Tasnima_329
England
Wasted Potential
This drama started of very promising. I started this drama because I loved the concept. I have watched several historical, timetravel Cdrama's and this is the only one where the main characters go back and forth in time more than once, and timetravel in itself is delved into. But it went downhill really fast and the story dragged for almost half the drama.
I really liked the FL's power of travelling through time, and how she brought the emperors to the present with her. Though after 2, it became a bit much. But I hated the FL so much. I was hesitant to watch this drama because of the FL actress who played the second FL that I resented in another drama (one of the reasons was because of her acting). I somehow hated her even more in this one because for a person who comes from the modern world, she should know better. Her stupidity got on my nerve. Anyone who knows anything about historical (and present) Kings and Queens, knows that you should speak respectfully and bow to them when you first see them. She was so disrespectful to all of the emperors when she first met them as emperors. She also expected the emperors to somehow know their way around the modern world immediately after arriving there. She has the audacity to be rude and scold them for being afraid of cars or not knowing how to use the shower. I mean she is responsible for teaching them about the modern world because she brought them to it.
I really liked the three emperors, they all have very different personalities (which you can say make one whole):
- 1st emperor: The muscle. A fighter and a strategist who out of the three, had the most successful reign. He is also, somehow the dumbest in the modern world, but then again his reign was the earliest of the three.
- 2nd emperor: The heart. A very emotionally driven person, who out of the three, had the toughest life (in the sense that he should have died but was mercifully kept alive but tortured). He also had all the characteristics of a typical SL.
- 3rd emporor: The brain. The smartest character in the entire drama, he also arrived the latest, but to me he was the best. Out of the three emperors, the 3rd is definitely my type. He was also the least emotionally driven and his personality made the most sense out of all the characters. I love that he didn't seem to really develop any romantic attachments to the FL as the other two did.
The drama had so much potential to create a really good time traveling plot. I genuinely thought that these historical figures would go to the modern world, either make a new life for themselves or learn to rule their empires better by learning about history, or something. But the plot litterally went nowhere. All that happened for half the drama was that the FL would accidentally go to the past and bring an emperor to the present. And this only took place within a few episodes. After that, nothing happened until the last few episodes when the characters finally realise, what we, as the audience already knew on the first episode, we do get a bit more information (which at this point is useless). I have never seen a drama that was as dragged as this because any relevant plots in that drama take place in around 10 episodes in total.
My favourite characters in this drama were the FL's best friend who gets stuck in time and the 3rd emperor. I also really liked the other two emperors, but their feelings for the FL annoyed me a bit. One thing I couldn't understand is why everyone loves the FL so much (other then the neighbour with the fringe), other then her powers, she had nothing going for her, not even personality wise. All the emperors had more going for them when they came to the modern world, then the FL did in the modern world. They all got really good jobs and seemed to be earning a lot of money, whilst the FL is just an intern at a company that almost got her sexually assaulted, publicly in a room full of coworker. I also really wanted the 2nd emperor to get his sister back, I loved his relationship with his sister so much, but the ending ruined almost everything good about this drama. The only thing I liked about the ending was that the FL's doctor friend got his HEA, and he deserved it more then anyone, same with his girlfriend.
This was also the only (so far) historical Cdrama I've watched where I wanted the ML and FL to get a HEA in the past (in the ML's world/empire).
I really liked the FL's power of travelling through time, and how she brought the emperors to the present with her. Though after 2, it became a bit much. But I hated the FL so much. I was hesitant to watch this drama because of the FL actress who played the second FL that I resented in another drama (one of the reasons was because of her acting). I somehow hated her even more in this one because for a person who comes from the modern world, she should know better. Her stupidity got on my nerve. Anyone who knows anything about historical (and present) Kings and Queens, knows that you should speak respectfully and bow to them when you first see them. She was so disrespectful to all of the emperors when she first met them as emperors. She also expected the emperors to somehow know their way around the modern world immediately after arriving there. She has the audacity to be rude and scold them for being afraid of cars or not knowing how to use the shower. I mean she is responsible for teaching them about the modern world because she brought them to it.
I really liked the three emperors, they all have very different personalities (which you can say make one whole):
- 1st emperor: The muscle. A fighter and a strategist who out of the three, had the most successful reign. He is also, somehow the dumbest in the modern world, but then again his reign was the earliest of the three.
- 2nd emperor: The heart. A very emotionally driven person, who out of the three, had the toughest life (in the sense that he should have died but was mercifully kept alive but tortured). He also had all the characteristics of a typical SL.
- 3rd emporor: The brain. The smartest character in the entire drama, he also arrived the latest, but to me he was the best. Out of the three emperors, the 3rd is definitely my type. He was also the least emotionally driven and his personality made the most sense out of all the characters. I love that he didn't seem to really develop any romantic attachments to the FL as the other two did.
The drama had so much potential to create a really good time traveling plot. I genuinely thought that these historical figures would go to the modern world, either make a new life for themselves or learn to rule their empires better by learning about history, or something. But the plot litterally went nowhere. All that happened for half the drama was that the FL would accidentally go to the past and bring an emperor to the present. And this only took place within a few episodes. After that, nothing happened until the last few episodes when the characters finally realise, what we, as the audience already knew on the first episode, we do get a bit more information (which at this point is useless). I have never seen a drama that was as dragged as this because any relevant plots in that drama take place in around 10 episodes in total.
My favourite characters in this drama were the FL's best friend who gets stuck in time and the 3rd emperor. I also really liked the other two emperors, but their feelings for the FL annoyed me a bit. One thing I couldn't understand is why everyone loves the FL so much (other then the neighbour with the fringe), other then her powers, she had nothing going for her, not even personality wise. All the emperors had more going for them when they came to the modern world, then the FL did in the modern world. They all got really good jobs and seemed to be earning a lot of money, whilst the FL is just an intern at a company that almost got her sexually assaulted, publicly in a room full of coworker. I also really wanted the 2nd emperor to get his sister back, I loved his relationship with his sister so much, but the ending ruined almost everything good about this drama. The only thing I liked about the ending was that the FL's doctor friend got his HEA, and he deserved it more then anyone, same with his girlfriend.
This was also the only (so far) historical Cdrama I've watched where I wanted the ML and FL to get a HEA in the past (in the ML's world/empire).
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