Juelin
United States
Bad acting, bad plot, bad everything
A lower class FL with amnesia and a super important destiny to be discovered? Check. FL having a childhood crush on a sect leader's studly son? Check. A jealous side chick who likes the sect leader's son and hates FL because the son likes FL? Check. Side chick keeps bullying FL because of her jealousy? Check. An adoptive uncle giving FL a super important artifact to help her find her identity? Check. A mysterious ML who is so much better than the sect leader's son and who falls in love with FL? Check. FL going on a quest to uncover her destiny and meeting a slew of side characters to help her on the way? Check. Want something new and interesting? You won't find it here.Some acting was just terrible. I wasn't sure whether Zhan Beiye was a serious character or a caricature because of Gao Wei Guang's extreme overacting and dramatic staring. Lots of characters yelled a lot instead of just speaking. There were also long periods of time where ML and FL were separated. At those times, Yang Mi didn't have the acting chops to carry the story on her own because of her consistent stiff acting.
The plot was repetitive and kept recycling itself. ML and FL met up briefly, got separated, then they met again, then got separated again. Pei Yuan was unintelligent and completely uninteresting as a villain. She had no personality outside of her superficial hatred for Fuyao and an endless pursuit to kill her. Again and again she would act out to try to kill Fuyao and fail, just to try again and fail again. There was zero entertainment in that.
Overall, the drama started out interesting but the plot quickly frizzled out into bland and repetitive tropes.
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Dumb cliché tropey mess
This review is only for the first 4 episodes because I couldn't handle more.For the life of me I don't understand all of the positive reviews. This is a not a terribly old show being released in 2013, but it looks like it was made in the 90s. I felt like I was watching Xena the Warrior Princess because the show was filled with so many cliche tropes and looked outdated.
Moreover, the gender bender trope is utterly suspect. Two grown man are having a crush on a boy, who is actually a girl, but think that she is a boy, all the while trying to convince themselves they are not gay after having erotic dreams about the "boy". Then, they actively compete with each other in a jealous rage for the "boy". The whole "I'm not gay" thing would've been more convincing if they secretly knew that the "boy" was a girl. Please, lets burn the gender bender trope with fire.
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