Well this certainly gives me incentive to watch Kill Me Love Me more now lol. The drama was on my watch radar but the last two weeks I’ve been traveling for work and just swamped with life so put it on deck for later watch but in the meantime the entire drama aired and wowsers was the reactions probably more entertaining then the actual story. Starring Liu Xue Yi and Wu Jin Yan, both had small hits this year so this drama would have been a great follow up if it was also any sort of hit or at least well reviewed. Alas the drama started off with a bang, quite intense and moody, but then soon the male lead went from antihero to puppy in love and got de-fanged, the female lead had one big illogical logic swap midway through, the second male lead Baron Chen brooded and plotted beautifully but seemed to be acting in how own Shakespearean soliloquy show and also got killed off too early, and the second female lead played by Zhao Xiaotong (former member of The9 along with Yu Shu Xin) was apparently so bad at acting she singlehandedly (or singleexpressionedly) ruined a compelling second loveline plot. But all that pales in comparison to the complete and utter trainwreck narrative plot in the second half of the drama, it was apparently so bad that even many happy loyal viewers from the beginning ended up dropping it or complaining bitterly. Sigh, another wasted opportunity in C-ent, apparently the drama was so different than the novel no wonder it couldn’t pull off a proper plot when so much was changed.
I get they’re trying to make the ML likeable as his character was quite despicable in the novel but it just ruined the drama with all stupid plots. I really didn’t like the love line with the emperor and young princess. He was like her grandpa!
LXY was great in his dark aura. I wished to see that for at least 10 episodes. I hope he can do more dark roles in the future.
The leads were great so it was too bad that the drama failed them.
They lost me after just few eps… wasted talents. Same with Fangs of Fortune, I tried, oh I tried… but couldn’t sustain any longer. Cdrama is not lacking of interesting pairing just the storytelling and quality. But I know they will get there… as things have improved so much.
I wish there was a way to prevent production companies from buying IPs of novels to screen and then changing them so drastically. Just total lack of respect for the work and doing it for a cash grab to lure novel fans. At some point, it leaps from creative license to fraud.
koala, can you please make a post about the rise of ning too? i think it did fairly well for its run.
I’m up to Ep 28 and I keep wondering what happened to the crazy sexy man riding a litter and throwing out spirit money while holding a little white dog in his lap (I think it was the actor’s own pet). Gone without a trace, I guess! It had so much potential and then went down a bizarrely common domestic drama route.
This is why I waited it finished airing to check it out. Got burned too many times by horrible second half.
What a shame…I was contemplating to watch or not. I hate wasting over 20+hrs just to be disappointed. Such a waste of these 2 leads…and Baron Chen.
It wasn’t good from the start. I don’t know how it’s so popular in international spaces when it’s just genuinely bad.
I chose not to watch as the trailers didn’t interest me, plus the short production time also set my alarm bells ringing. Seems like I made a right choice.