happy henpecked husbands.
Though there are faults but at the end you won't really care about them. The romance just trumps everything.
The last scenes had my eyes wet with how happy the mother was with all her daughters happily married off.
I guess she might be aware of the hates shes getting for passionate kisses lol, plus wanting the kisses to be…
Yep, its marked "not interested" in my list, hahaha. Must be a comment which expressed frustration over no kisses or ending being open or tragic. My three linchpins.
The less than one percent such dramas I do come to like, all happen due to fate of me not seeing such a descriptive comment on their pages.
I guess she might be aware of the hates shes getting for passionate kisses lol, plus wanting the kisses to be…
I strongly suspect its the target rating of 13 that limited the kisses. If it had been 15 they would have more breadth to accommodate more passionate versions.
They didn't have much screen time but that didn't mean they were not supposed to follow the time of being together for so long.
It has been such a long long time, or perhaps the only time that I have experienced a fantasy drama with Bai Lu and so heavy a dose of romance. I was second guessing every other episode about how they will break up now or how he or she will die.
The second couple was awesome as well as the complex plot lines and twists that were presented. One did take me completely by surprise. That is saying something as I have seen more than 8k titles in my life.
I take the ending episodes and the literal bloodbath of all the significant characters as something of a trade off for the mains to have their happiness. Though I did find some losses very saddening.
Cons - The ML getting killed off / heavily injured, became an overused troupe. - The villain only scenes became boring around the run up to the climax. - The post climax part is very rushed, the fan serving extra is also too short. - Oddly Bai Lu was overly soft with the kiss scenes. She did not do them like a long time lover, most of them were like first kisses in a relationship. So much so I felt the pace and romantic intensity mismatching sometimes.
This drama is good, the problem is that the usual K-drama watchers are not the audience it is crafted for.
Nonetheless I enjoyed even though I tried hard to run it faster as people here said it feels too dragged out, but instead I got invested by the 4th episode.
Yes, its not a masterpiece, but it is good. -0.5 for an open ending, I hate open endings. 8.0/10
Aside from the last episode, it was a great drama without any flaws. The romance was great, mystery, thrill, you name it. One of the few dramas that made me tear up multiple times.
The last episode seemed more like the writer putting their wish listed ending, they could not put in any other story so they shoe horned it here. Imagine going from a modern day thriller in a city to an action movie in a jungle with rebels and kidnapped blindfolded damsel with the hero appearing in spec ops gear. All of this in half an episode... crazy!!!
It felt more like the writer was mocking whoever shortened the series to 12 episodes because obviously such a change in vibe, environment etc would needed a whole lot of foreshadowing and build up.
I can agree the main conflict dragged on, and it would have been nice to see more interactions/romantic moments…
Well she fell in love and married someone that was a villain essentially. Who fell in love with her very obsessively so much so that he killed to keep her from harm, her own beloved brother... later she gets to know his machinations and lands the final blow on him.
Many dramas have portrayed such healing in much more engaging ways than this one.
But I love romance so I will stick around regardless. For me this is just a one night binge. At the end if it gives me good romance, I will cut it out and keep it in my archives. Otherwise I will watch a new drama tomorrow.
You should watch the Korean drama, My Mister, an incredible drama which shows healing in a different way but still one due to traumatic experiences which happen even throughout the drama. It has even more episodes than this drama and is truly a masterpiece. I though watched it for romance which never happened but I never regretted watching it. I even cried so many times watching it.
An age old plot device, walked through by thousands of dramas.
Hopefully the end part is deserving of the rating this drama got because I certainly can't rate a drama so highly, that can't get its act together for half its duration. They are not even courting each other, there is nothing to watch at all.
But if it did, I will certainly butcher it to size for reviewing later.
At the time this was the norm and you can see that the Queen perfectly portrays the realities. Even after losing her brothers she still stuck with the King. She did not want the mantle of achieving something. She was doing the duties she had herself chosen to adopt.
As you say strong woman, there were indeed many in the past but most of them found their places without being as visible or confrontational as the Queen here. The palace is a place of intrigue and vested interests. The king essentially does not hold all the power instead he uses people to achieve what he wants and people use him. Its a balance which only works where there is only one powerful person doing the king's job.
In such an environment it was understandable to be afraid of someone who he realizes is better than him. She could have remained in the shadows but not communicating with the King was her choosing, coming out in the court to make her points was also her choosing. She wanted to be that way, and thus, faced consequences for such actions.
In those times people had a very different standard for what's good and and what they wanted to achieve. Their definition of how a male and a female should interact and be responsible of was different. What happens in the drama only looks bad to us but it was the correct standard for the times.
And look those times got us to where we are nonetheless.
Its a typical romcom. If they had not shown the FL in the form they did in the first few episodes, I might have enjoyed it but I couldn't get that image out of my mind and thus, didn't like the fluffy story that followed.
The only thing that I found unique or well relatively uncommon was the romance from the half-villain / childish demon side. Unexpectedly I wanted to see such happen in a drama and it was great watching it.
8/10.
The FL & ML relation was cute but the FL did torture our poor teddy bear of a ML at many instances, even though he was completely and utterly dedicated to her. She really had a one track mind where herself is just so big that she ignores the elephant in the room. But it was understandable why was it so.
There were some cliches and familiar troupes like before climax breakup, a "bad" parent getting revealed as a loving and caring figure, completely innocent of crimes imposed by their child and the stale terminal illness troupe.
Still the ML being a literal pillow and support for the FL was great watching. Also the couple already being in love from the get go was a welcome scenario.
LSY looked refreshingly pretty in this one. She was able to suppress some of her usual antics and body language, showing she is growing in her acting abilities.
9/10
One unique recurring plot is the alliance of all the son in laws, hahaha. Well they are no more than a small army of happy henpecked husbands.
Though there are faults but at the end you won't really care about them. The romance just trumps everything.
The last scenes had my eyes wet with how happy the mother was with all her daughters happily married off.
8.5/10
The less than one percent such dramas I do come to like, all happen due to fate of me not seeing such a descriptive comment on their pages.
Though no kiss, fish kiss, odd censored kiss, all equate to an immediate ignore/drop from me.
They didn't have much screen time but that didn't mean they were not supposed to follow the time of being together for so long.
The second couple was awesome as well as the complex plot lines and twists that were presented. One did take me completely by surprise. That is saying something as I have seen more than 8k titles in my life.
I take the ending episodes and the literal bloodbath of all the significant characters as something of a trade off for the mains to have their happiness. Though I did find some losses very saddening.
Cons
- The ML getting killed off / heavily injured, became an overused troupe.
- The villain only scenes became boring around the run up to the climax.
- The post climax part is very rushed, the fan serving extra is also too short.
- Oddly Bai Lu was overly soft with the kiss scenes. She did not do them like a long time lover, most of them were like first kisses in a relationship. So much so I felt the pace and romantic intensity mismatching sometimes.
9/10
It only works when the leads are together, unfortunately they are not together very much at all.
Nonetheless I enjoyed even though I tried hard to run it faster as people here said it feels too dragged out, but instead I got invested by the 4th episode.
Yes, its not a masterpiece, but it is good. -0.5 for an open ending, I hate open endings. 8.0/10
The last episode seemed more like the writer putting their wish listed ending, they could not put in any other story so they shoe horned it here. Imagine going from a modern day thriller in a city to an action movie in a jungle with rebels and kidnapped blindfolded damsel with the hero appearing in spec ops gear. All of this in half an episode... crazy!!!
It felt more like the writer was mocking whoever shortened the series to 12 episodes because obviously such a change in vibe, environment etc would needed a whole lot of foreshadowing and build up.
8.5/10