Some fun dialogues and boredom

I had heard a lot of good things about this drama, so I approached it expecting something cool. Unnecessarily. Production level - cheap webdrama. Plot level - cheap entertainment. The heroes are so typical and so exaggerated that it can't be more.
However, I have to admit that a few of the dialogue and scenes were a whole lot of fun and that kept me on this drama until about the 30th episode. I couldn't watch the next episodes, overwhelmed by the idiotic plot and boredom. In general, I like light costumed comedies about young adventurers, but I don't like cliche after banality and smart heroes who know absolutely everything from their own premises. Even the enthusiasm of the young actors could not cover the hundreds of shortcomings in this production.
But the actress playing FL - beautiful and quite talented.

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This is not Our Song

Season two has many changes to the rules of the program. These changes are supposed to make the show more spectacular, but when perfection is improved, you can only spoil something.
I do not see an exchange of knowledge and experience between generations here. I get the impression that this season no longer serves to teach young singers something, but only to satisfy the audience and gain viewership. This program has become a commercial money hunter rather than a sweet program to educate young artists and the audience. For example, I do not understand why some people found themselves in the Youth group when they have achieved such high achievements.
I am very dissatisfied with practically everything. The changes the production has made are too big and it's just not my beloved Our Song anymore, so they should give it a different title. I drop this show at the end of episode 4.

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Wasted potential

I quit this drama around episode 10. I pondered this decision for a long time, because in terms of cinematography, costumes and, most importantly, set design, the drama looks far above average. I abandoned this drama because of the plot, which literally and figuratively is torture.

You know, I have nothing against violence, suffering, good torture scenes, but what's too much is unhealthy. Tormenting someone for the sake of tormenting someone is just boring and unpalatable. I think by the third episode I was already fed up with how the creators non-stop emphasize how miserable and tragic FL is. That's the only theme of this drama - she is unhappy, lonely, betrayed. Instead of a healthy relationship between the four main characters, we have BDS&M. Literally. I tried to like any of the 4 main characters, but I can't, because there are more negative traits in any of them than positive ones. In the first episodes I got curious about Little 17, in the next episode they show that he's an asshole. You know, showing the hero's journey from bad to good is cool, but not when all 4 main characters are bad from the beginning. I can accept that I haven't learned the motivations of each of the 3 men so far, but not that I still don't know the motivations of FL.

There are no dynamics here. Every scene is shot at exactly the same pace. It doesn't matter if they are fighting each other or talking at a table, if she is running away through the woods or he is erotically sucking the blood out of her - everything is devoid of dynamics, as if in slow motion, which is tedious and annoying. The pace should change, give the viewer some adrenaline, then a moment to calm down to attack again with something dynamic. Monotony kills interest.

In conclusion - technically the drama is nicely done. I very much appreciate the open air (but the green screen is bad). The plot could have been interesting if it wasn't so monotonous, depressing, beating around the head with the idea of "you're supposed to love FL because she's had a hard life and is so weak that she couldn't even save the cat" (save the cat is the motive). If the pace and characters of this story were varied, more dynamic instead of torturously pathetic, this drama would really be excellent. But it isn't. It is boring. On top of that, the music, which is average and of which there is simply too much, is terribly tiresome. I've watched 10 episodes and can't recall a single pleasant scene. I don't see any point in torturing myself further.

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Where did the mystery and exiting events go?

Being halfway through the season, I cannot rate this series higher than “average”. While the costumes, set design, and visual are excellent, there are clear shortcomings in the story but perhaps most importantly in the running of the story. My primary complaint is that the drama is purely “talking heads”. Interesting events are not shown on screen, we learn about them when someone reports on them to someone else. As if that wasn't enough, we hear about the same events several times. This is really a money-saving way, but also unfortunately boring. Before someone accuses me that I don't seem to understand that this series is about plotting, not action, I'll reply, “are you kidding me?”

References to the first season are inevitable since we have a continuation, and in my opinion there was more plotting, intrigue and mystery there, but they were shown in an interesting, dynamic way and the viewer had time to think about how the situation would be resolved. This is what is simply missing in season two. We don't get the pieces of the puzzle that we can solve, the series gives us everything one by one and completes it with something obvious.
Now let's move on to the stakes. Seemingly, these stakes are important and the fate of the characters and the nation count, but are they really? Doesn't the viewer know from beginning to end that no price will be paid in this season by Fan Xien? That no one important will pay it? Even if someone dies, these are characters who have not managed to win the viewer's sympathy, so the viewer does not care about their fate.

In conclusion, in my opinion, in JoL 2 we have a clear excess of form over substance. The drama is shot very well technically, and I can even forgive it for the intrusive yogurt advertising. Unfortunately, in terms of plot, all the solutions are presented in a boring way. There are no exciting events. There are no unexpected twists and turns. There are walking heads who talk for hours about morality and state repair. And I would really like to watch a fun, adventure drama, just like season one, and not moral treatises. Sorry, 5/10 and only because the drama looks good visually.

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A very good crime j-drama.

The series is interesting, moving, intriguingly depicts criminal cases clearly reflecting the atmosphere and problems of Japan. Sometimes the criminal can be "sniffed out" immediately, sometimes he is discovered late, which adds detective charm to the drama. A big plus are the interesting characters and their personal life threads very delicately portrayed against the background of the criminal cases. Good camera work. Atmospheric music. Great selection of songs. One minus - a green filter that distorts the world and is annoying. All the rest of the production makes up for this shortcoming. A very good crime j-drama.

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I had high expectations for this drama. In fact, visually it was excellent. The bad lighting, dark scenes for me were excellent because they added realism. Let's not kid ourselves, there was no electricity in those days and candles weren't that cheap either. Interesting plot, interesting scenes, well played characters - probably all of them. However, this drama has a fatal flaw - it's boring! I just fall asleep on it! Yes, I'm curious how the characters' fates will turn out, but I can't torture myself for more episodes with those boring dialogues about politics and the slow pace of the plot. I've taken this drama on hold, but it's been going on for so long that I think I've just quit it. It's a shame, a real shame.

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It would be perfect, but ...

Charming! Visually beautiful! It delighted me from the very first scenes and kept me in love and admiration for several episodes. The action was a bit slow, sometimes very boring, somehow I was not interested in the problem of creating water channels, discussed for seven minutes by two men sitting opposite each other, but I was still in the binds of the beauty of this story. Unfortunately, one single element disqualified the whole drama in my eyes and I just couldn't look at it anymore. An actor tall as an oak, 40 years old plays a 12-year-old child - forgive me, my imagination and sense of aesthetics cannot bear when a mature man falls on his knees in front of a woman who looks 30 years old (his screen mother) and calls out like a small, clumsy child " Mommy! ". And this is not any child who needs special care, he is the first king of a mighty empire.
Despite my interest in the history of China and its beautiful portrayal in this drama, this scene haunted me too much for me to watch the drama to the end. I really regret it that the producers decided that in such an important production of such an important character a real child cannot play.

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I wish I hadn't started watching it

This is a drama that I wanted to give up in the first five minutes and every minute thereafter. Due to the actor, whom I have positive memories of from Secret Forest, I managed to get through to the second episode, but here I probably survived for ten minutes. I love s-f, love it, but I'm begging the Korean industry to abandon this genre. This drama is a nightmare that I will dream about at night as one of the greatest stupid things ever produced. The whole scene in the plane is the negation of any sense or reason.
There may be something good about this drama, but a plot nonsense where, of course, there has to be a great tragic romance regardless of whether they come from other timelines ... (not a spoiler, that's my guess based on the second episode) Okay , I just didn't see anything good about this drama, I gave it up in the first minutes of the second episode and I regret that I started watching it at all, because I have a bad taste in my mouth because of it.

As people criticize me for daring to speak badly about this drama, I will add:
The thread "you must not meet him, you must avoid him at all costs", spoken by the girl's father, who turns out to be her husband's brother ... Why confuse the situation so much? Are these telnovela heroes who fall in love with each other, discover that they are close family so they cannot make love, but at some point it turns out that she is adopted after all, so they are not really relatives ...
Because she is killed on their wedding day, is he going to develop time travel technology? To avoid her death? This 1888 thread has been used so many times since then that I yawn.

I started watching because I love sci-fi, but that doesn't mean I'm uncritical to the genre and watch everything. I like K-dramas and have been watching them for years so I was curious about the combination and it totally missed my taste. I really don't understand why I have to keep explaining to people that everyone has the right to have an opinion and express it.
I respect those who like this drama, but I also dream about them respecting those who don't like it. If nobody blames the people who give 10/10 after watching the first episode because they are delighted and nobody tells them "wait until the last episode because you may not like you" why should I watch more episodes, "because you might like like the next episode "?

Please respect the rights of others to opinions other than yours, because not everyone has the same taste and one day you may come across a drama where you will want to tell the world how much you don't like it.

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The 21st century deserves a better quality of production and acting

I started watching this drama because I like wuxia. I stopped watching it because I like wuxia and I want it to stay that way. Legend of Fei advertised itself as a quality production, meanwhile I got the quality of cheap web drama with plastic plants, horribly unsuccessful CGI and fight scenes where it's just plain that they were made by doubles, not actors. The actors themselves also act as if they were there for punishment and dreamed only of being anywhere but on the set of this drama. Their acting is emotionless, expressionless and based on a few perfectly trained facial expressions - three or four, which they change depending on whether the scene is thromantic or an action scene, but there is no difference anyway. The music lacks any individual features and sounds like music to hundreds of other c-dramas. Actually You Fei is a production below average, it is distinguished by the fact that due to the popular actors it had a very large advertisement, which only increased the disappointment of the viewer, who is not a fan of actors but of the genre.
I had a hard time making it to the second episode, but not the end of it. I watched the episode and a half suffering aesthetic torture.

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Too Slow and Too Boring

This drama is incredibly slow. Just when the viewer expects to finally see action around the main couple because the threads of uncles and aunts have ended and in season one ML finally proposed to FL (Hallelujah!) the threads of princesses and princes begin.
I dared to write a negative comment after episode three because I saw rave reviews after episode one. If they are allowed, I am also allowed. I can't write a review after episode ten because my patience for this drama has already run out. Those interesting scenes shown in the trailer will probably be there three episodes before the end, but I really don't want to waste another hour learning about the stories of the secondary and tertiary characters. On top of that, the funny scenes are over. At this point, for me, there is nothing left in this drama except boredom. Music that has been in other dramas, young actors who are becoming more annoying than convincing on and, of course, a slower pace than in Sloth. Sorry, the boredom overshadows everything for me. In the second season there is nothing more interesting.

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I was wondering whether to write a negative review, but I thought it was good to also talk about negative impressions so others can avoid them.
In the first episode, a guy is in unimaginable pain and this scene is accompanied by silly music. A doctor and a serious businessman argue over a cup of coffee like five-year-old children and the doctor deliberately puts a slimy finger in his coffee. That's the kind of drama I can't survive. That alone is enough to make me abandon this drama forever and forget its existence. A doctor deliberately putting her saliva in someone's coffee? And this is supposed to be FL?
As for the plot, everything started so cliché and the characters are so idiotic that I can't expect either an interesting plot or strong emotions. Especially since the first scene already indicated that this would be a drama full of stereotypes, boring and badly shot.
The cinematography is weak. The dialogues are terribly bland. The music not only doesn't enhance the scene but totally ruins it. I feel sorry for Park Hae Jin for being ML in something so weak.

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