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The Starry Love chinese drama review
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The Starry Love
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by gaja123
Sep 6, 2023
40 of 40 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 9.0
Story 10.0
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 10.0
Rewatch Value 7.0
This review may contain spoilers

good story but with a disappointing ending...

I started watching this drama without reading the reviews about the ending. If I had known it was going to end up disappointingly like this, I probably would have stopped somewhere in the good times for major leads in the middle of...

In general, what I liked was a nice idea for the plot, I especially liked the idea of the main lead Empyrean Xuan Shang, who played a total of 4 different characters in this drama.
Chen Xing Xu played it very well and I have to say that I really liked each of these character shards...especially I am impressed by the actor's warm-toned low bass voice, which also gave emotions to the characters played by him :)
Second lead character Chao Feng [ Third Prince] had a nice beginning and middle, but then the authors of the script probably ran out of ideas to develop it to the end, it's a pity, because this character and the actor's abilities could have been used more. As for the two twin flower sisters, both actresses played their roles well. I really liked both couples, they were very cute and sweet and I liked a lot of fun elements in between. Supporting characters like the Empyrean siblings, or Prince Di Lan Jue or Man Man also added a lot to the drama. The negative characters are really villains full of revenge, hatred and obsession to rule the world...there were moments when I got too much of this cold-blooded killing and scheming.
It's nice that the director gave a lot of nice light, comedic moments, it softened these drastic scenes a bit...

OST - when it comes to the music, I must say that it is very good and complements the drama scenes beautifully. For me, one of my favorites is Flawles World performed by Mao Bu Yi, where the instrumental version of the flute and guitar sank into my heart, and Sa Ding Ding with a beautiful flute motif and a female voice in the style of traditional Chinese opera, which was also an interesting solution. Funny and cute is the theme of the song Double flowers :)

The ending - the most disappointing moment of the drama ... for me it was not an open ending, but in my opinion both sisters ended sadly, that's how I perceive it, they were reborn, but only to the original form of a flower of a tree vein, which means for me, the form that they had in the beginning before the destruction of the tree in which both abided as twin flowers. Which means they won't be reborn as human beings, so that made me extremely upset and that's why I didn't give 10 points in the total score and also deducted points for the plot due to this ending. I think it's a big mistake of the writers of the script that they left the ending that way. After all the sacrifices, both couples should have a happy It would be good if the director thought about recording an additional episode with the rebirth of the sisters to human characters :)

Overall, I would say that this drama is worth watching, despite the unfortunate ending... :)
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