Disappointing

I liked the first fighting scenes with Naksu in Part 1, she looked impressive so when she got burned and Mudeok became FL, it was jarring but I soon fell in love with Mudeok as Naksu. Then found out Mudeok won’t be Naksu in Part 2 -again that was jarring.

Really wanted to give new FL a chance because of the fighting scenes in Part 1. Happy with new Naksu with no memory acting more like Buyeon. But when Naksu’s memory came back, waited for Naksu to appear but she didn’t, just felt like she was always Buyeon still. Was it bad acting? Don’t think so because Naksu in those fight scenes was bad ass. Bad directing? Did directors sleep through those scenes? Even a scene where she dresses herself like assassin Naksu, trying to regain her physical strength (like when she was Mudeok) to get revenge for her death and soon-to-be death and Yul sees her and warns her to not do this in case people recognises her as Naksu, and she’d be hunted, then she decides to continue to dress as Buyeon. But even dressed as Buyeon, Naksu can’t hide her personality.

So Naksu didn’t act like Naksu so the interactions with ML didn’t feel right. The whole romance with ML didn’t feel right. It was unclear who he actually snogged, that long kiss between them was when he thought she was Buyeon - the confusion to the audience or maybe just me,made him not very likeable as a ML, like he was cheating on Mudeok/Naksu so made the kissing scenes very uncomfortable to watch. And if Naksu was Naksu, she would have been furious that he made out with Buyeon. That would have been a good scene to show Naksu was back, her throwing a few knives at his face!

It would have been better to end AOS at Part 1 and Part 2 was a totally different story altogether, that way I could have enjoyed the romance in Part 2 without the characters acting out of character bothering me so much.

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Great start but hated the ending

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Really enjoyed the start, liked the sister relationship, got invest in FL’s relationship with WJG, she was so invested in then she ends up sacrificing WJG, giving him to her ssiter, and falling for the General (nothing against his character who was the only one who stayed true to character) and sister ended up with WJG. Argghhh! And because of how they paired up so rushed at the end, the relationships ended up feeling forced. Was so angry with the ending. Sister relationship at the end was disappointing too, it got tiresome with FL constantly helping the sister and felt as if they both betrayed each other’s feelings and couldn’t face each other at the end. Sister stayed with WJG. SML changed his mind but he didn’t seem totally happy. The relationships felt so forced and their love so wish washy with no loyalty at all. It wasn’t a happy ending. So disappointed and angry I wasted my time on it.

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