Best Emperor ever

I started watching the drama because of the high reviews. Now i am grouping part 1 and part 2 together. Part one dragged. We got to episode 10 and I persevered. We got to episode 16 and I deceided to drop, how can we be halfway through and the female lead still doesnt like the male ( yes I am mainly here for the romance. At this point I did not know there was a part two). I came back after a few weeks simply because I wasnt ready to invest in another drama and at this point I knew the characters in this one. Got to 19 and decided to drop again. Came back to the reviews and found out there was a part two and a lot of comments that things pick up in part two. Skipped to episode 27 so I could jump to part two. Things between the leads finaly picked up. The drama was still dragging. Decided to give up for good at episodes 40. I would not have bothered to write i review but I wanted to give kudos to the emperor's character. He was hilarious and honestly what kept me watching. I also liked the relationship between the empress and consort. It was refreshing to see a portrayal of two women married ro the same man and not scheming against each other. So yes, my review is to praise the side characters.

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You know that feeling when a show starts of great then ends terribly.

I really enjoyed the first 30 episodes of this show. Around episode 30 it got a bit confusing. Certain events happened that were not fully explained. I wont go into details to avoid spoilers. I actually wondered if the writers hand been changed ?, the show went from funny to what the hell is this. And the ending was abysmal. Not because it didnt have a happy ending where everyone got thier happy ending but simply because it was terrible.

I would still recommend for people to watch but maybe advice them to quit at 30 and avoid disappointment. I wish I had read some of the spoiler reviews before watching so I could have done the same.

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I read the reviews before i watched this drama and have to say they were spot on. This should have been a 16 episode drama. I started watching it because i had nothing else to watch. I continued watching because we are in lock down so I have nothing else to do. In the end i gave up and dropped it because i was so angry at myself and could not understand why i was torturing myself.
Also a part of this drama was set filmed in London. London is one of the most multicultural cities in the world and this drama completely failed to address this and white washed the drama as if white people are the only people in London. How disappointing.
The female lead was so annoying. She didnt want the guy. Didnt want anyone else ro have him and spent 90percent of her time crying over him. Her sister annoyed me so much that i would hit fast forward the moment she came on screen. The second lead actress had too much screen time but i actually have to say she was one of my fav in this drama. The male lead has a nice smile and thats the only positive i have to say about him.

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Tear jerker have some tissues ready

Updating my review as I have now finished. The middle of this drama was a real tear jerker. I couldn'tbring myself to like the male lead and the last few episodes felt uneccessary.


I've had to press pause on this show because I've only gone and done the worst thing you can do when watching a drama. Yes i have fallen for the second male lead. I know he won't get the girl. Infact I suspect he will probably die.

The story is a bit of a slow start. A lot of uneccessary storylines in the beginning but I guess its to set up the characters and show us thier personalities.
The empress and our female lead have a very strong relationship so i am quite interested to see how she ends up falling in love with the emperor, its kinda like falling for your older sisters ex-husband which is a bit icky.

I am getting a bit tired of the continuous power struggles between the harem, the story of so many women fighting over one man does kind of make you want to smash your head in, yes i get his the king but surely there are other men out there. In fact I'd love to see a drama where at least one or two of the harem have no interest in the king what so ever. You know just tp change it up.
Sighs let me unpause and watch my guy not get the girl.

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Why did i waste my time.

I tried not to deop this. I really tried. The reason u chose to watch this drama was thr positive reviews it had.

Although I watched TMOPB, I did not have a problem separating the two and viewing this as a stand alone drama. It started off pretty promising. Yes our male lead is no Ye Hua, but that was not the deal breaker. At first the fl was sprity/ cheerful, then like most female leads she suddenly became dumb, useless and in constant need of saving. (The reason why tmopb is a favorite is because of Bai Qian is a strong female lead. Soppy always crying and in need of rescue fl get on my last nerve).

Anyway I digress. Like I said started of promising, then it got a bit confusing, a lot of things were rushed and not explained clearly. One minute she is saved the next everyone knows she has dark energy, then her father and brother die, then they are alive, the the father dies again. Okay.

Then the dragging starts. Spoiler alert. The peach story. All she had to do was eat the damn peach. I mean , why did we need so many episodes to build up to her eating a damn peach. 7 episodes it took for her to eat the damn thing. Then we throw in a love triangle. I hate a love triangle as much as I hate soppy fl. Now all of a sudden two of my least fav things are combined .

To our female villain. Females who dont know how to accept rejection. Omg I donr know how the writers still get away with that one. I also understand that killing off the bad guys too early will prematurely end the story, but how many useless lives did this one have. She just keeps getting spared over and over to the point that it didnr make sense. Yes she tried to kill this girl but its okay let's be linient. Then she murders the guards and we still continue to be linient. It made no sense. She wasnt even smart about her crimes.
To sum this up. If you value your brain cells, Do Not Watch.

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I really wanted to love this drama. After all it has high ratings and Ji Chang-wook. This is the first drama that I haven't loved Ji Chang-wook. At first I found his character funny because it was so different from other roles I've seen him in but eventually he became annoying and super irritating with his obsession for the girl.

Now going into this drama I was well aware that it had a sad ending but never the less I decided to give it a shot and I should not have bothered.

One can only watch repetitive back stabbing , uneccessary evil females for so long. I eventually gave up at episode 23. For me the story was not progressive but kept repeating the same things over and over.

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Fluffy and enjoyable

If you want something light and hilarious this is your show. I watched it in 3 days. Very enjoyable without the usual unnecessary dragging that most dramas insist on. 24 episodes nicely wrapped up everything and kept the pace going. Love triangles or squares, seriously get on my last nerves and it was also the case here.

It was refreshing to have a storyline with strong female characters (mulan ref had me cracking up).

Ive said all I wanted to say but mydrama list keeps saying my word count is not enough so you can stop reading. I am now just wasting characters.

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