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Never sure what the show wanted to be.
This show started decent enough, then it got stuck in corporate drama, tried to inject relationships along the way then toyed with alternate time frames to shape a happy ending.
The main ML & FL acted fine, I think it was a huge jump the FL coming from Joeson time period to modern day and seemed to just pick everything up and adjust after a couple episodes.
The ML has the typical dsyfunctional rich family, it must be a Chaebol dynamic everything is out for themselves, vying to be the special one and get the job, money etc. Same story seen in countess K Drama. The Nephew is problematic as his acting was comical, no one every questioned the crazy things he did and while Grandfather seemed to understand he was not as 'good' as he played nothing ever came about.
The other roles were not well expanded with the Aunties making an appearence every few episodes to complain no one liked them etc. It's like they were still teenagers. I wish they touched more on the ML mother and had additional flashbacks, how his Grandfather raised him etc.
the Nephew story was spotty, never explained why he came to live with them, never mentioned he was married or had a wife but midway has a son and just felt weird. He spent little to no time with this child and seems he will now live with Grandfather.
spoilers below:
Now my main issue was the whole body jump / time jump. It never really explained it but what I take occured:
- FL was poisoned for protecting crown price (ML in dual role), instead of dying her Shaman pushed her spirit into FL in modern area (former child K drama actress) ok this was what I went with. Never really resolved what happened to the original FL when she went into the body.
- Towards end FL has triggered flashbacks of original body memories which seem to show her parents in debt and decide to drown themselves and daughter, daughter wakes up and it doesn't show her escape but clearly she lived and spent her life with her Grandmother as it touches on she was still in contact, Grandma sensed her was not her granddaughter but never expanded why / how. It also showed the FL modern era switch into the Joeson FL body in a flashback.
- Final episodes FL (from shock) transfers BACK to her body in Joeson era and now tries to save the Crown Prince (ML)
So IMO the Modern era FL went into Joeson era instead of drowning and FL was her from that point forward??
Anyways - beyond trying to make sense of the logic here the show overall was watchable. All around entertaining, I guess average is how I'd explain it. Not great, not bad.
The main ML & FL acted fine, I think it was a huge jump the FL coming from Joeson time period to modern day and seemed to just pick everything up and adjust after a couple episodes.
The ML has the typical dsyfunctional rich family, it must be a Chaebol dynamic everything is out for themselves, vying to be the special one and get the job, money etc. Same story seen in countess K Drama. The Nephew is problematic as his acting was comical, no one every questioned the crazy things he did and while Grandfather seemed to understand he was not as 'good' as he played nothing ever came about.
The other roles were not well expanded with the Aunties making an appearence every few episodes to complain no one liked them etc. It's like they were still teenagers. I wish they touched more on the ML mother and had additional flashbacks, how his Grandfather raised him etc.
the Nephew story was spotty, never explained why he came to live with them, never mentioned he was married or had a wife but midway has a son and just felt weird. He spent little to no time with this child and seems he will now live with Grandfather.
spoilers below:
Now my main issue was the whole body jump / time jump. It never really explained it but what I take occured:
- FL was poisoned for protecting crown price (ML in dual role), instead of dying her Shaman pushed her spirit into FL in modern area (former child K drama actress) ok this was what I went with. Never really resolved what happened to the original FL when she went into the body.
- Towards end FL has triggered flashbacks of original body memories which seem to show her parents in debt and decide to drown themselves and daughter, daughter wakes up and it doesn't show her escape but clearly she lived and spent her life with her Grandmother as it touches on she was still in contact, Grandma sensed her was not her granddaughter but never expanded why / how. It also showed the FL modern era switch into the Joeson FL body in a flashback.
- Final episodes FL (from shock) transfers BACK to her body in Joeson era and now tries to save the Crown Prince (ML)
So IMO the Modern era FL went into Joeson era instead of drowning and FL was her from that point forward??
Anyways - beyond trying to make sense of the logic here the show overall was watchable. All around entertaining, I guess average is how I'd explain it. Not great, not bad.
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