FlameWar
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Bad and boring outweigths the good
I started watching this after getting hooked by Dilraba in Love Designer and YAMG. And at first I was hooked. The random comically overdone breakup in the first 5 Minutes had me loughing, and the dream sequences were just damn impressive, with acting, scenery, CGI and music all beeing top notch.
Outside the dream sequences the FL was not that great, they overdid the fangirl a bit to much. But it was still decently watchable as she dkisplyed no negativity or bad manners at all really, she was just friendly, naive and overly enthusiastic. The ML was a bit harsh at the beginning, but not to bad either. As for the side characters, they were really good through most of the show, especialy in the first 15 or so episodes.
After a while though, problems begann to settle in. The FL had some ups and downs, but was on an overall upwards path, with a bit to much whining and mood swings. But the ML did not improve at all. In fact, untill like episode 30 or so, he actively gets more annoying, needlessly secretive and outright malicious. Similarly some of the side characters improved from their already good start, but then went bsck down to below starting level, while some others went outright bad.
To top it off the dream sequences, which were a big enjoyment so far, tapered off nearly completely, and the IRL stories also kept getting pointlessly darker and overall also degraded in quality a lot. Both of these factors multiplied each other to degrade the quality even further.
The plot at the start had plenty of holes, apprupt changes and ilogical behaviour. But that was mpstly okay as the whole presentation with a not so serious tone, quirky characters and outright fantasy sequences in the dreams made that work. No one expects to much consistency or logical behaviour from characters that take a break at night to literally drop a whale from the sky to crush a dragon after all.
But as the story got darker, the dreams dissapeared and the overall tone became a lot more consitent and serious, the continuing amaunt of plotholes and illogical acting by the characters became more and more problematic.
As the story went on I became less and less interested untill I finally dropped the show. Partpy because the story went downhill fast, and partly because the amount of characters that became really stupid or dislikeable went up so much that I nearly ran out of characters that I actually cared about.
So what if the ML faces some crisis (which he AGAIN brought down on himself in part)? He was so much of an asshole to other characters that I jsut didn't give a damn if he came out okay or not. Similar for other characters.
Outside the dream sequences the FL was not that great, they overdid the fangirl a bit to much. But it was still decently watchable as she dkisplyed no negativity or bad manners at all really, she was just friendly, naive and overly enthusiastic. The ML was a bit harsh at the beginning, but not to bad either. As for the side characters, they were really good through most of the show, especialy in the first 15 or so episodes.
After a while though, problems begann to settle in. The FL had some ups and downs, but was on an overall upwards path, with a bit to much whining and mood swings. But the ML did not improve at all. In fact, untill like episode 30 or so, he actively gets more annoying, needlessly secretive and outright malicious. Similarly some of the side characters improved from their already good start, but then went bsck down to below starting level, while some others went outright bad.
To top it off the dream sequences, which were a big enjoyment so far, tapered off nearly completely, and the IRL stories also kept getting pointlessly darker and overall also degraded in quality a lot. Both of these factors multiplied each other to degrade the quality even further.
The plot at the start had plenty of holes, apprupt changes and ilogical behaviour. But that was mpstly okay as the whole presentation with a not so serious tone, quirky characters and outright fantasy sequences in the dreams made that work. No one expects to much consistency or logical behaviour from characters that take a break at night to literally drop a whale from the sky to crush a dragon after all.
But as the story got darker, the dreams dissapeared and the overall tone became a lot more consitent and serious, the continuing amaunt of plotholes and illogical acting by the characters became more and more problematic.
As the story went on I became less and less interested untill I finally dropped the show. Partpy because the story went downhill fast, and partly because the amount of characters that became really stupid or dislikeable went up so much that I nearly ran out of characters that I actually cared about.
So what if the ML faces some crisis (which he AGAIN brought down on himself in part)? He was so much of an asshole to other characters that I jsut didn't give a damn if he came out okay or not. Similar for other characters.
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