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.
It was an ok experience for me, The story was engaging but not addicting. At the end I just wanted to know how it ends and the climax wasn't like a climax at all as there was no build up and it ended quite fast as well.
Romance was satisfactory, more or less I didn't find the FL very attractive which well bogged down the whole experience.
The romance is the only saving grace of this drama, otherwise it is just too unrealistic especially how it loses its way towards the end.
The writer could have continued the implausible troupe of woman empowerment in the medieval era but they had to push it so much that even immersion gets sacrificed. The beaten troupe of only the FL family featuring strong women among literally no one in their city. No suppression or adversity resulting in many deaths, is already accepting being yet another wish fulfilment fantasy.
All that is forgivable, but not FL made dumb or the King spineless, to progress the plot.
Essentially its impossible that she would behave in such a way towards the king when she has such business acumen. Not to mention she lives in the era where the King can murder your family with a made up reason, which people will accept as literal word from god. She literally learned zilch from her grandpa's exploit.
All of those scenes were like she got teleported to the modern world. It was actually baffling for her to not get beheaded on the spot. The plot armour was too omnipotent that, what should have been a show about FL's superb manoeuvring, was instead devolved into an unbelievable situation.
Powerful men and women were not so tolerant at the time, more often than not, such outspokenness would only result in a swift death. Such was the "normal" and expected standard.
Aside from the romance, everything else was just meh. Many scenes that should have been included were skipped perhaps because of low budget. Even the ending battle was largely a fluke.
Cliches that didn't fit were forcefully fit in the flow by creating the required scenario so much so that many felt out of place and predictable.
On the romance side, all three couples were good, first one lacked sizzle. The FL was overly assertive which imo didn't fit the overall vibe. Many instances of her over indulgence were ignored in the plot line even though she was in such a hostile setting.
The second couple was endearing in a different sense which even though didn't feature much sizzle but it had its own charm. The third one with least screen time also sparked my interest.
Yes it is allowed because that was done through composition tricks, two separate filmings were super imposed to…
Perhaps in a society where such is handled properly and even a simple mention can get people into action.
In SK honor trumps punishment for anything. The crimes were being committed since 1964 and the whole society and government apparatus was protecting and ignoring them. Some kids allegedly even died. When they were prosecuted in 2005, only two got punishment of under 2 years... Rest got suspensions and got reinstated...
Before this movie, the book its based off, came, and invigorated nothing. So they made a movie which finally did and changed laws a few years later.
SK has had such incidents happening all over but they are discovered too late whereas the number of victims or perpetrators reaches a staggering figure. Like another incident that was discovered after years was happening around this time and it had over 120 offenders, only single digit got lightly punished...
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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
Romance was satisfactory, more or less I didn't find the FL very attractive which well bogged down the whole experience.
8/10
The writer could have continued the implausible troupe of woman empowerment in the medieval era but they had to push it so much that even immersion gets sacrificed. The beaten troupe of only the FL family featuring strong women among literally no one in their city. No suppression or adversity resulting in many deaths, is already accepting being yet another wish fulfilment fantasy.
All that is forgivable, but not FL made dumb or the King spineless, to progress the plot.
Essentially its impossible that she would behave in such a way towards the king when she has such business acumen. Not to mention she lives in the era where the King can murder your family with a made up reason, which people will accept as literal word from god. She literally learned zilch from her grandpa's exploit.
All of those scenes were like she got teleported to the modern world. It was actually baffling for her to not get beheaded on the spot. The plot armour was too omnipotent that, what should have been a show about FL's superb manoeuvring, was instead devolved into an unbelievable situation.
Powerful men and women were not so tolerant at the time, more often than not, such outspokenness would only result in a swift death. Such was the "normal" and expected standard.
8/10
Cliches that didn't fit were forcefully fit in the flow by creating the required scenario so much so that many felt out of place and predictable.
On the romance side, all three couples were good, first one lacked sizzle. The FL was overly assertive which imo didn't fit the overall vibe. Many instances of her over indulgence were ignored in the plot line even though she was in such a hostile setting.
The second couple was endearing in a different sense which even though didn't feature much sizzle but it had its own charm. The third one with least screen time also sparked my interest.
7.5/10
In SK honor trumps punishment for anything. The crimes were being committed since 1964 and the whole society and government apparatus was protecting and ignoring them. Some kids allegedly even died. When they were prosecuted in 2005, only two got punishment of under 2 years... Rest got suspensions and got reinstated...
Before this movie, the book its based off, came, and invigorated nothing. So they made a movie which finally did and changed laws a few years later.
SK has had such incidents happening all over but they are discovered too late whereas the number of victims or perpetrators reaches a staggering figure. Like another incident that was discovered after years was happening around this time and it had over 120 offenders, only single digit got lightly punished...