lea
sweden
Despite having read mostly bad reviews, I was actually looking forward to watch the Grand Prince (mostly because of YSY) and hoped that I might still like it. Unfortunately, it really did turn out to be relatively average. It had its potential but never fully lived up to it – the love triangle, the twists and turns were executed so meekly that I caught myself drifting off to sleep or getting distracted more times than I’d like to admit. Then again, there were a few moments when there would be an interesting scene and I’d feel hopeful again, but this feeling never really lasted long enough.
The “2 brothers love the same girl” storyline with a bunch of intrigues has been used countless times, yet had the writing been better it could have been an interesting and much more entertaining drama. 20 episodes were simply just too long for how slow paced the actual plot was, so that the ending turned out to be kind of anticlimactic as well. It started off as intense (especially after that cool intro which I loved) but then my excitement soon faded away after the first half of the first episode as the plot slowed down.
The characters were all very one-dimensional with one single motive and without any actual depth or significant character development. This was probably the greatest weakness of the Grand Prince – it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either. The characters weren’t interesting enough to make me feel involved since I couldn’t care less about their hardships either (mostly because half of the drama was useless and forced to fill the time). The same goes for the supporting characters – none of them caught my attention enough to make me actually engaged. The acting was okay – probably because of how meek the characters were the three main actors didn’t have that much to work with. The chemistry between Yoon Shi Yoon and Jin Se Yeon was nice though and they looked cute together. The OST was the only thing that I really loved, it had some great pieces especially the instrumental versions.
Overall, the Grand Prince didn’t quite meet my expectations. It could have been really great despite its overused plot, but sadly it remained just one of those dramas that were good to watch once but wouldn’t really become memorable.
The “2 brothers love the same girl” storyline with a bunch of intrigues has been used countless times, yet had the writing been better it could have been an interesting and much more entertaining drama. 20 episodes were simply just too long for how slow paced the actual plot was, so that the ending turned out to be kind of anticlimactic as well. It started off as intense (especially after that cool intro which I loved) but then my excitement soon faded away after the first half of the first episode as the plot slowed down.
The characters were all very one-dimensional with one single motive and without any actual depth or significant character development. This was probably the greatest weakness of the Grand Prince – it wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t that good either. The characters weren’t interesting enough to make me feel involved since I couldn’t care less about their hardships either (mostly because half of the drama was useless and forced to fill the time). The same goes for the supporting characters – none of them caught my attention enough to make me actually engaged. The acting was okay – probably because of how meek the characters were the three main actors didn’t have that much to work with. The chemistry between Yoon Shi Yoon and Jin Se Yeon was nice though and they looked cute together. The OST was the only thing that I really loved, it had some great pieces especially the instrumental versions.
Overall, the Grand Prince didn’t quite meet my expectations. It could have been really great despite its overused plot, but sadly it remained just one of those dramas that were good to watch once but wouldn’t really become memorable.
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