I cannot express how excited I was to read this webtoon. I let it marinate for many months so I can read a full completed season. After many painful hours, I finally finished, and I am so, SO disappointed. Here are my thoughts:
1. Her backstory: it truly just felt like the developed this elaborate warrior background as a tool to rid the FMC of her timid personality. Like, the result of allllllllll of that gruesome expense was that she developed a bubbly and pretty personality, she could fight, and she now cool and smart and also she didn’t have a stutter and had zero awkwardness or social anxiety even though she hadn’t spoken to a single normal human (not counting demons) in years. Like whose OC is this?? Where is her trauma? Where is the pain? How can there have been ZERO negative impacts in her future self psychologically from what happened to her? There is some description of the pain she experiences with her deaths, but it’s glossed over SO QUICKLY. There is ZERO mention of how her backstory affected her mentally throughout the entire first season. Additionally, It took her only 20 days to revamp her ENTIRE personality when?? Like seriously??? YOU WERE BEING EATEN. LIKE DUDE - If I was being eaten my freaking rock monster dogs I think it would take me like 2 months to go insane. I wouldn’t like IMMEDIATELY gain the awesome ability to kill these crazy monster creatures in TWENTY DAYS - what was she eating to survive and gain the muscle to fight back?? She was weak and frail when she first transported but with zero training or fitness she could kill these monster in under three weeks??? TF???
I’m being reminded of the MMC from the webtoon “swordsman king survival records.” A similar experience happened to the MC where he was accidentally transported to this hellscape and just had to indefinitely survive. While the aithor put a bit of a numerous spin on it, there was nooooo question about the MC’s sanity. He had clearly developed a darker perspective on the world from his trauma and loneliness. The author executed this backstory much better.
Same with the MC from “broken ring.” OG fans will know how well the author portrayed an FMC’s lasting trauma from previous incarnations or timelines.
The MMC: this man is boring and so, SO ANNOYING. Useless, dry, not charming, and treated her like garbage then randomly and arbitrarily fell in love with her. He was so, SO forgettable I honestly don’t remember his name and I finished this webtoon an hour ago. He was the classic “cold Duke of the north” but then didn’t do anything special or memorable the entire first season. Absolute slop of an MMC.
The pacing and plot: I felt that the pacing and plot points were off. Many times, I felt that moments or events could have been expanded on. For example, why was the emperor portrayed as a loving husband to the emperor than just randomly had a mistress?? Like what a curve ball but not in a fun way??? There was no explanation or addition reasoning. Also, was the princess his child or not?? The author did NOT make it super clear if the emperor ACTUALLY cheated. To add on, why did the MMC mention ominously to the empress that crying would break the emperor’s heart and why didn’t the author show the importance of this scene happening in a future chapter if she gave the empress advice in such an ominous way?? What was the point?? I can’t remember alllllll the times this happened becuase there were so many moments where I felt the author introduced a plot or alluded to something mysterious happening in the future and then NEVER followed up.
Conclusion: I think I’m super upset becuase the premise of this story was SO GOOD. I think this is why it has so many fans. The art was amazing and the potential for it to be great was HUGE. But the execution was sloppy and rushed. Feel free to disagree ofc but after reading webtoons like “broken ring”, “your Ryan”, “miss peddleton”, etc., my expectations were high and I was massively disappointed esp after seeing the rating.
I cannot express how excited I was to read this webtoon. I let it marinate for many months so I can read a full completed season. After many painful hours, I finally finished, and I am so, SO disappointed. Here are my thoughts:
1. Her backstory: it truly just felt like the developed this elaborate warrior background as a tool to rid the FMC of her timid personality. Like, the result of allllllllll of that gruesome expense was that she developed a bubbly and pretty personality, she could fight, and she now cool and smart and also she didn’t have a stutter and had zero awkwardness or social anxiety even though she hadn’t spoken to a single normal human (not counting demons) in years. Like whose OC is this?? Where is her trauma? Where is the pain? How can there have been ZERO negative impacts in her future self psychologically from what happened to her? There is some description of the pain she experiences with her deaths, but it’s glossed over SO QUICKLY. There is ZERO mention of how her backstory affected her mentally throughout the entire first season. Additionally, It took her only 20 days to revamp her ENTIRE personality when?? Like seriously??? YOU WERE BEING EATEN. LIKE DUDE - If I was being eaten my freaking rock monster dogs I think it would take me like 2 months to go insane. I wouldn’t like IMMEDIATELY gain the awesome ability to kill these crazy monster creatures in TWENTY DAYS - what was she eating to survive and gain the muscle to fight back?? She was weak and frail when she first transported but with zero training or fitness she could kill these monster in under three weeks??? TF???
I’m being reminded of the MMC from the webtoon “swordsman king survival records.” A similar experience happened to the MC where he was accidentally transported to this hellscape and just had to indefinitely survive. While the aithor put a bit of a numerous spin on it, there was nooooo question about the MC’s sanity. He had clearly developed a darker perspective on the world from his trauma and loneliness. The author executed this backstory much better.
Same with the MC from “broken ring.” OG fans will know how well the author portrayed an FMC’s lasting trauma from previous incarnations or timelines.
The MMC: this man is boring and so, SO ANNOYING. Useless, dry, not charming, and treated her like garbage then randomly and arbitrarily fell in love with her. He was so, SO forgettable I honestly don’t remember his name and I finished this webtoon an hour ago. He was the classic “cold Duke of the north” but then didn’t do anything special or memorable the entire first season. Absolute slop of an MMC.
The pacing and plot: I felt that the pacing and plot points were off. Many times, I felt that moments or events could have been expanded on. For example, why was the emperor portrayed as a loving husband to the emperor than just randomly had a mistress?? Like what a curve ball but not in a fun way??? There was no explanation or addition reasoning. Also, was the princess his child or not?? The author did NOT make it super clear if the emperor ACTUALLY cheated. To add on, why did the MMC mention ominously to the empress that crying would break the emperor’s heart and why didn’t the author show the importance of this scene happening in a future chapter if she gave the empress advice in such an ominous way?? What was the point?? I can’t remember alllllll the times this happened becuase there were so many moments where I felt the author introduced a plot or alluded to something mysterious happening in the future and then NEVER followed up.
Conclusion: I think I’m super upset becuase the premise of this story was SO GOOD. I think this is why it has so many fans. The art was amazing and the potential for it to be great was HUGE. But the execution was sloppy and rushed. Feel free to disagree ofc but after reading webtoons like “broken ring”, “your Ryan”, “miss peddleton”, etc., my expectations were high and I was massively disappointed esp after seeing the rating.