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Too slow and boring
Unfortunately too slow and boring, with lots of "Captain Obvious" moments that get mulled over for too long. Cases are nothing special to write home about either, if you've seen a decent amount of detective dramas, there's certainly nothing memorable here. Cases are so so in the first part, but they turn into a real snooze fest when the plot moves to the capital. Everybody and they mother (literally) are plotting like uncouth thugs, even the royal family, and it turned this drama into a circus, where you can't take anybody seriously or relate to their problems.
This drama is one of those that quite unsubtly drills feminist ideas, not as blunt as in Blossom, but somewhere close. FL here is a typical Mary Sue, made to stand out among the rest of the cast by dumbing them down. She's made here a super pro out of nowhere, who looks like she was making 10 autopsies a day before the start of the drama. She has a super modern approach to conducting them as well, that wasn't established at all in ancient China, where autopsies were considered a taboo for a long time because of religion. Yet with all that, they somehow forgot to put an apron, a cap and a mask on her - she conducts autopsies in her fancy dresses, inhales the fumes and lets her hair down to swipe all the nasty stuff. Perhaps it was done so as not to obscure FL's pretty face and body, but it looked dumb af and threw all seriousness of autopsy scenes out the window, especially considering other historical cdramas have coroners wear proper work attires. And even in this very same drama there were other coroner guys wearing full set up.
She's also a very knowledgable medic, that puts to shame all the rest. Furthermore, it's like there are no medics or coroners of any decent level at all there, even in the captital. It could have been believable if it was some backwater village, but it's been deliberate and forced here to make the rest look dumb and her to stand out.
So all in all, her background is not believable and feels forced - a sheltered daughter of a judge, who out of nowhere got as if decades of experience as a coroner, a sleuth and a medic. Sure, her father could have told her some, she could have read some books, and got some experience at the medical valley (though she didn't live there for 10 years like the real person she took her persona from did). But it's been made clear she wasn't allowed to conduct real autopsies or investigations before the start of drama.
The actress is also rather stiff and they overdid something with her eyebrows and makeup, making her look older that she actually is.
ML is also pretty meh, your typical pretty boy general (though is so thin and non-muscly, it's rather hard to believe he trains in martial arts), who's got all the power to order people around and allow FL to help him conduct investigations. He got into her out of nowhere very early on, while investigating her fraudulent persona.
Often having FL very conviniently to be present at just the right place to save high ranking people from death, as well as solving cases like no other grants her tons of boons over the span of the story. And ML is fawning over her like a simp basically from the very beginning. If it's your cup of tea for romances, then go for it. Personally, the more it went on, the more cringe it looked.
Dorky side couples weren't interesting either, since most of those young actors were overacting too much.
It also has too many useless side characters that don't contribute much to the story. You gotta pay attention who's who in those sprawling scheming families, with more cartoonish characters introduced every few episodes.
Anyway, overhyped and I'm genuinely disappointed.
This drama is one of those that quite unsubtly drills feminist ideas, not as blunt as in Blossom, but somewhere close. FL here is a typical Mary Sue, made to stand out among the rest of the cast by dumbing them down. She's made here a super pro out of nowhere, who looks like she was making 10 autopsies a day before the start of the drama. She has a super modern approach to conducting them as well, that wasn't established at all in ancient China, where autopsies were considered a taboo for a long time because of religion. Yet with all that, they somehow forgot to put an apron, a cap and a mask on her - she conducts autopsies in her fancy dresses, inhales the fumes and lets her hair down to swipe all the nasty stuff. Perhaps it was done so as not to obscure FL's pretty face and body, but it looked dumb af and threw all seriousness of autopsy scenes out the window, especially considering other historical cdramas have coroners wear proper work attires. And even in this very same drama there were other coroner guys wearing full set up.
She's also a very knowledgable medic, that puts to shame all the rest. Furthermore, it's like there are no medics or coroners of any decent level at all there, even in the captital. It could have been believable if it was some backwater village, but it's been deliberate and forced here to make the rest look dumb and her to stand out.
So all in all, her background is not believable and feels forced - a sheltered daughter of a judge, who out of nowhere got as if decades of experience as a coroner, a sleuth and a medic. Sure, her father could have told her some, she could have read some books, and got some experience at the medical valley (though she didn't live there for 10 years like the real person she took her persona from did). But it's been made clear she wasn't allowed to conduct real autopsies or investigations before the start of drama.
The actress is also rather stiff and they overdid something with her eyebrows and makeup, making her look older that she actually is.
ML is also pretty meh, your typical pretty boy general (though is so thin and non-muscly, it's rather hard to believe he trains in martial arts), who's got all the power to order people around and allow FL to help him conduct investigations. He got into her out of nowhere very early on, while investigating her fraudulent persona.
Often having FL very conviniently to be present at just the right place to save high ranking people from death, as well as solving cases like no other grants her tons of boons over the span of the story. And ML is fawning over her like a simp basically from the very beginning. If it's your cup of tea for romances, then go for it. Personally, the more it went on, the more cringe it looked.
Dorky side couples weren't interesting either, since most of those young actors were overacting too much.
It also has too many useless side characters that don't contribute much to the story. You gotta pay attention who's who in those sprawling scheming families, with more cartoonish characters introduced every few episodes.
Anyway, overhyped and I'm genuinely disappointed.
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