This was the last and by far the worst of Lee Joongi Dramas. After watching Flower of Evil I watched all I could find. I have done this with other stars I liked. I really hated the directing and the writing was at times nonsensical. The characterization of the female lead annoyed me so much I wished her dead. She is supposed to be a well educated intelligent person, and she keeps forgetting the man she loves is a traitor who would get executed if caught, and seems to act like she wants to make sure he does. Her and the sister both are made out to be total idiots for the sake of a few inexcusable extra emotional drama scenes that weren't necessary, there was more than enough drama. I also disliked her over the top acting at times, but I blame the directing, because I have seen her do so much better. There were several characters I would have liked to see more development on, because their motives were a bit murky, especially the Queen. Also the tension between Japan and Qing was one of the most interesting parts to me, I would have liked to have that introduced and discussed a bit earlier in place of some of the pointless and idiotic crying scenes that were created by having characters be inexcusably stupid.
