What I liked:

The acting was good enough to keep me watching.
The second leads were the sole reason I stuck with this drama till the end. (Even the reason I started watching.)
Dong Hua and Feng Jiu saved the second part of the drama so much, like ugh I lived for the cute interactions. It reach the point that whenever they were on screen, was the only moment I would enjoy the drama.
First and third lives were really good. I started to care about the leads in the third part of the drama, (Mind you I shipped Bai Qian with Mo Yuan before).
Even thought I always stayed away from fantasy cdramas, this one made me think that the action scenes were for the most part quite exciting. It would be sometime until I watch a fantasy cdrama without cringing, but still a great start for me.

What I didn't like:

OMG the second life was terrible. Like Jesus Christ, talk to each other. Things started to go south for me, when Ye Hua decided to keep lying to her after SuSu assured him that no matter what kind of a creature he was, she'll still love him. I could've taken this more easily if there was a genuine reason for the lies. But no, this was all about him wanting to shield her for everything, even of himself.
SuSu was always in the dark, Ye Hua would even abandon her for long periods of time and guess what? Never did he explain shit.
When she landed in the Celestial tribe, he never bothered to explain to her that she needed to be careful with this guy or that one. He was like "Yeah, don't talk to anyone, don't say a word". Like, dude, Who would believe that every person in that effing tribe has ill intentions? Su Jin was so "gentle" with her, of course SuSu wouldn't think otherwise.
When he took her eyes I was done with him, I had to restrain myself to not drop this. I felt glad, when she "killed" herself.
I get that SuSu lost her memory... but Did you all needed to make her that stupid? She went from mischievous kid to Mary Sue so fast, that I couldn't swallow it.
SuSu never went to talk to Ye Hua about the thing that she was mad about, or to clarify the misunderstandings. No couple can last like that. One hiding things and the other keeping quiet about her pain. It's this the couple of the century? Sadly, Bai Qian does this again when she gets her memory back. never letting Ye Hua said his part of the story, and shuttting down everything. Wich made me more mad, because now she knew how evil Su Jin was, all the plotting she did against her. So Why would she still prefer to care only about what she heard of Su Jin' side?

What could have been better:

The CGI, for starters. LOTS of CGI, I wished they would have used more natural locations instead of this huge amount of green screens.
Sometimes there would be issues with the background. Like that time when the hand of the God of Star suddenly disappeared, when Ye Hua was walking and the castle background suddenly changed. Oh, and how to forget that one time the King of the Sea Tribe (don't remeber clearly), passed through a column.
The would use the same 3 or 4 places to film over and over. They used the cave for the Fox clan, for the Kunlun Mountain, The dungeon of the 4 beast, etc. Same with the palace. All of these things really took me out of the drama.
Apart from Male and female leads, everyone used almost the same clothes in all the drama. All day, every day.

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Good actors, excellent setting, poor writing

What I liked
The whole cast was amazing portraying their roles.
The beautiful costumes.
The music
And the overall chemistry between the cast.
What I disliked
THE PLOT. They changed so much from the original novel. I can take that, but at least give me something decent. First 50 episodes were okay for me. From there it went downhill to thw point of even making them act ooc. Lol they would make the leads say something and changing it up literally the next episode. The last 10 episodes were painfull to watch. So much nonsense. This is straight up a bad ending. What a waste of the cast.

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Historia:
Lo bueno de la historia es que ni bien se terminaba un arco argumental, ya se empezaba a tejer el siguiente. Por lo que no teníamos el problema frecuente de estar capítulos y capítulos hasta que pase algo digno de mirar.
Lo malo de la historia. Estaba plagado de altibajos por momentos genuinamente la disfrutaba y por otros sinceramente no me podía importar menos. Otro problema recurrente del drama, fue el uso excesivo del troop del envenenamiento y la venganza por la matanza de una familia.

Personajes:
En general no había casi química entre ninguno del elenco. La actuación era lo más plana, no transmitía ningún sentimiento, esto es especialmente una contra teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de parejas que se habían formado.
La actuación me pareció un poco exagerada por el lado de Xiao Tai y Gao Meng Fei. No me creí nada como los escribieron, sobre todo la actitud de este último para con la protagonista con la que se había criado y la reacción al saber la verdad de uno de los pilares de la trama. Otra cosa que me pareció occ fue la actitud de Qing lan cerca del final con Ming He.
Otro problema fue que al menos uno de los personajes desapareció un buen día y nunca se la volvió a ver, sin explicación.
Respecto de la FL, nos hicieron creen que la protagonista maduraba en el camino y siempre pecaba con lo mismo hasta el fin, la imprudencia. Contadas con los dedos de una mano nos dieron escenas donde se lucía por usar la cabeza. El ML en vez de darle el camino se cansó de salirse de las supuestas reglas para ir a ayudar a la que le gusta. Respecto del nacimiento de su romance tampoco hubo claridad.

Lo positivo
Tal vez el punto más fuerte de esta serie es el estilo de filmación y el cuidado que le pusieron a las escenarios que se utilizaron. Muy poco CGI y se nota que le pusieron un poco más de plata al tema de los trajes y el ambiente en general, cosa que no sucede en todos los dramas.

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What I liked

- The drama was about Judges wich I believe, aren’t often portrayed on dramas.
- I thought Eui Hyun was going to be a jerk falling for a crazy girl, but i was wrong. He was the nicest guy. I loved him a lot. It was refreshing watching another kind of male lead.
- Han Joon was amazing too. I got to see a different side of him in this and i enjoyed every second of it.
- Also it was quite unique that this story was not one of corruption and betrayal. For once, even if it cost them, the judges kept things going as they should.



What I disliked

- I had two major issues with this drama. The first one is that it is a story about judges but it could have been one about prosecutors, police officers or whatever you want. There is no distinction between the job of these people. And this is something that I witness in almost every legal drama. One moment they were judging and the other they were paying visits to the defendant’s family. While the case was still on trial. Other times they investigated what was a job of the prosecution.
- The second issue that i had with this one is that Is a drama so average. The screenwriter had the upper hand in this drama because, as I mentioned before, legal dramas involving judges aren’t that common. But instead of coming with a plot related to the tribulations and issues of the judges, we got a drama with a major case in hand and that is.
- I didn’t believed for a second the actual murderer, it was so out of nowhere.-
- And there’s the thing with the judge with lenses coming out as gay as it seems. How? It looked like a way to address a real issue but man if you want to get deep do it properly. If you want to make a drama that will make people reflect on their lives then you had 31 episodes to make it work.



What could have been better

- The romance. Gosh yes, they had their good moments but it was so not smooth the way they make them a couple.
- What about Han Joon? In the end he never got back to his job.
- The plot was so slow i got easily distracted but my phone. They took a long time to get things done. And the las 2 episodes cut have been cut down.
- Messy details of the drama. The judges going back and forth between jurisdictions.


Anyways the drama is watchable but no more than that.

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I was so excited to watch this drama adaptation, since I finished the manga the other day. What a let down. Thought I understand some things couldn't be there, they also decided to change the characters. One of the things that made me love the manga was the mature, no-nonsense relationship between the two characters. But they decided to screw that over and make a mess of things that weren't a mess in the manga. Honestly I could have enjoyed it better if I had not read the manga first. While certain things couldn't be there, others were changed for the sake of changing them. A lot of the events in the manga where rushed in the drama and honestly you cannot appreciate them.
This ain't it. Lol. I strongly recommend the manga. Other than that I enjoyed the acting and the music.

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