I usually don't look up reviews because they tend to be....unhelpful in objectively determining actual show quality (let's just leave it at that) but I'm glad I did this time. Thank you for saving me 30 hours. I've only watched the first handful of episodes and I agree with your assessment. I was curious if it was going to start to pull itself together eventually, but it sounds like Nope, it'll just be more of this and worse.
I also like the leads and wanted to check it out for their sake, but I don't get invested in a couple just because I have liked both actors in other stuff. The gaps in her flashbacks and the total lack of info about what happened between them before just makes it impossible for me to care about their second chance. :P
So I appreciate the confirming review and thank you for it :)
Basically, this is a COMEDY. All the characters are jokes (except the ML, who is the "straight man" being serious) and all the plot events happen to create wackiness and laughs. (And of course, later on there's massively overdone angst because Asian drama doesn't separate their genres like western media does. It's Drama Jambalaya.)
If you are laughing by the end of episode 2, you will probably have fun. If you are annoyed and not finding this funny, don't waste your time. The "plot" doesn't matter - the whole show is going to carry on like this because it's a COMEDY.
Personally, I loathed it. I would have been happy with it, tropes and all (I like tropes!) if it had been taking itself seriously and really attempting to work through the plot given in the summary. Awesome cast, too. But it was all there just to get laughs, and this is not my sense of humor.
I couldn't even watch it for the ML, and I watch TRASH just so I can look at Wang You Shuo's pretty face. But I hated the FL and her idiot baby voice so much that I started to hate HIM for liking her like that, and I don't wanna hate him.
If you do like this show, all I can say is I envy you. I'm glad you enjoy it. But this is my warning to those who find it obnoxious early on: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. Quit now. It's not going to get better.
1. Always in a wig drama 2. Always second fiddle 3. Always, always stands out. The number of MLs that get upstaged by him, I can't even.
Oh except the 2 (?) times he was the lead (that I have been able to get access to and watch) - he's great, it's not his fault the show as a whole is unbearable. When am I gonna get to see him as the main lead in a well-written drama? :(
Concubine Yan and the king was WEIRDDD especially when it turns out that she is TWENTY YEARS OLD ☹️ I mean…
oh gross XP i'm glad I didn't watch, that would have hurt me, I actually liked the princess' character :(
See, it's like - choose one or the other. If it's historically accurate he'd have slept with her the first night, the end. (And there are some shows like that, of course.) If we're in fantasy land (which we are) and we're gonna dodge the grossness of the real historic past (which we do) then we have to stick to MODERN STANDARDS which say EW GROSS NO this is not romantic. Him being a fond father figure would be fine.
I'm amazed she's actually 20. I was guessing a little younger than that :/
Agree agree agree agree. Thank you. I feel more sane because other people see the same problems I do with this. XD
Honestly, I had given up hope before the village arc, but I thought if I just skipped the fluff filler then... maybe. The beginning was SO strong! But your warning is well-taken. I'm going to save myself some time and quit.
Oh and thank you for the warning about the princess and Daddy Old King. Every scene of theirs I was like >________> it's supposed to be......fatherly affection......maybe...... but that voice in my head was whisper-screaming "THEY'RE MAKING IT A ROMANCE" and I was like oh no, please no. Preggers later? Yep. I'm out. *shudder*
I might just skip everything and watch the last episode, since you say it's well done. And because starting in the village arc I began to think "man, I hope these two end up dying" XD
The half-subbed dramacool crap doesn't count, the quality is so low that it's unwatchable (imo).
I don't even need subs. If I could get a decent picture I'd just jerry-rig something with an AI translator and get a good enough translation.
I know it isn't considered a great show, but I just wanna see more early roles from Zhu Yi Long. :(
I also like the leads and wanted to check it out for their sake, but I don't get invested in a couple just because I have liked both actors in other stuff. The gaps in her flashbacks and the total lack of info about what happened between them before just makes it impossible for me to care about their second chance. :P
So I appreciate the confirming review and thank you for it :)
If you are laughing by the end of episode 2, you will probably have fun. If you are annoyed and not finding this funny, don't waste your time. The "plot" doesn't matter - the whole show is going to carry on like this because it's a COMEDY.
Personally, I loathed it. I would have been happy with it, tropes and all (I like tropes!) if it had been taking itself seriously and really attempting to work through the plot given in the summary. Awesome cast, too. But it was all there just to get laughs, and this is not my sense of humor.
I couldn't even watch it for the ML, and I watch TRASH just so I can look at Wang You Shuo's pretty face. But I hated the FL and her idiot baby voice so much that I started to hate HIM for liking her like that, and I don't wanna hate him.
If you do like this show, all I can say is I envy you. I'm glad you enjoy it. But this is my warning to those who find it obnoxious early on: DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME. Quit now. It's not going to get better.
1. Always in a wig drama
2. Always second fiddle
3. Always, always stands out. The number of MLs that get upstaged by him, I can't even.
Oh except the 2 (?) times he was the lead (that I have been able to get access to and watch) - he's great, it's not his fault the show as a whole is unbearable. When am I gonna get to see him as the main lead in a well-written drama? :(
See, it's like - choose one or the other. If it's historically accurate he'd have slept with her the first night, the end. (And there are some shows like that, of course.) If we're in fantasy land (which we are) and we're gonna dodge the grossness of the real historic past (which we do) then we have to stick to MODERN STANDARDS which say EW GROSS NO this is not romantic. Him being a fond father figure would be fine.
I'm amazed she's actually 20. I was guessing a little younger than that :/
Honestly, I had given up hope before the village arc, but I thought if I just skipped the fluff filler then... maybe. The beginning was SO strong! But your warning is well-taken. I'm going to save myself some time and quit.
Oh and thank you for the warning about the princess and Daddy Old King. Every scene of theirs I was like >________> it's supposed to be......fatherly affection......maybe...... but that voice in my head was whisper-screaming "THEY'RE MAKING IT A ROMANCE" and I was like oh no, please no. Preggers later? Yep. I'm out. *shudder*
I might just skip everything and watch the last episode, since you say it's well done. And because starting in the village arc I began to think "man, I hope these two end up dying" XD