When will things make sense in historical cdramas?

I will be blunt honest that I actually came here just for chemistry and probably 'no breakup' BS....but in middle of drama I found this hypnotism quite interesting and slowly became unvested in story BUT seriously there are things which just blows off my mind.
Well its historical drama heritage to make the childhood friend of ML into some sort of scheming unsightly lady...and also how can there be any historical drama without one scheming brother?
But alas, I can handle these things as my dao of heart is atleast that strong after watching much dramas.
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BUT the twists in ep 25-28 were just too much...do you want me to believe that a general takes over whole army of his country in few months and could use it threaten another country with similar prowess??
I seriously can never understand female leads in these dramas...I don't know how much a person needs to show that he has hostile intentions towards her??
She already knew how how that 'pugu' guy kidnapped her brother and framed her 'husband' and also including the deaths of many people...he naturally shouted that he will not give up on her but I don't know why she could not understand the meaning?
Also when she decided to pretend to marry the 'pugu' guy then on what basis did she tried to do that? She did not even knew where ML was and how the heck can she marry another person while still being married? Atleast she needs to divorce first no?
I didn't knew what her plan was? After marrying her 'pugu' what she will do? Let's say he released her brother then what?
Would the whole Beixuan would see how the lady married to their kingdom was taken away that easily?
Also it really infuriates me when the 'pugu' guy was trying to make himself pitiful...like hell man!
Why even his soldiers were loyal to him? He killed his own soldiers for a woman? Tried to wage war for a single woman! So many people lost their lives just for a woman and then he tries to show how good is he? And what the hell was with his character development?
In just few hours he turned from a obsessed evil vile man to a selfless hero who is sacrificing all for his love...I literally was cursing at screen when the whole romantic song started in background and how FL cried for him...meh...you seriously want some pity? sorry I can't give any...
Okay I can understand that he was c*cked beautifully by FL's second brother and ML but still...using people's lives to deal with his shitty love life? that's too much you know? there was no political uphoven actually....all useless killing and political stability was due to the shitty past love relationship between 'pugu' guy and FL.
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Haah...finally some deep breath after ranting out my frustrations....
Anyways do come to watch this for chemistry and skinship...I was here till now due to skinship and chemistry...but then this drama again started to turn over and again ML being schemed and apparently losing powers cliche was started...so...
*haish*

Leia Mais

How to continue this drama?

Okay, you may find me pathetic for giving this drama a low rating and also criticising it as this story is very old and also one of the legends.
I am not gonna talk about which version is good or bad, cause this is the first time I saw this drama and story.
Now lets move to review/rant.
The show is good till 30s eps, so, I think you should watch it till that as it is quite unique with a weak to strong troupe where mc learns different skills by wandering here and there, also the romance is top-notch till 30s eps but after that I recommend you to not become a masochist as I had to become to complete the drama.
All the linearity was lost for me and yeah, beware of people who say that mc has character development...there is no character development other than changing his clothes and giving him a badass look in last 2 eps, there is no clear ending.
I think that this drama could be preferred by children or rather the children at chunni age, the main character is stupid, yes, you could say that its just in his character or his stupidity makes him unique but for me, he was just a man who never learnt from his mistakes.
He kept repeating same mistakes, he never became decisive, I would say that he would make a good harem jp protagonist.
Same for female lead, tbh I watched the drama for her smile lol, it was cute, but the big problem was that it doesn't matter whether a person is dying or killing, she keeps smiling.
At the end, atleast the main antagonist was able to kill the frigging molester, the mc just can't kill anyone...yup he even didn't kill his enemies or the antagonist.
~Now, for those who have seen this~
Yang Kang's mother was a just too worse, first of all, she saved a man and didn't even tell her husband about it...just how much brain damage she had at that time?
After that she didn't tell her son about her real father or his real identity...? Like what? Why didn't she tell him that?
And, the seven heroes were just seven weaklings...meh.
Zhuo butong was the best character!
Hong Qigong was also good.
FL's father was not a tyrant or something...he just misunderstands everything and then regrets.
ML's mother....why she was left alive, she had so less scenes!
Never understood Mu Nianci's reason of falling in love with yang kang.

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Still, the music was fantastic or rather addictive, fight scenes were good, not much of flowery sequences.

Leia Mais

Chemistry on FIRE!!

I enjoyed the drama very much, it does have a love triangle(which I resent) but FL never really showed any interest to him other than being a normal friend BUT, I found one thing extremely weird which was main driving force for drama in the story, like the friendship of FL with SML, SML was CEO of the rival company in which she worked, firstly SML lied to her about his identity to befriend her and at first he wanted to use her as a pawn to trample on ML but soon due to the heavy plot armour of our FL he fell for her.
Also, I don't think any person in his mind would keep his friendship to a person whom you recently met and who lied to you about his identity...so, this friendship of SML and FL was really weird for me but it was necessary to flow the drama or how it will produce 36 eps?
Other than this the intimate scenes were really very hot! Hottest I ever seen in any kdrama or cdrama, the chemistry was over the top with very much fluff and light hearted moments, the leads trusted each other.
The actor acting for ML really did a great job, I started liking Bai Lu from 'One and Only' and 'Forever and Ever'...she really is a great actress and I personally find her much more attractive than the typical 'cute' actresses. Cause I rarely see much 'mature' type of FLs in Cdrama and Bai Lu is best in them.
I would recommend this to any Fluff romance fan with less angst...A great Drama!

Leia Mais

There is something missing....

I admit that it certainly is well made action-packed thriller drama with romance....buuuut,
Something is missing...I was just wasn't able to go into characters and had sympathy for anyone...Idk what went wrong with me or drama?
It was more of a secret hitman type lead rather than a lead who fights...for me there were less moments of fight...guns and bullets were rarely used...and the fights were just with some local thugs type of people...
Also the ML seemed very confused during the whole time...at one moment he goes on his fetishes to protect everyone around him and when one person become hurt he start to push other people...
I mean, please decide whether you want to protect or not? whether you want to keep in touch or not?
moreover, I really disliked the dressing sense of ML...he was just not clean(no offence).
Even though it had the whole plot, cast, etc....I was just wasn't able to enjoy much....Cause for one, I really dislike the confused leads types...who changes their minds in just 30 minutes...at one moment they act all caring and sweet and then other moment they start acting all the jerk and cold type to push off other lead for the GREATER GOOD.
Also the adopted father was suffering from his own chunnibyo problems with lines like, 'This is our destiny'...bruhhhhh.
His comrade(ML's father) had already told him in his dying moments to take care of both his son and his wife, also he could take revenge on his own then, why the heck did he even involved his son? also he did not took care of ML's mother....hah~
As for other, FL was becoming M, and ML a S, can't they both just talk and tell to be away from each other for the time being?

Leia Mais

When will Love Triangles(that are just for sake of increasing eps) stop?

So, where to start huh?
Hmm...it started of great, I mean it.
I binged from ep 1 to 12 at a single time without much skipping parts(which is rare for me)...but then the love triangle kinda destroyed the whole hype and steam of the drama for me...I mean from ep 1 to 12 there was not a moment where FL and ML did not knew that they have feelings for each other...it is hinted for god knows how many times but then in just half a ep, we are told that FL has never liked ML and she had feelings for the SML for 10 years...............
*Boom*
Literally? I wasn't even able to tell if I was watching the same drama...FL's thoughts literally changed at such a rate from ML to SML, I just found it completely laughable(kinda disgusting also-no offence), I thought that finally a drama where I won't see a love triangle or even then I would see a couple with some vibes as of love 020 one, because all the time FL was so into ML but suddenly she completely forgot about ML and only Yu yi, yu yi...started ringing in her mind.
I was completely dumbfounded by the twist, I just can't help and drop the series because other than its fluffy, cute scenes without angst and melodrama...it doesn't have any backbone...its empty.
Then the only thing that I hate to see in dramas came and ruined the whole thing for me...I could have understood it better if they had introduced SML in starting eps...but introducing in 13th ep? with only a drama for 22 ep? I understood that this is how this drama is not in recommendations...
I was seriously disappointed though...cause the things just didn't make any sense...other than this the acting is only okaish...nothing surprising...chemistry also acceptable...though I found acting sometimes exaggerated for a female of late twenties cause FL seem to have maturity of that of a teenager's.
The ost? well...I remember just one line which is in english...and I think that all osts were same? Anyways I have difficulty in differentiating what are people saying in dramas cause I have no relation with mandarin or korean...that's why eng subs are my lifeline...
Well you can watch if this drama if you are looking for a fluffy cute drama with a gary stu ML and your common every fluffy's cdrama clumsy CUTE girl with whining fetish...ALSO REMEMBER TO CLOSE YOUR MIND!

Leia Mais

I am tired...

This was okay kind of for me...but as of the 6th ep, I am taking a break from this. Its just that at start I liked it when FL showed more interest in herself and worked on herself, but as of 6th, she just don't care of anything and start hanging out with archery team and doing your typical 'cute' things to make them laugh...like meh...I was just disappointed at point even though I would continue this but I don't like FL being needless nosy here and there.
I literally find it too boring when we see one FL with a whole bunch of male members, it kind of irritates me...why there needs to be only one female and with like 10 men? Atleast give 3-4 female...like seriously another school drama where there's a 'cute' FL doing 'cute' things to appease male characters...haish...they don't have that quality in their characters apart from doing 'cute' things for handsome men.
I am really looking forward for some change of norms in school drama with females playing other role than just doing cute things for never ending male characters...

Leia Mais

I really can't watch Lakorns I guess...

First of all, I decided to give this one a try as my first Lakorn after reading some good reviews about it, as how there is a SENSIBLE FL in it(which is a rare case in lackorns) and ML(not a molester)....
But if this is what you call 'excellent' in lackorns then I can't imagine watching Lakorns in future...like I found that the FL is most calm and mature in this lakorn but meh....
I understand that she do not trust men and blah blah blah...
Actually just tell me, she found that her boyfriend literally double timed her and made another woman pregnant and ditched her in the wedding....but she still want to help him and take care of him........*bruhhh*
And then you see her temper towards ML, firstly both of them had fault when they had one-night stand but she just threw all the blame on ML right off the bat without listening to anything...okayy...I understand.
She was given days to cool down her mind but she kept whining and accusing as how ML stole her most precious thing, a papparazi came to blackmail them and ML tried to make her understand the situation and give her a good solution but she again declined without listening to anything...
Actually the main problem is the consistency of relationship and mood swings of FL...at one moment you will think that now they will solve things calmly...one moment FL behaves all lovey-dovey and next second she just run off without listening to a single sentence...

She herself was a celeb so she must know that how papparazis and media are in creating scandalous situations but she just run off, she could trust any men other than ML actually...I was wondering how was she even able to handle such a large company cause all I could see a woman pretending to be strong and trying to gather needless sympathy from others.

Like she is no. 1 celeb with a massive inheritance...but she is clinging to a scum man like he is some type of samaritan...the dude cannot do anything if her mother stops him...he made another girl pregnant while being in relationship and then ditched her on wedding...but even then we are being shown as how considerate and good man is he....wtf??!
Hah...I needed to vent these frustrations...anyways I can't seriously watch lakorns....cdrama and kdrama ftw!

Leia Mais

Why is it rated so high?

I wasn't able to continue after 7th ep...things just don't make any sense...I just wasn't able to see why would a girl would want to date a guy who invited her as his date to a party but then abandoned her and went to flirt with other women...I am not saying that the guy is bad but he could show the least respect to her by inviting her as his date...FL is just simply a 'cute girl doing cute things' type...other than eating and working as a source of gossip, she doesn't really showed much ability...there's a difference between 'naive' and 'stupid'...she can picture as the director of company confess to her but can never imagine in her dreams that the boss would confess to her...
I started it with great expectations just after completing a fabulous no bullshit drama-'Meeting You' but only to be disappointed...maybe I will cont. in future.

Leia Mais

I tried, really really tried...

My brain was unable to handle after 4th ep, firstly I don't know what's problem with voice of the female lead...why she have to be so loud and irritating voice? I don't feel any natural acting from the female lead...all of it seemed just forceful. She could hit a male idol with millions of followers to invite more troubles but can't hit the bullies...like wtf?
I can't stand such stupidity...its like watching a six year old girl who had her ice-cream scoop dropped on ground, I understand that she is like tomboy girl but she could have a teeny tiny bit of brain after hearing that she had already finished her studies...and for one second, please a 21-22? year old girl would be so much worried for her love life that for which she go into university? Like what she thinks of an university-a marriage bureau?
Okay okay its a drama, so I can put off my logic but still man...it was ridiculous! I came here with high hopes after completing 'missing you' BUT my brain cells literally got fried watching after first 4 ep!
Anyways, if you are able to close your brain and could watch a girl's only purpose to come to university for her love life then you are very welcome to watch this...
Though I have to admit that osts were nice...

Leia Mais