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Ashes of Love chinese drama review
Ongoing 45/63
Ashes of Love
2 people found this review helpful
by Fujisaku
Feb 28, 2022
45 of 63 episodes seen
Ongoing
Overall 7.5
Story 7.0
Acting/Cast 9.5
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Spent too much effort into developing amazing villains but neglected to make the protagonists heroic

Seriously, show!!! A rich man feeding a starving orphan with leftovers doesn't make him heroic. It only makes the orphan looks more pitiful! You need to understand the difference between being nice and being noble/heroic. It's 45 episodes, but the male lead hasn't established himself as being worthy of my admiration. He had everything handed to him on a silver platter and the show never demanded anything from him to prove he was the hero. Meanwhile, everyone was entitled that the antagonist acted like a freaking Buddha... When you have an antagonist who was actually a nice guy, you need the protagonist to be more than just nice to prove he was better than the antagonist. The protagonist needs to do something the antagonist could not to prove he was the better man. It's not being done here. Instead, the show asked the antagonist something the male protagonist himself was incapable of doing. They even showed how nice the male protagonist was to the antagonist, to make you feel bad for the antagonist instead of to make the protagonist heroic. Why TF are you treating your male lead as a plot device to make the audience feel sorry for the antagonist?!!!

It's not bad... Just infuriating that I wouldn't torture myself to rewatch!
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