So I finished Fated Hearts last night and wanted to share some thoughts.
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Cons
Fu Yuxiao and Feng Suige were absolutely feral as enemies and lukewarm as a couple. I don’t know if it was the writing or the actors but I felt like it was slightly formulaic .
The need for long drawn out moral rhetoric from characters, please can drama’s stop doing this, if you can’t SHOW me, DON’T tell me because I will not be convinced.
Yixiao’s disciples were more annoying than anything and Xueying Ling served little to no purpose.
Lord Ling is the best Dr but he can’t heal this, White haired storm alliance guy is the best Dr but he can’t heal this, Poison Lady is especially skilled but she will give you amnesia, to say I was rolling my eyes the whole time was a vast understatement.
Feng Xiyang’s obsessive love for Xia Xingshi after a 2 minute meeting way back when, could they not have come up with something better than he ‘let her live?’
Storm Alliance arc was absolutely pointless to me they then made it even more ridiculous with the backstabbing.
Pro’s
The characters all felt very real, with their own motives prejudices, ambitions s or lack thereof.
Feng Suige really sold me on him being a ruthless battle god in the first few episodes, sadly it did dwindle once he and Yixiao became a couple.
Fu Yixiao was an absolute badass for the majority of the show. No notes.
Feng Xiyang - spoiled, dumb, an absolute mess but wow did she get her wake up call.
Xia Jingshi - possibly the one with the most tragic and twisted life out of the lot. While I understood his motives and could sympathise for all the nasty shit he had to endure, he essentially became worse than the monsters who poisoned and tortured him. Creating death camps where you essentially torture and murder children to make ruthless killers, yeah, definitely no way redeeming that.He was definitely a complex villain.
Xia Jingyan - hilarious, but a complete batshit psychopath, definitely the epitome of power corrupts, his only redeeming quality was his love for Xiyang and willingness to die for her.
Empress Jinxiu - cold calculation, manipulative basically pure evil, poisoned Xingshi to keep him on her leash and leading the armies field a brother that beat and tortured him when he was young. She got what she deserved.
Emperor of Susha - worst father of the YEAR, let the supposed love of his life be murdered in front of him because she wouldn’t put up and shut up as his Empress and wanted her kids to be free, proceeded to try and beat Suige into calling the daughter of his mothers killer mother, continuously allowed the court and most specifically Prime minister who killed his mom to scheme against him in an effort to get him killed and or removed from the line of succession, showed absolute zero care for his son all in an effort to carve him into the next ruthless Emperor, then had the gall to be shocked when Suige told him to take the throne and shove it.
Muring Yao - jealous little bitch who simultaneously schemed to bring down the royal family while maintaining his bestie status with Suige, this actually feed into why the Emperor of Susha was POS ruler but anyway, yeah Suige let him go after discovering the betrayer.
Marquis Murong - loyal to Susha, until his son committed treason and the stupid fucking Emperor didn’t just give him the pardon for Murong Yao. Marquis Murong then turned into an absolute fucking terror out of desperation to save his son.
There are plenty more but this post is too long.















