Most of the episodes in and I find myself bored fast forward watching to the next episode, there is retelling of Queen Seon deok story which I find it unnecessary, the show I feel would have work better if the focus was on Kim Chun-Chu's story and remove some of the filler episodes it would have much better pacing and story in addition to there are too many supporting characters taking up the screen time with their own stories that I'm not interested in. The costume and make up in the show look really great on screen but some look out of place considering it is a historical drama based on actual history.
Acting: the main lead actors performance are not as good as I have seen them from other show like Dong yi, Dae Jo Yeong. While most (almost all) of the actors playing the role of the antagonists, their acting are terrible and hilarious because of the overacting.
In conclusion, its a disappointing drama because of the potential and that is just style over substance.
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Just my quick overall thoughts before I dive deeper about the movie in the spoilers down below. It's a fun and visual stunning movie with a few moments that gives me laugh. For those looking for movie that is causal and historical I would suggest to give this a watch.! Spoiler part
Story: the first 20 minutes I find it slow pace and quite hard to get into the movie. It's very messy trying to balance romance, comedy and palace politics. There are so many things in the movie that didn't make sense.
As a romantic movie, cliché. The two main characters keep running into each other, when they meet I knew they are going to be love but that's the biggest problem, the princess met Seo for a few days and they are so deep in love with each other that she is willing to give up her status as a princess?
Palace politics, the writing is very weak, important decisions such as the princess's marriage are made in the court by fortune telling? It start off with a problem with drought, the people and government officials believe that the princess's marriage will solve the problem, I know people at that time period are superstitious but that makes no sense at all. Throughout the movie, the problem of drought is being brought up a lot of times but in the movie I don't see that, it keep showing luscious green trees and grass. My country has been through drought one time, you will see the grass withered over the country has turn yellow, discolored leaves among the green ones on trees. Overall, I have a feeling that this story would work better as a drama to develop each characters.
Acting: I know some of the casts in this movie, I have watched other movie and drama they are in and seen their talented acting performances from other shows. However I think the problem is the script, there is not a lot of focus on the characters thus their performance are very one-note, emotional scenes I don't feel it in their performance.
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