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Gave it a try
I like historical k dramas but I have noticed I like more modern story cdramas. I watch a lot of slow vibes one. Right before this now at her THE BEST THING, and liked it. This one I wanted intensity but it never really delivered with romance or political intrigue. The story line was fine for first half, then things got dragged out for not much reason then at the end just loosely tied. The thing that really started annoying me was there are plenty of villains but they didn’t put them one by one but dragged out the younger brother as villain eventhough he should have died. They basically then massacred the town of Linan to give the FL a revenge plot but the revenge plot never really closed off, she got distracted. It was like everything was picked up but it all fizzled, even the romance. The romance was strong but the ML had not much lines and it was so not like this character of a general. I’m not sure if it was written thoughtfully because the casting was good with what we got. The female lead also has unusually high heroine story line, and also she basically could have died once but ofcourse she didn’t. She was also sworn enemy of many but they never came after her full force. The same villains didn’t like ML MARQUIS for his position and strength but they stopped going after him, because politics takes over the last third then he has to insert himself on the court side. I think it’s ok to make the main characters have weakness and not too perfect and that’s what was so not right in second half as FL basically becomes a military hero and overshadows the ML MARQUIS and the writer just gives up on the ML. The last episode was so bad and annoying. We got random thought about oh what if that one big incident which this story is about never happened. Don’t really care because it did happen and what they Iive with good and bad now is what’s more interesting . This is probably one of the hyped dramas that didn’t do it for me and I was usually super lax about that. I will say I am not even sure the controversies about “pretty general” is the problem with this show. I think ZLH was same for me here and the best thing because the characters were similar, ad I haven’t watched him in anything else.Was this review helpful to you?
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Never trusting reviews again
People have given this 10, how?- why did they think the FL should be JANE all of a sudden. No this wasn’t the bad subtitle translation on Viki. I was already annoyed she was JENNY after no way she introduced herself as Jenny but the villain did so ok
- bad C grade actors like why did they get so much air time. A lot of that would be explained in one line dialogues by main leads
- the romance was whatever after they were together. The awkwardness and stoic ness in ML went away and idk he was first at love sight is all I understood.
- the FL acting was probably decent atleast the most consistent thing here
- so many plot holes but whatever
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Refreshing to watch simple times
So, if you watch this after the new shows, you will realize this show is not that old but just feels like it was made in different times. For this genre of slow romance, just romance, the plot does its thing, but the "time in life" setup of hair, makeup, set, cast all is what feels right about this. There makeup was "normal". They are not glowing, thye are tired college students and have skin texture and repeat of their wardrobe. It's definitely polished for college experience can be like, but thats not this genre's job.The acting probbably mostly good, sometimes flat, but I its not overexagerrating. The usual quirks exist where people move away from confusing and hard emotions very fast by the next scene. Characters are super dynamic but its a easy watch. It's not a page turner, which is what I needed. It has "page turner" small moments, but you can pace it. TLDR - No villains, chill romance, some annoying characters, happy ending.
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