Reviews

Mixed Feelings....

On one hand it has one of the most complex characters I have seen as the main girl and on the other hand it is awfully dull. I guess I am not a melodrama kind of a person but the story sounds so interesting!



It has Cinderella-ish elements but is far from that story. I can't stand Hyo Sun. Her cutesy acts and her pouts don't make her likable to me. I would need character development from her- loads of it. Moon Geun Young never disappoints me. I am watching this drama because of her. She really stood out in the first episode itself. I love complex bad girls as the lead.



I am worried about watching this show further because every one complains that it starts off great and then goes downhill. I didn't think it was a "great" first episode. So would things get much boring or interesting? I'll have to stay for a few more episodes, I guess.

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Niceness!

I never thought a romance junkie like me would be complaining about too much romance, but I am ... sort of. I wished the writers had allowed the sexual tension to build between Giang Xi and Mu Cheng a little bit longer than one episode before bringing them together. Their relationship developed so fast that all this epic declarations of love at this point in their acquaintance seem rushed, especially coming from Giang Xi who was such a jerk to Mu Cheng throughout most of the first 2 episodes.



I would have actually liked to SEE them falling in love before we're served the main course. Damn those K-dramas that kill you with sexual tension for several episodes before bringing the leads together. I usually hate when you have to wait 10+ episodes for what usually turns out to be a mediocre kiss in k-dramas, but in AC everything happens lightning fast. Ideally I'd like to see some middle ground.



Anyway, that aside this episode was great! This show seems to be getting better and better with each episode. I hope it continues the trend!

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Struggled a bit...

This will be my first Taiwanese drama. I had to struggle through the first episode. My exclusive k-drama consumption, up until now, has corrupted my ears to the sound of other languages. I had to reduce the volume to very low levels just so the Taiwanese could be tolerable. As for the episode itself, the long set up of the characters was a bit tedious. I wasn't immediately intrigued. I had to pause and then come back to it several times before I finally got through it. The performances also came across a bit forced, especially Vaness Wu's Ren. Things looked up a bit toward the end, though, so there's a promise of better things come. Very few dramas I've come across start off with a bang anyway so I'm gonna rock on and see how it goes.

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