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Michael_0718

The country which consists of 7,640 islands.

Michael_0718

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The Great Ruler chinese drama review
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The Great Ruler
3 people found this review helpful
by Michael_0718
Jan 18, 2023
48 of 48 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
This review may contain spoilers

Outrageous story progression, Messy plot & Power scaling's a big Joke + Ep.34 Beyond is Intolerable!

Don't waste your time and find another worthy drama out there!!

First of all I wanna inform everyone who's planning to watch this drama to think multiple times before finally deciding to watch this. Just take my advice and save yourselves from getting aggravated and wasting your time by watching this piece... of shit!

I honestly feel like I deserved a big and loud round of applause for finishing this extensively exhausting and overly ridiculous drama. God knows how my tolerance got drained to the very brim just to finish this. Not to mention the amount of skips and fastforwards I did (which I seldom do) just to avoid the unbearable scenes after enduring it for over 40+ episodes. Imagine that! So finishing it felt like an achievement more than anything else and for some reason it's comforting how I can finally move on from this messy crap!

Anyways, let me properly breakdown the Good (Let me squeeze my brain hard first) and Bad aspects of this drama.

× Opening - Gonna commend them on how creative and productive they're on having multiple openings throughout the entire show. I think they have more or less 10 and it would've been really great if they used all those time, resources and energy in making the drama more structural and substantial.

× CGI and Design - It looks enchanting in some parts... but the rest of them which is like 90% felt like it was made by an intern— It lacks the force/power to make it seem real and impactful... It looks weak, underwhelming and fake overall.

× Editing - Extremely jumpy... I often get flustered on how fast they move on from one scenario to another without properly wrapping things up with the current one and even made it end like it was no one's business. Is the editor aware of proper sequencing? or at least decent story telling? It completely ruin the story specially during the first 10 episodes. I wanna cry!

× Power Scaling - MESSED UP! I don't know how this drama even passed reviews. Like, HOW? The weak ML beating the 'supposed' powerful enemies with some random 'powerful' (that doesn't seem like) attack while getting defeated left and right by a bunch of weak side characters felt sketchy and absurd to me. How does that even make sense? Ridiculous!

× Fight Scenes - Aren't those child's play? Most of them were unacceptably underwhelming and felt like they are just randomly playing. It shocks me to see how weak it looks like. It's hilarious how they settled with that. Don't they have better people for the job?

× Phasing and Story Telling - They focused too much on making the Male Lead extremely powerful by sacrificing lots of great characters (which I find unnecessary) to build the ML up which causes the story to lose its essence and lots of potential hype.

× Characters - Exasperating Male roles!! The Male characters from this drama simply got the MVP for being the most annoying, useless and frustrating of all...

→Mu Chen is simply overly driven by his personal desire and tends to always become the heaviest liabilty of all. I can't even accept how he always end up getting saved by everyone because of his obliviousness and immaturity. So how the hell can I convince myself that he's capable to actually save everyone from the most powerful enemy?

→ Mu Bai on the other hand is like a lost child whose easily influenced and provoked by peoples threats to do bad things.

→ Qing Shan... God this guy. Overly conceited and annoying. I don't even know why he's even part of this drama. His contribution to the story is to provide illogical and annoying remarks that does nothing but to irritate the viewers. Grrr!

P.S. Episode 34 and Beyond! Yes! The entirety of it are the most unbearable of them all. So y'all better watch out!

Story - 5.0, Mind you! I'm still being nice here!! The story is LACKING in different areas... It was like patched up together just for the sake of making things 'make sense' even when it obviously doesn't. I can't find strong foundation to support the story flow and the structure itself is messed up.

Acting/Cast - 7.0, Underdeveloped acting from the Main Leads... Yes, this is an Idol drama but I never expect the lead actors/actresses they cast to be this bad... They were like dead fish delivering their lines during the first 10 episodes and thank god they gradually improved but things got awkward and fake when they started acting like some mature adults. Like, damn! They still seemed and looked like elementary kids playing. Unconvincing at all. P.S. Supporting Adult actors saved this story from sinking to the depths of great ordeal.

Music - 7.5, BGMs used weren't remarkable at all. Probably because even if they try to play it on the most perfect scenes it just can't outweight my frustrations and disappointments watching those sequences. Although, I'm still giving some consideration to a couple of great ballads played on this drama and that explains my rating.

Rewatch Value - 1.0, (It's supposedly 0 but Mydramalist won't allow 0 as a rating) Very 1st savage moment of my entire drama watching history. This drama doesn't deserve to be watch in the first place. I can't even understand how can people watch and give this a 10 overall rating. Just where are your taste and logic people?

Overall - 5.0, Honestly, this story disappointed me beyond explanation. The only drama I spent every remaining bits of my tolerance to complete and despite all those sacrifices, I was still presented with such ridiculous scenes episode after episode. If only possible, I wanna demand this production to refund my time cause it's all wasted from watching this show.

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