The Good:

-Wormhole plot point
- Time traveling desk + prince, but he's always asleep when it happens which is... a bit strange, because then the wormhole theory doesn't actually work. Just make the desk inside the wormhole and then he gets transported with the desk, or what was the point of having the desk transport in the first place?

- Reference to Scarlet Heart\ them watching Scarlet Heart.

- Lantern being connected to the wormhole. Beautiful lantern with original illustrations.

The Bad

- Pretty much everything else.

-FL never matures like in Scarlet Heart. She stays the same.

- Acting all around is OK. Main characters seem to be made up of newbies out of theatre school. No great performances, except the emperor who was excellent.

-CGI animals were incredibly cringe. Not as cringe as watching grown men get swatted by a CGI bear, but pretty close.

- Fight scenes were incredibly fake looking and cringeworthy.

- Characters were all incredibly dumb.

In Conclusion:

This could have been an awesome homage to Scarlet Heart. It started off with the idea of a love that spans 300 years, but Scarlet Heart went deeper than that. It was about human relationships and how there are different ways of looking at them, and about different ways of loving someone and how you can love someone completely but their dark side can ruin you. Anyway, Dreaming Back to the Qing is a superficial drama with no big ideas to it. The FL was likeable enough, but she remained as superficial as the drama itself.