

That's all fine and dandy, but because the story begins two years into the marriage of the main couple - it just already sets things up badly. The first episode begins with the assassination of a key military strategist for the Yi family military (I'm not going to consider this a spoiler because it's literally in the first 10 minutes). Like most people, I had an issue with the drama beginning in media res.

You can have the strongest actors, but if there are pacing and development issues within the plot, the drama is doomed. STORY: Story pacing and being able to develop a full and intriguing plot with a good flow are the most important thing to a drama - second only to the skills of the actors involved. It had a lot of potential to be a really good drama for the time period, but overall the drama had weird pacing issues and so much story to tell/characters to develop that even though it was 50 episodes, it felt lacking in some places, and overstuffed in others. This review may contain spoilers So I had a lot of high hopes for this drama going into it.
