I also support women's liberation, but here this emancipatory narrative takes on an almost grotesque character.…
Agree, and to that last sentence too.
Also, I don't like how men are depicted in this drama. They're all either childish, selfish, or deranged. It's exactly why some people attack Feminism.
Ep.21: this drama isn't about revenge or even romance. It's lessons in Feminism, which I would normally like but this is done so clumsily that it's painful to watch.
I don't buy that impassioned revolutionary's speech at the end of Ep.10 I wonder what Wushuang thinks when someone is committing mass murder in her name.
The Sword and The Brocade isn't bad. Better romance at least. The actress is also very good.
It's primarily romance with some family drama. The ML has concubines but he doesn't have any relations with them, his mother pressured him into having more children. He's devoted to FL once they're married. It's been a long time so I can't remember the details. You can ask more on that drama's page.
I am guessing that Yanhan's goal is to emancipate the women from their subservient roles.
It's clumsy and doesn't fit with the era or the way real women thought back then. We're being fed a modern idea about women in almost every episode. There are better ways to write this into a story.
The right way to script a mystery/suspense drama is "Show, Don't tell" which is not happening here. The viewer is being given information forcefully only when the characters confront each other. It's become tiresome and insulting to a viewer's intelligence.
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Also, I don't like how men are depicted in this drama. They're all either childish, selfish, or deranged. It's exactly why some people attack Feminism.