There is a horrible trope in C-Fantasy that I simply do not understand, and that's when the antagonists are WAY too powerful. It is so bad in The Untamed that it literally stopped my suspension of disbelief. The first like 25 episodes are all centered around a mcguffin that is totally pointless to the antagonists because they are already more powerful than all the protagonist clans combined. There is literally one antagonist who kills entire clans for fun.... by himself! There is another antagonist that can completely take away your "magical" powers, not that it matters, because most of the time (after about episode 2 at least) they rarely use them. The magic killing guy is apparently the most powerful marshal artist to ever exist in the history of all time as well. Oh and by the way, both these antagonists are lackeys. They're not even high ranking members in the antagonist clan.

Not that the protagonist clans put up much of a fight. Every scene shows the other clans in marshal training, and yet they have no defenses or defensive strategies in place. They don't even have look-out's, because the bad guys just show up in the middle of their towns every time. This is even after they know the bad guys are coming. It's like the author/ writers didn't try to make the marshal aspect of the story interesting or even believable.

The plot doesn't follow any form of logical path or reasoning, everything that happens only happens because the plot needs it to, and that's just bad writing. Which is really a shame because the characters are really interesting and I really wanted to enjoy their story without being constantly pulled out of it by the asinine plot. The acting and production value are top notch as well. I really wanted this to be good but the writers let me down, and that's just sad.

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This is probably one of the most morally bankrupt drama's I have ever seen and that includes American Dramas. If you like to see the bad guy win and men of good moral character be completely mistreated then this drama is for you. The acting was really well done and production value was top notch but the story was so badly executed that by the end of the series I was just hoping some of the main characters would die to balance out my sense of injustice at the story. The casting was bad as well as the lead female had much better chemistry with the second love interest than the first, which really leads to some emotional let downs throughout the series. The "Take Away Moral" of this drama is, "You can treat Taiwanese women however you want as long as you have a sharp nose and the woman in question is over 30 and unmarried."

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