I finally finished this drama and can say that I enjoyed it. Yay, for happy ending but goodness... I am sad for Heartless, it's just too cruel
so pitiable. There were still quite some things I felt were left unanswered.. but oh well.
The middle did drag and the ending was rushed like y'all mentioned but I thought the flow still went well. It's just that An Shi Ge (the villain) had so much screen time it's crazy. I know he's the bad guy and all but I have never really seen a drama where half of the show and episode scenes went to the bad guy
and it's just him doing the exact same thing... like acting all pitiful and depressed because he couldn't get his lover etc. Due to this reason, I felt that the other four male characters didn't get to shine much even if we did get some glimpse of them here and there.
For some reason I wanted the Qing Ge tribe's evil prince to have an encounter with Coldblood and the other constables but it never occured. I was like so that's it? He never went to go search for his sister? I admit his encounter with Li Mo was cute but... he had to be a bad guy... so nope! Still, I was looking for an encounter though. It would've been a nice sight to see (like Coldblood & the others kicking their behinds hahaha
)
Acting-wise, I thought the cast were all good. Even if I wanted to be bias and say they were all great.. they weren't. I love Janine as an actress but I felt she overacted a bit in here and so some scenes didn't feel natural to me. I also give props to Zhang Han for allowing himself to look hideous with the "wolf poison" transformation. He looked u-ugly! I couldn't help but laugh at that transformation hahaha.
I loved his emotional scenes though, he did them well. I sensed that Yang Yang's acting wavered at times but he was still pretty constant. It can't be helped since his character went through so much, it's crazy and I'm not kidding haha. William kicked so much in this drama.. I wonder if he got tired
. He looked natural being a kicker though. As for Mao Zi Jun.. I can't really judge him much since I didn't feel that his character really developed.
Spoiler, spoiler but....
I have plenty of favorite scenes but my favorite ones were definitely of when Heartless lost his memories and Coldblood became childlike. Just how can you not love their characters' personality makeover for that short time?