Quite badly done with plots that make me want to headbang

Ok. I have watched finished it but seriously…I watched it on full speed. I skipped it, played it at 2.0x speed because it really pissed me off at the scenes.

I do so wish that I would stop watching dramas like this pop up everywhere. There is only 1 reason I cannot stand this show and thus gave a 1.0 rating. It was the story plot and the characters.

I could honestly write a whole section on how irritating the characters were and how they lacked human sense as well as the unrealistic portrayals of situations. It really cast a bad light on the drama. I would like to talk about two scenes in particular and one that I didn’t really see clearly (and if so, please correct me) but if so, I really think that it reflected badly on the script writers.

I would first talk about the situation that I didn't really see clearly. Firstly, the Female Lead (FL) was established as working as an legal (thanks for the person in the comments for clarifying) intern in a hospital. It went like this. Real WHAT Moment coming right up….She saw a sus dude con a man who was a patient in the hospital. She was kinda smart and decided hey! That dude is sus, the patient is in danger. So what did she do? She freaking left the doctor jacket right in front of the security guard and left the compounds. I CALL THAT UNREALISTIC! I assume as the sky is still clear, it is in the morning, she is at work. How can she just leave the compound and dump her doctor jacket in front of the security guard? Even if she was an intern, no one can just leave work as and when they want to. Furthermore, how can you just leave your doctor coat there? There is a security guard ma’am, for a reason! Tell that security guard that dude is sus, or walk over to confirm that the con man is really bad. She freaking hesitated to approach them when she already felt that something is wrong. WHAT IS WITH YOUR LOGIC? HOW DID YOU GET INTO MEDICAL SCHOOL with that level of intelligence?

Second situation. Or more so one situation split into two. Both that equally are so inhumane. Just because you scriptwriters want to write a romance drama, doesn’t mean you resort to stupid ways like this. First, there as an earthquake. Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong. The ML who was a doctor was called to service those hurt in the earthquake like help them with their injuries and do surgery for those seriously injured. I see nothing wrong with that. The problem is that the FL signed up to join the rescue volunteer team for the earthquake JUST BECAUSE THE ML WAS INVOLVED IN THE EARTHQUAKE DISASTER MEDICAL TEAM. I was so dumbstruck and she purely did that because she wanted to see him. HELLO, MAAM! WAKE UP! It is an earthquake, people are dying, your job is to save people! Not pine away after that boyfriend you couldn’t see during an earthquake rescue help. It makes 0 logic sense that you would do it. Furthermore, why would you even join an earthquake rescue volunteer team with no sincere heart to help? You are not even giving logic reasons to join the thing, if you aren’t prepared, you will just drag the team down! Next, she did her job, rushed to save a boy who was in a collapsing house and stuck under a slab of concrete, listen (CONCRETE). Then she was like how am I going to help the boy? I can’t carry him out and lift up the concrete? Then you know, the earthquake starts again and she panics. Guess who appears? DUH…ML…I mean what the chances that he would appear? BUT ANYWAY, LETS JUST TURN A BLIND EYE TO THIS IDIOTIC CHANCE ENCOUNTER DURING AN EARTHQUAKE, the ground was literally shaking. Instead of rushing to help the boy who was obviously going to die, after being crushed by a concrete slab. THEY SPEND A FREAKING MINUTE LOOKING INTO EACH OTHERS EYES! DURING A FREAKING EARTHQUAKE! THE GROUND IS SHAKING. The bgm plays. I get that the scriptwriters wanted to create a so cute moment but was it necessary and the characters were so dumb! Being a medical professional, shouldn’t your job be to help the boy instead of giving cheesy looks into each other’s eyes. The earthquake situation was for you to help people note date people. I also couldn’t believe that instead of the ML lifting the concrete, the FL did. Which was huh? And after that, I don’t remember clearly nor see clearly so take this sentence with a pinch of salt but the boy didn’t look that injured…after being crushed by concrete. Forgot to mention, a slab of concrete crashed on the ML while they were saving the boy and the earthquake was ongoing. THE ML STOOD UP AND WALKED OFF CARRYING THE BOY? I get that they want to portray the ML as a strong person but this isn’t believable.

I wanted to write one more situation but I believe I have roasted this drama and reviewed so detailed till it might put you off from watching it. However, I would just like to say that this is my personal opinion and shouldn’t stand for yours. If you really really want to watch this, go on! My review is just to help those undecided or want to find a new drama to watch make an informed decision.

~Nerium oleander

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Drama that had potential at the start but really died at the end

I got into this drama late, but joined in because this drama had an ongoing battle with the pearl girl drama next door so I wanted to check if this drama really was better than the other one. (because in terms of ratings it was beating the other drama domestically, and the leads here have a better costume than the other one and camera overall)

I managed to watch quite a few episodes at the start which really got me hooked on it and waiting for every new episode (up to ep 13 i think). The story was moving quick, fast without any fillers in content or useless standing around and talking. Only when it got to about I think ep23 onwards, then I really felt that unnecessary dialogue was coming into play and that it was getting a bit dragggy (ngl, it could also have been because I didn't care much about the ML's parents love story). It felt like the drama was trying to throw in plot twists but really I did not see it come into play. The ending was overall disappointing and majorly cliched for what it was, like you did not have to throw in a good ending unnecessarily, a sad ending could work as well. Because the ending felt super forced, I felt upset that it just became a boring idol costume drama again. SO, I'm really warning you cos this could end in u feeling really really like ANTI CLIMATIC.

However, I need to complement their PR team for putting effort in drama promotions and the costume department for making costumes aesthetically pleasing to our eyes so that not everyone else is in white like they are in some funeral. I also thought that the drama at least did not completely ruin the original setting of the book, and if edited, did so well for drama adaptation.

The acting how do I say, not particularly outstanding but watchable for the eyes. let's just put it there.

i would rant if this drama had major plot holes and logic failures but since this is a fantasy drama, there can be some exceptions tho I absolutely hate those. my one major rant has to do with the ending, like BRO WHY SO SAPPY??????? LIKE CAN WE STOP THE STARE INTO EACH OTHER'S EYES WHILE ROTATING IN SOME WEIRD OMBRE BACKGROUND and cry and go "dont do this" like fr. stop it. its not romantic. its like a killkoy.

ok that's it. like it really went from yayyyyyy to uuuuuummmm to ugggggghhhh to plain disappointment.

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A drama that makes people have mixed feelings about it

As a viewer of dramas, the first thing you read before you watch a drama is the synopsis. Basically telling you what the drama was about. The synopsis was the most misleading one I’ve read in my whole life.
So the synopsis was this girl who went on to become a cold blooded assassin after some challenges. Also, she met some romance. This happened to be my most favourite type of genre. I really like to watch dramas where the FL becomes the most badass female assassin and it was a bonus because there was romance. So, I entered the drama with really high hopes. Like super high ones. But what I got was a lot of disappointment and mixed feelings towards it.
So, I started watching it and the first few episodes was really good and lived up to my expectations. Especially because I thought the ideas used inside were really fresh and new and who doesn’t really doesn’t appreciate that. It made me hopelessly in love with it after the umbrella with the blood flowers on it. It was just so cool! And umm..some things happen and hey she becomes an assassin.
From then on..it kinda just snowballed down. All my hopes crushed. She becomes the worst type of assassin I wanted to see. You see she becomes the type of assassin that feels so weak you know, she doesn’t want to kill anyone and is like Ah…I just don’t want to kill them. First, I don’t feel so bad about it. I mean who doesn’t feel guilty killing someone. However, it got to a point where it just became unbearable to watch how weak and how unsuitable to the description of an assassin was. The main thing got me riled up was the description. THEY SAID I COULD WATCH A COLD BOODED BADASS ASSASSIN but what I got in return was real bad. So, you see the drama progresses on and one talking about how she was reluctant kill people and then she finally kills someone and then feel so guilty about it…..you get the second male lead and all that so on and on drama with ML and second ML. Everyone gets it….
Then, she finally kills her last person which was the leader of the organisation and seriously I was feeling a bit weird. It was just so out of the place, I mean you didn’t want a single person and then suddenly you become strong and murder the leader who has been in the high position for so long. Girl, where does all the power come from? Sure…there was the motive that was super strong cos the leader killed everyone she loved. But, hey it doesn’t quite add up?
Finally, she becomes the leader of the organisation of the female assassins and that really irritated me. It was like hey, this is a female assassin organisation and everyone there killed people like the assassin they were supposed to be. But, you killed just two ppl！ TWO! And one was like so reluctant and the other person was purely full of hatred. I mean why her out of everyone? Finally, she says I have become so crazy and so cold blooded assassin, killing so much people. AND I WAS GIRL WHAT?????HUH???It didn’t add up.


The acting was good.
The music was not too bad.
Pity, the story really wasn’t good and the synopsis was missing plus the title.

~ Nerium oleander

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Confusing but interesting

HI firstly, I would like to confirm that I do not listen to the music. Because I tend to not remember the song unless it is the most memorable thing on earth. (I still gave 9.0…because I just decided that whether the music was nice had nothing to do with what I felt about it and didn’t give a overall impact to the show in any way. )

Next, I finished watching this show and I only had two feelings and a very rather weird opinion. However, you can basically know what I feel based on my review headline.
First, confusing. I think that was really my 100% reaction to it throughout the show. It was just so confusing. At first, it was still ok. There was an obvious difference between where she was, like whether she was in the comic or in the real world. Then, it started going crazy. They started switching between those two worlds so unnoticeably that I had to pause several times throughout the episodes to understand what was going on and why it was going on. Now, sometimes, certain shows show that no understanding where they are (in terms of whether they are in another world), can still make you magically understand what’s going on. However, this show is not like that. It is so hard to understand what is going on in future episodes if you do not pause and fully process what is going on. It makes this drama test your ability on how to map out on a timeline. This show kinda connects a lot of past references so if you watch this, you gotta be on your toes. If not, its game over and back to episode one. I do recommend you check out recaps of episodes that were just so confusing by authors on the internet. They do help sometimes in clearing up doubts. Still, this process of having to not be able to fully enjoy the drama really took some points away from it, As you can see, I took out nearly half of the story points in my rating purely because confusing ruins it. (PS: I would like to mention that if you would like to challenge your capabilities in mapping out timelines and outline in events by replaying events over and over again, this drama is for you.

Last point, W was actually very interesting. VERY INTERESTING. It was a great mystery. So it was fun to know that the scriptwriters were not underestimating human’s ability to think. I like that they used a comic tablet as a link which is comforting to know that they decided to use a different way to say “travel between two worlds” so props to the writers for that. Can’t say much anymore but overall interesting and does not have a too cliche plot.

Just to sum it up, watch it if you are free but if you are not. Don’t bother. There are better shows out there. Still, if you feel that one day, you want to test your mental capabilities and decide to not enjoy a show by contemplating on its plot, feel free to do so! And likewise as I always say, It is purely my review on it and I accept that everyone has their own reviews and feelings about this drama so do go ahead and watch this drama if you are truly interested in doing so. Don’t let my review deter you if you really want to watch it! Likewise if you are sitting on the fence and cannot decide whether to watch it or not, I do hope my review can help you find some little answer? Happy watching!

~Nerium Oleander

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