Production is on the murky side. The colors and lighting, the camera work, the super visibly fake hair... I'd mostly praise that blood (spitting) is better than in high budget dramas. The fighting scenes are decent at the start but become quite bad towards the end. The plot is mostly okay, often going simply for shock value, but the last episodes derail in many ways.
P.S.: There's a lot of GL. The early episodes also try to throw random nudity scenes and taboo topics at the screen to see what sticks.
when I first browsed the comment section around release time, my spoiler summary for the drama was "double happy ending, but one popular cute character killed"
The drama was alright. It felt like a bunch of short dramas I've watched in the past combined into one. I was…
2025 is the year of the "strong female general" dramas, I'm slowly losing count of them. What they do strip away here is her body's combat training, but otherwise she's still cunning and all.
I just finished watching DY, it was the first I watched, and it took me 6 months to finish lol only the first…
DY is the only of the three that can't be said to be dragging, as it has a huge amount of plot for the 31 hours. The whole time jump in the last third or quarter felt like they had to stuff another show into there.
TBOY and Blood River have less story content they need to fit in, so they could be accused of dragging.
My watch order was DY - TBOY - BR. Since BR rewrites some of the TBOY plotline, that made more sense to me to have an 'improved' Dark/Blood River arc, but then again DY also rewrites various TBOY things.
The fighting scenes are decent at the start but become quite bad towards the end.
The plot is mostly okay, often going simply for shock value, but the last episodes derail in many ways.
P.S.: There's a lot of GL. The early episodes also try to throw random nudity scenes and taboo topics at the screen to see what sticks.
...the last part doesn't even happen.
for what it is worth the emperor does a 180° later
Then comes the final still from another scene.
THEN come the credits from 44 minutes to 46:30.
Then come the post-credits scene(s), which are not about the topics of this conversation thread.
Besides the twist before the end that the English name already spoils.
For me (as so often) the very start was the best part of this show. Others like the last episodes. Haven't seen much praise of the middle.
And a bit better than https://mydramalist.com/748565-mang-ai-qian-jin , https://mydramalist.com/776871-qing-chuan , https://mydramalist.com/771433-bu-fu-jiang-jun-bu-fu-qing which I'd also recommend.
That's why short dramas get over the top racy plots, and long ones have every red flag ML whitewashed until he's a forest.
Instead of the classic second lead syndrome, viewers can get original FL syndrome.
Shows like https://mydramalist.com/18468-bring-it-on-ghost and https://mydramalist.com/749641-in-blossom are good examples of where you might root for the other actress or character to be the rightful FL.
Yes, 'seized' should be 'tried to seize'.
What they do strip away here is her body's combat training, but otherwise she's still cunning and all.
TBOY and Blood River have less story content they need to fit in, so they could be accused of dragging.
My watch order was DY - TBOY - BR.
Since BR rewrites some of the TBOY plotline, that made more sense to me to have an 'improved' Dark/Blood River arc, but then again DY also rewrites various TBOY things.
The ones I linked I did not see mentioned on MDL.