Repeative, nonsense

Honestly the show seems to be one of those shows where the worst aspect is the writing and lack of story telling. It seems like it will be a decent plot until you realize that by episode 11, all of the characters but 1 has any type of intelligence. Honestly this show could have been a better show if they stick to: travel back in time, switch places, destroy the evil. But unfortunately since the writers seem to not know how to write character and the evil bone is just a plot device that is mute, the man draw are the people, but none of the characters are written in a way to be like able. If they didn't add in the part of ice toothpicks, and wrote better dialogue. The actors honestly were not paid enough because when they don't have dialogue and just acting out a scene they feel as if they could really have feelings for each other, even if the male lead isn't supposed to have emotions he still shows enough interest that you can believe he at least like the female lead like a person can like their favorite celebrity, genuine interest. While the female lead is all over the place writing wise. Honestly the fact she was given instructions to end the male lead was the biggest mistake, it should have been that there was another way and the ice was for final straw of was to be murder before defeating the evil bone. Honestly I would say I would love to see it longer but honestly I am glad it's only 40 episodes. None of these characters are worth even thinking the world should be saved. I'm more curious to see what would happen after the world is destroyed, what does the bad guy do after does he die also or does he try to restore it in his own image and what would that world look like? I honestly would love to see it but the writer of this show deserves to never try again until they get better at writing dialogue and characters.

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It's all downhill

So I understand why people call it repetitive but honestly I don't mind that, it's like a game of chess. I like watching some navigate others dislike of them in an over the top way that only people with money and privilege can afford. It's a palace drama you get palace drama troupe, of one being evil and power hungry, someone obsessed to the point of wanting to ruin what they love, dealing with a epidemic, a school segment, someone be a hidden villain, yada yada.

Honestly everything was perfect the writing was good the characters were amazing until they made Cousin Meek and Mild a hidden villain like what was her plan "drive the person you loves into another woman arms while trying to kill her" ? like that's how you know it was wrong. It was unnecessary when they could have had Prince braids work with Sister Chihuahua.

Don't get me started with the emperor being a fish on how much his character flip flops, like how is he able to rule a country when he picks people to be a scapegoat instead of you know investing, also the time frame is absolutely impossible, 10 days, 3 days, like are they allowed to eat or sleep or wait the person out. Like seriously ain't no way..

Don't mention the. Cement that help them solve the case you know instead of the jewelry, or the fact that they have a skin walker as a maid. Like are you serious going to tell me that isn't a national security risk to have someone who can wear another person face.

Honestly the mother 8s goat. She was amazing so was cousin handsome I'm just glad he didn't die during all this. Actually I'm proud the show didn't kill off people who failed again weiyoung.

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Short Simple and...

The show is extremely short. I didn't know how to feel about the 5-7 minute run time but honestly it did not really upset me because it's not filling 40 minutes with half the episodes being recaps.

The only time they did a recap was in about 2/30 episodes which condense the time a lot. Honestly the time limitation does impact things like character development. You don't really get to know a lot of about the characters which is a double edge swords you don't get invested in character so they can easily do a bait and switch of the bad guys.

The main characters seen interesting but the 4th sister has so little to do with the plot that they could have left her out. The love story was actually pretty decent I think it would have been better if they took each episode to focus on a different sister doing thing to progress the plot and woven their love stories into it. It just feels kind of cheap to be left on a cliff edge wondering about the other sisters.

Also they do not resolve the main plot of the trade secret its left up in the air. Which honestly with as short as the episodes and as long as many episodes as most shows in this genre has they could have easily not stop half way through what is typical the first 15 episode of a standard 30-60 min run time show. So I can't cut them slack on that aspect.

If you want a short show to just fill a few minutes, or waste a few hours on this is an okay watch especially if you don't like sitting for longs periods of time.

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Netflix lied...

Honestly how to some this up. after episode 15 I watched at 1.5x and skipped entire episode. I could not help but think of all the other shows I watched and enjoyed. I mean seriously out of the three Lee Seung Gi shows I watched this show absolutely had the worst female lead... I enjoy most the characters besides the the female lead employee, the fact he was entirely clueless about his job I feel like he could legally sue her for how much danger he was in, especially since he is really moronic. The female lead wasn't much better. I mean you would have thought she would have ended up pretty bad ass like the lead of "Sell Your Haunted House" dealing with the same situation but she literally didn't. Not to mention the fact that it took her so long to figure out her blood was special there is no way she lived that long and not shed any blood. Also the priestess I'm sorry but you took over something body and didn't know the pig was a better choice if you are upset you were lonely but instead wanted to do the same thing and get a different results, suicide squad called and wants it's botched villain back. Honestly I want my money back because this show was synopsis by Netflix as a story going through Korean mythology but yet if I wanted that I should have rewatch Tale of nine tail, then go watch book of gu again. Seriously the ending isn't worth it. Go watch anything else

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It's the ending for me.

Honestly it would have been if the last 5 episodes were just vanished. Like I know they had to wrap up the Northern Quin arc but it felt rush and to have 2 of the characters that make the show die in a way that seems forced , for what? Honestly it feels like it should have been longer but they rushed it. I mean they could have just had meteors fall from the sky and it would be better. Ending. The princess death was honestly meh it felt like a semi decent way to end her arc, but I mean she did pick up a strange man on the side of the road during literal war, that was never going to end well. Plus the brother plot felt tact on. If you are going to ask I have zero plans to read the book. Honestly don't feel like you should read the book to watch the show. Also it seems like it went through many hands to rework it.

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Excuse me what.

How can I explain this.
The acting was honestly how do I say annoying. I can't tell if it's the writing of the fact I'm watching this literally 20 mins after finishing the rise of the Phoenixes(which is basically the same princess lose kingdom but that's where it split off yet somehow that fallen princess was abhorrently annoying). That I can't take certain things like the actors showing sorrow by repeating a character name. Honestly if you were to take a shot everytime the female lead say a name for the second time in a row and every time after you would be dead/or a liquor company is going out of business. Not to mention the dialogue never gets clever. There was maybe 1 moment where they had good banter.

Character:
Are absolutely 1 dimensional. I seal clapped on the scene where the female bodyguard didn't beat the big prince. The female lead is insufferable, I get she didn't grow up in the typical royal family where members were being murdered off but still was she not taught the history of the royal families and no I don't accept the she is a woman excuse when she was able to study and practice medicine. So the fact that even after she watched her parents murdered she still didn't know the first rule of treason trust no one after it's been committed. Not to mention she literally started out wanting to get revenge but then gave up and started palace fighting in a different country. Not to mention she doesn't even remember she has a brother whose whereabouts are unknown. She a horrible female lead who I relate better to a plank of wood. Male lead is not annoying he just not my cup of tea, I don't see how he fell for her. Honestly I understand how the prince of Han fell for her she was actually able to treat his seizures, not only that but he saw her impact on the people first hand, that was the better story, actually never mind he is to stupid to tell his mother that she is skilled in medicine and can treat his illness. But somehow we have the prince of Shu who just kinda seem like he is a literal puppet prince, his only motive for getting the crown back was because he originally had it. He only went to Chu because plot, he only develop feelings because plot. Hell she spent as much time with him as she did the oldest food in the palace.
I almost forgot the scene where she became irredeemable, the Phoenix hair pin situation, all she had to do was bat her eyes at the Prince to get it, but no she went about in the stupidest way possible and no that doesn't make her a strong independent woman, that makes her a stupid, naive, should be feeding the pigs by now woman. Honestly I can say the scene where the "Big prince" was in the tea house with the female lead was pretty bad since I can see why he did it (I not say it's right) because seduction is a tool and she would be in worst situation if you know this show didn't use that scene as just an ick factor to make you pity the female lead.

Which leads into my other issues the tone is horrible honestly it goes from a "comedic" scene to a "pity us" scene and I say that it's a pity us scene only because all it's supposed to is make you pity the characters, since you have no emotional connection because this show doesn't understand how to have real emotional beat. All the way to a scene I guess was important to the plot but isn't. Honestly I'm just shocked at how horrible the pacing is for 45 episodes and I know that on the low end but still it's like they skip over important plot points while dully spending way to much time on others we didn't need to watch the entire paintball fight.

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All the right ingredients but wrong recipe

The show has all the making of a good show, the cast did amazing with what they were given. Even though the female lead annoyed me to no ends with how much she picked all the worst options and literally to no consequences for her actions but everyone else did (especially when she left the consort alone, let the xumin envoy escape, not listen to anyone, not ask for obvious help but using implication as an excuse, not listen to anyone telling her to stay out of their business, pretending she didn't understand her husband feelings, and just literally being so self centered that it's giving longest promise levels of absolutely classical narcissist,not new age version,) and honestly being the villain of the story. Which I blame on the writing.

The plot has the making of a good show but it's weighted down with immature choices to the point it has to be child abuse to allow her to be married because I don't think she is capable of making choices for herself that won't get someone else murder and so far this show is showing that she needs to be locked in an asylum.

But besides the female lead be atrocious, the other two brothers wife's are honestly better even then the oldest brothers "wife" feels younger than the female lead she somehow has a better head on her shoulders, while the youngest brother wife I don't even think is human so I already like her which honestly makes sense if there's mermaid in this universe and a qin can be used to fight why not have a mythical creature as one of the wife's.

Honestly the males are not really anything to complain about they feel more like planks of wood with thin character traits: workaholic, money hungry, evil and conniving, mastermind, prideful but not can be redeemed, villian 2nd male lead. Like they are not given human but again writing problem.

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I doubt my feelings will change.

Let's start with the Music. The intro is pretty nice song. The outro reminds me of the Mavis Bacon typing program from the 90s so at least it brought back fond memories.

The actors. A lot of reviews I see came for the male lead as someone who watched both The Untamed, Doulou continent, all 3 seasons of The Eternal Love, The legend of the White Snake, The Imperial Coroner. I can safely say I'm familiar with a good portion of the cast in this show. Honestly I will give the casting director props for picking a good looking cast in the male department. The female department is basically not very unique and you could literally show me a screenshot of the female character and I would honestly not be able to tell you what show or who they were that's how little the female casting stood out to me in the looks department.
When it comes to acting I can say that no one out shine anyone and they all did an amazing job with what they were handed. But honestly I would have loved at least one actor to look like they actually was having funny with their role the closest that look like that was the White King.

The writing -

I could tell by the very first 3 episode that the show was going to be a hot mess. There's 40 episodes yet we have a dragon, mermaid, palace drama, school drama, tribal drama, a wedding, picture coming to life, a sand demon, a fake death, a fire, an inept Emperor, a flower, etc. Was it even reasonable to expect any of these plot lines to be successfully fulfilled ? no not at all. I get they were ambitious but at the same time it wasn't going to work.
I wish they would have picked a few storyline and work with it. Hell they didn't even do a good job with the school life. It was a blink and you would miss it. That's what they synopsis said it was about yet that wasn't even correct.

Characters-
Shi ying- honestly this character is your stereotypical prince who was raised outside of his role, that faked his own death. Honestly I don't think I expected much from this character. Was the writing shallow very but if you are one of the people complaining about romance yet came from the show The Untamed, I'm going to question you about how you thought that show was packed with romance yet this show was lacking. The romance was on the same level, where if you know what to look for you can see it. The moment were more acts of service as the love language. Plus there's I'm pretty sure they kissed in the first 10 episodes when they were in the cloud demon thingy. Am I going to comment on how old Xiao Zhan looks to be playing 17. Not at all because the female lead didn't look that much younger than him the only reason people think so is because the crew used the age trick of bangs. While none of the other female characters around her age had bangs. Also I don't blame the Actor for acting like a plank of wood because that's the writer and directors fault for not giving better instruction

Zhu Yan- let's just say can we stop this troupe of female being childish to appear youthful at her age of 15-17 (I'm going to guess she wasn't that much younger than the prince) she would be trying to act like an adult to prove herself worthy and capable as the other student who seem to be older than her. As someone so willing to learn magic how as she not taught the foundation of magic, even if female learning is something to be frowned upon, she is still the only child yet alone daughter of the Red King so surely he would have trained her to be a good ruler of her tribe, but no she was so lacking in the basics of not only magic but also magic her family inherited, that to me shows why they are considered the weakest clan. I actually feel bad for her to be so weak. I thought going through the schooling would have made her better but I didn't see any improvement in her magic abilities when she left the mountain. Did I mention she is a Mary Sue, she might not know magic but somehow when the time comes she suddenly can perfect any spell, or have a solution to any problems. Also I agree that the dress scene took me out, That's just bad writing, folks.

Zhi Yuan- I have a question what are the mermaid rules, because I honestly don't know. I'm 20 episodes deep. He thinks he is in love with the princess because the dragon fed him some nonsense about him crying finally. I have to say I course he didn't cry when his lover died because he had his memory wipe not only that he knew she would be reborn, imagine crying everytime your husband went to work... It's that feeling that yeah it seems like a lot but he knew that death isn't the final good bye, it's only the finally good bye when he dies. Not to mention the who set gender thing that got introduced, what was the point of that so are you telling me that he wasn't a male this entire time, because he didn't fall in love with the great whatever grandma? I'm sorry but would he not think of all the children of the family as his own since he raised them as if they were. Did the grandma have a husband and that how the family had kids? Are the kids of the Crimson tribe half mermaid and they just don't speak about since the gene are probably recessive/or bred out? That's why this entire plotline to me is a waste of time it leads to more questions than answers.

Bai Xuelu- she is the character that has the most stereotypical character development. She the illegitimate daughter of the White King. So she is trying to prove herself as being more than what her mother was a lady of the night (putting it nicely) so she will do anything to become the Empress which if you honestly think about it or if she had half a brain no one would allow her to fill that role with her background. I don't know why she didn't settle on taking over the role of her father instead of the Empress but , I guess dumb people with a chip on their shoulders can be talk into anything if you put the right carrot on a string.

Qing Gang- honestly he is perfect for the role of self righteous plank of wood. He is a general, and all around good guy who just wants to save the girl who has proven time and time again to a worthless p.o.s, because he thinks love can conquer all. I'm sorry but take that method to the battlefield and see if it works... It didn't well that was a lesson worth the price of underestimating your opponent just because they are a female.

Chong Ming- honestly this is going to be a hot take but they should have switched his actor for the actor that played Shi ying. Only because he makes a more convincing 18 year old. I sat the entire time thinking that he looks so much younger than Xiao Zhan and honestly I think they miscast both of them, I get why they casted Xiao Zhan as the main character but it gets extremely distracting seeing both of them together.

Shi Yu- honestly I can see him being a good emperor and a bad emperor at the same time because he has no back bone. If it wasn't for the emperor finally stepping up to be a good father, he would have married Bai Xuelu. Just pitiful.

Bai Xueling- honestly they could have CGI the word Pitiful over her and it would honestly be the same, she didn't even try to fight for anything. If it wasn't for everyone around her pushing her and helping her, she would have been mark with a scarlet letter and the sister in law of the prince. She really was the worthless Best friend.

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It defends horrible people

The movie starts out funny and takes a dark turn. I typically don't view a lot of Japanese live action media, unlike anime, I just don't like a lot of the humor, so I stepped out and tried it, since it was a movie not a show and I was highly upset at the message at the end of the show, there was nothing that was going to save it. Honestly if you defend the message in this story I would like to see your defense of Weinstein, it's the same thing.

Cinderella did nothing wrong in this story and it's a great to see how many think self defense is "wrong" as if anyone would honestly do anything to men in power who violate women.

The spoilers is that the hair cutting is an allegory for S.A. and Cinderella was a victim who defended herself against a predator leading to his death, but he somehow isn't the bad guy even though everyone knew he was violating women, but as long as he keeps the ruling class looking pretty who cares how many women he violates. Never again. Honestly

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