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Pei Wen Xuan deserved better!!
Just finished this drama and it lowkey felt like a chore to finish it. The story was a bit boring yet interesting enough to finish it.I found there to be very little chemistry between the two leads, but their acting was good enough and I felt the respect they had for each other as actors. ZJM could work on her facial expressions a bit. More feeling!! Some of her crying/sad scenes were not convincing enough to me except the one where SRQ revealed everything to her in that cave. I liked her acting there. I enjoy a good crazy dramatic scene (ahem, Consort Rue). ZLH needed more screen time!!
Li Rong was such a selfish person with big trust issues (understandable). Her character was so annoying and she did not deserve Pei Wen Xuan's love!! He was way too good for her. PWX loved her way more than she did. I do appreciate that they had good communication in certain scenes and cleared up some misunderstandings. And like many other's already talked about, Su Rong Qing had too much screen time. He was pretty much the ML in this drama and the whole story felt like it revolved around him.
I loved the other supporting characters like Qin Zhen Zhen, Shangguan Ya and Su Rong Hua. And the actress of Consort Rou played the heck out of her role! She was a very convincing psycho! LOL
What bugged me was in Episode 35 where they switched Prince Su after he passed away with someone who was basically the same person. That was ridiculous. But then suddenly everyone knew he was imposter? They just knew!! There was no big reveal so it was underwhelming. And nobody really mourned for Prince Su except the Princess Hua. Consort Rou was so fixated on power, she mourned for like a few minutes and then boom - back to being power hungry.
Also, goodness gracious SRQ was basically half of Ep 40 with his dramatic antics. And near the end 3 years into the future, where the heck was Li Rong and Pei Wen Xuan's kid?!
I do enjoy a good political drama, but this one dragged on. This shouldn't have been 40 episodes long. 30 episodes would have been fine. I do believe this is worth a watch if you like the leads. Who knows, you might enjoy it more than me!
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The Princess Royal é um drama que aborda a temática de "segunda chance". Após a viverem uma vida cheia de arrependimento e morrerem de forma trágica, nossos protagonista, a princesa Li Rong e seu consorte Pei Wenxuan, são levados de volta quarenta anos no passado, antes de se casarem e têm a oportunidade de mudarem seus destinos trágicos bem como o destino de todo o reino.
Ao mesmo tempo que eles conseguem avançar evitando erros do passado, tanto no campo afetivo quanto político, acabam esbarrando em obstáculos emocionais e também são frustrados pelo antagonista Su Rongqing. Aliás, Su Rongqing, é responsável por grande parte da minha frustação com relação ao enredo do drama. Além de ativamente trabalhar contra os planos dos protagonistas, também nutre um amor obsessivo pela princesa que me irritava profundamente. Muitas vezes precisei pausar o drama e esperar alguns dias antes de continuar assistindo tamanha a decepção com os rumos do enredo, especialmente com relação a esta personagem.
Contudo, o final do drama valeu a pena pela jornada. Um drama cheio de altos e baixos, mas que os episódios finais compensam o tempo investido para assistir ao drama, especialmente no concerne a "volta ao passado". Já tive algumas frustrações com dramas que trouxeram essa temática, mas que no final revelavam que toda a história assistida era fruto de um sonho ou algo similar. Aqui isso não ocorre e fiquei grata por isso.
Além disso, The Princess Royal é um drama visualmente muito bonito. Uma produção de alto orçamento que se reflete nos cenários, figurinos e efeitos maravilhosos das cenas de luta marcial. Realmente um deleite para os olhos. Os atores também são maravilhosos, os protagonistas não tenho nem o que mencionar porque foram incríveis como sempre. Mas meu destaque vai para o jovem ator (Liu Xu Wei) que fez o papel do príncipe herdeiro. Ele passa a maior parte do drama meio apagadinho, joguete dos interesses políticos da família sem muita personalidade, porém quando nos episódios finais contam a história de sua tirania na "vida passada" o rapaz deu um show de interpretação. Realmente espero vê-lo em outros dramas com papéis de mais destaque.
Realmente recomendo o drama, mas com a ressalva de que você passará muita raiva com o Su Rongqing. Contudo, se você enfrentar esses momentos, o final valerá a pena. É um drama que deixou uma boa impressão e ficará guardado em minha memória positivamente, apesar dos percalços.
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WORTH WATCHING
THOUGH IT IS A FANTASY, STORY IS GOOD, LOVES WATCHING ZHANG LING HE ACTING. WILL TRY TO WATCH ALL HIS DRAMAS. ALL THE OTHER ACTORS IS JUST A PROP FOR THE MAIN LEADS STORY.TOO BAD SU RONG QIN PREFER TO WALK THE WRONG PATH EVEN WHEN HE IS GIVEN A 2ND LIFE. THE CONCUBINE SMILE IS SO EVIL. ALL ABOUT SEEKING FOR POWER IN THE PALACE. THOUGH IT IS JUST A FICTION.
WONDER HOW AFTER BEING STAB HE STILL CAN PLAY THE QIN. STORY OF 2 MEN FALLING FOR A PRINCESS.
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Another drama to the list
I have never seen a lot of historical dramas but it's actually my first time seeing such a story of time traveling. If you like such a badass woman in court then I could recommend this to you. It's not the typical badass but a person who can rule the country, not leading to the war. Also it's my first time getting angry to a character, how they cast Heyi as the villain, how he had this calm, scholar demeanor but with a evil intensions. How i also got angry and annoyed to a female character, when it shows Li Chuan's side of a story. Now understand why he killed her.It's not focus on romance, but a descent amount of romance. Love how Jinmai acts, it suits her well. it suits to the character.
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Under power, relations are bound to be broken
So, first of all i agree by the people who are saying Zhang ling he doesn't get much screen time is true. He is such a great actor in this drama his acting was very good his visuals was very pretty and sexy. The married couples bickering, cute moments, and the steamy scenes were so so much good but my complain here is they were very short lived and left us craving for more.I even noticed that the male lead often got ignored or invalidate in so many scenes. And us as audience was not ready. He even got stabbed in fields and the princess just asked him to go after bickering. Its like he was the original victim. He helped everyone in so many matters but he always become sidelined in so many situations.
And what was wrong with writers and producers? They tried so hard to convince us that SML is innocent. But he was not innocent.
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either I die with you, or take you home
ok first thing that i like ab this show is that i love love loooove the development LR & PWX had. love how PWX AAALWAYS reassures LR that he is for her & would literally die than live without her. my girl just has a lot of trust issues bc of all the things she's been through and i'm glad for PWX's character for not creating more headaches for her and always being there for her. and i couldn't imagine anyone else but ZLH playing that role ! i feel like the main leads did a really great job potraying the characters. i could literally go on about them bc they were so!! memorable!!plot was interesting until SRQ/SML became the main part of the plot LOL i feel like it shouldn't have been dragged for that long. during the final episode he had more lines than PWX did ? which was funny bc tbh i couldn't care less about him. his obsession w the princess was weird, can't stop reminding her that he's in love with her like ok.........noted. the politics are just the usual tbh.. wish there were more scenes w the ML without it cutting to SRQ on to the next scene, but i'm satisfied enough with what's given (and i also have our generation to look forward to ZJM & ZLH together heheh). the second lead's couple(s) story urmmmz it was interesting at the start but then it was just bland (at least to me). feel like i skipped through a lot of scenes once it was ep20-25 because there were a few draggy scenes @_@ would've been perfect without the dragging or if it was a 26-30 ep show i tink
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Lots of mistrust and politics, but interesting nevertheless!
Okay so….I can safely say now that Zhang Ling He is a master of complicated romances! If one has watched The Kuning Palace or My Journey to you, one would understand from where I am coming. I was waiting for the show to complete airing, but once it did, I read some negative reviews and avoided watching it, even though I like Zhang Ling He. Then I watched Love’s Rebellion, loved Zhang Ling He and Sally Jing there, and decided to take a gamble and watch this one. I’d say I was surprised that I found the show interesting from start to finish. A lot of politics for power, strife between the throne and noble houses for power grabbing, political marriages, and mercenaries who wanted to bring about a change! The concept doesn’t sound new, but what was new here was the submissive role the ML needed to play. He was clearly a very intelligent, and highly capable official, stuck at the lower rungs because of being a commoner, and was made the prince consort for the princess who was not only weary of him, but also had feelings for another man, our second ML, with memories from a past life where she thought she was killed by the ML and regretted not ending up with the second ML. While this all might sound confusing to someone who is reading the review before watching the series, the plot of the story can be summed up as having a tragic ending in life and getting a second chance by travelling back in time when things were still alright. What’s new here is that it was not one but three people who got to time travel to change their fate, and when similar situations kept cropping up, the self doubt, doubt on others, and the helplessness of not being able to change things made the series interesting. In the second chance, however, we see everyone getting what they wanted, people ending up with right partners without political considerations. Our leads married thrice in the entire series, the FL got pregnant in episode 37, and even though the story jumped three years forward, we never got to see the outcome of the pregnancy. As for the acting, I liked everyone’s role, I could criticise Zhao Jin Mai for her not-so-emotive acting if I become over-critical, but other than that, I liked everyone. Zhang Ling He was amazing as usual, and looked his best in episode 38 when he takes back his family seal from his evil uncle. I can keep going, but if I had to summarise this drama, I’d say it is an interesting story well performed, could have been better with better acting by Zhao Jin Mai, but still very watchable.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
The Princess Royal
This might be one of my favorite costume drama. Everything about this drama is magnificent from the story, locations, costumes and the characters. I really love the FL her portrayal of the character is on point. I can't wait to watch the next episode. Thank you TPR team for creating this masterpiece.Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
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Unlikeable FL
It has its good highlights. but, i couldn't get immersed in it after 14 episodes because I don't find Li Rong likeable. This obsession with the other guy is just distasteful & unsupported by the story premise.Its so difficult to finish bec the character of Li Rong is just frustrating af. Her relationship with her brother is heartwarming. Her relationship with others is just eyeroll inducing. Gaslighting galore. Ugh.
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NOT SO MUCH
Let me review things that aren't appeal to me:Zhao Jin Mai (Li Rong/Rong Rong)
She's soft spoken, almost whisper, hard to hear what she said (I have to turn up the volume). She sighed a lot in every scenes regardless she's frustrated, sad, thinking, confuse, happy she'd take a deep breath and sighed. She can't dance unfortunately, She's beautiful, she shed tears few times but not feeling the sadness.....she smiled but didn't feel her happiness...she's just there recite her dialog without putting her heart out. I think Cheng Guo (Shangguan Ya) has better acting than Jin Mai.
Things I am not fond of
Too much taking about love & feeling on & on about it, about palace intrigues, little action, Harem women instigated for power struggles (like Empress, Consort Ning, Consort Rou). I think this plot is overly used by c-drama. How many times have we seen this kind of plot in previous dramas? Feel bad for the Emperor, the most powerful man but surrounded by manipulative people and the family who close to him wishes him dead.
What I like about this drama:
Good looking casts, gorgeous costumes, beautiful setting. The acting is good especially Zhang Ling He (Pei Wen Xuan), Chen He Yi (Su Rong Qing/Minister of Justice}, Wei Zi Xin (Tong Ye /Wen Xuan's attendant) I like him - his acting isn't forced.
The story is complicated, last 4 episodes started to reveal as to why how when who. I can't tell who's the heroes or perpetrators. They have sound reasoning, it's all started when Su RongHua fallen in love with Shangguan. Ya, three main characters reborn to their perspective life to young beginning of their life journey, avoiding last life miserable mistakes they vowed to change their 2nd life to support the good cause.
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BEING ACCEPTED AND LOVED
This drama reminds me why I love Chinese dramas so much, full of busy themes and not suitable for relax or watching on the sofa without any deep thoughts.Husband and wife whose love was destroyed by intrigue and lust for power, but in a second chance with a reincarnation when it all began. Being able to find those feelings again and save the situation from tragedy.
it is a challenging, introspective drama made to analyze and understand, where each character is much more than simply multifaceted, and where the drama is much more than a simple love story. is a drama that truly expand at the heartstrings of both men and women. A drama that teaches to be sincere, to choose your own path, not to be afraid of your heart, all in the perfect ethics of the Confucian social hierarchy, which is still the foundation of Chinese society nowadays.
it's a drama that really appeals to veryone, how to involve. Although the second lead is a rather unbearable character, he is a nice character too.
Recognizable historical elements, full of Chinese culture, wonderful scenarios and scenography, vivid and intense colours, a drama that makes you think and reflect from many points of view.
The special episode is for our hearts.
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my opinion
I’m in love with this show!?The acting, the costumes, the chemistry, the characters, the actors everything about this show it’s amazing although in the first episodes the FL kinda annoyed me I totally understood why she acted that way.ZJM acting was amazing as always and I really like the makeup that they did on her also I don’t know what they did to ZLH and he looks so good in this so cuz they made him look so fineeee (he is already good looking) but he looks amazing in this drama!!!! Definitely recommend can’t wait for the other episodes to come!Vond je deze recentie nuttig?
