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Legend of Fu Yao chinese drama review
Dropped 14/66
Legend of Fu Yao
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by Juelin
Jul 10, 2024
14 of 66 episodes seen
Dropped
Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 5.0
Music 6.0
Rewatch Value 5.0

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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