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The Legend of Jin Yan chinese drama review
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The Legend of Jin Yan
5 people found this review helpful
by caDAVEr
Jul 23, 2020
34 of 34 episodes seen
Completed 4
Overall 6.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 5.0
This review may contain spoilers

Drama set in era where human brains seemed not fully evolved

Finally completed this drama last evening doing the final 8 episodes at one go - it certainly increased my blood pressure. I did quite abit of reading and asking before deciding to start it last Friday. First impressions were not too bad, the FL is cute though her acting was a bit awkward (like she was practicing her acting alone in front of a mirror) which is still okay for me. ML I don't find him good looking, the other main actors in the show are better looking. His looks did grow on me and his acting was not too bad for a fresh actor. Overall it is a pretty/handsome cast.

The story/plot is nothing to get excited about, how it was executed often is hard to believe even for a drama like this. Two "S"s to describe the characters, first being "Superhuman". The characters can fall off a cliff, nearly get drowned, poisoned, caught in fire and come out unscathed. Second is the how "Stupid" the characters were, most if not all of them. People that rather die then to clarify even though there no reason for them not to. People who deliberately/stupidly show up or do things to put them in an unfavorable situations etc... The most honorable mention will be how they set aside a few episodes just for misunderstandings towards the end. (1) the FL repeatedly accepts gifts (willingly or unwillingly) from the love rival of the ML even though he expressed displeasure everytime and he always happened to be there to catch the act. (2) The evil mother of the ML wanted to send the FL away to a monastery, the ML intervenes last minute only for the FL to request the ML to let her go. Thereafter blaming the ML's willingness to let her go (WTF?!). I am fine with a stupid FL, a useless ML but this is just testing my patience. I can go on and on however I shouldn't waste anymore time on this.

Music was okay but not too memorable, I could still remember some of them last night.

Rewatch value? Think I am being kind giving it a 5.
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