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The Sleepless Princess chinese drama review
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The Sleepless Princess
2 people found this review helpful
by hum
Jun 6, 2021
35 of 35 episodes seen
Completed 4
Overall 6.5
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 5.0
Rewatch Value 1.0

Irresponsible limping ending. Have to watch the special ep to complete the story.

This review will have 2 parts - the one before I watch the special episode and the one after.

(1) Review before watching the special episode:- score 6

Plunging score due to the politic of the producer team that orders a new edit to drag the story longer after it appears to be unexpectedly favored by the audience in spite of low-budget production and this edit makes the ending episode messiest possible. It's coming good all along with the logic in itself. The casting is great, love both the FL and ML so much. But the ending episode is crazy. It's irrational and super confusing coming to an end that is out of its character. It ends just like there's suddenly a big log falling from the sky to block the road and that word END appears with nothing as a possible explanation about where the hell that log comes from or why it includes in the story. Heard that the actors/actresses were as much stupefied by the new ending. Also heard that the domestic viewers got to see another ending version that comes as another special episode later, but the international viewer like myself could only watch that real, terrible ending. So let me swear once, Damn.

Feel pity for the film production team. What a shame a good work becomes a ruin.

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(2) Review after watching the special episode:- score 6.5

This special episode makes the official ending become a joke. A special episode is supposed to be a supplement that the viewers can either watch or not without affecting their perception of the official story. This one isn't. It completely changes the story. The audience has to watch it to actually finish the drama. It should be the real last episode. Or else, if they want to make a new story like this, it should come in the form of another season or a movie version. They're supposed to make it official not special!

As for the content, although this special episode leads to an ending that is more sensible than the official one, it's very very dragging. I don't understand a few points of the new storyline at the beginning of the episode even. It doesn't make sense but guessable why they put it that way (for the sake of the FL's brother's happy ending). It comes with the price of the leads' storyline to appear irrational, though.

This special episode is about 30 minutes but still too long for its content. I still consider they did a bad job at the ending for this drama.

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