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50 First Dates meets Hard to Find
first of all with only 24 episodes 10 to 18 minutes each and limited budget you know this ain't gonna bee Love of Nirvana, but it still packs a punch.I loved the OST, original and well placed.
I loved the story and concepts the screenwriter came up with: opposing countries and their royals vying for supremacy and showing ruthlessness expected of ancient cdrama.
I liked the characters: cunning ml who goes from slave submission to ruler cutting his enemies personally and torturing in vengeance with abandon, and fl who fools us with soft heart and questioning her own ruling mother only to showcase unyielding strength of spirit even on her death bed.
I was really impressed with complexity of human falability switching between doing one thing when in power versus when oppressed and humiliated.
Actors did a great job trying to be their characters and second cp delivered touching story of their own.
The philosophical questions and ethical dimemas like those in Still Alice (dementia issues) could have been expanded on but again, this is short drama and not VD or full length, so I take it as is.
The editing was a bit scattered and sometimes the plot had holes but they went for the conceptual wholeness and not detailed depiction.
The ending was weak albeit expected, I would have been ok with stopping at ep 23 but then again the best lines delivered by the 4 leads were in the last 5 episodes.
overall good watch but I probably won't ever go back to it
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