The 3 stars:
- Beautiful scenery & costumes
- Very good acting from many actors (Han Qiong Hua, a side cast did very well. Most impressed.)
- Some good moments of ingenuity and cleverness
THE BAD:
- Horrible script. The writer keeps dilly dallying and using a multitude of irrelevant filters to fill the episodes.
- Just when you think the lead male hardens his heart for a bigger cause, he weakens and falls back into her arms, and ruins his plans once again. This carries on at least 20 times. For Christs' sake. Once is fine. Twice is plenty. Thrice is stale. And they went more times than that.
- There is just no sense of a good script at all. People can walk in and out of the palace to anybody's content. The way they write this is ridiculous.
If you are a big fan of Yanxi Palace, stay away from this. You'd be sorely disappointed.
