As always with Saeguks the first half is brilliant. High production value and great performance by Jung Il-woo as Ba-woo (Big Rock) , Yu-ri as Soo-Kyung (princess Ill Hwa) and Cha Dol (Little Stone) . You will mesmerized by the amount of brilliance these three characters and few other supporting characters emit as they escape the hardships they face after an unexpected bossam that has gone wrong from the beginning; although we constantly frustrated by a possessive immoral selfish and incest by Dae-Yeob .
As the story comes midway when Ba-woo reclaims his status as noble and Princess is dead in the eyes of everyone we see the writes have changed and no longer show any brilliance in the plot. Suddenly Soo-Kyung becomes a weak damsel ; Cha Dol is always missing action frankly missed his deduction skills and maturity to clear misundestanding quickly and acts as peacemaker for his parents. The story becomes repetitive with Lee II Cheom hell bent on killing the King , Princess and Ba-woo.
Surely I lost interest in the show despite falling in love with intially ; so my bossamed heart is back home and suffering through the rest of the show .
Overall its a saeguk that is inline with expectation of 2021 but slowly we see old tropes coming back and show being repetitive. Despite losing its pace in the end it a good watch as unlike most saeguks it doesnt have a bittersweet or bad ending.
Review by chillikunBlockedParent2021-08-12T12:37:26Z
As always with Saeguks the first half is brilliant. High production value and great performance by Jung Il-woo as Ba-woo (Big Rock) , Yu-ri as Soo-Kyung (princess Ill Hwa) and Cha Dol (Little Stone) . You will mesmerized by the amount of brilliance these three characters and few other supporting characters emit as they escape the hardships they face after an unexpected bossam that has gone wrong from the beginning; although we constantly frustrated by a possessive immoral selfish and incest by Dae-Yeob .
As the story comes midway when Ba-woo reclaims his status as noble and Princess is dead in the eyes of everyone we see the writes have changed and no longer show any brilliance in the plot. Suddenly Soo-Kyung becomes a weak damsel ; Cha Dol is always missing action frankly missed his deduction skills and maturity to clear misundestanding quickly and acts as peacemaker for his parents. The story becomes repetitive with Lee II Cheom hell bent on killing the King , Princess and Ba-woo.
Surely I lost interest in the show despite falling in love with intially ; so my bossamed heart is back home and suffering through the rest of the show .
Overall its a saeguk that is inline with expectation of 2021 but slowly we see old tropes coming back and show being repetitive. Despite losing its pace in the end it a good watch as unlike most saeguks it doesnt have a bittersweet or bad ending.