Fighting for Disappointment

Yizhi was stupid and immature but it made sense because he was a spoiled and sheltered wealthy son of a princess. And he all of a sudden is on the run for his life with no experience or intelligence. I understand how people are annoyed with him but maybe we too often expect the guys to be the ideal man. To me it felt like his job is suppose to be simply and pure heartedly dedicating himself to Amai. I was able to accept this role and viewed Amai as the hero of the story and Yizhi as a man princess that she would come and rescue. Basically a gender reversal.

The problem starts when they reach the last battle of the show. They went through the majority of the show going through life and death together. And becoming more successful, strong, and able to go through adversity together. Then its simply gets all thrown away when they get to the last part of the show. Apparently all the struggle of the previous episodes were for nothing, and for whatever reason they simply drop the way that their characters were previously.

Yizhi is no longer strong enough to make it though the difficulties when it comes to Amai, when previously he always listened to her, and wouldn't do things that could lose her. And Amai is no longer willing to come save him from the evil plots. She quickly gets discouraged and stops believing him when the worst of the show comes along. I think it would have been easier for me to accept and transition to an ending where they literally just die in battle together. Because that would feel more in line with the majority of the show that was leading me on with a hero story type of dynamic. If the show was more like Goodbye my Princess and you didn't have much expectations for them to stay together or have a good ending, because it didn't lead you on, then it would have been easier to digest this ending.

In Goodbye My Princess it felt like the sad ending was beneficial to the prince's character, or at least makes sense. It was the finale of a tragic story. But in Fighting For Love it just ruins the show and they just give up on the battles that they've been fighting for love the entire show, like don't even call it Fighting For Love anymore please. What even was the point in the characters even overcoming everything that happened before anymore? The show became a bit pointless no?

I didn't rate it too low because it wasn't that bad before it gets to the last part of the show. Most of the show is enjoyable comedy. And it was cool to see a women hero that was actually done pretty well with pretending to be man to join the army.

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Overall decent but could have had improvement

Overall I liked this drama, I felt it was worth that I watched it. I liked the Male and Female lead. But I do feel like the writing and directing could have some improvement. I almost wonder if they spent too much of their energy thinking about the outfits rather then the story. There are some wonderful outfits and the devil realm is very pretty. A lot of the aesthetics are beautiful. I honestly hope we will continue to have some more of this magical world and that the stories will start to improve.

An example of the writing and directing I'm referring to-
I can accept that the ML had a dilemma where he was told he had to kill his true love, or all living beings would suffer and be killed. But I feel like they did not give us enough time to focus on his internal conflict. He just sheds some tears before he is about to kill her. And then they gave us too much fillers about the side character Yi'er who is sad about the demon lord's death, even giving her a new admirer. There aren't even that many episodes to this show. So I feel they did not use the time of the show as well as they could have. it would be better if we had some more build up to certain events such as Yan Yue having to kill his true love, to make them feel more genuine. Considering the filler they maybe could have even made a longer "happy ending"

it also feels like sometimes side characters are seen as expendable in the shows. Not one side character had a happy ending. they even kill the wolf princes wife while she's pregnant to really rub it in. If the "happy ending" was longer and they go back in time and everything's fixed and everyone's happy, it could have potentially felt more complete.

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